#196 • Civil War Period Daguerreotype of A Union Soldier

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19th Century Daguerreotype of a seated Union Soldier stated to be Capt. W.K. Byrd, Captain William K. Byrd was a prominent Union militia leader in East Tennessee who was ambushed and killed by Confederate sympathizers in the fall of 1861. His command of a local Union militia made him a symbol of the Southern Unionist resistance in a deeply divided state, daguerreotype made by Holmes, Booth & Haydens; 25. x 2 inches. Half of the case is not present. Provenance: Ray Howser Collection.