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Lt. Wheeler 4th Virginia Cavalry Cased 1/9th Plate Ruby Ambrotype Shown here is a very determined trooper, 2nd Lieutenant ...
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Lt. Wheeler 4th Virginia Cavalry Cased 1/9th Plate Ruby Ambrotype Shown here is a very determined trooper, 2nd Lieutenant Robert Weedon, Co. "A", 4th Virginia Cavalry. Weedon enlisted as a sergeant shortly after Virginia seceded. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on September 1, 1863 and was paroled with that rank at war's end. As part of Stuart's cavalry, the 4th Virginia saw hard service with the Army of Northern Virginia. Weedon had a horse shot out from under him in 1862 and some two years later was himself wounded. He survived, received the UDC's Southern Cross of Honor and lived until 1906. Here the subject wears a plumed Hardee hat with a non-regulation brass bugle device on its face. Eagle buttons line the front of Weedon's coat and he tightly grips his sheathed saber. What appears to be a standard Model 1851 U.S. sword belt plate peeks out from behind the sword's pommel. A few peripheral scrapes to the ambrotype's emulsion, else an excellent image with good surfaces. The case is missing its lid.Provenance: Weedon Family of Warrenton, Virginia; The Tharpe Collection of American Military History
Exhibited: The Liberty Heritage Society Museum
Auction Info
2007 June Civil War Grand Format Auction #663 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
June, 2007
24th-25th
Sunday-Monday
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