CDV – Marsena Rudolph Patrick- Provost Marshal General – SOLD

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CDV – Marsena Rudolph Patrick- Provost Marshal General.

Marsena Rudolph Patrick was a graduate of USMA Class of 1835.  He saw early service during the Seminole War in 1839 as a 1st Lieutenant.  He was a captain during the Mexican War, and later brevetted to major in 1849 for services in that war.  He resigned from the army in 1850 to become a railroad executive, and becoming the president of the New York State Agricultural College in 1859.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Patrick enlisted in the New York State Militia, and was appointed as Inspector General of that state. In 1862 he was promoted to Brigadier General of U.S. Volunteers, and held various commands during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.  He would command a brigade of the 1st Corps in the battles of South Mountain, 2nd Bull Run, Antietam.  President Lincoln promoted him as Provost Marshal of the Army of the Potomac in October of 1862.  At the end of the war, General Grant appointed him as the Provost Marshal of the Armies operating against Richmond, and left the army as a Brevet Major General of Volunteers.  He returned to New York with a new position as President of the New York State Agricultural Society in 1867.

The image was taken by Gardner, Washington, D.C.

Very good condition.

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