CDV OF CONFEDERATE MAJOR W. C. DRIVER OF LOUISIANA – WOUNDED AT PORT REPUBLIC

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Image shows Driver from the waist-up. He is posed in a partial left profile wearing a light-colored double-breasted frock coat with the single star of a major on his collar.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Paper and mount are also good.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for ANDERSON & TURNER… N. O. Top has a 2 cent tax stamp and at bottom is a period pencil ID “W. C. DRIVER.” There is also some collector information in pencil at bottom.

Image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner.

William Christopher Driver Jr. was born October 12, 1827 in Salem, Massachusetts. Before the war he was an agent for the New Orleans firm of A. B. Griswold & Co. and was also the Master of The Louisiana Mason’s Lodge 102.

Driver became a 1st lieutenant in Company E, 7th Louisiana Infantry on June 7, 1861. He saw service at 1st Bull Run, Front Royal, Middletown, Winchester and Cross Keys. During the battle of Port Republic on June 9, 1862, he was severely wounded being shot through the left eye and left side and was taken prisoner. After being taken to Washington, D.C. he was sent to New Orleans and exchanged on September 14, 1862.

Driver reported to Richmond and was examined and found unfit for field service due to loss of sight in the left eye. He was assigned to duty with the Chief of Ordnance for the Department of Louisiana where he remained until the wars end.

After the war he worked for the jewelry establishment of Zimmerman, Levy & Co. He died in New Orleans on July 2, 1874 and is buried there in Masonic Cemetery No. 1.  [ad][ph:L]

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