Contributor
Frank and Virginia Williams
Description
This is a black and white illustration of General Montgomery Cunningham (M. C.) Meigs, a career United States Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War. Meigs is depicted as wearing a double breasted military uniform with shoulder boards on either shoulder. The illustration is within a square frame. Meigs' name is captioned beneath the illustration. This illustration is from volume four of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
Publication Date
1890
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Publisher
New York : The Century Co
Time Period
1890-1899
Subjects
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham, 1816 – 1892
Object Type
image
Format (original)
illustration
Format (digital)
JPG
Digital ID
FVW_NH_V4_General-M-C-Meigs_001
Source
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4
Repository
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Recommended Citation
"Illustration, General Montgomery Cunningham Meigs" (1890). Images. 175.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/175