IDENTIFIED ALBUMEN PORTRAIT — LIEUTENANT DAVID CRAWFORD FORREST, 2nd MARYLAND INFANTRY, C.S.A.

IDENTIFIED ALBUMEN PORTRAIT — LIEUTENANT DAVID CRAWFORD FORREST, 2nd MARYLAND INFANTRY, C.S.A.

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Albumen bust portrait of a bearded Confederate officer in an oval vignette on a large card mount. The reverse is identified in period ink, "David Forrest," and carries the backmark of The Globe Portrait Co., 418 12th Street N.W., Washington, D.C., stamped "Bust, Size 18 x 22" with order numbers #3708 / 12259.

The sitter is David Crawford Forrest, an officer of the hard-fighting 2nd Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. — the regiment of Maryland men who crossed the Potomac to fight for the South and, having done so, could not return home. Forrest enlisted as a private at Richmond on August 30, 1862, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on October 28, 1862. He was assigned to provost duty at Hanover Junction, Virginia, on January 15, 1864, and in the closing weeks of the war was admitted to Stuart Hospital in Richmond on March 28, 1865, suffering from an "old wound."

His regiment earned a fierce reputation at Second Winchester, on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg, and through Cold Harbor and the trenches at Petersburg; by the surrender at Appomattox only about forty men remained in its ranks.

A named and well-documented likeness of a 2nd Maryland Confederate officer, accompanied by a printed Historical Data Systems service summary.  [ss][ph:L]

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