"Old Baldy", Major Gen. Geo. G. Meade's Veteran War Horse, with records of battles and wounds
Photograph
H.W.B. Hervey and A. C. Johnson
American
"Old Baldy", Major Gen. Geo. G. Meade's Veteran War Horse, with records of battles and wounds
1883
Collotype
Image (each): 3 3/16 × 3 9/16 in. (8.1 × 9 cm)
Mount: 4 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (11 × 18 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
Inscriptions recto, mount (printed): "Old Baldy", Major Gen. Geo. G. Meade's Veteran War Horse, with records of battles and wounds. / published by H.W.B. Hervey and A.C. Johnson / 121 N. Ninth St. Philada. / Copyright, 1883, by Hervey and Johnson.
verso, mount (printed): War Record of "Old Baldy"
[text outlining and describing the many battles that Gen. Meade's horse survived, the wounds he received, with an emphasis on the Campaign in Northern Virginia. The horse lived to be over 30 years old. Two of General Meade's comrades, H.W.B. Hervey and Albert C. Johnson later arranged to have the horse's head preserved and mounted. This was presented to the George G. Meade Post, No. 1, Department of Pennsylvania G.A.R.] (Grand Army of the Republic)
verso (ink): 420422
verso (stamp): Brady-Sipley Collection
verso, mount (printed): War Record of "Old Baldy"
[text outlining and describing the many battles that Gen. Meade's horse survived, the wounds he received, with an emphasis on the Campaign in Northern Virginia. The horse lived to be over 30 years old. Two of General Meade's comrades, H.W.B. Hervey and Albert C. Johnson later arranged to have the horse's head preserved and mounted. This was presented to the George G. Meade Post, No. 1, Department of Pennsylvania G.A.R.] (Grand Army of the Republic)
verso (ink): 420422
verso (stamp): Brady-Sipley Collection
