Three-quarter length albumen CDV studio portrait. N.d. n.p, Period pencil to mount verso “Maj. Ochiltree.” 

Fighting in the company of the Texas Rangers in 1854-55, serving within the Texas House of Representatives in 1857, and finally enlisting in the 1st Texas Regiment in Hood’s Texas Brigade, Thomas Peck Ochiltree (1839-1902) was consistently invested in the Lone Star State. Upon his release from Johnson Island at the end of the Civil War, Ochiltree would continue his public service as commissioner of emigration for Texas and as United States marshal for eastern Texas. Contrary to his time serving fighting for the Confederacy, he supported Ulysses S. Grant for president in the 1868 election. In 1882, Ochiltree ran as an Independent for Congress and won a seat as a representative of the Gavelston district in the Forty-eighth Congress. Though a political non-conformist throughout his career, Major Ochiltree’s dedication to the State of Texas was nothing less than passionate.

A rare Texas view. 

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