Four CDVs, Massachusetts Engineer & Staff Officer BBGs: Sylvanus Thayer, Edward Townsend, Francis Walker, Stephen Weld, POW

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Four CDVs, Massachusetts Engineer & Staff Officer BBGs: Sylvanus Thayer, Edward Townsend, Francis Walker, Stephen Weld, POW

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Auction archive: Lot number 56

Four CDVs, Massachusetts Engineer & Staff Officer BBGs: Sylvanus Thayer, Edward Townsend, Francis Walker, Stephen Weld, POW

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Lot of 4: Dodge, Chicago post-war copyshot of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, Col., US Army 1st Battn. Engineers, received single brevet. Brady carte of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Edward Davis Townsend, Col., US Army Adj. Gen. Dept., received two brevets. Whipple CDV of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Francis A. Walker, autographed on verso as Lt. Col., AAG, Sgt. Maj., 15th MA Inf.; Lt. Col., US Vols. Adj. Gen. Dept.; received single brevet. J.W. Black CDV of Bvt. Brig. Gen. Stephen M. Weld, pencil signed as Col. beneath portrait, 2nd Lt., 18th MA Inf.; promoted to serve on staff of General Reynolds; POW (date and place not stated), exchanged for William Simpson 17th VA 8/62; Col., 56th MA Inf.; POW Petersburg, VA 7/64 (confined at Salisbury, NC and Columbia, SC), paroled Camp Asylum, Columbia, SC and exchanged 12/64; received single brevet. Provenance: The Robert Trownsell Collection Condition: Townsend CDV, some light, scattered spots. Walker CDV, light toning to view, few light spots. Overall VG.