CDV, City Point, Virginia

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Excellent view of the wharf with numerous boats, horse drawn army wagons, etc. No backmark. Light age toning. Very fine.  

CDV Steamer General Grant on the Tennessee River

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.  

CDV Ships in Harbor at Simon's Town, South Africa

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Excellent Civil War era view showing war ships in the harbor at Simon's Town. During the Civil War ships of the Union and Confederacy docked at this port including the famous Confederate raider, C.S.S. Alabama, while she was operating in this area on one of her raids. The Confederate cruiser visited Simon's Town in 1863, and her Captain Raphael Semmes, was entertained at the Admiralty House. Backmark: W. Bremner, Photographer, Simon's Town. Sharp image. Very fine.  

CDV Principal Street With Court House, Yorktown, Va.

Brady Album Gallery Card

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 4 card. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady's Album Gallery, No. 396. Principal Street With Court House, Yorktown. Union soldier can be seen in left foreground. Light age toning and wear. Desirable 1862 Virginia Peninsula campaign image.  

CDV Quartermaster's Department, Yorktown, Virginia

Confederate, Now Federal Quartermaster's Department, Yorktown

Brady Album Gallery Card

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 4 card. View of wooden buildings with a couple of horses and a bunch of soldiers lined up. The horse at left side of the view is being held by a negro teamster. Note the huge officer standing seventh from the left. He towers over everybody and looks like a giant. 1862 M.B. Brady imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse: Brady's Album Gallery, No. 400....  

CDV Dead Rebel Soldier, Petersburg, Virginia

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 5/16 x 3 5/8 card. Mount has been trimmed. View of Confederate soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called Fort Damnation by the soldiers, at Petersburg, Va. This view was taken on the morning of April 3, 1865. It has been very nicely hand tinted in color. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Light age toning. Very rare in cdv format.  

CDV, Union Mortar Battery, Yorktown, Virginia

Brady Album Gallery Card

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 4 card. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady's Album Gallery, No. 380. Battery No. 4, near Yorktown. Mounting 10, 13 inch mortars, each weighing 20,000 pounds. East-South End. Minor age toning and wear. Very fine.  

CDV White House Plantation, Virginia

Home of Confederate General W.H.F. Lee

Brady Album Gallery Card

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 4 card. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Excellent view of "White House," the plantation home on the Pamunkey River, Va. that William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, inherited from his Grandfather Custis. "Rooney" Lee served as a Confederate General during the Civil War. Photographic label on the reverse; Brady's Album Gallery, No. 384. White House, Formerly...  

CDV Ships in Harbor at Simon's Town, South Africa

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Excellent Civil War era view showing 5 war ships in the harbor at Simon's Town. During the Civil War ships of the Union and Confederacy docked at this port including the famous Confederate raider, C.S.S. Alabama, while she was operating in this area on one of her raids. The Confederate cruiser visited Simon's Town in 1863, and her Captain Raphael Semmes, was entertained at the Admiralty House. Backmark: W. Bremner, Photographer, Simon's Town. Very fine.  

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....  

CDV Ruins of Court House, 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 devastation caused during the 1864 Confederate raid into Chambersburg, Pa. The entire side of the large brick courthouse building is blown away. Backmark: Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa. Destroyed by the Rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864. Court House. 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...  

CDV Ruins of 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 July 30, 1864 Confederate raid into Chambersburg, Pa. View of river and destroyed buildings. No backmark. Period pencil inscription on the reverse, "A ruined street in Chambersburg." Light age toning and wear. Very rare.

General John McCausland led the Confederate raid into Chambersburg, Pa. in July 1864. His mission was to cause as...