[Brigadier General Scott Shipp, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute in uniform]

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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 16 x 11 cm (cabinet card format) | Photograph shows portrait of Scott Shipp, born Charles Robert Ship, who served in the Civil War with the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment and commanded the VMI Cadet Battalion at the Battle of New Market, where he was wounded.

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Scott Shipp was born Charles Robert Ship and served in the Civil War with the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment. He commanded the VMI Cadet Battalion at the Battle of New Market, where he was wounded. By the time this photograph was made, he had risen to brigadier general and held the position of superintendent at Virginia Military Institute.

The photograph is a cabinet card, a format widely used for formal portraits in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The albumen print process, employed here, was a standard photographic technique of the period. Michael Miley created the portrait.

Photography had become widespread by the Civil War era, and soldiers on both sides commonly sat for portraits before departure, often in carte de visite or tintype format, to leave an image with family. This photograph, made four decades after the war's end, shows Shipp in uniform, a formal record of his military career and institutional role.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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