CIVIL War Black Contraband Union Soldiers Lafayette Hq Yorktown Battle CDV Brady
EARLY CIVIL WAR CARTE DE VISITE (CDV). Text on front, at bottom of mount: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by BARNARD & GIBSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
Text on back: BRADY'S ALBUM GALLERY. HEADQUARTERS OF GEN'L LAFAYETTE Before the Battle of Yorktown. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost.
The Library of Congress has a variation of this photograph in their Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. The caption on the site is: Contrabands at headquarters of General Lafayette. " and the description is: "Photograph shows a group of African American refugees with Union soldiers in front of General Lafayette's headquarters at Allen's farm house near Williamsburg Road.
We also found this same image on American Civil War Photos website, with the caption: Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Headquarters of General Fitz John Porter.
Lafayette's headquarters before the battle of Yorktown. Both Barnard and Gibson were employed by Mathew Brady.
Here is some information we found online. At the outbreak of war, Barnard was working for Mathew Brady in Washington D. Barnard, besides doing portraits and photographing the troops around Washington D. Was among Brady's initial corps of photographers, who were sent into the field to photograph the battlefields of Northern Virginia, and the Peninsula, including Bull Run and Yorktown, as well as Harper's Ferry.
In 1860, Scotsman Gibson's name appeared with that of his wife Elizabeth in the Washington D. Census, and the city directory showed that Mathew Brady employed him.
Gibson may have emigrated to America with Alexander Gardner, who was also from Scotland.... Several years after the war, before a court could rule on Gibson's civil suit against business partner, Mathew Brady (Gibson also sued Gardner), he heavily mortgaged Brady's failing Washington Gallery, which he managed, left for Kansas with the cash, and was never heard from again. THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN & LAFAYETTE. Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American theater, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757 1834), in the U. Often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States in the American Revolutionary War. A close friend of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830. Approximately 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Vertical mark at left side, from top to bottom of sky area.Lower right corner has wear and is no longer affixed to mount. Mount: Wear at corners, including missing tip at upper left.
Soiling and foxing on back. The item "CIVIL WAR BLACK CONTRABAND UNION SOLDIERS LAFAYETTE HQ YORKTOWN BATTLE CDV BRADY" is in sale since Monday, September 26, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "genest" and is located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.