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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.) PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEXANDER GARD-
NER AND MATHEW BRADY.
Sheet with ten albumen carte-de-visite
photographs of war scenes from 1862, each with ink caption.
These images seem
to have never been attached to card-mounts; instead they have been affixed to a large folio
sheet, spaces to the right indicate the removal of several images of Union generals; the
reverse has eleven more period images, many tinted (not war scenes) of the period includ-
ing a very nice carte-de-visite image titled “Emancipation.”
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, circa 1862
[2,000/3,000]
Sheet from sample book of carte-de-visite photographs from the partnership of Mathew Brady and Alexander
Gardner. Included are two famous scenes of the notorious slave pens at Alexandria, Virginia, 1862.
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(MILITARY—REVOLUTION.)
FREEMAN, NATHANIEL.
”A De-
scriptive list of 16 Soldiers in the
Town of Falmouth,” which includes
one Paul Coffee, a “Negro,” the only
man of color.
Folio sheet, written on
one side and docketed on the reverse.
Falmouth, MA, 7 July, 1780
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This list of soldiers includes their “description,
stature, age, place of abode, and region from
which procured and the company from which
procured.” It is a preliminary muster roll, in
that Freeman would have been adding more
names to form a regiment. The Paul Coffee on
this list was not the Paul Cuffee generally asso-
ciated with early migration and trade with
Liberia. The name Cuffee, Cuff or Coffee, all
are derived from the West African name Kofi,
as in the name of the U. N. Secretary General
Kofi Annan. We do know that this Paul
Coffee served five months and was given his
pay and an honorable discharge.