Vignetted studio bust portrait albumen of Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry. Port Royal, South Carolina: Philip Haas, circa 1862-1865. 5 1/4 x 7 in., matted and framed to 9 1/2 x 12 in. Photographer's inscription in period pencil to photograph recto. 

Photograph of Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry (1827-1890) taken in Port Royal, South Carolina. This would have been after he participated in the First Battle of Bull Run and raising both the 2nd Connecticut Infantry and the 7th Connecticut Infantry. When he was promoted to brigadier general, he was placed in command of the Morris Island Division of the X Corps before it was sent north to join Gen. Benjamin Butler's Army of the James. 

In addition to his actions in South Carolina, Terry participated in the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia, as well as the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, in which he played an integral role in the Union capturing the fort. Following the Civil War, Terry stayed in the military, helping to negotiate the Treaty of Fort Laramie, commanding a column moving west that discovered the bodies of Gen. Custer's men, negotiating with Sitting Bull, and sending reinforcements to intercept Chief Joseph during the Nez Perce War. 

Philip Haas (1808-1871), originally from Germany, studied photography under Louis Daguerre before emigrating to the U.S. and becoming an accomplished lithographer and daguerreotypist in the States. He is credited for taking the earliest photograph of a U.S. president (John Quincy Adams) in 1843, as well as being the first to transfer a daguerreotype directly to lithographic stone. 

Once the Civil War began, Haas lied about his age and claimed he was younger so he could enlist in 1861 as a second lieutenant for Company A, 1st New York Engineers. The following year, his regiment was sent to South Carolina, where he was tasked, along with fellow photographer Washington Peale, to take photographs of siege operations occurring on Morris Island. This is, no doubt, where Haas and Terry met. 

References: South Carolina Historical Society. 

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