Late Cabinet Photograph of Retired Major General Rosecrans

Late Cabinet Photograph of Retired Major General Rosecrans, taken in the later 1890’s.  William Rosecrans was a graduate of the United State Military Academy in 1842.  He resigned from the Army in 1854 due to ill health, but would return to the army at the start of the Civil War as a colonel of the 23rd Ohio Infantry. In 1862 Rosecrans was transferred to the Western Theater, and later would have command of the Army of the Cumberland’s 14th Corps.

General Grant would reassign Rosecrans in late 1863 to command the Military Division of the Mississippi.  He had seen a great amount of battles in the western theatre, and would muster out  from the U.S. Volunteers in January 1866 as a Brevet Major General in the Regular Army, and resign from the Army in 1867.  He retired in 1889 as a Brigadier General in the Regular Army.

General Rosecrans died in 1898. His casket lay in state in Los Angeles City Hall draped in his old headquarters flag he flew during the battle of Stones River.

The mount is trimmed for mounting in a small frame (now gone).  Otherwise fine condition.