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AED[CIVIL WAR] Hero of the 20th Maine: Gettysburg Veteran Lt. Frederic W. Lane, KIA, Wilderness
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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
Full-length studio portrait albumen CDV. Washington, D.C.: John Holyland, Photographic Gallery, No. 250 Pennsylvania Avenue, [circa 1863-1864]. Photographer's imprint to mount verso. Research pencil identifications to mount verso read: "Lt. Frederic W. Lane / 20th Maine / DOW May 14. 1864."
This exceptional full-length portrait captures Lieutenant Frederic W. Lane of the legendary 20th Maine Infantry. Lane stands confidently before an elaborate painted backdrop depicting a military encampment, a river, and a distant landscape. He wears a smartly tailored line officer's frock coat and a slouch hat adorned with an infantry bugle insignia. His left hand rests casually on the hilt of his foot officer's sword, while his right rests on his hip. The image was captured by the prominent Washington D.C. gallery of John Holyland, a popular place for soldiers to have their likeness made.
The 20th Maine Infantry holds an immortal place in American military history for their desperate, bayonet-wielding defense of Little Round Top on the second day of Gettysburg under the command of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Lieutenant Lane served with this storied regiment through its most grueling campaigns. The pencil notation on the verso confirms that Lane gave the last full measure of devotion during Ulysses S. Grant's relentless Overland Campaign, dying of wounds on 14 May 1864. Portraits of officers from the 20th Maine are among the most highly prized images in all of Civil War collecting.
Before the war, Frederic Waldo Lane resided in Milo, Maine, where he worked as a common school teacher. When he answered the call to serve, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in Company B of the 20th Maine Infantry. As an officer in Company B, Lane was right in the thick of the regiment's legendary defense of Little Round Top on the second day of Gettysburg, helping to hold the line against repeated Confederate assaults and participating in the famous bayonet charge that secured the Union's extreme left flank.
He survived the intense combat in Pennsylvania and continued to lead his men into the following year. Tragically, his luck ran out during the opening moves of Ulysses S. Grant's grinding Overland Campaign. On May 7, 1864, during the chaotic and brutal fighting in the dense thickets at the Battle of the Wilderness, Lane was severely wounded. He succumbed to his injuries exactly one week later.
Rick prized his images of men who served with the 20th Maine. This is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a top tier example.
[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, Stereographs] [Civil War, Union, Confederate]
Condition
The image is in very good to excellent condition. The albumen surface exhibits a rich, slightly warm tonality with outstanding contrast.
- Provenance
Rick Carlile collection.
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