THE CIVIL WAR | CDVs | Confederate | Officers & Enlisted Men 281 Robert E. Lee, CDV as Lt. Gen. by Vannerson & Jones, 1864 Full length pose from the session with photographer Julian Vannerson in Richmond in 1864. Verso with imprint of Vannerson & Jones and affixed with a two cent revenue stamp canceled June 25, 1865. $600 - $800
280 Jefferson Davis and Wife, Three CDVs by Vannerson & Jones Lot of 3, including two vignettes of Jefferson Davis, both with the backmark of Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, VA, and affixed with revenue stamps canceled June 15, and October 2, 1865, and a vignette of Mrs. Jefferson Davis (Varina Banks Howell Davis), with 1866 copyright to James K. Caskie and For the Benefit of the Hollywood Memorial Association imprinted on recto and the imprint of Vannerson & Co. on verso. The Hollywood Memorial Association was a Richmond chapter of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, an organization of Southern women who raised money and devoted their time in order to arrange proper burials for Confederate soldiers killed in the war. $300 - $500
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282 CSA General, John Hunt Morgan, CDVs, Including Scarce Portrait in Top Hat, Plus Lot of 3, including: extremely scarce albumen CDV of John Hunt Morgan wearing a top hat, with E. Anthony backmark; lithographed CDV of Morgan in uniform, also by Anthony. The consignor relates that this view comes from the personal album of Bennett Young, one of Morgan’s Men who was captured in the raid. Plus, August 25, 1862 printing of the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, a rare Copperhead newspaper, which outlines many of Morgan’s personal movements. Morgan’s own comments are also published in this issue. $600 - $800
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283 Col. John S. Mosby, Rare CDV Pose by Vannerson & Jones CDV portrait of Colonel John S. Mosby, with Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, VA backmark. To our knowledge, this is a previously unknown image of the famous Confederate colonel known as the “Gray Ghost.” Mosby wears a gray frock coat with elaborate “chicken guts” on the lower sleeves and holds his ubiquitous plumbed hat that imbued his cavalier persona. $700 - $900
284 CSA Captain Henry Connor MacLaughlin, CDV, Plus Carte by C.C. Giers, Nashville, TN, with enlargement instructions on verso. Henry Connor MacLaughlin (1833-1870) was the editor of the Mississippi Conservative in Vicksburg when he enlisted in that city on 4/10/61. Having earlier served as a captain in the Tennessee Militia, he was initially given the rank of brevet lieutenant and standard bearer but was soon transferred from the Vicksburg Company to the Quitman Light Artillery out of Jackson. Several other attachments followed, and he was at one point first corporal of Co. I, 36th Georgia, which later became the 1st Confederate Infantry, and a first lieutenant, captain, and brevet major in J.F. Kerr’s Co. of Mississippi Artillery. MacLaughlin and his brother, Alexander, were both captured near Nashville on 12/16/64, and sent to Camp Chase in Columbus, OH, but both escaped any injury during the course of the war. After the war he returned to the newspaper business, working for the Nashville Daily Gazette, the Memphis Daily Bulletin, before becoming publisher and editor of the Murfreesboro Monitor. Lot accompanied by 3pp family history and biography compiled by his great-granddaughter. $500 - $700