Custer and Washington image

[Curt Schmidt]

Hallo!

A quick request, please.

Does anyone have a sharable image or can post an on-line source for the image of Captain George Custer and CS Lieutenant James Washington that includes Washington's slave boy?

(Of the two images, that version is the one more rarely, if ever, seen.)

Danke!

Curt

[Dignann]

Re: Custer and Washington image

A digital copy is on the LoC website. Search under Custer, or the title of the photo: Lieut. Washington, a Confederate prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A.

Eric

[Linkstrap]

Re: Custer and Washington image

Curt, is this the image you're looking for?



Kind regards, Jim.

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Custer and Washington image

Hallo!

Tis!

Danke!!

(For those intrested, just a bit of trivia... As the story goes... CS Lt. James Washington had been captured. Learning of it, Custer was able to get together, and a photographer was in the camp.
One version of the story was that the boy was Washington's slave.
The other was that the photographer took the extra image, he having posed a local boy, saying "This ought to be called 'Both Sides. The Cause.'

This version of the image with the boy ran in "Harper's Weekly."

I was also looking for a high resolution image of either image as I believe I do not seeing Custer's (5th U.S. Cavalry, AOP) captain's bars.)



Curt
Who did not want to scan it out of reference book Mess

[LibertyHallVols]

Re: Custer and Washington image

Curt,

You should be able to get the uber-high-res scans from here:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?cwar:5:./temp/~ammem_nVwO:

[Fair Oaks, Va. Lt. James B. Washington, a Confederate prisoner, with Capt. George A. Custer of the 5th Cavalry, U.S.A.].

Gibson, James F., b. 1828, photographer.


CREATED/PUBLISHED
1862 May 31.

SUMMARY
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

NOTES
Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0068

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

[Masich]

Re: Custer and Washington image

This photograph has long been a favorite of mine, too. It has always been my impression that the two young officers were clowning around as the photographer was setting up--Washington grabbed Custer's forage cap and put it on, dropping his own cap on the ground behind the bench. Can anyone confirm this speculation?