Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Carte-de-visite of Sergeant Peter H. Butler. Typical carte de visite showing Butler posed with his slouch hat in his hand. The badge of the 25th Corps plainly visible. Np, circa 1864-1866
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A well-known image of Sgt Butler of the 19th U.S. Colored Troops, Company B. Butler continued with the service for a time after the Civil War was over, and mustered out in Texas in 1867. See Broadfoot, page 165.