May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 28,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BRADY, MATHEW (1823-1896); GARDNER, ALEXANDER (1821-1882)
Group of 19 photographs (including one duplicate), comprising 18 of Union Officers, and one of Jefferson Davis. Albumen prints, 3x4 1/2 to 7x9 inches (7.6x11.4 to 17.8x22.9 cm.), 12 are on the original mounts with handwritten penciled notations on mount recto and 7 are unmounted. 1861-65
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"Lt. Col. C. B. Norton on Horse, Headquarters of General Fitzjohn Porter, Antietam, Virginia. 1862. Miller, vol. I, p. 29 "Colonel James Childs and Staff, 4th Pennsylvania Calvary." 1862. Miller, vol. I, p. 331, Taylor and Huntington "General Orlando Willcox and Staff." ND. By Brady(?). Mathew Brady's Civil War, p. 491 (variant image) General Orlando B. Willcox and Staff, Petersburg, Virginia 1864. By Brady. Image of War, vol. VI, pg. 24, Taylor and Huntington No.?, (similar image) "General Alfred Pleasanton and Staff, Warrenton, Virginia 1863." By Brady. Image of War, vol. IV, p. 316, Taylor and Huntington, No. 7603 (variant image). "Surgeon Hawks, 50th New York Engineers-Mounted 1864." Miller, vol. VII, p.265, Taylor and Huntington No. 7601 "General Wesley Merritt and Staff." ND. [Merritt was one of the "boy" generals along with Custer and others promoted during the middle and latter stages of the war in recognition of leadership qualities]. "General Julius White and Staff ." ND. "General Alexander McDowell McCook and Staff, Brightwood? D.C. " 1864. Miller, vol. II, p. 279 "General William H. French (Old Blinky) and Staff Mustered Out. 1864. Att. to Gardner. Image of War, vol. 5, p. 180. Taylor and Huntington "General Philip Sheridan and Staff 1864". By Brady. "General Philip Sheridan and Staff 1864. By Brady "6th Non-Commissioned Officers. Sgt. Major Edmund English, Washington, D.C. the day Lincoln was shot." 1865. [Note the word "papa" inked in under figure of Sgt. Major Edmund English.] "6th Non-Commissioned Officers. Sgt. Major Edmund English, Washington, D.C. the day Lincoln was shot." 1865. (with a duplicate image) "General Alfred Pleasonton Astride Horse." 1863. Miller, vol. VI, p. 299; Image of War, vol. III, p. 385 Unidentified Officer (Col.?). ND. "Unidentified Union Brigadier General Holding Bridle of Horse." ND. "A. Gardner" written in pencil on back of image. "Company I, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancer)." 1862. By Gardner. [Alfred R. Waud seated left front. ] Katz, Witness to an Era, p. 103; Touched by Fire, Two, p. 184. A.R. Waud, battlefield artist for Harper's Weekly Newspaper, seated front left. Photographer's wagons in the rear.] "General Jefferson C. Davis and Staff, Washington, D.C." 1865. By Alexander Gardner.