Carte-de-visite photograph of a Union Cavalryman, with autograph signature on front: “Isidore Kastner.”

Auction 85 | Thursday, November 07th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 19

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

Carte-de-visite photograph of a Union Cavalryman, with autograph signature on front: “Isidore Kastner.”

On the reverse is photographer's imprint: "Photographed by S. L. Bergstresser, Army of the Potomac;” and signed in the same hand as the front: “Your friend, I. K.”

c. 1863

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Isidore Kastner of Pennsylvania (1842-95) fought with the 13th Cavalry. He was captured in 1863 and returned to the Union Army in an exchange with the Confederates. He returned to the battlefield and was wounded twice in battles in Virginia and subsequently discharged. Roughly 10,000 American Jews fought in the Civil War, 7,000 on the Union side, and Kastner is presumed to be one of them. See Donald Altschiller, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History (2000) pp. 1070-71.