(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) [MOORE, HENRY P.] The Band Master's Tent. Carte-de-visite showing Gustavus Ingalls in his tent, with two band members and Ingall's band boy and personal assistant "Billy Seabrook." "G.W. Ingalls Post Band Master, Hilton Head" in pencil on reverse. Hilton Head, SC, circa 1861
a rare and important photograph. The post of Band Master was considered to be of singular importance. Gustavus Ingalls not only provided music to lift the spirit of the troops, he was described as having near curative powers. Here we see Ingalls posed, reviewing large pages of sheet music. To his left are D. Brown and Samuel Brown, brass players; while behind him, Billy Seabrook, recently freed from the Seabrook plantation on Edisto Island polishes Ingall's boots. Whether intentionally or not, the position of Seabrook, as opposed that of the two Browns is clearly subservient, though he was ostensibly a freed slave.
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