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Album of cartes-de-vis-
ite.
A small family album, with several images of musicians from the 50th New York
Engineers.
Vp, 1861-1865
[800/1,200]
From several photographs identified as members of the Gordon family, presumably assembled by one of
them. Includes a known view of the Seabrook Plantation Mansion, Edisto Island “seen from the gar-
den,” and images of Isaac Brown Gordon, tuba player, and the unidentified cymbal player from the
[50th New York] Engineer Band, as well as an image of U.S. Grant and Samuel B. Gordon,
“Rushville, Gates Co. N.Y. private, sergeant, 1st N.J. Cavalry, Co C, 50th Engineers ?” The latter
bears a 2-cent blue Washington stamp “playing Cards.”
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Carte-de-visite with
inked caption “hd.qts Corps D’afriques.”
Typical carte-de-visite albumen photo-
graph, with “A.I. Blauvelt, Port Hudson, LA” on the reverse.
Louisiana, circa 1862-1863
[750/1,000]
A RARE IMAGE OF THE CORPS D
’
AFRIQUES HEADQUARTERS AT PORT HUDSON
.
The Corps
d’Afriques, or First Louisiana Native Guard U. S.A. was one of the first all-black regiments to see
combat in Civil War, formed just before the use of Colored Troops was officially sanctioned. The
Guard was formed from ex-slaves liberated by the occupation of New Orleans by Union forces. On
September 27, 1862, Major General Benjamin F. Butler, the Union military commander, organized
the Union Army’s 1st Louisiana Native Guard regiment of 1,000 men. This actually included some
men who had served earlier in the Louisiana Confederate Militia under the same name.
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