Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection
94 1st Lieut. Holman S. Melcher, Co. B, 20th Maine Wearing Unique Maltese Cross, CDV 1st Lieut. Holman S. Melcher, Co. B, identified in modern pencil over W. Piece, Brunswick, Me. imprint. Lieut. Melcher wears a massive embroidered 5th Corps Maltese Cross sewn to the breast of his frock coat. He enlisted as Corporal, Co. B, 8/62; promoted 1st Lieut., Co. F; “present” at Gettysburg on Little Round Top; WIA Spotsylvania (5/8/64); promoted Captain, Co. H, 11/64; m/o 7/65. The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection $500 - $600
95 20th Maine Officers at Gettysburg, Two Identified CDVs Two cartes, both ink signed. First is Atherton W. Clark, Co. E, with damaged Amesbury, Mass. back mark and remnant of tax stamp. Clark was commissioned Captain, Co. E, 8/62; at Gettysburg Captain Clark was “Acting Field Officer” under Chamberlain, taking part in the epic fight on Little Round Top; promoted Major 5/65; m/o 6/65. An oval vignette of Lieut. Wm. K. Bickford/Co. H, 20th Maine bears the imprint of G.W. Tuttle, Thomaston, Me. Bickford joined as 2nd Lieut. 8/62; was “present” at Gettysburg on Little Round Top; promoted 1st Lieut. & Captain, Co. E in 1864; discharged as 1st Lieut. 5/65. The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection $600 - $800
96 Private John Reed, Jr., Co. A, 20th Maine-KIA Gettysburg, CDV An unusual dead letter CDV from the ubiquitous Argus Ogborn Collection, identified in what appears to be genuine period ink around oval portrait as John Reed/20th Maine. Reed enlisted as Private 8/62 and is listed as “killed” at Gettysburg (7/2/63) as Corporal, Co. A (Maine at Gettysburg, p. 270). The verso bears the stamped information common to Ogborn cartes as well as a succinct biography of the noted Indiana collector in modern ball point. Ogborn CDVs were rarely found named or identified. The Tom MacDonald Maine Civil War CDV Collection $500 - $700
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