Gilbert Moxley Sorrel cased photograph, 1863-1864.

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Gilbert Moxley Sorrel cased photograph, 1863-1864.

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The collection consists of a rare, unpublished image of Sorrel as a senior officer under Lt. General James Longstreet. Sorrel is wearing a colonel's double-breasted gray uniform coat with three stars on the collar and no braid on the sleeve. He is wearing regulation headgear with a braid and riding gauntlets (tinted bright yellow). His belt rig includes a Model 1851 Federal sword belt plate with an eagle and silver wreath. The photographer applied gold paint to all of the buttons and insignia in the image. The photograph is a 1/6th plate melainotype (a variety of tintype) that was created between 1863 and 1864. The image is under a brass mat and housed in an octagonal gutta percha case.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Confederate states of America. Army

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Sorrel, G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley), 1838-1901

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Gilbert Moxley Sorrel was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1838. He was the son of Francis Sorrel, one of the wealthiest men in Savannah. He grew up in the Sorrel Weed House, one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States and one of the first two homes in Georgia to be designated as a state landmark. In his early 20s, Sorrel left his clerk job in the banking department of the Central of Georgia Railroad to join the Georgia Hussars. He was a private in the Georgia Huss...