(CIVIL WAR) Album containing 41 photographs comprising 37 ca

Sale 1959 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 5,060

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 5,500 - $ 6,500

WITH IMAGES OF "THE IRON BRIGADE" (CIVIL WAR)
Album containing 41 photographs, comprising 37 cartes-de-visite, with each military figure identified, 3 gem tintypes, and one trimmed print of Grant. Albumen prints and tintypes, all but one identified; several signed on mounts recto and/or verso; 12 with the Brady and/or Brady/Anthony backmark. 8vo, morocco, worn; brass clasps. 1861-64

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The Iron Brigade of the West was composed of several different units, including the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, the 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and 24th Michigan. In proportion to its numbers the Brigade sustained the heaviest losses of any unit in the Civil War, fighting in some of the war's bloodiest battles, including Gettysburg and Second Bull Run. The origin of the name apparently came about in a conversation between Gens. Hooker and McClellan. Hooker referred to his proud men as "by the Eternal they are iron. . . men made of iron."