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Auction archive: Lot number 22

Signed Civil War CDV of Pvt. Spencer Purser, Pennsylvania 23rd Infantry, in GAR Uniform

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$165
Auction archive: Lot number 22

Signed Civil War CDV of Pvt. Spencer Purser, Pennsylvania 23rd Infantry, in GAR Uniform

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$165
Beschreibung:

CDV of an aged man giving a salute while wearing his GAR badge and GAR kepi. Signed on verso: My children, my grandchildren / All my friends this will suit / My comrades and brethren / A loyal last salute. / In gospel hope, Spencer Purser / Aged 71 1/2 years. Print is a period copy with Hail & Farewell in the negative. Spencer Purser enlisted at Philadelphia April 21, 1861, and served as a private in Co. E, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry, a three-month unit. The 23rd did duty along the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad before joining George H. Thomas' Brigade, 1st Division, Patterson's Army, and serving at Martinsburg, Bunker Hill, and Harper's Ferry. Purser died in 1898 and is buried under a soldier's marker at Dayton National Cemetery, meaning he likely spent his final years at the sprawling National Soldiers Home in that city. Provenance: William Gladstone Collection of Early Photography & African Americana Condition: Toning and light edge wear.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2013
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

CDV of an aged man giving a salute while wearing his GAR badge and GAR kepi. Signed on verso: My children, my grandchildren / All my friends this will suit / My comrades and brethren / A loyal last salute. / In gospel hope, Spencer Purser / Aged 71 1/2 years. Print is a period copy with Hail & Farewell in the negative. Spencer Purser enlisted at Philadelphia April 21, 1861, and served as a private in Co. E, 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry, a three-month unit. The 23rd did duty along the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad before joining George H. Thomas' Brigade, 1st Division, Patterson's Army, and serving at Martinsburg, Bunker Hill, and Harper's Ferry. Purser died in 1898 and is buried under a soldier's marker at Dayton National Cemetery, meaning he likely spent his final years at the sprawling National Soldiers Home in that city. Provenance: William Gladstone Collection of Early Photography & African Americana Condition: Toning and light edge wear.

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 2013
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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