$1,659
Lot of Civil War Related Carte des Visites, Photographs, and Two Drawings, two carte-de-visites of Union Generals, one of General Halleck, the other unidentified, two of unidentified Union soldiers; an ambrotype of a Union soldier and one possibly a Confederate soldier; a photograph of an army camp; a stereocard and a 1911 published copy of Professor Lowe's balloon as it soars above the treetops at the battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, (Lowe was Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps under Lincoln, the original negative was by Matthew Brady); a photograph of a Union soldier possibly from a Zouave unit; two c. 1862 graphite on paper drawings by "W.T. Peters of the 36th Regiment, NYIV," (New York Infantry Volunteers), one depicting two ragtag Confederate soldiers "Members of the 1st N. Carolina Reg't/Specimens to be seen at hospital-Portsmouth Grove R.I."; the second depicting a hospital tent inscribed "Ministering Angels of Rhode Island."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
