Portrait of James Birdseye McPherson, photograph by Barr & Young, c. 1862.
Depicted here is Major General James B. McPherson (1828-1864), a career officer in the United States Army who rose to lead the Army of the Tennessee. He was felled by Confederate gunfire at the Battle of Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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