Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
A complete and authentic issue of the Harper’s Weekly, February 28, 1863, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, two engravings of Louisiana Colored Troops. The top image, “OUR COLORED TROOPS—THE LINE OFFICERS OF THE FIRST LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS,” shows five officers several of which appear White. Yet, when one reads the related report, it is clear that they are all Negro. The second image, “OUR COLORED TROOPS AT WORK—THE FIRST LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS DISEMBARKING AT FORT MACOMBE, LOUISIANA.” There is a related report on a separate page. In part, “It is now some five months since General Butler's attention was called, by certain free colored men in New Orleans, to the fact that they held commissions from Governor Moore, of Louisiana, as duly enrolled officers of the Confederate army, and requesting to transfer their services to the United States. Additionally, an attractive center spread by Winslow Homer, “Pay-Day in the Army.”
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