Be sure to see additional Civil War Images under Stereos, Tintypes, Daguerreotypes,Ambrotypes, and Large Albumen Images.
Other Civil War-related CDVs are listed on the Political CDV page.


CWCAB4. M.B. Brady. Photo taken by James F. Gibson. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 357. Group. Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Prince de Joinville, and Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, May 1, 1862. Brady’s 1862 copyright line on bottom recto. Card has the stamp of Snow & Roos, San Francisco in left margin and a label from Roos & Wunderlich, Depot of Goupil & Co., San Francisco on verso. VG. $375


CWCDV259. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass. Officer Charles H. Manning, United States Navy. Period ID on back of card. Assistant Engineer 1863 with promotions and with Naval Service until 1884. Navy records from the National Archives has Manning on the Union Steam Vessel Mary Sanford. Also served on other CW vessels. With records from archives and copy of pages from List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900 related to Manning. Trimmed at bottom. (binder) VG. $125


CWCDV770. R.H. Dewey, Photographic Artist, Pittsfield, Mass. “Charles T. Plunkett, Maj. 49th Mass.,” written on back. Residence Pittsfield MA; a 22 year-old Manufacturer. Enlisted on 9/8/1862 as a Captain. On 9/19/1862 he was commissioned into “C” Co. MA 49th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 9/1/1863 at Pittsfield, MA. Promotions: * Major 11/10/1862. Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * 11/10/1862 from company C to Field & Staff. VG. $150


CWCDV906. R.A. Lewis, NY. Inscribed and signed on back “To John & Charity, from their Brother, Wm. Earle.” William Earle, Acting Master, 17 December, 1861. Honorably discharged 15 January, 1866. William Earle was the Acting Master of the USS Merrimac when she sunk. USS Merrimac was a sidewheel steamer first used in the Confederate States Navy that was captured and used in the United States Navy during the Civil War. Merrimac was purchased in England for the Confederate government in 1862. After a successful career as a blockade runner, she was captured by USS Iroquois off the coast of Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 24 July 1863. Purchased by the Navy from New York Prize Court 10 March 1864, Merrimac commissioned at New York 1 May 1864, Acting Master William P. Rogers in command. After joining the East Gulf Blockading Squadron in June 1864, she was ordered to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. She captured Cuban sloop Henrettasailing from Bayport, Florida, with cotton for Havana. However, late in July yellow fever broke out amongMerrimac’s crew and she sailed north to allow her crew to recover. Upon arriving in New York she debarked her sick sailors at quarantine, and got underway for a cruise in the northwest Atlantic as far as St. John’s Newfoundland. Early in 1865 Merrimac was reassigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. She got underway for the gulf early in February, but encountered extremely bad weather which forced her to stop at Beaufort, North Carolina, on the 7th and at Charleston, South Carolina on the 12th. Underway for Key West the next day, Merrimac ran into still worse weather which she fought until turning north on the 14th to seek the first port. On the afternoon of 15 February 1865, Acting Master William Earle ordered the crew to abandon ship after its tiller had broken, two boilers given out and the pumps failed to slow the rising water. That night, when the crew had been rescued by mail steamer Morning Star, Merrimac was settling rapidly as she disappeared from sight. Trimmed top and bottom. G. $300

Huntsville, Ala.
CWCDV987. Robinson & Murphy, Artists, Huntsville, Ala. Signed at bottom “Lt. J. Mahoney, USA.” Josiah Mahoney. Residence was not listed; 27 years old. Enlisted on 7/1/1864 as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 7/1/1864 he was commissioned into “D” Co. TN 8th Cavalry. He was Mustered Out on 9/11/1865 at Knoxville, TN. Corners clipped. G. $250

 
CWCDV1187. D. Appleton & Co., NY. A.A. Turner, Photographer. Written on verso “George Merrill, Aid to Gen Sherman.” The “Sherman” referred to here is Gen. Thomas W. Sherman (not William Tecumseh). Residence was not listed; 30 years old. Enlisted on 9/3/1861 at Washington, DC as a 1st Lieutenant. On 10/8/1861 he was commissioned into “K” Co. NY 2nd Infantry.  He was discharged for promotion on 4/26/1862.  On 4/26/1862 he was commissioned into US Volunteers Adjutant Genl Dept.  He Resigned on 9/25/1862 Promotions: * Capt 4/26/1862 (Captain & Asst Adjutant General).   Other Information: born in New Hampshire. VG. $150


CWCDV1336. No photographer ID. Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant wearing a black mourning ribbon on his arm in mourning for the death of Abraham Lincoln. VG. $150


CWCDV1342. Photographic negative by Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Mrs. General Gaines, Myra Clark Gaines (6/30/04-1/9/85). Wife of Gen. Edmund Pendelton Gaines (3/20/1777-6/6/49). She was involved in the longest running lawsuit in US history. VG. $75

  
PPCDV152. Shaw, Chicago. George H. Fergus (1840-1911), book & job printer; lieutenant Co. K, NY 11 Infantry (Ellsworth’s Zouaves); collector of Chicago data; born in a house that stood on the ground of where the Olympic Theater was in 1811. Referred to in the newspaper article shown above as a “Human Directory.” VG. $85


CWCAB27. Cabinet Card by G.W. Pach, New York of Peter Smith Michie. Enlisted 6/11/1863 as a 1st Lt. Commissioned into US Army 1st Battalion Engineers. Promotions: Capt. 10/28/1864 by Brevet; Major 10/28/1864 by Brevet; Brig-General 1/1/1865 by Brevet; Lt. Colonel 3/23/1865 (Lieut and Asst Inspector General); Lt. Colonel 4/9/1865 by Brevet; Capt. 11/23/1865. Born 3/24/1939 in Brechin, Scotland; died 2/16/1901 in West Point, NY. Graduate USMA 6/11/1863, 2nd in class. VG. $75


Woodbury, Augustus, Chaplain of the Regiment. A Narrative of the Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment, in the Spring and Summer of 1861. Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1862. Signed by John R. Bartlett at top right of the title page. There are 17 tipped-in photographs in the book. The frontispiece is a photo of Burnside, 4.5″ x 3.5.” The rest of the images are CDV size. Titles are: Rev. Augustus Woodbury; Major Balch; Falls Church; Fairfax Court House; Sudley Church, Bull Run; Hetacomb at Sudley Church where over 100 Federal troops were buried; Mathews’ House used for a hospital during Battle; Sudley Ford and Church, Bull Run; Sudley Ford, Bull Run; Stone Bridge, Bull Run; Fortifications at Manassas; Earl Carpenter; Col. J.S. Slocum; Lieut. Prescott; Long Bridge Across the Potomac; & Stone Church Centreville. The images are in VG-E condition. There are also many steel engravings of generals, scenes, Lincoln, etc. bound in as well a map of Bull Run. The book measures 10.25″ x 7.25,” in original old boards. There is an old waterstain along the top of the volume, not affecting text or photos. There are some old newspaper reviews laid in. A very rare volume with 17 tipped-in photos. All copies that I have been able to find have just one image tipped-in. G. $3000


CWCDV1445. The Original French Pearl Pictures, taken at Alfred W. Jacobs’ Galleries, 210 Atlantic St., Corner Court Street, and 469 Columbia Street, near Sackett Street, Brooklyn. William Henry Fried. Co. F, PA 47 Inf. Term of Service: 30 August 1861 – 26 September 1864 (discharged on Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability, Fort Jefferson). Rank: Private. Honors/Service Distinctions: Discharged at Washington, D.C. on a Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability 26 September 1864. Veteran Volunteer (re-enlisted at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida 19 October 1863). Tintype in paper mat. VG. $125


CWCDV1498. Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC. Unidentified VRC soldier before studio Civil War backdrop. VG. $150


CWCDV1509. L.C. Laudy, Peekskill, NY. Signed on verso “Louis W. Stevenson Lt. 10th V.R.C.” 28 years old. Enlisted on 12/18/1862 at Brooklyn, NY as a 2nd Lieutenant. On 12/18/1862 he was commissioned into “B” Co. NY 176th Infantry.  He was Mustered Out on 8/8/1864 He was listed as: * POW 6/23/1863 Brashear City, LA * Paroled 7/24/1864 (place not stated). G. $150


CWCDV1511. No photographer ID. Signed on verso “G.C. Rowe Co. H 19th Regt. V.R.C. Washington, DC.” George C. Rowe. Residence was not listed; 35 years old. Enlisted on 12/2/1861 as a Private. On 12/2/1861 he mustered into “B” Co. OH 82nd Infantry.  He was transferred out on 3/23/1864. On 3/23/1864 he transferred into “H” Co. Veteran Reserve Corps 19th Regt (date and method of discharge not given).

The 82 Ohio Infantry was organized at Kenton, Hardin County, from Oct. to Dec., 1861, to serve for three years, with an aggregate of 968 men. In Jan., 1862, it moved for Western Virginia, and was first under fire at the battle of Bull Pasture Mountain. It joined in the pursuit of Jackson up the valley; fought in the Battle of Cross Keys, was also present at Cedar Mountain, and participated in a sharp skirmish at Freeman’s Ford. The destruction of Waterloo Bridge being ordered, the work was entrusted to this regiment and a select party dashed forward under a brisk fire, ignited the timbers, and in a few moments the work of destruction was complete. At the Second Bull Run the regiment lost heavily. It went into winter quarters at Stafford Court House and in the following April moved on the Chancellorsville Campaign. In the battle of that name it moved steadily into the entrenchments and opened a rapid fire upon the advancing foe. As the enemy swept around the flanks of the regiment it was forced to retreat and when it reached its new position only 134 men were with the colors. It was on duty in the trenches or on the picket line until the army commenced to retire. The regiment went into action at Gettysburg with 22 commissioned officers and 236 men, of whom 19 officers and 147 men were killed, wounded or captured, leaving only 3 officers and 89 men; but this little band brought off the colors safely. In the autumn following the regiment was ordered to join the Army of the Cumberland and at Wauhatchie, Tenn., it led the advance up the steep and rugged slope, driving the Confederates from the summit. It was held in reserve during the engagement at Orchard knob, but it moved up under a heavy fire from the batteries on Missionary ridge and assisted in the skirmishing which followed that engagement, and in building the entrenchments. In November it moved to the relief of Knoxville, but Longstreet having raised the siege it returned to Lookout Valley. There, of 349 enlisted men present, 321 were mustered into the service as veteran volunteers in Jan., 1864. After a furlough home the regiment, rejoined its brigade in March and soon afterward entered upon the Atlanta Campaign. It participated in the charge at Resaca, but sustained little loss, as the enemy was too much surprised and embarrassed to fire effectively. It was one of the first regiments in position at Peachtree Creek and lost not less than 75 in killed and wounded. During the siege of Atlanta it held an important and exposed position on a hill adjoining Marietta Street, being within range both of artillery and musketry, and on one occasion a cannon shot carried away the regimental colors, tearing them to shreds. The regiment remained in camp at Atlanta, engaged in work on the fortifications for a time, and then started with Sherman’s army for Savannah. It met with nothing worthy of particular note until Wheeler’s cavalry was encountered at Sandersville, where one company assisted in dislodging the enemy. The regiment moved on the Carolinas Campaign and performed its full share of marching, foraging and corduroying. It participated in the affairs at Averasboro and Bentonville, having 10 men wounded in the former and in the latter 11 wounded and 14 missing. It was mustered out on July 24, 1865. The regiment is honored by a monument at Gettysburg. VG. $450


CWCDV1513. Kimball & Son, Concord, NH. Written on verso, possibly signed “Harry Benton.” Also the word “probably” crossed out. Accompanied by print out from Henry Deeks indicating that Benton was involved in organizing the first company of the Invalid Corps. VG. $250


CWCDV1514. Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Washington DC and NY. On back is written “Probably J. Watts De Peyster, Jr. 1st Lt., 11th Cavalry. Major, 1st NY LA 26 June 1862 (p. 1223)”. VG. $250


CWCDV1515. No photographer ID. Inscribed bottom recto Cpl. George Cook, Battery E, 13 regt. Residence was not listed; 19 years old. Enlisted on 1/5/1864 at Ephratah, NY as a Private. On 3/10/1864 he mustered into “E” Co. NY 13th Heavy Artillery. There is no info in his listing about a promotion so not certain of the ID. He was Mustered Out on 7/18/1865 at Norfolk, VA. Tinted chevrons. G. $200


CWCDV1554. CDV by S. Anderson, New Orleans, La. Signed on verso “Theo. W. Kraft.” Theodore W. Kraft. Enlisted on 8/9/1862 at Ghent, NY as a Corporal. On 8/11/1862 he mustered into “A” Co. NY 128th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 7/12/1865 at Savannah, GA. He was listed as: * Wounded 10/19/1864 Cedar Creek, VA * Paroled 2/22/1865 (place not stated). Promotions: * Sergt 4/30/1863 * 2nd Lieut 9/6/1863 * 1st Lieut 6/17/1865. He also had service in: NY 165th Infantry (Prior service). Other Information: died 6/1/1895. Buried: Chatham Rural Cemetery, Chatham, NY. (Buried with: Dorothy M. Hogeboom, Wife, Mar 14, 1898, 82; Theodore W. Jr. 1848-1884; Elizabeth Cheever, Wife of Theodore Jr.). VG. $200


CWCDV1555. S. Moses, New Orleans, La. I received the following from collector and researcher Dale Baur: “Charles P. Wilson served as an enlisted man in company B of the 18th Ohio (3 month unit) and later company F, 79th Ohio. If you go to the ‘Civil War Index’ and its listing for the 79th Ohio and then click on its ‘roster’ you will find notation that Wilson was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in the 90th US Colored Infantry. It served in LA and the notation I made on the image I recorded was that it carried a Moses, New Orleans photographer’s backmark. Unfortunately I do not recall where I happened upon the image (most likely it was just randomly in the course of doing Civil War research on-line). I recorded it because I was tracking and recording images with documented painted backdrops and if the soldier was identified I recorded that too. Hope this helps.” VG. $250


CWALB13. Nathaniel Banks family album. This album is original and intact. There are 48 slots for images and there are 49 images, as one image had a CDV behind another. The album is annotated with many names beneath the images. I have removed all of the images from the album and noted their places in the album by consecutively numbering them in the lower right versos. Each of the images above is described here. Each scan is described from top left, across, then bottom left, and across. There are many images of Nathaniel Banks, including one signed image, as well as members of his family. I assume the others are family friends, etc.

Inscription on front page: “Maria M. Harris, New York 1863.”

“The Photographic Album. New York. D. Appleton & Co., 443 & 445 Broadway. 1862.”

First and second scans:

Inscription in German above first CDV. (cannot make it out).

  1. Unidentified gentleman by Manchester Bros. & Angell, Photographing House, 73 Westminster Street, Prov. R.I.
  2. Fannie Martin, N.Y. by Johnston Bros., 867 Broadway, New York.
  3. Nathaniel Banks, by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., “Specialite,” 587 Broadway, New York. 1” split at left bottom of card.
  4. Ella Childs by Johnson, Williams & Co., Photographers, Nos. 952, 954 & 956 Broadway, Cor. Madison Square, (23d St.), Opposite Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York.
  5. On verso “J.P.C. Jr. to M.M.H. Thanksgiving 1865.” At top of album page is written: ‘“Always keep your hand(s) in practice.” J.P.C. Jr. Sept. 8th, 1865.’ Beneath image: “John Crosby, N.Y.”
  6. Harry Williams, N.Y., by J.H. & J.L. Abbott, Photographers, 480 Broadway, Albany, N.Y.
  7. Fannie Brush, N.Y., by Faris, 751 Broadway.
  8. Unidentified woman and girl by George G. Rockwood, Photographer, 839 Broadway, New York.
  9. Gen. & Mrs. Banks, by Warren, Post Office Block, Cambridgeport, mass.
  10. Ned Slocum, N.Y. by R.A. Lewis, 152 Chatham St., N.Y.
  11. Gen. Banks Family, by E. Jacobs, 93 Camp St., New Orleans, La.
  12. Joe Banks, Wm. Guay, No. 75 Camp Street, New Orleans.

Third and fourth scans:

  1. Maud Banks, no backmark.
  2. Mrs. Banks, by Guay & Co., No. 75 Camp Street, New Orleans.
  3. Jim Platt, Oswego, N.Y.. by J. Taylor’s Photographic Studio, 191 6th Avenue near 13th Street, New York.
  4. George Rodeo, R.I. by Proctor’s Room, East Boston, A.N. Proctor/C.W. Dodge.
  5. Edith Phillips, N.Y., by American Phototype Company, No. 2 Leroy Place, New York.
  6. Banks, by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., “Specialite,” 587 Broadway, New York.
  7. Miss Chittenden, N.Y. by J.B. Gardner, Photographer, 305 6th Ave. S.W. Cor. 19th St., New-York.
  8. Signed “N.P. Banks,” by Brady, Washington.
  9. Unidentified young girl by Manchester Bros., Photographers, 73 Westminster Str., Providence, R.I.
  10. Unidentified gentleman by J.P. & F.W. Hardy, Photographers, Bangor, Me.
  11. Unidentified young man by S. Sprague, 159 Westminster Street, Providence, R.I.
  12. Mrs. Pease, R.I., by R.A. Lewis, 152 Chatham Street, New York.

Fifth & sixth scans:

  1. Mr. Pease, by R.A. Lewis, 152 Chatham Street, New York.
  2. Unidentified woman by Manchester Bros., Photographers, 73 Westminster Str., Providence, R.I.
  3. Unidentified gentleman, by R.A. Lewis, 160 Chatham Street, New York.
  4. Cyrus Harris, Uncle Cyrus, by Manchester Bros., Photographers, 73 Westminster Str., Providence, R.I.
  5. Sarah Anthony, by Frank Rowell, Photographer, 25 Westminster Street, Prov., R.I.
  6. Lillie Treat, by Manchester Bros., Artists, 73 Westminster St., Prov., R.I.
  7. Mr. Lawrence, N.Y., by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., “Specialite,” 587 Broadway, New York.
  8. Lucy Green, by Manchester Bro & Angell, Photographers, 73 Westminster St., Providence, R.I.
  9. Maj. Gen’l N.P. Banks, by M.B. Brady, Washington, DC. 1861 copyright line bottom recto.
  10. Oliver Sherwood, tintype by R.D. Bradley, New Haven, Ct.
  11. Josie Bigelow, So. Quincy, 1863, July, by E.R. Perkins, 241 Essex Street, Salem.
  12. Bettie Lee, New Haven, by W. Hunt, Photographer, 332 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.

Seventh & eighth scans:

  1. Uncle Caleb, no backmark.
  2. Mrs. Gen. Banks, by H.F. Warren, Waltham.
  3. Rachel Brown, by Dunshee, Artist, 175 Westminster St., Prov. R.I.
  4. Julia Cockle, Ill., by J. Thurlow, One door above Second National Bank, Main St., Peoria.
  5. Martin Goohin, N.Y. by Frank Rowell, Photographer, 25 Westminster Street, Prov., R.I.
  6. N.P. Banks, from photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony.
  7. Miss Lily Brighton, River Point, by Manchester Bros., Photographers, 73 Westminster St., Providence, R.I.
  8. Prof. Lincoln, by Manchester Bros., Photographers, 73 Westminster St. Providence, R.I.
  9. Alice Waterman, by Bundy & Rowell, Photographers, 25 Westminster St., Providence, R.I.
  10. Julia Allen, Oswego, N.Y., no backmark.
  11. Miss Lillie Toby, R.I., no backmark.
  12. Mr. Anthony, R.I., by Black & Case, Photographic Artists, 163 & 173 Washington St., Boston.

Ninth & tenth scans:

  1. This CDV was behind the CDV of Joe Banks. It is an unidentified young man by Manchester Bro. & Angell, 73 Westminster St., Prov., R.I

Album is intact, clasps present. Overall VG. $2000


CWCDV1604. J. Carbutt, Chicago. Major Gen. U.S. Grant. Carbutt’s 1864 copyright line bottom recto. VG. $250


CWCAB37. Fine and unique Civil War pair of items regarding General William Woods Averell. The first item is a Cabinet Card of Averell later in life by Broadbent & Phillips, Philadelphia. The second item is a greeting to “Gen. Averell, A happy New Year to you & yours,” written in pen by Gen’l Fitz John Porter on one of his cards with his address printed as “68 West 68th Street.” The card measures 1.75″ x 3.25.” William Woods Averell (November 5, 1832 – February 3, 1900) was a career US Army officer and a cavalry general in the Civil War. He was the only Union general to achieve a major victory against the Confederates in the Valley Campaigns of 1864 prior to the arrival of Philip Sheridan, at the Battle of Rutherford’s (Carter’s) Farm and at the Battle of Moorefield. After the war, Averell was appointed by President Andrew Johnson as a diplomat to British North America, serving 1866 to 1869. Also an entrepreneur and inventor with interests in the coal, steel and related infrastructure industry, Averell became wealthy by inventing an improved technique for laying asphalt pavement. He co-wrote a history of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War years; it was published in 1905. He wrote a memoir of his Army years from 1851-1862 but did not publish it and the manuscript was lost for a time. It was discovered in the late 20th century and published in an annotated edition in 1978. VG. $175


CWCDV1609. CDV of J.T. Pancoast, member of the Maryland Sanitary Committee by Woods, Baltimore. Comes with a transcribed letter to the Danville Intelligencer, Aug. 9, 1861, from Capt. Manly of the Montour Rifles, Co. E, 6th PA while at Camp Rickets, Wash, DC referring to a rifle accident while marching through Baltimore and that the man who was shot was taken to the home of Pancost [sic] who lived opposite where the accident occurred. The man’s leg was amputated in his home. This comes from the collection of Gil Barrett.  (binder) VG. $150


CWCDV1612. Fischer & Bro., Baltimore, MD. CDV from the Gil Barrett Collection. 2-cent uncancelled tax stamp on verso. Civil War buddies, 2 in uniform, one in civilian dress. Fanciful pose. VG. $450


CWCDV1614. CDV by Gray’s Gallery, Oswego, NY of William C. Raulston. Enlisted on 8/24/1861 at Oswego, NY as a Captain. On 9/14/1861 he was commissioned into “A” Co. NY 81st Infantry. He was discharged on 9/6/1863. On 1/27/1864 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 24th Cavalry. He died of wounds on 12/15/1864. He was listed as: Confined Danville, VA (date not stated); Confined Libby Prison, Richmond, VA (date not stated); Wounded 6/18/1864 Petersburg, VA; POW 9/30/1864, Poplar Grove Church, VA; Wounded 12/10/1864 Sussex Court House, VA (While attempting to escape from Danville). He died from these wounds 5 days later. Promotions: Major 5/31/1862; Lt Colonel 7/7/1862; Colonel 1/27/1864 (As of 24th NY Cavalry); Intra Regimental Company Transfers: 6/20/1862 from company A to Field & Staff. VG. $475


CWCDV1615. D. Bachrach, Baltimore, MD. Convalescent soldier at St. John’s College Hospital, Baltimore, MD. He has a 5th Corps badge on jacket. This is a rare back paper label. CDV is from the Mike McAfee Collection. VG. $325


CWCDV1621. The soldier is an unidentified member of the 2nd NYS Militia Regiment, 1861 (82 NY Vols.). On the bottom recto is written “Liberty or Death.” On the top verso is written “Death to all Traitors.” These are original inscriptions, undoubtedly by the hand of the soldier. On back is the collector mark of William (Bill) Gladstone, the walking “B” symbol. In addition, this CDV comes from the collection of the late Mike McAfee. G. (binder)  $250


CWCDV1622. Brady & Co.’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Washington DC and NY. Walter Case Newberry. Enlisted 10/19/1861 at Waterville, NY as a 1st Lt. On 11/4/1861 he was commissioned into E Co. NY 81 Inf. On 1/10/1864 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 24th Cavalry. He mustered out on 6/24/1865 at Cloud’s Mills, VA. He was listed as: WIA 6/18/64 Petersburg, VA; WIA 7/30/64 Petersburg, VA; WIA 3/30/65 place not stated. Promotions: Capt. 6/1/62; Major 1/10/64; Lt. Col. 2/6/64; Col. 12/15/64; Brig-Gen’l 3/31/65 by Brevet. Born 12/23/1835 in Waterville, Oneida County, NY; died 7/20/1912 in Chicago, IL. G. (binder) $275


CWCDV1625. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Henry Patchen Martin. Enlisted 4/19/61 at NYC as a Lt. Col. On 5/3/61 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 71st Inf. He mustered out on 7/31/61 at NYC. On 5/28/62 he was commissoned into Field & Staff NY 71st Inf. He mustered out 9/2/62 at NYC. Promotions: Col. 6/3/61. Fair. $125


CWCDV1630. R.W. Addis, Washington, DC. On bottom recto is written “Bvt. B. G. J.S. Schullz [sic],” abbreviation for Brevet Brigadier General. On the back it reads “Maj. John S. Schullz [sic]” On verso is written “Maj. Gen. S. Schultze, my Adgt Gen in Pennsylvania D.N.C.” This last was written by General Darius Nash Couch. I found a letter written April 15, 1865 from Assistant Adjutant General S. Schultz to Lt. Col. Louis Wagner indicating that a proposed Civil War victory parade in Philadelphia would not take place on Monday, the 17th due to the assassination of President Lincoln. A copy of the letter and transcript is included with this CDV. VG. (binder) $300


CWCDV1632. U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md. Unidentified soldier likely recuperating from his wounds. Rare backmark. VG. $200


CWCDV1636. O. Pierre Havens, Sing Sing, NY. Signed on verso “Chellis Swain, Adjt, 1st Lt. Cav.” Chellis D. Swain. Enlisted 8/17/62 as a 2nd Lt. Commissioned into B Co. NY 11th Cav. Discharged on 3/7/64. Promotions: 2nd Lt 8/17/62 by brevet; 2nd Lt. 9/1/62 (As of Co. K); 1st Lt. 11/1/62 (1st Lt. & Adjt). Appears to have returned to service: Enlisted 3/27/65 at NYC as a 1st Lt. On 3/27/65 he was commissioned into Field & Staff NY 26th Cav. He mustered out on 7/7/65 at Albany, NY. Promotions: 1st Lt. 3/23/65 (1st Lt. & Adjt). G. (binder) $175


CWCDV1672. Pair of CDVs, one by S.P. Smith, Kankakee, Ill., and the other by Bowman, Ottawa, Ill.  The man in the single image is pictured at center in the image of the three amputees. The amputee at left appears to have lost both legs and both hands. The other two have lost their legs but appear to have their hands, although the man at center has only one hand visible and only one wooden crutch, so he is likely a triple amputee. Unidentified. VG. $950


CWALBUM7. Colonel Francis J. Parker family album. Francis Jewett Parker was 36 years old and lived in Boston. He enlisted on 12/2/1861 as a Major. On 12/9/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff MA 32nd Infantry. He resigned on 12/27/1862. Promotions: Lt. Colonel 5/25/1862; Colonel 8/6/1862. He died on 1/20/1909 in Boston, MA. This album contains 65 CDVs, Parker’s being the first in the album. There are 2 other soldiers in the album. One is unidentified and the other is of Dr. Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, US Navy. Stedman served on the USS Huron and the Circassian. He was also an artist and commentator and produced a book, available today, titled The Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, US Navy. A great many of the CDVs are named beneath the images and represent Parker’s extended family. Most of the backmarks are Boston photographers such as Black, Whipple, etc. The album itself has a separated cover and spine, pages intact. A fine Civil War era album in need of further genealogical research. Images are VG. $800


CWALBUM8. CDV Album—Amherst College. Class of 1862. Ezra C. Ebersole. There are 80 CDVs in the album. The names and statistics of the class members are on the front pages of the albums as well as beneath the images. They are by various MA and CT photographers. The first 18 images are faculty, all but two are named. The following 59 images are students, all but one has a name under the image. The final 3 CDVs are unidentified young girls. With a printed biographical document regarding the members of the class which has minor differences from the information at the front of the album. This lot comes with printouts on the soldiers from the CW database.

Ten of the students participated in the Civil War:

Arthur G. Biscoe, Private, Co. E, MA 51st Infantry.

Lucius F.C. Garvin, Private, Co. E, MA 51st Infantry.

Albert Bryant, Private, Co. B, NY 146th Infantry. POW, 5/5/1864 Wilderness, VA; confined at Andersonville, GA 5/7/1864; Died of disease 9/24/1864 at Andersonville, GA.

Henry Gridley, Co. A, NY 150th Infantry. Killed 6/22/1864 at Culp’s Farm, GA.

Henry Hill Goodell, 2nd Lt. Co. F, CT 25th Infantry.

Rufus P. Lincoln, 2nd Lt. Co. C, MA 37th Infantry; MA 20th Infantry. WIA 5/6/1864 Wilderness, VA.

George B. Macomber, 1st Lt Co. E, MA 34th Infantry; Co. A, MA 24th Infantry.

Frederic Daniels Morse, Sergeant Co. B, MA 42nd Infantry. POW 6/23/1863 Brashear City, LA.

Samuel C. Vance, Captain Co. A, MA 27th Infantry; IN 70th Infantry; IN 107th Infantry; IN 132nd Infantry.

Mason W. Tyler, 1st Lt. Co. F, MA 37th Infantry. WIA 9/19/1864 Winchester, VA; WIA 3/25/1865 Petersburg, VA.

The album itself is in good shape although there is one separation of the pages about two-thirds through the album.

VG. $1250


CWCDV1674. Photographic Negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy. VG. $200


Collection of Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Incredible collection of 9 CDVs. Once in a lifetime opportunity to obtain a collection of 9 Lincoln Assassination Conspirator CDVs. Included in this group is an image of John Wilkes Booth by Black & Case, Boston with an 1865 cancelled tax stamp and “Booth the Assassin” written in a flourish on verso. This CDV has a hangman’s noose drawn in around Booth’s neck. The next CDV is of “Payne, alias Wood, alias Hall,” by Alexander Gardner, 1865. Next is  a CDV of Michael O’Laughlin [sic] by Gardner with partial tax stamp. His name should be spelled O’Laughlen. Next is Edward Spangler, the gent who was accused of preparing the President’s box at Ford’s Theater and who helped Booth escape, by Gardner with partial tax stamp. The next CDV is of David E. Herold by E&HT Anthony. Next is Mrs. Surratt with cancelled tax stamp on verso. (According to Dan Weinberg of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago, we don’t actually know what Mary looked like and the photographers just took an image of an unknown woman for this pose). Then, George Atzerodt by Gardner, 1865, with cancelled tax stamp. Next is Samuel Arnold, by Gardner, 1865. Last is a composite CDV of 7 of the conspirators with tax stamp on verso. A once in a lifetime collection. VG. $16,000


CWCDV1681. W.C. North, Cleveland, Ohio. The battle-torn national colors of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Chase (Columbus, Ohio) and mustered into duty on June 11, 1861, as a three-year regiment. Its 950 enlistees were originally led by Col. William Rosecrans. In July, after training and drilling, the regiment departed for western Virginia, where it served for several months, helping to restore that portion of Virginia to the Union. The 23rd was attached to Jacob D. Cox’s Kanawha Brigade and served throughout much of the war in what became the IX Corps. The unit saw heavy action during the Battle of South Mountain, where Colonel Hayes was wounded in an attack on the slopes near Fox’s Gap. Within a week, the regiment fought at Antietam in the fields southeast of Sharpsburg, Maryland, before returning to duty in West Virginia. It was again heavily engaged in Philip Sheridan’s 1864 Valley Campaign. The regiment mustered out in July 1865. Top of mount corners clipped. G. $750


CWCAB38. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 455. Exploded Gun in Confederate Battery, Yorktown. Gardner & Gibson’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB39. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 407. St. Peter’s Church, Yorktown–Built 1717. Where George Washington was married. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB40. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 489. Military Bridges across the Chickahominy, built by the 15th N.Y.V. Engineers, Col. Murphy. Gardner & Gibson’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $275


CWCAB41. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 512. Bridge over North Fork of Rappahannock, near Sulphur Springs, Va. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB42. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 502. Battle Field of Cedar Mountain. House in which General Winder was killed; family group. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB43. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 506. Battle Field of Cedar Mountain. Panoramic view; the mountain the distance. M.B. Brady’s copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $325


CWCAB44. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 501. Battle Field of Cedar Mountain. House riddled with cannon balls, in which Gen’l Winder was killed at the first fire from Capt. McGilvery’s battery.  M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB45. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 529. Railroad Station, Culpepper. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $350


CWCAB46. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 542. Hotel at Warrenton Springs, Va. Street View, South. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $300


CWCAB47. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 530. Railroad Station at Culpepper. South View. M.B. Brady’s 1862 copyright line bottom recto. Album cards measure 4.5″ x 6″ and were issued by Brady only in 1861 and 1862. VG. $350


CWCDV1682. T.M. Schleier’s Photograph Gallery, Nashville, Tenn. Signed verso “Sam. W. Fordyce Capt. Co. H. 1st OHC 1862.” This is Samuel W. Fordyce. Enlisted 8/17/61 as a 2nd Lieut. Co. B, Ohio 1st Cavalry. WIA 10/23/61 West Liberty, KY. Promotion: 1st Lieut. 6/10/62; Capt. 12/31/62 (as of Co. H). G. $200


CWCDV1683. G.T. Lape, NY. Written on verso: “Capt. James Walker 1st N.Y. Vol. Engns.” Label on verso reads “For Sale By E.D. Doolittle. Co. G. 1st N.Y. Vol. Engineer Corps. Port Royal. S.C.” Cancelled 2-cent tax stamp on verso. I cannot locate a “James Walker” in this regiment in the Civil War Database. VG. $150


CWCDV1684. E&HT Anthony. Confederate General Fitzhugh Lee (1835-1905). VG. $200


CWCDV1685. Confederate Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), 2nd KY Cavalry. KIA Greenville TN. VG. $200


CWCDV1686. Black, Boston. George William Brown (October 13, 1812 – September 5, 1890) was an American politician, judge and academic. A graduate of Rutgers College in 1831, he was mayor of Baltimore from 1860 to 1861, professor in University of Maryland School of Law, and 2nd Chief Judge and Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He was founder and president of the Bar Association of Baltimore City and the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar.

Brown played an important role in controlling the Pratt Street Riot, where the first bloodshed of the Civil War occurred, on April 19, 1861. During the riot, Brown accompanied a column of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment through the streets. When the column he was leading was assailed by the mob, “the mayor’s patience was soon exhausted, and he seized a musket from the hands of one of the men and killed a man therewith.” Immediately following the Riot, Baltimore saw much lawlessness, as citizens destroyed the offices of pro-Union German newspapers and looted shops in search of guns and other weapons. Mayor Brown and Maryland businessmen visited the White House to urge President Abraham Lincoln to reroute Union troops around Baltimore city to Annapolis to avoid further confrontations that they felt would result from additional troops passing through the city.

In the few days following the Pratt Street Riot, Governor Hicks likely assented to Mayor Brown’s decision to dispatch the Maryland militiamen to destroy the railroad bridges over the rivers north of the city, to prevent more troops from passing through Baltimore. This was an act both Hicks and Brown would later deny—though Isaac R. Trimble, commanding Baltimore militia companies immediately following the Riot—later claimed that Brown authorized destruction of the railroad bridges, which may explain Brown’s later arrest and imprisonment by federal authorities. Shortly thereafter, a Maryland militia captain and Baltimore County farmer, John Merryman, was arrested, held at Fort McHenry and later denied a writ of habeas corpus, on grounds that President Lincoln had suspended the writ (but only along rail lines in Maryland). This arrest sparked the case of Ex parte Merryman.

President Lincoln agreed to reroute Union troops around Baltimore to Annapolis, so they could then travel to Washington. Northern troops (state militia companies) were able to arrive in Washington, thus avoiding further bloodshed in Baltimore. On May 13, 1861, the Union army entered Baltimore, occupied the city, and declared martial law. Mayor Brown was arrested on September 12, 1861, at his home, with Habeas corpus suspended. He was imprisoned at Fort McHenry for one night, then transported to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and held for two weeks. Afterwards he was moved to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor and held for fourteen months. Brown was released on November 27, 1862. He returned to Baltimore and resumed his law practice. VG. $300


CWCDV1687. Unidentified infantry officer and his lady. G. $125


CWCDV1688. Alexander Gardner, Washington, DC. “J.L. Chamberlain” written bottom recto but this is Colonel James L. Selfridge (9/22/1824-5/19/1887), 46th Pennsylvania Infantry later a Brevet Brigadier General. After college, he studied law at Allentown, and was in his father’s Lehigh Transportation Company of Philadelphia, then began his own brokerage. In 1857 he moved to Bethlehem, where he was engaged in the coal and real estate businesses until the War. He mustered into service 20 April 1861 as Captain, Company A, First Pennsylvania Infantry (from Bethlehem, Northampton County) – the “Washington Grays”. After their three-months of service, they reenlisted as Company C, 46th Pennsylvania Infantry, and on 8 August 1861 Selfridge was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the new 46th. He was in command of the Regiment after Colonel Knipe took command of the Brigade on 17 September. After Antietam, Knipe said of him “… I can cheerfully bear testimony to the bearing of Lieutenant-Colonel Selfridge. He displayed coolness and a bravery that distinguished the true soldier, and is worthy of promotion.” He was promoted to Colonel and command of the Regiment 10 May 1863. Also promoted after the Battle was Major Matthews of the 46th, who was made Colonel of the 128th Pennsylvania, which was assigned to Knipe’s Brigade. He led the Regiment up to the battle for Atlanta, where Colonel Selfridge took command of the brigade for the duration of the War. He was honorably mustered out 16 July 1865. He was cited by Brevet for gallant service on Sherman’s South Carolina and Georgia Campaign. In 1868, he was elected Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and was re-elected until 1873. In 1872, he returned to Philadelphia and became proprietor of the Lehigh Hydraulic Cement Company. He was also appointed by Governor Geary as Major-General of the Seventh Division of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. He is buried in Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, PA. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. G. $250


CWCDV1689. Brady, Washington, DC. Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy. G. $200


CWCDV1690. R.W. Addis, Washington, DC. Captain William T. Blanchard. Enlisted 5/3/61 at McKean County into Co. I, PA 42 Inf. (13 Reserves). (1st regiment of Bucktails). WIA 6/8/62 Cross Keys, VA. G. $450


CWCDV1691. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James Samuel Wadsworth (October 30, 1807 – May 8, 1864) was a philanthropist, politician, and a Union general in the Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. VG. $350


CWCDV1692. Nathaniel Shackford. Enlisted 8/29/62 as a Captain. Co. E, NH 12th Inf. WIA 5/3/63 Chancellorsville, VA; WIA 7/2/63 Gettysburg, PA (3 bullets to wrist, groin, lung); WIA 6/3/64 Cold Harbor, VA (severe wound in elbow, and back). Promotions: Major 11/16/64; Lt. Col. 5/26/65. Signed on verso. Trimmed at bottom. G. $350


CWCDV1693. B. Carr, Concord, NH. Nathaniel Shackford. Enlisted 8/29/62 as a Captain. Co. E, NH 12th Inf. WIA 5/3/63 Chancellorsville, VA; WIA 7/2/63 Gettysburg, PA (3 bullets to wrist, groin, lung); WIA 6/3/64 Cold Harbor, VA (severe wound in elbow, and back). Promotions: Major 11/16/64; Lt. Col. 5/26/65. VG. $300


CWCDV1695. Landy, Cincinnati, Ohio. Signed “H.W. Rivers, Surg. to Head quarters Army of the Potomac.” This is Henry Wheaton Rivers. Enlisted 4/17/61 as an Asst. Surgeon. Field & Staff RI 1st Inf. On 10/30/61 commissioned into Field & Staff RI 4th Inf. He was listed as:

  • Detached 4/15/1862 General Parke’s Staff (Estimated day)
  • Returned 7/15/1862 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Detached 9/15/1862 3rd Div, 9th A.C. (Estimated day, as Medical Director)
  • Detached 11/22/1862 Hqs, Army Of Potomac (As attending surgeon)
  • Returned 1/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Detached 1/16/1863 Hq Maj Gen Burnside (Estimated day, as attending surgeon)
  • Returned 6/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Detached 6/16/1863 2nd Div, 7th A.C. (Estimated day, as Medical Director)
  • Returned 9/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Detached 9/16/1863 Gettysburg Div, 18th A.C. (Estimated day, as Medical Director)
  • Detached Service 10/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Returned 2/15/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Detached 2/16/1864 Gen Heckman’s Staff (Estimated day, as Medical director)
  • Returned 4/15/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
  • Special Duty 4/16/1864 Board Of Examination (Estimated day)
  • Detached 5/2/1864 Gen Kantz Staff (Estimated day)
  • Returned 8/15/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)

Promotions:

  • Surgeon 6/7/1861
  • Surgeon 9/1/1861 (As of 4th RI Inf)

Died 12/3/1868. VG. $250


CWCDV1696. Bendann Bros., Baltimore, Md. Rufus H. Gilbert. Enlisted on 4/25/1861 at New York City, NY as a Surgeon. On 5/14/1861, he was commissioned into Field & Staff New York 5th Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 9/3/1861. On 8/3/1861, he was commissioned into US Volunteers Medical Staff. He was Mustered Out on 7/20/1865. Promotions: Surgeon 8/3/1861 (As of Medical Staff); Lt. Colonel 6/1/1865 by Brevet. Died 7/10/1885. VG. $200


CWCDV1697. Dewey & Gibson, Cincinnati, Ohio. Written on verso “Phillip Conkle cousin of Mothers Almina Conkle daughter of Jonathan Conkle 1862.” Enlisted on 8/5/1862 as a Priv. On 9/18/1862, he mustered into “F” Co. Ohio 115th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 6/22/1865 at Murfreesboro, TN. He holds his bugle. Born in 1840. Died 9/19/1913. Buried: Fairhaven Cemetery, Orange County, CA. G. $200


CWCDV1698. R.A. Lewis, NY. Lt. Col. John Hodges, Jr. Enlisted on 4/15/1861 as a Priv. On 4/30/1861, he mustered into “I” Co. Massachusetts 8th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1861 at Boston, MA. On 8/28/1861, he was commissioned into “B” Co. Massachusetts 19th Infantry. He resigned on 6/19/1862. On 11/11/1862, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 50th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/24/1863 at Wenham, MA. On 2/3/1864, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 59th Infantry. He was Killed on 7/30/1864 at Petersburg, VA. Promotions: 1st Lieut 8/22/1861 (As of Co. B 19th MA Inf); Major 11/7/1862 (As of 50th MA Inf); Lt Colonel 2/2/1864 (As of 59th MA Inf). $275


CWCDV1699. Confederate General Bryan Grimes (November 2, 1828 – August 14, 1880) was a officer during the Civil War. He fought in nearly all of the major battles of the Eastern Theater. Grimes was the last man in the Army of Northern Virginia to be appointed as a major general. He also led the last attack of that army not long before its surrender to Union forces at Appomattox Court House on the morning of April 9, 1865. He was elected as a delegate to North Carolina’s secession convention. He resigned from the commission after the passage of the Ordinance of Secession and joined the Confederate Army as the major of the newly formed 4th North Carolina Infantry on May 16, 1861. He saw his first combat action at the First Battle of Manassas in Virginia on July 21. Grimes was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 1, 1862, and fought at the Battle of Seven Pines, during which he was wounded when his injured horse fell on top of him on May 31. On June 19, 1862, Grimes was promoted to the rank of colonel and given command of the 4th North Carolina Infantry, now part of the Army of Northern Virginia. Grimes led the regiment during the Peninsula Campaign, but missed the Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Sharpsburg due to a severe leg injury incurred when his horse kicked him on September 5 near Edward’s Ferry in Maryland. Upon recovery Grimes returned to field duty in temporary command of an infantry brigade within the division of Maj. Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill. He fought with the rest of Stonewall Jackson’s Second Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg that December, where his men repelled a Union attack. Grimes returned to his regimental command before the 1863 Chancellorsville Campaign, where he was wounded again, this time in a foot, on May 3. During the first day’s fighting at Gettysburg, Grimes’ regiment was the first organized Confederate unit to enter the streets of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was in charge of the rear guard during a part of the army’s retreat into Virginia following the three-day battle. On September 15, 1863, he married Charlotte Emily Bryan, and they eventually had ten children together, including John Bryan Grimes, who would become North Carolina’s secretary of state. Again, another son named Bryan Grimes died in childhood. During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Grimes was promoted to the rank of brigadier general on May 19, and given permanent command of his brigade of North Carolinians. That autumn, he fought in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign as part of the army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early. When Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Ramseur was killed at Cedar Creek, Grimes assumed command of his division on December 9 and led it for the rest of the war. On October 19 while at Cedar Creek he was wounded in a leg. On February 15, 1865, Grimes was promoted to major general, the last man appointed to that rank in the Army of Northern Virginia. He served in the trenches surrounding Petersburg and joined Robert E. Lee’s retreat to the west that ended when the way was blocked by Federal columns near Appomattox Court House. Grimes led an attack that temporarily cleared Federals from the Lynchburg Road, briefly opening up a possible route of escape for a portion of Lee’s army. However, Lee chose to surrender instead of risking useless further bloodshed. Following the Appomattox Campaign, Grimes surrendered along with the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House. He was pardoned by the U.S. government on June 26, 1866. This CDV is of Confederate origin and the poor contrast of the image is the result of the low quality chemicals available to southern photographers at the time. Such images are quite rare. G-. $300


CWCDV1700. Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865) was a Confederate general who was killed in the Civil War. He is usually referred to as A. P. Hill to differentiate him from Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill, who was unrelated. A native Virginian, Hill was a career United States Army officer who had fought in the Mexican–American War and Seminole Wars before joining the Confederate States Army. After the start of the Civil War, he gained early fame as the commander of the “Light Division” in the Seven Days Battles. He became one of Stonewall Jackson’s ablest subordinates, distinguishing himself in the 1862 battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Following Jackson’s death in May 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Hill was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Third Corps of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, which he led in the summer Gettysburg Campaign and the fall campaigns of 1863. His command of the corps in 1864–65 was interrupted on multiple occasions by illness, from which he did not return until just before the end of the war. He was killed during the Union Army’s offensive at the Third Battle of Petersburg. This CDV is of Confederate origin and the poor contrast of the image is the result of the low quality chemicals available to southern photographers at the time. Such images are quite rare. G. $350


CWCDV1701. Richard Stoddert Ewell(February 8, 1817 – January 25, 1872) was an American military officer and a Confederate general during the Aivil War. He achieved fame as a senior commander under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and fought effectively through much of the war. Still, his legacy was clouded by controversies over his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. This CDV is of Confederate origin and the poor contrast of the image is the result of the low quality chemicals available to southern photographers at the time. Such images are quite rare. G. $300


CWCDV1702. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E. Anthony. Ambrose Everts Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist. He was responsible for some of the earliest victories in the Eastern theater, but was then promoted above his abilities, and is mainly remembered for two disastrous defeats, at Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg). Although an inquiry cleared him of blame in the latter case, he never regained credibility as an army commander. Burnside was a modest and unassuming individual, mindful of his limitations, who had been propelled to high command against his will. He could be described as a genuinely unlucky man, both in battle and in business, where he was robbed of the rights to a successful cavalry firearm that had been his own invention. His spectacular growth of whiskers became known as “sideburns”, deriving from the two parts of his surname. VG. $85


CWCDV1703. R.W. Addis, Washington, DC. Henry Warner Slocum Sr. (September 24, 1827 – April 14, 1894), was a Union general during the Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war, he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment, a brigade, a division, and a corps in the Army of the Potomac, he saw action at First Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg, he was the senior Union General in the Field, under Gen. George G. Meade. During the battle, he held the Union right from Culp’s Hill to across the Baltimore Pike. His successful defense of Culp’s Hill was crucial to the Union victory at Gettysburg. After the fall of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, splitting the southern Confederacy, Slocum was appointed military commander of the district. Slocum participated in the Atlanta Campaign and was the first commander to enter the city on September 2, 1864. He then served as occupation commander of Atlanta. Slocum was appointed the commander of the left wing of Gen. William T. Sherman’s famous “March to the Sea” to Savannah on the Atlantic coast through Georgia and afterwards turning north through the Carolinas, commanding the XIV and XX Corps, comprising the Army of Georgia. During this campaign, he captured the then state capital of Georgia, Milledgeville, and the Atlantic coast seaport of Savannah. In the Carolinas campaign, Slocum’s army saw victories in the battles of Averasborough and Bentonville, North Carolina. The “March to the Sea” and the Carolinas campaign were crucial to the overall Union victory in the Civil War. After the surrender of Confederate forces, Slocum was given command of the Department of Mississippi. Slocum declined an officer’s appointment in the postwar Regular Army. He was a successful political leader in the North, a businessman and railroad developer. VG. $150


CWCDV1704. E&HT Anthony. George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870) was an American general in the Union Army during the Civil War and one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. Thomas served in the Mexican–American War, and despite being a Virginian whose home state would join the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, he was a Southern Unionist who chose to remain in the U.S. Army. Thomas won one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River. His stout defense at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 saved the Union Army from being completely routed, earning him his most famous nickname, “the Rock of Chickamauga.” He followed soon after with a dramatic breakthrough on Missionary Ridge in the Battle of Chattanooga. In the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of 1864, he achieved one of the most decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, his former student at West Point, at the Battle of Nashville. Thomas had a successful record in the Civil War, but he failed to achieve the historical acclaim of some of his contemporaries, such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. He developed a reputation as a slow, deliberate general. In an environment rife with jealousy and avarice for promotion and recognition, Thomas stood out as an oddball for occasionally refusing promotions to positions he thought he was still incapable of fulfilling. Conversely, he sometimes regretted his refusals or found it offensive that he was passed over for promotion. After the war, he did not write memoirs to advance his legacy and died only five years after the war ended. This CDV shows Thomas in an uncommon pose. G-. $85


CWCDV1705. G.W. Armstead, Corinth, Miss. Grenville Mellen Dodge (April 12, 1831 – January 3, 1916) was a Union Army officer on the frontier and a pioneering figure in military intelligence during the Civil War, who served as Ulysses S. Grant’s intelligence chief in the Western Theater. He served in several notable assignments, including command of the XVI Corps during the Atlanta Campaign. He later commanded troops against Native Americans and served as a US Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped direct the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Historian Stanley P. Hirshon suggested that Dodge, “by virtue of the range of his abilities and activities,” could be considered “more important in the national life after the Civil War than his more famous colleagues and friends, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan.” At the beginning of the war, Dodge was sent by the Governor of Iowa to Washington, D.C., where he secured 6,000 muskets to supply Iowa volunteers. In July 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was wounded in the left leg, near Rolla, Missouri, when a pistol in his coat pocket discharged accidentally. He commanded the 1st Brigade, 4th Division in the Army of the Southwest at the Battle of Pea Ridge, where he was wounded in the side and hand. For his services at the battle, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and placed in command of forces based in Corinth, where his intelligence operation was based. His commands were known variously as the Central District (Department of the Mississippi); 4th Division (District of West Tennessee); District of Mississippi (Department of Mississippi); 4th Division (District of Jackson, Army of the Tennessee); 4th Division (XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee); District of Corinth (XVII Corps, Army of the Tennessee); District of Corinth (XVI Corps), Army of the Tennessee; and finally as the 2nd Division (XVI Corps). Following Confederate General Van Dorn’s repulse at the Second Battle of Corinth in October 1862, Dodge’s command fought successful engagements near the Hatchie River and then turned to West Tennessee where they captured a band of Confederate guerrillas near Dyersburg. On February 22, 1863, troops from Dodge’s command attacked Tuscumbia and the rear column of Van Dorn’s column, capturing a piece of artillery, 100 bales of cotton, 100 prisoners and Van Dorn’s supply train. He then served as Grant’s intelligence Chief through the Vicksburg campaign. Dodge was later appointed by General Grant as commander of a Division in the Army of the Tennessee, where his troops aided Grant and William T. Sherman by “rapidly repairing and rebuilding the railroads, bridges, and telegraph lines destroyed by the Confederates,” and defeating or capturing the Confederate guerrillas, who had been ripping up the track and destroying railroad bridges, by employing techniques such as building two-story blockhouses near the bridges. In 1863, he was summoned to Washington DC by President Abraham Lincoln, and although Dodge thought he was being called before a court of inquiry for his aggressive recruitment of black soldiers, the President was instead interested in Dodge’s railroad expertise, and asked him to divine a location along the Missouri River where the Union Pacific Railroad’s transcontinental railroad should have its initial point. The location provided by Dodge was later established by Executive Order as the starting point in 1864. Following the Vicksburg campaign, his own troops joined General Grant and Iowa Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood in petitioning for Dodge’s promotion. Dodge led an expedition to Northern Alabama from April 18, 1863, to May 8, 1863, that screened the advance of Streight’s Raid. While Dodge’s portion of the expedition was successful, Streight’s incursion was disastrous. His command performed various engagements thereafter in northwestern Mississippi and West Tennessee. In December, his forces engaged in a skirmish near Rawhide, twelve miles north of Florence, Alabama that resulted in the capture of 20 prisoners. He was promoted to major general in June 1864 and commanded the XVI Corps during William T. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. At the Battle of Atlanta, the XVI Corps was held in reserve, but it happened to be placed in a position which directly intercepted John B. Hood’s flank attack. During the fighting Dodge rode to the front and personally led Thomas W. Sweeny’s division into battle. This action outraged the one-armed Sweeny so much that he got in a fistfight with Dodge and fellow division commander John W. Fuller. Sweeny received a court-martial for this action while Dodge continued to lead the corps at the Battle of Ezra Church. During the ensuing siege of Atlanta, while looking through an eyehole in the Union breastworks a Confederate sharpshooter spotted him and shot him in the head. After, he was to complete the war as commander of the Department of the Missouri. Also during the war, he provided information to Thomas Clark Durant who consequently made a fortune smuggling contraband cotton from the Confederate States to fund his intelligence efforts. He would later come into conflict with Durant. After the war, Dodge joined the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and was assigned insignia number 484. Image has a few crease lines but is not bent. G-. $225


CWCDV1707. Photographer’s imprint is overlaid by a label from McAllister & Brother, Philadelphia, the well-known optical establishment where the image was purchased. David Hunter (July 21, 1802 – February 2, 1886) was an American military officer. He served as a Union general during the  Civil War. He achieved notability for his unauthorized 1862 order (immediately rescinded) emancipating slaves in three Southern states, for his leadership of United States troops during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. VG. $200


CWCDV1708. E&HT Anthony. George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was an American military officer who served in the United States Army and the Union army as Major General in command of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was born in Cádiz, Spain, to a wealthy Philadelphia merchant family and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835. He fought in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican–American War. He served in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers and directed construction of lighthouses in Florida and New Jersey from 1851 to 1856 and the United States Lake Survey from 1857 to 1861. His Civil War service began as brigadier general with the Pennsylvania Reserves, building defenses around Washington D.C. He fought in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Glendale and returned to lead his brigade at the Second Battle of Bull Run. As a division commander, he won the Battle of South Mountain and assumed temporary command of the I Corps at the Battle of Antietam. Meade’s division broke through the lines at the Battle of Fredericksburg but were forced to retreat due to lack of support. Meade was promoted to major general and commander of the V Corps, which he led during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He was appointed to command the Army of the Potomac just three days before the Battle of Gettysburg and arrived on the battlefield after the first day’s action on July 1, 1863. He organized his forces on favorable ground to fight an effective defensive battle against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and repelled a series of massive assaults throughout the next two days. While elated about the victory, President Abraham Lincoln was critical of Meade due to his perception of an ineffective pursuit during the retreat, which allowed Lee and his army to escape back to Virginia. That fall, Meade’s troops had a minor victory in the Bristoe Campaign but a stalemate at the Battle of Mine Run. Meade’s cautious approach prompted Lincoln to look for a new commander of the Army of the Potomac. In 1864–1865, Meade continued to command the Army of the Potomac through the Overland Campaign, the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign, and the Appomattox Campaign, but he was overshadowed by the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who accompanied him throughout these campaigns. Grant conducted most of the strategy during these campaigns, leaving Meade with significantly less influence than before. After the war, Meade commanded the Military Division of the Atlantic from 1865 to 1866 and again from 1869 to 1872. He oversaw the formation of the state governments and reentry into the United States for five southern states through his command of the Department of the South from 1866 to 1868 and the Third Military District in 1872. Meade was subjected to intense political rivalries within the Army, notably with Major Gen. Daniel Sickles, who tried to discredit Meade’s role in the victory at Gettysburg. He had a notoriously short temper which earned him the nickname of “Old Snapping Turtle”. G. $125


CWCDV1709. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in U.S. Navy tradition for his bold order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually abbreviated to “Damn the torpedoes … full speed ahead.” Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Farragut was fostered by naval officer David Porter after the death of his mother. When he was 11 years old, Farragut served in the War of 1812 under the command of his adoptive father. He received his first command in 1823, at the age of 22, and went on to participate in anti-piracy operations in the Caribbean Sea. He then served in the Mexican–American War under the command of Matthew C. Perry, participating in the blockade of Tuxpan. After the war, he oversaw the construction of the Mare Island Navy Yard (now Mare Island Naval Shipyard), which was the first U.S. Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean. Though Farragut resided in Norfolk, Virginia, prior to the Civil War, he was a Southern Unionist who strongly opposed Southern secession and remained loyal to the Union after the outbreak of the Civil War. Despite some doubts about Farragut’s loyalty, Farragut was assigned command of an attack on the important Confederate port city of New Orleans. After defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Farragut captured New Orleans in April 1862. He was promoted to rear admiral after the battle and helped extend Union control up along the Mississippi River, participating in the siege of Port Hudson. With the Union in control of the Mississippi, Farragut led a successful attack on Mobile Bay, home to the last major Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico. Farragut was promoted to admiral following the end of the Civil War and remained on active duty until his death in 1870. 2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. VG. $150


CWCDV1710. Alexander Gardner, Washington, DC. Benjamin Henry Grierson (July 8, 1826 – August 31, 1911) was a music teacher from Illinois who, although afraid of horses, volunteered for service in the cavalry during the Civil War, commanding a cavalry division Army of the Tennessee and reaching the rank of major general in the United States Volunteers. He is most noted for Grierson’s Raid, an 1863 expedition through Confederate-held territory that severed enemy communication lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate commanders in the Eastern Theater. After the war he became colonel of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, an African-American regiment from 1866 until his retirement in 1890. Grierson was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to the Midwest where he earned his living as a music teacher and as a partner in an unsuccessful mercantile business. He began his military career as a volunteer aide-de-camp but was soon advanced to major of cavalry. After six months he was promoted to the command of his regiment and before long to the command of a cavalry brigade, and finally of a cavalry division. As colonel of an African-American regiment he was disliked by his superiors and fellow officers due to his support for and trust in his black troops. His 26 years of postwar service was spent in garrison and in the field at the southwestern frontier. G. $200


CWCDV1712. Henszey & Co., Philadelphia. John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the  Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania. At the start of the Civil War, Geary raised the 147th and 28th Pennsylvania Infantry regiments and became colonel of the latter. Commanding the district of the upper Potomac River, he was wounded and captured near Leesburg, Virginia, on March 8, 1862, but was immediately exchanged and returned to duty. On April 25, 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers and the command of a brigade in Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks’s corps, which he led in the Shenandoah Valley against Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. His brigade joined Maj. Gen. John Pope’s Army of Virginia in late June. He led it at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, where he was seriously wounded in the arm and leg. He returned to duty on October 15 as the division commander; the corps was now part of the Army of the Potomac, designated the XII Corps, under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum. Geary’s division was heavily engaged at Chancellorsville, where he was knocked unconscious as a cannonball shot past his head on May 3, 1863. (Some accounts state that he was hit in the chest with a cannonball.) At the Battle of Gettysburg, Slocum’s corps arrived after the first day’s (July 1, 1863) fighting subsided and took up a defensive position on Culp’s Hill, the extreme right of the Union line. On the second day, heavy fighting on the Union left demanded reinforcements and Geary was ordered to leave a single brigade, under Brig. Gen. George S. Greene, on Culp’s Hill and follow another division, which was just departing. Geary lost track of the division he was supposed to follow south on the Baltimore Pike and inexplicably marched completely off the battlefield, eventually reaching Rock Creek. His two brigades finally returned to Culp’s Hill by 9:00 pm that night, arriving in the midst of a fierce fire fight between a Confederate division and Greene’s lone brigade. This embarrassing incident might have damaged his reputation except for two factors: the part of the battle he was supposed to march to join had ended, so he wasn’t really needed; and, because of a dispute between army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and Slocum over the filing of their official reports, little public notice ensued. The XII Corps was transferred west to join the besieged Union army at Chattanooga. Geary’s son Edward died in his arms at the Battle of Wauhatchie, enraging him sufficiently to prevail in a battle in which his division was greatly outnumbered. He distinguished himself in command during the Battle of Lookout Mountain, the entire Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and the Carolinas Campaign. He oversaw the surrender of Savannah, Georgia, and briefly served as the city’s military governor, where he was breveted to major general. VG. $200


CWCDV1713. C. Cole, Roxbury, Mass. Ansel D. Wass. Enlisted on 4/22/1861 at Boston, MA as a 1st Lieut. On 4/22/1861, he was commissioned into “K” Co. Massachusetts 6th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 8/2/1861 at Boston, MA (Commissioned January 22, 1861). On 8/28/1861, he was commissioned into “K” Co. Massachusetts 19th Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on 10/1/1862. On 10/10/1862, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry. He resigned & Disch disability on 1/31/1863. On 5/25/1863, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 19th Infantry. He was disch on 7/27/1864. On 8/6/1864, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 60th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 12/29/1864 (MO by SO War Dept. #473). On 3/2/1865, he was commissioned into Field & Staff Massachusetts 62nd Infantry. (Date and method of discharge not given.) (Never mustered). He was listed as: Wounded 4/7/1862 Yorktown, VA; Wounded 6/30/1862 Glendale, VA; Wounded 7/3/1863 Gettysburg, PA; Wounded 10/14/1863 Bristoe Station, VA. Promotions: Capt 8/28/1861 (As of Co. K 19th MA Inf); Major 7/1/1862; Lt Colonel 5/25/1863; Colonel 7/30/1864 (As of 60th MA Inf); Colonel 3/2/1865 (As of 62nd MA Inf (not mustered)); Brig-General 3/13/1865 by Brevet; Lt Colonel 9/6/1862 (As of 3rd MA Cav). Born 11/12/1832 in Addison, Washington Co., ME. Died 1/24/1889 in Boston, MA. Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME. 2-cent tax stamp on verso. $250


CWCDV1715. Signed on verso “Wm. L. Bayley.” Possibly “Rayley.” Experts tell me this is a 3rd Asst. Engineer in the Navy and the uniform particulars are from 7/1/62-1/28/64 (cap insignia and lack of sleeve lace). I can’t locate him in any of the record searches. VG. $100


CWCDV1716. J. Byerly, Frederick, Md. Anthony Kimmel (1798-1871) was born in 1798 in Baltimore, Maryland. The son of, Anthonius Kimmel (1746-1817) a prominent Baltimore merchant, and his wife, Margaret Ann [Meyers] Kimmel (dates unknown), he was educated at St. Mary’s College in Baltimore, under the tutorage of Rev. Louis William Valentine Dubourg (1766-1833), later Bishop DuBourg. After leaving college he engaged in mercantile pursuits until the age of 23 when he married Sydney Ann [James] Kimmel (1806-1848), a wealthy lady of Frederick County, Maryland, on October 17, 1822. He settled on a farm called ‘Linganore’ of which he took great pride. He participated in the defense of Baltimore and although a mere boy was in the action at North Point. He was a member of the Association of Defenders and rarely missed its annual reunions on each recurring Sept. 12th. He took great interest in military affairs, rising to the rank of Major General of militia. An earnest and zealous Mason, he was initiated in Concordia Lodge, March 19, 1819. Upon moving to Frederick County, he received the second and third degrees in Lafayette Lodge, No. 79, Liberty-town, but subsequently affiliated with Columbia, No. 58. He received the Capitular degrees in Concordia Chapter, No. 1, Baltimore, and the Orders of Knighthood in Maryland Encampment, No. 1, in 1828. Some years later he dimitted and affiliated with Baltimore Commandery, No. 2. In 1832 he was elected Senior Grand Warden, serving four years; Deputy Grand Master in 1842, serving three years, and again in 1857. Two years later he was elected Grand Master, serving one year (1859). In 1840 he was a member of the Electoral College which elevated General Harrison to the Presidency. He made several extended trips through Europe. He was the Vice-President of the American Delegation to The Great Exhibition, held in 1851 in London, England. He was several time an unsuccessful candidate on the Whig ticket for Congress. In 1860, he was elected State Senator from Frederick County.  He died at his home, Linganore, April 25, 1871. After the initial grave yard was condemned to make way for city improvements, he was reinterred in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. VG. $100


CWCDV1717. E&HT Anthony. Confederate Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864), 2nd KY Cavalry. KIA Greenville TN. VG. $200

 
CWCDV1718. This is a letter, not a CDV. It is from Sergeant Joseph E. Bruff. Enlisted 8/12/62 and mustered into Co. I, MD 6th Inf. He was killed on 5/5/64 at Wilderness, VA. The letter is to his sister Lydia and it was written in Harpers Ferry on Jan. 28th. The full transcription of the letter is shown above. VG. $200


CWCDV1719. A. Weilepp, Baltimore, Md. Unidentified corporal. 2-cent cancelled tax stamp on verso. This CDV came with the above letter and written on the verso is “Poss. 6th Md. Came w/Jos. Bruff letter, Co. I 6th MD.” Since Bruff was a Sergeant and this soldier is a corporal, they are being offered separately. G. $125


CWCDV1720. J.A. Scholten, St. Louis, Mo. Richard Dominicus Cutts (1817-1883). Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A nephew of Presidential First Lady Dolly Madison and an 1835 graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, he rose to prominence as a member of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. When the Civil War began he offered his services to the Union, and was commissioned as a Colonel and Aide-de-Camp, US Volunteers on November 29, 1861. Assigned to the staff of Major General Henry Wager Halleck, he served with him through the balance of the war as General Halleck served as Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, then as Chief-of-Staff under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Colonel Cutts was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for “meritorious services during the war”, and was honorably mustered out on June 1, 1865. Corners clipped. VG. $125


CWCDV1721. Gideon Smith, Geisboro,’ D.C. Unidentified soldier. He appears to be holding a CDV album as it has clasps. G. $100


CWCDV1722. John Holyland, Washington, DC. Private Benjamin F. Townsend. Enlisted 8/2/62 at Wilna, NY. Mustered into Co. D, NY 10 HA. Mo 6/14/65, Phila. PA. VG. $125


CWCDV1723. Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC. Corporal Hugh Ormiston. Enlisted 8/20/62 at Champion, NY as a Private. Mustered into Co. D, NY 10 HA 9/11/62. MO 6/23/65, Petersburg, VA. Promotions: Corpl 8/8/64. VG. $125


CWCDV1724. Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC. Private Benjamin F. Fox. Enlisted 8/21/62 at Champion, NY. Mustered into D Co. NY 10 HA. Mustered out 6/23/65, Petersburg, VA. VG. $125


CWCDV1725. Jno. Holyland, Washington, DC. Private Eugene Brassard. Enlisted 8/19/62 at Champion, NY. Mustered into Co. D NY 10 HA 9/11/62. Mustered out 6/23/65, Petersburg, VA. VG. $125


CWCDV1726. Corp. Charles P. Covey. Enlisted 7/28/62 at Wilna, NY as a Private. Mustered into D Co. NY 10 HA 8/15/62. Promotions: Corpl. 9/11/62. Died of disease on 5/9/64 at Fort Lyon, VA. VG. $125


CWCDV1727. Brady’s Album Gallery. No. 1. Capitol, from near Trinity Church. The Capitol dome under construction in the background. Barnard & Gibson’s 1862 copyright line on label and bottom recto. G. $450


CWCDV1730. Unidentified Captain. One online post shows this image and has a caption that reads “may have been on the staff of Maj. Gen. John G. Parkes.” He holds a U.S. Model 1860 Staff and Field sword, gauntlets, and high boots. He wears staff buttons on his coat, but is missing the common wreath insignia on his hat. Kevin Canberg indicates that he has another image of this man and his right hand is seriously damaged indicating he was WIA. In this image he wears a glove that covers his hand. VG. $125


CWCDV1733. Brady, Washington, DC. Louis Blenker (July 31, 1812 – October 31, 1863) was a German revolutionary and American soldier. He was born at Worms, Germany. After being trained as a goldsmith by an uncle in Kreuznach, he was sent to a polytechnical school in Munich. Against his family’s wishes, he enlisted in an Uhlan regiment which accompanied  Otto, soon to be King of Greece to Greece in 1832. Due to his gallantry, he soon became an officer. A revolt in Greece obligated him to leave, with an honorable discharge, in 1837. He studied medicine in Munich and then, at the wish of his parents, opened a wine trading business in Worms. In 1843, he married Elise Blenker. In 1848, he became a colonel in the Worms militia. A large majority of the citizens also preferred him for mayor of Worms, but the otherwise liberal Jaup ministry failed to confirm him due to intrigues by the opposition party. This drove him into the hands of the German Revolutionary party of 1848, and when the revolution broke out in Baden, he led an insurgent corps in spite of the poor prospects. He was noted on both sides for his fearlessness. His wife, Elise, accompanied him on his campaigns. As commander of the Freischaren (Free Corps), he took Ludwigshafen (May 10, 1849), occupied the city of Worms, and made an unsuccessful attack on Landau. When the Prussian troops entered the Electorate of the Palatinate, he fought in several of the engagements in Baden, but after the suppression of the revolution was compelled to flee with other leading revolutionaries like Germain Metternich, Ludwig Bamberger, and Franz Zitz to Switzerland, whence he emigrated to the United States. On his arrival in the United States, he settled on a farm in New York, and ran a small business. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he organized the 8th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, of which he became colonel. He was noted for his coverage of the retreat at Bull Run and for his performance in western Virginia at the Battle of Cross Keys. For his gallantry at Bull Run he was raised to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. But after Cross Keys a series of deficiencies plagued his command, the main accusation being carelessness with respect to supplies. There were also allegations of financial irregularities. In a letter to the Illinois Staatszeitung, Gustav Struve defended Blenker on this score, i.e. with regard to a charge that he got $100 a month from each of the sutlers he had licensed to service his troops. But the charges persisted. Stories appeared in the German-language press and the New York Tribune accusing Blenker’s troops of looting the countryside of edibles and theft of items of no military worth. Blenker was defended by the New Yorker Criminal Zeitung und Belletristisches Journal, and some editors suggested that Carl Schurz was planning to supersede Blenker. Blenker had a love of pomp. When McClellan became general of the Army of the Potomac, Blenker led a procession to his headquarters. Yet there were credible testimonials to his organizational ability, and no one questioned his courage. However, his command became notable for the quantities of foreign nobility in its ranks, the climax coming when Prince Felix Salm-Salm joined his ranks, an affront to republicans like Karl Heinzen and Struve. Struve, also a member of Blenker’s corps, resigned, and Heinzen broadcast protests in his newspaper, the Pionier. The allegations reached the War Department, and when his appointment as a general reached the Senate for confirmation several senators repeated them: questionable finances, command hierarchies and distinctions more appropriate to Europe than to the United States, exploitation of his troops through the sutlers. Alexander Schimmelfennig, a fellow officer, referred to him as a “bum,” and there was much controversy between supporters of Schurz, Blenker and Franz Sigel. Blenker was ultimately confirmed as a general, but his career was ruined. Soon he was superseded by Sigel. He was mustered out of service March 31, 1863, and died in October of injuries sustained while with his command at Warrenton, Virginia, leaving behind his wife, son and three daughters in dire circumstances. Blenker died in poverty and there was no proof he profited from the sutlers’ trade. Some members of his staff were convicted for financial irregularities however. McClellan continued to esteem him as an officer. G. $125


CWCDV1734. Unidentified Captain. G. $75


CWCDV1735. Unidentified Cavalry 1st Lieutenant. G. $75


CWCDV1736. Unidentified Navy Officer with woman on verso. My guess is they are husband and wife. G. $100


CWCDV1737. Unidentified Navy Officer with woman on verso. My guess is they are husband and wife. G. $100


CWCDV1738. C.L. Lochman, Carlisle, Pa. Unidentified 1st Lieutenant. G. $75


CWCDV1740. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. James Samuel Wadsworth (October 30, 1807 – May 8, 1864) was a philanthropist, politician, and a Union general in the Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. VG. $250


CWCDV1742. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 – February 9, 1886) was a United States Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican–American War and as a Union general in the Civil War. Known to his Army as “Hancock the Superb,” he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His military service continued after the Civil War, as Hancock participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the U.S.’s western expansion and war with the Native Americans at the Western frontier. This concluded with the Medicine Lodge Treaty. From 1881 to 1885 he was president of the Aztec Club of 1847 for veteran officers of the Mexican-American War. Hancock’s reputation as a war hero at Gettysburg, combined with his status as a Unionist and supporter of states’ rights, made him a potential presidential candidate. When the Democrats nominated him for president in 1880, he ran a strong campaign, but was narrowly defeated by Republican James A. Garfield. Hancock’s last public service involved the oversight of President Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral procession in 1885. G. $150


CWCDV1743. Photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, published by E&HT Anthony. John Sedgwick (September 13, 1813 – May 9, 1864), an American military officer who served as a Union Army general during the Civil War. He was wounded three times at the Battle of Antietam while leading his division in an unsuccessful assault against Confederate forces, causing him to miss the Battle of Fredericksburg. Under his command, the VI Corps played an important role in the Chancellorsville Campaign by engaging Confederate troops at the Second Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Salem Church. His corps was the last to arrive at the Battle of Gettysburg and thus did not see much action. Sedgwick was killed by a sharpshooter at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 9, 1864, making him and Major Generals James B. McPherson, Joseph K. Mansfield, and John F. Reynolds the highest-ranking Union officers to be killed in the war. He is remembered for an ironic remark among his last words: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” G. $200


CWCDV1747. J. Gurney & Son, NY. Unidentified soldier. G. $50


CWCDV1749. Brady, New York. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. Trimmed at sides o/w VG. $325


CWCDV1750. Brady, Washington. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. Trimmed at sides o/w VG. $300


CWCDV1751. Brady, Washington. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. G. $325


CWCDV1752. Brady, Washington. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. VG. $350


CWCDV1753. [Brady]. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. Tinted. Trimmed o/w VG. $325


CWCDV1754. [Brady]. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. VG. $325


CWCDV1755. [Brady]. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. VG. $350


CWCDV1756. [Brady]. 7th NYS Militia at Camp Cameron, Washington, DC, April-June, 1861. VG. $350