VERY RARE ANTIQUE 1862 REBELLIOUS CIVIL WAR OFFICER UNUSUAL TRADING CARD TOBACCO

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VERY RARE ANTIQUE 1862 REBELLIOUS CIVIL WAR OFFICER UNUSUAL TRADING CARD TOBACCO:
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A VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1862 ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR OFFICER UNUSUAL CDV TRADING CARD

REBELLIOUS COLONEL NEWTON B. LORD 35TH NEW YORK INFANTRY REGIMENT, W.S.A. MARTIN, PHILADELPHIA

A very early version of a trading card! Measures approx. 4\"x2.5\". In Good- condition due to corners being clipped and light border crease on rear side; moderate soiling to front although engraving is bright and vibrant; some noticeable spotting and soiling to rear. Rare red boarder!!

Depicts a steel engraving of THE TROUBLESOME AND REBELLIOUS Colonel Newton B. York of the 35th New York Regiment Infantry with a facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Printed and sold by W in S & A Martien, Philadelphia! This card reminds meof an early T-206 Tobacco Trading Card although a bit larger.

\"These fascinating and unusualearly CDV trading cardswould have been purchased by citizens who wished to have the images of war leaders to contemplate. Pierce\'s Boston Lithography cites an 1862 advertisement selling these in Boston, and all the ranks attributed to these men date from that same year. This card is definitely 1862for that is when Lord made and held this particular rank.What is surprising is the inclusion of Confederate leaders in the group because sedition laws prohibited the printing of pictures sympathetic to the South. Perhaps objective portraits were exempt, or the works slipped by the censors. The printers were: L. Prang in Boston; Charles Magnus at 12 Frankfort St., N.Y.; Elias Dexter at 562 Broadway, N.Y. and William S. and A. Martien in Philadelphia.\"

N. B. Lord
Federal (USA)Colonel Newton B Lord (1832 - 1890)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 35th New York InfantryBefore the Antietam Campaign:
Newton B. Lord, of Jefferson County NY was a foundryman and machinist. He had formed a militia company, the Jefferson Greys, which he joined with other troops to form what became Company K of the 35th NY Volunteer Infantry, himself as Captain, in May 1861. At the organization of the Regiment he was elected Major, and mustered into Federal service for 2 years on June 11. He was promoted to Colonel in command on August 2, 1861, replacing Colonel William C Brown. He was Court-martialed in January 1862 for failure to obey orders while stationed at Binn\'s Hill near Falls Church, Virginia. He had twice refused to follow commanding General James Wadsworth\'s orders to reduce the number of his men exposed to enemy fire on a picket post on that hill. He was convicted and censured by the General, but remained in command. In the Antietam Campaign:
In command of the 35th New York Infantry, part of the Patrick\'s Brigade of the 1st Division, I Corps. His men were deployed as skirmishers at Turner\'s Gap on South Mountain, September 14th. It is not clear who actually led the men, as their Colonel was reported sick in an ambulance and not on the field. With the rest of the Brigade they advanced along the West side of the Hagerstown Pike early on the 17th in close support of BGen Gibbon\'s 4th \'Black Hat\' Brigade. The remainder of the War:
He led the Regiment at Fredericksburg in December 1862. General Patrick wrote in January 1863 \"Since Colonel Lord took command, there has been constant quarreling in this regiment, except when he was absent sick. The citizens of Jefferson County have requested of me that he be brought to trial. I may add that the Major now in command is by far the best officer in the regiment, and the only one upon whom I could rely as a commander.\"He was by then again under arrest for fraudulent expense reports, drunkeness on duty, and cowardice. These and additional charges stemming from drunken incidents in the field and in his hometown of Brownsville were dropped in February 1863 when he resigned his commission and left the Regiment. However, in June 1863 he was authorized and raised the 20th NY Cavalry Regiment, and was again commissioned Colonel and it\'s first commanding officer. He resigned that commission in March 1865, just before the end of the War, without further disciplinary action. After the War:
By 1890 he was vice-president and manager of the North and South American Construction Company, in Chile, building railroads.

A wonderful example of a very early American trading card perfect for any collection. Comes shipped in a protective hard plastic card sleeve!

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