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3 gents, drinking and smoking.
Cyrus Field with a piece of the Atlantic Cable. At right in the background is a lithograph showing the two main ships of the 1857 Atlantic cable fleet, HMS Agamemnon and USS Niagara.
“Right Bower,” the jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game of euchre except for the joker. (D)
Two of the dancers in the celebrated ‘Demon Dance’ (Pas de Demons) in the first production of The Black Crook, An Original, Grand, Romantic, Magical and Spectacular Drama, which was produced at Niblo’s Garden, NY on 12 September 1866. These are the Sisters Zuccoli (Amelie & Eugenia).
Aminidab Sleek, Sleekville. H.W. Stager? This is a character in the play “The Serious Family.” Morris Barnett created the comedy of ‘The Serious Family’ which he adapted from ‘Le Mari à la Campagne.’
Manuscript bottom recto “Nettie Bodman, Ensign.” Manuscript on verso “Ensign N. Bodman Co. G? 50th Wis. Zouaves, Fort Atkinson, Wis.” This is Jeanette “Nettie” Bodman, born in NY State in 1846. Lived in Jefferson, Wisconsin in 1860 and married in 1867 to a fellow who didn’t serve during the war.
Adam B. Dockstader. Enlisted on 8/20/1861 at Albany, NY as a Private. On 8/30/1861 he mustered into “B” Co. NY 44th Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 10/16/1862 at Fort Monroe, VA. (D)
Signed on verso “John C. Roosa 53d Co. V.R.C.” Enlisted on 9/18/1861 as a Private. On 9/18/1861 he mustered into “H” Co. PA 45th Infantry. He was transferred out on 3/15/1865. On 3/15/1865 he transferred into Veteran Reserve Corps (date and method of discharge not given). He was listed as: * Wounded 6/3/1864 Cold Harbor, VA.(D)
Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The House impeachment committee was made up of: John Bingham, George S. Boutwell, Benjamin Butler, John A. Logan, Thaddeus Stevens, James F. Wilson, and Thomas Williams. The president’s defense team was made up of Henry Stanbery, William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis, Thomas A. R. Nelson and William S. Groesbeck. On the advice of counsel, the president did not appear at the trial.