CDV OF GENERAL IRWIN McDOWELL

CDV OF GENERAL IRWIN McDOWELL

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This is a very nice outdoor, camp view of McDowell in uniform. He wears a double-breasted coat with shoulder straps. He is recorded sitting on a camp stool in front of his tent. Clear image with very fine contrast. Mount remains in good, untrimmed condition. D. Appleton & Co. b/m.

Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818 – May 4, 1885) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1838, and taught tactics at the academy from 1841 to 1845 to many of the generals he would eventually face on the battlefield.  He served as an aide-de-camp to General J. E. Wool during the Mexican-American War, and received a brevet promotion to Captain for his service at the Battle of Buena Vista.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, on May 14, 1861, Irvin McDowell was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General because of political connections to the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase.  Although he had never commanded troops in combat, McDowell, facing political pressure, attacked Confederate forces at the First Battle of Manassas where he was consequently defeated.  After the defeat, General George B. McClellan was made commander of the newly formed Army of the Potomac, and McDowell was detached from the army to protect Washington, DC.  McDowell would later command a corps at the Second Battle of Manassas, which resulted in another defeat.  On July 1, 1864, McDowell was put in command of the Department of the Pacific, and was relatively inactive for the remainder of the war. He is buried in San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco.  [jet] [PH:L]

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