Image shows Pope as a Brigadier General standing with his right hand stuffed in his coat in the typical Napoleonic pose. Image is somewhat grainy and has moderate surface dirt. Bottom of the mount has “POPE” in small letters written in pencil.

Reverse has imprint for E. ANTHONY FROM A BRADY NEGATIVE. Reverse also has “GEN. POPE” in pencil across the top and “AS BRIGADIER GENERAL” across the bottom.

John Pope was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 16, 1822. Pope was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1842. He served in the Mexican War and had numerous assignments as a topographical engineer and surveyor in Florida, New Mexico, and Minnesota. He was an early appointee as a Union Brigadier General of Volunteers and served initially under Major General John C. Frémont, with whom he had a stormy relationship. He achieved initial success against Brigadier General Sterling Price in Missouri and then led a successful campaign that captured Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River.

Pope's success in the West inspired the Lincoln administration to bring him to the troubled Eastern Theater to lead the newly formed Army of Virginia. He initially alienated many of his officers and men by publicly denigrating their record in comparison to his Western command. He launched an offensive against the Confederate army of General Robert E. Lee, in which he fell prey to a strategic turning movement into his rear areas by Major General Stonewall Jackson. At Second Bull Run, he concentrated his attention on attacking Jackson while the other Confederate corps, under Major General James Longstreet, executed a devastating assault into his flank, routing his army.

Following Manassas, Pope was banished to the Department of the Northwest far from the Eastern Theater in Minnesota, where he commanded U.S. Forces in the Dakota War of 1862. He was appointed to command the Department of the Missouri in 1865 and was a prominent and activist commander during Reconstruction in Atlanta. For the rest of his military career, he fought in the Indian Wars, particularly against the Apache and Sioux.

He died at Ohio Soldier’s Home near Sandusky on September 23, 1892.

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