Hancock and Staff

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Hancock and Staff

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Mathew B. Brady

American Photographer · 1823–1896

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> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened

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Date
1864
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Group portrait of General Winfield S. Hancock and his staff in their military uniforms against a woodsy background. Gen. Hancock stands in the middle with his right hand against a tree trunk. To his right, wearing a checked shirt, is Brigadier General Francis C. Barlow. Immediately to his left in the front row, holding their officer's swords, are Major General David B. Birney and Brigadier General John Gibbon.

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