Vintage sepia 8 x 5 photo of Butterfield posing with General Joseph Hooker and several other officers at Lookout Valley in 1863, by J. B. Linn & Co. of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, signed and inscribed on the reverse in black ink, “E. H. Perkins, Jr., With compliments of his friend, Daniel Butterfield,” with Butterfield also identifying the soldiers in the photo adding “Photograph taken at Lookout Valley winter of 1863.” In very good condition, with scattered spotting and surface marks to image, pencil notation to bottom border, and some light damp staining to reverse. Hooker and his staff were victorious at Lookout Mountain which helped lift the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opened the gateway into the Deep South. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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