RARE STEREOVIEW OF MEMBERS OF THE WYOMING COURT-MARTIAL,

RARE STEREOVIEW OF MEMBERS OF THE WYOMING COURT-MARTIAL, (image 1/1)
Pricing & History
on orange mount by D.S. Mitchell, Cheyenne, Wyo., dated 1877. Subtitled, Convened by order of the President of the United States at Cheyenne, Wyoming, January 5, 1877. The 13 officers of the board include several familiar Civil War veterans posed before a garrison flag keyed to a list of names printed on verso: 1.) Brig. Gen. John Pope, 2.) Col. John H. King, 9th Inf., 3.) Col. John Gibbon, 7th Inf., 4.) Col. Jefferson C. Davis, 23rd Inf., 5.) Col. John E. Smith, 14th Inf., 6.) Col. George Sykes, 20th Inf., 7.) Col. Franklin F. Flint, 14th Inf., 8.) Lt. Col. Luther Bradley, 9th Inf., 9.) Lt. Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel, 1st Inf., 10.) Lt. Col. Daniel Huston, Jr., 6th Inf., 11.) Lt. Col. Amos Beekwith, Asst. Commissary of Subsistence, 12.) Maj. George D. Ruggles, Assit. Adjutant Gen., 13.) Maj. David G. Swaim, Judge Advocate of the Court. The commission members judged the case of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds who was tried and found guilty of abandoning dead men on the battlefield and being unable to regain horses from a battle against the Sioux Chief Crazy Horse on the Powder River in Montana. President Grant later commuted his sentence.Condition: Stereoview on heavily worn mount having bent lower right corner and minor loss of albumen, about G.
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