November 15 & 16, 2022 Extraordinary Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2022
Lot consists of 3 items (A) Full standing view, Ewing & Co, Cumberland, Maryland backmark. Full standing soldier in short jacket. Signed ink bottom "Michael Spice Co. D 2d MD. Vet. Vols.". He is listed as a corporal Co. D, 2nd Maryland Potomac Home Brigade, 28 Feb. 1865 to 29 May 1865. (B) Johnston, Lancaster, Pennsylvania backmarked period CDV copy of tintype showing a young soldier in US enlisted frock coat and forage cap, full standing in front of a painted backdrop, showing an army camp with tents and US flag on pole. Period ink reverse, "For Grandma." Dubious modern pencil ID as "Thomas Jefferson Flack," 1st Maryland CS and 43rd Virginia cavalry KIA. (C) Period CDV engraving of CS General Mansford Lovell with clipped signature. Lovell was born in the District of Columbia, graduated West Point 1842, served in the artillery, was wounded in the Mexican War, resigned in 1854 to join Quitman's expedition to Cuba, and later worked in New York. Joined the CS Army as Major General and was blamed for the fall of New Orleans in 1862.