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Wesley Merritt and his staff
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General Wesley Merritt (seated center) poses with
his staff before the camera of Mathew Brady in this
1864 photograph. A highly competent cavalry officer,
Merritt commanded the 1st Cavalry Division of Sheridan’s
Army of the Shenandoah. His commendable performance
the year before at the Battle of Brandy Station,
Virginia, in June 1863, in part led to his unprecedented
leap in promotion from captain to brigadier general
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Mathew Brady (1823–1896)
Albumen silver print, 1864
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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