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This CDV is a full standing view of Lieutenant Henry O. Hoyt by Mathew Brady. The image is bright and clear with great contrast showing why Brady was considered the best photographer of his time.
Hoyt is posed between a marble-top table and a chair with a cloth draped over it. He wears a kepi with an Engineer’s insignia inside of an oak leaf wreath on the front. He also wears a dark frock coat with Lieutenants shoulder straps, dark trousers with a thin light leg stripe. At his waist he wears a sash which he has left rather long with a sword belt with rectangular plate and a Model 1850 Foot Officers sword.
The lower left corner of the mount is marked “BRADY” while the right corner is marked “WASHINGTON.” The reverse has a wonderful period ink inscription that reads “LIEUT. HENRY O. HOYT / TO HIS FRIEND & CAPT. / WESLEY BRAINARD / WASHINGTON FEB 17 1862.”
Henry O. Hoyt was 24 years old when he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in Company C, 50th New York Engineers at Philadelphia on August 20, 1861. On September 24, 1862 Hoyt was appointed Quartermaster to rank as such from June 11, 1862. On the 26th of the same month Hoyt was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. In October of 1863 Special Order #483 announced that by direction of the President Quartermaster and 1st Lieutenant Henry O. Hoyt was “dishonorably discharged for selling and misapplying military stores.”
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