1-344-899 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George Stoneman, Union cavalry general, 1862-1867. Whilst in command of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Ohio, Stoneman (1822-1894) was captured by the Confederates at Macon, Georgia, in 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign. This earned him the distiction of being the most senior Union officer to be taken prioner during the Civil War. He later went on th serve as Governor of California from 1883-1887. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.