This is a cabinet card photograph of Daniel Ruggles in Confederate uniform. Card measures 4.25” x 6.5”. This shows a waist-up, seated pose of him wearing a double-breasted frock and waist belt with “eagle” buckle over a sash. The image is slightly faded and has an overall tan patina.

The mount features a Frederics & Co imprint on the front at the bottom edge and on the back. Written on the back in pencil is, “Complts of Gen Ruggles to Virginia Buck, 1866.” The top edge of the mount has a small chip and weak corners.

Daniel Ruggles (January 31, 1810 – June 1, 1897) was born in Barre, Massachusetts, on January 31, 1810. In 1833 he graduated from the United States Military Academy and was appointed a brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment and was posted in Wisconsin. Ruggles participated in the war against the Seminoles in Florida. Ruggles and the 5th Infantry, fought in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma; his solid services securing him a promotion to Captain on June 18, 1846. Later fighting at Vera Cruz, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, and Mexico City. Ruggles was breveted for Gallant and Meritorious Conduct to Major after Churubusco and to Lieutenant Colonel after Chapultepec. Despite being from the abolitionist stronghold of Massachusetts, Ruggles married a woman from Virginia and held Confederate beliefs. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and was appointed a Brigadier General of Militia and Colonel in the Provisional Army of Virginia. On August 9, 1861, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned command of a brigade in Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Pensacola in Florida. Ruggles's brigade moved westwards into Mississippi with Bragg in February 1862. Ruggles now was assigned to command a division in Bragg's Corps in the Army of Mississippi. During the battle of Shiloh Ruggles lined up a row of 62 cannons, now known as "Ruggles's Battery" to dislodge the Federals in the Hornet’s Nest. He was named as the head of the prison system in 1865. He oversaw the final exchange of Union prisoners of war at the end of the conflict. After the war, Ruggles was a real estate agent and a farmer in Virginia. He died in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1897; and is buried there in the Confederate Cemetery. [jet] [ph:L]

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