GUN FALL 2016
The live portion of this session begins on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.
CDV OF MAJOR GENERAL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN.This view is imprinted on the reverse, "Wm. Pierce, Photographer, Brunswick, Maine", where Chamberlain lived. He taught there at Bowdoin College before entering the Civil War. Chamberlain was unquestionable one of the more heroic and valiant officers of the Civil War. He is most famous as being the Colonel of the 20th Maine under the Vincent's Brigade at Little Round Top where he and a handful of Maine man repulsed an overwhelming Confederate force. Chamberlain had been ordered by Vincent to hold the hill at all costs because of its critical position. After repeated charges, Chamberlain's men were now almost out of ammunition and as a last effort, he ordered his men to fix bayonets and charge. The result was that Chamberlain and his men captured a force far superior to his, many held at gun point (a number of which were empty but fortunately the rebels didn't know that). Chamberlain was wounded multiple times on the field of battle and on two separate occasions reported in the New York Herald as being killed on the field of battle, when he was wounded. In 1864, Grant personally commissioned him Brig. General at Petersburg and at the end of the war he was breveted Major General for his actions at Five Forks. An incident that I is much reflective of Chamberlain's character took place when Chamberlain and the 20th Maine were selected to receive Lee's Army in Appomattox. As Lee and his disheveled men, exhausted and nearly starving, marched by Chamberlain; Chamberlain called "order arms" as a tribute of honor and respect to Lee and his vanquished troops. The rebels responded in kind. Chamberlain went on to serve as Governor of Maine and despite a severe wound that plagued him all his life, he managed to live well into his 80's. SIZE: 4" x 2-1/2". CONDITION: Originally mounted in an album with the edge trimmed with gold foil (much of which is still intact). The reverse still retains the old glue that was used to mount it. The imprint of the studio on the reverse however is legible. The image itself, in fine condition. 51086-3 JDJ (3,000-4,000)