Item No. 8476395

A vignette CDV portrait of Clara Pomeroy Horton Pope, wife of Union Major General John Pope, photographed by G. Grelling of Detroit. The image is out of a family album assembled by Bernard J. D. Irwin and bears Irwin’s contemporary identification in ink: “Mrs John Pope / wife of / General John Pope / U.S.A. / 1870.” The portrait dates to the period when General Pope commanded the Department of the Lakes, headquartered in Detroit.