[Texas]: [Border War]:

Troop "C" 1st Virginia Cavalry, Brownsville, Texas. Dec. 2nd 1916 [caption title].

Brownsville: 1916. Panoramic photograph, approximately 7.5 x 39.5 inches. Mounted on card, manuscript identifications along foot. Light wear, minor soiling. Very good. Item #2445

A large, formal portrait of Troop C of the 1st Virginia Cavalry in camp at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas. National guard units were called up in 1916 to guard the border while General Pershing made his incursions into Mexico against revolutionary and regular military units involved in the Mexican revolution and civil war of the 1910s. The image depicts the entire troop mounted in a single file, with the commissioned officers at far left, sixty-six men in all. Although the photographer does not identify himself, each man in the unit is named in clear manuscript along the foot of the photograph, making the present image a valuable record of the Virginia Cavalry's service in Texas during the Border War.

Price: $450