Colonel of the 12th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War
(1838-1902) Born in New York City, he was a successful Civil War commander, an insurance executive, and a civil engineer. His prewar military career began as a private in the Marine Artillery of Providence, Rhode Island. He later attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, where he raised a company aptly named, the "Brown University Guards," and subsequently received a staff appointment from William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island. He served as a member of the 7th New York Regiment, 1860-1862, as paymaster, and during the Civil War he served in the 12th New York Regiment, as lieutenant colonel, and colonel commanding the regiment, leading them into battle in their campaigns of 1862-1863. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1865. In the 1870s, General Livingston Satterlee, a Staten Island resident, created a museum at his home. The museum was briefly described in the 1929 book "Staten Island and Its People." "General Satterlee resided on Pendleton Avenue, in New Brighton, where he had a separate building with his collection of Indian artifacts, and herbarium specimens (dried plants). One of the early meetings of the Natural Science Association, of which he was a member, was held in his museum. Satterlee was a 32nd degree Mason and district grand master. Within the community, he was vice president of the Lyceum of Natural History, president of the Old Guard Association of the 12th New York Regiment, and an officer in the New York Chamber of Commerce. He also served an an executive and secretary of the Board of the Aetna Insurance Company, and led an insurance brokerage firm of Satterlee, Bostwick and Martin in New York City. This prominent New Yorker died on April 3, 1902.
Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view seated pose in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: J. Loeffler's Photographic Gallery, Corner of Bay and Grand Streets, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N.Y., with 2 cents green George Washington U.S. internal Revenue Proprietary tax stamp. Sharp image. Very fine. Identified by noted Civil War photo historian Roger Hunt, editor of the superb reference works, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue, and Colonels in Blue. Scarce and very desirable image! |