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Lot 211: Winfield Scott Signed CDV 1865

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Lot  211: Winfield Scott Signed CDV 1865
<b>Autographs</b><hr><b>Nice CDV of Winfield Scott</b>

<b>WINFIELD SCOTT, Commander of the Union Army at the Outbreak of the Civil War.</b>
Carte de Visite Signed “Winfield Scott, 1865” on verso, 4” x 2.5”, Choice Extremely Fine. By Fredricks & Co., New York. Text on verso describes the portrait as having been taken at West Point on June 10, 1862. An excellent portrait of the elderly general (1786-1866) who was succeeded in November 1861 by McClellan as General in Chief of the Army. Signed the year before Scott died. A Virginian by birth, he was the only non-West Pointer of Southern origin in the Regular Army to remain loyal to the Union.