Gallery & Color Plates

The Photographic Record

From Appendix I

Twenty plates appear in the book, printed there in black and white. Here they are in full color, beginning with the maps of Collierville.

Plate XV: Collierville before and after the war, 1863–1866

The wartime village stood along the old State Line Road, today’s Poplar Avenue, with its church and Tabernacle Cemetery. After the war the town was rebuilt a short way southwest, where Virginius Leake and Harrison Irby laid out lots around a public square in 1866, beside the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The map also marks the Union earthwork fort of 1863 and the depot site of 1863 and 1892. The street grid is scaled from the 1892 Sanborn sheet; the location of the pre-war village is approximate, after Wilson’s 1863 survey and Cole.

Map drawn for this book.

Plate XVI: Collierville in November 1892

As drawn by the Sanborn-Perris Map Company for fire insurance underwriters. The “Public Square” of 1866 stands at the center, with Main, Mulberry and Washington Streets around it and the Memphis and Charleston depot beside the tracks. Brick buildings are colored pink and frame buildings yellow. North is to the left on this sheet.

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Plate XVII: The wartime town overlaid on the 1892 sheet

The 1892 Sanborn sheet turned north-up, with the wartime town overlaid: the 1863 streets along Poplar Avenue, the Union fort, the depot site, and the square laid out in 1866. Streets beyond the edge of the sheet are approximate.

Map drawn for this book.

Plate I: The Senator from Texas (Circa 1860)

A standing studio portrait of Louis T. Wigfall during his U.S. Senate tenure, sporting a frock coat and walking cane.

Library of Congress, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, LC-DIG-ppmsca-85018.

Plate II: The Mathew Brady Portrait (Circa 1861)

A seated portrait by Mathew Brady highlighting his fierce countenance, dressed in formal Southern elite broadcloth.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate III: The Aristocratic Posture

A full-length frame showing Wigfall’s large 6-foot-1-inch build leaning against a column.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate IV: The Campaigner (Wartime Era)

A rougher, unpolished portrait of Wigfall seated backward in a fringed chair with a wide hat and pipe.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate V: Louis T. Wigfall in later life

The date of this portrait is uncertain.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate VI: Private William Gourdin Young, Palmetto Guard (Postwar Portrait)

A rare portrait of the regular private who rowed the Morris Island boat. Historical Correction Note: This image is frequently misidentified online as an older Louis Wigfall, but archival tracing uniquely verifies it is Private Young.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate VII: Senator James Chesnut Jr. of South Carolina and his wife, diarist Mary Chesnut (Circa 1860)

A formal studio portrait of Mary Chesnut’s husband standing in a traditional hand-in-jacket pose.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate VIII: Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (Circa 1861–1865)

Attributed to the famous Civil War photographer Mathew Brady or his studio.

Mathew Brady studio, National Archives and Records Administration.

Plate IX: Major Robert Anderson

The commander of Fort Sumter. Born in 1805 at Soldier's Retreat, his family's home near Louisville, Kentucky, on land that is now Hurstbourne Country Club. In 1851 he was one of the founders of the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C., a home for aged and disabled soldiers.

Mathew Brady studio, National Archives and Records Administration.

Plate X: “Sunset View of Fort Sumter Before the Bombardment”

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate XI: “Charleston Harbor S.C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter”

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate XII: Major Anderson’s Official Telegram

The official telegram sent by Major Robert Anderson to the U.S. Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, on April 18, 1861.

Public domain.

Plate XIII: “Map of Part of Charleston Harbor, Embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney”

Published by Geo. T. Perry in 1861.

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Plate XIV: The Church of the Holy Trinity, Grahamville (near Ridgeland), South Carolina

Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, June 28, 2012, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0; converted to black and white.

Plate XVIII: The Spotswood Hotel, Richmond, Virginia

In July 1861, while Mrs. Wigfall lamented upstairs that her husband had been ordered off with his regiment, Mary Chesnut found him for days in the hotel’s public rooms below.

Stereograph by Selden & Co., Richmond, between 1861 and 1865. Robin G. Stanford Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s04645.

Plate XIX: The household of Josiah Deloach, the “Mr. De Loche” of Grant’s Memoirs, in the 1860 census

Shelby County, Tennessee, Tenth District, Germantown post office, page 183, enumerated September 6, 1860, by John Magauney (lines 13–19).

National Archives, via FamilySearch.

Plate XX: First Sergeant T. F. Meece’s grave marker

Above, the bronze plaque in the Old City Cemetery, Livingston, Texas, which gives his regiment as the “5 Regt Texas Cav.” Below, the application made on July 1, 1964, by his nephew R. M. (Roger Merritt) Meece, with the service Roger typed, “Co. K. 5th. Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade” (upper box), and the inscription written in by the verifying clerk, “1ST SGT 5 REGT TEXAS CAV/CSA” (lower box).

Photograph by the author. Application for Headstone or Marker, DD Form 1330, National Archives, via Ancestry, “U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861–1985.”

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