Case Antiques, Inc. Summer Auction 2017 - August 5 7/15/2017 LOT # 774
1876 Book, 42nd Ohio Infantry & Lucretia Garfield 42nd Ohio Infantry book, 1876 and Lucretia Garfield Card, two (2) items total. 1st item: THE FORTY-SECOND OHIO INFANTRY: A HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND SERVICES OF THAT REGIMENT IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Compiled and written for the Veteran's Association of the Forty Second Ohio by F. H. Mason. Cleveland: Cobb, Andrews & Co. Publishers, 1876. Green boards with gilt lettering. Frontispiece illustration of the future president, Hon. James A. Garfield, who commanded the regiment during the Civil War. Includes illustrations of various soldiers, maps, facsimile letters, and errata. Owner inscription Frederick Augustus Henry from his father Charles Henry, with the younger's bookplate and a handwritten index on front inside cover and the elder's name stamped opposite; handwritten list of references to Charles Henry's war experiences inside back cover. Tipped-in are a handwritten "Index to the war of Rebellion" and 2 small pamphlets "Roster of Survivors of the 42nd Regt. OVI" dated 1903, a memorial booklet for William Harley Williams. 306 pages. 8 5/8" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D. 2nd item: Black bordered calling card with autograph or signature of First Lady Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918). 3 7/8" H x 2 1/4" W. Condition: 1st item: Book has wear and old label residue to spine, part of front end paper is missing, inscriptions of previous owners in pen and pencil inside front cover. A few past owner notes throughout. Page 306 has become detached. 2nd item: Mrs. Garfield's signature is faded, especially on "Lucretia." 200.00 - 300.00
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3 GA Reconstruction Broadsides, inc. KKK Three (3) Georgia Reconstruction era single sided broadsides. 1st item: 1874 Anti- Ku Klux Klan broadside, published by Sarah E. Carter of Fort Valley, Georgia, originally of New Jersey, recounting the attack on her by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Montezuma, Georgia. In an account written in both the first and third person, she describes a horrific attack in which she is taken from her home, stripped of her clothes and whipped, struck in her face "so hard as to drive one of her teeth out of the upper jaw", with "pistols cocked on her". She was about to be left alone when "one of the klan
LOT # took compassion on her by helping her up to a colored man's house near by." Carter, a widow who says she sold patent medicine and "practiced medicine among her sex" to earn a living, continues, "since my whipping, one of the Ku Klux, a colored man the six whites used as a decoy, has been scared by the rest of his race to give himself up, and tell all he knows." She goes on to name her attackers, and recount her extensive (and ultimately unsuccessful) efforts at the local, state and federal level to have them arrested. When an arrest warrant was finally issued, Carter says, "instead of the dispatch being sent to Atlanta it was sent to Montezuma and for the Klan to hide out, and they have been hiding out ever since." She adds that lawyers "refused to take my case because I am a Northern woman and wish to get my rights against southern Ku Klux," and closes by asking "in the name of all that's good, if Northern citizens found in Georgia cannot get their rights, and be potected in person and property, for I learn not one in this whole State, by the State or Federal Courts, has yet been convicted of whipping, shooting, or murdering people of northern birth since the war." 13 1/2" H x 8" W. 2nd item: TO THE VOTERS OF LEE, DOUGHTERTY & WORTH. Circa 1872 Republican Broadside urging support for Hon. Joseph Armstrong, Independent Democratic Candidate for state senator. Armstrong's name surfaced after Col. Carey Styles was named the Democratic nominee. (Styles was founder of the Albany, GA News and part owner of the Atlanta Constitution Newspaper). This move infuriated Republicans, who had agreed not to contest the Senatorship "provided the Democrats selected a candidate unobjectionable to the Republicans". Allegations against Styles include that [he] is "he most objectionable man in the district" and that he "relies on the probability of the non-payment of the Poll Tax by colored people" to win. 12" H x 9" W. 3rd item: PROCEEDINGS OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF THE 10TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT HELD AT ALBANY, GEORGIA FEB. 20 1872. Republican Broadside regarding the nomination of candidate to fill a state senate vacancy of the seat of Hon. F.O. Welch. Published by the Georgia Republican Campaign Club. Concerns the above-mentioned state senate race. 11 5/8" H x 9" W. Condition: Overall good condition with edge creases, small losses, light fading, and discoloration
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