photograph album / Francis Nugent Cavanagh, Fenian, 1868

Fenian photograph, one of 45 contained in a photograph album. Photograph, with handwritten description and personal details of a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenian Brotherhood, arrested c. 1868. Francis Nugent Cavanagh, single, a book keeper, late 1st Lieutenant U.S. Volunteers age 22. Height 5 foot 11 ¾ inches, complexion sandy, hair auburn, eyes blue, small mouth and nose, small visage, stout make. Photograph numbered 18. A handwritten note at the back of the album reads ‘These photographs, except number 2 who was arrested in Manchester, were taken while the persons named, many of them it will be seen have held commissions in the U.S Army, were in custody in Ireland during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, about 1868.;