Title
Jefferson Columbus Davis, Union general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers
Caption
Jefferson Columbus Davis, Union general, 1862-1867. The namesake of the Confederate President, Davis (1828-1879) notoriously shot and killed a superior Officer, Major General William 'Bull' Nelson, after an argument on 29 September 1862. He escaped imprisonment because of the urgent need for experienced commanders in the Union Army. From 1868 to 1870 he served as the first commander of the Department of Alaska. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1862
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Reference
HRM19C19_309
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
30,3Mb (1,6Mb) / 9,7in x 12,1in / 2910 x 3635 (300dpi)