Opening: $65 Hammer Price: $65 SOLD Skylight Gallery 36 October 2013

CDV-format albumen print showing five Union Generals and an Admiral surrounding Abraham Lincoln as "Our Peace Commissioners for 1865." Anonymous American, probably a Lincoln reelection campaign piece, circa 1864.   ( Inventory# id544 )

Surrounding Lincoln on the card are generals U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Philip Sheridan, Andrew Porter, and George Thomas, as well as Admiral David Farragut.

General Porter left army service in April 1864, so the card was probably produced before that time. He was not fated to serve on the 1865 peace commission.

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