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Octavo, green-leather bound CDV album, with St. Clair Dearing/ 100. Confederate Generals in gilt on cover. Accompanied by original, 2pp hand-written index, listing the 100 cartes that were once part of the presentation album, although only the following 5 portraits remain: signed portrait of Lieut. Colonel John R. Waddy, VMI graduate, Artillery Officer from Lieut. to Lieut. Colonel who served on the staffs of P.G.T. Beauregard, John Pemberton Samuel Jones, and William Hardee; Captain Ellison Summerfield Keitt (1831-1911), 20th South Carolina Infantry and 19th Battalion South Carolina Cavalry; 1st Lieut. G. Thomas Cox, autographed on verso. Cox, who was from Maryland, served in the Engineer Corps and Adjutant General's department; Major Alfred L. Dearing, of Athens, GA, who served as Commissary of Subsistence; and 1st Lieut. Harris, identified in original index as Captain Harris (Navy), GA. Possibly Asst. Surgeon Jeptha V. Harris, CSN. Lieut. Colonel St. Clair Dearing, an 1855 graduate of West Point, was commissioned into Field & Staff of the 25th North Carolina Infantry in August, 1861, but resigned in March of 1862 as a result of too much drinking. Condition: Presentation album in rough condition, with leather binding separated from spine, front and back covers completely separated from rest of album; remnants of tape on album, from previous attempts to keep together; cartes have undergone light, even toning; few light stains along bottom edge of Waddy and Kiett CDVs.