Lot 2328
Camp Winfield Officers & French Attaches Carte-De-Visite, 1862 Brady photograph taken near Yorktown, Va. on May 1, 1862, with French observers Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres & Prince de Joinville among various officers, with individuals identified on reverse, Very Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
The French attaches to General McClellan posed for several photographs just three days before the siege of Yorktown, VA, officially ended. Confederate forces, under General Joseph E. Johnston, were routed after a full month of attack by McClellan's forces. The French observers, in American uniforms, enjoyed officer's privileges as official guests of the Army.
Realized: $200