American Historical Ephemera and Photography

CDV on cardstock mount (significant creasing and some paper loss to upper right, with toning, spotting throughout print; mount with some staining, creasing, and wear to edges and corners). Uncredited. Weed appears in this vignetted bust portrait wearing civilian attire.

Stephen H. Weed (1831-1863) graduated from the United States Military Academy in July of 1854 as a second lieutenant. He fought against Native Americans during the Seminole Wars and later confrontations leading up the Civil War. At the outset of the war, Weed enlisted as a captain, being commissioned into the 5th Light Artillery, US on 14 May 1861.

Weed commanded a battery at Antietam and thus earned command of all artillery of the V Corps, serving as chief of artillery at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. In June of 1863, Weed was commissioned a brigadier general in the volunteer army, and was assigned command of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, V Corps. He led his brigade at Gettysburg, first to relieve Colonel Strong Vincent's brigade on Little Roundtop, repelling a Confederate attack to Vincent's right side. Weed directed some of his men to bring artillery pieces to the top of the hill, and as he stood near them, he was shot in the chest. He succumbed to the wound just hours later.