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CDV of Mary Lincoln by Cooper Philadelphia.
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$125
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Rare CDV of James T Brady a Tammany Hall Politician and lawyer during
the Civil War years who was Daniel Sickles Chief Atty during his Murder
defense of killing the son of Francis Scott Key over the infidelity of Sickles
wife. "Sickles was charged with murder and secured several leading
politicians as his defense attorneys. Among them was Edwin M. Stanton,
later to become Secretary of War, and Chief Counsel James T. Brady, like
Sickles a product of Tammany Hall. In a historic strategy, Sickles pled
insanity—the first use of a temporary insanity defense in the United
States." Signed on the front. (General Thomas Kilby Smith Album)
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$125
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"Jacob Dolson Cox, (Jr.) (October 27, 1828 – August 4, 1900) was a lawyer, a Union Army general
during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 28th
Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior. At the start of the war, Cox was in
poor health, but he chose to enter Federal service as an Ohio volunteer. His first assignment was to
command a recruiting camp near Columbus, and then the Kanawha Brigade of the Department of
the Ohio. His brigade joined the Department of Western Virginia and fought successfully in the early
Kanawha Valley campaign under major general George B. McClellan. In 1862 the brigade moved to
Washington, D.C., and was attached to John Pope's Army of Virginia, but did not see action at the
Second Battle of Bull Run with the rest of the army. At the beginning of the Maryland Campaign,
Cox's brigade became the Kanawha Division of the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac. When corps
commander Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno was killed at the Battle of South Mountain, Cox assumed
command of the IX Corps. He suggested to Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, formally the commander of
IX Corps, but who was commanding a two-corps "wing" of the Army, that he be allowed to return to
division command, which was more in keeping with his level of military expertise. Burnside refused
the suggestion, but at the Battle of Antietam, kept Cox under his supervision. The poor showing of the
corps around "Burnside Bridge" at Antietam is generally attributed to Burnside, not Cox.
After Antietam, Cox was appointed major general to rank from October 6, 1862, but this appointment
expired the following March when the United States Senate felt that there were too many generals of
this rank already serving. He was later renominated and confirmed on December 7, 1864. Most of
1863 was quiet for Cox, who was assigned to command the District of Ohio, and later the District of
Michigan, in the Department of the Ohio. During the Atlanta, Franklin-Nashville, and Carolinas
campaigns of 1864–65, Cox commanded the 3rd Division of the XXIII Corps of the Army of the Ohio,
under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield. He is widely credited with saving the center of the Union battle
line at the Battle of Franklin in November 1864. Cox led the 3rd Division at the battle of Wilmington
in North Carolina then took command of the District of Beaufort and a Provisional Corps which he led
at the battle of Wyse Fork before officially being designated the XXIII Corps. Cox was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by Ulysses S. Grant upon his inauguration in March 1869, serving until
November 1870. He was an effective advocate of civil service reform and introduced a merit system
for appointees. However, after President Grant failed to back him up against party politicians, who
thrived on the corrupt patronage system then rampant in the Interior Department, Cox resigned. Grant
remarked afterwards, probably unfairly, "The trouble was that General Cox thought the Interior
Department was the whole government, and that Cox was the Interior Department." View as Secy of
Interior by Brady. (Gen'l Thomas Kilby Smith Album)
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$100
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CDV of the famed Museum in Washington the Smithsonian.
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$100
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Anthony/Brady CDV of Stephen A Douglas of Illinois. "Stephen Arnold
Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from
the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party
nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate,
Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate
contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little
Giant" because he was short of stature but was considered by many a
"giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader,
and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation.
As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the
Senate in the 1850s. He was largely responsible for the Compromise of
1850 that apparently settled slavery issues. However, in 1854 he reopened
the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act that
allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether
or not to have slavery (which had been prohibited by earlier compromises).
The protest movement against this became the Republican Party. Douglas
supported the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857, and denied that
it was part of a Southern plot to introduce slavery in the Northern states;
but also argued it could not be effective when the people of a territory
declined to pass laws supporting it.[1] When President James Buchanan
and his Southern allies attempted to pass a Federal slave code, to support
slavery even against the wishes of the people of Kansas, he battled and
defeated this movement as undemocratic. This caused the split in the
Democratic Party in 1860, as Douglas won the nomination but a breakaway
southern faction nominated their own candidate, Vice President John C.
Breckinridge. Douglas deeply believed in democracy, arguing the will of the
people should always be decisive.[2] When civil war came in April 1861, he
rallied his supporters to the Union with all his energies, but he died a few
weeks later.
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$150
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CDV of Parson Brownlow of Tennessee. Unionist newspaper publisher in
Tn during the War, he served as Govenor and Senator after the War.
Anthony/Brady image slightly trimmed at the bottom.
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$75
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Wonderful image by Brady of Lincoln. A rarer variant of the normal photo
as you can see his head is tilted a bit straiter than the usual version. But
what is also fascinating is that this image is taken from the cracked original
glass plate negative. Note the very faint line from top to bottom at center
right and you can see the plate was cracked. This is the first original Brady
CDV from a cracked negative I have ever seen. I would presume that the
plate became unusable shortly afterwards meaning this variant view is
relatively rare. Original Brady front and backmarks.
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$750
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