2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/16/2022
Stereoview identified on the reverse as Phtographic Incidents of the War, No. 428. Lt. Washington, A Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A., Negative by James F. Gibson, E.& H.T. Anthony ...” The capture of Washington, who was apparently performing a reconnaissance just prior to the Confederate attack, was significant. James Barroll Washington, meanwhile, was born in 1839 and was 23 years old at the time of his capture. He was born in Baltimore and was a graduate of West Point where he was a classmate of future General George Armstrong Custer At Seven Pines, after being captured, Washington posed with Custer, then a captain in the 5th Cavalry, for several photos, According to D. Mark Katz's Custer in Photographs, page 6, "A camp photographer, seeing the two seated on a log, chatting, was preparing to photograph them, when young Washington called out to a small darkey standing near, and placed the child between them, saying the picture ought to be called 'Both sides, the cause.' And so it appeared in Harper's Weekly."
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