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Image is a well-known bust view of Rodes in the uniform of a Confederate General. He sports his trademark mustache and well-kept hair. The image has faded some and the paper has light foxing throughout. Across the bottom is a pencil inscription that reads “J. MONROE HEISKELL.”
The reverse has a photographer’s imprint for VANNERSON & JONES… RICHMOND, VA.
Robert Emmett Rodes was born March 29, 1829 in Lynchburg, Virginia and graduated from V.M.I. in 1848. He taught at V.M. I. until 1851. Rodes became the Chief Engineer of the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad. He was one of the youngest Confederate Generals in the Civil War and the first of Lee’s Divisional commanders not trained at West Point. His Division led Stonewall Jackson’s devastating surprise-attack at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. He then served in Ewell’s 2nd Corps at Gettysburg and in the Overland campaign, before being sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early. Here Rodes was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864.
J. Monroe Heiskell is James Monroe Heiskell. He was a grandson of President James Monroe and a 1863 graduate of Georgetown University. He served for a time in Company C, 1st Maryland Cavalry before joining Company D, 43rd Virginia Cavalry also known as Mosby’s Rangers. He took part in raids beginning in July of 1864 and was with Mosby till captured near Relay House, Maryland on January 4, 1865. He was sent to Fort Warren where he took the oath of allegiance on June 13, 1865. He is pictured in a group photograph with Mosby on page 280 of “43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry Mosby’s Command” by Hugh C. Keen and Horace Mewborn.
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