[CIVIL WAR]. [BRADY, Mathew (1822-1896), photographer, attrib.]. Battery A Keystone Artillery, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment. [Washington, DC: Brady & Co., 1864].
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$500 -
700
Lot Description
[CIVIL WAR]. [BRADY, Mathew (1822-1896), photographer, attrib.]. Battery A Keystone Artillery, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment. [Washington, DC: Brady & Co., 1864].
5 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. albumen photograph, uncredited but possibly taken by Mathew Brady. The image shows nine members of Battery A, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery posed with two horses and a cannon.
Organized at Harrisburg, PA, Battery A, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery mustered in for a three-year enlistment in August 1861 under the command of Captain Hezekiah Easton. It fought at several battles throughout the war, including Seven Days Battles, Gaines's Mill, Second Battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Petersburg, and Chaffin's Farm. The battery mustered out at Harrisburg in July 1865.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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