Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) BUTLER, BENJAMIN F. Photograph Signed, "Benjamin F. Butler" carte-de-visite bust portrait by Alexander Gardner, on the original mount, Signed in the image; contemporary ink inscription on verso. Np, circa 1866

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Butler (1818-93) first Major General of Volunteers appointed by Lincoln, infamous among Southerners for his term as Military Governor of New Orleans during the Union occupation.