[AFRICAN AMERICANA] -- [CIVIL WAR]. Portrait of CSA Lieutenant J. Wallace Comer, 57th Alabama Infantry, with enslaved African American Burrell. Ca 1900.
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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$600
Sold for $1,250
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Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] -- [CIVIL WAR]. Portrait of CSA Lieutenant J. Wallace Comer, 57th Alabama Infantry, with enslaved African American Burrell. Ca 1900.
6 x 8 in. (visible) printed portrait under 10 x 12 in. mat (scattered spotting to print; corner and edge wear to mat). A heavily retouched portrait made ca 1900 after a photograph originally taken in 1864 of J. (John) Wallace Comer (1845-1919) of the 57th Alabama Infantry with his African American body servant, Burrell.
John Wallace Comer was the son of a wealthy planter, and his brother B.B. Comer would later become the governor of Alabama. Comer served as a lieutenant with the 57th Alabama and was wounded in the Battle of Atlanta, with Burrell taking him to safety.
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