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CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN: CONFEDERATE ARTIST

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CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN: CONFEDERATE ARTIST
<b>794. (CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN: CONFEDERATE ARTIST) </b>An great 2 3/4" x 2 1/2" albumen photograph of the famous artist from the chest-up in his Confederate private's uniform. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served in the West, only to be wounded at Shiloh the following year. Following his recovery, he was transferred to 59th Virginia, but within a year sent to Charleston, where he was ordered by Gen. Beauregard to create a pictorial record of the Charleston harbor. Subsequently, he completed a series of 31 paintings of Charleston and various scenes showing Confederate soldiers. Mounted to a piece of tin card stock with a brief biography of Chapman finely penned on the verso. Some minor wrinkles and small hole in the lower right corner, else very good.<b>$300-500</b>