Albumen carte de visite portrait of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, shown in uniform with shoulder straps and the double-breasted officer’s coat typical of high-ranking Union officers. Sherman appears in three-quarter bust view, looking directly at the camera with a stern expression and full beard. The image presents him during the Civil War era when he served as one of the Union Army’s most prominent commanders. Sherman is best remembered for his leadership in the Western Theater and for the 1864 Atlanta Campaign followed by the March to the Sea.

The reverse bears a two-cent U.S. Internal Revenue stamp, canceled in manuscript, indicating the photograph was produced during the federal tax period on photographs between 1864 and 1866.

A strong wartime portrait of one of the Union’s most consequential generals.