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A nice waist up photograph of General Arnold Elzey.  Elzey graduated from West Point in 1837.  He served in one of the Seminole uprising, won a brevet for gallantry in Mexico and was in command of the United States arsenal in Augusta, Georgia at the outbreak of the war.  He entered Confederate service as Colonel of the 1st Maryland Infantry.  He was promoted to brigadier general for his services at the battle of First Manassas.  He also distinquished himself in the Shenandoah campaign of 1862 and in the beginning of the Seven Day's fighting around Richmond, where he was desperately wounded and incapacitaed for many months.  Upon his partial recovery he was promoted major general on December 4, 1862.  He commanded the Department of Richmond and towards the end of the war he acted as chief of artillery for the Army of the Tennessee for some time.  He did not participate in Hood's Tennessee campaign.  He was paroled at Washington, Georgia on May 9, 1865.  The backmark on this image is "E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, Manufactures of the best Photographic Albums".