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General James Harrison Wilson was a West Point graduate in 1860.  He was the chief topographical engineer in the Port Royal expedition and the Department of the South, taking part in the reduction of Fort Pulaski.  He acted as aide-de-camp to General George McClellan during the Maryland campaign in the fall of 1862.  Soon after WIlson joined U.S. Grant's headquarters in the West.  He took part in all the battles of the Vicksburg campaign and was promoted brigadier general on October 30, 1863.  Wison continued on staff during the battle of Chattanooga and was chief engineer under W.T. Sherman at Knoxville.  On February 17, 1864 he was assigned as chief of the cavalry bureau in Washington.  Grant had Wison assigned to General Phil Sheridan's command which he handled with boldness and skill.  He was moved west again in October 1864 and fought at Franklin and Nashville.  THe following spring, WIlson overwhelmed General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Selma, Alabama.  He was made a major general of volunteers and brevetted amajor general in the Regular Army.

 

This image has General Wilson seated holding a sword.  You can see the tops of his boots, his belt plate, and his sword in the image.  The backmark is "Morse's Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn.".  The carte is trimmed on the top and the bottom of the carte.  It does not affect the image.