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A very nice cabinet card of a post war view of General Charles William Field, CSA.  Field graduated West Point in 1849 and served in the prewar army.  He resigned in May 1861 and was assigned to Colonel, 6th Virginia Cavalry.  He was commisioned brigadier general on March 9, 1862.  He led his infantry brigade in the Seven Days battles, Cedar Mountain, and 2nd Manassas, where he received a desperate wound.  He was promoted major general February 12, 1864 and was assigned to General Hood's old division of the 1st Corps.  He led with marked distinction through the remaining campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia, and was finally paroled at Appomattox.  He went to Egypt after the war and fought for the Khedive.  When he came home he was doorkeeper of the national House of Representatives, a civil engineer in government employ, and was superintendent of the Hot Springs, Arkansas reservation.

 

The cabinet card is signed by Fields.  He signed it "Charles W. Field - Maj. Gen. Longstreet Corps - Army N Va".  At some point this photograph was glued into a book as can be seem by the missing paper on the back of the card.