During the Civil War Mower earned an outstanding combat record. He personified the dedicated, unsung professional officer on whom the Union depended. In the campaign leading to the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Mower commanded a brigade and caught the attention of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman. In the Red River campaign under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, Mower gallantly led the attack on Fort De Russy, Louisiana, in March 1864. He was promoted to major general of volunteers in August 1864 and took command of a division. Sherman ordered him to report to Georgia for the "march to the sea," calling Mower the "boldest young soldier we have." From November 1864 to April 1865 Mower fought his way through Georgia and the Carolinas. In the Carolinas he commanded the Twentieth Corps. On June 16, 1865, Mower and his immediate supervisor, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, with a division of the Federal Thirteenth Corps, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to occupy the Southwest after the formal capitulation of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. Mower's first major assignment, in Louisiana, was to organize and train one of the army's new all-Black regiments, the Thirty-ninth Infantry, which later was merged with the Fortieth to become the Twenty-fifth.

This Carte-de-Visite image is in excellent condition overall, with a very nice image and mounting card.  A double gold border is noted along the edges of the card, and some of the original mounting instructions are visible under the image (which was mounted upside down). The reverse is headed “Maj Gen Josep. E. Mower”.  A cancelled 2-cent stamp is affixed to the reverse, and a photographer back mark reads “Published by E & H.T. ANTHONY 501 Broadway, New York. FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE IN BRADY’S National Portrait Gallery”.  A small penciled inventory number reads “248/AH-ED”.

An uncommonly recognized general in an excellent condition – ideal for the discerning collector of Civil War images.  [cm] [ph:L]

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