CDVs Patriot John Burns + Children of Battlefield

A CDV Photo of the elderly Gettysburg citizen turned Union patriot John L. Burns. With his printed signature at bottom. Copyrighted 1863 by Tyson Brothers, Gettysburg. 69-year-old Burns, a Gettysburg civilian and veteran of the War of 1812, picked up his old gun at the Battle of Gettysburg and fought with the Union. Wounded, he became a Northern celebrity. + A hand-colored cdv of "the Children of the Battlefield", copied from an ambrotype found on a dead Union soldier on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The children became a sensation, the picture and story published in numerous Northern papers, even in sheet music. Eventually the soldier and his children were identified: He was Sgt. Humiston of the 154th NY Vols., from Portville, NY. Condition: Very good.