Description
Very nice condition CDV of John Ericcson, of Monitor fame. Verso is marked J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston. Of major significance is the period pen marking, “Ericsson – the Scientist, Bo’t of Franck Taylor, Penn. Av. Wash. D.C. Mar. 31, 1862. = H0.20F. J. Meigs.” J. Meigs was John Rogers Meigs, son of General Montgomery C. Meigs (Quartermaster General of the US Army). John Rogers Meigs was born in Washington, DC and attended West Point, graduating first in his class on June 11, 1863. He was certainly at home on March 31, 1862 when he obtained the CDV of Ericsson. Commissioned into the US Army’s 1st Bttn. Engineers as a 1st Lt., he was killed on October 3, 1864 at Harrisonburg, VA. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The Ericsson CDV is a nice item by itself, but the period ink inscription by John Rogers Meigs makes it quite unusual and special.
