Work in Progress: Brevet Captain Ketchum in color pencil

A color pencil portrait of Captain William Scott Ketchum of the US Army 6th Infantry as he would have looked in the late 1840s while serving garrison duty on the Great Plains at Fort Gibson and Fort Laramie.

General Ketchum's Cup (one of them anyway)

One of a larger set of three remaining monogrammed silver cups that once belonged to Brigadier General William Scott Ketchum. I speculate there may have been a set of four at one time.  I believe them to be made of "coin silver" and monogrammed, of course,  with the initials "WSK." They look to be well used. I can only wonder when he used them, where he used them, and what he may have poured into them. With whom did he share a drink with and what did they discuss? They have been kept in the family's possession since his untimely death in 1871.