2020-09 Putnal
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Carte de visite of Confederate General John B. Magruder, in uniform, full standing. Fine condition John Bankhead Magruder (1807-1871) was an American and Confederate military officer. A graduate of West Point, Magruder served with distinction during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War (1861-1865). As a major general, he received recognition for delaying the advance of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's prodigiously large force, the Army of the Potomac, during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, as well as recapturing Galveston, Texas the following year.
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