ANTHONY, NY STANDING CDV OF “GETTYSBURG HERO” CIVILIAN JOHN BURNS

ANTHONY, NY STANDING CDV OF “GETTYSBURG HERO” CIVILIAN JOHN BURNS

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Full standing image showing John Burns (September 5, 1793 – February 4, 1872) wearing a dark civilian suit with white shirt and black bowtie. On his head is his signature high crowned hat. He is posed leaning against a balustrade and cradling his musket in his left arm, while his right arm rests on his hip with his hand hooked into his vest pocket.

Photographer’s imprint on reverse reads, “PUBLISHED BY E. & H.T. ANTHONY / 501 BROADWAY NEW YORK / FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE OF BRADY’S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY”.

Image is clear and clean. Contrast is excellent. Four corners are minimally clipped for album mounting.

Burns was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a civilian citizen of Gettysburg when the battle erupted on July 1, 1863. After the preliminary skirmishing of the battle of Gettysburg began, Burns met a wounded Union soldier, borrowed his rifle and ammunition, with which he went to the front and offered his services as a volunteer to Maj. Chamberlain of the 155th Pennsylvania regiment. He was referred to the 7th Wisconsin volunteers nearby; they being sharply engaged with the enemy. The old man proved himself such a skillful sharpshooter that the colonel commanding the regiment sent him a favorite long-range rifle, which he used all day with deadly effect in the advanced line. Burns was however badly wounded in the afternoon, when the Union troops were forced back. He told a plausible story to his Confederate captors and got himself carried to his own house. His wounds were dressed by the surgeons and after a narrow escape from execution as an un-uniformed combatant, he was left when the Confederates were in turn driven back. The story of his patriotic zeal aroused the greatest interest in the northern states. He was lauded as the “Hero of Gettysburg”, and after the war, as his home was on the battlefield, became an object of curiosity of visitors.

A great addition to any Civil War Gettysburg Battle collection. [stp] [ph:L]

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