2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
This book is a collection of Photographs from BVT. LT. Col. George Gordon Meade who was the son of Gen George G Meade of Gettysburg fame. The Meade Album holds almost 1,400 carte-de-visite portraits of all the officers who served in the Army of the Potomac, the major Union army famous for fighting under General George G. Meade in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The album was assembled by Gen. Meade's son, also named George, who served on the General's staff during the war. Collecting cartes was a popular pastime among Civil War officers, and George probably began gathering these images during the war and then worked throughout his life to complete the album, using his father's connections to locate veterans or find information. Underneath or next to each portrait are likely what are George's handwritten notes, which include the officer's name and rank and indicate whether he was injured or killed in battle. Toward the back of one volume, George began to add cartes of Confederate officers. The limited edition book with 42 pages of Union and Confederate officers of the American Civil War. Published Philadelphia by the The Civil War Library and Museum, 1996. Blue cloth boards, 17-1/4" x 18-3/8", 42pp. Like new. This book was published as a fund raiser for the Civil War Library & Museum in Philadelphia, originally sold for $500.00.
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