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(CIVIL WAR)
Collection of 100 cartes-de-visite and tintypes, comprising 14 cdv's relating to the 44th New York Infantry Regiment (4 are definitively signed and 2 are possibly signed), with images of its mascot "Rover," tattered colors, a portrait of Nurse Martha Saxe, and 4 images of an unidentified officer; with cdv's of Doubleday and his wife, a group of officers posing before draped battle flags, more than 20 images depicting Union Generals, assorted studies of officers and infantrymen, plus miscellaneous views and portraits, including one of John Wilkes Booth; many with Gardner, Brady/Anthony, Churchill & Dennison and other backmarks or tax revenue stamps; with 3 tintypes of military figures. Early 1860s
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Notes: Colonel E. Elmer Elsworth organized a regiment of New York City firemen as the First New York Zouaves (later the 11th New York Volunteers). After arriving in Washington, D. C., the regiment was dispatched to Alexandria, Virginia where Ellsworth climbed the roof of a hotel to remove a Confederate flag and was confronted and shot by the hotel keeper. The first Union casualty of the war, Ellsworth's death triggered an outpouring of grief in the North.
The original gilt-edge morocco album with a brass clasp accompanies the lot. A complete list of the images is available upon request.
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May 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
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