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AED[CIVIL WAR] Red Legged Devil: IDed 14th Brooklyn Chasseur CDV
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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
An exceptional, original albumen carte-de-visite capturing a full-length studio portrait of a soldier from the celebrated 84th New York Volunteer Infantry, universally known as the 14th Brooklyn. The soldier stands confidently with one hand on his hip and his right arm resting on an ornate, carved plush parlor chair. He is clad in the regiment’s iconic, French-inspired chasseur uniform, featuring the distinct short, open-front jacket trimmed with rows of ball buttons along the lapels, a light-colored vest or shirt showing underneath, a wide fabric sash at the waist and full-cut trousers. He wears a dark forage cap with a visible brass regiment or company letter device pinned to the front.
The reverse features a studio backmark reading: "K. W. Beniczky, / Photographer, / No. 2 New Chambers St. / Cor. Chatham St. / N.Y." The mount bears a prominent period ink inscription reading "Cousin Sammy / Hancock."
This historic portrait is a premier visual document of one of the most famous, hard-fighting regiments in the entire Union army: the 14th Brooklyn. Nicknamed the Red Legged Devils by Confederate forces at First Bull Run due to its bright red trousers and ferocious charging style, this elite militia unit retained its custom, non-standard chasseur uniform throughout its grueling three-year term of service. The subject, identified by the intimate family inscription as Cousin Sammy Hancock, served alongside a body of volunteers who participated in nearly every major tactical engagement of the Army of the Potomac, sustaining staggering combat losses at Second Bull Run, Antietam and the Railroad Cut at Gettysburg.
Muster records reveal that Samuel Hancock enlisted in Brooklyn on 18 April 1861, just days after the fall of Fort Sumter, and officially mustered into Company G of the 14th Brooklyn on 23 May 1861. He served faithfully through the regiment's most intense early trials, including the chaotic combat of First Bull Run, before being discharged for disability on 4 August 1862, at Washington, D.C.
Authentic wartime portraits explicitly documenting members of the 14th Brooklyn in their distinctive chasseur attire are frustratingly difficult to acquire on the open market. This is a choice identified example from the Carlile archive.
[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
Very good to fine. The albumen print exhibits excellent visual clarity and strong contrast. The carte is square and unclipped, showing only a uniform light age-toning and very minor, localized lower-edge smudging appropriate for its age.
- Provenance
Rick Carlile collection.
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