2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Color Printed Broadside, 15-1/2" x 21", Near Fine. Headline, "MARTIN'S SOLDIER'S RECORD" for Company E of the Fiftieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Below the lettering is beautiful color artwork centered around a spread-winged eagle holding a snake in its talons superimposed over a scene consisting of Sibley tents, drums and cannon at center flanked by views of Mount Vernon with Washington's Tomb on one side and a Naval battle scene with a land fort showing infantry drilling in line on the other. Below the art work are two columns wrapped in US flags and each one is topped by a portraits of former US Presidents, Andrew Jackson, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The column at left has Columbia at top while the one at right has a Union sailor. Both are done in color. Running horizontally across the top of the columns is a riband that reads "Company E of the Fiftieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry". The left and right columns list the Privates. The middle column Lists the Company Officers. At the bottom, Mustered into service by Captain Philander Phinney, March 18,1865 followed by the copyright information, 1862 by Samuel W. Martin, Wisconsin. This regiment was organized at Camp Randall and left the state by companies in the latter part of March and beginning of April, 1865. It was sent to Benton barracks, St. Louis; thence to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and in October to Fort Rice, Dak., where it remained until the spring of 1866.
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