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AED[CIVIL WAR] From the Porch to the Parlor: 2-CDV Civil War Staff Grouping featuring 15th PA Cavalry at Chattanooga
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About Auction
LiveJun 20, 2026
This sale features an extensive catalog of Civil War photographs that were acquired, curated, and researched by seminal collector, Rick Carlile. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com
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- Lot Description
This exceptional 2-piece collection of CDVs features two highly significant, content-dense military group portraits representing both the Eastern and Western theaters. It contrasts a rare, relaxed outdoor field view of Western cavalry officers with a formal, premium-backmarked study of high command staff from a legendary New York studio. The lot includes:
1. 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Command: An extraordinary field photograph captures an informal gathering of over a dozen officers and clerks posed on and around the wooden porch steps of a converted clapboard house serving as the Adjutant General's Office in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The dusty men of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry present a fantastic cross-section of active campaign attire featuring unbuttoned shell jackets, slouch hats, high riding boots, and casual postures. A stack of supply barrels sits at their far right. The horizontal outdoor view on an uncredited Western Theater albumen mount carries clear collector research identifying the scene and unit on its reverse: "15th Pennsylvania Cavalry / Adj. Gen's Office / Chattanooga TN."
The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry performed vital, elite scouting, courier, and headquarters guard duties for the Army of the Cumberland. Following the brutal battles around Chattanooga in late 1863, the town became the massive logistical hub for the Union's deep push into the lower South.
2. Gen. Wool and Staff: A pristine, high-contrast studio study from the same period captures the venerable Mexican-American War hero and senior Union Major General, John Ellis Wool, seated at the center of his personal military staff. Seated to Wool's immediate right is his key aide, Colonel John S. Van Rensselaer, while the surrounding officers stand and sit in immaculate double-breasted regulation frock coats with velvet cuffs and crisp staff shoulder straps, posed against a paneled backdrop and a massive, fluted studio column. A bold, contemporary ink inscription tracks vertically along the right-hand margin of the front mount reading "Genl Wool & Staff." The reverse of this full-length group portrait is housed on a crisp, unclipped card profile bearing a matching period pencil inscription directly above the gallery mark of Rockwood, Photographer, 839 Broadway, N.Y.
Wool was one of the most historically significant officers of the early war, securing Fort Monroe, Virginia, in 1861 and preventing it from falling into Confederate hands - a strategic feat that saved the Union's operational base in the East.
United by superb condition, contrasting compositions, and clear regimental association, this duo presents a ready-made exhibition piece.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards]
Condition
Both cartes are in excellent condition, with rich tones, strong contrast, and square edges.
- Provenance
Rick Carlile collection.
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