[CIVIL WAR]. Full plate tintype of Civil War drummer James V. Roberts, 118th New York, posed with drum and weaponry. [With:] personal, war-date Bible.
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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Jun 21, 2022
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$1,200
Sold for $1,125
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Lot Description
[CIVIL WAR]. Full plate tintype of Civil War drummer James V. Roberts, 118th New York, posed with drum and weaponry. [With:] personal, war-date Bible.
Full plate tintype of drummer James V. Roberts, 118th NY. (Slight loss of emulsion at edges, appears to have been framed, never cased). Roberts is posed with a U.S. Infantry drum at his side, a pistol in his belt, and his hand resting upon the handle of a sword.
[With:] The Holy Bible, Containing Old and New Testaments. London: G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1855. 32mo. (Title page detatched, gatherings loose, toned.) Contemporary pressed paper boards (lacking spine, hinges fragile, scuffs to extremities). Provenance: James V. Roberts (ownership inscription to inner front board); Mary E. Roberts (stencil to front free endpaper, according to the 1860 Census in Plattsburgh, NY, Mary E. was sister to James, 3 years his senior). Features a presentation bookplate printed in blue and red with an American flag with a riband reading "To the Defenders of their Country!" reading, "Presented by the Clinton Co. B.S.N.Y. September, 1862" followed by Bible verses.
James V. Roberts (1845-1863) enlisted on 21 July 1862 at Plattsburg, Clinton County, NY as a private at just 18 years old. He was mustered into Company H of the 118th New York Infantry, participating in the Siege of Suffolk, but died of disease on 7 October 1863 at Fort Monroe, VA.
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