Col. Frederick George D’Utassy (11/26/27-5/5/92) was an officer in the Union Army in the Civil War who led the famous Garibaldi Guard, or 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, from 1861 to 1863. The flamboyant Hungarian Colonel was court-martialed in 1863 for fraud and conduct prejudicial to military discipline.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2968. Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of United States. 3-cent tax stamp.
Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 605. Group of President Lincoln, Gen. McClellan, and Suite, at Headquarters Army of Potomac, previous to reviewing the troops and the Battle-Field of Antietam, 3d Oct., 1862.
Lincoln walks the tight rope between Washington and Richmond.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2110. Officers of the Sanitary Commission. [Executive Committee of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Left to right: Dr. William Holme Van Buren, George Templeton Strong, Rev. Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows (Commission President), Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew and Prof. Wolcott Gibbs]
This is for Mrs. Kerigan to show her our uniform during the last campaign in 1868.
Cadets.
Two young boys in military dress with drum and sword.
Sailor of a war ship.
602. President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in McClellan’s Tent at Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, Oct. 4, 1862.
No. 602. President Lincoln and Gen’l McClellan at Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Antietam, 4th October, 1862.
Lieut. General Scott, at West Point.
Written on verso “Possibly the 32d Vols-see # on cap front.”
Written on side on verso “45th Ill.”
Prominent Portraits No. 3878. Lieut. Gen’l Ulysses S. Grant, Com. in Chief Armies of the U.S.
Prominent Portraits No. 3877. Lieut. Gen’l Ulysses S. Grant, Com. in Chief Armies of the U.S.
Prominent Portraits. No. 4770. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of U.S. Navy.
Prominent Portraits. No. 3876. Hon. Edward M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2965. Lieut. Gen’l Ulysses S. Grant, Com. in chief Armies of U.S.
The Union Be Preserved. Signed “Respectfully Yours, O.W. Barlow.” Otis W. Barlow: Residence, Norwich, CT. Enlisted 4/22/61 at Norwich, CT as a Private. On 5/7/61, he mustered into “C” Co., CT 2nd Inf. He was mustered out on 8/7/61 at New Haven, CT. On 7/28/63, he mustered into “M” Co., CT 1st Heavy Artillery. He deserted on 7/31/65. Buried in North Cemetery, Sturbridge, Worcester Co., MA.
Wisconsin Views. No. 4. Brick Pomeroy’s Office, La Crosse. Marcus Mills “Brick” Pomeroy (also known as Mark M. Pomeroy; December 25, 1833 – May 30, 1896) was an American journalist who became notorious for his anti-Lincoln sentiment during the Civil War. Pomeroy was born in Elmira, New York in 1833. As a young man, he worked as a printer’s devil. (An apprentice in a printing establishment.) Pomeroy established the first newspaper in Corning, New York in 1854 and then moved to Wisconsin in 1857. There he was a La Crosse, Wisconsin newspaperman, editor of the La Crosse Democrat from 1860 to 1869, then editor of Pomeroy’s Democrat from 1869 to 1887 (1869 to 1879 in New York City, then in La Crosse, with branch offices in Chicago and probably elsewhere). It was during this time that he acquired the nickname “Brick”. According to one account, after he had displayed skill in writing an article, another editor said that someone that could write so well was “a perfect brick” (i.e., a good fellow). According to another account, a journalist in the eastern United States had written a series of articles about celebrities called “charcoal sketches,” and Pomeroy imitated these in a more extravagant manner, describing Wisconsin personalities and dubbing his articles “brick-dust sketches.” During the Civil War, Pomeroy initially supported preservation of the Union and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Union forces. However, he later became a Copperhead, and in an editorial he called Abraham Lincoln “fungus from the corrupt womb of bigotry and fanaticism” and a “worse tyrant and more inhuman butcher than has existed since the days of Nero…. The man who votes for Lincoln now is a traitor and murderer…. And if he is elected to misgovern for another four years, we trust some bold hand will pierce his heart with dagger point for the public good.” Pomeroy relocated to New York in 1868, and then to Chicago in 1875, also spending time in Denver before returning to New York. In later years, he became a leader of the Greenback Party and the People’s Party/Union Labor Party of Wisconsin. During the 1880s he employed African-American journalist George Edwin Taylor as city editor of Pomeroy’s Democrat. It claimed to have the largest circulation of any political newspaper in the country. In July of 1891, he visited Logan County, West Virginia and interviewed William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield. (William Anderson “Devil Anse” or “Uncle Anse” Hatfield (September 9, 1839 – January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the West Virginian Hatfield family who led the family during the Hatfield–McCoy feud.) Pomeroy died in Brooklyn in 1896.
