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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR—PHOTOGRAPHY.) [MOORE, HENRY P.]
The
Band Master’s Tent.
Carte-de-visite showing Gustavus Ingalls in his tent, with two band
members and Ingall’s band boy and personal assistant “Billy Seabrook.” “G.W. Ingalls Post Band
Master, Hilton Head” in pencil on reverse.
Hilton Head, SC, circa 1861
[1,500/2,500]
A RARE AND IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPH
.
The post of Band Master was considered to be of singu-
lar importance. Gustavus Ingalls not only provided music to lift the spirit of the troops, he was
described as having near curative powers. Here we see Ingalls posed, reviewing large pages of sheet
music. To his left are D. Brown and Samuel Brown, brass players; while behind him, Billy Seabrook,
recently freed from the Seabrook plantation on Edisto Island polishes Ingall’s boots. Whether inten-
tionally or not, the position of Seabrook, as opposed that of the two Browns is clearly subservient,
though he was ostensibly a freed slave.
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(MILITARY—REVOLUTION-
ARY WAR.)
A petition on behalf of
Shadrach Underwood, an African
American veteran of the Revolution,
now sixty-three years old and blind.
Single large folio leaf, folded to form four
pages, written on two sides with a portion
on a third; docketed on the fourth; short,
closed tear at one fold.
Norwich, CT, 10 July 1820
[600/900]
Shadrach Underwood served with Colonel
Thomas Grosvenor’s company in 1780 and
later in 1782 with Captain Sheed’s company,
also in Connecticut. He was honorably dis-
charged at West Point.