Outdoor View CDV's

CDV Union Infantrymen

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 card. Excellent view of what is probably the remnants of an infantry company lined up in front of a building to have their likeness taken for posterity. Very sharp image showing the soldiers either wearing a kepi or slouch hat, over the shoulder belts, oval belt plates, you can see a couple of cap pouches on their belts, and all pose with their muskets with fixed bayonets. A sergeant stands at each end of the company, two officers with swords stand in front, and one officer with sword...  

CDV Union Artilleryman Loading Cannon

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Scene of Union artilleryman loading a cannon. Soldier standing in front of gun is in the act of ramming, soldier wearing haversack over his shoulder is handing round shot to the loader. Soldier in the right foreground (either officer or non-commissioned officer) has sword attached to his belt. Numerous other soldiers are standing behind the cannon. No backmark. Light age toning and corner wear. The light colored mark at left edge is printed in the photograph. Very fine. Scarce.  

CDV Ruins of Market Street, Chambersburg, Pa.

Destruction caused by the Rebel General John McCausland on his 1864 Raid!

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Scene of the destruction caused during the 1864 Confederate raid into Chambersburg, Pa. View looking down Market Street. Backmark: Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa. Destroyed by the Rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864. Market Street. Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D., 1864, by Chas. E. Meyer, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania....  

Unidentified Union Headquarters

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 3/4 card. View of a two story house with some Union soldiers visible on the upper veranda, and some more soldiers standing along the fence leading to the front entrance. This may be a headquarters but there is no backmark or ID. Mount is slightly trimmed. Very fine image.  

CDV U.S.S. Genesee

Built at Boston, Mass., and commissioned in 1862, the Genesee was a 1120 ton, double ender, sidewheel steam gunboat. In 1862, she served off the coast of North Carolina, and in February 1863 was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. She was damaged by gunfire on March 14-15, 1863, while attempting to run the Confederate guns at Port Hudson, La. She continued to serve on the Mississippi River until being sent to Mobile Bay, Ala., and in September 1863, helped destroy the Confederate blockade runner, "Fanny." In August 1864, she served...  

CDV Steamer General Grant

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. No backmark. Period ink ID on the reverse, Steamer "Gen. Grant" on Tenn. River. Light age toning and wear. Very fine.  

Photograph General Fitz John Porter & Staff

Brady Album Gallery Card

(1822-1901) Cousin of Union Admiral David D. Porter. Graduated in the West Point class of 1845. Won the brevets of captain and major for gallantry in the Mexican War. From 1849 to 1855 he was the assistant instructor of artillery at the U.S. Military Academy, and from 1857 to 1860, he served as Albert Sydney Johnston's adjutant in the Utah expedition. In the Peninsular campaign of 1862, Porter led a division of the 3rd Corps, and during the 7 Days battles he commanded the 5th Corps where he demonstrated some of the...  

CDV General John H. Martindale

(1815-81) Graduated #3 in the West Point class of 1835. On August 9, 1861, he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers and fought throughout the Peninsular campaign in command of a brigade of General Heintzelman's 3rd Corps. He was military governor of Washington, D.C., and later commanded a division of General Baldy Smith's 18th Corps at Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg, subsequently commanding the corps itself until health problems forced him to resign. He was brevetted major general for gallantry at Malvern Hill.

Wet plate,...  

CDV General George Stoneman & Staff

Brady Album Gallery Card

(1822-94) Graduated from the West Point class of 1846. Was appointed Chief of Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac with rank of brigadier general from Aug. 13, 1861. Saw action in the Peninsula campaign at Yorktown and Williamsburg; Fredericksburg; Stoneman's 1863 Richmond Raid during the Chancellorsville campaign; he commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Ohio during the Atlanta campaign, until he was captured on July 31, 1864, while on a raid designed to free the prisoners at Andersonville. After his...  

CDV, Amputation Scene, Gettysburg

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 3/4 card. No backmark. 2 cents orange revenue tax stamp on the reverse. Age toning and edge wear. Mount is trimmed. Rare.

This view of a leg amputation was taken at Camp Letterman Hospital, Gettysburg. Surgeons prepare the leg for amputation, with an assistant administering anethesia. Bottles are visible on the operating table and an open surgeon's kit can be seen on the stool at right. Wooden kick bucket is visible in the foreground. Man on crutches is standing at the left....  

CDV Dead at Devil's Den, Gettysburg Battlefield

This view was taken by Peter S. Weaver, on November 11, 1863. It is looking northeastward toward Little Round Top from Devil's Den. It depicts 9 Union soldiers posing as dead on the Gettysburg battlefield with Doctors Lyford (standing at left) and Chamberlain (standing at right) looking over this staged scene of carnage. One of the posed dead is Musician Jacob Shenkel, Co. L, 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry. He is lying below the man with the wide brimmed hat (Dr. Chamberlain). During the battle, Shenkel helped to attend to the wounded. He was among those...  

CDV Fort Putnam, Morris Island, Charleston Harbor

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 card. Hand tinted view of Parrot guns inside of Fort Putnam, Morris Island, Charleston, S.C. No backmark. Card is trimmed. Light age toning and staining. This view is published in, "In The Wake of Battle; The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady."