Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Alfred Ordway, artist. Commissary Department, Encampment of the Mass. 6th Regiment . . . at the Relay House. Lithograph, 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches; slightly cropped with the loss of perhaps an eighth of an inch of the image on both sides, light toning. Boston: J.H. Bufford, 1861

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The 6th Massachusetts, a 90-day militia unit, suffered perhaps the first fatalities of the war during the Baltimore riots of April 1861. This charming camp scene shows the regiment on garrison duty at the Relay House transport hub near Baltimore. 2 institutional copies traced; the copy at the Library of Congress was deposited on 20 July 1861.