Nathan Bedford Forrest Cabinet Card Photograph Civil War Confederate Cavalry

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Handmade historical reprint Cabinet Card of Confederate Cavalry General
Nathan Bedford Forrest
photograph is a Fujifilm Archival Quality Matte Print from the original photograph.
Each card has a short bio on the reverse which makes it useful as a history teaching tool in addition to interesting, enjoyable art.
From the brief Back Bio -
Nathan Bedford Forres
t (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered as a self-educated, brutal, and innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading Southern advocate in the postwar years. He was a pledged delegate from Tennessee to the New York Democratic national convention of 4 July 1868.
A cavalry and military commander in the war, Forrest is one of the war’s most unusual figures…
Although Cabinet Cards were not introduced during the American Civil War. Many of the great photographs from the period were exchanged as the smaller Carté de Visité CDV's and are just worth looking at now in the larger Cabinet Card style.
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The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture from the 1860’s through the early part of the 20th Century.
It consisted of a thin albumen photographic paper print mounted on a card typically measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches (108 by 165 mm). They are often confused with Carte de Visité (CDV), a similar but smaller format introduced around 1854 in France. CDV’s were very popular during the American Civil War. They tended to be much smaller in a  standard 2-1/2" x 4" format.
“Cabinet Card” portraits were often presented and exchanged by individuals of position, and social standing. They came to often replace the “calling card” as a currency of social exchange and introduction. They were often kept and displayed in glass “cabinets” to demonstrate acquaintance or connection in some way with the notables pictured in the portraits./font>