Paintings
Civil War General Eugene Asa Carr Miniature Painted Portrait
1868 Dated, Hand-painted Miniature Portrait of Union General Eugene Asa Carr, Choice Extremely Fine.
This outstanding quality Hand-painted Miniature Portrait of Union General Eugene Asa Carr measures 3.25” x 2.75” (oval) with the original integral hanger still attached to the top of the pendant frame. It is painted on artist’s card stock. Here, General Carr is shown in his military uniform with a full beard. He is identified on the back of the portrait by the unnamed artist as, “E. L. Carr - Chief Officer of the 10th Cavalry - Nov. 3, 1868”. (Our attribution is correct. Here the middle initial is incorrect as Carr served in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry). An beautiful, historic portrait painting and a superb Civil War portrait image.
Eugene Asa Carr 1830–1910, Union general in the U.S. Civil War, b. Concord, Erie co., N.Y., grad. West Point, 1850. In the Civil War he distinguished himself at Wilson's Creek (1861) and Pea Ridge (1862), was made (Mar., 1862) a brigadier general of volunteers, and fought in the campaigns at Vicksburg (1863) and Mobile (1865). After the war Carr was a well-known cavalry leader and Indian fighter in the West. Promoted to brigadier general in 1892 and he was retired in 1893. See biography by J. T. King (1963).