Lot of 3 CDVs. Carte of smaller sailing ship identified in pencil on verso as, "Mortar Boat." Uncredited: n.d. Twelve shallow draft wooden case mate mortar boats were constructed beginning in 1861 especially for use on the Mississippi River and were employed with good effect during the siege of Vicksburg. This three masted sailing ship looks more like a small gunboat than a Mississippi mortar boat. She is lightly armed with a single small bore naval gun visible amidship behind the drop down section of bulwark. A number of sailors are visible at the bow. CDV taken at some distance of an unidentified three masted sailing frigate ostensibly pierced for 32 guns. Uncredited: n.d. If American, the ship can only be the USS John Adams as she was the only surviving 2nd rate by the time of the Civil War. The John Adams was first employed as a training ship at Newport, RI for Naval Academy midshipmen before joining the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston in 1863. She was decommissioned at Boston in September 1865 being the second oldest warship in the Navy. CDV of unidentified sailing warship flying the US ensign, inked, "Yours Fraternally/H.N. Doyle" on verso Uncredited: n.d. The name "H.N. Doyle" is not found in the Navy List. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Lots 133-162 Cowan's is pleased to offer the first contingent of an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors and Mississippi Marine Brigade images, and, significantly, many views of unique Brown Water Navy sidewheel and sternwheel warships - no two vessels looking exactly the same. Subjectively, the most appealing aspect of the Cohen Collection are the photographs of these gunboats, transports, and impressed vessels quickly converted at St. Louis, Cairo, and Cincinnati for duty on the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The gamut of improvised warships range from the earliest types of steam powered vessels first taken up by the Army to create a small timberclad flotilla, to the several purpose-built War Department Ellet rams, and later, the more numerous classes of tinclads, some converted but all built for and crewed by the Navy. A few captured Confederate vessels impressed into Union service are also present. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Image of Mortar Boat with good detail with corner of upper right albumen chipped away, else VG. Second CDV of frigate with less detail due to distance, extensive mottling and slightly rounded corners, G+. Third carte is extremely light with only rudimentary details discernible in profile. Soiled with rounded corners, about G.
Lot of 3 CDVs. Carte of smaller sailing ship identified in pencil on verso as, "Mortar Boat." Uncredited: n.d. Twelve shallow draft wooden case mate mortar boats were constructed beginning in 1861 especially for use on the Mississippi River and were employed with good effect during the siege of Vicksburg. This three masted sailing ship looks more like a small gunboat than a Mississippi mortar boat. She is lightly armed with a single small bore naval gun visible amidship behind the drop down section of bulwark. A number of sailors are visible at the bow. CDV taken at some distance of an unidentified three masted sailing frigate ostensibly pierced for 32 guns. Uncredited: n.d. If American, the ship can only be the USS John Adams as she was the only surviving 2nd rate by the time of the Civil War. The John Adams was first employed as a training ship at Newport, RI for Naval Academy midshipmen before joining the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston in 1863. She was decommissioned at Boston in September 1865 being the second oldest warship in the Navy. CDV of unidentified sailing warship flying the US ensign, inked, "Yours Fraternally/H.N. Doyle" on verso Uncredited: n.d. The name "H.N. Doyle" is not found in the Navy List. The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Lots 133-162 Cowan's is pleased to offer the first contingent of an unparalleled assembly of Brown Water Navy images archived over a lifetime of study by consummate collector Richard B. Cohen, a familiar name to many in the field of Civil War photography. To those who knew him best, Richard B. Cohen will be remembered as a "disciplined collector who maintained a relatively narrow focus having built an important, perhaps unsurpassed collection in his area of specialization." Richard was particularly well read and his historical knowledge informed his collecting as reflected by the photography that follows. The array of carte-de-visites and albumen photographs gathered here include a number of identified naval officers - both famous and obscure - along with a handful of enlisted sailors and Mississippi Marine Brigade images, and, significantly, many views of unique Brown Water Navy sidewheel and sternwheel warships - no two vessels looking exactly the same. Subjectively, the most appealing aspect of the Cohen Collection are the photographs of these gunboats, transports, and impressed vessels quickly converted at St. Louis, Cairo, and Cincinnati for duty on the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The gamut of improvised warships range from the earliest types of steam powered vessels first taken up by the Army to create a small timberclad flotilla, to the several purpose-built War Department Ellet rams, and later, the more numerous classes of tinclads, some converted but all built for and crewed by the Navy. A few captured Confederate vessels impressed into Union service are also present. It is supremely evident that Richard B. Cohen's collecting instincts were always evolving, but uniformly refined. We trust that both advanced and neophyte collectors will find something to pique interest now that the time has come to inevitably recycle these exceptional images to a new cadre of aficionados. Provenance:The Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection Condition: Image of Mortar Boat with good detail with corner of upper right albumen chipped away, else VG. Second CDV of frigate with less detail due to distance, extensive mottling and slightly rounded corners, G+. Third carte is extremely light with only rudimentary details discernible in profile. Soiled with rounded corners, about G.
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