UNUSUAL HORIZONTAL VIEW CDV CHILDREN OF THE BATTLEFIELD

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Few stories of “human interest” from Gettysburg are more touching than the “Children of the Battlefield.”

Reportedly found clutched in the hands of an unidentified dead union soldier, the image of three children was widely circulated in northern newspapers in an effort to identify the man and his family. The attention garnered by the campaign not only led to the identification of the soldier as Sergeant Amos Humiston of the 154th New York, but helped support the movement to establish a Pennsylvania “asylum” for the orphaned children of soldiers. Established in 1866 in Gettysburg, the asylum’s first matron was Mrs. Humiston, and her three children were residents. Fundraising was done in part through the sale of images like this, published by E. & H.T. Anthony of New York. Mrs. Humiston subsequently remarried and left the asylum with her children. The asylum closed after only twelve years in operation.

This is a horizontal CDV of this image, which dates it to before the point at which the children’s father was identified as Sgt. Humiston, and thus the ID of the children was confirmed. The backmark is H. C. Phillips & Bro., Philadelphia. Other similar pre- identification CDVs were produced by F. Gutekunst and Wenderoth & Taylor, both also of Philadelphia. In modern pencil on the reverse is “1st Ed!”.

In excellent clean condition.  [ld] [ph:L]

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