SOLD!!! A great CDV of Edwin Festus Cowherd, 13 Virginia Infantry. He was a lieutenant and adjutant of the 13 Virginia. Cowherd enlisted 04/17/61 and surrendered at Appomattox Court House 04/25/65. He is seated in this cdv and has an ink signed signature on the front of the cdv. The buttons are guilded. Great Confederate CDV!

A wonderful outdoor cdv of two men riding horses and wearing sashes. The man to the right has a military type horse blanket on his horse. He also has grey striped military looking pants. Both men are wearing white sashes across their chests. I cannot read what is written on the sashes but something definitely is. Nice outdoor period cdvs are getting very hard to find. The backmark is G.V. Flagg, Photographer,Ovid, N.Y.

SOLD!!! A nice CDV of Major General W.S. Hancock, famous Union General wounded at Gettysburg. Any Gettysburg General is getting hard to find! There is no backmark.

SOLD!!! Here is a nice grouping of two CDVs of California hunter and trapper Seth Kinman and the antler chair he presented to Abraham Lincoln. Both CDVs were taken by Matthew Brady. The first cdv has Seth Kinman in his plains garb! He is wearing buckskins and what looks like a skunk cap. He is holding a plains rifle. The second CDV is of the antler chair Kinman presented to President Lincoln on Nov. 26, 1864. These two images are sold together.

SOLD!!! One of the best Confederate images to come on the market in the last few years! This full standing Cinfederate soldier tintype is identified to Sgt. John Barlow, Wirt Adam's 1st Mississippi Cavalry. This wonderful half plate has Barlow standing with a fluted Colt pistol in his belt and holding a 1840 Cavalry sabre. This is a clear and sharp tintype. Also with the half plate tintype is a Mississippi cavalry ladder badge owned by Barlow and a beaded star device that was said to have been attached to the side of his hat. Call for more information.

SOLD!!! This is a wonderful collection of seven photos of the 2nd Iowa Regiment at the 1912 Shiloh Fiftieth Anniversary, April 6 & 7. There are seven photographs. The first photograph is A group of Iowa veterans standing and sitting on the Iowa Monument at Shiloh. Most of the veterans are wearing ribbons and I can see at least one ladder badge. The photograph measures approximately 7 inches by 5 inches. On the bottom of the photograph is written "No. 81 - Reunion 2nd Iowa Regiment, Shiloh Fiftieth Anniversary, April 6 and 7, 1912 - Photo by J.P. King, Waterloo, Iowa". The second photograph is a photo postcard. It has three veterans and the one on the right has a ladder badge with four rungs.The photo is approximately 5 1/2 inches by 3 1/8 inches. The third photo has two veterans with their families sitting on the battlefield. The child on the right of the seated veteran is holding a Civil War infantry officers sword. This photo is approximately 5 inches by 4 inches. The fourth photo has the two veterans with their families standing around two Civil War cannon. On the back is written "Bloody Pond" in pencil. The photo is approximately 5 inches by 4 inches. THe fifth photo is of two veterans. The one standing has a UVL lapel pin. The seated veteran has two stars on his uniform collar. This photo is attached to a cardboard backing and the photo is approximately 7 1/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches. There is no seperate photo of this image. Let us know if you need one. The sixth photo is a photo postcard and has five Union veterans. All of the vets are wearing some sort of badges. I can see a ladder badge and a Shiloh Survivors badge! The photo is approximately 4 inches by 3 inches. The seventh photo has two veterans with their wives seated in a car like they are headed to the reunion! This photo is approximately 3 7/8 inches by 3 inches. There is no seperate photo of this picture. Let us know if you need one. Shiloh reunion stuff is extremely hard to find.

SOLD! Another nice Naval officer CDV. This nice image has the officer seated. The backmark is "Cartes De Visite, Photographed by R.J. Chute, No. 13 Tremont Row, Boston".

SOLD! A really nice CDV of a full standing naval officer. The backmark on the photo is "Silsbee, Case & Co. Photographic Artists, 299 1/2 Washington Street, Boston."

SOLD!!! Here is a great outdoor CDV of a band in Quincy, Illinois. The band is standing in some sort of line. They might be getting their pictures taken by the photo gallery upstairs or they might be wetting their whistle at Blakes Restaurant and Oyster Saloon! You get to decide. The band members are wearing uniforms with three rows of buttons and hats with some type of plume. Most the band members are holding their instruments. The backmark is "Warner's Gallery - South West Corner 6th and Hampshire Sts. - Quincy, Illinois". Don't miss this great Illinois CDV!

SOLD!!! This is a extremely large GAR photo of a Past Vermont Department Commander. The photo is approximately 16 inches by 20 inches. The Department Commander is in an U.S. Army Colonel's uniform with three badges on his coat. The badges are the Past Department Commanders GAR badge, a Vermont state GAR badge with a Sixth Corp cross attached, and a Son's of the American Revolution badge. You can also see a presentation type sword and his eagle belt plate. The photo comes in a modern white mat that measures 18 inches by 23 3/4 inches. These portrait photographs of this size are extremely hard to find. Don't miss this one!

SOLD!!!! A very hard to find CDV of the U.S.S. Mississippi. This sidewheeler was sunk by the Confederates at Port Hudson. In Edwin Cole Bearss "The Campaign for Vicksburg" Vol. 1, Page 683, 684 it states "Mississippi had passed the lower batteries and had entered the bend going fast, when she struck, heeling at once three streaks to port. Her engines were reversed, the giant sidewheels thrashed water, and the port battery was run in to bring the ship on an even keel. She lay there 35 minutes, replying to the enemy's fire with her starboard guns. But to no avail. Captain Smith now determined to lighten his ship - the port battery and the pivot gun were ordered thrown overboard. Before this was done, Captain Smith, observing that three batteries had registered on Mississippi and were hulling her, ordered his ship abandoned. The sick and the wounded were brought up from sick bay, and three small boats-all that remained- were employed in sending them ashore. Mississippi's engines were damaged and a fire kindled in the forward stateroom, but, before the flames had made much headway, three shots struck the ship, letting in water and extinguishing the fire. She was then fired in four places aft, and as soon as he was certain that these fires were out of control, Captain Smith and his executive officer - Lt. George Dewey- joined the crew in an open boat and floated downriver to safety. Mississippi remained aground until 3 a.m., on the 15th, when she floated free and came down the river burning fiercely. She passed through the fleet, and at 5:30 a.m. the flames reached the magazines and she was destroyed by a tremendous explosion. Of the 297-man crew, 64 were missing, of whon 25 were presumed to have lost their lives." Just think if the Confederate gunners had shot a little more accurately thy would have killed one of our Spanish American War heros - Admiral George Dewey! The U.S.S. Mississippi was also the ship that carried Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853 and opened the markets in Japan. The Mississippi was Perry's favorite vessel. She had been his flagship during the Mexican War. What a history! What a ship! What a CDV!

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