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CDV of Captain Richard Robins 11th US Infantry wearing a V Corps Badge. Robins
served with the 11th from 10/61-7/68 rising to Captain from Private which he was
promoted for Gallant and Meritorious service at the Battle of Gettysburg on July
1863. The 11th part of the Regulars of the V Corps was engaged heavily at the
corner of the wheatfield and a wooded hill above Plum Run. Backmark by Warren of
Cambridgeport Mass. Ink signed on verso. Nice view of a Gettysburg hero.
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$250
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CDV of Colonel Henry O Kent of the 17th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry from
10/62-4/63. For the balance of the War he commanded the Govenor's Horse
Guards in the State of NH. Recruited many who went into the 15 & 16th NHVols also.
Spent some time a Point Lookout Prison also as a commandant or officer?
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$100
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CDV of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Rower Smith of the 7th US Infantry. Heavily
breveted for Bravery at Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco and Contreras during the Mexican
War. Graduate of West Point in 1823. Served with the 7th and in Detroit Michigan
being Breveted Colonel and BBG at the end of the War. Detroit Michigan backmark.
Scarce Union General and hero of the Mexican War.
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$350
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Brevet Brigadier General William True Bennett 1836-1910. "Civil War Union Brevet
Brigadier General. Served in the Civil War mostly as an officer leading Union
African-American soldiers. First commissioned as a Captain in the 1st United States
Colored Troops, he gained advancement to Lieutenant Colonel of the 102nd USCT.
After spending time as the Chief of staff for Brig. Gen. John P. Hatch, he was
promoted to Colonel and commander of the 33rd USCT. He was brevetted Brigadier
General, US Volunteers on May 25, 1865 for "meritorious services at the Battle
of Honey Hill, Fla.". After the War he became a well-known lecturer and world
traveler. During the Spanish-American War he served as a Red Cross Field Agent."
Incredibly sharp with a backmark of Fredericks NY.
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$350
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CDV of Lt Edwin A Spalding of the 141st Pa Vols. Served from 8/62-12/64 while
being wounded twice, once at Chancellorsville and again at the Wilderness.
Promoted Capt in 1862. Backmark by Wood Towanda Pa. Comes with a copy of an
autographed image of him for confirmation. Great 3rd Corps Regiment Army of the
Potomac. Sharp view.
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$225
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CDV of Amputee officer, Lt William A McNulty of the 10th New York Infantry and VRC.
McNulty served with the National Zouaves from 4/61-5/63 and was severely
wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg where he lost his right arm. Later served in
the VRC which is where he is pictured here. Note his pinned up sleave for his
missing right arm. Signed in period ink on the verso with a backmark of Smith
Portland Maine. Rare view.
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$475
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CDV of William A Sweet Jr of Calhoun Cty Michigan who served with the 3rd
Michigan Cavalry from 9/2/61-2/12/66. Rose from Private to Bugler of the regiment.
Period ink signed on verso. The regiment saw service in action throughout Tn and
MS during the War.
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$250
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Wonderful CDV of a Union Officer standing below Table Rock on Lookout Mtn in Tn.
Signed but only in initials GAE. Photographers tent seen off to the left. Rare and
unpublished.
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$250
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CDV of Colonel @ BBG Daniel Leasure of the 100th Pa Vols. "Daniel Leasure
(March 18, 1819 – October 10, 1886) was an American soldier and physician who
served as a colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American
Civil War. Leasure held the rank of colonel in the IX Corps through most of the war.
His regiment, the 100th Pennsylvania Regiment, was known as the "Roundheads"
because it was recruited from descendents of the followers of Oliver Cromwell. The
regiment first saw action in the command of Brig. Gen. Isaac I. Stevens at the Battle
of Secessionville in South Carolina on June 16, 1862. Transferred to the Virginia
theater of the war, Leasure participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run, and the
Battle of Chantilly. Wounded at Second Bull Run he subsequently missed the
Maryland Campaign. Leasure returned for the Battle of Fredericksburg where he
took command of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division in the IX Corps. Moving to the
Western Theater with IX Corps, Leasure continued in brigade command under Maj.
Gen. John Parke during the Siege of Vicksburg and Blue Springs. Returning to
command of the 100th Pennsylvania he took part in the Siege of Knoxville. Returning
to Virginia, Leasure now commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division in the IX Corps at
the Battle of the Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvania. When division
commander, Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Stevenson was killed during the fighting at
Spotsylvania, Leasure was the ranking subordinate and took command of the
division for 3 days until relieved of this capacity by Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden.
Returning to command the 2nd Brigade, Leasure was wounded a few days later
and never returned to field command. Ink signed and presented on back to E C
Darling.
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$300
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Rare CDV of famed 54th Mass Volunteer infantry Captain Cabot J Russell who was
killed in the famous assault on Fort Wagner along with Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Russell and Shaw were the only two officer to die on the field that day and were
buried with the Colored troops in the sand. Rare pose. Served in the 44th Mass
earlier in the War. Boston bm. Very Rare.
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$650
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CDV of Lt Colonel and Bvt Brigadier General Benjamin D Pritchard of the 4th
Michigan Cavalry. Pritchard's game to playing was he captured Jeff Davis as he was
trying to sneak ouf Richmond. Served under Colonel Minty during the War.
Backmark by Shaw Ohio.
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$250
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Wonderful CDV view of Killed in Action Sharpshooter Colonel Patrick Burke of the
66th Illinois Vols known as the Western Sharpshooters. "Patrick Emmet (P.E.) Burke was
a St. Louis lawyer, Missouri state legislator, and Civil War officer. He commanded the Western
Sharpshooters Regiment and the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.
Burke was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, around 1830, the son of Walter Burke. As a child his
family moved to St. Louis, Missouri. On April 8th, 1846. Burke resigned from the Washington
Blues in February 1861, apparently due to the secessionist views of most of its members. Shortly
thereafter he became associated with the pro-Unionist Home Guard militias organized by
Congressman Francis Preston Blair, Jr.. Burke was appointed captain of what would eventually be
Company K, 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry. On May 10, 1861 Burke participated in the capture of
the Missouri Volunteer Militia at Camp Jackson on the western edge of St. Louis, and the
subsequent lethal riot in the streets of the city which became known as the Camp Jackson Affair.
After the June 11 collapse of the Price–Harney Truce, Burke, leading Company K, 1st Missouri
Volunteers, participated in the successful campaign to capture the state capital at Jefferson City
and in defeat of a force of secessionist Missouri State Guard at the small, but strategically
important Battle of Boonville. Burke participated in General Lyon's campaign in pursuit of Major
General Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard, fighting in the Battle of Dug Spring on August 2,
1861. On August 10, Burke fought on Bloody Hill at Battle of Wilson's Creek, and was mentioned
in Major S.D. Sturgis' Official Report for his leadership in the Federal counterattack which
stabilized the federal line during the final southern assault. After the Federal Forces retreated to
Rolla, Burke returned to St. Louis and, on the orders of General Fremont participated in the
reorganization of the 1st Missouri Infantry into the First Missouri Light Artillery. In late 1861 Burke
(who held a Missouri state captain's commission) was awarded a rare "Regular" commission as
a 1st lieutenant in the new 13th U.S. Infantry, under Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman
(retroactively effective on 14 May, 1861).[4] Subsequently, he was promoted to captain of
"Regulars" in the 14th U.S. Infantry, to be effective from October 24, 1861. In June 1862 Burke was
appointed colonel of the "Western Sharpshooters-Fourteenth Missouri Volunteers" by Provisional
Missouri Governor Hamilton Rowen Gamble. In July, he took command of Western Sharpshooters
at Corinth, Mississippi. Up until that point the regiment had a mixed reputation for hard fighting
and indiscipline. Burke worked to reorganize, drill and professionalize the unique multi-state
regiment. On October 3-4, 1862 Burke personally led the Western Sharpshooters in two days of
bitter skirmishes during the Second Battle of Corinth. After the battle Major General William S.
Rosecrans appointed Burke as Commandant of Corinth, responsible for securing the town,
Confederate prisoners, stragglers, and dealing with the large numbers of casualties from both
armies. Over the next eleven months Burke shared command of the Corinth Military District. His
regiment built Camp Davies, a stockaded outpost six miles south of Corinth. The Western
Sharpshooters, and other troops under Burke's command, scouted and raided into southern
Mississippi and western Alabama. In December 1863, the majority of the regiment (now
designated the 66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry [Western Sharpshooters]) reenlisted as veterans. At
the same time, members of the regiment began purchasing the new sixteen-shot Henry
Repeating Rifle using their own funds. Burke supported this effort, which eventually added 250 of
these advanced weapons to the unit, the second largest private purchase of the war. In April,
Burke was appointed to command of 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Army Corps, Army
of the Tennessee. His brigade consisted of the: Western Sharpshooters, 9th Illinois Volunteer
Mounted Infantry, 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. These units had
operated together since the Battle of Fort Donelson. Burke led his brigade during opening
portions of the Atlanta Campaign, leading from the front. As usual, the Western Sharpshooters
were used as scout-skirmishers, but were now a employed as shock troops due to the regiment's
high morale and the volume of fire they could generate with their newly purchased sixteen-shot
Henry Repeating Rifles. On May 9, on William T. Sherman's orders, McPherson's XVI Corps
attacked through Snake Creek Gap in an attempt to turn Confederate General Joseph Johnson's
left flank at Resaca, Georgia. The unexpected attack succeeded, and the regiment advanced on
Colonel Burke's orders, single-handedly capturing the heights above Resaca, at that time lightly
held. However, General McPherson, concerned that his exposed troops might be cut off, ordered
his forces, including Burke's advanced brigade, back to Snake Creek Gap. Burke was mortally
wounded during the fighting on May 14 and died two days later. He is buried at Calvary Cemetery
in St. Louis, Missouri. Very rare cdv with a backmark of Armstead and White Corinth
Ms. Rarely ever seen Sharpshooter commander.
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$750
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CDV of an Un-identified Private in the famed 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the
famed Iron Brigade. Shown wearing a 1st Corps Badge on his breast with IND and 19
on his hat (first time I have seen this insignia of a 19th Indiana Soldier). The Iron
Brigade famed for its tough fighting at 2nd Bull Run, in the Cornfield at Antietem and
McPherson's woods at Gettysburg was considered the toughest Brigade in the Union
Army. Very Rare.
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