Image: William W. Averell

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Description: William Woods Averell (1832–1900) was a United States Army officer and a cavalry general in the American Civil War. After the war he was a diplomat and became wealthy by inventing American asphalt pavement.
Title: William W. Averell
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries The exact same photo was published near the front of History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865., Volume 3, Part 4, which was published by the Franklin Printing Company in Philadelphia in 1905. The author is listed as United States, 3rd Pennsylvania Calvary Regiment. The cover of the book says William Brooke Rawie, and the inside says "Compiled by the Regimental History Committee in Accordance with a Resolution of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry Association." The OCLC number is 1683643.
Author: Mathew Brady (died 1896)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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