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English: 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. |
| Date | between 1861 and 1865 |
| Source | 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) |
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The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
- 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment
- 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
- 2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
- Battle of Cove Mountain
- Battle of Droop Mountain
- Battle of Droop Mountain order of battle
- Battle of Moorefield
- Battle of Moorefield order of battle
- Battle of White Sulphur Springs
- Third Battle of Winchester
- White Sulphur Springs order of battle
- William W. Averell
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