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Auction archive: Lot number 32

Six CDVs of Identified Brown Water Navy Officers, Incl. Cartes Signed by Freeman Vincent, USS Peosta, James Kelly, USS Lafayette, and Daniel Paul Slatterly, USS Vindicator

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$344
Auction archive: Lot number 32

Six CDVs of Identified Brown Water Navy Officers, Incl. Cartes Signed by Freeman Vincent, USS Peosta, James Kelly, USS Lafayette, and Daniel Paul Slatterly, USS Vindicator

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$344
Beschreibung:

Lot of 6 CDVs of identified naval officers. CDV of Freeman Vincent. Hughes & Lakin: Natchez, MS, n.d. Ink signed on verso "Very sincerely Yours / F. Vincent U.S.N." Freeman Vincent: Mate 10/1/62, Acting Ensign 9/1/63, Acting Master 5/20/65, Discharged 11/22/65. Commanded USS Peosta, relieved awaiting orders 8/7/65. CDV of James Kelly wearing civilian frock coat and straw boater. J.A. Sheldon: New Orleans, LA, n.d. Ink signed on verso "Yours Truly / James P. Kelly / A.A. Paymaster / U.S.N." with blue-green two cent revenue stamp. Not recorded in Navy List; found on list of officers of Mississippi Squadron employed at Vicksburg, July 13, 1863, assigned to Ironclad Steamer Lafayette (4th Rate). CDV of James G. Maxwell. Whitaker & Co.: Philadelphia, PA, 1863. Identified in pencil beneath portrait as "Lt. Commander J. G. Maxwell, USN." James G. Maxwell: Midshipman 12/15/47, Passed Midshipman 6/12/55, Master 9/15/55, Lieutenant 12/23/56, Lieut. Commander 7/16/62, died 7/19/67. Served on USS Pinola; ordered by Adm. Farragut to temporary command of USS Octorara, May 1864. CDV with sharp vignette portrait. French & Co.: Vicksburg, MS, n.d. Ink signed, "Your Schoolmate and Friend / D. Paul Slatterly / US Navy." Daniel Paul Slatterly: acting ensign 3/19/63, acting master 7/19/64, discharged 2/9/66. Modern pencil notation records Slatterly's service on Pawtuxet, Malvern, Massasoit, Sagamore, and Vindicator (Mississippi Squadron). USS Vindicator was a former civilian steamer commissioned as a gunboat in May 1864. During the last year of the war she served in the Yazoo River expedition and engaged in the pursuit of the Confederate cottonclad CSS William H. Webb on the Red River. During that unsuccessful chase, Acting Master D.P. Slatterly was recorded as having "stoked his boilers to near bursting point." Slatterly later writing, "Such was the spirit animating every officer, man, and boy that all seemed to vie with each other in the rapid and intelligent execution of each order." Vindicator was soon thereafter decommissioned in late April 1865 and sold out of service. CDV of a heavily bearded officer standing with sword. J. Sidney Brown: St. Louis, MO, n.d. Identified in modern pencil as "Nott" with notation confirming same from "comparison to photo from Naval Historical Center." Hugh Nott: acting assistant paymaster 2/17/63, discharged 12/12/65. Only one reference to Nott being assigned to either the Memphis or Natchez naval station was found. CDV of a dapper petty officer wearing waist length double-breasted jacket. J.W. Taft: Memphis, TN, n.d. Identified in modern pencil as, "James C. Vail" and with three-cent green revenue stamp. Junior ranks not included in Navy List. Nothing about this petty officer's wartime service was found. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Cowan's is pleased to offer an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Nott carte with dented corners, else about VG. Vail ima

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
4 Sep 2020
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:

Lot of 6 CDVs of identified naval officers. CDV of Freeman Vincent. Hughes & Lakin: Natchez, MS, n.d. Ink signed on verso "Very sincerely Yours / F. Vincent U.S.N." Freeman Vincent: Mate 10/1/62, Acting Ensign 9/1/63, Acting Master 5/20/65, Discharged 11/22/65. Commanded USS Peosta, relieved awaiting orders 8/7/65. CDV of James Kelly wearing civilian frock coat and straw boater. J.A. Sheldon: New Orleans, LA, n.d. Ink signed on verso "Yours Truly / James P. Kelly / A.A. Paymaster / U.S.N." with blue-green two cent revenue stamp. Not recorded in Navy List; found on list of officers of Mississippi Squadron employed at Vicksburg, July 13, 1863, assigned to Ironclad Steamer Lafayette (4th Rate). CDV of James G. Maxwell. Whitaker & Co.: Philadelphia, PA, 1863. Identified in pencil beneath portrait as "Lt. Commander J. G. Maxwell, USN." James G. Maxwell: Midshipman 12/15/47, Passed Midshipman 6/12/55, Master 9/15/55, Lieutenant 12/23/56, Lieut. Commander 7/16/62, died 7/19/67. Served on USS Pinola; ordered by Adm. Farragut to temporary command of USS Octorara, May 1864. CDV with sharp vignette portrait. French & Co.: Vicksburg, MS, n.d. Ink signed, "Your Schoolmate and Friend / D. Paul Slatterly / US Navy." Daniel Paul Slatterly: acting ensign 3/19/63, acting master 7/19/64, discharged 2/9/66. Modern pencil notation records Slatterly's service on Pawtuxet, Malvern, Massasoit, Sagamore, and Vindicator (Mississippi Squadron). USS Vindicator was a former civilian steamer commissioned as a gunboat in May 1864. During the last year of the war she served in the Yazoo River expedition and engaged in the pursuit of the Confederate cottonclad CSS William H. Webb on the Red River. During that unsuccessful chase, Acting Master D.P. Slatterly was recorded as having "stoked his boilers to near bursting point." Slatterly later writing, "Such was the spirit animating every officer, man, and boy that all seemed to vie with each other in the rapid and intelligent execution of each order." Vindicator was soon thereafter decommissioned in late April 1865 and sold out of service. CDV of a heavily bearded officer standing with sword. J. Sidney Brown: St. Louis, MO, n.d. Identified in modern pencil as "Nott" with notation confirming same from "comparison to photo from Naval Historical Center." Hugh Nott: acting assistant paymaster 2/17/63, discharged 12/12/65. Only one reference to Nott being assigned to either the Memphis or Natchez naval station was found. CDV of a dapper petty officer wearing waist length double-breasted jacket. J.W. Taft: Memphis, TN, n.d. Identified in modern pencil as, "James C. Vail" and with three-cent green revenue stamp. Junior ranks not included in Navy List. Nothing about this petty officer's wartime service was found. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Cowan's is pleased to offer an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Nott carte with dented corners, else about VG. Vail ima

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
4 Sep 2020
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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