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File Name	shades_tsm_0005.jpg
Creator	Shaver, Samuel
Title	Portrait of General Samuel P. Carter (Union)
Date	ca. 1861
Genre	Paintings
Material/Technique	Oil on canvas
Description	Portrait of a dark-haired, bearded man in young middle age, wearing the uniform of a United States Brigadier General. He is shown in half-figure, seated next to a marble-topped table, holding a sword across his lap with his left hand and a cap in his right.
Historical note	This portrait of Samuel P. Carter (1818-1891), who was born in Elizabethon, in upper East Tennessee, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy, shows him as a Union general at the beginning of the Civil War. Carter, who had taught mathematics at the Naval Academy, was a natural leader. He was granted a special appointment by the U.S. Army to organize a regiment of loyalists in East Tennessee. His brother, William B. Carter, helped to organize the November 1861 bridge burning campaign in East Tennessee in order to stymie Confederate forces moving through the state during the first year of the war. Artist Samuel Shaver (1816-1878) was one of East Tennessee's best-known portrait painters.
Subject	Carter, Samuel Powhatan, 1819-1891 -- Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Theme	Walking a Fine Line
Story	Artists Overview Christopher Haun
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Elizabethon
Time period	1860-1869
Contributing Institution	Tennessee State Museum
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Tennessee State Museum.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jpg
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,145
Archival file	shades11/shades_tsm_0005.jpg