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6 C.H. Boyd Civil War Photographs, Chattanooga and
6 C.H. Boyd Civil War Photographs, Chattanooga and
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Description
Six (6) Charles Harrod Boyd (Captain of Topographical Engineers, Army of Cumberland) Civil War photographs. 1st item: Photograph mounted on card stock titled "Chattanooga & Vicinity from Northside of Tennessee River" in ink, centered below image. Pencil inscription reading "Cameron Hill" verso, top right corner. Additional title reading "Pontoon Bridge and Piers for Taulbee Bridge over Tennessee River at Chattanooga 1864" in ink, center right, signed "C.H. Boyd" in pencil, top left and center, signed "Boyd" in crayon, top center and top right, en verso. 1 5/8" x 2" piece of unidentified publication on blue paper, attached center left, en verso. 13 1/2" H x 27" W. 2nd item: Photograph mounted on card stock titled "...supplying Water to the troops in Chattanooga --1864" in pencil, en verso. Signed "Major C. H. Boyd 1865" in pencil, and "Boyd" in crayon" top left, en verso. 15" H x 20 1/4" W. 3rd-6th items: Four (4) photographs titled "Mission Ridge" with designations "No 1", "No 3", "No 4", and "No 5", in pencil, en verso. "No 1" with additional title "after battle of [Mission Ridge] -- 1863", in pencil, lower center. "No 4" with additional title "Genl Braggs Headquarters Oct 1863", in pencil, top right, en verso. "No 5" with additional title "Mission Ridge" in red pencil, top left, en verso. All signed "Boyd" in crayon, top left, en verso. "No 5" signed "C H Boyd 1864", in pencil, lower right, en verso. "No 3" with black ink stamp, top right, en verso. All approximately 11 5/8" H x 14 3/8" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Charles Harrold Boyd, who served on General George H. Thomas staff as Captain of the Topographical Engineers, Army of the Cumberland. (source: The "Civil War Record of Brown University", 1920). Charles Boyd's wife, Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, was the daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Maj. General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on her mother's side. She and Charles Harrod Boyd had four children Annie Frances Harrod Boyd, Augusta Dearborn Boyd, Emily Dearborn Boyd, and Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN). (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com.)
Condition
1st item: Photograph separated at center. Foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, surface and verso of photograph. Tears, largest 2 1/2", to and card stock. Areas of loss, largest 8 1/2" x 1", to edges of card stock. 2nd item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, to surface and verso of photograph and card stock. Areas of loss, largest 1/4" x 7 1/2", tears, largest 3 1/2", creases, to surface and verso of card stock. 3rd-6th item: Overall good condition with foxing spots, areas of loss, largest 1/4" x 1 1/4", tears, largest 3/4", creases, to surface and verso of photographs.
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6 C.H. Boyd Civil War Photographs, Chattanooga and

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