LATE- WAR FULL-STANDING VIEW OF LT. COL. WILBUR REID, TRIGG’S BATTALION PARTISAN RANGERS, MISSING HIS LEG

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This CDV shows a full standing view of Lieutenant Colonel Reid of the 36th Virginia. The dapper lieutenant colonel who had his left leg recently amputated stands confidently with his wooden crutches supporting him. He wears a double-breasted frock coat and light trousers. His collar rank insignia is visible on the right side. Reid’s records indicate that his leg was amputated after he suffered a wound at Tom’s Brook in October of 1864, so we can conclusively date this photograph to the late part of the war.

The mount of this CDV shows some discoloration but it does not detract from the image itself. There is a small waterstain at the top of the image, but again, this does not detract from the image of Reid.

No backmark is present on the reverse. However, a two-cent cancelled orange tax stamp is firmly affixed. An old ink inscription is present on the bottom right corner, “257.” There are modern collectors notes and a sticker present as well. The discoloration that is present on the front of the mount is present on the reverse as well.

Virginian Legh Wilbur Reid was born in 1833 and attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating second in the class of 1858. While at VMI, Reid dabbled in poetry and penned the following lines, strikingly prescient, concerning professor Thomas J. (soon to become “Stonewall”) Jackson: “The stamp of genius on his brow, and lie / with his wild glance and keen but quiet eye / Draws forth from secret sources where they lie.”

Following graduation, Reid was appointed general superintendent of the Great Kanawha Railroad, and then, at the outbreak of war, he was appointed to Lieutenant in the provisional Army of Virginia. Quickly appointed to Lieutenant Colonel in the 36th VA Infantry, that regiment was sent to Tennessee, where he was transferred and given command of the 50th Virginia Infantry during the Battle of Fort Donelson, February 15, 1862, in which he was wounded. Later, in September 1862, Reid joined the 27th VA Battalion, known as Trigg’s Partisan Rangers, which became the 25th VA Cavalry, where he served as regimental adjutant. It was with the 27th Battalion that he received his most severe wound, which occurred at the Battle of Tom’s Brook on October 8, 1864. His left leg was amputated the next day. By March 1865, Reid petitioned to raise a regiment of black troops, which came to naught, and he was eventually paroled at Lynchburg, VA, on April 15, 1865.

Post-war, Reid became a railroad executive and later served as Assistant U.S. Treasury Registrar during the first Cleveland administration, and then as trustee of the Lee Memorial Association. Having lived a fruitful, eventful life, he died in Alexandria, VA on November 26, 1908, and was buried there in Ivy Hill Cemetery.  [cla][ph:L]

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