Waist-up, seated view carte de viste of Deas in civilian clothes. Image is clear with very good contrast. Period ink misidentification on lower edge of mount. This is Zachariah Deas, not “George” Deas, who was the Ass’t Sec. of War. Folks made mistakes 160 years ago too! Photographer’s backmark, E. & H.T. Anthony, New York (from Brady negative). Orange 2-cent revenue stamp also on reverse.

Zachariah Cantey Deas (October 25, 1819 – March 6, 1882) was a Southern cotton broker and soldier. He served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army.

Deas enlisted in the Alabama Volunteer Infantry to serve the Confederacy. He served as aide-de-camp to General Joseph E. Johnston during the First Battle of Manassas. He was commissioned as colonel of the 22nd Alabama. He led his men at the Battle of Shiloh, where he assumed command of the brigade on the first day of fighting before receiving a severe wound the next day. After recovering. he commanded a brigade under General Braxton Bragg in the Kentucky Campaign. He was appointed as a brigadier general on December 13, 1862, and fought at the Battle of Chickamauga, where his men routed Sheridan’s Division, killing Brig. Gen. William Lytle, and capturing 17 canons.

Deas continued to lead his brigade through the Atlanta Campaign and the subsequent fighting in Tennessee, where he was again wounded at the Battle of Franklin. He participated in the Carolinas Campaign before becoming ill and leaving the service. After the war, Deas returned to his cotton brokerage. He owned a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

Deas is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.   [jet][ph:L]

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