The Donald F. Moylan, M.D. Collection of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts, Part II

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Lot 245

A Civil War Oval Albumen Photograph of Michigan Cavalry Officer Horace S. Green

A Civil War Oval Albumen Photograph of Michigan Cavalry Officer Horace S. Green

Circa 1861

equestrian portrait shows sergeant of cavalry Horace S. Green (1818-1862) wearing a single-breasted frock coat, indicating company grade officer, with a Hardee hat having crossed sabers.
stamped three times H.S. Green / 3rd. Michi.gan'y / Co. B, one upper and both lower corners.
7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches.

According to the genealogical record, Horace Green was born in 1818 to New Yorkers James and Hopestill Eunice Green. The family relocated to Clinton County, Michigan, where Green worked as a farmer as a young man. He enlisted at St. Johns on August 27, 1861, as a sergeant and mustered into Co. B, 3rd Michigan Cavalry, leaving behind his second wife, Lydia, and ten children.

The regiment left Grand Rapids on November 28, 1861, for St. Louis, Missouri, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. G. Minty. Green and his cohort settled in New Madrid along the Mississippi River, where the water quality was notoriously poor. Consequently, more illness was recorded among the regiment here than at any other point during the Civil War, with a correspondingly high mortality rate. New Madrid was ultimately evacuated given these conditions, and the regiment was dispatched up the Tennessee River to the battlefield of Shiloh, where the men took part in the siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862. Unfortunately, Green had already succumbed to a water-borne illness on March 2, 1862.

Framed: 13 x 15 inches.

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Ben Fisher

Managing Director, Furniture and Decorative Arts

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Mr. Fisher rejoined the firm in 2019 after working as a specialist in the American Furniture and Folk Art department at Sotheby’s New York. His areas of expertise include 18th, 19th, and 20th century American, Continental, and English furniture, decorative and folk art. Before coming to Hindman in 2013, Mr. Fisher worked in European Furniture and Decorative Arts in Philadelphia. He began his career working for a prints dealer focusing on works from the 16th through the 20th centuries.

Leah Vogelpohl

AVP, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk, and Decorative Arts

leahvogelpohl@hindmanauctions.com 513.666.4960

Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.

The Donald F. Moylan, M.D. Collection of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts, Part II

A Civil War Oval Albumen Photograph of Michigan Cavalry Officer Horace S. Green

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