CDV IDENTIFIED AS LIEUTENANT HUGH MERCER STANARD OF GENERAL JOHN B. MAGRUDER’S STAFF

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Full standing view of Stanard posed leaning against his sword. He wears a light-colored double-breasted frock coat with dark trousers, sash and sword belt. He holds his kepi with quatrefoil on the crown in his right hand.

Contrast and clarity are very good. The paper has suffered from some silverfish damage along the right edge and on the top of Stanard’s forehead. Mount has been trimmed.

Reverse has an ID in both modern pencil and modern pen. The image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner who was not opposed to removing images from albums and writing the ID from the album on the reverse of the image.

Hugh Mercer Stanard was born in Richmond, Virginia on September 21, 1841.

On September 5, 1861 he was appointed 2nd lieutenant and aide-de-camp to General John B. Magruder at Yorktown, Virginia and went with him to Texas in November of 1862.

In October of 1863 Stanard, now a 1st lieutenant, was sent to Havana, Cuba and Nassau, Bahamas on special assignment and was required to report to General Edmund Kirby Smith. He returned sometime in early to mid-1864 and on June 7, 1864 was given 5 days leave and then told to report to Colonel Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance for temporary service as acting inspector of ordnance.

After the war Stanard took up farming. For some unknown reason he was committed to an asylum in Philadelphia and scalded himself to death in a bathtub during the temporary absence of his nurse. He died on January 15, 1876 at the age of 34. He was buried in Richmond’s Shockoe Hill Cemetery.  [AD] [PH:L]

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