2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Carte de visite of Colonel Henry Walter Kingsbury(1837-1862) who was one of the most famous casualties at the battle of Antietam. he was mortally wounded leading the 11th Connecticut in the charge over the Burnside Bridge. According to the Time Life Civil War series, page 122 of ‘The Bloodiest Day,’ so highly regarded was the 25-year-old officer that General Ambrose Burnside issued a proclamatin mourning his death. A West Point classmate wrote that Kingsburg had emabraked on ‘a career which nothing but death could terminate in failure.’ CDV is of the same pose as used in the Time Life series, it is trimmed, else VG.
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