Item No. 2220242

Brigadier General Albion Parris Howe poses in this CDV portrait. A Maine native and West Point graduate of the Class of 1841, Howe served in the Mexican War and was present with U.S. forces at Harpers Ferry during the capture of John Brown in 1859. Later, he commanded a brigade and division in the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. A strained relationship with 6th Corps commander John Sedgwick led to Howe’s removal from division command in 1864, after which he served on important military boards, acted as a member of the honor guard accompanying Abraham Lincoln’s body, and participated in the tribunal that tried the conspirators in the president’s assassination. In the CDV, Howe is seated wearing a double-breasted frock and decorated sword belt. On the mount below the portrait the general signed, “A. P. Howe / Brig. Genl.” On the verso is the imprint of photographer S. M. Fassett of Chicago. Measures about 2 3/8” x 4”.