RR Auction 384 Session 2 - The Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR

SESSION 2 MARCH 22, 2012

TITANIC APRIL

2012

now accepting consignments for our special Titanic Auction!

To tell us about your items, contact Bob Eaton by phone at (603) 732-4280 or by email at Bob@rrauction.com

Session 2, The Civil War Auction Begins March 15 At 6pm on Thursday, March 22nd the one hour extended bidding period begins followed immediately by the 30 Minute Rule. All times in RRAuction guidelines and instructions are stated according to the Eastern (U.S.) time zone.

Contents Abraham Lincoln ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 8 The Union ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������29 The Confederacy ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������119 Weapons of the Civil War �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������163

Upcoming Auctions catalog 385

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Auction closes April 18, 2012 Consignor deadline March 9, 2012 Auction online March 23, 2012

Auction closes April 26, 2012 Consignor deadline March 1, 2012 Auction online April 19, 2012

Auction closes May 16, 2012 Consignor deadline March 23, 2012 Auction online April 27, 2012

Auction closes June 20, 2012 Consignor deadline April 27, 2012 Auction online May 25, 2012

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GENERAL RR AUCTION INFO R&R Auction Company, LLC, d/b/a RRAuction Licensed auctioneer: Carla Eaton, NH license #3029

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RRAUCTION’S POLICIES EXTENDED BIDDING & THE 30 MINUTE RULE

The final day of bidding for all lots is Thursday, March 22. Any bidder may bid on any lot prior to 6 pm. At that time, the Extended Bidding goes into affect. If you have not bid on a lot before 6 pm, you may not bid on that lot after 6 pm. Only those bidders who have placed bids on a lot before 6 pm will be allowed to bid on that lot after 6 pm. Hence, if you are the only bidder on a lot at 6 pm, that lot is awarded to you. During the extended bidding period, a lot will remain open only to those who bid on that lot prior to 6 pm.

All lots WITHOUT an opening bid at 6 pm will remain OPEN to ALL bidders until 7 pm or until they receive their first bid. These lots will close immediately upon receipt of a bid or at 7 pm, whichever comes first. For all lots that are active after 7 pm, bidding will remain open until 30 minutes pass without a bid being placed on THAT lot. The 30 Minute Rule is applied on a PER LOT BASIS; each lot in the auction closes individually based on bidding activity after 7 pm. On a PER LOT BASIS, the 30 minute timer will reset each time a bid is placed after 7 pm. If you are the high bidder, raising your maximum bid will NOT reset the timer. RR Auction reserves the right to close the auction at any time at its sole discretion.

POSTPONEMENT

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RETURNS

RR Auction may postpone the auction for a reasonable period of time as the result of any significant event (e.g., an Act of God, etc). In this unlikely event, bidders and consignors will be notified of the new closing date.

Every item is cataloged with the intent of accuracy. Improperly described items must be returned within three days of receipt. Please call us before returning any items. A merchandise credit will be issued in the case of a subjective, unresolvable dispute over condition.

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CONSIGNORS

Each signed item is unconditionally guaranteed genuine without time limit. If a lot is declared to be not authentic, we may ask the purchaser to supply the written opinion of one competent authority acceptable to us. We will refund the original purchase price after documentation has been submitted.

The buyer’s only remedy under this guarantee is the cancellation of the sale and the refund of the purchase price.

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alternative of dispute resolution by arbitration. Arbitration replaces the right to go to court, including the right to a jury trial.

If any dispute arises regarding payment, authenticity, grading, description, provenance, or any other matter pertaining to the auction, the bidder or a participant in the auction and/or RR Auction agree that the dispute shall go to binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial rules of the American Arbitration Association. A.A.A. arbitration shall be conducted under the provisions of the Federal Arbitration Act and in a locale mutually convenient to both parties. Where a locale cannot be agreed upon the determination shall be made by the independent ADR institution. Any claim made by a bidder must be presented within one (1) year or it is barred. The prevailing party may be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. An award granted in arbitration is enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.

MINIMUM BIDS Every item has a minimum bid (MB). No bids below this amount will be accepted.

MAXIMUM BIDS To maximize your chance of winning, we strongly encourage the use of maximum bids. For example, assume an item you want currently has a high bid of $100. Your bid would then be $110 (10% over $100), and you could tell us, “I’d like a maximum bid of $242 for that item.” We will enter your bid at $110, and we will then bid for you until the lot reaches your maximum of $242.

If competitive bids only reach $148, you would win the item at $163—10% over the highest previous bid. To prevent tie bids, all maximum bids should be made in proper increments. Maximum bids are strictly confidential. Placing arbitrary, non-incremental bids on lots with prior maximum bids may result in these lots being sold for less than 10% above the underbidder’s bid.

BID INCREMENTS Bids on an item must raise the current high bid by at least 10%.

CHECKING BIDS You can open, monitor, and/or raise bids as often as you wish.

However, all bidding is governed by the 30 Minute Rule and extended bidding. Extended bidding always goes into affect at 6 pm on the last day of the auction. At 7 pm, the extended bidding ends and the 30 Minute Rule goes into effect.

RESERVES Some lots may have a confidential reserve, below which the lot will not be sold.

CALLBACKS RRAuction offers a callback service on auction night for any bidder who has the high bid on an item whose current bid is over $1,000 and who has placed a maximum bid. At your request, we will call you if your maximum bid is topped. We will need your correct telephone number(s) where you can be reached until the auction closes. Callbacks begin after 6 pm on auction night.

You must request this service; it is not automatic. We make every effort to ensure that bidders who request a callback are contacted if outbid; however, we do not guarantee this service.

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CONDITION

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Each item in the catalog is described with a statement indicating its overall condition. The condition of the items we offer generally falls into the following range: good—very good—fine—very fine. Treated as a scale of 1 to 4, good describes an item that has as many as several flaws, which are described in detail; very fine describes an item whose condition and appearance may be regarded as flawless and superior in every respect. Most of the items we offer are in fine condition, meaning that there are no serious flaws. While we make every effort to describe flaws that materially affect appearance and value, we generally do not specify minor or routine flaws, such as (but not limited to) pencil or secretarial notations, mailing folds to letters, normal aging to paper, or tiny bends or creases from normal handling. We encourage prospective bidders to examine the image(s) of each item closely and to contact us with specific inquiries regarding condition.

GROUP LOTS In descriptions of group lots of two or more items, every effort is made to mention any obvious flaws. Bidders should note that condition for group lots is given as a general statement or range, and that specific flaws to single items within the group may be omitted in the interest of catalog space. Questions about group lots, or specific items within a group lot, should be addressed before the close of the auction to Tricia Eaton (tricia@rrauction.com).

MATTED & FRAMED Many of the items offered for sale in our monthly auctions are described as matted and/or framed. We do not remove items from frames; the given dimensions of items housed in a frame and/ or mat indicate sight size only. Photographs and other ephemera used with matted and framed items are not subject to description and condition statements, nor are they considered a reason for return. Condition refers only to the item and not the mat or frame. Our terms of return apply only to the item and not the matting and framing. Any item that is removed from the frame cannot be returned. Returns are only accepted when there is an authenticity question or the description of the item is incorrect.

ALS — Autograph Letter Signed (a letter entirely handwritten and signed by the given personality)

AQS — Autograph Quotation Signed ANS — Autograph Note Signed (a short ALS) LS — Letter Signed (a letter in a secretary’s hand, but signed by the given personality)

SP — Signed Photo DS — Document Signed FDC — First Day Cover INSCRIBED — “Personalized”

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THE RR AUCTION TEAM OF AUTHENTICATORS & CONSULTANTS BOB EATON AND BILL WHITE, RR AUCTION

AUCTION

After 30 years in business, during which time well over 1,000,000 signed items have crossed their paths, no one has had more daily exposure to autographs than Bob Eaton and Bill White. To date, RR Auction has published more than 370 consecutive monthly catalogs. Several award-winning, in-depth published studies have earned Bill a reputation as a trusted authenticator. Bob, a PSA/DNA authenticator, is well established as one of the foremost authenticators in the autograph industry.

Certificates of Authenticity

are complimentary with every lot sold.

RR Auction is committed to offering authentic autographs. This commitment is the foundation on which RR has built its reputation as a responsible, respectable auctioneer. Backing our commitment to authenticity, we are proud to offer a 100% Lifetime Money Back Guarantee on every signed item we sell. The Certificate of Authenticity that accompanies every signed item is good for the life of the piece regardless of owner.

While RR Auction is exclusively responsible for its guarantee, we are proud to work with a group of industry experts providing authentication services for autographed collectibles.

JOHN REZNIKOFF, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES John is the founder of University Archives, a leading firm specializing in the appraisal and authentication of documents and manuscripts. He is affiliated with multiple professional organizations dedicated to the autograph industry, is a contributing editor for Autograph Collector magazine, and is a PSA/DNA authenticator.

PSA/DNA

STEVE ZARELLI

PSA/DNA is the world’s leading third party autograph authentication company. Using state of the art technology, PSA/DNA created a security system to prevent counterfeiting, forgery and piracy. As the most respected service in the industry, PSA/DNA’s years of expertise and knowledge have established an impeccable reputation for providing professional, unbiased, expert opinions.

Letters of Authenticity

are available on certain lots.Priced upon request*

Letters of Authenticity are available on certain lots.

Priced from $25 to $200*

STEVE ZARELLI Steve has been collecting and closely studying space and aviation autographs for over 15 years. He has been at the forefront of identifying deceptive forgeries and his findings have been published in the definitive space collecting reference, Relics of the Space Race, as well as the UACC’s Pen & Quill magazine. Steve was also a contributor to the UACC signature study, Neil Armstrong: The Quest for His Autograph.

ROGER EPPERSON SIGNED, SEALED, AND DELIVERED/REAL Roger has an extensive background as a full-time dealer in autographs and collectibles, and is a trusted authenticator in all areas of contemporary music. When supported by the REAL logo and Roger’s name, music-related autographs assume an added value.

Letters of Authenticity are available on certain lots. Priced from $30 to $150*

FRANK CAIAZZO beatles autographs

Frank is the world’s leading authority on Beatles signed and handwritten material. Since he began his study in 1986, he has amassed the largest file of signed examples on the planet. Through decades of focused and diligent research, he has acquired great skill in identifying authentic Beatles autographs, and also has gained the insight necessary to accurately approximate the era in which they were signed.

RENATO SAGGIORI With more than 50 years in the European autograph market, Renato is considered an expert on the manuscripts of European royalty, scientists, painters, and writers. He is also considered the leading authority on papal autographs and manuscripts. His 2006 book, The Popes - Five Centuries of Signatures, is an indispensible reference tool.

BRIAN GREEN AND MARIA GREEN, BRIAN AND MARIA GREEN CIVIL WAR SIGNATURES Civil War Signatures

With more than 45 years combined experience in the field, Brian and Maria are two of the nation’s leading experts in Civil War autographs and manuscripts.

JAMES CAMNER, LA SCALA AUTOGRAPHS James is a leading classical music autograph dealer. With more than 35 years experience, he is a founding member of PADA, an authenticator for PSA/DNA, a member of the ABAA, and an author of over ten published books on related subjects.

RICH CONSOLA Rich has studied Elvis Presley’s handwriting and signature for nearly 20 years, which has placed him in the forefront of Presley authenticators worldwide. * For more information on Letters of Authenticity contact Tricia by phone at (603) 732-4280 ext. 114 or by email at Tricia@RRAuction.com

INCREASE YOUR

RESALE VALUE with RR Auction’s third-party Letter of Authenticity Program

PSA LETTERS OF AUTHENTICITY

PSA continues to be the world leader in third party authentication with a highly respected procedure for documenting and registering autographed items. It is well known that a PSA registration brings increased resale value in the autograph market.

RRAuction will fulfill the Letter of Authenticity request so that your auction item is sent to you with complete documentation. You save time; you save money; you get the PSA authentication process which includes items being tagged with their DNA-laced ink, invisible to the naked eye but verifiable through a specially calibrated laser.

Letters of Authenticity priced from $25 - $200

REAL LETTERS OF AUTHENTICITY

Full Letters of Authenticity (from REAL) are available for all lots pre-certified by Roger Epperson. Collectors of signed music memorabilia look for the REAL seal of approval when building collections of distinction.

Letters of Authenticity priced from $30 - $150

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THE CIVIL WAR america’s autograph auction www.RRAuction.com Session 1 March 14, 2012 Catalog 384

SESSION 2 MARCH 22, 2012

Session 1

February 24 - March 14

Session 2

March 15 - March 22

CATALOG 384, OUR MARCH AUCTION, WILL TAKE PLACE IN TWO PARTS Session 1, which contains our usual mix of autographed material, will run until March 14.

Session 2, which is devoted to nearly 500 Civil War items, will then run from March 15–22.

For more information regarding Session 1 and Session 2 please call 603-732-7280.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Incredible boldly signed 1863 Lincoln CDV by Alexander Gardner, arguably the greatest presidential portrait extant 1580. Abraham Lincoln. Exceptional and incredibly rare original 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait, taken by Alexander Gardner on August 9, 1863, showing Lincoln seated at a table, with a paper in one hand and his glasses in the other hand, boldly signed in the lower border in black ink, as president, “A. Lincoln.” Double cloth matted and framed to an overall size of 10.5 x 12.5. In fine condition, with a bit of scattered trivial soiling to lower border.

Originally sold by Paul Richards in 1985, the CDV is accompanied by a copy of Richards’ catalog #196, in which he states in the description “This photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner…Several different poses were taken at this time. [See Hamilton and Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs, p. 132]…We think this the finest quality Lincoln signed photograph we have handled in our twenty-five years in this business.”

Also accompanied by certificates of authenticity from University Archives and Profiles in History.

Historic in nature, this image shows the 16th president holding a copy of the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle, a pro-Lincoln news sheet, and was taken by Gardner at the photographer’s new Washington, D.C. studio. Gardner had parted company with fellow Civil War photographer Mathew Brady about a year earlier, and his session with Lincoln—which the president deemed ‘very successful’ after privately reviewing the poses at the White House—was a coup for the independent photographer in his first few months in business. Truly one of the finest signed Lincoln photos ever offered! Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $5000)

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Abraham Lincoln’s eyeglasses with superb provenance and photo identification 1582. Abraham Lincoln. A pair of eyeglasses belonging to Abra-

ham Lincoln. The photographs of Abraham Lincoln referred to below are identified by the numbers assigned to them by Lloyd Ostendorf in Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose by Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963).

The gold colored pair here offered appear to be the spectacles Lincoln is holding in his hands in a photograph made by Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., between early February and April 10, 1865 (O116D), one of a multi-image stereographic pose of four images. Charles Hamilton writes, ‘The President holds his spectacles and a pencil, both blurred…the photographer often employed an artist to retouch or add to the scene. Here Lincoln’s spectacles and pencil…are plainly outlined’ –undoubtedly using the spectacles worn by Lincoln as a model.

Present is a photocopy of an Affidavit and Deed of Gift signed in full and dated August 16, 1977 by Lincoln’s great grandson and last direct descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. In full: “I, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith of Washington, D.C., certify that among the contents of a trunk located and unopened until recently, and placed in the attic of Hildene, the estate of my grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln, Manchester, Vermont, by my grandmother Mary Harlan Lincoln (Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln), and the said contents being awarded to me by the Estate of my sister Mary Lincoln Beckwith, were found two pair of eye glasses which had belonged to my great grandfather President Abraham Lincoln, and so marked by my grandmother Mary Harlan Lincoln. I further give one pair of these eye glasses to Margaret Fristoe of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and one pair to James T. Hickey of Elkhart, Illinois.” At the time, Hickey was the Curator of the Lincoln Collection of the Illinois State Historical Library, now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

The pair given to Hickey is in the Library’s collection.

Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln, married Mary Harlan. Their daughter Jessie Lincoln married Warren Wallace Beckwith. Jessie and Warren’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, married Mrs. Margaret Fristoe (1921-2009) in 1979. Her sole heir was her daughter, Lenora Fristoe Hoverson, Robert Beckwith’s stepdaughter. Her affidavit is also present. Two pair of eyeglasses, both in the trunk at Hildene, among other artifacts, were consigned by Mrs. Hoverson to a reputable midwest entity and were purchased by University Archives.

In 1937, a locked leather box containing the contents of Lincoln’s pockets the night of his assassination in 1865 was donated by the family to the Library of Congress. Included were two pairs of spectacles and their cases. In 1977, the prescriptions for both pairs were examined by the Chief Optician for the Veteran’s Administration, with both pairs falling within the range of Lincoln’s prescription and matching the pair offered here.

President Lincoln is wearing his spectacles in the famous photograph of Lincoln and his son Tad looking through a photograph album (O-93).

This is the only known close-up photograph of Lincoln wearing spectacles.

On November 19, 2008, at Heritage Auctions, a pair of spectacles belonging to Abraham Lincoln sold for $179,250.

Accompanying the spectacles were a letter from Mary Harlan Lincoln (Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln) to Joseph Leisenring presenting him with a book owned by her late son, Abraham Lincoln II, saying, ‘You can put it away with the ‘A.L.’ spectacles which I gave you a long time ago & so have a little memento of the grand-son as well as the grand-father’ and a 1985 affidavit signed by David Rowland, Leisenring’s great-great grandson, setting out the chain of family ownership until their acquisition

by Dr. Joseph Lattimer, the consignor of the spectacles. The strength of the lenses of these spectacles was not mentioned in the description suggesting the power was never determined. Those spectacles, as were the gold colored spectacles here offered, originated from Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln.

With President Lincoln’s daughter-in-law being the source of both pairs, the major difference between the Lattimer spectacles and these gold colored spectacles is that all evidence points to these gold colored spectacles being the ones President Lincoln is holding in the photograph taken in early 1865 by Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C. (O-116D). A more detailed description is available online at rrauction. com. RRAuction COA.…(MB $10,000)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 9

A heartbreaking letter from the first lady, shattered by the loss of her son Willie— complete with its accompanying CDV of the boy…and its mailing envelope, franked by Abraham Lincoln 1583. Mary Todd Lincoln. Wife of Abraham Lincoln (1818 -1882) and first lady from 1861 to 1865. Rare war-dated ALS as first lady, signed “Mary Lincoln,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 6.25, black-bordered personal letterhead, May 5, 1862. An incredible, emotional, and historically significant letter to Charles Reeves of Cleveland, Ohio. In full: “The sad intelligence of the death of your most excellent wife had reached me two or three weeks before I received your letter, and I have been so bowed down and broken hearted myself or I should have written you to express my deep sorrow in your heavy bereavement. Where Mrs. Reeves was known, there her goodness and influence was ever felt. She was one of the pure hearted beings of this world. Who are most frequently first removed. In His own time we will know why it is.

The Hereafter will explain, many things, that are now in the dark and mysterious to us.

Our own afflictions, are so overwhelming my Husband and myself are so crushed and sorrowful, that we can well sympathize with those who mourn, our hearts can go out, towards those who weep - We know in our trials, that the heavy stroke, came from a Father’s hand, yet it is so difficult while our hearts are bleeding, to be submissive - There was no lovelier boy, than ours, and none more precious or more dearly loved yet he has been called away and we are left to our desolations and agony. Our Beloved Willie dearly loved your wife and I know she equally as much attached to him - And I fully know and believe they are this day together rejoicing in the presence of their Saviour.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have shed many many tears over the last writing of your sainted wife in memory of our darling boy, if it were not for the hope, that by serving God rightly here we may be enabled to meet them again - what would life be - As it is, there are days when I feel that I cannot struggle on much longer. Just a short time before his illness I had intended sending Mrs Reeves his photograph which did not do Willie justice - please receive this from me - If you should ever come on to W[ashington] I will show you a painting of him very much like him and far handsomer than this.

Please excuse this letter, written in much haste, and almost blotted by my tears - When we weep here, we can only remember that there ‘all tears are wiped away from their eyes.’ Sorrow never enters there.”

Accompanied by its original blackbordered mailing envelope, addressed by Mary Lincoln to “Mr. Charles Reeves, Cleveland, Ohio,” initialed by her in the lower left corner, “M. L.,” and franked in the upper right corner by the president, “A. Lincoln.”

Also accompanied by the original 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite of Willie Lincoln mentioned in the letter, identified in the lower border in pencil in an unknown hand, “Willie Lincoln.”

The letter has several old repairs to partial separations along horizontal folds and hinge, several other unrepaired clean separations, scattered toning and moderate soiling, not affecting the legibility of the text, otherwise very good condition. The envelope rates good condition, with three edge separations, some old tape repairs, paper loss to reverse, scattered toning and soiling, and some chips and tears to the edges.

Despite the physical flaws, Lincoln’s franking signature is quite bold and largely unaffected.

“My Husband and myself are so crushed and sorrowful…

There was no lovelier boy, than ours, and none more precious or more dearly loved yet he has been called away and we are left to our desolations and agony…

When we weep here, we can only remember that [in Heaven] ‘all tears are wiped away from their eyes.’

Sorrow never enters there”

Less than three months earlier, Lincoln’s third son, Willie, died at the age of 11, most likely from typhoid fever, the result of drinking contaminated water. For weeks prior to his death, his parents spent most of their time at his side. His passing devastated the family, with the president suddenly unable to perform many of his executive duties. Mary Lincoln’s overpowering grief is quite evident in this remarkable letter, crushed with tragic sadness as she tries to console Reeves on the loss of his own wife.

Aside from its deeply personal content, the presence of the letter’s included portrait of her son, of which Lincoln writes, “I had intended sending Mrs Reeves his photograph which did not do Willie justice - please receive this from me,” combined with the original envelope franked by her husband, makes this a unique and most fascinating trio of items. And although extremely sad, a finer content Mary Lincoln letter would be difficult to imagine. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

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Bronze Gorham Company Lincoln bust by Bissell 1584. Abraham Lincoln. Handsome bust of Abraham Lincoln, measuring 18” tall, 7.5” across at the shoulders, and on a 4.75 x 4.75 base. The bust presented here is one of a series of desk top versions of Bissell’s life-sized Lincoln sculpture done for the Lincoln Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland, a memorial for fallen Scottish-American Civil War soldiers. It was made by the Gorham Company of New York. On the back of the bust is etched “Geo E. Bissell” and “Copyrighted Gorham Co. Founders.” This hollow bust has a beautiful consistent bronze luster. In fine condition, with some scattered light rubbing. A handsome example with plenty of character. Bissell was originally commissioned in 1883 to make the sculpture of Lincoln for the memorial in Scotland. RRAuction COA.…(MB $1000)

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A desirable appointment of a navy surgeon

1585. Abraham Lincoln. Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 13.5 x 17, April 1, 1862. President Lincoln appoints William T. Plant “an Assistant Surgeon in the Navy.”

Signed at the conclusion by Lincoln, and countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Matted and framed to an overall size of 21.25 x 24.5. In good condition, with central horizontal tear repaired on reverse, scattered toning, soiling, and dampstaining, some lightly affecting signature, intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and Lincoln’s signature a shade or two light.

The white wafer seal is toned and worn, but intact. Lincoln naval appointments are particularly popular, and those involving surgeons decidedly more so. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

Rare naval appointment relating to arguably the most important sea battle of the nineteenth century, the clash of the Monitor and Virginia 1586. Abraham Lincoln. Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 14.5 x 17, February 21, 1863. President Lincoln appoints Adolphus Dexter “a Lieutenant in the Navy on the Active List from the 16th July 1862.” Signed at the conclusion in black ink, “Abraham Lincoln,” and countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

Uniform toning, a bit heavier to the edges from previous display, chips to vertical edges, mounting remnants to most of reverse, and a faint blue pencil mark to blank area at top, otherwise very good condition. The red seal is worn, but intact. Accompanied by a clipped signature of John Ericsson, “J. Ericsson,” the designer and builder of the Monitor.

Lincoln commissioned a seasoned veteran with his appointment of Adolphus Dexter (1840-1870). Dexter was born in Ohio and at the age of 17, was accepted to the Annapolis Naval Academy. He was appointed an acting midshipman upon graduation. In 1861, Dexter was promoted to full lieutenant and assigned to the frigate USS Minnesota, the flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. On March 8, 1862, the first day of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Minnesota ran aground. During the night, the USS Monitor arrived to defend the stranded ship. Invented by Ericsson, the Monitor was perhaps the most advanced warship of its time and was the Union response to the Confederate ironclad Virginia. The next day, the two ironclads famously clashed at Hampton Roads. After engaging the Monitor, the Virginia turned to the Minnesota, which emerged from the battle badly damaged, her crew suffering many casualties. A unique document relating to arguably the most important naval battle of the nineteenth century. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

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Lincoln endorsed legal brief 1587. Abraham Lincoln. Handwritten endorsement, signed

“Lincoln & Herndon,” at the bottom of an 8.5 x 12.5 lightly-lined one page manuscript document. Document concerns a plaintiff’s notice of application for dedimus (writ to commission individuals is written to act in place of a judge). At the conclusion Lincoln writes, “We acknowledge service of the above on this 26th day of Feb. 1858. Lincoln & Herndon for defts. who have answered.” In fine condition, with light toning along edges and horizontal folds, and slight show-through from text on reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.…(MB $500)

1588. Abraham Lincoln. Crisp ink signature, “A. Lincoln,” on an

off-white slip. Nicely double suede matted and framed with a portrait of Lincoln, to an overall size of 14.75 x 20.5. In fine condition, with a couple trivial ink flecks. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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Lincoln drafts Ohioans in 1863 to replenish the Union army 1589. Abraham Lincoln. Partly-

printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, September 5, 1863. Lincoln calls out Ohio men for military service. In full, “I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, having taken into consideration the number of volunteers and militia furnished by and from the several States, including the State of Ohio, and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencement of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers among the Districts of said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service aforesaid, do hereby assign Six Hundred and Nineteen as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the Fourteenth District of the State of Ohio under this, the first call made by me on the State of Ohio, under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled ‘An Act for Enrolling and calling out the National Forces, and for other purposes,’ and in pursuance of the act aforesaid, I order that a draft be made in the said Fourteenth District of the State of Ohio, for the number of men herein assigned to said District, and fifty percent in addition.” Some light rubbing to bottom blank area from erased notations, otherwise a choice example in fine, clean condition.

In 1863, Lincoln established a military draft to replenish the Union Army’s depleted ranks, and signed this draft requisition targeting men in the Buckeye State—specifically, a request for at 619 troops from Ohio’s 14th district as part of “the first call made by me on the State of Ohio.” The concept of conscription was controversial in the war-torn Union, with the Conscription Act requiring states to draft men to serve in the armed forces if individual states did not meet their enlistment quotas through volunteers. The federal government oversaw the draft and created provost marshals to enforce it; all white men between the ages of 20 and 45 were eligible. The Conscription Act permitted drafted men to pay a $300 fee or hire a substitute to escape service if they were drafted. More than 310,000 Ohioans would serve in the Northern army for varying lengths of time, exceeding the government’s quota by 4,332 soldiers. A controversial but necessary wartime order. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1,000)

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“Let these men take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged” 1590. Abraham Lincoln. War-dated en-

dorsement signed as president, “A. Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1865,” on lightly-lined off-white 3.25 X 1.5 slip affixed to a slightly larger sheet.

Note states, “Let these men take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged.” In fine condition, with two spots of soiling and some light show-through from writing on the reverse.

With his 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Lincoln chose to pardon those “persons heretofore engaged in said rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States,” in which he did “proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them…upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thenceforward keep and maintain said oath inviolate…” Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

1591. Abraham Lincoln. A fabulous archive. An 1860 poll book and oversized tally sheets and documents detailing campaign results from

DeWitt County, Ill., from the national election, November 6, 1860. Present are two large poll sheets approximately 16 x 27 with usual folds and minor separation, listing the “Names of Persons Voted For to be Electors of President and Vice President of the United States.” Hash marks detail actual votes cast for a range of offices including the election of Richard Yates as Governor. Together with a poll book measuring 8.5 x 13.5, partially printed and manuscript completed, usual folds, with three pages detailing that 174 citizens cast their vote. Docketed on front cover, three blank pages, usual folds. The results of these votes are then summarized on a separate, two-sided sheet, same size, being the “Abstract of Votes Given in the County of DeWitt and State of Illinois for Eleven Electors for President and Vice President of the United States.”

In very good overall condition. Without question, such a complete record of a single polling station seldom appears, particularly from 1860.

And, that these tally sheets are from Illinois is enhanced by the fact that two of their major candidates from this race came from that state: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

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Famed Gardner photograph of the Lincoln conspirators’ execution, as “down fell the trap, and swaying to and fro swung the four bodies” 1592. Lincoln Conspirators Execution. Original albumen photograph of the execution of the

Lincoln assassination conspirators, 8.75 x 6.25, by Alexander Gardner, taken in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 1865. The albumen print on paper shows the scaffold and the dangling, hooded bodies of Mary Surratt (who kept a boardinghouse where the conspirators met), George Atzerodt (charged with the attempted assassination of Vice President Johnson), David Herold (who assisted Booth on his flight from Washington) and Lewis Payne (who attempted to assassinate Secretary of War Stanton). The photo’s deckled edges are preserved at top of sheet and is cloth matted and framed to an overall size of 17.75 x 16. Scattered creases and wrinkles, a couple small tears to bottom edge, and some light silvering and curling to vertical edges, otherwise very good condition. Provenance: William E. Simon Collection of Historical Documents, Christie’s, New York, June 14, 2005.

Entitled ‘After the Drop: The Execution of the Lincoln Assassination,’ this famous photograph is one of a series of ten images, “Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators,” captured by Alexander Gardner (assisted by Timothy O’Sullivan) on July 7, 1865, representing the official record of the execution at the Washington Penitentiary. The Scottish-born photographer was the sole photographer permitted to document the execution, but the photographs were considered too graphic for public consumption and were recreated as illustrations for Harper’s Weekly.

Gardner’s biographer, Mark Katz wrote that these scenes “remain the most vivid images from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was the longest picture-story recording of an event to date, capturing a complex, significant series of events. Gardner and O’Sullivan’s execution series was a 19th-century precursor of the kind of photo-journalism that subsequently became so important” (Witness to an Era, p. 192).

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In 1861, Booth writes to Joseph Simonds, a friend he would later use as an unknowing accomplice in a failed plot to kidnap Lincoln 1593. John Wilkes Booth. A member of the well-known Booth family of Shakespearean actors and a somewhat erratic, if popular, performer. A supporter of slavery and the South, he participated in the arrest and execution of abolitionist John Brown in 1859. In the fall of 1864, he hatched a plan to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln but the scheme failed. He then concocted the plot to assassinate Lincoln, which he did in Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, before jumping to the stage and allegedly crying out, “Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!” Booth was located and killed twelve days later. War-dated ALS signed “J. Wilkes Booth,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8, November 23, 1861. Letter written from Cincinnati to Joseph H. Simonds. In full: “I know you will forgive me, this long delay in answering your letters; if you knew better you would not wonder at it, as I avail myself of any excuse to get rid of writing, no matter how I may long to hear from the person to whom I have to write. And I confess I should like to hear from you every day. I received your photograph, a thousand thanks, I think it very good, I believe you have mine. My second week in Buffalo was so, so. I played 17 nights in Detroit to a good Bus[iness]. After here Monday night, 25th, they count high on me but I am doubtful as to my success. Maggie Mitchel is playing a good engagement here.”

At this point in the letter, Booth’s handwriting begins to get a bit more jumbled. He continues: “I should have has been; as she finished last night. My dear Joe excuse this as I am standing in the office with about a hundred people about me blowing at a fearful rate. I am not fixed yet, so I cannot go to my room. Yours of the 16th also reached me, in Detroit. It seems that Forrest is always in trouble. I am sorry his bus. is not better, for it is rough to see such trash (as Barney Williams practices on the stage), get the best of the legitimate, but such is life.

Give my kindest regards to the Bugbee’s. Has Mr. B. gone to Cal. yet?

I addressed a letter to him in your care, did you get it. I will write to you more intelligibly the next time, so asking you to excuse this again.” Mild toning along two horizontal mailing folds, and a couple light brushes to text, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Booth’s hand and docketed by Simonds.

Published in Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John

Wilkes Booth, ed. J. Rhodehamel and L. Taper, pp.93-94. Provenance: The Sang Collection (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26 April 1978), lot 46 [envelope then present] -- Anonymous owner (sale, Christie’s, 9 December 1993, lot 158, $42,550).

This rare long letter, written while standing in a hotel lobby waiting for a room, gives unusual insight into the famed actor’s touring stage life.

Written to theater buff and close friend, J. H. Simonds, an ambitious Boston Bank clerk with whom Booth had interests in the Pennsylvania oil fields. The mentioned “Forrest” was the famous classical actor Edwin Forrest; his career was plagued by scandals, he had disappeared from the stage after a messy 1850s divorce, and was attempting a 1860-61 comeback. “Maggie Mitchel” was rising star Maggie Mitchell, Lincoln’s favorite actresses, who frequently acted with Booth, while “Barney Williams” was a popular Irish-born comic actor who delighted audiences as a blackface minstrel, often playing for the Union troops.

“The Bugbee’s” mentioned near the letter’s closing were a Philadelphia family, known to the Booths, that moved to Boston before settling in California; John Stevenson Bugbee was living in California at this time.

Booth opened a 10-day engagement on November 25 at Wood’s Theatre in Cincinnati, appearing in, among others, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Marble Heart (which Lincoln once saw featuring Booth). Although audiences were unimpressed and the box office disappointing, The Cincinnati Commercial declared that “Mr. Booth has caught some of the fire that animated his great father.” As his theatrical income declined during the war, Booth turned to his neglected oil investments for income which Simonds had stepped in to oversee. By 1865, Simonds had loaned the actor money, including a $500 bequest that the future assassin used to buy guns and supplies for the abortive plot to kidnap Lincoln in March 1864 (unbeknown to Simonds). After the president’s assassination, Simonds was summoned to testify about Booth’s investments during Lincoln conspirators’ trial in May 1865. A highly desirable and rare letter written to a friend that Booth later used to forward his aborted kidnap plot. The letter is also noteworthy for its very scarce 3¢ pink of 1861 (Scott 64) stamp used on the mailing envelope. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $5000)

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An urgent telegram searching for Lincoln’s assassin: “there is reason to believe, that the assassin of the President will attempt to escape disguised…Look out for a disguise in woman’s clothing” 1594. Lincoln Assassination. Manuscript telegram, transcribed in an unknown hand, sent

by “J. D. Stevenson, Brig Genl,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, Headquarters, First Brigade, Third Division, Department of West Virginia letterhead, April 24, 1865. Telegram is to Major John Townsend Daniel, regarding the search for the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln. In full: “The following Telegram has been received at these Hdqters: Harpers Ferry Va., April 23, 1865. 9:15 AM, To Colonel Cook. Notify all subordinate Commanders along line of railroad, that there is reason to believe, that the assassin of the President will attempt to escape disguised through the lines along the B.& O. R.R. Examine critically all persons who attempt to pass the lines. Look out for a disguise in woman’s clothing.” Small separations along horizontal folds, and some scattered light toning, otherwise fine condition.

The date this letter was dispatched Lincoln’s body was being viewed at the New York City Funeral, while his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was hiding at the Garrett Farm just south of Port Royal, Virginia. Booth and his accomplice, David Herold, had still eluded capture since his assassination of the President some 10 days earlier. The hope of the government was that Booth had not yet left the Washington, D.C. and greater Virginia area, and that he would soon be captured. The pursuing Union soldiers were guarding not only the area roads and bridges, but were also carefully searching the railroad lines as well as a possible route of escape for Booth. Of most interest is the fact that the authorities thought that Booth might be dressed in woman’s clothing to elude capture, such as was related to the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis! This important, historic fact has not quite made it into the modern history books regarding Booth. A truly important and superb Abraham Lincoln Assassination related letter, directly involving the efforts to capture John Wilkes Booth.

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“The body of the President is to be in New York on Monday and I would like very much to go and see him for I never saw him when alive, but I think there will be such a crowd that one would get crushed to death” 1595. Lincoln Assassination. ALS signed “Wm.

T. Clark,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8, personal letterhead, April 22, 1865. Letter to his “Grandma,” shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In part: “There was a great procession here on Wednesday, the funeral of the President, it was very large indeed the largest I heard that ever paraded in Newark; I only saw part of it however…The body of the President is to be in New York on Monday and I would like very much to go and see him for I never saw him when alive, but I think there will be such a crowd that one would get crushed to death almost just as it was at the Duke of Wellington’s funeral in London…Mr. Geo. A Keen has gone to Richmond and if he want to get home right away I fear will have some difficulty because they are so fearful the murderer of the late President may escape. They are omitting no pains in order to capture him and I am sure I hope they will for if any one ever deserved to forfeit his life he does.” In fine condition, with a uniform shade of mild toning and light show-through from writing on reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“What do you think about their toting Lincoln’s corpse around to make a show of. It seems mighty foolish for a civilized nation” 1596. Lincoln Assassination. ALS signed “Jim,” four pages, lightly-lined on

two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, April 29, 1865. Letter from James Livingston to his father, Captain Robert W. Livingston of the 118th New York. In part; “I have hardly had an opportunity to write to any one. A new Regiment, the 194th has been organizing here, and we have been paying bounties to them, have payed six companies and will pay the other four Monday and Tuesday. I suppose you have seen the last order discharging all recruits in barracks, for old Regiments, and all soldiers in Hospitals unable to join their Regiments and that will keep the mustering portion of our office busy for a while. And then the whole Army is to be discharged within the next month, which will make work for us for a month longer. I suppose your Regiment will be discharged now in a very short time. The Rebel prisoners here are to be released as fast as they can be paroled…here are two papers only published here; the Advertiser and the Gazette, representing both parties… I have not examined the Advertiser, but I believe there is not much in it of the funeral. What do you think about their toting Lincoln’s corpse around to make a show of. It seems mighty foolish for a civilized nation to me and I reckon it will be sneered at not a little by Foreign nations.” A vertical fold, small tear to bottom edge, and some scattered light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

A Washington resident writes of the YMCA plans for headquarters at Ford’s Theatre: “for that spot will ever have a memory & which Americans will cherish with feelings too deep to allow it to be again desecrated by the performance of the actor” 1597. Lincoln Assassination. ALS signed “Broward,” four pages on two adjoining

sheets, 8 x 9.75, June 19, 1865. Letter written to his father making mention of Ford’s Theater. In part: “The ‘Young Mens Christian Association’ have taken a large job upon their shoulders. They have…contracted for ‘Ford’s Theatre’ here—the place in which Lincoln was assassinated…for a grand headquarters for their religious work…truly every loyal will give something for this, for that spot will ever have a memory & which Americans will cherish with feelings too deep to allow it to be again desecrated by the performance of the actor. The last tragedy enacted within the walls of the old ‘Ford’s Theatre has taken away the ‘hope of gains from the owners.’” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered toning, heavier to last page, and some light creasing and wrinkling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“The Provost Marshall there had been notified that it was thought Booth was on the train…The doors to the cars were locked and no one was allowed to get off until a thorough search had been made” 1598. Lincoln Assassination. ALS signed “Jim,” six pages, lightly-lined on both

sides of three sheets, 4.5 x 7.25, April 27, 1865. Letter from James Livingston to his father.

In part: “The death of the President made it gloomy here for a while and for three or four different days, business was all closed…When we got to Troy on our way home, we found a terribly excited crowd at the Depot. The Provost Marshall there had been notified that it was thought Booth was on the train, and the people got wind of it…The doors to the cars were locked and no one was allowed to get off until a thorough search had been made.

I was glad I did not answer to his description I tell you, for it would have fared hard with a fellow supposed to have been him to have fallen into the hands of that crowd.” In fine condition, with a vertical fold and a mild shade of toning. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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An imperative dispatch to Hedgesville: “The President and Secretary of State were assassinated last night and doubtless the assassins will attempt to escape through the lines which must be prevented” 1599. Lincoln Assassination. ALS

signed “Col. R. E. Cook,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.5 x 9.5, April 15, 1865.

Letter to Major J. T. Daniels. In full: “You will immediately cause all your Pickets along line of Railroad to be instructed to arrest all persons attempting to pass the lines with or without passes who are not known to be trustworthy. The President and Secretary of State were assassinated last night and doubtless the assassins will attempt to escape through the lines which must be prevented if possible.” Missing lower left corner and some scattered light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition.

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The man who arrested Mary Surratt 1601. Lincoln Assassination: Henry W. Smith. War-dated

partly-printed notarized DS, signed “Henry W. Smith,” one page, 8.75 x 6.5, April 15, 1864.

Power of attorney document in which Smith and his wife are granting power of attorney to Colonel Joseph R. Smith, regarding certain of their property holdings in the State of Michigan. A verification form dated on April 18, 1865 being attached along the bottom edge. Document also bears two fifty-cent revenue stamps affixed to the left edge. Archivally repaired central horizontal fold, scattered moderate toning and soiling, as well as creasing and wrinkling, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Ford’s Theatre’s owner covers the funeral expense for a victim of the Tivoli accident 1600. John T. Ford. Handwritten endorsement,

signed “J. T. Ford,” at the bottom of a one page invoice from Coolahan & Evans, Furnishing Undertakers, 8.5 x 7, for $87.00 for “Funeral Expenses of Miss Mary McGinn,” dated July 26, 1883. A note from Wm. E. Starn of Corpus Christi is written to Ford which reads, “To Mr. Jno. T. Ford, City Hall, This bill is for the funeral of one of the victims at Tivoli. ($50).”

At the bottom Ford has written, “The City will pay $50 on account of this bill. J. T. Ford.” Intersecting folds, dampstaining to Ford’s handwriting, some scattered toning and soiling and a couple of other endorsements and ink marks, otherwise very good condition. On the night of July 25, 1883, Maryland’s worst maritime disaster claimed the lives of 63 people (34 women, 23 children, six men) when a wooden pier at the old Tivoli picnic grounds collapsed. Tivoli was an excursion resort on the Patapsco River, ten miles from Baltimore. John T. Ford had served as a Baltimore city council member and was acting Mayor of the city for two years. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1602. David Hunter. President of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Sharp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Superb half-view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery.

In fine condition, with light rippling and a pencil notation on the reverse.

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1603. Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Grant.

Two metal alloy constructed bust plaques, one featuring Abraham Lincoln and the other a likeness of U. S. Grant, each measuring approximately 6 x 8 with mounting screws on the reverse side, manufactured circa late 1800s. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

Lincoln election ferrotype 1604. Presidential Campaign of 1860. Impressive, bright and bold ferrotype made of brass with a reeded edge. The portrait of a youthful and unbearded, Abraham Lincoln appears on one side and Hannibal Hamlin on the other side. This ferrotype was created for the Presidential Campaign of 1860 and is dated at the bottom of both sides. There is a small hole at the top as always, for suspension in wearing. Both images are in choice condition with excellent sharp contrast, with just a couple of trivial small nicks and flecks due to the mass production process and some spotting to Hamlin’s image.

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1605. Cigar Box. Wooden cigar box, 9.25 x 2.75, featuring

the imprint ‘Rail Splitter’ on top of the lid, the words ‘Perfectos Cellophane’ on the front panel, and a color composite image of Abraham Lincoln on the left side panel. On the underside of the lid is an advertisement featuring the same image of Lincoln, adding the words ‘Rail Splitter’ above his likeness, with a log cabin and the White House flanking the president. Imprint on the bottom panel reads: “Factory No. 1609 1st District, State of Penn. Notice: The Manufacturers of the Cigars herein contained have complied with all the requirements of law. Every person is cautioned not to use either this box for cigars again, or the stamp thereon again, nor to remove the contents of this box without destroying said stamp under the penalties provided by law in such cases.” In very good condition, with the expected wear from age and handling, chipping to the border, and some mild staining and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

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1606. Abraham Lincoln.

Union Presidential Ticket for the November 8, 1864, election in Miami County, Ohio, 3 x 7, featuring the text, “For President, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, For Vice President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee,” and providing a list of Electors.

Scattered light toning, a few horizontal creases, and a small pin hole to the center, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

An original 3 A.M. edition of the Herald announcing Lincoln’s assassination 1608. Abraham Lincoln. An original copy of the Saturday, April 15, 1865, issue of the The New York Herald, 15.5 x 23, eight pages, announcing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. This is the 3 A.M edition of the paper, with the latest update from Edwin Stanton to General Dix in the fourth column.

Several other editions were printed during the day reporting later developments, the death of Lincoln, and the inauguration of Andrew Johnson. In fair condition, with partial separations and paper loss to central horizontal and vertical folds, small areas of paper loss and tears to edges, a mild shade of toning, and scattered light soiling. Original copies of this paper are quite elusive, as most of the issues of the April 15, 1865, issue of the Herald are in fact reprints having little or no value. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Black-bordered mourning edition of the NY Times covering the Lincoln funeral procession 1607. New York Times. Authentic, original 1865 issue of the April 24, 1865, issue of the New York Times. 8 pages, with black mourning borders. THE Obsequies: Reception of the President’s Remains in Philadelphia. Preparation for Their Reception in this City. The Official Programme. Arrangements for Viewing the Body.

The Guard of Honor and Watchers. Funeral Obsequies of the Late Abraham Lincoln President of the United States. Order of the Procession. The Ceremonies in Union Square. Funeral Honors to the Remains of President Lincoln. Committee of the Citizens of New York. Order of Ceremonies. Reception of the President’s Remains in Jersey City, N.J. The Arrangements at City Hall. Union League Club. Funeral Ceremonies of the Late President. The Arrangements in Brooklyn for Participating in the Funeral Solemnities.

Advertisements for the sale of Lincoln mourning badges and busts.

The National Bereavement. Touching Tribute by Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. Monument to President Lincoln. In fine condition, with central horizontal fold and some scattered light toning and foxing. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1609. Harper’s Weekly. Au-

thentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, April 29, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of Lincoln Assassin, John Wilkes Booth with printed autograph. Other illustrations: The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. Booth fleeing off the stage after the assassination.

Plan of the Box Occupied by President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. The Eve of War, the Dawn of Peace with views of Fort Sumter and Major Robert Anderson. Full black bordered centerfold with view of Lincoln’s coffin with soldier and sailor weeping. The siege of Mobile. Wreck of the Monitor, Milwaukee and the Osage. Landing of the Union forces below Mobile. Sherman’s army crossing Juniper Creek, and more.

In fine condition, with mild toning and rippling. Very desirable Lincoln assassination issue. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1610. Harper’s Weekly. Complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, May 18, 1865, 14 pages. 11 x 15.5. Front page illustration of President Lincoln taking the oath at his second Inauguration. Other illustrations: A visit to Fort Sumter by General Gillmore and staff; full page illustration of the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiment singing ‘March On!’; a centerfold illustration of President Lincoln’s Inauguration at the Capitol building; landing of General Potter’s and Admiral Dahlgren’s troops at Bull’s Bay, South Carolina; General Ewell’s Headquarters; and the Embarkation of exchanged Union prisoners at Aiken’s Landing. Lightly intersecting folds, light toning, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1612. Harper’s Weekly. Authentic, complete

original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, May 4, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of the House Tops in Charleston, S.C., during the Bombardment of Fort Sumter. Other illustrations: The Heroes of Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson and his Officers. Full page map showing the theatre of War in Maryland and Virginia. The Great Meeting in Union Square, N.Y. Supporting the Government. Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Massachusetts Volunteers; The Boston Regiments Embarking for Washington in the Jersey City Cars. First Blood; The 6th Massachusetts Regiment Fighting Their Way Through Baltimore, April 19, 1861. The Seventh N.Y. Regiment Marching Down Broadway to Embark for the War. Departure of Transport Steamers From New York For Washington With Volunteers. The R.R. Cuyler Sailing From New York With the 71st New York State Militia Onboard. Stevens’s Bomb Proof, Floating Battery. Recruits Drilling on Governor’s Island. Parade of U.S. Troops on Governor’s Island Before Embarkation, and more. Some scattered light toning and foxing, and a small tear to bottom edge of cover, otherwise fine condition. An interesting early war issue. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1611. Harper’s Weekly. Authentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, May 6, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of President Lincoln and his youngest son, Tad. Other illustrations: the Lincoln Deathbed Scene. President Lincoln’s Funeral Procession at Washington, D.C. Full centerfold of President Lincoln’s Funeral Service in the White House. President Lincoln’s Funeral Catafalque in the Procession at New York City. President Lincoln Lying in State at City Hall, New York City. Citizens Viewing The Body. View of Ford’s Theatre, Washington, Where Lincoln was Assassinated. View of 10th Street Opposite Ford’s Theatre. Lewis Paine Turning on Frederick Seward on the Stairway in the Seward Home in his Attempt to Assassinate Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Some light wear and toning, as well as some mild rippling, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1613.

Harper’s Weekly. Authentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, May 27, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of Lewis Payne, The Assassin. Other illustrations: President Lincoln’s Funeral Procession In Chicago, Illinois. President Lincoln’s Funeral Catafalque In The City Hall, Springfield, Ill. President Lincoln’s Funeral, Burial Service At Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill. Charge of the Ninth Corps On Fort Mahone, Va., April 3, 1865. The Fight Before Mobile, Storming Of Fort Blakely, April 9, 1865. The Gun Boat Genesee. James Bennett House Where General Johnston Surrendered To General Sherman.

Portrait of General James H. Wilson, and more. In fine condition, with light edge wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1614. Harper’s Weekly. Authentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with ornately illustrated masthead, July 22, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of Restoring the American eagle in front of the United States legation at Honolulu, Hawaii. Other illustrations: The Harvest of Death at Gettysburg [Full page. Executed from an Alexander Gardner photograph].

Portrait of General O.O. Howard [executed from an Alexander Gardner photograph]. Laying the Cornerstone of the Soldier’s Monument at Gettysburg. Two-page spread of the Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators at Washington, several of which were executed from Alexander Gardner photographs. The late residence of Lincoln Conspirator, Mary Surratt. Portraits of Lincoln Conspirators, Payne, Herold and Atzerodt. Interior view of Fort Sumter after its evacuation by the Rebels. Colonel Colyer distributing berries to the 1st New York Cavalry on the Battery. Colonel Colyer distributing fruit to Union soldiers. Dinner at the Soldier Home, Howard Street, New York, and more. In fine condition, with some scattered light toning.

Quite desirable Gettysburg and Lincoln Conspirators related issue.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

Very scarce Rockwell Young Lincoln artist proof 1616. Norman Rockwell. Scarce color lim-

during 1976. RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Rockwell law litho done in honor of Lincoln’s birthday 1617. Norman Rockwell.

Color limited edition 21 x 29 lithograph entitled ‘Law Student (Young Lawyer),’ numbered #25/200, signed in the lower border in pencil. Double matted and framed to an overall size of 26.75 x 35. In fine condition, with some dampstaining to bottom of mat. RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1615. Harper’s Weekly. Authentic, complete original issue of Harper’s Weekly illustrated newspaper with

ornately illustrated masthead, May 13, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16. Front page illustration of President Andrew Johnson. Other illustrations: Sergeant Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth. Colonel Lafayette C. Baker Planning the Capture of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold. Booth’s Capture; the Assassin Brought to Bay. Post Mortem Examination of Booth’s Body on Board the U.S. Monitor Montauk. Full double page centerfold of President Lincoln’s Funeral Procession in New York City. Removal of President Lincoln’s Body From City Hall to the Funeral Car, N.Y.C. The Confederate Ram Stonewall Leaving Lisbon Harbor, advertisement under the heading of ASSASSINATION for an Abraham Lincoln medal, and more. In fine condition, with light toning and mild edge wear. A desirable John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln Funeral issue. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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ited edition artist’s proof 19 x 34.5 lithograph entitled ‘Young Lincoln,’ signed in the lower border in thick pencil

by Rockwell. In fine condition, with some scattered light toning and foxing to borders.

Lithograph comes in its original folder. This image was created by Norman Rockwell from his original oil painting commissioned by the Lincoln Mutual Savings Bank of Spokane, Washington. The lithographs were pulled at Atelier Ettinger in New York

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1618. Abraham Lincoln.

1620. Abraham Lincoln. A

Large mourning print of Abraham Lincoln, 20.5 x 24.25, done by an unidentified maker and artist. This impressive print of Lincoln is from a drawing, with his three-quarter profile facing right. In very good condition, with light overall toning, minor edge chips and tears, and the central image itself largely unaffected. RRAuction COA.…

(MB $200)

printed 3.25 x 7.75 handbill from the 1864 presidential election, headed at the top, “Miami County, Ohio Union Presidential ticket,” listing Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Handbill also lists 21 electors for the state of Ohio. Attached by its corner tips to an 11 x 14 mat with laser copies of carte-de-visite portraits of Lincoln and Johnson.

Horizontal folds, two small holes to center, some light toning, and show-through from notation on reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“Had a visit from Franklin today, he is here to nominate Lincoln”

Lincoln plaster mourning portrait 1619. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln mourning portrait, circa 1865. This ornate, black, 3 x 3.5 embossed case, of the type normally used for tintype photographs, contains instead a white plaster profile portrait of Lincoln, set against a black background, within a gilt brass border. The white silk on the inside of the lid is inscribed, “Abraham Lincoln - Born February 12th, 1809 - Died April 15th, 1865.” In very good to fine condition, the plaster is cracked and possibly repaired in three places, a small piece of the silk lining of the lid is missing, and the lid is detached. Despite the flaws, this rare and unusual Lincoln mourning souvenir is quite attractive and desirable. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1621. Abraham Lincoln. ALS, signed “C. Loll,” one page, 5.25 x 8.25, January 6, 1864. Letter to an associate. In full: “I am in receipt of yours of the 4th from Lancaster.

I received your telegram Saturday morning and shipped the collars at once to Reading by express. The letters were already in the box when I received yours from Weisburg. I am glad to hear the mare is doing well and hope the colt continues to improve. Had a visit from Franklin today, he is here to nominate Lincoln. I enclose letter from William B. the receipt from Mr. Dierky. I continue to Remain with regards to Harry.” In very good condition, with several horizontal folds, scattered creases and wrinkles, and some scattered light soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Meeting Lincoln, Seward, and Doubleday at Lincoln’s first State of the Union address 1622. Lincoln’s State of the Union Address. Exceptional Civil War dated four-page ALS, signed “St. Clair Emerson,” 8 x 5, on colorfully patriotic Union stationery featuring a bust of General McClellan, written from Camp Barry, Washington, D.C, December 13, 1861 to “Miss Hellen Emerson” of Troopsville, Cayuga Co., New York. This important, patriotic letter reads, in part (with spelling and grammar retained): “On the day of our arrival Friday we were marched to the White House where we were introduced to Gov Seward and the President Abe Lincoln… We were reviewed by some Genreal I forgot his name and by Major Doubelday of Auburn whoe said we were the finest company he ever saw.”

In very good condition, with uniform toning, and scattered toning and soiling. Accompanied by its original envelope, postmarked “Washington, D.C.,” with the original postage stamp lacking. Truly amazing firsthand comments from a soldier actually in attendance for Lincoln’s first State of the Union address.RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1626. Abraham Lincoln. Un-

1623. Abraham Lincoln. Assortment of three carte-de-visite photographs, each measuring 2.5 x 4, including bust images of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis (engraving), and U. S. Grant, whose photo is framed by an imprinted oval overlay. In very good condition, with scattered light toning and spotting, and uniform cracking to the finish of Grant’s image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100) 1624. Abraham Lincoln. Clas-

sic unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Excellent half-view, seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken in 1864. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery.

Some light discoloration towards the top of the image, clipped corners, and a light scratch to the bottom right corner, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…................(MB $200)

signed wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Full seated view of Abraham Lincoln deeply absorbed in thought, an inkwell clearly visible on the studio table at his side as well as a complete view of his trademark top hat. Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery.

Also bears a label from agent McAllister & Brother, Philadelphia. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks. This image was taken on or about February 24, 1861, at the studio of Mathew Brady. It was the very first sitting

by Abraham Lincoln in Washington. The president elect, weary from an almost 2,000 mile train journey, and the possible outbreak of war weighing heavy in his thoughts, sat for a series of five poses which were taken by Alexander Gardner. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1625. Abraham Lincoln. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 3.5 carte-de-visite

photo. Full seated view of Abraham Lincoln deeply absorbed in thought, an inkwell clearly visible on the studio table at his side. Backmark: E. Anthony, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. Light toning, corner wear, and a trimmed bottom edge, otherwise fine condition. This image was taken on or about February 24, 1861, at the studio of Mathew Brady. It was the very first sitting

by Abraham Lincoln in Washington. The president elect, weary from an almost 2,000 mile train journey, and the possible outbreak of war weighing heavy in his thoughts, sat for a series of five poses which were taken by Alexander Gardner.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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THE UNION A Sultana Tragedy survivor writes “Thus has one sacrificed his life for the protection of the Flag and the maintenance of our country’s honor, and although he died not in battle, I trust that his memory will not be buried in oblivion as one that stood not forth in defence of Country”

1627. 102nd Ohio Infantry. War-dated ALS in pencil signed “J. S. Bevington,” three pages,on two lightly-lined adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed letterhead, March 4, 1863. Bevington writes to Jacob Durstine, in part: “Our Comp.[any] has suffered severely of late having lost 3 men by death since Feb. 22nd, and still some remain in the Hospital pretty ill…Thus has one sacrificed his life for the protection of the Flag and the maintenance of our country’s honor, and although he died not in battle, I trust that his memory will not be buried in oblivion as one that stood not forth in defence of Country…I expect that we will be moved to the front soon enough. We were falsely alarmed on the night of Feby. 27th and the entire force was in line of battle. In our Regt., 20 of Comp.[any] A were deployed as skirmishers to engage the enemy at a good distance, and not allow them to rush wildly into the jaws of death and destruction which is the 102nd O.V.I. with their Springfield Orators which can address an audience audibly at a distance of 500 yards… Feb. 22nd was celebrated in commemoration of the birth of Washington. Artillery fired a salute of 34 guns at sunrise, also at sunset…As I beheld this display of patriotism which prompted us to remember the braveness and daring of our fathers, I thought of the many who were now endeavoring to destroy the Temple of Liberty built by the illustrious Washington, and also of the many brave that were on the field and with their lives in hand attempting to shield and protect it, and while this is being done, Ah sad fact, those that should be firm and true to their country, and their arms are hurling their infamous slang and treasonable sentiments into the very heart of the Southern Confederacy, and thus giving them all the encouragement they wish for, more than this and not content those whom they once appropriately called their Brave Volunteers they now meanly stigmatize as Negro Free’ers and Spoilators, only this is done by a certain class of people called the Constitution Loving Democrats, but what I call the Tories of 1863. How can an Army Lionlike though it be, succeed in battle with an enemy on their flank, and in their rear its impossible. I am for the Union cost what it may. If it be slavery’s death, all right. If it be the violation of the Constitution violate it. If it be the extermination of the Southern Army I say Amen. The Constitution for the country and not the country for the Constitution is as Washington designed it.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds. The soldier who wrote this letter was a survivor of the Sultana Tragedy, one of the worst maritime disasters in American history. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

“After we drove the Rebels across the bridge they went just outside of the city on a hill and drew up in line to give us a turn, but they at last decided that discretion was the better part of valor and skedaddled” 1628. 10th Connecticut Infantry. War-dated ALS in pencil signed

“Benjamin,” 23 pages on six lined adjoining sheets, ranging in size from 5 x 8 to 5.25 x 8.25, dated in installments from December 24, 1862, through January 1, 1863. Benjamin Wright sends a lengthy letter to his wife, Abbie, in part: “There was not twenty letters for the company. Those that came were mailed the 19th, 20th, only two days later than my last. I finished the last just after the battle of Kinston. After we drove the Rebels across the bridge they went just outside of the city on a hill and drew up in line to give us a turn, but they at last decided that discretion was the better part of valor and skedaddled…Yesterday morning a party started to go to Kinston with a flag of truce for the bodies of Capt. Wells, Lieut. Hill & Perkins. It consisted of a company of cavalry, the Maj. of the 24th, and 6 from our Regt.

Our Chaplain, Sergt. Long, Mr. Hill, Zachariah Mead, Ike Loyd & one from Co. E. Long and Zac has got back tonight. They were not allowed to go to Kinston. They were allowed to go within about 25 miles to about 15 miles of Kinston. The Chaplain only was allowed to go on. The Rebs promised to render all the assistance they could, and would deliver the bodies at our lines. The soldiers they saw said they were sick and tired of the war. That appears to be the feelings of all their soldiers. If it was not for their officers this war would be closed up very quick.”

Scattered light creasing, toning, and soiling, and a few light tears, otherwise fine condition. A complete transcript is available online at www. rrauction.com. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“We saw a horrible sight yesterday. 250 paroled Union wounded of the 12th Indiana arrived her direct from Richmond...all but fourteen of the members went on crutches and you must see the sight to appreciate it.

One had one leg shot out, and 3 fingers off, and both legs shattered.

Another had five bullet wounds in his body. Another had seven wounds in his head and in every conceivable way were they mangled” 1629. 22nd Wisconsin Infantry. War-dated ALS signed “William C. Hodge.,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, embossed Head Quarters, 22d Reg’t Wisconsin Volunteers, Camp Dutch Garden letterhead, September 22, 1862. In a letter to his brother, Hodges writes, in part: “A government team ran away last night and killed three women.

Henry, the 2nd Wisconsin Regiment went into the fight 900 strong and could gather only fifty nine men, that is what I call fighting to kill. We saw a horrible sight yesterday. 250 paroled Union wounded of the 12th Indiana arrived her direct from Richmond…all but fourteen of the members went on crutches and you must see the sight to appreciate it.

One had one leg shot out, and 3 fingers off, and both legs shattered. Another had five bullet wounds in his body. Another had seven wounds in his head and in every conceivable way were they mangled. The Rebels robbed them of every cent of their money and The boys in the Regiment gave them money, tobacco, and many other things. They are mostly young men and some splendid looking, and although it may seem incredible to you these same men were in the highest spirits, and even laughed and joked and cussed the Rebels, many of them only wish to get well and try it again. Now what is it that can make such a large body of men cut to pieces and bandaged from head to foot, what is it that makes them in such high spirits and so cheerful unless it be the fact that their cause is a righteous one, and they are willing to suffer and endure and strength is given to them to do it.” In very good condition, with light creasing, toning, and a few mild separations along the hinge along with a repaired separation. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Hodges’ hand. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

“It looks hard to burn houses over women and children’s heads, but when anything becomes a military duty or necessity you know it is right to do it...

I am willing to suffer anything and everything in the defense of our country” 1630. 74th Indiana Infantry. War-dated ALS signed “A. J. Hull,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 11 x 17, April 10, 1863. Hull writes to his sister, in part: “The Rebels captured a train of [the] corps yesterday some four miles from here. They burned the cars and took the passengers prisoners. They also took our mail, but I didn’t have anything in the mail as good luck would have it. The enemy took our brigade Post Master. There were also many officers taken, but none from our Regiment. The news has just come in that two more trains were taken last night out beyond Nashville. I have not heard the particulars as yet, but perhaps I will get the particulars before I finish this letter. We heard heavy firing yesterday and the day before off southeast of us, but have not got the particulars as yet, only we heard that General Stedman was killed. We don’t credit the report. They have sent troops in pursuit of the Rebels that captured the train near here yesterday. We have not heard from them since they went out. We shall probably hear the result today or tomorrow. The Rebels are playing smash lately, but they will get sick of burning trains before long or I will miss my guess. They talk of burning every house within ten miles of the railroad, that is our men talk of doing it, and if our troops commence such a game as that I think the Rebels will be glad to stop burning trains. It looks hard to burn houses over women and children’s heads, but when anything becomes a military duty or necessity you know it is right to do it…I don’t know but I am getting hard hearted, but I can’t help it.

I am beginning to feel like fighting. I don’t know as I could do anything very desperate, but I could mock them that could. I am willing to suffer anything and everything in the defense of our country.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, some light toning, some ink blots and soiling to the text, and a few light areas of separation. Desperate—and determined—words, straight from the front lines of the country’s bloodiest war. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Hull’s hand. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1631.

44th Massachusetts Regiment Opera. Two pro-

grams: Il Recrutio, A Comic Opera, as originally produced by the members of the Forty-Fourth Regiment at Newbern, N.C., 15 pages, 6 x 9; and Il Recrutio, An Original Opera Produced by a Troupe of the Massachusetts 44th Regiment, in barracks, at Newbern, N.C., 8 pages, 5 x 7.75. In very good condition, with light toning, a light spot of soiling to the bottom edge, and the expected wear from handling to the first program; and two horizontal folds, scattered light creasing, a triangular area of paper loss to the right edge, and a separation along the spine of the second program.

The 44th Massachusetts Regiment was a nine month regiment.

They staged this opera in North Carolina in March of 1863, selling copies of the libretto to benefit the regiment’s charity fund. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1632. Adelbert Ames. Union general. Ames was the last general officer of the Civil War, from either side, to die, passing at 93 years of age in 1933. Clean ink signature, “General Adelbert Ames, Tewksbury, Mass, Nov. 14, ‘31,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2.5 card affixed to a slightly larger cardstock sheet. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

A Union drummer boy writes to his brother on Rebel stationery: “The pieces of our shells lay thick all over the ground & their broken and dismounted guns & the many fresh graves told more plainly than words of the sad havoc of our shells & balls” 1633. 75th New York Infantry. War-dated ALS in

pencil, signed “Silas Doolittle,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 7.5 x 9.5, July 16, 1863. Doolitte writes to his brother, in part: “When I wrote home last we were busily engaged with Port Hudson, but Port Hudson is now among the things that were…The land around here is nothing but knolls & ravines & the Confeds had fallen timber all across it, so you can judge what kind of a place we had to charge over, but our fellows did charge over it. Drove the flying ‘rebs’ into their main works. Our fellows then began throwing up rifle pits & breastworks right under their very eyes & at last got works nearly as strong as theirs & completely hemming them in from every quarter. Our batteries were then planted in rear of the infantry & began shelling the discomfited ‘rebs’…

They would sometimes in the night get a big gun in ‘posish’ & we were awakened in the morning with that peculiar ugly rattle of a charge of grape & canister, but a company of the 21st Ind. with a rifled Parrot gun would dismount it in from one to three shots…the 75th took the right of Gen. Augur’s Division & was one of the first to enter the Rebel works. The pieces of our shells lay thick all over the ground & their broken and dismounted guns & the many fresh graves told more plainly than words of the sad havoc of our shells & balls…We are now at Donaldsonville waiting for troops to get in the rear and then attack them & thus effectually clear Louisiana…This sheet of paper I found in an old trunk in one of the Rebel batteries…” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a small tape repair to one of the folds, light creasing and toning, expected wear, and a small area of paper loss to the top left corner. The second battle at Donaldsonville was ignited on June 28, 1863, when Confederate forces sought to regain the town from the Union occupation. Striking in the middle of the night, the Confederates were not aware of a ditch too wide for passage; this nature obstacle would help secure the Union stronghold upon that point in Mississippi, an area the Confederates would unsuccessfully try to regain throughout the remainder of the war. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Friday there was one private belonging to the 5th Michigan Regiment shot here for desertion. It seems pretty bad to have anything of that kind occur. When he was brought out & placed on his coffin to be shot he came out laughing and said that he was willing to die & wanted the boys to shoot him well so that he might not suffer any pain.

There was six guns fired at him, one of them was loaded with a blank cartridge so that none of them knew which fired the shots” 1634. 7th Massachusetts Infantry. ALS signed “Charlie,”

four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, August 15, 1863. Private Charles T. Williams writes to his mother, in part: “Friday there was one private belonging to the 5th Michigan Regiment shot here for desertion. It seems pretty bad to have anything of that kind occur. When he was brought out & placed on his coffin to be shot he came out laughing and said that he was willing to die & wanted the boys to shoot him well so that he might not suffer any pain. There was six guns fired at him, one of them was loaded with a blank cartridge so that none of them knew which fired the shots….Gen. Bartlett has taken command of his brigade again….We expected everyday now when we shall hear that Charleston has fallen & then I think we will settle this thing up for that was the first place to commence on, and what is first shall be last, and so I think this fall we will settle this thing up.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing and toning, and some light brushing to the first letter of the signature. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Williams’ hand. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1636. Robert Anderson.

1635. Robert Anderson. Union general (1805–1871). Anderson command the three United States forts; Castle Pickney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter, in the face of South Carolina’s imminent secession.

Anderson refused a formal demand for his surrender and in the early morning hours of April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was bombarded, and the Civil War began. War-dated ink signature, “Robert Anderson, Br. Genl. U. S. A., New York, Apl. 22, 1864,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2.5 card.

In fine condition, with some light toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4.25 carte-devisite photo. Full standing view of Anderson wearing a double breasted frock coat with shoulder straps. His kepi with artillery insignia is clearly visible sitting on the studio column at his side.

Nice period ink inscription on the front mount in another hand, “Maj. Robt. Anderson, born Soldiers Retreat, Ky., near Louisville, June 14, 1805.” No backmark. In fine condition, with a trivial impression towards the top left corner. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

Astor signed CDV 1637. John Jacob Astor. Union colonel

(1822–1890). Wealthiest member of the Astor family in his generation. he served as an aidede-camp on the staff of General General George B. McClellan. Rare wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed in the bottom border in ink, “J.J. Astor, Col. & A.D.C.” Bust view in uniform with rank of colonel. Brady, Washington imprint on the front mount. In fine condition, with scattered light toning and spotting. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1639. Romeyn B. Ayres. Union general

(1825–1888). He commanded a battery at 1st Bull Run and served with the Army of the Potomac until Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Superb quality half-view in uniform with rank of brigadier general, his 5th corps badge pinned to his coat. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with slight discoloration along the top edge and pencil notations on the reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

In an 1863 recommendation, Ayres sings the praises of Captain Joseph M. Locke, citing him as a “Colonel who would look after all their wants, and in kindness teach them their duties” 1638. Romeyn B. Ayres. War-dated ALS

signed “R. B. Ayres, Brig.

Genl. Comdg.,” one page both sides, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, December 30, 1863.

General Ayres writes a recommendation from Headquarters of the 2nd Division, 5th Corps, for Captain Joseph M. Locke, in full: ”I take pleasure in alluding to the services of Captain Joseph M. Locke, 14th U. S. Infantry. He was for sometime previous to and while I commanded the…Brigade of this division (regulars) the Spt. Adjt. Genl—one of the most important positions in a command; and when I look at the able officers from whom my predecesor [sic] had means of selecting, I can say that he paid a high compliment to Capt. Locke’s ability and soldierly qualities in selecting him for that post. I found Capt. Locke possessed of high integrity, industrious and kind to all, while attentive to his duties. A regiment would find in him a Colonel who would look after all their wants, and in kindness teach them their duties.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a uniform shade of toning with a darker block to the top right corner, two mild areas of foxing, and an area of separation along the hinge. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1640. Conrad Baker. Two war-dated handwritten letters written

by Colonel Conrad Baker of Helena, Arkansas, in the field. Baker was the post Civil War Governor of Indiana. ALS, four sides of two adjoining pages, July 14, 1862, to his wife; and a partial autograph Letter to his brother, missing the last page, four pages on two adjoining sheets, August 16, 1862. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, partial hinge separations, and scattered toning and soiling.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1641. Battery No. 1 York River. Unsigned wet

plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-devisite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 365. South-West View of Battery, No. 1. At Farnhold’s House, York River, mounting 5- 100 pound, and 1- 200 pound rifled guns. In fine condition, with light toning and two small dings. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1642. Battle of Gettysburg. Original

21 x 13 photogravure print on cloth of The Battle of Gettysburg, by Elliott of North Philadelphia, from the iconic painting by P. F. Rothermel. Image depicts the brutal confrontation between Union and Confederate troops engaging in close combat at Gettysburg. Matted and framed to an overall size of 29 x 21.5. Print has been professionally restored. In fair condition, with professional restoration, including areas of paper replacement and restoration, scattered creases and surface marks, and scattered toning and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

1643. Battery No . 4 Yo rktown. Unsigned

wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 cartede-visite photo.

1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount.

Photographic label on the reverse, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 380.

Battery No. 4, near Yorktown. Mounting 10, 13 inch mortars, each weighing 20,000 pounds. East-South End. In fine condition, with light toning and a few trivial areas of soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Complete four-volume collection honoring the legendary icons and conflicts of the Civil War 1644. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Four hardcover vol-

umes of Battles and Leaders of the Civilian War, The Century Company, De Vinne Press, New York, published 1884–1889.

In very good condition, with light toning, loose, but intact hinges, and the expected wear to the covers and spines. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

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1645. Henry W. Benham. Union general (1813–1884) who led

the engineer brigade at the Army of the Potomac. War-dated ALS signed “H. W. Benham,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed letterhead, August 3, 1861. Benham writes to the Honorable A. Gould from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in part: “Will you please inform me as early as convenient of the state your suits at Lyons so that I can make my report to the Probate Judge at Saginaw as I have to do by the 20th Inst. I have been with the army for the last three months and have not been able to bring up my papers as I would desire to nor has Judge Potter prepared and proposed to me a plan of division of the remainder of the real estate as he had promised me to do long ago, so we have not been able to close the proceedings as yet.”

Intersecting folds, light toning, and a few trivial tears to the top and bottom edges, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1646. Hiram Berdan.

Union general (1823– 1893). A mechanical engineer in New York City when the war started, he had been the top rifle shot in the country for 15 years prior to the Civil War. Before the war he had invented a repeating rifle and a patented musket ball. Later he developed a twin screw submarine gunboat, a torpedo boat for evading torpedo nets, a long distance range finder and a distance fuze for shrapnel. He is very closely identified with the famous “Berdan’s U.S. Sharpshooters,” becoming their colonel in 1861. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Standing view wearing kepi with hat wreath insignia, double breasted frock coat with shoulder straps and rank of full colonel, sash, gauntlets, and holding his sword.

Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light toning and some trivial soiling to the right edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

1648. David B. Birney. Union general

(1825–1864). Colonel of the 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. He fought as a division commander of General Sickles 3rd Corps at Gettysburg, and took command of the corps after Sickles was seriously wounded.

He also served with distinction with the Army of the Potomac in the 1864 Overland campaign; he was stricken with malaria and died on Octobert 18, 1864. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Superb quality standing view in uniform with rank of major general, with his Kearny medal pinned to his coat, and holding his slouch hat.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling and some trivial silvering to the darker areas of the image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1647. Hiram G. Berry. Union general

(1824–1863). Colonel of the 4th Maine Infantry.

He saw action at First Bull Run, and was later in brigade command during the Peninsular campaign. He commanded a brigade of the 3rd Corps in the Battle of Fredericksburg, and led General Hooker’s old division into the battle of Chancellorsville. In the confused fighting which occurred in the early morning hours of May 3, 1863, while the Federals attempted to regroup after Stonewall Jackson’s celebrated flank attack of the previous day, Berry was killed at the head of his command.Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Standing view in uniform with the rank of brigadier general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling to the left and right edges.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

1649. Boston Peace Jubilee. Vintage John P. Soule photo of the 1869 Boston Peace Jubilee at the Coliseum in St. James Park, Boston, Mass, two identical 3 x 3 aerial images affixed to an orange 6.75 x 3.25 cardstock John P. Soule mount. Mild to moderate spotting and surface marks, otherwise fine condition. These images present a Stereoview overview of the Coliseum and Midway Grounds in St. James Park, the location of the The National Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the “Restoration of Peace” after the Civil War, organized by Patrick Gilmore in Boston, 1869. It featured an enormous orchestra and a chorus, as well as numerous soloists. In total, more than 11,000 performers participated, including the famous violinist, Ole Bull, as the orchestra’s concert director. The Jubilee became the “high-water mark in the influence of the band in American life”; along with the World Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival in 1872, it made Gilmore a famous composer and bandmaster. The Coliseum shown in the present image was built especially for this enormous musical event. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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1650. Thomas Bowen. Union colonel

and United States Senator from Colorado (1835–1906). Partial self-contained DS signed “Thos. M. Bowen,” on an off-white 3.75 x 8 sheet clipped from larger certificate confirming a return of 100 shares on October 28, 1875. In fine condition, with a tear to the left edge, a strip of adhesive remnant to the top right corner, and trimmed edges.

Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1652. Francis E. Brownell. Union lieutenant

(1840–1894). Member of Co. A, 11th New York Infantry. On May 24, 1861, Union troops in Alexandria, Virginia took exception to a Confederate flag that flew on the roof of the Marshall House hotel, which was visible to President Lincoln from the White House.

Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, leading a squad of his 11th New York Fire Zouaves, decided to pull the flag down.

Having removed it, Ellsworth was shot dead as he started down the stairs from the roof by the hotel’s owner James T. Jackson. He was the first martyr of the Civil War. Brownell avenged the death of Colonel Ellsworth by shooting and killing James T. Jackson on the spot at the Marshall House hotel. Brownell was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for this action. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Superb seated view in uniform with rank of 1st lieutenant, clad in a kepi with infantry insignia and the regimental numerals “11” clearly visible, and two medals pinned to his frock coat. His sash is also clearly seen as he poses cradling his sword. Backmark: D. Woodworth, Albany, N.Y. Light wear, toning, and rubbing, otherwise fine condition.RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1653. John Buford.

Oversized Gardner portrait of the fabled abolitionist 1651. John Brown. Rare large photo of radical abolitionist John

Brown, by Alex. Gardner, Washington, D.C. Oversized sepia-toned image on an oval sheet, 10.5 x 14, and affixed to its original photographer’s mount with gilt border, for an overall size of 14 x 17.25.

Features a calligraphic inscription in black ink and gold leaf at the bottom: “John Brown, Hero of [Ossawolamie and Harpers Ferry] ‘His Soul Goes Marching On.’” In good to very good condition, with the vignette image of Brown being slightly faded, and toned and soiled below his white beard; portions of the inscription very faded (or perhaps not originally completed) dampstaining along the matboard margins; chipping along the bottom edge, but not affecting the image in the least. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Union general (1826– 1863). In the Second Bull Run campaign, Buford was so badly wounded that he was reported dead. During the Antietam campaign, he acted as chief of cavalry of the Army of the Potomac under McClellan, and at Fredericksburg under Burnside. On July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, it was Buford’s troopers that fired the first shots of the battle. Buford was stricken with typhoid fever during the Rappahannock campaign and died in Washington on December 16, 1863. His commission of major general was presented to him on his deathbed.

Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Superb quality half-view in uniform with rank of brigadier general.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“I am in no way identified either by interest or prejudice in any of the routes, but am guided in my actions by a desire to protect the interests and integrity of our country” 1657. Ambrose E. Burnside. Union gen-

1654. Bull Run Battlefield. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 310. Stone Bridge, Bull Run. Where General Tyler’s column engaged the enemy, and where, after the retreat became general, the passage being blocked, immense havoc was made on the Union troops by Confederate artillery. It was destroyed by the Confederates when they retreated from Centreville. In fine condition, with light toning and a slight tear to the top left corner. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1655. Ambrose E. Burnside and Nathaniel P. Banks. Two

items: Partly printed DS, signed “A. E. Burnside,” one page, both sides, 10.5 x 6, July 26, 1869. Certificate for 500 shares of stock in the Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad Company, issued to George W. Farlee, and signed at the bottom by Burnside as the company’s president; and a free franked mailing envelope, 5.5 x 3, addressed in another hand to “Oliver H. Brooks, Esquire, Dalton, Coos County, N.H.,” and franked in the upper right, “NP Banks Free.” Envelope bears a Washington, D.C. postmark, and retains most of the red wax House of Reps seal on reverse. Intersecting folds, cancellation holes, and a revenue stamp to certificate, and some light soiling to envelope, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

eral and onetime commander of the Army of the Potomac (1824–1881); the distinctive whiskers he sported gave rise to the word ‘sideburns.’

ALS signed “A. E. Burnside,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, United States Senate Chamber, Washington letterhead, June 26, 1879. General Burnside writes to the Honorary Simon Stevens of New York, in part: “I am in no way identified either by interest or prejudice in any of the routes, but am guided in my actions by a desire to protect the interests and integrity of our country.” Two horizontal mailing folds, one of which lightly grazes the signature, a few trivial stray marks, and pencil notations to the top edge, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1658. Ambrose E. Burnside. Unsigned

wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo.

Outdoor view of General Ambrose E. Burnside seated on a tree stump in the center of this view, holding a document. He is surrounded by numerous members of his staff posing in front of a large tent. Brady, New York imprint on the front mount. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, DC. In fine condition, with a horizontal crease passing through the image and two light mounting remnants on the reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

Burnside promotes German emigration to the Colorado Territory 1656. Ambrose E. Burnside. Handsome DS, signed

“A. E. Burnside,” one page both sides, 15.75 x 13, July 15, 1870. Engraved first mortgage bond in the value of $1000 issued by the United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company, signed on the reverse docketing area by Burnside as a trustee. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a Holland revenue stamp, mild overall toning, pencil notations, and scattered creases and wrinkles. The United States Freehold Land and Emigration Company promoted emigration, particularly from Holland and Germany, to the 500,000 acre Costilla Estate in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Territory. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1659. Benjamin Butler. American military

officer, lawyer, and politician (1818–1893) whose strict administration of New Orleans following the Union occupation in 1862 made him one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. His mismanagement as a general ultimately led to his resignation in 1865, which was followed by a long career in Congress. Partly-printed DS, signed “Benj. F. Butler,” one page, 11.5 x 8.5, March 23, 1891. Engraved certificate for three shares of stock in the Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Co. issued to George W. Patterson, signed at the bottom by Butler as president.

Several vertical folds, expected stamps, and mild toning and handling wear, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $150)

1660. Daniel Butterfield. Union general

(1831–1901) who saw action at Bull Run, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, as well as nearly all the engagements of the Peninsula Campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea. He is generally credited as the composer of the bugle call ‘Taps.’ LS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, embossed Inman Lines letterhead, July 30, 1889. Letter, written “at sea” to Mr. Bartlett. In part: “If decision not yet made send on cipher I gave you so you can telegraph us when it does come—I kept no copy—It may do to write—Please notify Mr. Framer upstairs…that you are under instructions from your client Mrs. Butterfield to carry out purchase of land in accordance with Mrs. B. proposal.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, small separation along vertical fold, a bit of light soiling, and uniform toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1661. Daniel Butterfield. ALS signed “But-

terfield,” one page, 5 x 7, no date. Butterfield pens a quick letter from 60 Fifth Ave asking to “Please return one copy of” and inscription, “I failed to keep it.” In fine condition, with some mild toning and light show-through from mounting remnants on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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1662. Daniel Butterfield. Union

general and Medal of Honor recipient (1831–1901). Butterfield saw service at Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg; he later became the chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac under Generals’ Hooker and Meade, and was severely wounded at Gettysburg. One of his most noteworthy claims to fame was the bugle call “Taps,” which he composed at Harrison’s Landing in 1862. Uncommon and crisp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Half-view in uniform with rank of colonel, wearing his kepi with hat wreath and regimental numeral “12” and over the shoulder sash with shield affixed. Backmark: E. Anthony, New York. In fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1663. John C. Caldwell and Staff. Union general (1833–1912).

General Caldwell was one of eight general officers assigned as an honor guard to the body of President Abraham Lincoln during the funeral procession from Washington to Springfield. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.25 carte-de-visite photo. Outdoor view of General Caldwell seated at the center of the view posing in front of his tent with one leg raised, holding onto his knee, clad in a kepi and fatigue coat with brigadier general’s shoulder strap. He is flanked by members of his staff, one seated on each side of him, two standing behind. The officer standing at left, posing with his arms folded across his chest, is future general and Medal of Honor recipient Nelson A. Miles, at the time a 1st lieutenant on Caldwell’s staff. Backmark: Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 441. General Caldwell and Staff, At Fair Oaks, June 1862. In fine condition, with trimmed edges. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1664. Edward Canby. Union general

(1817–1873). Canby was assassinated during a peace talk with the Modoc tribe of Northern Carolina during the Indian Wars, making him the only US general casualty during that period. Wardated ALS signed “Edw. Canby,” one lined page, 5 x 8, inlaid to a 7.5 x 10.5 sheet, August 22, 1864.

Canby inquires after legal standings, in part: “Are there any charges against Mr. Thomas… of 238 Court Street, N. O. If there are will you please let me know their nature.” A horizontal crease lightly affecting one letter of the signature, light creasing, some scattered soiling, and a few stray marks and pencil notations, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1666. Jack Casement. Union general and brigade commander and railroad contractor (1829–1909). Casement served as a director during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Toledo, Canada Southern and Detroit Railway Company stock certificate for 100 shares, #244, 12.5 x 7.5, signed at the conclusion as president, “J. S. Casement.” In very good condition, with light creasing and toning, and several circular cancellation cuts towards the bottom left corner and through the signature. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Approval of furlough granted with the stern warning, “or be considered a deserter” 1665. Silas Casey and Francis Fessenden. Casey (1807– 1882) was a Union general who bore the brunt of the Confederate attack by General A. P. Hill’s troops at the battle of Seven Pines, giving way to the phrase, “Casey’s Redoubt.” He later commanded a brigade in the Washington defenses and served as president of a board to examine candidates for officers of Negro Troops. He was also the author of Infantry Tactics, a volume which was adopted by the government in 1862; and Francis Fessendon (1839–1907), son of President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury, William P. Fessenden, was a Union general who directed a charge at Monett’s Ferry which saved the retreating Union forces. After suffering a severe wound at Cane River Crossing on April 23, 1864, his right leg was amputated. He would go on to serve as a member of the military commission, and was assistant commander of the bureau of refugee’s, freedmen, and abandoned lands. Partly-printed war-dated endorsements, signed on the reverse “Silas Casey, Maj. Genl. Vols.,” adding “Approved and Respectfully forwarded,” and “Francis Fessenden, Col. Comdg. 1st Brigadier, Caseys Div.,” one page, 8 x 10, March 21, 1863. Document granting a furlough to Private Archibald Downs, Co. I. 27th Maine infantry. Furlough is granted for the period of March 21, 1863 through March 31, 1863, “at which period Downs will rejoin his Regiment at Camp Gen. Casey, Virginia, or wherever it may be, or be considered a deserter.” Docketed on the reverse by Casey, Fessenden, and Colonel M. F. Wentworth, and also bearing the large, bold signature of General Drake De Kay. In very good condition, with scattered light toning, partial areas of separation at the end of both horizontal folds, moderate show-through from writing on the reverse, some scattered ink marks, and a purple ink notation below the docketing. A highlydesirable document bearing a solid gathering of prominent wartime signatures, Downs did desert the 27th Maine; incidentally, this unit never once engaged in combat throughout the entire course of the war. In fact, “there were a total of 949 men listed on the muster rolls for the 27th Maine. During their service, the regiment lost nineteen men by disease and one was killed by the accidental discharge of his musket.” Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1667. Casey’s Infantry Tactics. Three volume set of Casey’s Infantry Tactics, all measuring approximately 3.5 x 5, published in 1862 and 1863 by D. Van Nostrand, two bearing presentation signatures, “Comp of Capt. Geo. A. Wilbur to…E.R. Allen.” In good to very good condition, with scattered toning, foxing, and soiling to pages, expected wear to covers, sunning to spines, and some light bowing from moisture exposure. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1668. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

Maine-born Union major general (1828–1914) who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg. He later served as Governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. J. B. Brown & Sons bank check, 6.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Chamberlain, “Joshua L. Chamberlain,” payable to James H. Orr for $100.00, April 22, 1882.

In very good condition, with a few vertical folds, light creasing and toning, a two-cent revenue stamp affixed to the top left corner, and a few staple marks to the center, one of which affect the signature, and the writing of signature a bit light, but completely legible. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Chickering signed CDV 1670. Thomas E. Chickering. Union colonel (1824–1871).

Chickering served with the 41st Massachusetts Infantry. Scarce wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed and inscribed on the reverse in ink, “To my friend, Henry A. McGluman, Compts. of T.E. Chickering, Col. 41st Regt., M. V.” Half-view pose, wearing double breasted frock coat, with eagle belt plate, taken while colonel of the 41st Mass. Inf. Imprint on the front mount, Col. Thos. E. Chickering, 41st Regiment, M.V. Backmark: Silsbee, Case & Co., Boston. Light toning and spotting, light silvering to some of the darker areas of the image, and a mild strip of toning lightly affecting the signature, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1669. Chaplain’s Bible. The New Testa-

ment of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

New York, 1862. Hardcover, 3 x 4.5, 479 pages. Front pastedown bears a presentation from the New York Bible Society, and is signed in pencil on an opening page, “John Cotton Linn, Chaplain 22d Rgt, N.G.S.N.Y, June 1st, 1862.” In good to very good condition, with toning and dampstaining to inside pages and back pastedown, loose but intact hinges, and some scattered light cover wear and rodent damage to back cover.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1671. Civil War. DS, one page, 17.75 x 13.75, July 4, 1868.

Original State of Maine testimonial document, awarded to Charles Oliver Hunt, an officer in the 5th Maine Battery. Features a patriotic motif of Civil War battle scenes and oval vignettes of General Joshua Chamberlain, Admiral David Farragut, and General U.S. Grant. Bold facsimile signature of Joshua Chamberlain appears at the conclusion.

Framed to an overall size of 19.5 x 15.5. In very good condition, with scattered toning and a few mild areas of soiling, dampstaining, and moderate paper loss along the edges. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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1672. Cigar Box. Wooden cigar box, 8.5 x 5, featuring the imprint ‘Blue Coat’ on the top lid, the word ‘Perfecto’ on the front panel, and an image of a soldier with the title ‘Blue Coat’ to the right side panel. On the underside of the lid is an advertisement featuring the same blue-coated solider, and the print, “2 for 5 cents, A Lebanon Valley Product.” Imprint on the bottom panel reads: “Factory No. 36 1st Dist. of Pa. 100.” The expected wear from age and handling, chipping to the adhesive border, some wood loss to the top lid, spotting, staining, and soiling, otherwise very good condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1673. Civil War. Archive of 13 letters, manuscripts, and documents.

All but two are letters to or about Lieutenant Charles H. Gesner; two are to Lieut. Col. Nelson A. Gesner, Charles’ brother. Thomas W. Egan (1836-1887) was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. The 40th was known as the Mozart Regiment because it was sponsored by the Democratic Party’s Mozart Hall Committee. He led the regiment at the Battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Wilderness. He was wounded at Gettysburg and had two horses shot under him. Five documents in the archive are official contemporary copies. After being wounded at Petersburg in June 1864, Egan was promoted to Brigadier General, being personally handed his commission by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

Items include: ALS signed, “T.W. Egan” as Colonel, 40th New York Volunteers, two pages, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters 40th N.Y.S.V., Near Falmouth, Va., January 3, 1863. He had addressed it to “Major General Thos. Hillhouse,, Adjutant General State of New York,” but before it was sent, Egan found out that when New York Gov. Edwin D. Morgan’s term ended on December 31, 1862, three days earlier, so did Hillhouse’s.

Egan crossed out Hillhouse’s name, marked “(Copy)” at the head of the first page, rewrote the letter and sent it. Egan requests new Governor Horatio Seymour reappoint Lieutenant Charles H. Gesner who was “severely wounded” but “rejoined his regiment just soon enough to enter the battles of Hay Market, Bull Run 2d, and Chantilly.”

ALS signed, “T.W. Egan” one page, both sides, 8 x 9.75, February 6, 1864. To Col. J.B. Fry, Provost Marshal General, “an appointment in the Invalid Corps…He was very severely wounded at Fair Oaks, rejoining his regiment at Harrison’s Landing just before the evacuation. He was again wounded–more severely than before–at Bull Run or Manassas Plain. From this wound he has never recovered.”

A contemporary copy of a letter from Jacob A. Covington, one page, 7.75 x 9.75. Headquarters 40th N.Y.S.V., 40th N.Y. Volunteers, Camp near Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 23d, 1862. In full “Having experienced a radical change in my feeling toward the South, and the efforts that they are now making for their freedom, I no longer wish to bear arms against them, but wish to remain strictly neutral. According I most respectfully beg leave to resign my commission as Second Lieutenant in the 40th Regiment New York Volunteers.” In very good overall condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1674. Civil War. Stunning

collection of 56 unaddressed Civil War patriotic covers, featuring varying color cachets honoring dignitaries, ladies, flags, cannons, regiment insignia, and more. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing, toning, and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1675. Civilians. Civil War-era

tintype, circa 1860, with oval image measuring 3.75 x 2.25, showing a group of five men posed with the American flag held at center, supported by one of the subject’s rifle.

Housed in a brass filigree detailed mat and case measuring 3.25 x 3, and missing its face side lid. In very good condition, with a few creases to image and light wear to case.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

The youngest soldier pens two signatures to one month’s worth of pay 1677. Johnny Clem. Grant’s Drummer Boy, known as ‘Johnny Shiloh.’ The youngest soldier in the Union Army, the youngest soldier ever to serve as sergeant in the US Army, and the last Civil War veteran to remain on the army’s active list. Partly-printed DS, signed once at the top, “Jno. L. Clem 24th Inf.,” and again at the conclusion, “Jno. L. Clem, 2d Lt. 24th Inf.,” one page, 11 x 8.5, June 9, 1874. Pay order to “2nd Lt. Jno. L. Clem 24˝ Inf.” for one month’s worth of pay from April 1st through April 30th, 1874, for a total of $116.67. Two vertical folds, scattered light creasing, and light toning, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

A soldier’s sighting of the Monitor, “the vessel that wipped the Rebel Merrimac” 1676. Jonathan Clayton. War-dated ALS signed “Brother Jona-

than Clayton,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, April 6, 1862. Clayton, a member of the 104th Pennsylvania Volunteers, first brigade, ‘Casey’s Division,” writes to his brother. In part (with grammar and spelling retained): ‘When I wrote the other I forgot to tell you about seeing the Monitor, the vessel that wipped the Rebel Merrimac, which sunk two of our vessels, some time back. All that you can see of her above water is a concern in the shape of a chease box, about ten or twelve feet in Diameter, which her guns works in, there was one man standing on her with a glass who appeared to be watching the mouth of the James River.” In fine condition, with some mild light toning and soiling. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.

RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1678. Schuyler Colfax. Congressman,

Speaker of the House, and Vice President under U. S. Grant (1823– 1885). Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2 3/8 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Half-view pose. Period ink inscription in another hand on the front mount, “Schuyler Colfax, Vice President.” Backmark: H.H. Parkhill, Evansville, Indiana. In fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1679. Connecticut Heavy Artillery.

Magnificent color 18 x 23 lithograph entitled ‘United States Military Record, Co. F, 1st Reg’t Connecticut Heavy Artilery’. The memorial lists all of the members of the regiment, boldly framed by a sprawling city scene, an eagle, and Corinthian pillars. Three vignettes of George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln frame the top edge. In very good condition, with mild toning, an area of dampstaining across the bottom quarter of the litho, some light rippling, a small tear to the top edge, and a trimmed bottom edge.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1680. Jay Cooke. American Civil War financier and railroad magnate (1821–1905). ALS, one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 4.5, January 10, 1852.

Letter to Saul McGrath. In part: “Please take notice that agreeably to the terms of the Lease between Saul McGrath & Jay Cooke for the home 215 Chestnut Street…it is my determination to give up and surrender premises of the house.” In fine condition, with two vertical folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered mild toning and trimmed edges. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1682. Jay Cooke. American Civil War financier and railroad magnate

(1821–1905). ANS signed “Jay Cooke,” on an off-white 3.75 x 2.25 card. Cooke writes, “I am glad that our good frd…has been made Secretary of Mass.” In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1683. George Crook.

Once considered the U. S. Army’s greatest “Indian fighter” after successes against the Apache, Crook participated in Grant’s Nov. 3., 1875, “secret meeting” that launched the Great Sioux War. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: Cadwallader & Tappen’s Gallery of Art, Front St., over the Bank, Marietta, Ohio. Light toning, surface marks, one of which lightly grazes the facial area, and a pencil notation on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1681. Jay Cooke. Partly-printed engraved DS, signed “Jay Cooke Trustee,” one page both sides, 12.5 x 8, May 28, 1877. Northern Pacific Railroad Company stock certificate issued to Cooke for 100 shares in the company at $100 per share, signed on the reverse by Cooke who has transferred his shares to another gentleman. In very good condition, with central vertical fold, cancellation holes and blue pencil marks to front, and scattered toning and wrinkling to reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1684.

Currier and Ives.

Original color 15.5 x 10.5 Currier and Ives lithograph entitled ‘The Battle of the Wilderness VA. May 5th & 6th 1864’, featuring a chaotic image of a smokey battlefield, featuring a signature and inscription in the bottom border in ink, “George T. Crane, from his teacher, A. E. Austin, Step. 7th 1864.” In very good condition, with some light rippling, a few mild to moderate areas of dampstaining and some light spotting. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1685. George A. Custer. Manuscript written in an unknown hand, titled at the top, “George A. Custer,” also in an unknown hand, one lightly-lined 8 x 12.5 page, both sides. Manuscript lists, in great detail, the decorated cavalry officer’s service record from his time as a cadet at the United States Military Academy from 1857 to 1861 through the Civil War to his assignment as Lieutenant Colonel to Fort Riley, Kansas in 1866. The list, which includes all the major battles in which Custer participated together with major assignments, punctuated in the left margin noting the points of promotion, both regular and brevet with a circled number. Docketed “Geo. A. Custer” in another hand. Light soiling at folds, else fine condition. The document is highly detailed in describing Custer’s accomplishments. For instance, not only is his service at Gettysburg mentioned, it notes that Custer was involved in “various skirmishes in pursuit of the enemy to Warrentown, with constant fighting at Moultrey, July 4, Smithburg July 5, Hagerstown, July 6, Williamsport July 6, Boonsboro July 8, Williamsport July 14, 1863.” Several horizontal folds, and scattered light soiling, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1686. George A. Custer. Stately unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: Whitehurst Gallery, Washington, D.C., M.J. Powers, Photographer. In fine condition, with some light toning, and a few light scratches towards the bottom of the image. This image is known as K-39 in the reference book, Custer in Photographs by D. Mark Katz. The view was taken on or about Aug. 8, 1864, by M.J. Powers, at Jessie H. Whitehurst’s Gallery in Washington, D.C. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1687. George A. Custer. Exceptionally rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5

x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Standing view in uniform with rank of brigadier general, holding his slouch hat with single star visible on the front. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. This view was taken by Mathew Brady & Co. on or about February 15, 1864.

In fine condition, with light toning and wear, and notations on the reverse. It is one of the scarcest of the Custer Civil War views to find! RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1688. George A. Custer. Dignified unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-devisite photo. Half-view in double breasted uniform coat with shoulder knots and aiguillettes. No backmark. In fine condition, with pencil notations on the reverse. This view was taken by William R. Howell, about April 23, 1876. Just a little over two months after having this photograph taken, Custer would meet his end at Little Bighorn. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1689. George A. Custer. Color cigar label, 7.75 x 6.25, featuring a vignette of General Custer, framed by the advertisement, ‘This choice brand of cigars is manufactured and guaranteed by Auer & Co.,’ with Custer’s last name boldly printed in red across the bottom border. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1690. Lysander Cutler. Appointed

Union colonel of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, a regiment that would earn fame as part of the ‘Iron Brigade.’

Cutler’s first important field service was at the Second Bull Run where he was severely wounded in the leg.

He subsequently was in action at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the 1864 Virginia campaigns. Commanding and rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view pose in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Brady, New York is imprinted on the front mount. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, DC. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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From Fort Monroe, Dix sends a telegraph concerning a promotion of “a most excellent officer has been in the Army and has seen a good deal of cavalry service” 1693. John A. Dix.

1691. John A. Dahlgren. War-dated ALS signed “J. H. Dahlgren,”

one page both sides, 4.75 x 8, March 15, 1862. Letter to “Mr. T.B. Murray at Mr. Sanford’s office.” In full “It will give me pleasure to send a boat for Mrs. McClellan [Gen. George McClellan’s wife]. I would like to know however, whether she will go at three this afternoon or at ten tomorrow morning. If you will let me know one hour and a half before the time appointed and the wharf, the boat shall be there.”

Intersecting folds, pencil notation to each page, and a bit of light toning, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1692. Gustavus A. DeRussy. Union

general (1818– 1891) who commanded the guns of General Burnside’s army at Fredericksburg and the defenses of Washington south of the Potomac. War-dated ALS signed “G. A. DeRussy, Brig.

Genl,” one lined page, 5 x 8, Headquarters Defences South of the Potomac, Arlington letterhead, November 20, 1863. DeRussy writes to Major Granville E. Johnson, in full: “By some singular detention your note of the 17th & its enclosure were handed to me only this afternoon. Captain Stipp is associated, in my mind, with one of the most gallant spirits of this war on whose staff he was ever prominent. I comply with pleasure with the Captain’s wish in the matter of autograph & hope that I may be called upon to assist his pleasure or ambition in some important manner.” A letter appears on the second integral page, written by Major Johnson to “K,” and signed by the major, in part: “Thinking the affixed might be agreeable to you coming as it does from a noble soldier.” In fine condition, with light toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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American military officer and politician (1798– 1879) who served as a Union general during the Civil War, in which capacity he played a pivotal role in suppressing the New York Draft Riots in July 1863. His political and diplomatic career included posts as secretary of the treasury, minister to France, and governor of New York. War-dated handwritten telegraph, signed “John A. Dix, Maj. Genl,” two pages, 5.5 x 8, United States Military Telegraph letterhead, October 22, 1862. From Fortress Monroe, Dix sends a telegraph to Major General Keyes in Yorktown. In full: “Before I received your note in regard to Col Hall—Col Stetsel of the 11th Penn Cavalry was spoken to in regard to the Colonelcy of the 5th he was here today—he is a most excellent officer has been in the Army and has seen a good deal of cavalry service as Col. Hall would not gain in rank. I suppose he would be indifferent about a change in position.” In very good condition, with vertical fold to left side, scattered toning, and show-through from docketing on reverse of second page. Just a month earlier, both of the Pennsylvania cavalry regiments mentioned in this telegraph would see action at Antietam. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1694. John A. Dix.

War-dated ALS signed “John A. Dix, Maj. Genl.

Comdg.,” one page, lightly-lined, 4.75 x 6.5, October 10, 1861, affixed to a cardstock sheet.

General Dix writes from Fort McHenry, in full: “Mrs. Sebastian Street & friend of the Union Relief Association have permission to enter the encampments & visit the Hospitals in Baltimore & vicinity until further orders.” A partial letter to a Confederate prison is written in another hand on the reverse.

Scattered mild to moderate toning and rippling, a few stray ink marks, and trimmed edges, otherwise very good condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Dr. John McNulty...has, moreover, given a great deal of attention to sanitary regulations & principles; and I know no one better fitted to introduce a proper system into our camps for the preservation of the health of the troops” 1695. John A. Dix. War-dated ALS, one page, lightly-lined, 6.5 x 8, July 9,

1861. Dix writes to the Honorable S. Cameron, Secretary of War, in full: “Dr. John McNulty of New York, now Surgeon of the 27th Regt. N. Y. volunteers, is desirous of being a Surgeon in the regular army. Col. McCum’s letter making the application states why he cannot enter, in the morning manner, through the grade of assistant Surgeon. I have known Dr. M. for many years. His qualifications as a Surgeon & Physician make his appointment eminently proper. He has, moreover, given a great deal of attention to sanitary regulations & principles; and I know no one better fitted to introduce a proper system into our camps for the preservation of the health of the troops. I may add that the Dr.’s high & exemplary character promises the best assurance that his duties will be continuously discharged.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing, toning along the edges, docketing on the reverse of the blank second integral page, a pencil notation to the top edge, light mirroring from premature folding, and several endorsement on the reverse of the second page. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1696. Grenville M. Dodge and Staff. Union general

(1831–1916). Organized a militia company called the “Council Bluffs Guards” in 1856. On July 6, 1861, he was mustered in as colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry. In December 1864, U.S. Grant put him in command of the Department of Missouri and in February 1865, of the Department of Kansas. In these areas he operated against bands of guerrillas and hostile Indians with success. Dignified unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo.

Fantastic outdoor view of a seated General Dodge at left, wearing double breasted frock coat with rank of brigadier general. There are three staff officers also seated at the table with large maps laid out. Standing behind General Dodge are nine officers of his staff, all in uniform. Backmark: Howard & Hall, Corinth, Mississippi. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1697. Grenville M. Dodge. Union general wounded at Pea Ridge (1831–1916). He fought with the Army of the Tennessee until severely wounded at Atlanta. TLS signed “Grn. Dodge,” one page, 7.5 x 6, inlaid N21 Broadway, New York letterhead, May 27, 1889. Dodge writes to General Henry M. Cist of Cincinnati, in full: “I am in receipt of your favor of May 24th—asking if I had received a copy of the reprint of Gen. Boynton’s letters &c., I beg to state that I have not received one, and would be very much pleased if you would send me one.” A trivial spot of soiling, a couple of light stray marks, a faded pencil notation, and some light feathering to the signature, otherwise fine condition. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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1698. Abner Doubleday. Union general

(1819–1893). Famous for his association with the invention of the game of baseball. In April 1861, Doubleday served in the garrison at Fort Sumter, and he was said to have aimed the first gun to reply to the Confederate batteries. His greatest performance of the war came at Gettysburg when he assumed command of the 1st corps after the death of General John F. Reynolds. Sharp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 cartede-visite photo. Excellent quality seated view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. His kepi with rain cover sits on the table behind him.

Backmark: E. Anthony, N.Y., made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rubbing.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1700. Abram Duryee. The commander of one of the most famous Zouave regiments, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was New York City Police Commissioner. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Half-view in uniform taken just after his promotion to brigadier general. 1861 C.D. Fredricks & Co., imprint on the front mount. Backmark: Charles D. Fredricks & Co., New York. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…

(MB $150) 1701. Elmer E. Ellsworth.

Union colonel (1837–1861). He raised the “Fire Zouaves,” the 11th New York Volunteers, and led them into Washington in May 1861. He was shot down and killed by James T. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall House Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 24, 1861, after having removed a Confederate flag from the roof of that building.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune was on the scene, and the episode caused an immediate sensation which contributed greatly to the war sentiment in the North. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Full standing view wearing kepi, overcoat with cape, and holding a walking stick. No backmark. In fine condition, with slightly trimmed edges. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1702. Elmer E. Ellsworth.

Doubleday signed CDV 1699. Ulysses Doubleday. Union general (1824–1893). Dur-

ing the war he served as major of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, was aide-de-camp to his brother General Abner Doubleday, served as lieutenant colonel, 3rd US Colored Troops and colonel, 45th US Colored Troops. Elusive wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, crisply signed in ink on the reverse, “U. Doubleday, Maj. 4th N.Y. Arty., Fort Ethan Allen, Va., April 25/63.” Bust view in uniform.

Brady, New York imprint on the front mount. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, DC. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Sheet music for ‘Col. Ellsworth’s Funeral March,’ five pages, 10.25 x 13.5, featuring the printed lyrics on the front cover, “I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune may be, confident that he who noteth even the fall of a sparrow, will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me.” Published by Lee & Walker of Philadelphia.

Scattered light toning, a few trivial areas of soiling, mild show-through to the pages from sheet music on the reverse, a retail stamp to the front cover, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1703. John Ericsson. Extremely rare and desirable Salesman Sample, color, goldembossed cigar label, 7 x 5.75, featuring a vibrant imprinted image of Captain Ericsson flanked by gold anchors, before an oceanic background filled with fiery ships, and a gold printed signature below the image, “J. Ericsson.” In fine condition, with scattered mild foxing. Rare examples such as this have sold previously for around $4,000. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“The part that the English people, if not the Government, is playing in this struggle with us is as great a disadvantage to us, as the Rebels” 1704. David G. Farragut. War-dated LS signed “D. G. Farragut,” two pages, 7.75 x 10, embossed “U. S.” letterhead, July 26, 1863. A letter to Acting Rear Admiral T. Bailey, Com’dg E. G. B. Squadron, regarding allegations pertaining to stolen goods, in full: “Your dispatch in relation to the stealing of certain articles from the passenger Don Higena of the ‘Comet’ captured by the Kanawha and sent to Key West has been received. I regret that Lt. Com’dr Mayo should have allowed his judgment to give way in the manner he did in his letter, altho’ I agree with you that the Officer’s statement is perfectly satisfactory, still it was an official representation of a Foreign Consul and called for circumspection on your part; but I have my doubt that these men would say anything to give trouble as they almost invariably do when you meet with a perverse disposition, and I believe the whole representation a fabrication, and that all these articles were for Commercial purposes, and not entitled to respect as private property.

Our war has been conducted with the greatest liberality and our part, while so far as I know, we have been taken advantage of whenever it was possible for them to do so. The part that the English people, if not the Government, is playing in this struggle with us is as great a disadvantage to us, as the Rebels, and we are unable to help ourselves; but I trust it will be not so long. I regret that I am not 20 years younger and could live to see it all fairly settled. But God will settle it all right, in his good time. I will say this for the British Officers whom I have met that they do not approve the conduct of their countrymen and regret that there should be such just cause for complaint against them. I suppose they are much as good and honest people of our Country were on the subject of Philibustering. I shall attend to your letter and admonish Lt. Com’dr Mayo of his impropriety in addressing such a letter to his Com’dg Officer when a Superior Officer is a party in the complaint.” In fine condition, with a small hole and paper clip impression at the top edge, and mounting tape on the reverse.

On May 15, 1863, Lieutenant Commander William Kennon Mayo seized the British brig “Comet” as it tried to run the blockade 20 miles east of Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama. In a dispatch to Secretary of the Navy Welles, dated May 15, Mayo describes seizing papers torn and thrown overboard by Thomas Johnson revealing the true course of the “Comet” which varied from the ship’s log as well as several account books containing navigational figures. The New York Times reported that the prize ship was sent to Key West for adjudication where the Comet’s crew complained about stealing and their treatment by the Kanawha’s seamen, prompting Admiral Theodorus Bailey’s July 3 dispatch to Farragut.

Farragut commanded the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and responded about “the stealing of certain articles from the passenger Don. Higena,” defending Mayo’s claim of the cargo stating that “these articles were for commercial purposes, and not entitled to respect as private property” and declared “the whole representation a fabrication.” He stressed the difficulties navigating political waters following the British brig’s capture by Lt. William Kennon Mayo’s ship, Kanawha, expressing his frustration about the British stating “our war has been conducted with the greatest liberality and our part, while so far as I know, we have been taken advantage of whenever it was possible for them to do so.

The part that the English people, if not the Government, is playing in this struggle with us is as great a disadvantage to us, as the Rebels, and we are unable to help ourselves.” A year later the Admiral threw caution to the wind, engaging in the Battle of Mobile Bay; ignoring the threat of torpedoes famously shouting “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” to capture the last seaport in the Gulf of Mexico. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1705. John Ericsson. Swed-

ish-American Army engineer (1803–1889) who designed and built the ironclad warship Monitor for the American Navy. ALS signed “J. Ericsson,” one lightly lined page, 7.5 x 9.75, August 11, 1860. Ericsson writes to an unnamed gentleman. In part: “Linnan will go to Richmonville any time next week at my request. I found his feelings in such excited state in relation to 16th that any reconciliation was out of the question. The young man is fully sensible of the importance of the trust confided to him and will do his duty. He will report to me and return to N.Y. as soon as the machinery is in perfect working condition…. He says $60 will be requisite to get to the place of operations and he only asks $1.75 a day…[which] certainly speaks well for the young man’s principles.” Light intersecting folds (one to first letter of signature) and some mild soiling and handling wear with faint marginal glue traces, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1707. Lafayette Sabine Foster. Scarce and crisp bank check,

7.25 x 2.5, filled out and signed by Foster, “L. F. S. Foster,” payable to C. Bart for $5.000, August 9, 1866. In fine condition, with a two cent revenue stamp affixed to the left edge, and two sets of cross-shaped cancellation cuts to the center of the check, one one which only lightly affects the first letter of the signature. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1708. Fractional Currency. Third issue

10 cent fractional Civil War currency. Measuring 3.25 x 2, and issued in 1863, currency features an oval portrait of George Washington. In fine condition. Fractional currency was first issued in 1862 as a response to widespread hoarding of small change during the Civil War. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

The famed admiral orders an exam for an ‘Acting Master’ 1706. David G. Farragut. American admiral (1801–1870) who was flag officer of the

Navy during the Civil War. War-dated LS signed “D. G. Farragut,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 9.5, September 4, 1864. Letter to the commanding officer of the Texas Division.

In full: “The Department has ordered the examination of Acting Ensign H.D. Edwards of the Aroostook as to his qualifications for the grade of Acting Master in accordance with the Provisions of the Circular of August 9th 1864. You will appoint a Board as directed in the said Circular to report to me in duplicate….” A docket on the verso notes that “Edwards having gone north prior to my arrival off Galveston this order could not be acted upon.” Creasing and pencil notation to left side, some light soiling, and show-through from docketing on reverse, otherwise fine condition.

While still in Mobile Bay, Farragut wrote this letter barely a month after his successful assault on the bay. On August 5, the admiral ‘entered the bay in two columns…with armoured monitors leading and a fleet of wooden frigates following. When the lead monitor Tecumseh was demolished by a mine, the wooden ship Brooklyn stopped, and the line drifted in confusion toward [Fort Morgan]. As disaster seemed imminent, Farragut shouted his famous words, ‘Damn the torpedoes!’ to the hesitating Brooklyn.

He swung his own ship, the Hartford, clear and headed across the mines, which failed to explode. The fleet followed and anchored above the forts, which, now isolated, surrendered one by one [Encyclopaedia Britannica ].’ Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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After imprisoning Lincoln’s friend, Fremont writes: “I find it impossible to prepare and send you, before I leave St. Louis, the charges and specifications against Col. Frank P. Blair” 1709. John C. Fremont. Prominent American explorer, military officer, and politician (1813–1890) who mapped the Oregon Trail, played a prominent part in conquering California during the Mexican War, and ran in 1856 as the first Republican presidential candidate. War-dated LS signed “J. C. Fremont, Maj. Genl Commdg,” one page, 9.25 x 11, Head Quarters Western Department letterhead, September 21, 1861. Letter to Colonel E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. In full: “Giving to the pressing necessities of public service in this Department, and the entire occupation of all my time in attention to that service, as well as the preparations for an advanced movement against the enemy, that I propose to make on Monday next, to be headed by myself in person.

I find it impossible to prepare and send you, before I leave St. Louis, the changes and specifications against Col. Frank P. Blair, to which I had the honor to refer in my telegram addressed to you, under date of the 15th current.” A docketing panel has been affixed to the reverse. In good to very good condition, with tape repairs to reverse of horizontal folds, small area of repair to paper loss affecting a single word of text, light overall toning, a bit heavier along folds, several creases, and a light brush to Fremont’s rank.

In early September 1861, Colonel Blair, a ruthless Missouri politician and friend to Lincoln, charged Fremont with neglect of duty, disobedience, conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and misappropriation of taxpayer dollars. The general countered on September 17, having Blair arrested for “insubordination” and “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,” accusing the colonel of “assailing his [Fremont’s] public character, charging him with inability and inefficiency.” Fremont also charged the colonel of writing his brother, Montgomery Blair, a member of the president’s cabinet, to use his influence to have the general dismissed as Commanding General of the Western Division of the Army. Lincoln was already furious with the commander’s August 30 proclamation freeing all slaves in Missouri before consulting with his administration. It was seen a deadly threat, potentially shifting neutral slave-holding southern states like Missouri to the Confederate cause, thus endangering the fragile Union. Lincoln ordered Fremont to retract his hasty announcement, but the general refused, and the Commander-in-Chief publicly rescinded Fremont’s proclamation and dismissed Fremont from service on November 2, 1861, vindicating Blair. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1710. John C. Fremont.

Attractive partly-printed DS, signed “Fremont & Morton, J. C. Fremont addressed in the premises,” one page both sides, 10.5 x 5.75, March 1, 1872. Ornate engraved Cincinnati Railway Tunnel Company stock certificate issued to “Mess. Fremont & Morton,” for 100 shares at $50.00 per share. Signed on the reverse by Fremont. Uniform mild toning, small tear to left edge, and show-through from signature on reverse, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Endorsement signature, “J. C. Fremont,” on the reverse of a Southern TransContinental Railroad, Texas Division - From Jefferson to El Paso, document, 7.75 x 5, dated March 2, 1868. The railroad “acknowledges itself indebted to John Fremont in the sum of one thousand dollars, payable…by the transfer of fifty acres of agricultural land…to be located by the holder after the completion of the above-mentioned section of railroad upon any of the eight million acres donated by the State of Texas to the company.” Crisply endorsed on the reverse by Fremont. In fine condition. After the Civil War, Fremont purchased the Kansas Pacific franchise and a part-interest in the Memphis and Little Rock, and became president and promoter of the Memphis and El Paso.

The bankruptcy of the line in 1870 cost Fremont the remainder of his fortune and his reputation. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Garrison captures the higher purpose of the war: “It certainly has compelled-a very great change in the general sentiment of the North…on the subject of slavery… ending more and more in the direction of universal emancipation” 1712. William Lloyd Garrison. War-dated ALS signed “Wm. Lloyd Garrison,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, December 20, 1861. Letter to “esteemed friend,” Maria Mariott. Garrison eloquently condemns slavery, examines the effect of the Civil War on anti-slavery sentiment in the North, accurately forecasting emancipation, and reviews his career in the abolitionist movement. His letter begins with thanks for an image of a slave that Marriott had owned for some years: “I trust my long unintentional delay in acknowledging the receipt of the token of your friendship and esteem, transmitted to me by Mr. Macy, will be overlooked in the assurance that I was delighted, and felt highly honored, with such a kind remembrance, and shall carefully preserve it, both as a curiosity and for the sake of its estimable giver.

That it was for so many years in your possession adds very much to its interest and value. Since that miniature image of the fettered slave, kneeling in mute supplication for mercy, was modelled, what multitudes of living victims have been reduced to that sad condition, and mercilessly driven to the end of their terrible pilgrimage under the cruel lash and galling yoke; and what millions are still groaning for deliverance, even in our own professedly Christian country!

Yet, blessed be God! There are gleams of light relieving the darkness of the picture; for, since the period alluded to, England, and France, and various other powers, even that of Algiers, have abolished slavery throughout their dominions, and thus registered their official verdict against the system as too monstrous any longer to be tolerated among a people claiming to be civilized. When will America be induced to follow their example? I fear never as a matter of repentance, but only through retributive judgment, and from supremely selfish motives. Still, come the extinction of slavery when it may, and as it may, it will be an event for rejoicing in heaven, and a jubilee on earth; for, of all devices to degrade and dehumanize the human soul, and to foster and license every species of iniquity, it has no parallel.

There is a strange mixture of good and evil, of hopefulness and uncertainty, of right and wrong, in the present conflict of the Government for the suppression of Southern treason; making it extremely difficult to conjecture, and quite useless to prophesy, as to what a day may bring forth. But it seems impossible for the old state of things to be restored, and, therefore, I have no fear of any thing worse following.

The war has developed-it certainly has compelled-a very great change in the general sentiment of the North, for the better, on the subject of slavery, and this is daily strengthening, and tending more and more in the direction of universal emancipation, under the war power; and this is encouraging.- Let us hope that the Government will be strengthened

to proclaim the jubilee, now that it may rightfully do so, and that you and I, in spirit at least, may be permitted to join in the song of the ransomed millions, before we are summoned to our spiritual homes.

I have just completed my fifty sixth year. My attention was first called to the subject of slavery in 1827; in 1828, I wrote a good deal about it, while editing a paper in Bennington, Vermont; in 1829, I went to Baltimore, to be associate editor of the ‘Genius of Universal Emancipation’ with my Quaker friend and predecessor, Benjamin Lundy, whom you doubtless remember; on the 1st of January, 1831, I commenced the Liberator. Thus, I have devoted thirty-two years consecutively to the cause of the oppressed, and during that long period have never ceased to be branded, by the press and the pulpit, as a fanatic and an incendiary! Outweighing all this odium is the single approval of one so good and pure as yourself.” In a postscript, written in the top margin of the first page, Garrison adds, “This will be handed to you by my son William. Please accept the enclosed photograph, and the accompanying volume.”

Some scattered light toning and soiling, not affecting legibility, and a few slight brushes to text, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original transmittal envelope as well as an unsigned carte-de-visite of Garrison.

Garrison grew up in an atmosphere of declining New England Federalism and lively Christian benevolence-twin sources of the Abolitionist movement, which he joined at the age of 25. As editor of the National Philanthropist (Boston) in 1828 and the Journal of the Times (Bennington, Vermont) in 1828-1829, he served his apprenticeship in the moral reform cause. In 1829, with a pioneer Abolitionist, Benjamin Lundy, in Baltimore, he became co-editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation; in 1831, he established The Liberator, which became known as the most uncompromising of American anti-slavery journals.

Through The Liberator, which circulated widely both in England and the United States, Garrison soon achieved recognition as the most radical of American anti-slavery advocates. The Civil War forced Garrison to choose between his pacifist beliefs and emancipation. Placing freedom for the slave foremost, he supported Abraham Lincoln faithfully and in 1863 welcomed the Emancipation Proclamation as the fulfillment of all his hopes. Emancipation brought to the surface the latent conservatism in his program for the freedmen, whose political rights he was not prepared to guarantee immediately. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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1713. William H. French. Union general (1815–1881) who participated in the Florida Wars and the Mexican War. He commanded a brigade of the 2nd Corps during the Peninsular campaign, and a division of the corps at Antietam. He also fought in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and commanded the District of Harpers Ferry during the Gettysburg campaign.

War-dated ALS signed “Wm. H. French, Maj. Gen. V.,” one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed letterhead, February 27, 1863. General French writes a letter of recommendation from the Headquarters of the 3rd Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac to Captain William A. Kirk, 57th New York Volunteers, in full: “Having applied to me for such testimony as regards your military service whilst under my command, it is in my power to state that I have known you since the 1st December 1861, and have noticed your conduct as an officer up to September 1862 when I was assigned to a superior command. You have always been a zealous and indefatigable soldier, at your post, day & night. I have frequently called on your for special duty of the Peninsula and remember your valuable services in the battle of Fair Oaks. Should your services be brought to especial notice for the purpose of promotion, I am sure an inquiry into them would ensure to you success.” Intersecting folds, a few trivial areas of paper loss, a moderate area of soiling towards the top edge of the first page, and some scattered light toning, otherwise very good condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Handwritten news account of the artillery fighting at Gettysburg as Sickles advanced his line without orders 1714. Gettysburg. Handwritten newspaper report, by an unknown

author, of the fighting at Gettysburg, on three lightly-lined 5 x 8 pages.

In part: “2nd day’s fight at Gettysburg…Let me give one phase of the fight…some Mass batteries. Capt. Bigelow’s, Capt. Phillip’s two or three more under Capt. McGilvery of Maine were planted on the extreme left advanced…down the Emmittsburg road with…the first division…of Sickle’s Corpls…after 5 a fierce rebel charge drove back the infantry & menaced the batteries. Orders are sent to Bigelow… to hold his position at all hazards…then with depressed guns…[and] with double charges of grape & canister he…shatters but cannot break the advancing line. His grape & canister are exhausted…on they come. He falls back on spherical-case…he holds his position… within six paces of the guns…once more…he blows devoted soldiers from his…muzzles…they spring upon his carriages & shoot down his horses. And then…he seizes the guns by hand &…drags 2 of them off…5 out of 6 are saves…in that half hours’ fight lost 33 of its men including every sergeant…the Capt…was wounded…it was the first time it was ever under fire…the rebels now ours on Phillip’s battery…it too was forced to drag off the pieces by hand when the horses were shot down. From a new position it opened again…an enfilading fire swept the Rebel line. Sickle’s gallant infantry charged the Rebel line…and] we regained the lost ground.” In very good condition, with moderate toning and some light soiling to first page, some scattered light soiling to second and third page. Accompanied by a partially-printed war-dated document signed “Henry Spayd” as color guard 149th Penn. Vol. This document appears to be a clothing return account for Co. C, 149th Penn. (2nd Bucktails) Vol. in which Sgt. Spayd acknowledges the receipt of clothing and accoutrements worn out during the previous year’s campaigns. Document is in several pieces. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“We have most been over to see the spy RIchardson who was hung night before last. His body is hanging on the tree yet, was to hang 48 hours altogether” 1715. Gettysburg. War-dated

ALS in pencil signed “C. A. Macy, Jr.,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, July 8, 1863.

Macy writes his father from Camp near Frederick, Md., Headquarters 7th Regt. NYNG, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps. in part: “We are now regularly attached to the Army of the Potomac, in the 3rd Corps, Jno. & D. Havilly’s old Corps…We are now seeing a part of the war which but a few have before experienced. We have no tents. Some of the boys have built huts of straw & covered them with straw & their blankets, but they leak very much…The 12th Corps have been passing this morning…some on the Harpers Ferry & some on the Hagerstown Road…We have most been over to see the spy RIchardson who was hung night before last. His body is hanging on the tree yet, was to hang 48 hours altogether.” In fine condition, with light creasing. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Macy’s hand. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1717. Gettysburg. Haunting

Surgeons prepare a soldier moments before an amputation at Gettysburg 1716. Gettysburg. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5

carte-de-visite photo. No backmark. Two cents orange revenue tax stamp on the reverse. This view of a leg amputation was taken at Camp Letterman Hospital, Gettysburg. Surgeons prepare the leg for amputation, with an assistant administering anesthesia. Bottles are visible on the operating table and an open surgeon’s kit can be seen on the stool at right. Wooden kick bucket is visible in the foreground. Man on crutches is standing at the left. Hospital tents in the background. The expected toning and wear, and trimmed edges, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Backmark: S.G. Sheaffer, Photographer, Hanover, Pa. His imprint on the reverse advertises for his photographs, albums and frames, and written in period ink is Gettysburg Battlefield. In fine condition. This view was taken by Peter S. Weaver, on November 11, 1863. It is looking northeastward toward Little Round Top from Devil’s Den. It depicts 9 Union soldiers posing as dead on the Gettysburg battlefield with Doctors Lyford (standing at left) and Chamberlain (standing at right) looking over this staged scene of carnage. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1718. Gettysburg Commanders. Color, gold-embossed cigar

label, 9 x 6, featuring a composite image and majestic vignettes of Commanders Hancock, Meade, and Reynolds, hovering above an American flag, a Confederate flag, and a gathering of swords, a drum, and a trumpet, with two monuments in the background. In fine condition, with a trivial pin hole to the bottom right corner. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

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1719.

Gettysburg.

Bronze medal, 1.5 x 2.75. Honors “Dedication of State Monuments at Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1893.”

Depicts monument bordered by wreaths, dates 1863/1893, and New York state symbols with wording “NEW YORK DAY” on opposite side.

This refers to New York Day at Columbian World’s Fair (Chicago), where the medal was issued. In fine condition, with the expected wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1722. Grand Army of the Republic. Original cloth banner,

11 x 17, depicting the Grand Army of the Republic membership badge emblem from a G.A.R. reunion encampment, most likely at the turn of the century, with bold wording, “Welcome G.A.R.” In fine condition, with wrinkling. RRAuction COA.…

(MB $100)

1723. Grand Army of the Republic. Vin-

1720. Grand Army of the Republic.

Original walking cane from a G.A.R. reunion encampment, 3 inches (including the handle) x 35.5. Wooden support features a nickel alloy handle that has a patriotic “Grand Army of the Republic” motif and “G.A.R.” lettering. In very good condition, with the expected wear from age and use, and a missing metal tip to the bottom. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

tage photograph, 15.75 x 13, featuring a large group of veteran soldiers from G.A.R. Post 60 and the Norfolk Brass Band Franklin, Mass. May 30, 1898. Reverse side has drawing, identifying over 40 of the members.

Framed to an overall size of 17.25 x 14.5, with a lined-sheet featuring a drawing of the outlines of the men in the photo, certified by several of the soldiers. In fine condition, with light toning and a mild strip of staining parallel to the left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1724. Grand Army of the Republic. Col-

1721. Grand Army of the Republic. Collection of seven medals

and one stickpin badge for the G.A.R. auxiliary “Sons of Union Veterans” and the “Women’s Relief Corp,” each measuring approximately 1.25 x 3.5, which were awarded to aides, officers, and members of these two branches of the G.A.R.; and three vintage G.A.R. postcards, each measuring approximately 3.5 x 5.5. Housed in a simple display case to an overall size of 16 x 12.25. In overall fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

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lection of four badges: a G.A.R. membership badge, 1.5 x 1.5; a celluloid badge with ribbon, 1.25 x 2.5, commemorating the Swift Post #94, Geneva, New York encampment; a celluloid badge depicting a G.A.R. membership badge emblem, 1.25˝; and a metal pin back badge, 1.25 x 2, commemorating the 36th National G.A.R. Encampment held in Washington, D.C in 1902. Housed in a presentation case to an overall size of 6.25 x 5.25. In fine condition, with a missing ribbon from the first badge, and mild discoloration from age. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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1725. Grand Army of the Republic. Color mixed-media

oval portrait of a Union Veteran of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,14.75 x 19. Although the officer pictured is not identified, he is clearly wearing a Massachusetts encampment medal on his pocket and has the number 20 painted on his collar. He is also wearing his G.A.R. cap and is holding a period Model 1860 sword. Framed in a Victorian-era oval frame to an overall size of 17 x 24. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1726. Grand Army of the Republic. Elaborately detailed G.A.R.

badge, 2 x 4, inset with enameled lettering, surmounted by a bronze spread-wing eagle atop crossed cannon barrels and a piles of balls, and the bottom piece that of a grizzly with a banner bearing the words, “Los Angeles Cal.” Badge was worn to meetings in Los Angeles circa 1890. Affixed to a 4 x 6.25 red felt mount. In fine condition, with the expected wear and discoloration.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1728. Grand Army of the Republic. Rare and desirable bronze plaque,

6.5 x 6.25, featuring a five-star frame, each of which encloses a symbol of the war: crossed rifles, cannons, bugle, anchor, and crossed swords. On the reverse side are three bronze hasps by which it was attached to a flagstaff and carried in a G.A.R. parade. These parades, which died out around 1930 due to the dwindling number of Union veterans, were held in various cities with the veterans in their military dress, some on horseback, some pulling cannons, etc. In fine condition, with the expected wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1729. U. S. Grant and Family. Unique unsigned wet plate,

albumen 2.25 x 3.5 carte-de-visite photo. This is the famous 1864 view of General Ulysses S. Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the Union Armies, taken at City Point, Virginia. General Grant takes a quiet moment to pose with his youngest son Jessie, and wife Julia, in front of their slat cabin. No backmark. In fine condition, with light toning and trimmed edges.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Enormous collection of political signatures including Grant, his cabinet, Supreme Court Justices, fellow generals, and future President James A. Garfield

1727. U. S. Grant and Cabinet. Hardcover autograph album, 7 x 8.5, signed inside by approximately 274 politicians and officials, including cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices, and a majority of the 44th Congress. Most pages are multi-signed, with some back to back.

Signers include: U. S. Grant, as president, cabinet members Benjamin H. Bristow, Edwards Pierpont, Alphinso Taft, George M. Robeson, Marshall Jewell, and Zachariah Chandler; Supreme Court Justices M. R. Waite, Nathan Clifford, David Davis, Ward Hunt, William Strong, Noah Swayne, Samuel Miller, Stephen Field, and Joseph P. Bradley. Other signers include future president James A. Garfield, John Logan, Ambrose Burnside, James Blaine, John Sherman, and Nathaniel Banks. A Fitzhugh Lee ALS is also tucked into the back of the album. In good to very good condition, with partial separation to hinges and spine, back cover partially separated, a few loose pages, old tape repairs to front cover, crazing and surface loss to covers, and missing spine. A unique collection from the 18th President of the United States, his most trusted advisors, and comrades. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Crouching across the river before the Siege of Vicksburg, Grant readies storage sheds at the mouth of his canal 1730. U. S. Grant. War-dated ALS signed “U.

S. Grant Maj. Gen,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, April 21, 1863. Letter to Colonel Reynolds. In full: “The Qr. Mr. Sgt. of the 29th Ill. Vols. ordered to report to you for duty yesterday can be made very useful by aiding in superintending the building of the store sheds at the mouth of the Canal and as Shipping Clerk & c. From such store sheds through the canal.” Intersecting folds, small separation to top of one fold, uniform block of toning over text from previous display, some mild dampstaining, and small tear to left edge, otherwise very good condition.

In 1863, Vicksburg was the only Confederate stronghold left on the Mississippi. If the town fell, the Union would have control of the river and split the Confederacy in two. In April 1863, Grant launched his second campaign to take Vicksburg, considered his greatest achievement during the war. His letter to Colonel Charles A. Reynolds refers to an earlier project, Grant’s Canal, an unfinished man-made waterway on the Mississippi across from Vicksburg. Its purpose was to circumvent the confederate guns in the town and ideally change the river’s course. Grant set his men to work on the canal in January of 1863, but abandoned the project in March after a dam gave way and the canal prematurely flooded. Days before he wrote this letter, he had successfully moved the bulk of his army down the west side of the Mississippi and ferried them to the eastern banks, laying the groundwork for the Siege of Vicksburg.

The 29th Illinois Volunteers would serve with distinction during the siege. An historically significant letter penned at a decisive moment in Grant’s military career. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

1732. U. S. Grant. Desirable unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Excellent seated view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Washington, DC, and New York. In fine condition, with light toning and rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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New York senators enlist the help of Grant as a firestorm of protest envelops newly elected president Garfield’s 1881 nomination of William Henry Robertson as collector at the port of New York 1733. U. S. Grant. ALS, one page, lightly-lined both sides, 4.5 x

7, no date. Letter to John P. Jones. In full: “I write to you in answer to the letter signed by the Vice President, Senator Conkling, & yourself, and only just rec’d. I regret exceedingly I did not get it… in time possibly to have had some effect. Please read my letter to you, also the one to Garfield and the signers of the letter of the 30th, and use your combined judgement as to whether the latter should be delivered or not.

I am likely to remain here another month. The work I am engaged upon is one which I believe to result in great benefits to my own country, and of course to this. No personal consideration would tempt me to engage in what I am now doing, but I believe sincerely that by building these people up we will establish a market for our products which will stave off, for years at least, a panic which is otherwise inevitable from the rapidity with which we are going on.”

In fine condition, with some scattered light toning and soiling and a central horizontal fold.

Jones was a longtime Republican senator from Nevada who criticized President James A. Garfield for various appointments the chief executive made after winning the 1880 presidential election, including his selection of cabinet members. When he tapped William Henry Robertson as collector at the port of New York on March 23, it set off a firestorm among the New York delegation who openly resisted the nod. Citing that the party had not been notified about the nomination, Senators Jones and Conkling fired off the March 30 letter enlisting the help of prominent politicians, including Grant, to help quash the appointment. When the general received the letter, he wrote to Garfield on April 24, 1881 using Jones as the courier, as mentioned above. In response to the former president, Garfield purportedly defended his appointments and maintained that Grant had been ‘deceived by gross exaggerations and deliberate misrepresentations as to the motives and purposes of the President,’ making it clear that he would not allow officials to interfere with the presidential right of nomination. On May 5,the president withdrew all the favorable nominations supported by New York Senator Conkling and kept Robertson’s appointment in the mix. The senator, realizing his cause was lost, resigned May 18, 1881. Two days later, the senate confirmed Robertson’s nomination. An important and historically significant correspondence from a former president to a successor. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1735. U. S. Grant. Stately unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Seated view in uniform with rank of lieutenant general. Imprint on the front mount, Upson & Simson, Buffalo, NY. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Having arranged for a comfortable pension for the widow of his most loyal general and supporter, the president expresses dismay “at the contents of the letter which you enclose to me from Mrs. Rawlins” 1736. U. S. Grant. Interesting ALS as president, signed “U.

S. Grant,” three lightly lined pages on two sheets, 5.75 x 9.25, Executive Mansion letterhead, January 31, 1872. Grant writes to General William S. Hillyer. In part: “I am very much surprised at the contents of the letter which you enclose to me from Mrs. Rawlins. Like you however I do not find fault with her course nor consider it remarkable. I have only this moment received, and read, your letter and Mrs. R’s and therefore am not prepared to decide beyond the possibility of a change of views as to the best course to pursue. It is to be presumed that the gentleman to whom Mrs. Rawlins is married will not want the charge of the children but even if he does I think it would be better to have them go with their relations in Orange Co. New York, who I know will be glad to take them.

The house where Mrs. Rawlins now lives may be sold if the same can be got for it that was paid; if not it should be rented…. All the furniture of course Mrs. R. should keep as her own private property. In the first payment on the Danbury house I used the salary voted to Gen. R. by Congress. One fourth of this is due to Mrs. Rawlins. It strikes me that I had better purchase for the benefit of the heirs of Mrs. R’s share of the Washington house, and pay her in addition her share of the purchase money for the Danbury house…. I am very much obliged to you for the offer to take the children until arrangements can be made for them. If Mrs. Rawlins desires I wish you would and let me know so that I may write to their relations on the subject.”

In very good condition, with partial separations at folds (old tape repairs touching a few words), with faint show-through, a hint of mild soiling, and a few tiny edge chips, well away from the text. The writing is dark throughout, and the signature is crisp and completely unaffected. The letter is published in full in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant; a copy of the pertinent pages accompanies the letter.

Rawlins was the widow of General John A. Rawlins, one of Grant’s closest personal advisors and secretary of war in his administration. Grant had been instrumental in securing a comfortable pension for Mrs. Rawlins, the terms of which evidently had to be adjusted in light of her remarriage. In the midst of his presidency, this correspondence is a unique example of Grant’s personal attention to matters. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

In an intriguing historical twist, the reputedly hard-drinking Grant recommends an officer who “does not use intoxicating liquors” 1737. U. S. Grant. War-dated endorsement, signed “U. S.

Grant,” on the reverse of a one-page lightly-lined letter to General N. B. Baker from a Captain of the Iowa Infantry. Letter to Baker is for the recommendation of promotion for Sergeant Oliver F. Howard to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant of Company C., with the Captain adding, “I certify that the person above recommended does not use intoxicating liquors to such an extent as to interfere with his duties as an officer or set a bad example to those under his command.” The reverse bears several endorsements regarding the matter, with Grant’s endorsement, in a secretarial hand, dated March 23, 1863, reading, “Respectfully forwarded to His H. J. Kirkwood, Governor of the State of Iowa.” Scattered light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by an unsigned CDV of Grant. Grant’s forwarding of Howard’s recommendation for promotion from 2nd Sergeant, an enlisted rank, to be 2nd Lieutenant, an officer, is very interesting since Capt. Clune, in his letter, admits that Howard drank intoxicating liquors, but certifies that Howard “does not use intoxicating liquors to such an extent as to interfere with his duties as an Officer or set a bad example to those under his command.” A most ironic scenario, since rumors of drunkenness while on command haunted Grant himself throughout his career, and while historians may disagree on the factuality of rumors, they remain a part of Grant’s reputation. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1738. U. S. Grant. Ink signature, “U. S. Grant,” on an off-white 3 x 1 card. Matted and framed, with two portraits of Grant in uniform, to an overall size of 17 x 13. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200) 1739. U. S. Grant. Sheet music

for ‘General Grant’s Grand March,’ five pages, 10 x 13.5, featuring an etched image of General Grant on the cover. Published by Cooperative Music Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In very good condition, with scattered toning and spotting, moderate tearing along the edges, and each page separated from the hinge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1740. U. S. Grant. Sheet music to ‘Gen. Grant’s Funeral March,’ five pages, 10.75 x 14, featuring a printed drawing of General Grant surrounded by printed sketches of his various battles, quotes, and victories on the cover. Printed by White, Smith & Co. in Boston– Chicago. Scattered light toning and spotting, scattered tearing to the edges of the front cover and a few edge tears to the subsequent pages, with each page separated from the hinge, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1741. U. S. Grant. A small carte-

de-visite bust portrait of Grant in his dress uniform, in an ornate gold frame with an overall size of .75 x 1. In fine condition. Please note the image has been enlarged from its actual size for viewing in the print catalog and online. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Grant vetoes a House bill: “I do not believe that any considerable portion of the ex-soldiers who it is supposed will be the beneficiaries of this appropriation are applicants for… it would result more in a measure for the relief of claim agents and middlemen” 1742. U. S. Grant. Manuscript DS as president, two pages, 8 x 10.75, March 3, 1875. To “The House of Representatives,” in full: “House Bill No. 3341, is herewith returned without my approval for the reasons; first, that it appropriates from the treasury a large sum of money at a time when the revenue is insufficient for current wants and this proposed further drain on the treasury. The issue of bonds authorized by this bill to a very large and indefinite amount would seriously embarrass the refunding operations now progressing whereby the interest of the bonded debt of the United States is being largely reduced. Second, I do not believe that any considerable portion of the ex-soldiers who it is supposed will be the beneficiaries of this appropriation are applicants for it, but, rather, it would result more in a measure for the relief of claim agents and middlemen who would intervene to collect or discount the bounties granted by it. The passage of this bill at this time is inconsistent with the measures of economy now demanded by the necessities of the country.” Scattered areas of soiling and staining from adhesive on reverse, not affecting legibility of text, edges of first page lightly trimmed, and Grant’s signature a shade or two light, but still completely legible, otherwise very good condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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As the war approaches its climax, Grant acts to prevent abuses of promotion 1743. U. S. Grant. War-dated ALS signed “U. S. Grant, Lt. Gen.,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, Head Quarters Armies of

the United States letterhead, March 7, 1865. From City Point, Virginia, Grant writes to Major General John Pope. In full: “Your dispatch of this date in relation to securing for Col. F. Myers promotion, by brevet, to the rank of Brig. Gen. in the Regular Army is received. I received also your letter of last December on the same subject. My recollection is that I answered your letter stating that recommendations for promotion, by brevet or otherwise, must come from officers under where the recipient of such promotion has served and either go to the Adj: Gen of the Army direct; an[d] if it is desirable to have my recommendation then to me for endorsement. The number of applications I receive to secure promotion for officers makes it necessary for me to address to this rule for all officers except those who have served directly under me. I will be very happy to affix my approval to your recommendation of Col. Myers promotion. It will probably be too late now to secure his confirmation this extra session of the Senate: but his appointment can be made and held over to be acted on when Congress does meet.” In fine condition, with two horizontal folds, and a uniform shade of light toning.

Colonel Frederick Myers was a West Point graduate from Connecticut, who served in the Department of the Rappahannock. Grant approves Myers’s promotion toward the end of the siege of Petersburg, when the Confederate army was starving in the trenches, in need of food and transportation. Lee would surrender to Grant’s terms on April 9, 1865, and seventeen days later Johnston would surrender his army to Sherman. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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1744. U. S. Grant.

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, March 14, 1876. President Grant orders the secretary of state to ‘affix the Seal of the United States to a warrant for the pardon of E. R. Taylor.

In fine condition, with a horizontal fold through Grant’s signature, a couple slight creases, and a small pencil notation to top edge. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

“They also serve who only stand and wait” 1745. Horace Greeley. Journalist, politician, editor, and founder of the New York Tribune (1811–1872).

AQS on a 4.75 x 7.5 off-white album page. Greeley writes: “They also serve who only stand and wait.

Horace Greeley, N. York, Dec. 15, 1863.” In fine condition, with a bit of scattered light toning and soiling. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…

(MB $200)

In an incredibly rare letter written from the Monitor, Samuel Dana Greene writes: “The Merrimack made her appearance this afternoon, but did not venture below Crany Island…she appears to have a wholsome [sic] fear of us” 1746. Samuel Dana Greene.

Union naval officer (1839–1884) who served as executive officer on USS Monitor during its historic five-hour battle with ironclad CSS Virginia, and assumed command after Captain John Lorimer Worden was wounded.

He served as executive officer on the USS Monitor in the engagements on the James River, Virginia, from April to May 1862. He committed suicide in 1884. Rare and important war-dated ALS signed “Dana,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, May 4, 1862. Letter written while on board the Monitor to his father. In full: “I received your letter, written just before you went to Charlestown. George & Susie made me a visit on Friday last, and I enjoyed it very much. It was a beautiful day, and we had a very nice time. I am rejoiced my Dear father to hear of your appointment of Brig. General, and am very anxious to hear where you are to be ordered. Please write me as soon as you receive orders. Yorktown has been evacuated by the Rebels and McClellan is pursuing them in hot haste, with his light artillery and Cavalry. We have nothing definite about it. Various conflicting rumors, concerning the affair are afloat, but nothing reliable. The Merrimack made her appearance this afternoon, but did not venture below Crany Island. She was apparently on a pleasure trip, as we thought we could discover several ladies on board with our glasses. We expect her down every pleasant day, but she appears to have a wholsome [sic] fear of us. We remain just the same as when you were here; our pilot house has been completed, and we think our craft invulnerable at every point. I received a letter from Mother last week.

They were all very well and impatiently waiting the return of George & Susie. Col. W. R. Lee has joined his regiment, but has not yet been off. Capt. Worden is able to see from both of his eyes, and will probably be able to leave for New York in a week. I am very glad to hear of his recovery. Capt. Fox, Asst. Sect. of the Navy visited us today, with several people from Washington. I have believe I have told you all the news.

Write often.” On the last page of the letter is a January 5, 1890 manuscript presentation signed by George Sears Greene to an unknown (indecipherable) recipient. “Presented to…5 Jny 1890 By Geo S Greene Major General Vols.” Intersecting folds, a few creases, a uniform shade of toning, pencil notation to top, and some scattered light soiling, otherwise fine condition.

Samuel Dana Greene is nonexistent on the market. Jim Hayes, in his book on autographs of the Union Navy makes no mention of it. Though S. D. Greene’s history as Executive officer (at age 22) of the Monitor from launch to sinking is well documented, there is no reference to a signature or any other form of autograph of his anywhere except for his detailed letter to his mother of the affray with the Virginia (Monitor) at the US Naval Museum. The context and content of this manuscript, having been written aboard the USS Monitor less than two months after the first engagement of iron clad Naval vessels, at the site of the battle, make it a rare and important Civil War treasure.This letter is the only other holograph that has been found. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1747. David M. Gregg. Union gen-

eral (1833–1916). During Stoneman’s 1863 Richmond Raid, Gregg commanded a division.

The following month he was covering the extreme right of the Union line at Gettysburg, when he fought a sharp cavalry battle against J.E.B. Stuart’s troopers, which secured for the Union army its last threatened artery. Gregg was cited in some accounts as having gained one of the most conspicuous cavalry victories of the war. Crisp and clear unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Superb quality half-view in uniform with rank of brigadier general.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1749. Galusha A. Grow. Prominent US

politician, lawyer, writer, and businessman (1822– 1907), and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863.

ALS, one page, lightlylined, 7.5 x 10.25, House of Representatives, US letterhead, July 14, 1894.

Letter to a gentleman regarding his genealogy. In part: “Your inquiry whether a Customs of the Grow family has ever been published. I do not know of any. The first of that name in this country of whom I know was John and Thomas Grow, brothers at Ipswich, Essex Co. Mass.”

In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, uniform toning, with a heavier block at bottom, small caption affixed to top edge, and small hole to right edge. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

Speaking for Stanton, Halleck denies a request for “the project set forth in your letter…in regard to trade in cotton” 1750. Henry W. Halleck. Union general

Colonel Grierson signs off on a sergeant’s monthly wages 1748. Benjamin H. Grierson. Partly-printed DS, signed “B. H.

Grierson, Col. 10th Cavalry, Comdg Post,” one page, 11 x 8.5, May 6, 1872. Financial report detailing a month’s salary, recorded from March 1st through the 31st of 1872, of $125.00 to H. S. Kilbourne, Acting Assistant Sergeant, boldly signed through the center of the document

by Grierson, and also signed by Kilbourne. Two vertical folds, light toning, and a few areas of light soiling, otherwise fine condition. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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(1815–1872), known as ‘Old Brains,’ who, despite his administrative skill as general in chief, failed to achieve an overall battle strategy for Union forces. Lincoln once described him as ‘little more than a first rate clerk.’ War-dated LS signed “H. W. Halleck,” one page, lightlylined, 7.75 x 9.75, Head Quarters of the Army letterhead, November 30, 1863. Letter to Major General Hurlbut. In full: “The Secretary of War directs me to say that the military authorities cannot sanction the project set forth in your letter of Novr 7th in regard to trade in cotton; and consequently the proposed passes will not be asked for from the Treasury Department.” Small separation along lower horizontal fold affecting top portion of signature, a uniform shade of toning, and a few light brushes and feathering to text, otherwise fine condition. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“The clamor against McClellan is not well founded… no better head of the army can be found” 1751. Henry W. Halleck. War-dated ALS signed “H.W.H.,” two pages both sides, 5.25 x 8, April 20, 1862. Draft letter to W. S. Latham

at the United States Senate. In full: “Your letter of the 6th was read a day or two since at this place. Craig had already been ordered on the O M South. If he should loiter on the way, it will make very little difference, as the troops were ordered to proceed without him. Why did you recommend a man who would ‘loiter about a month?’ I knew nothing about him, but followed the endorsement of the Cala. delegation. He did not favorably impress me as a man of much energy or capacity. If he should fail to do his duty in protecting the overland mail route, the responsibility must rest upon others rather than upon me. I telegraphed to Col Alexander some time ago to act with more energy in putting down the Indian hostilities, but whether he will do anything remains to be seen.

The enemy has concentrated his best troops & ablest generals against me. We have beaten him thus far & hope to continue doing so; but it will require all our strength, caution, & skill. The whole country here is one mass of mud & we are obliged to construct roads before we can move. Officers from the army of the Potomac say that the mud here is even worse than that ‘historical mixture’ at Manasas. But no mud can stop for a long time the advance of this western army. What we cannot bridge over, we will canal through, and, if necessary, turn the Mississippi.

What you say of the Bs I fully appreciate & will act upon when the time comes. I must say, however, that the clamor against McClellan is not well founded. He is a very able military man and no better head of the army can be found. I say this notwithstanding that we disagreed about many things connected with the campaign in the west; but I believe that if he had been here himself, he would have done precisely what I have done. Unless I am greatly deceived in the character & capacity of the man, I could not consent to become his rival. But if his promotion is impossible and an attempt is made to put forward Fremont or Banks, I should be perfectly willing to make the fight. I am satisfied that if the ultra-abolition sentiment of the north should get the ascendency in the administration of the Govt, there can be no peace, but the war will be interminable. The union men of the south will support a constitutional administration, but will never submit to the abolitionists. Moreover, a large majority of our western soldiers will refuse to fight for any such measures. Our only hope is that the President will stand firm in his conservative policy.” Halleck has made several ink corrections to the text.

A couple small separations to central vertical fold to both pages, a uniform shade of toning, a bit heavier to the edges, and a small chip to bottom of second page, otherwise fine condition.

In March of 1862, as the new commander of the Department of the Mississippi, Halleck set into motion his plan to continue south along the Tennessee River and destroy the Confederate railroad depots at Jackson, Humboldt, and Corinth. After the costly Federal victory at Shiloh, Halleck removed Grant as field commander and himself directed the advance. Taking a month to travel twenty miles, he was at last ready to bombard Corinth when Beauregard withdrew his army. The Confederates were pursued for a time, until Halleck decided to go no further into Mississippi. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1755. Harper’s Weekly. Excellent collection of 1752. Henry W. Halleck. Handwritten endorsement, signed “H. W. Halleck, Maj Genl Comg,” on an off-white 8 x 1 slip, clipped from a larger document. Halleck writes; “Approved, the recommendation of the Commission will be carried into effect.” In fine condition, with a couple vertical folds, some trivial soiling, and a light brush to signature. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

approximately 50 original copies of Harper’s Weekly, spanning July 13, 1861 through December 23, 1865, each measuring approximately 11.25 x 16. Half of the periodicals are housed in a hardcover portfolio, while the other half are presented individually. Each issue boasts several of the exacting, dramatic illustrations for which the publication is so well known and revered, and that much more so, given the harrowing—and exalting—timeline of war. In very good condition, with scattered light toning, spotting and soiling, creasing, and some tears and rough edges. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Presentation walking stick to a Pennsylvania cavalry officer 1753. William A. Hambright.

Wooden presentation walking stick, 35.5” long, with the ornate gold knob engraved on the top, “Capt. Wm. A. Hambright, from his friends of Columbia, Pa., 1871.”

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1840, 2nd Lieutenant/Captain William A. Hambright served with Company M, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was mustered into service in August 1862 and was discharged January 2, 1866, on a surgeon’s note. In fine condition, with expected light wear to bottom tip and lower portion of wood. A unique gift from a grateful town for service in the Civil War. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Two color, goldembossed cigar labels, each measuring approximately 8.5 x 7.25, one featuring a composite image of General John F. Hartranft and the advertisement, ‘Mellowed to Please Since 1899,’ and the other a composite image of General William J. Palmer. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1754. Winfield S. Hancock. Union general (1824–1886). He greatly distinguished himself in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. On July 3rd, his corps became the focal point for the celebrated Pickett’s Charge in which he was seriously wounded. After his recovery, he went on to fight in the bloody battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, and earned the sobriquet “Hancock The Superb.” In 1880, he was the Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States. He was narrowly defeated by another ex-Civil War General—the soon to be assassinated, James A. Garfield. Fantastic unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Seated view in uniform with rank of major general. Imprint on the front mount: Brady, New York. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, New York and Washington, D.C. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks and mild silvering to some of the darker areas of the image.

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1756. John F. Hartranft and William J . P a l m e r.

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1757. Rush C. Hawkins. Union gen-

eral (1831–1902). At the beginning of the Civil War, he organized the famed “Hawkins Zouaves,” which mustered into the Union army as the 9th New York Infantry, with Hawkins as their colonel. They saw action at Big Bethel, Fort Hatteras, Roanoke Island, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk.

Hawkins was wounded in action on April 19, 1862, at Camden, NC. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Standing view in full zouave garb holding a sword at his front. Imprint on the front mount, Col. R.C. Hawkins, 9th Reg’t Zouaves. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Backmark: E. Anthony, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light toning.

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1759. Francis J. Herron. Union gen-

eral (1837–1902).

Commanded a militia company known as the “Governor’s Grays,” whose services he tendered to President elect Abraham Lincoln.

For his extraordinary heroism at Pea Ridge, where he was wounded and captured, he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers. At the close of the war he was appointed to negotiate treaties with the Indians. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-devisite photo. Superb quality seated view in uniform with rank of major general, with his sword propped up against the backside of his chair.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light toning and rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” 1758. Julia Ward Howe.

Author, suffragette, dramatist, poet, and biographer (1819– 1910), best remembered as the lyricist of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ AQS on an offwhite 7.75 x 5 sheet. Howe writes: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” signing underneath, “Julia Ward Howe, Born in New York City—May 27th 1819.”

Two vertical folds, one through a single letter of signature, uniform toning, a bit of light soiling, and light show-through from a strip of mounting remnant to reverse top edge, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1760. O. O. Howard. Union general and

Medal of Honor recipient (1830–1909). Was appointed Colonel of the 3rd Maine Infantry, in June of 1861. He saw action at the First Bull Run, Yorktown, and Fair Oaks where he received two serious wounds and lost his right arm.

He later fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Atlanta campaign. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Half-view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. Light toning, rippling, and a crease to the bottom left corner of the photo, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1761. Joshua B. Howell.

Union general who was mortally wounded at the end of a war as a result of a horse riding accident. War-dated manuscript DS, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, March 14, 1862. “Invoice of Ordinance and Ordinance stores, turned over by Capt. P. M. Abraham…at Meridian Hill, near Washington, D. C. to Col. G. B. Howell,” listing “Ninety muskets-altered flint to Percussion…Ninety Bayonet Scabbards, Three thousand six hundred Ball Cartridges, Cal. 69,” and “Four Boxes Packing,” signed at the conclusion by Howell and Captain George H. Hooker. In fine condition, with some trivial creasing and toning. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

Distinguished signed CDV, formerly part of the John B. Batchelder collection and once used for publication 1762. Andrew A. Humphreys. Union General (1810-1883) and Chief Engineer of the US Army. Humphreys became an aide to General George B. McClellan in 1861 and was promoted to brigadier general in April 1862. In September of that same year he took command of a division of the 5th Corps which he led with distinction in the Antietam campaign, the bloody assault on Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg, and at Chancellorsville. Wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed below his likeness in ink, “A. A. Humphreys, Maj. Genl.” Bust view in uniform. M.B. Brady & Co. imprint on the front mount. Backmark: M.B. Brady & Co., National Photographic & Portrait Galleries. In fine condition, with mild toning, wear, and a pencil notation. Notation on the front mount that says: “Enlarge 1 1/4 inch from chin to top of head.” This was no doubt written there during the period when this image was used for publication.

Humphreys became an aide to General George B. McClellan in 1861 and was promoted to brigadier general in April 1862. In September of that same year he took command of a division of the 5th Corps which he led with distinction in the Antietam campaign, the bloody assault on Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg, and at Chancellorsville.

In 1864, Humphreys was appointed to take command of the 2nd Corps by General U. S. Grant, an assignment he brought inspiring leadership to, and he played an important role leading up to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Russian veterans bravely fight to preserve the Union…and democracy 1763. Henry Hunt. War-dated ALS signed “Henry J. Hunt, Brig. Gen. Chief of Ary,” one lightly-lined page, both sides, 5 x 8.25, embossed Office of Chief of Artillery, Army of the Potomac letterhead, February 3, 1863. Hunt writes to General Sprague of New York, in full: “Allow me to present to you Captain Razdevichin, of the House Artillery of the Guard of the Emperor of Russia. I do not doubt that his services will be valuable if he receives a commission, and I would recommend him for an appointment should there be one at your disposal. Capt. R. speaks German and French, and is rapidly acquiring the English. The kind reception given to our officers by the Russian service in the Crimea, when Capt. R. served at the perod [sic] of Genl. McClellan’s visit, entitles officers of that army to special consideration. Captain R. brought letters to Genl. Burnside from Genl. McClellan, recommending him to our kind officer.” Intersecting folds, a trivial spot of soiling to the bottom edge, and a pencil notation to the top edge, otherwise fine condition.

Prior to the war, the United States had already entered into a friendship with Russia and had sent Captain McClellan to Europe as part of a 1856 military commission to study European tactics, logistics and weaponry. In exchange, Captain Razdevichin, a veteran of the Crimean War, was one of the Russian officers who entered into service, or served as on observer, during the Civil War; known for their valor and field expertise, the Russians were welcomed by the Union army. This 1863 letter of introduction to General Sprague, with McClellan’s recommendation, offered the Captain “special consideration.” The most well known Russian soldier who fought in the Civil War, was Colonel Ivan Vasilevich Turchaninoff, aka John Basil Turchin, a flamboyant Cossack, who left Russia in 1856 and joined the Union army in June 1861 as a Colonel of the 19th Illinois Volunteers. A veteran of the Crimean War, he was given command of the 8th Brigade in General Buell’s Army of Ohio because of his reputation as a fighting leader. Lincoln promoted Turchin to brigadier general, and he would distinguish himself at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and in the Atlanta campaign. The bravery and leadership of the Russian vets won the admiration of the troops and helped secure the Union’s ultimate victory. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Hunt writes concerning an 1863 recommendation for “the capturing of a battery of Pennsylvania Arty” 1764. Henry Hunt. Chief of Ar-

tillery in the Army of the Potomac (1819–1889), he was considered a master of gunnery. War-dated ALS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, embossed Artillery Headquarters Army of the Potomac letterhead, April 7, 1863. Hunt writes concerning a recommendation, in part: “Your letter of 12th March was received during my absence…An opening offered for the captaining of a battery of Pennsylvania Arty in Genl. Segwick camp and I recommended you.

Sedgwick…and requested your appointment but some difficulty has occurred which has prevented the appointment from being made.”

Four horizontal folds, two small slits to the top edge, and a pencil notation, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1765. Infantry and Rifle Tactics. Signed book: U.S. Infantry Tactics for the Instruction, Exercise, and Maneuvers of the United States Infantry. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1862. Hardcover, 3.75 x 5.25, 450 pages. Signed on the second free-end page by the owner, “George A. Spink, Capt. Co. E., 12th Reg, RIV.” In very good condition, with mirroring of signature to first free-end page, scattered light toning and foxing to inside pages and pastedowns, and scattered wear and rubbing to covers. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Scarce exemplary collection of original carte-de-visite photos of the general and his family 1766. Rufus Ingalls. Union general

(1818–1893). At the beginning of the Civil War, Ingalls was appointed Chief Quarter Master of the Army of the Potomac. In 1864, his intimate friend and classmate, General U.S. Grant, appointed him chief quartermaster of all Union armies operating against Richmond. Brown leather-bound with gold gilt page ends and a brass latch and tab, 4 x 5, featuring 12 original carte-de-visite, and the second interior page has an excellent wartime signature in ink, “Rufus Ingalls, Bt. Maj. Genl., Qr. Mr.” The first interior page bears a label with General Rufus Ingalls written in another hand in period ink. Opposite the signature, on the facing page, is a half-view of Ingalls in uniform with rank of brigadier general, with a pencil notation on the reverse in another hand, “Army of the Potomac.” His name and rank are written in period ink on the bottom of the mount in another hand. The second image features General Ingalls in uniform wearing his trademark Hardee hat, sitting in his carriage and holding the reins of his two horse team. Sitting behind him is his black servant boy, with a dog in the foreground next to the rear wheel of the carriage. There is a partial old ink label affixed to the album page which reads, “General R. Ingalls, carriage.” The third image features an outdoor view of the general’s saddled horse. An orderly with a sword holds the reins of the horse. The fourth image features another outdoor view, this one of a railroad supply train with numerous open box cars emblazoned with U.S.M.R.R. Several horse drawn, covered army wagons can be seen lined up next to the box cars. Written in period pencil on the reverse in another hand, “Rufus Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster, Army of the Potomac. Railroad supply trains.” The fifth image is an outdoor view of a train engine with a telegraph pole and a large mountain in the background. Period pencil inscription on the reverse in another hand states, “Telegraph Service. Telegraph, Tennessee. Rufus Ingalls new telegraph line through the gap.” The sixth image features an outdoor view of a family gathering with numerous men, women, and children as well as horses, wagons, etc. Period pencil inscription on the reverse in another hand reads, “Family Outing, Rufus Ingalls Friends & Family.” The seventh image features a portrait of Mrs. Rufus Ingalls. Full standing view posing in front of a studio background. Backmark: J. Hinch, Photographer, Thomaston, Maine. The eigth image is a portrait of the daughter of General Ingalls. Seated view with one arm resting on a table at her side. Backmark: G.W. Tuttle, Photographer, Thomaston, Maine. The ninth image is a very interesting outdoor view of a group of Native American women in and around a tent with some baskets visible. Lone man stands at left of the view. Period pencil inscription on the reverse in another hand reads, “Ingalls Quartermaster Ladies.” The tenth image features a portrait of J. A. Seibert. Imprint on the front mount, J.A. Seibert, with his Saint Louis, Missouri address. Seibert was a known Civil War photographer operating in St. Louis. Period pencil inscription on the reverse in another hand reads, “J.A. Seibert.” The eleventh image features a portrait of an unidentified Union officer. Heavily bearded officer wearing a single breasted frock coat with shoulder straps. “E.E. Smith” is written in pencil on the reverse in another hand. And the final image is a portrait of an unidentified Union private. Standing view in uniform. Backmark: Holmes Park Gallery, Photographs & Ambrotypes, No. 303 Broadway, NY. Light wear to the cover, a slightly loose, but intact spine, light toning, and a few small tears to the edges and picture windows, otherwise fine condition. Extremely rare opportunity to own the personal carte-de-visite album of this important Union Civil War General and career US Army officer. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1767. Adelbert Ames. Union

general (1835– 1933). Appointed colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry, he led his troops in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

On May 20, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers and later led a brigade in General O.O. Howard’s 11th Corps at Gettysburg. Ames was the last survivor of the full rank generals on either side in the Civil War. Wet plate, albumen 2.25 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, featuring a half-view of Ames in uniform with rank of brigadier general, signed on the reverse over a small affixed strip, “Brig. Genl. Ames.” Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with some light staining to the bottom of the mount. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1768. Andrew Johnson. Original U. S. Senate pass to the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, 3.5 x 3, dated April 20, 1868, signed at the bottom by Sergeant-at-Arms George T. Brown.

Some vertical creases, light edge wear, and some mounting remnants to reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

A month before being killed in action, the legendary cavalry commander gushes his equine affection: “You have no idea of our elegant horses.

I have five or six elegant models. I am ready to buy more” 1769. Philip Kearny. In

the Civil War Kearny distinguished himself during the Peninsula Campaign, rising to major general. In the build-up to that campaign, 2nd Lt. George Armstrong Custer served as Kearny’s aide and it is said that Kearny drummed into Custer the maxim that, “fortune favors the brave.”

He was killed in action in September 1862. ALS signed “Phil,” two pages both sides, 5 x 8, July 29, 1862. Lengthy chatty letter to “My dear John,” in which he discusses the merits of a soldier named “Watt” and his (Kearny’s) love of horses, “You have no idea of our elegant horses.

I have five or six elegant models. I am ready to buy more.” On the last page he writes: “Capt. Morris Peck’s aide came to see me last night. I rode back with him to visit Watts. He has just finished his Court Martial; & I am sure, if you could have seen him, so changed for the better, in manly physique & a ‘character’ of the ‘twilight.’” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, red ink notation across top right corner of last page, and scattered toning.

Kearny had a lifelong love of horses; at the age of eight, he could ride better than most adults. He delighted in racing horses on his grandfather’s estate in upstate New York and became known as “a perfect horse killer” for his recklessness in the saddle. During the Mexican War, Kearny raised a troop of cavalry and spared no expense in outfitting his men, acquiring 120 matched dapple gray horses with his own money.

Kearny lost an arm in that conflict, and in the Civil War rode with the reins in his teeth, his one arm brandishing a sword. In this letter he refers to Watts, who could have been a relative—his grandfather was John Watts, a New York politician. A month after writing this letter, Kearny ignored a demand to surrender at the Battle of Chantilly and was fatally felled by a single bullet which struck his spine. A fine letter penned by the Union’s “One-Armed Devil.” Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1770. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. American military officer (1836–1881), who, as a

general in the Civil War, earned the sobriquet “Kill-Cavalry” for his gung-ho disregard for the lives of the soldiers under his command. Following the Civil War he served as the American Minister to Chile in the Johnson and Grant administrations; after a decade long hiatus, he was reappointed to that post by Garfield but died shortly after arriving at the Chilean capital.

Manuscript DS, signed “J. Kilpatrick,” one page, 17 x 13.5, April 1864. Report of Persons and Articles Employed and Hired at Ringgold, GA. by Captain George E. Alden, listing one Samuel Watson as the Chief Clerk from March 11 through April 30, 1864. Signed at the conclusion by Kilpatrick and Captain Alden. Intersecting folds, some light toning and spotting, some show-through from docketing, and some mild feathering to the signature, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1771. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. Union general (1836–1881). He

had the distinction of being the first Regular officer to be wounded in action during the Civil War, this coming in June 1861, at the battle of Big Bethel, Virginia. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Full standing view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. A single star, denoting rank of brigadier general, is clearly visible on the front of his kepi. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

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1772. Rufus King. Union general (1814–1876). He was appointed

minister to the Papal States by President Lincoln, but resigned when Fort Sumter was bombarded, and was appointed one of the very first volunteer brigadier generals, his commission dating May 17, 1861. He organized the famous “Iron Brigade” which went on to glory during the war. Bold and sharp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-devisite photo. Standing view in uniform with rank of brigadier general and holding his kepi. Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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About Stephen J. Lee Union officer (1837–1872). Lee served in the 18th Connecticut Infantry and utilized his skills as a printer while stationed at Harper’s Ferry, working a printing press. He was captured at Winchester, Virginia in June of 1862, and detained at Libby Prison in Richmond. After his release, he was reassigned to oversee the Army Printing Corps at Cumberland and Harper’s Ferry. The following 22 lots encompass a fascinating and sizable collection of letters, documents, manuscripts, books, prints, and ephemera relating to the life and career of Stephen J . Lee.

1773. Stephen J. Lee. Five items: Partly-printed DS signed “Lewis

Deitz,” one page, 8.5 x 11. Notice of discharge for Stephen J. Lee of Company B, 18th Regiment of Connecticut volunteers, after his three years of service. Lee was discharged on June 27, 1865 at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with “No objection to his being re-enlisted,” bearing several endorsements; two original carte-de-visite photos, 2.5 x 4, one featuring a bust portrait of Lee, and the other a full-length image, photographed by Ewing & Co.; a cloth patch bearing the ink print, “Stephen J. Lee, Co. B. 18th C. V.,” 4 x 2.5; and a newspaper clipping, 2.5 x 4.75, bearing Lee’s obituary. In very good condition, with scattered toning and intersecting folds to the document, scattered light toning and spotting to the photos, fraying along the edges of the patch, and irregularly trimmed edges to the clipping. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1774. Stephen J. Lee. Three items: Special Orders, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters 1st Division 1st Army Corps, Camp Stoneman, DC letterhead, May 31, 1865. Special Order No. 22 in which “Private S. J. Lee Company B 18th Connecticut Vols. is hereby relieved from duty at these Head Quarters,” signed at the conclusion by the Brevet Major General; war-dated ALS signed “S. C. Benjamin,” one lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, Office Act’g Chief Quartermaster, Army of West VA. letterhead, November 12, 1864. Chief Clerk Benjamin writes a letter granting Lee “permission to remain over Thanksgiving,” instructing Lee to “return to this place by the 30th of this month”; and a war-dated traveling pass, one page, 7.5 x 4.5, Head Quarters, First Separate Brigade, Department West Virginia, Harper’s Ferry letterhead, April 24, 1864. Message informs all “Guards, Patrols & Pickets Inside our lines” to pass Stephen J. Lee, “Printer for the Head Quarters, at all Homes night and day until further notice.” In very good condition, with light toning, scattered soiling, and overlapping purple endorsement to the first document, and intersecting folds, scattered toning, and soiling to the remaining two. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1775. Stephen J. Lee.

Three items pertaining to Lee’s military service: War-dated Special Orders, one lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 27, 1862. Order sent from Head Quarters Department of West Virginia ordering Corporal Lee on detail to “work upon a printing press in the office of Capt. J. R. Craig”; Special Order Extract, one lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, January 6, 1865, informing that Corporal Lee will head to Baltimore on business and return as soon as his business is complete; and a war-dated Special Order, one lined page, 8 x 6.5, October 24, 1863. Order notifies of Lee’s daily duty as printer. Scattered light toning and soiling, a near complete separation along one of the folds of the first document, small separations to the folds of the second document, and a central horizontal and vertical fold and partial separations the last document, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1776. Stephen J. Lee. War-dated manu-

1778. Stephen J. Lee. Pocket Hymn

Book for the Army and Navy, 2.75 x 4.25, published by the American Tract Society, 96 pages. First free end page bears an ownership pencil signature, “s. J. Lee, Co. B. 18th Conn. vols,” with several locations written underneath, including Harper’s Ferry. In good condition, with separated front hinge, scattered toning and soiling to covers and inside pages, and expected handling wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

script report in an unknown hand, being a transcript of a letter from Lee sent on July 3, 1863, providing information on the Battle of Winchester, on four 8 x 10.5 line sheets. In part: “You have probably had all the particulars of the battle at Winchester, Va.,…in which the 18th regiments figured conspicuously. We opened and closed the battle losing very few killed and wounded. About 500 prisoners were taken.” Partial separations along central horizontal and vertical folds, uniform toning, and paper loss to top right of last page affecting several words of text, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1779. Stephen J. Lee. Two attached letters signed “Stephen J. Lee” at the conclusion of each, four pages on two adjoining lined sheets, 7.75 x 9.75. LS, February 15, 1864, written from the Government Printing Office, Harpers Ferry, Va., Lee sends a letter to his wife, stating, in part, “The 12th Connecticut Calvary went home last week…I guess the fight is all over now…I believe Seven-Eights of the old soldiers have re-enlisted and all of the regiments that came out when we did signify a willingness to and some are almost crazy for a chance to re-enlist”; and an ALS on the reverse, February 16, 1864, in which Lee writes to his wife, in which he expresses how eagerly he awaits her response, and that he has nothing new to report, as there is no fighting. In very good condition, with partial separations along the intersecting folds, and scattered areas of stray ink. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1777. Stephen J. Lee.

1780. Stephen J. Lee.

Four worn Confederate currency notes, all of which were carried by Stephen Lee during his time as a prisoner at both Andersonville and Libby Prisons.

Notes consist of a June 2, 1862 two dollar note; an April 6, 1862 one dollar note; and two fifty cent notes, both dated April 6, 1863. In poor to fair condition, with paper loss to edges, overall creasing, folding, and wrinkling, a single small hole to three of the notes, moderate toning and soiling, and a few small edge tears. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Six examples of printing done

by Stephen Lee while at Harper’s Ferry.

Collection consists of two 5 x 8 invitations to a “Concert and Social Assembly” by the Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 2, G. A. R., in 1868; a dance card from a December 2, 1868 Hartford Quickstep Club; and three visiting card-size vignettes. Toning and foxing to cards, and toning to dance card, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1781. Stephen J. Lee. Two items: rare

partly-printed DS, one page, 8.25 x 4, May 24, 1852. A pay order for L. H. Goodrich for $200, signed at the conclusion

by Lee; and a signature and sentiment, “Your father affecly, Stephen Lee,” with an additional postscript, on a 8.25 x 3 lined sheet, clipped from the closing of a letter. Letter also bears a written notation, presumably from Lee’s wife. In very good condition, with intersecting folds to both, scattered toning and soiling to document, and wax seal remnants to letter slip. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1782. Stephen J. Lee. Partly-printed DS,

signed “F. Whittelsey,” one page, 7.5 x 7, October 1, 1868. Form letter issued to Lee by the Adjutant General’s Office of Connecticut upon his discharge indicating he will also receive a check for $100 “for the Additional Bounty allowed

by Act of Congress.” In very good condition, with horizontal folds, and some scattered toning and creasing. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1783. Stephen J. Lee. In a 19

page narrative regarding her experience at Harper’s Ferry, Mary Jane Lee, Lee’s Indian wife, also known as ‘Singing Bird,’ writes, in part: “I have been asked a great many times by some of my friends to write the experience I had at Harpers Ferry in the year 1864. It always seems a very small matter in comparison to the suffering and sorrow there was at that time…I took the train to Harpers Ferry and arrived about 5 o’clock in the morning. Something broke. We were detained…I had been there about a week when there was a rumor that the rebels were going to take Harpers Ferry again…The Potomac river was but a little ways east of Main St…the pickets were firing all night on both sides of the river….” A few pages separated and some trivial brushing to the text, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1784. Stephen J. Lee. Partly-

printed DS, signed “T J Pratt,” one page, 7.75 x 2.5, July 25, 1864.

Guards and Pickett pass issued to Lee’s wife “to Sandy Hook & Baltimore on the cars good for 5 days.” In very good condition, with central vertical fold, and scattered toning and foxing. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1785. Stephen J. Lee. Five pieces of

Civil War patriotic images (one original and four printed), ranging in size from 5 x 3 to 8 x 5, each done by Lee while at Harper’s Ferry to be printed on letterheads used by the soldiers. In very good condition, with scattered light creasing and toning, and some rough edges. Accompanied by an original mailing envelope, addressed in Lee’s hand.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1786. Stephen J. Lee. Detailed

and intriguing collection of 13 letters and legal documents relating to Mary Jane Lee’s problems in receiving her husband’s pension after his discharge due to consumption, and resulting death. One of the final letters, dated January 22, 1891, allocates $8 per month from Mar 8, 1876, and $12 per month from Mar 19, 1886, and $2 per month for each child from Mar 8 1876. Some light toning and creasing, and some light edge tears and paper loss, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by an original mailing envelope. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1787. Stephen J. Lee. Embossed invitation for a Friday Evening, Feb. 17th, 1865, Compliments of the Staff of Maj. Gen’l.

Crook at the ‘Revere House,’ 5 x 8, printed by Lee regarding a party for General Crook. In fine condition, with light creasing and a few trivial spots of soiling. RRAuction COA.…

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1791. Stephen J. Lee. Antique brass four-barrel collapsing telescope, 1.25 x 13.25, used by Lee at Harper’s Ferry. In fine condition, with the expected wear from age. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1792. Stephen J. Lee. DS signed by

1788. Stephen J. Lee. An ALS sent to Lee, from J. W. Randall,

three lightly-lined pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, September 11, 1868. Randall writes to Lee about an upcoming reunion, transcribing meeting minutes from several days earlier on a meeting of the members of the 18th regiment. In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds, a couple small spots of ink erosion, a mild shade of toning, and light show-through from writing on reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1789. Stephen J. Lee. Two small book-

lets, The Little Deserter and The Babes in the Wood in Verse, printed in 1824 and 1828 respectively, both carried

by Lee during the war.

In good condition, with scattered toning and foxing, previous owner’s signature in one book, expected age wear, dampstaining, and creases. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

commander John R. Craig, one lined page, 31 x 10.25, December 31, 1864. “Muster Roll of a Detachment of the 18th Regiment of Connecticut volunteers serving at Cumberland…under the command of John R. Craig…from the Thirty-first day of October, 1864, when last mustered, to the Thirty-first day of December, 1864,” listing the dates Lee joined the service, was last paid, and special remarks regarding his particular situation. In very good condition, with several vertical folds, light toning and creasing, and a few small areas of separation.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1793. Stephen J. Lee. Lee’s original copy of the New York Herald, April 15, 1865, 17 x 23, cover page. Headline on the front page covers “Assassination of President Lincoln: The President Shot at the Theatre Last Evening.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, uniform toning, a few light areas of spotting, scattered tearing along the edges, and a partial separation to the intersecting point of the folds and at the top of the vertical fold. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1794. Stephen J. Lee.

1790. Stephen J. Lee. Partly-printed DS signed by Lee’s com-

manding officer, one page, 14.75 x 10, February 7, 1864. Lee’s appointment to Corporal “in Company ‘B’ of the 18th Regiment of Conn Vols Infy…from the 18th day of August,” 1862. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light toning, and a few areas of spotting. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Lee’s original Windham County Transcript, May 11, 1865, four pages, 15.5 x 21.75. A few headlines on the front page read: “President Lincoln’s Favorite Poem”; “Little Girl Lost”; “Ike’s Composition”; “Good-Bye, Old Alarm”; and “The Odor of Flowers.”

In very good condition, with intersecting folds, uniform toning, a few trivial areas of spotting, rough edges, and a partial area of separation to the center of the intersecting folds. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1795. Francis Lieber. Author of The

Lieber Code and The Code for the Government of Armies in the Field, the latter becoming the foundation from which wartime conduct amongst troops was built (1800–1872). ALS, one page, 7.75 x 10, embossed letterhead, November 9, 1848. Lieber writes, in part: “You had the kindness to give my Queries, regarding state constitutions, to a gentleman from N. York, with whom I had a conversation at Washington before I went to Europe in June last, and who wrote me a letter to the city of N. York. I own to my shame that I cannot recover his name even after repeated trials to do so… in Germany a whole new layer of perceptions and associations was superinduced in my mind…will you do me the favour of restoring it?”

Intersecting folds, light toning, one passing through a single letter of the signature, a rough left edge, a small area of paper loss to the bottom left corner, a repaired tear to the top left corner, pencil notations to the same corner, and light show-through from collector’s notations on the reverse, otherwise very good condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

Rare document from the Civil War aeronaut 1797. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. American balloonist (1832–1913)

whose Union balloon corps tracked enemy movements, known as the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the United States.

Very rare partly-printed DS, signed “T. S. C. Lowe,” one page, 8.5 x 4, May 7, 1896. Receipt issued to F. S. Dunn for a $22.00 deposit to the Mount Lowe Railway Company, signed at the conclusion by Lowe as the company’s president. Docketing over portion of document and beginning of signature, intersecting folds, uniform toning, and paper loss and a couple of tears to left edge, otherwise very good condition. In July 1861 Lowe was appointed Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps by President Abraham Lincoln and performed aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate troops. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1798. Joseph K. F. Mansfield. Union

1796. Lincoln’s Call to Arms. Classic unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. The village drums were beating, and the shrill call of the fife filled the midwestern air, as the men and boys of Momence, Illinois, short on weaponry, but long on patriotism and eager for revenge, answer President Lincoln’s call to arms. Great view of three drummer boys, (one bass drummer, two snare drummers) and two fifers, leading this parade of town folks, some of the men holding sticks, with horses and farm equipment in the background. This exact view is published in “The Civil War, An Illustrated History,” by Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns. This is the companion volume to the celebrated Ken Burns series, “The Civil War.” Backmark: J.B. Hamilton, Momence, Ill. In fine condition, with mild toning and wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

general (1803–1862).

On May 18, 1861, he was appointed Brigadier General in the regular army and assigned to the command of Washington and its environs

by President Lincoln.

He later commanded the XII Corps at the battle of Antietam, and led his command into action to support Hooker’s I Corps. Seeing his raw recruits waver, he rode into the fray where the action was the hottest.

Mansfield was shot down and died from his wounds the next day, Sept. 18, 1862. Excellent unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Superb full standing view wearing double breasted frock coat with epaulettes, eagle belt plate, sash, and gauntlets. He poses resting his hands on the hilt of his sword at his front. His cap with US hat wreath insignia sits on the studio column at his side. Back mark: E. Anthony, NY, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with some light toning. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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War-dated document signed by General John H. Martindale and endorsed by General Fitz John Porter 1799. John H. Martindale and John Fitz Porter. Manuscript DS, signed

“John H. Martindale, Brigadier General, Commanding,” and endorsed on the reverse, “Approved and earnestly recommended for immediate action. With high respect, Your obt. servt., F.J. Porter, Brig. Genl. Comdg,” two pages, 8 x 12.5, January 8, 1862. Martindale writes, in full: “To His Excellency E.D. Morgan, Governor of New York. I have to recommend the following promotions and appointments in the 13th Regiment N.Y.S.V. “He goes on to list those recommended for promotion. Martindale also notes that changes were made from the original list of promotions submitted as he says,” I found some of the persons heretofore proposed to you utterly incompetent. Be kind enough to inform me by telegraph as soon as the appointments are made, that the parties may enter on their duties, pending the transmission of commissions.” A second manuscript document provides a list, stating that, “All of the Officers and men recommended are now members of the 13th Regiment.”

Three horizontal folds, a few light separations to the folds, and a couple of notations in red pencil, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1800. John H. Martindale. Union Army

general (1815–1881) who later served as New York State attorney general. War-dated ALS signed “J. H. Martindale,” two lined pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed letterhead, August 30, 1861. General Martindale writes to the Honorable E. D. Morgan, Governor, in part: “I find difficulty in making selection of my aids-decamp. The orders require that they should be chosen from among the Lieutenants of Volunteers. I am desiring of keeping my son, Edward H. Martindale, of Rochester, with me in that character and I can only do it by your cooperation. There are a number of vacancies in the Lieuts. of regiments of New York volunteers, and I would greatly be obliged to you if you would confer a commission to that rank on my son.” Docketing on the reverse of the second integral page. Intersecting folds, some trivial toning, and a red pencil notation below the docketing, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1801. Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War. Eight hardcover,

gold imprinted volumes of Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, Norwood Press, published 1931 through 1935, 7.25 x 10.25. Light toning, with some heavier areas on some of the front pastedowns, loose, but intact hinges, and the expected wear to the covers, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1802. John McArthur.

Union general (1826–1906) regarded as one of the ablest Federal commanders in the Western Theater. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: Morse’s Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee. In fine condition, with scattered light spotting and light rippling.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

1803. George B. McClellan.

ALS signed “Geo. B. McClellan,” one page, lightly-lined, 8.5 x 11, Office of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Co., New York letterhead, June 14, 1872. In McClellan’s difficult to decipher hand, he writes to Douglas Taylor concerning a “Mr. Bastin,” asking Bastin be excused from a committee on the grounds of his constantly being called “away from the city.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one passing through a single letter of the signature, a rusty paperclip impression to the top left corner beside a small mounting remnant, a tear to the right edge, a few pencil notations, and mild mirroring from premature folding. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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On rare Grand Belt Copper Company letterhead, McClellan holds mining equipment in Chicago 1804. George B. McClellan. Union general (1826–1885). Hailed at the

beginning of the Civil War as the “Young Napoleon.” He was defeated for the presidency in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln.ALS signed “Geo B. McClellan,” one page, 8.25 x 6.5, rare Grand Belt Copper Company letterhead, May 18, 1885. Letter to an associate. In full: “Will you be good enough to hold the smelter, ordered by this company, at Chicago until further advices.

Please telegraph these intentions to Chicago at once.” Intersecting folds, two passing through signature, pencil and ink notations, a few flecks of ink to signature, a couple ink spots, and a uniform shade of toning, otherwise very good condition. After the war, McClellan became involved in a number of mining operations around the nation. He first noticed copper deposits in northwest Texas in 1852, and in 1877, organized the Grand Belt Copper Company in Philadelphia. Mining operations were suspended when McClellan received the Democratic nomination for governor of New Jersey and won a three-year term. He, however, returned in 1883. After his death in 1885, the company continued on for two more years with little success.

Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

“I have written to Douglass a letter that I hope may either induce him to keep quiet or to vote for it” 1805. George B. McClellan. ALS signed “Geo. B. McClellan,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 7.5 x 9.75, Illinois Central Railroad Company, Vice President’s Office letterhead, February 4, 1858. Letter marked “Private” at the top to J. W. Ferrey. In full: “I find there is quite a fair chance of raising…3 regts by a bill introduced in the House

by Liutman with the promise that Volunteers may be raised. I have written to Douglass a letter that I hope may either induce him to keep quiet or to vote for it. I have written to John to try to get the Del & New Jersey Senators to go for the New Regts. I think I can get Trumbull either to remain quiet or go for the bill. Friends of mine can probably get Ky & N.Y. all right.

If you can exercise any influence on Douglass or other Senators in this matter, without compromising yourself, may I ask you to do it. If the Regts are raised it by now means follows that I will get back but the interest…I think…that if the regts are raised I am quite certain of a field officer’s commission. My friend Douglass sends his regards to you, with his warmest wishes for your success.”

Trimmed left edge, intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered toning, a few trivial brushes to text, and light show-through from writing on reverse, otherwise very good condition.

In 1857, McClellan joined Illinois Central as an engineer and was quickly promoted to vice president in January 1858, but despite a successful civilian career, he really wanted a continuation of his earlier military career. He became heavily involved in regimental recruiting, enlisting help from local politicians including Illinois Senators Lyman Trumbull and Stephen Douglas. By 1860, he was considered the most prominent, powerful lawyer and lobbyist for the railroad industry despite his earlier

failures in creating new Illinois rail lines. The incumbent senator had pushed through the 1850 land grant railroad bill which made it possible for the construction of the Illinois Central and had not squandered $12 million in taxpayer money for transportation subsidies as Lincoln had, making Douglas the more viable candidate for McClellan. As Illinois Central’s vice president he secured a free pass for the Democrat and a railroad car for his campaign as the senator stumped across the state during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Two political rivals sparred over the issue of slavery when Lincoln opened the debates with his famous “House Divided” speech in Springfield, and while Lincoln lost to Douglas, it brought the lawyer national recognition, propelling him to victory over Douglas in the 1860 presidential campaign. When McClellan became a major-general of volunteers in Ohio, the president became his Commander-in-Chief, setting up a confrontational relationship that eventually led Lincoln to relieve McClellan of his command on March 11, 1862. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Your letter of the 25th has just turned up—having been overlooked in a huge pile accumulated during the busy times of the late campaign” 1806. George B. McClellan.

War-dated ALS signed “Geo. B. McClellan,” one page, 4.5 x 7, November 13, 1861. McClellan writes to a colonel, in part: “Your letter of the 25th has just turned up—having been overlooked in a huge pile accumulated during the busy times of the late campaign. As I am on the very point of starting off for the day, I can only say that it will afford me great pleasure to begin your application if sent to me.” Light creasing to the top right and bottom left corner, a strip of toning to the bottom edge, and a pencil notation to the top left corner, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1807. George B. McClellan. Book: Mc-

Clellan’s Own Story. NY: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887. Hardcover with gold embossed lettering, 6.25 x 9.25, 678 pages. A printed signature below an etched steel engraving on the reverse of the third free-end page reads, “Very truly yours, Geo. McClellan.” In very good condition, with light toning, a loose, but intact hinge, with some separation towards the top of the front hinge, light rippling to a few of the closing pages, and light wear to the cover and spine. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1809. George B. McClellan’s Staff. Desirable unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.25 carte-de-visite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front of the mount. Group of four Union officers in uniform, all wearing kepis and sitting on camp chairs in front of a tent. Mount is trimmed. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 388. Group of Officers of Gen’l McClellan’s Staff, May 20, 1862. In fine condition, with light toning and wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

(1826–1885). Hailed at the beginning of the Civil War as the “Young Napoleon.”

He was defeated for the presidency in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Full standing view in uniform with rank of major general, wearing kepi and holding field glasses. Backmark: J. Taylor’s Photographic Studio, 191 6th Avenue near 13th Street, New York.

In fine condition, with a few light surface marks and trivial silvering to some of the darker areas of the image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1808. George B. McClellan. Signed book: Key to the Exercises in Ollendorff’s

New Method of Learning To Read, Write, and Speak the German Language. NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1850. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5, 182 pages. Signed on the first free end page in black ink, “Geo B. McClellan.” In good condition, with owner’s signature and presentation to signed page, scattered toning and soiling to signed pages, mirroring and ink show through to front paste down and second free end page, toning and foxing to back pastedown and last page, partial separation to front hinge, wear to covers, bends to corners, and tape repair over the spine. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1810. George B. McClellan. Union general

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1811. George B. McClellan.

Sheet music for ‘Hail! Glorious Banner of Our Land,’ five pages, 10 x 13, featuring an image reminiscent of Lady Liberty holding up an American flag, flanked by an eagle and a ship sailing in the distance, foot propped on an axe bundled in sticks, with the printed inscription below, “Respectfully inscribed to Major General George B. McClellan by Mrs. Mary Farrell Moore, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 4, 1861.”

Published by John Church, Jr. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mild toning and dampstaining to the cover and subsequent pages, some trivial clear soiling, and a small tear to the bottom edge of the cover, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1812. George B. McClellan. Sheet

music for ‘Gen. McClellan’s Polka for the Piano,’ five pages, 10.5 x 13.5. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co. of Boston.

Scattered light toning and spotting, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition.

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1813. George B. McClellan. Sheet music

for ‘General McClellan’s Grand March,’ five pages, 9.5 x 12.25, featuring a full-page, majestic color image of General McClellan and a white horse on the cover. Published by Lee & Walker of Philadelphia. Scattered mild to moderate toning and rubbing, some scattered light spotting, a few edge tears to the front cover, a stamp and ink notation to the cover, and a rough left edge, otherwise very good condition.

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Pre-war rail pass issued by McClellan 1814. George B. McClellan. Railway ticket, signed “Geo. B. McClellan, Genl Supdt,” 4 x 2.5, 1860. Free ticket on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad issued to Miss Mary E. Cahar “On account of Ohio Statesman from St. Louis to Cincinnati.” Ticket is affixed to a slightly larger off-white sheet. In very good to fine condition, with three vertical creases, two through single letters of signature, and scattered light toning and soiling. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1815. Irvin McDowell and Staff. Union general (1818–1885).

He was appointed brigadier general May 14, 1861. By July, political pressure demanded an advance by his half trained army on the Rebels under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard at Manassas Junction, where the railroad from Richmond to Alexandria met the line from the Shenandoah Valley. The resulting Union disaster at the First Battle of Bull Run stemmed as much from misfortune as ineptitude although on paper McDowell had a good plan, but wasn’t able to inspire his officers or troops. Stunning unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Excellent view of General Irvin McDowell (sixth from the left) standing on the front steps of Arlington House, the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, just prior to the first battle of Bull Run. McDowell is wearing a bummer’s kepi and holding his sword. He is surrounded by eight members of his staff, all but one with sword visible. His orderly is holding a white horse at left of the view. No backmark, but this is a Mathew Brady view. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Killed in the Atlanta campaign 1816. James B. McPherson.

Union general (1828–1864). He saw service at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg. On March 26, 1864, he was given command of the Army of the Tennessee which he led in the subsequent campaign in northern Georgia. McPherson was killed before Atlanta on July 22, 1864. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: Morse’s Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

Meade Signed CDV 1818. George G. Meade. Near flaw-

less wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite bust photo of General Meade, signed below the image in ink, “Geo. G. Meade, Maj. Gen. USA.” In fine condition, with slightly irregular ink adhesion to the end of Meade’s title. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Cased medical field kit

1817. Medical Kit. Civil War period surgeons Pocket ‘Field’

cased medical kit, circa 1860, with five medical tools included.

Items included in the kit are: a pair of scissors, tweezers, a suture needle (and string), and two scalpels, one marked “Arnold & Sons.” All items are housed in their mahogany case, which measures 7 x 2.25. A small Field Kit such as this would have allowed a military doctor to practice in the emergency travel and field conditions for smaller medical issues, versus carrying his larger, more cumbersome full surgical kit. The interior of the case has two small sectional teeth missing on the areas holding the scalpel tools (likely removed to make room for a larger tool), overall the kit is in sound shape, with expected age wear to metal tools. A nice piece of original Civil War medical history, as seen referenced in numerous books on the topic.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Commander of the famous Iron Brigade 1819. Solomon Meredith. Union

general (1810– 1875). At the battle of Chancellorsville, his brigade of one Michigan, two Indiana, and three Wisconsin regiments, known as the “Iron Brigade,” fought in Gen. John F. Reynold’s 1st Corps. Meredith’s and Cutler’s brigades opened the infantry fighting at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-devisite photo. Excellent seated view in uniform with rank of full colonel. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light toning, light silvering to some of the darker areas of the image, and a trimmed bottom edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“Take good care of her, take her shoes off...and keep her away from the other as they kick each other” 1821. Nelson A. Miles. American sol-

dier (1839–1925) who earned a niche in military history as the only man to serve as an officer in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and Spanish-American War. Though the nearly eighty-year-old Miles volunteered to serve during World War I, his offer was declined

by Woodrow Wilson. ALS, four pages, 6 x 9.5, Hotel Somerset, Commonwealth Ave, Boston letterhead, June 1, 1911. Miles writes to his nephew who is looking after his farm, in part: “I think I will not sell the large brown mare…I intend to bre[e]d her again. Take good care of her, take her shoes off…and keep her away from the other as they kick each other. I think you better keep the cattle in the yard for the present or until you have some heavy rains to bring that grass up,” adding a post script and signing his initials, “N. A. M.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing, and a few trivial ink marks. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

General Miller approves an 1862 honorable discharge for Private Clark from the First Irish 1822. John Francis Miller.

1820. Henry C. Merwin. Union Lietenant Colonel killed in action at Gettysburg leading his Connecticut regiment in a charge. War-dated ALS signed “Henry,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 9.5, November 21, 1862. From Camp Tuttle, Virginia, Merwin writes his mother. In part: “We are under orders such as to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. The orders we rec’d Wednesday Morn about 4 am and it is now Friday night so you see we may not go at all…

Capt. Cowles & our 1st Asst. Surgeon arrived last night. His name is Hill. I like him very much. I think he is smart.” Reverse of second page bears an address panel in Merwin’s hand In very good condition, with intersecting folds, ink and pencil marks to last page, intersecting folds, light overall toning and a few edge chips. Any war-dated correspondence from Merwin is quite scarce. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

A Union general (1831–1886) who also served as a California representative in the Senate from 1881–1886. Scarce partly-printed DS, twice signed “Jno. F. Miller, Col. 29th Indiana,” once at the conclusion and again below an endorsement on the reverse, one page, 8 x 10, August 24, 1862. Certificate to be given to volunteers at the time of their discharge to enable them to receive their pay, certifying that “John Clark, a private of Lieut. Scully, Company S of the 35 Regiment of Ind volunteers of the State of Indiana” having “enrolled in it at the muster into the service of the United States… on the 23rd day of November 1861…for the term of three years and having served honestly and faithfully with his Company in the field, to the present date, is now entitled to a discharge by reason of Disability.”

Several horizontal folds, scattered creasing, and a pencil notation to the top border, otherwise fine condition. The 35th Regiment Indiana Infantry was organized on December 11, 1861 during the American Civil War, and mustered out October 23, 1865. It was known as the First Irish as it was mainly made up of Irish-Americans. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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An amazing two year account of the conflict, over 150 pages from a Union soldier 1823. George Morgan. Collection of 45 ALSs written by Union soldier George Morgan; 164 total pages; written from various places in

Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., Knoxville, and Philadelphia; dating from May 12, 1862–September 21, 1864. All but two letters written by Morgan, primarily to his brother Austin, and a few to his parents and another brother Kimball. Two letters are written

by Austin and Charles Woodward, who sends news of George’s death.

The letters chronicle in detail Morgan’s experiences as a participant in the Civil War over a period of two years—the military routine and battles, as well as his views (with grammar and spelling retained). In the first letter, written from Lancaster, Kentucky, Morgan reports that “we marched seventy five miles in six days….I supose that we shall have to keep a marching and shelling about all summer….We are here to keep the rebbles back. …Richmond is taken…. We are in a rich state and we dont get half enough to eat and what we do get ant fit for the devel to eat.

There is good stuff enough grows out here but the solders cant get it…” Three miles from Harper’s Ferry, on October 14, Morgan complains, “them letters did me more good than all the stinking meat that I have eat for a weak.” On November 14 he reports, “We have ben a marching ever since the 29 of Oct…some days it has been pretty hard…we havt head much to eat. Each one of us have to do our own cooking, we take our hard tack and a chunk of raw meat, we fry our meat or rost it or eat it raw…. We expect to move from [the Rappahanock river]. Every hour yesterday I see a little shooting, the rebbles caveldry attacted some of our caveldry and pickett the other side of the rivver…they put the shells into them for about a half hour and then left; they took some of our men.” Nov 21, from Fredrickburg: “they say that Bronside has sent in a flag of truce giving them a short time to surrender the citty…we ant alowd to steel anny thing on the road, the rebbles prprty is all guardded, the armey aint alowed to distroy anny thing as they pass along….” On November 27 Morgan also comments on politics: “When these solyers get home the democratic party must rule for I dont think there is a man in the armey that will ever vote nonothing ticket again….” December 16: “I have ben in one hard battle…there was seventeen out of our regt killed on the field and a lar[g]e number wounded.” December 19: “…it was a horrable site to see the dead bodies…they dug ditches ten or fifteen rods long and throde them rite in two or three deap and…some of them wernt covered more than six inches deep and ther wer robed of everything they head, some of them wer stripped of naked.”

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The year 1863 begins with news that “…the rebbles have dug rifle pits all along on the other side of the rivver….” By February 12, Morgan has moved to Newport News “from Falmouth…went down to…the potomack rivver…there our Regerment gut on board a schooner. There was three schooners and one steam boat loadded with soldiers….”March 9: “…A sick man out here dont have half as good care taken of him as a sick chap gets at home….” March 19: “The moneter dont lay but a little ways out from the wharfe. It looks like an old raft, it ant but a foot and a half above the water, there ant no guns to be seen nor enny thing else hardely….” On March 23, Morgan observes the social and economic environment: “…niggers…come in every day and…will wash shirts for five cents apeace….” April 18 from Winchester, Kentucky: “…the slaves out here live ten times as easey as the people do in New hampshire and have about as much money; here is thousands of slaves that monney would not hire them to leav thier masters…the smartest nigger there is here dont do as much work in three days as I could do in one….” August 1: “…the rebels left. After daylight we was ordered out of the pits, they found out that they wer gon and then we went over to the citty. We found a fue rebbles soldiers that stade back a purpos to get taken; they had not enny guns nor equipments….” August 18: “…This fall we have ben out almost a year and the regiment has gut reduced down more than one half…. I think they will have some troubble to get out three hundred thousand men. They cant lick the south they mi[gh]t just as well stay to home….” Early in September, Morgan hears that Austin got drafted and writes, “…the darnd Republicans. I think more of the old democrat party than ever I did before.” September 12: “… we have started on a long journey…the last monthley report there wernt but three hundred and seventy men reported for duty….”

September 23: “…we have gut to go through the Cumberland gap where old Burnside took over two thoussands rebbels. They took them to camp Nelson. We met them when we was a comming here.

The Rebbles looked pretty rough; they head on grey clothes, they wer rather small young looking solders….”

“The damnd war will be settled up this summer or fall. Old Grant will take Richmond before he leaves it”

On January 14, 1864, Morgan writes from Camp near glines cross road, Penn: “…we are living on half rations and poor at that. You folks at home have no idea what a poor situation this armey hear is in. Our clothes are worn out and a good menney of our boys are bar footed…my old boots are amost gon…. I was on skirmish and picket every other day and knight and when I was off I hade to be to work on fortification…. The rebbles calculated to take the citty but they did not quite make out….” February 20: “…there will be some more feightting here in East Penn. They talk about starving the rebbles out…. Old Longstreet armey has gon into winter quarters up about Morristown. Some think that they will try Knoxville…. If they had stuck to us a little while longer before they would have starved us out and took us all prisoners…. I think it is enough to make a man love his cuntry to be used as we have ben used…. There is some talk here about the 9th core goin north to recrute to fifty or sixty thoussands and go on an expidition another spring under Burnside….” Morgan’s letters between May and July are written from the hospital in Philadelphia where he is recuperating from an illness. May 11: “…the doctor says that I have head the spring feaver…. I see by the papers that old Burnsides keepes his niggers as a reserve….” June 7: “…the damnd war will be settled up this summer or fall. Old Grant will take Richmond before he leaves it….” Morgan’s last letter is written July 11: “…I am goin to Washington…they are a sendding every man that is able to fire a gun. They think that Washington is in great danger. I wish the rebs head stade in Richmond for I…should probably have stade here a good while….” On September 21, Charles Woodward sends the tragic news of George’s death: “It seems that he had started from the Hospital…to go to Regt. had got as far as Alexandria Va. Was taken with Diptheria and died very Sudden on the day of July 22.”

In very good overall condition. Letters are contained in a custom-designed blue fall-back box.RRAuction COA.…(MB $500)

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1824. James Negley. Union general and Pennsylvania representative who played an integral role in the victory at the Battle of Murfreesboro (1826–1901). New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago Railway Company First Mortgage Bond for $1000, #514, Series A, 10.25 x 14.25, signed at the conclusion in ink as secretary, “James S. Negley, Jr.” Also signed by the president and treasurer. Bond includes two attached sheets of thirty-dollar bond certificates, 77 in total, each bearing a number on the reverse, with three missing (numbers 1–3) from the bottom of the first sheet. In fine condition, with three horizontal folds and a light strip of toning across the central fold. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

An extremely early reference to the formation of Negro regiments, which had yet to be approved by Congress 1825. Negro Regiment. War-

dated LS signed “P. H. Watson,” one page, 7.75 x 8, War Department letterhead, April 3, 1863.

Letter to D. S. Curtis. In full: “The Secretary of War directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant requesting authority to raise and command a negro regiment; and, in reply, to inform you that your communication has been placed on the files of the Adjutant General for consideration.” Paper loss to uneven bottom edge, show-through from docketing on reverse and a bit of scattered light toning and soiling, otherwise fine condition. The Bureau of Colored Troops was not established until May of 1863, as such, this letter is an early reference to a request for a unit formation. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1827. New York Tribune. Original

copy of the New York Tribune, Vol. XXIV, No. 7,213, 15.75 x 20.5, May 18, 1864.

Detailed account of Sherman taking Resaca, Georgia: “There was sharp fighting yesterday and today. Resaca, Ga., was captured this afternoon with ten guns, 1,200 prisoners, and six Rebel trains going south with supplies….” Scattered light toning, some edge tears, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

Interesting handmade and decorated newspaper 1828. Newspaper. Handmade and ornately decorated Civil War

newspaper, 5 x 8, 18 lightly-lined pages, entitled “Semi-annual Olio” and is devoted to “Science, Literature, Romance, Education Morrals, Health Amusements.” The newspaper, more of a booklet style features a front cover with a wonderful illustration of the American flag and with writing instruments. The book is threaded together with red, white and blue ribbons decorating the spine. A few excerpts from the paper are: “The Seminanual Olio is just the paper for Generals, Blacksmiths and the President as it would have told McClellan how to get more men to Richmond than what was taken prisoners and that there is land enough upworth that needs distling with going…to the Chichihawning Swamps and it would inform the president that there is a half a dozen of them everlasting negroes got lives down south and that he needs at least 250,000 more men to put things down, and in the language… word that it is necessary to take vigorous means to put down Rebellion.” In good condition, with scattered moderate toning and soiling, heavier to the covers, light dampstaining, and a few chipped pieces from the fragile ribbons. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Comprehensive collection of nearly 5,000 pages detailing New York’s role in the rebellion 1826. New York in the War of the Rebellion. Five hardcover

volumes, plus one hardcover index, of New York in The War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865, third edition, 1909, published by D. B. Lyon Company in 1912, totalling 4,499 pages in all. Scattered toning, soiling, stray marks, loose, but intact hinges, and moderate toning, staining, spotting, and edge and spine wear to the covers, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Vast collection of important Civil War officers and politicians 1829. Notables. Hearty and comprehensive collection of approximately 157 items, including a wide range of formats such as signed photos, letters, documents, checks, and signatures from a variety of celebrated Civil War notables. This arrangement covers a wide realm of wartime individuals who, in one way or another, made a significant mark during one of the nation’s earliest industrial wars. Signers include: Philip H. Sheridan, Nathaniel P. Banks, Oliver O. Howard, William Mahone, Andrew A. Humphreys, David D. Porter, Daniel Sickles, Salmon P. Chase, Howell Cobb, John Pope, George W. Schofield, Don Carlos Buell, Lawrence O’Bryan Branch, Absalom Baird, John Echols, John J. Peck, George H. Thomas, Edward A. Wild, James S. Wadsworth, Seth Williams, Hiram Burnham, Washington L. Elliott, William B. Bate, Quincy A. Gillmore, Carl Schurz, Kenner Garrard, Edward Hatch, John T. Morgan, Joseph J. Bartlett, James Shields, J. H. Hobart Ward, John A. Dahlgren, James S. Robinson, Thomas H. Ruger, Edward D. Morgan, and French Forrest. A more comprehensive list is available online at rrauction.com. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered mild to moderate creasing, toning, and soiling, and some ink and pencil notations. RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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Remarkably rare and astounding collection of Civil War luminaries, with Generals, including Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Doubleday, as well the exceptionally scarce Boston Corbett

1830. Notables. Antebellum hardcover autograph album, 6.5 x 8, containing approximately 143 ink signatures penned by famed Civil War era leaders and politicians.

Signers are: Boston Corbett, U. S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Abner Doubleday, David Porter, Henry W. Halleck, Gideon Wells, Edwin Stanton, Winfield S. Hancock, William H. Seward, James G. Blaine, Henry Wilson, John Pope, Benjamin Butler, and Oliver O. Howard. A detailed list of the signers is available. Scattered light areas of toning, soiling, and foxing, with steel engraving images of renaissance women interspersed throughout, casting light blocks of mirroring on the opposite pages, otherwise fine condition. A truly uncommon and highly-desirable find, this album gathers together some of the greatest military and political forerunners from one of the most harrowing and heralded battles fought on American soil. RRAuction COA.‌(MB $300)

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1831. John Newton.

Union general (1822– 1895). Promoted to major general Mar. 30, 1863, he was conspicuous in storming Marye’s Heights during the Chancellorsville campaign, and at Gettysburg he was selected to command the 1st Corps after the death of John F. Reynolds. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: R.W. Addis, Photographer, McClees’ Gallery, Washington, DC. In fine condition, with light toning and wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1832. George B. Osborn. Union Lieutenant Colonel in the 56th

Pennsylvania Regiment. War-dated partly-printed DS, signed “Geo. B. Osborn,” one page, 17 x 14, April 15, 1864. An “Inventory and Inspection Report of Unserviceable Ordnance and Ordnance Stores for which Capt. James S. Warner Comd. Co. A…is responsible, and which have been examined and reported on by Lt. Col. Geo. B. Osborn, Division Inspector,” who had completed an inspection of an inventory of several items including a Springfield Musket Rifle, which was rendered unserviceable when a “barrel bursted,” a Bayonet Scabbard, which was “worn out…out of repair,” and had a “sheath separate,” both of which were to be turned in. Intersecting folds, some light toning, two trivial areas of separation to the central fold, and some light feathering to the signature, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1833. Halbert E. Paine.

Union general who lost his leg at the Battle of Port Hudson, and was later elected to Congress.

Partly-printed DS, signed “H. E. Paine,” one page, 10.5 x 7.25, November 10, 1887. Ornate engraved stock certificate for the Ivanhoe Mining Company issued to D. W. Middleton, Jr., for 1000 shares, signed at the bottom by Paine as president. In fine condition, with two vertical folds and a uniform shade of mild toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Pinkerton sells his detective stories 1834. Allan Pinkerton. Head of the Union Intelligence Service during the Civil War who later founded the first detective agency, the Pinkerton Agency, whose open-eye logo is thought to have been the inspiration for the phrase ‘private eye.’ Manuscript DS, one page, 9 x 13.75, March 20, 1875.

A contract for the publication of Claude Melnotte and other detective stories in an edition of at least three thousand copies, from which Pinkerton is to receive a royalty of ten cents a copy. Signed at the conclusion by Pinkerton. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, with several light creases through signature, mild toning, and mounting remannts to reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200) 1835. Alfred Pleasanton. Union general (1824–1897). Pleasanton commanded a division of the Cavalry Corps in the Antietam, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville campaigns.

Promoted to major general in June of 1863, he took over command of the Cavalry Corps and directed 10,000 Federal horsemen in the battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, the biggest cavalry fight of the Civil War. Sharp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Excellent half-view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

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Pope writes McDowell concerning Fitz-John Porter’s attempt to overturn his 1863 court-martial verdict as the scapegoat for the Second Battle of Bull Run 1836. John Pope. ALS signed “Jno. Pope,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed Headquarters Department of the Lakes, Detroit, Michigan letterhead, January 29, 1869. Pope writes to General Irwin McDowell, in part: “I send enclosed a printed copy of my letter to Genl Grant in relation to the attempt of Fitzjohn Porter to have his case reopened—I have written at Atlanta Go. where I had not the reports of the Rebel officers &…which reports therefore I was obliged to quote from memory—I do not know the present condition of the case nor whether it will be revived during the present Administration.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing and toning, and faint ink mirroring from premature folding.

On January 10, 1863, Major General Fitz-John Porter was court-martialed for his actions during the Second Battle of Manassas. Pope had blamed Porter for his defeat, calling the officer “insubordinate,” and preferred court-martial charges against the general.

Embarrassed by Pope’s failure and furious that McClellan opted not to pursue Lee in Virginia after Antietam, the Lincoln administration used the court-martial proceedings to save face. Charged with with disobeying orders and misconduct, Porter was found guilty “and the court do therefore sentence him, Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter, of the United States Volunteers, to be cashiered, and to be forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States.” He was dismissed from service January 21.

Porter immediately attempted to overturn the conviction, declaring that the administration had fixed the proceedings to protect its own interests, but he was vilified in the press during the entire war. When the fighting ended, he sought the aid of Confederate generals to gain access to captured Confederacy papers that would aid his defense. Though he eventually won support among some Union officers including Grant, it was not until 1878 that President Hayes commissioned General Schofield to investigate the matter. The Schofield Commission exonerated the former major-general and concluded that “in our opinion justice requires at his [Hayes] hands such action as may be necessary to annul and set aside the findings and sentence of the court-martial in the case of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter, and to restore him to the positions of which that sentence deprived him—such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from the service.” On August 5, 1886, Chester Arthur, through an Act of Congress, reversed his sentence and restored his commission as infantry colonel which was backdated his rank from May 14, 1861. Finally vindicated, Porter retired from the Army two days later. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Pope writes to General Hamilton from his sick bed in Milwaukee: “I have been confined to my house for several days with influenza and I am not yet quite recovered but I hope with confidence to be with you on Monday” 1837. John Pope. War-dated ALS signed “Jno. Pope,” one page, 8 x 7.5, embossed Head-Quarters, Department of the Northwest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin letterhead, January 12, 1864. In a letter to General S. Hamilton, Pope writes, in part: “I have just received your note of yesterday. Myers & myself will go up on Monday unless something happens which I do not now anticipate—I have been confined to my house for several days with influenza and I am not yet quite recovered but I hope with confidence to be with you on Monday.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing and toning, a few small tears along the edges, and a pencil notation to the top edge. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1838. Fitz John Porter and Staff.

Sharp and desirable unsigned wet plate, albumen photograph, mounted to a 6 x 4.5 card. Spectacular outdoor view of General Fitz John Porter and his staff posing in front of his tent. The general can be seen seated at left center, in uniform with rank of brigadier general, holding sword and kepi on his lap.

Numerous officers with swords are in the scene as well as three African American servants. An African American boy can be seen at far left on one knee, an African American woman is standing at right, and next to her lounging on the ground is an African American man wearing fatigue coat and kepi. 1862 M.B. Brady imprint on the front of the mount. Backmark: Photographic label, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 496. Gen’l Fitz John Porter and Staff, At Headquarters, Westover, Westover Landing, Virginia, July 16, 1862. In fine condition, with light toning. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1839. Fitz John Porter Headquarters. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Union soldiers and African American servants in the foreground, with large Union camp in the background. The top part of the photographic label on the reverse has been lifted off.

[This is Brady view No. 370]. The bottom part reads, Headquarters Lafayette-Headquarters Gen’l Porter, Farnold’s House and York River in the Distance. In fine condition, with light toning and wear.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

Porter writes on the controversial Chinese Question: “Not long since I read in the ‘Herald’ a very interesting report of a lecture by you on the subject of the Chinese and our treatment of them. Your utterances coincided so nearly with my own opinions that I was particularly pleased with the article” 1840. David D. Porter. Union admiral (1813–1891) who helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the US Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War. ALS signed “David D. Porter, Admiral,” three pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, March 14, 1879. Porter writes to Reverand Dr. Newman from Washington, D. C., in part: “Not long since I read in the ‘Herald’ a very interesting report of a lecture by you on the subject of the Chinese and our treatment of them. Your utterances coincided so nearly with my own opinions that I was particularly pleased with the article. By today’s mail I send you a copy of the ‘United Service Quarterly Aeneio’ containing an article on Chinese contributed by me. The article was written some two months ago about the time when the Californians began to get excited on the subject of the Chinese Question. The article I send may serve to amuse you and perhaps make you a little uneasy about the future prospect of the establishment of a Mongolian dynasty in Washington. As you and I have both expressed friendly sentiments towards the citizens of the Flowery Kingdom, we may hope to be in high favor should we live till that time, but should neither of us live as long as Methuselah, we certainly may expect at least a present of a box of tea from his Excellency Chin Lan Pin.” In very good condition, with two horizontal mailing folds, one passing through the signature, light creasing, a mild separation to the bottom of the central hinge, and a repaired complete tear through the closing sentiment. In 1879, the slogan of the Workingmen’s Party of California was “The Chinese Must Go!,” and the anti-Chinese hysteria was reaching a widespread volume across the state, a sentiment that both Porter and his compatriot Newman seemed to have sided with: “The article was written some two months ago about the time when the Californians began to get excited on the subject of the Chinese Question. The article I send may serve to amuse you and perhaps make you a little uneasy about the future prospect of the establishment of a Mongolian dynasty in Washington.” This rise of hostility was followed by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which would make history as the first measure restricting emigration to the United States based on race. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Lincoln’s generals are duly impressed during Porter’s controversial court-martial following the disaster at Second Mannassas 1841. Fitz John Porter. Manuscript DS, one page, 8 x 12.5, January 10, 1863. In part, “The undersigned members of the General Court Martial for the trial of Maj. Gen. F. J. Porter, take pleasure in testifying their entire satisfaction with the manner in which W. P. Lord Esqr has reported the voluminous proceedings of this Court.

He has made a complete & accurate verbatim report taking with perfect correctness every sentence as rapidly as it was uttered by the witness, we are convinced that the ends of justice are fully as well…its administration much more facilitated by the employment of such a stenographer as Mr. Lord. We take great pleasure also testifying our high appreciation of Mr. Lord as a gentleman, and, tendering him our thanks for the efficient manner in which he has discharged his duty.”

The document concludes with the signatures of the nine generals and the judge advocate, presented in two columns. The signing members are: “E. A. Hitchcock, Maj. Gen. Vol” (West Point 1817); “B. M. Prentiss, Brig. Gen. Vol” (captured at Shiloh); “James B. Ricketts, Brig. Gen. Vol” (West Point 1839, wounded and captured at 1st Manassas, wounded at Cedar Creek); “N. B. Buford, Brig. Gen. Vo” (West Point 1827); “Jno. P. Slough Brig. Gen. Vol” (killed, at Santa Fe, N. M., on Dec. 16, 1867, in a personal attack over politics); “D. Hunter, Maj. Gen.” (West Point 1822, served as president of this court martial, served as commission president of the Lincoln conspirators trial); “Rufus King, Brig. Gen. Vol” (West Point 1833); “Silas Casey, Brig. Gen. Vol” (West Point 1826); “J. A. Garfield, Brig. Gen. Vol” (future President); “J. Holt, Judge Advocate” (conducted the trial of Porter and the Lincoln conspirators). In fine condition, with several horizontal folds, some light brushing to last two lines of text, and a few other trivial brushes to text.

Porter commanded the V Corps in the disastrous Battle of Second Bull Run. During the battle, Porter received contradictory and unclear orders from his superiors as he attempted to command his troops based on Confederate positions. In the aftermath of the battle, Major General John Pope blamed Porter for the defeat, claiming that Porter had been insubordinate. After Porter’s friend Major General George McClellan was disgraced during the Antietam crisis in the fall of 1862, Porter could no longer seek political protection and Pope preferred court-martial charges against him. The charges were based in politics more than fact. The administration sought to protect itself by absolving Pope, Lincoln’s hand-picked commander. In addition, Porter’s ties to McClellan and his open criticism of Pope made him a political target. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton—a McClellan opponent—picked the members of the court personally. Porter’s court-martial was heard November 1862 through January 1863, and was considered a major event in the war.

The trial was covered closely by the press and Porter became a scapegoat as other officers sought to clear their own names.

This document was signed by the members of Porter’s court-martial days before they reached a verdict. Porter was found guilty of disobedience and misconduct in front of the enemy. He was dismissed from the army on January 21, 1863. Delivered in the midst of further military setbacks and political upheaval, the verdict deeply disturbed the public’s confidence in the army and the administration. Porter struggled for years to clear his name. Eventually the court-martial was found to be unjust and overturned, but Porter would not receive an official pardon until twenty years later during the Cleveland administration. A document from an important trial that stressed political and military fault lines in the Union at a critical point in the war. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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1842. Fitz John Porter. Ink signa-

ture, “Ever yours truly, Fitz John Porter, Col & Bvt. Brig Genl, U. S. Army, Morristown, N. J.,” on an off-white 3.25 x 2 card. Uniform toning and some light edge creases, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1843. Horace Porter.

US Grant’s personal secretary. Porter was also a brevet brigadier general, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Chickamauga as an aide-de-camp to General Grant. Pullman’s Palace Car Company Chicago stock certificate for 100 shares, #6893, 11.5 x 7.5, signed at the conclusion by Porter.

Certificate is blank with two red “Void” stamps over the text. In fine condition, with light toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1844. John A. Rawlins. Union general

(1831–1869). When the Civil War broke out, U. S. Grant asked Rawlins to be his aide de camp, and on Aug. 30, 1861, Rawlins was appointed assistant adjutant general on Grant’s staff, and brigadier general on Aug. 11, 1863. During his brief life, Rawlins was Grant’s alter ego and very intimate friend. He was one of the officers inside of the McLean house during Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. When Grant became President of the U.S., he named Rawlins his Secretary of War, a post he held for only five months before dying. Exemplary unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Superb quality half-view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“Yes we’ll rally ‘round the flag boys!”

1845. George F. Root.

American songwriter (1820-1895) who found particular fame during the Civil War. AMQS on a 7.5 x 4.5 off-white album page. Root pens three bars of music and lyrics to his famous Civil War song. Root writes, “Yes we’ll rally ‘round the flag boys!, Geo. F. Root, Ap. 1895.” Accompanied by a copy of his song, printed during the Civil War, entitled ‘The Rally Cry of Freedom,’ 5 x 8. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Killed at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, in 1864 1846. David A. Russell. Union general (1820–1864). He was appointed colonel of the 7th Massachusetts Infantry on Jan. 31, 1862, and fought in the Peninsular and Antietam campaigns. At the battle of Winchester on Sept. 19, 1864, while leading one of his brigades, Russell was killed instantly by a shell fragment which tore through his heart. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Excellent halfview in uniform, with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

1847. Winfield Scott and Staff. Unsigned

wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 cartede-visite photo.

General Winfield Scott is seated at the center, and he is flanked by members of his staff. The officer standing directly to Scott’s left is General Fitz John Porter. Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light toning and trivial soiling to some of the darker areas of the image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1848. Winfield Scott. ALS signed

“Winfield S.,” one page, 7 x 4.25, February 20, 1866. Scott writes to R. L. Stuart of 154 5th Av., NY, from the N. O. St. Charles Hotel, in full: “If A. Stuart be no better, send him to me to nurse.” In very good condition, with a central horizontal and vertical fold, one passing through the first letter of the signature, light creasing and toning, a separation to the top of the vertical fold, and an ink notation at the bottom. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

Autographed carte-de-visite presented to Mrs. General Ambrose E. Burnside in 1863 1849. Winfield Scott. Union general (1786–1866). A year older

than the Constitution, the venerable Scott, hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, became General in chief of the U. S. Army in 1841, a position he still held at the start of the Civil War. A Virginian, he was the only non-West Pointer of Southern origin in the Regular Army to remain loyal to the Union. Wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 3.75 carte-de-visite photo, signed and inscribed on the reverse in ink, “For my friend, Mrs. Genl. Burnside, Winfield Scott, 1863.” Full seated, outdoor view taken by M.B. Brady & Co., at the US Military Academy, West Point, NY. He is wearing a double breasted frock coat with epaulettes and holding his sword. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with mild toning along the edges. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1850. Winfield Scott.

Mexican War and Union commander (1786–1866) nicknamed ‘Old Fuss and Feathers’ for his love of military pageantry. Wardated LS, one page, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, October 30, 1861. Written to Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott, in full: “Permit me to introduce to you Mr. Legcurgus Edgerton, a gentleman of excellent business habits, residing in Paris,” with Scott adding, “& worthy of esteem & confidence.” Light creasing and toning, and a pencil notation to the top edge, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Winfield Scott signed CDV 1851. Winfield Scott. Union general (1820–1891). Rising to be one

of the Union’s most renowned military leaders, Sherman saw action at 1st Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, the infamous March to the Sea, and the 1865 Carolina’s campaign. Wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed on the reverse in ink, “Winfield Scott, 1863.” There is also a signature affixed to the front of the card mount. Full seated view of ‘Old Fuss and Feathers’ wearing a double breasted frock coat with epaulettes and holding his sword. Imprint on the reverse: This Picture of Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott was made at West Point, N.Y., June 10, 1862. The subscribers claim that, for correctness of portraiture, finish and detail, it is pre-eminently the best portrait of the Great American Military Chieftain. Chas. D. Fredrick & Co., 587 Broadway, New York.

In fine condition, with a light, circular spot of soiling, not affecting the facial area, and light wear. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1852. Winfield Scott.

Sheet music for ‘General Scott’s Farewell Grand March,’ five pages, 10 x 12.75. Published by Horace Waters of New York. Scattered light toning and spotting, a few dings to the left edge, and mild show-through to the pages from sheet music on the reverse, otherwise fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1853. John Sedgwick. Union general (1813–1864). At Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864, his aides cautioned him about the unnecessary risks he was taking in exposing himself to the enemy. Sedgwick, replied, “they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” Moments later a Confederate sharpshooter found his mark and killed him instantly. Clear unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Half-view pose in uniform with rank of major general with 6th Corps badge pinned to his coat. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, with two-cents revenue tax stamp on the reverse. In fine condition, with a few trivial surface marks and light silvering to some of the darker areas of the image.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

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1854. William H. Seward and Foreign Diplomats.

Lawyer and Whig politician (1801–1872). Governor of New York from 1839-42. He later served in the Senate, vigorously opposed slavery and joined the Republican party in 1856.

Twice passed over for president (1856 and 1860) he became Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State. He was savagely attacked in his bed on the night of the Lincoln assassination by fellow conspirator Lewis Payne. He recovered from his wounds and served in the same post under President Andrew Johnson. Perhaps his most important act was the purchase of Alaska, then called “Seward’s Folly,” in 1867 from Russia.

Unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo.

Outdoor group shot taken in upstate New York, of US Secretary of State William H. Seward, posing with a group of foreign diplomats, with a waterfall in the background. Imprint on the reverse: Entered according to act of Congress, by W.J. Baker, in the year 1863, in the Clerk’s Court of the Northern District of NY. There is a printed label on the reverse of the card with a numbered key listing the individuals who appear in this view and also includes their titles. This has been mounted over the original backmark of the photo. The backmark reads, “W.J. Bakers Photographic Studio, 12 Tibbetts Block, Utica, NY.” In fine condition, with light toning and edge wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $250)

1855. William H. Seward. War-dated

DS signed “William H. Seward,” one page both sides, 8 x 10, Department of State, Washington letterhead, June 5, 1861.

In a circular to the Counsul of the United States, at Merida & Lisal, Seward writes, in full: “It has been suggested to the Department that vessels belonging to loyal citizens of the United States may be subjected to embarrassment in foreign ports, in consequence of arriving with clearance from New Orleans, and other ports in the Southern States, after the Collectors of Customs at such ports had ceased to exercise their official functions under the authority of the United States. The owners of such vessels are apprehensive that the production of clearances issued by individuals acting under the pretended authority of the insurgents, may lead to the detention of their vessels or to other molestation in consequence of the informality of the ships papers. If you should be satisfied, on the examination of any such papers, and the affidavit of the master, that he and the owners of the vessel have acted in good faith, and that their failure to comply with the law was occasioned by no fault or neglect on their part, you will not, for such failure, subject the vessel, or master, to any detention or expense, either by withholding the marine papers, or otherwise obstructing the lawful commerce of the United States. It is to be understood, however, that the benefit of this instruction is to be limited to such vessels as may have cleared from ports under control of the insurgents prior to the blockade, or within the time allowed by the officers commanding the blockading force for vessels to leave such blockaded ports.” Scattered light toning, a few small cuts to the body, a faint pencil notation to the top right corner, and a collector’s notation at the bottom edge, below the signature, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1856. George H. Sharpe. Union

general (1828–1900). He served on the staffs of Generals’ Joe Hooker, George G. Meade and U.S. Grant.

He also served as Deputy Provost Marshal General of the Army of the Potomac and Chief of the Bureau of Military Information. He was promoted to brevet brigadier general, Dec. 20, 1864, and brevet major general, Mar. 13, 1865. In 1867, he was appointed special agent of the US State Department by request of William H. Seward, and he went to Europe to locate and investigate persons who may have been involved in the assassination of President Lincoln. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: Alex. Gardner, Washington, DC, with vignette of the US Capitol building. Light toning, some trivial surface marks, and pencil notations on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1857. Sheet Music. Sheet music for ‘Parade March of the 22d Regt. N. Y. S. M. Union-Greys,’ six pages, 10.5 x 13.5, featuring a color rendition of three gray coats on the cover in a forest setting. Published

by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. In very good condition, with scattered light toning, soiling, and spotting, and a rough left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1858. Sheet Music.

Sheet music for ‘Four Popular Marches and Quicksteps,’ five pages, 9.75 x 13, featuring a printed drawing of four members of a Union regiment plotting their next move at camp. Published

by H. N. Hempsted of Milwaukee. In very good condition, with scattered toning and spotting, mild show-through to each page from the musical bars on the reverse, and each page separated from the hinge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1861. Sheet Music.

Sheet music for ‘Tramp!

Tramp! Tramp! or the Prisoner’s Hope,’ five pages, 10.25 x 13, featuring a printed wartime composite image on the cover. Published by Root & Cady of Chicago. In very good condition, with light toning, scattered light spotting, tearing along the edges with a more prominent tear to the bottom edge of the cover and each page, and a rough left edge, with the cover almost separated. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1859. Sheet Music.

Sheet music for ‘Drums & Trumpets or Parade in Broadway,’ seven pages, 10.5 x 13.5, featuring a striking color rendition of drums and trumpets on the cover. Published by F. B. Helmsmuller of New York. A crease to the bottom left corner, scattered light toning and soiling, a few moderate tears to the bottom and left edge of the front cover, mild show-through to the pages from sheet music on the reverse, and the cover completely separated, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1860. Sheet Music.

Sheet music for ‘On, On, On, the Boys Came Marching! or the Prisoner Free Song & Chorus,’ five pages, 10.25 x 13.25, featuring a detailed composite wartime image on the cover. Published by Root & Cady of Chicago.

Scattered light toning and spotting, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1862. Sheet Music.

Sheet music for ‘Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,’ five pages, 10.25 x 13.25. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co. of Boston. In very good condition, with scattered mild toning and spotting, an ink and pencil notation at the top edge, and a rough left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1863. Sheet Music.

Sheet music to ‘How Are You Green-Backs!,’ five pages, 9.5 x 12.25, featuring a composite image of United States currency on the cover.

Published by Wm. A. Pond & Co. of New York.

In very good condition, with uniform toning to the front cover, some light toning to the pages, a vertical area of dampstaining along the left edge of the last page, light show-through to the pages from sheet music on the reverse, and all of the pages separated from the hinge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1867. Philip H. Sheridan. War-dated

1864. Sheet Music.

Cover only for the sheet music for ‘The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,’ 9.25 x 12.5, featuring a printed etched drawing of injured men in the midst of battle. Published by D. P. Faulds of Louisville, Kentucky. In very good condition, with scattered toning and spotting, and a mirrored imprint of sheet music on the reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1865. Sheet Music.

Sheet music to ‘The Contraband,’ four pages, 10 x 13, featuring a printed etched image of a slave owner chasing after four negro boys. Published

by Lee & Walker of Philadelphia. Scattered light toning and soiling, with a more moderate area of soiling to the top left corner of both pages, scattered edge tears, and the pages separated, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

endorsement, signed in pencil “Appr. A., P. H. Sheridan Mj. Genl.

Comdg” on a pay order between the certification clause and the “Received at” paragraph, one page, 8 x 10.25, July 11, 1863. Sheridan approves a report for “Services rendered as Guide & Scout at Head Quarters 3rd Division…

Army Corps,” for a compensation in the amount of $50.00, also signed by J. G. Nichols. In very good condition, with two horizontal folds, light toning and creasing, a few scattered light areas of soiling, a small area of paper loss to the top left corner, and a few small edge tears. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1868. Philip H. Sheridan. Florid ink signa-

ture, “P.H. Sheridan, Lieut. General,” on an off-white 4.75 x 2.25 slip.

In fine condition, with some light toning. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1866. Philip H. Sheridan. Crisp ALS signed

“P. H. Sheridan,” one page, 5 x 6.5, April 12, 1882. In Sheridan’s difficult to decipher hand, he writes to General Strong requesting “the proposal made” be sent to Mrs. Sheridan. In very good condition, with a central horizontal and vertical crease, some light rubbing and soiling, a separation at the top edge and right edge, and a pencil notation in the top left corner. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1869. William T. Sherman and Generals. Unsigned wet plate,

albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Pictured at the center, seated with his arms and legs crossed is Commanding General William T. Sherman. He is flanked by his subordinate Generals [from left] O. O. Howard, (with empty sleeve) John A. Logan, William B. Hazen, Sherman, Jefferson C. Davis, Henry W. Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower. Numbers written below the generals in period ink correspond with an ID key glued to the back of the card mount. No backmark.

Clipped corners, light rippling, and numeric notations to the bottom of the image, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Sheridan approves the payment of an artillery teamster in 1863 1870. Philip H. Sheridan. War-dated hand-

written endorsement, “Apprd P. H. Sheridan, Maj Genl Comdg,” in the center of a onepage partly-printed document, 7.75 x 9.75, June 8, 1863. Sheridan authorizes the payment of $24.20 to Ellis Washington for services rendered as a teamster to an artillery company from March 18 to May 31, 1863. At the bottom of the sheet, Washington acknowledges receiving the money due him on June 8, 1863. In fine condition, with a uniform shade of toning and some slight show-through from docketing on reverse. Sheridan, best known for his Shenandoah Valley campaign during 1864, was responsible for cutting off Lee’s retreat at Appomattox and forcing his surrender in 1865. In the spring of 1863 (when this document was signed), Sheridan had just won a promotion to major general for his actions at Murfreesboro, Tennessee (The Battle of Stones River) at the beginning of the year. In November 1863, Sheridan’s assault on Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga would lead to his appointment as commander of the cavalry for the Army of the Potomac. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1871. Thomas W. Sherman.

Union general (1813–1879) who led an assault on the Confederate works at Port Hudson, during which time he sustained an injury resulting in the amputation of his right leg.

War-dated endorsement on the back of a supply invoice signed, “T. W. Sherman, Brig. Gen. Comg,” adding the date, “Jan. 7/62,” one page, 9.75 x 7.75. Sherman writes, “These Blankets will be received and accounted for by the Depot Qr. Master and issued on orders hereafter to be given.” The reverse bears a printed letter from the Army Clothing and Equipment Office, Philadelphia, December 26, 1861, regarding a delivery of supplies. In very good condition, with light creasing and toning, a few pieces of clear tape along the vertical folds, and light show-through from the print on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1872. William T. Sherman. LS signed

“W. T. Sherman,” one page, 4.75 x 8, May 19, 1890. Letter to the secretary of the 185 New York Volunteer Association. In full: “Your printed invitation to the Annual Reunion of the above Association on the 11th of June next is received. Upon reference to my engagement book I find that my time for all June is promised and I must therefore deprive myself of the great pleasure of accepting your courtesy.” Double matted and framed to an overall size of 12 x 17. In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through first initial of signature, and a uniform shade of mild toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Writing to the governor of New York, Sherman expresses “a strong desire to help all of the Old 13th Infantry that was with me at Vicksburg” 1873. William T. Sherman. ALS signed

“W. T. Sherman Lt. Genl,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri letterhead, November 25, 1867. Letter to New York Governor Reuben Fenton. In part: “I cannot recall to mind the parties referred to in this letter, but admit a strong desire to help all of the Old 13th Infantry that was with me at Vicksburg. And if this man be in great need, I must help him, unless there be local means of relief. Will you be kind enough to let some gentleman near you take this letter and hunt up this man, and write to Mrs. Genl. W. T. Sherman here in St. Louis the facts…I must go to Washington next week, and will be absent at the time an answer would reach St. Louis & therefore I leave it to Mrs. Sherman who is even more inclined than I profess to be to help the men of the Old Battalion.” Intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, mild toning to front, staple hole to top left and a trivial spot to body, otherwise fine condition. During the Civil War, the 13th Infantry earned its motto ‘First at Vicksburg.’ The 13th was the only Union unit to plant its colors on the Confederate positions. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“As the Govr seemed to lay great stress on the Negro troops I thought it would be grand to have one like yourself. Enthusiastic in the Cause” 1874. William T. Sherman. Famed Union general (1820–1891) best known for his devastating campaigns in the deep South, including the ‘March to the Sea,’ that led to the capture of Atlanta and Savannah and proved to be one of the turning points of the Civil War. War-dated ALS signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj Genl,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi letterhead, October 29, 1864. Letter to Colonel Isaac F. Shepard. In full: “I regret exceedingly that you were not promoted and confirmed as appointed. As the Govr seemed to lay great stress on the Negro troops I thought it would be grand to have one like yourself. Enthusiastic in the Cause. As to trading across lines, it is simply impossible. We cannot count on bread & meat, much less recruiting. I must now prohibit all trade as impracticable. Wishing you all kind of good luck, and advising you to try the service again, assuring you it is not half over yet.” Replaced top upper blank of page and last word of letterhead, and some scattered light wrinkling, otherwise fine condition.

Sherman, head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, was in the midst of his 1864 march through Georgia as he wrote to Colonel Shepard about his command of the African Brigade which had won high praise for their bravery at The Battle of Milliken’s Bend during the Vicksburg Campaign despite their lack of training and supplies. The colonel’s arrest stemmed from an 1863 incident in which he had a white soldier whipped by blacks for “acts of wantonness against the negroes and their families.” Unable to find a commander officer to take action against the offending soldier, Shepard had ordered the culprit tied to a tree; sentenced to a brief “light” flogging, an infraction of existing law that forbade whipping as punishment. General Thomas brought the incident to Secretary of War Stanton’s attention and Shepard was passed over for promotion. The colonel requested a court of inquiry regarding his actions in which the court determined there was no cause for censure. Grant dismissed the case, returning the colonel to duty, but the incident cost him the appointment. Learning the facts of the case, Thomas recommended the promotion to brigadier general be reconsidered, but it failed to win Senate approval and Shepard’s commission expired on July 4, 1864 to which Sherman responded, “I regret exceedingly that you were not promoted and confirmed as appointed.”

Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

A week after Appomattox, Sherman allows a Confederate officer and his mule to return home 1876. William T. Sherman.

1875. William T. Sherman. Bank check, 7.5 x 2.75, filled

out and signed by Sherman, “W. T. Sherman,” payable to Dft on New York for $720.00, August 17, 1880. In fine condition, with two cancellation cuts to body, a bit of trivial soiling, and a uniform shade of toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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ADS, signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. Comd.,” one lightly lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi letterhead, April 19, 1865. In full: “Major W. F. Haines of Genl Bowens Staff, a paroled officer with a servant & Mule has permission to travel with his horse and personal Baggage to any place within our Lines en route to his home in Missouri.” Faint intersecting folds (moderate wrinkling along the vertical fold) and a hint of mild soiling and handling wear, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Sherman and Strong honor Grant with a memorial equestrian statue in Lincoln Park 1877. William T. Sherman. Archive consisting of three multi-page ALSs and one page LS, ranging in date from November 1888 to July 1890.

The LS is dated November 27, 1888, signed “W. T. Sherman,” written to General William Strong in regards to a Grant statue reads, in part: “In my judgement, the horse and rider are excellent, and reflect great credit on the designer. I am glad you have made such progress in this matter. Ours at St. Louis was the first done, but you are entitled to great praise notwithstanding.”

The second letter, an ALS, signed “W. T. Sherman,” dated March 27, 1890, again written to General Strong, reads, in part: “I have received your letter of the 24th and am embarrassed by the long delay…My remembrance is that when the local committee had reported a specific date for the completion of the statue. I as president was to call the Society together to participate in the Ceremony…I am especially glad that this whole matter was concluded by the Society at the last meeting.”

The third (and longest) ALS, signed “W. T. Sherman,” dated April 3, 1890, reads in part, “I will not undertake to attempt an oration in the life…of General Grant, in any event especially since he himself participated and published his own memoirs almost up to the moment of his death. I wish however to retain the good opinion of such men as Gen’l Strong and Hickenlooper, therefore will aid them in every way…

General J. R. Hawley once an enthusiastic soldier now a…Senator would fill the bill.”

The final ALS, signed “W. T. Sherman, President of the Society,” dated July 15, 1890, reads in part: “Of course General Hickenlooper is right.

The Society of the Army of the Tennessee adjourned last year at Cincinnati to meet in Chicago at the time of unveiling of the Equestrian statue of General Grant due notice of the time to be published after the completion and erection of the statue on the redstate already

completed which you took me to last year. It was then supposed this statue would be ready in all, September 1890, surely not later than October and all calculation have been based on that conclusion. Now it appears, from causes, not unusual, this statue cannot be moulded and placed in position till Mid-winter indeed another season may pass before the statue can be unveiled and dedicated.”

In overall very good condition, with mild toning and scattered light soiling, and intersecting mailing folds.

After Grant’s death in 1885, The Society of the Army of the Tennessee sanctioned the commission of an equestrian statue of Grant to be erected in Chicago. Within four days of his death, nearly 100,000 people raised the $65,000 to cover the costs. General Strong was a member of the finance committee and sought the advice of fellow veteran, General Sherman, one of Grant’s closest friends, who said of their relationship, “[Grant] stood by me when I was crazy and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now, sir, we stand by each other always.” Sherman had already successfully spearheaded the movement of a Grant memorial in St. Louis so Strong found his advice invaluable. Louis Rebisso, Director of the Cincinnati Art Academy was tapped as the sculptor. The cast for the bronze statue was sent to a foundry in the east where it was finally finished in 1892, and it was unveiled in Chicago’s Lincoln Park on October 7, 1893 to a large crowd and ceremonies befitting the late president and general. Among the attendees were Mrs. Grant, close friends of the general, veterans from his old regiment and over 20,000 uniformed men under the command of General Miles in a three-mile march. Among the participants were Generals Stockton, Clark, Fitzsimmons, Sexton, Berge, Butterfield and Bragg as well as Senator Sherman and governors Fifer and Bulkeley. Both Sherman and Strong died before the unveiling, but Strong’s daughter Mary had the honor of revealing the statue as the salute was fired. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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Sherman endorses an officer’s promotion in light of his heroics at the 1863 Battle of Jackson 1878. William T. Sherman. War-dated handwritten endorsement, signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj. G. Comdg,” on the reverse of the second page of a two-page ALS by Colonel Jno. Corse, dated July 30, 1863. Corse’s letter reads, “I respectfully recommend that 2d Lt. Geo. W. Holmes Co. A. be commissioned as Capt of Co. K. vice Cowles resigned; for conspicuous gallantry on the field before Jackson Miss. on the 16th inst. Lt. Holmes crossed an open field in the face of two batteries and two regiments of Infantry and with a Copl & two privates bore the body of Capt. Minton to a place of safety. For this act of heroism in connection with his uniform good conduct in the various actions during the advance on Jackson Miss.

I respectfully request that he be transferred and commissioned as above recommended.” On the reverse of the second page, Sherman writes, “approve the within and recommend the promotion asked for the reasons assigned by Genl Corse.” Another panel on the reverse of the second page bears an endorsement from General Hugh Ewing which reads, “Approved & respectfully forwarded Hugh Ewing Brig Gen Comdg Div.” In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling to endorsed page, small ink notation touching a single letter of Sherman’s endorsement, expected folds and handling wear, and tape reinforcement to hinge. An intriguing and graphic war-dated endorsement, recommending the promotion of a soldier who “crossed an open field in the face of two batteries and two regiments of Infantry and…bore the body…to a place of safety.” Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1879. William T. Sherman. Desirable unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Superb quality image of General William T. Sherman on horseback taken in 1864 during the Atlanta campaign. Cannon and fortifications can be seen to his right. No backmark. In fine condition, with an ink notation on the reverse.

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1880. William T. Sherman. Commanding Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Half-view of Sherman in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York.

In fine condition, with light toning and clipped corners. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1881. William T. Sherman. Ink signa-

ture, “W. T. Sherman, General,” on an off-white 3 x 1.5 card. Matted and framed, with two portraits of Sherman, to an overall size of 15 x 12.

In fine condition, with a bit of trivial toning and a few stray ink marks. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1882. William T. Sherman. Color cigar

label, 4.25 x 4.25, featuring a vibrant composite image of General Sherman, with the advertisement printed on the reverse, ‘Geo. S. Harris & Sons, Cigar Box Labels and Trimmings…

No. 4747, $15.00 per 1000, $1.60 per 100.’

In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Sherman certifies the pay of a Private working extra as a teamster 1884. William T. Sherman. Manuscript war-dated DS, signed “W.

T. Sherman, Maj. Genl,” one page, 15.5 x 9.75, May 1862. A “Roll of a private on extra duty as teamster,” giving the private’s name, rank, company, regiment, by whose order employed, nature and term of service, and rate of pay [25¢ a day]. In very good condition, with small separations and paper loss along intersecting folds, a couple of staple holes to bottom, and some scattered light toning and spotting. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Huge 1888 albumen Sherman formal portrait 1883. William T. Sherman. Original oversized sepia 16.5 x

21 albumen photo of a seated Sherman in uniform, affixed to its original, but trimmed mount, undoubtedly done by Sarony, signed in the lower right corner in black ink, “W. T. Sherman, General, New York, March 21, 1888, born Feb. 8 1820.” In good to very good condition, with trimmed borders, some flaking to edges of image, scattered soiling, spotting, and dampstaining affecting image and background, several small surface dings and areas of paper loss, some light silvering to darker areas, and scattered surface marks.

Still a very impressive and incredibly rare oversized signed photo of the legendary general. In 1886, two years after retiring from military service, Sherman moved to New York City, where he lived for the remainder of his life and where he was in great demand as a speaker and dinner guest. In 1888, he sat for Napoleon Sarony (1821–1896), the city’s undisputed king of celebrity photography.

While Sarony and his fellow photographers profited greatly from sales of cabinet-sized and carte-de-visite photos of contemporary personalities, the extra effort and expense incurred in the production of photos in this “mammoth” format generally limited their use to “art” photography or, as is likely in the present case, as special orders made expressly for presentation to important acquaintances, dignitaries, and organizations. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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“I have dispatched a party of fifty Cavalry to Germantown to examine into the condition of that Locomotive prior to sending out a working party to recover it” 1885. William T. Sherman. War-dated ALS signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj Genl Comdg,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed US letterhead, August 13, 1862. Letter to General James B. McPherson. In part: “Your letter of August 6 is received and I have dispatched a party of fifty Cavalry to Germantown to examine into the condition of that Locomotive prior to sending out a working party to recover it & bring it. I have also designated one of my Staff Major Sanger familiar with Rail Roads to enquire into the Interdiction of Affairs connected with the Railroad here and to report in writing …I find a good many hangers on who claim to be some way or other connected with these Roads.

I will ascertain their names & authority & presume all who claim to be in Service must be directly employed by you or some superintendant appointed by you with specific written authority. Copy of which I will claim. The sooner this is systematized, better for all concerned.” In fine condition.

Sherman was the military governor of Memphis when he wrote this letter to McPherson, who would be killed at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, the second highest ranking Union officer killed during the war and the only commander of a Union army to die in the field.

Here Sherman refers to Germantown, Tennessee, and the Memphis-Charleston Railroad, which General Robert E. Lee called “the vertebrae of the Confederacy.” The railroad came under the control of Union forces in April 1862, when General O. M. Mitchell took the rail yards at Huntsville, Alabama. In October, Sherman would be ordered to march eastward from Memphis with his 20,000 men, repairing the Memphis & Charleston as they traveled. Despite Confederate attempts at retaking the line, the South would be deprived of this crucial east-west rail route for the duration of the war. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

Writing to his mistress, Sherman approves of sending her flirtacious daughter away: “I congratulate you in thus having solved a difficult problem. At that convent they will make her conform to their rules and will stop her correspondence with the boys” 1886. William T. Sherman. ALS signed “W. T. Sherman,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, February 7, 1884.

To Mary Audenried, widow of Sherman’s aide, Col. Joseph C. Audenried. Sherman had taken Mary and her wayward underage daughter Florence under his wing, and congratulates Mary for putting Florence in a convent. In full: “I have this minute returned from a breakfast at Mrs. Kelifers…with Madam Willson who is a splendid type of woman. We go to hear her tomorrow in her new play of Giaconda. I find…that you had safely deposited Florence in the convent at Manhattanville, I congratulate you in thus having solved a difficult problem. At that convent they will make her conform to their rules and will stop her correspondence with the boys…I think you had better exercise your right to inspect those letters and notify the parties that…they should cease to correspond with your daughter till she is full 18 years old. If Florence has been corresponding with some boy under cover to Miss Daily Ricketts, I advise you to call on Mrs. Ricketts…to assist you in stopping this clandestine channel of communication. After Florence is 18 years old I would let her marry as soon as she pleases, and the natural law of maternity will soon tame her proud spirit. It is infinitely better that she should be at Manhattanville than Washington where she would worry your life out of you. It was too bad she should have spoilt your visit to Saint Louis…The Sisters at Manhattanville have large experience with such willful girls.” In fine condition, with light intersecting folds and a couple of corner creases. According to the book Citizen Sherman by Michael Fellman, President Rutherford B. Hayes wrote to Sherman in June 1880, asking him to pay a visit to Mrs. Audenried and give the President’s condolences on the death of her husband. Thereafter, the married Sherman and Mrs. Audenried entered into an affair within six months. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Official copy of Sherman’s Order #65, officially ending aggressions: “The General commanding announces a further suspension of hostilities and a final agreement with Gen. Johnston which terminates the war as to the armies under his command and the country east of the Chattahoochee” 1887. William T. Sherman. A rare

official copy of General Sherman’s Field Order #65, in pencil, made by a Confederate adjutant general, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7.5, April 27, 1865.

Headed at the top “Head Qurs Military Div of the Miss, In the field, Raleigh, N.C.” In full: “The General commanding announces a further suspension of hostilities and a final agreement with Gen. Johnston which terminates the war as to the armies under his command and the country east of the Chattahoochee. Copies of the terms of convention will be furnished Major-Gens. Schofield, Gillmore, and Wilson, who are specially charged with the South and at Macon and Western Georgia.

Capt. Joseph Myers, Ordnance Department USA, is hereby designated to receive the arms, &c., at Greensboro, and any commanding officer of a post may receive the arms of any detachment and see that they are properly stored and accounted for.Genl. Schofield will receive at once the necessary blanks and supply the other army commanders that uniformity may prevail and great care must be taken that all terms and stipulations on our part are fulfilled with the most scrupulous fidelity, whilst those imposed on our hitherto enemies be received in a spirit becoming a brave and generous army.

Army commanders may at once loan to the inhabitants such of the captured mules, horses, wagons and vehicles as can be spared from immediate use and the Comdg Generals of armies may issue provisions, animals or any public supplies that can be spared to relieve present wants and to encourage the inhabitants to renew their peaceful pursuits and restore relations of friendship among our fellow-citizens and countrymen.

Foraging will forthwith cease, and when necessity or long marches compel the taking of forage, provisions or any kind of private property, compensation will be made on the spot, or when the disbursing officers are not provided with funds, vouchers will be given in proper form payable at the nearest military department. By order of Maj. Genl. W. T. Sherman, Sgd L. M. Dayton A.A.J.” Also noted at the conclusion, “Official, Robt. Grant AAG.” In fair to good condition, with fragile central horizontal and vertical fold, a few small fold separations and areas of paper loss, dampstaining extending out from folds and edges, uniform moderate toning, and all writing a shade or two light, but completely legible.

Following Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Sherman met with Johnston in Durham, North Carolina to negotiate a Confederate surrender. Sherman conditionally agreed to generous terms with both political and military provisions. Displeased that Sherman had waded into the political aspect of the war’s outcome, the government in Washington, refused to approve his agreement, and Sherman was pilloried by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who accused him of accepting bribes to side with the Confederates and allowing Jefferson Davis to escape. Peace was finally negotiated on April 26, 1865 when Johnston agreed to strictly military terms of surrender in what was the largest capitulation of the war.

An extraordinary document marking the close of the Civil War. RRAuction COA.…(MB $500)

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1888. Daniel Sickles. Controversial and colorful American politician and military officer (1819–1914). After discovering his young wife was having an affair, Sickles shot the man, the son of Francis Scott Key, and managed to secure an acquittal with the then-novel defense of temporary insanity. During the Civil War, Sickles served as a general and lost his leg in a famous incident at the Battle of Gettysburg. Partial ALS signed “D. Sickles,” one page both sides, 5 x 4, 23-Fifth Avenue, featuring an printed image of Sickles personal crest letterhead, July 9. Partial letter in which Sickles’ informs a Mr. Kranth (?) that he will be “Leaving for Gettysburg on Monday last in the 8:50,” dated “July 9, /6.” Trimmed edges, light show-through from writing on the reverse, and a faint pencil notation in the top right corner, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1889. Julius Stahel. Union gen-

eral (1825–1912).

When Lincoln went to Gettysburg in November 1863 to deliver his immortal address, Stahel commanded the president’s honor guard. During the spring of 1864, he led a division of cavalry under General David Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley, and in West Virginia. He greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Piedmont, on June 5, 1864, and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rare unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Standing view in uniform with rank of colonel, wearing kepi, sash, and holding sword. Backmark: J. Gurney & Son, 707 Broadway, NY. In fine condition, with some light corner wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1891. Isaac I. Stevens and Staff. Union general (1818–1862). appointed colonel of the 79th New York Infantry, known as the “Highlanders.” He was killed instantly by a bullet through the temple at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. General Stevens is seated at the center in uniform with rank of brigadier general. He is flanked by seven members of his staff, several with swords, as they pose on the front porch of a house in Beaufort, SC. in the spring of 1862. His son, Captain Hazard Stevens, is standing third from the left. Imprint on the front mount, Brady, New York. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries. In fine condition, with the right corner of the image rising up from the mount. Images of General Isaac Stevens in uniform are difficult to find, and this outdoor view of him with his staff is rare.

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Stannard signed CDV 1890. George J. Stannard. Union general (1820–1886). He fought at the First Bull Run, in the Virginia Peninsular campaign, in the Second Bull Run campaign, and he was captured by General Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry during the Antietam campaign. After his exchange, he was given command of the Vermont Brigade, which he led at Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded. He received his second wound of the war at the battle of Cold Harbor, his third while leading a charge at Petersburg, and his fourth, which resulted in the amputation of his right arm, in the attack on Fort Harrison. Scarce wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, floridly signed on the reverse in ink, “Geo. J. Stannard, Col. 9th Vt. Vols.” Bust view in uniform. Backmark: Charles Miller, Burlington, Vermont. In fine condition, with light toning and some trivial surface marks. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Your success here will vindicate the capacity of colored people for citizenship…Here let me speak frankly. Much has been done; but more remains to be done. The great work is not yet accomplished” 1892. Charles Sumner.

American politician (1811– 1874) and Massachusetts senator best known as a radical Republican and a staunch opponent of slavery. In 1856, Sumner was severely beaten in the Senate chamber by South Carolina Congressman Preston Brook. ALS, three pages on two sheets, 5 x 8, April 16, 1873. Letter to Edward M. Turner. In full: “I regret that it is not in my power to be with you, according to the invitation with which you have honored me. This [is] a day whose associations are precious to me as to you. Emancipation in the National Capitol was the experiment which prepared the way for Emancipation every where throughout the country. It was the beginning of the great end. Here as in other things you are an example to our colored fellow-citizens in the States.

Your success here will vindicate the capacity of colored people for citizenship, & your whole race will be benefited thereby. Here let me speak frankly. Much has been done; but more remains to be done. The great work is not yet accomplished. Until your equality in civil rights is arrived, the pillar of your citizenship is like the column in honor of Washington, unfinished & imperfect. There is constant talk of finishing that column at great cost of money. But the first thing to be done is to finish the pillar of your citizenship. Here I shall gladly work; but I trust that you will all work likewise, nor be content with anything less than the whole. Accept my thanks & best wishes, & believe me dear Sir.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered toning and soiling, a couple ink spots, and tape to left edge of first page. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Captured in his bed at Fairfax Court House by the legendary “Gray Ghost,” Colonel John S. Mosby 1893. Edwin Stoughton. Union general (1838–

1895. George H. Thomas. Union gen-

1868). Appointed colonel of the 4th Vermont Infantry.

Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 3.75 carte-devisite photo. Seated view in uniform with rank of full colonel, and his overcoat draped over his shoulder.

Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with some slight discoloration to the background and clipped corners. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Fighting Tom’s Grand March 1894. Thomas S w e e n y. U n i o n

general (1820–1892).

Sweeny participated in the capture of Camp Jackson, successfully defended the Union line at Shiloh, commanded troops in the Atlanta Campaign, intercepted John B. Hood’s attach at the Battle of Atlanta, and broke protocol when he broke neutrality laws between the US and Britain after his Fenian invasion of Canada, for which he was acquitted. Sheet music for ‘General Sweeny’s Grand March,’ two pages, 10.25 x 13, featuring a colored image of General Sweeny and three vignettes of Wilson’s Creek, Corinth, and Shiloh. Published

by John J. Daly of New York. In very good condition, with scattered mild toning and rubbing, a light adhesive remnant towards the top edge, a small tear to the right edge, and a rough left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“I fear there is vastly too much dissipation in our army where constant watchfulness and perfect coolness should be experienced to the fullest extent” eral (1816–1870) whose most decisive victory earned him the sobriquet ‘Rock of Chickamauga.’ War-dated ALS signed “Maj. Genl. Geo. H. Thomas,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland letterhead, April 5, 1864.

General Thomas writes from Chattanooga, in full: “I received your note of the 26th Ult. yesterday. That portions of the sentence awarded Capt. K [the rest of the name covered in ink] by the Court relating to confinements has been submitted. There can be no objection to his being ordered to Washington if by going there he can be induced to abstain from dissipation. It is much to be regretted, but I fear there is vastly too much dissipation in our army where constant watchfulness and perfect coolness should be experienced to the fullest extent.” A few trivial areas of smudging to the text, a pencil notation to the top right corner, and some mild pooling to the signature, otherwise fine condition. Intriguing content from the ‘Sledge of Nashville.’ Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Thomas signs on the Quartermasters contributions “in the public service of the field” leading up to the winter of 1861 1896. George H. Thomas.

War-dated partly-printed DS, signed “Geo. H. Thomas, Brig. Genl. U. S. A.,” one page, 9.75 x 15.5, November through December of 1861.

“List of Quartermaster’s Stores expended in the public service in the field under the direction of A. J. Mackey, Capt. & Assistant,” during the months of November and December of 1861, followed by a lengthy, handwritten list of articles and the amounts distributed, signed at the conclusion by Thomas and Brevet General, Andrew Mackey. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light areas of foxing along the central horizontal fold, and a three-quarter separation along the same fold. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1897. George H. Thomas.

War-dated partly-printed DS, signed “Geo. H. Thomas,” one page, 7.5 x 10, 1862. Special Requisition report detailing a request for “One Wall Tent, One Wall Tent Fly, One set Wall Tent Poles, and One set Wall Tent Pins,” signed off on by Thomas and David P. Smith. Two horizontal folds, light toning, and a trivial spot of paper loss to the right edge, otherwise fine condition. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1898. George H. Thomas.

Union general (1816–1870). His heroic stand on Horseshoe Ridge earned him the sobriquet of “The Rock of Chickamauga.” Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 cartede-visite photo. Half-view pose in uniform with rank of major general.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. In fine condition, with a light diagonal surface smear, and light, spotted silvering to some of the darker areas of the image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

1900. Joseph Torrance. Union General

in the 105th Ohio volunteer infantry (1843– 1896), Torrance began the Chicago Elevated Terminal Railway Company in 1890, traveling around Europe studying their elevated railway terminal in hopes of finding a solution to Chicago’s growing congestion. Chicago Elevated Terminal Railway Company capital stock certificate in the amount of $25,000,000, #5, 10.5 x 8.25, granting one share of stock to Charles Eldred on September 2, 1890, signed at the conclusion in ink as president, “Joseph T. Torrance,” and also by the secretary. In very good condition, with light creasing to the bottom left corner, light toning, a faint paperclip impression to the top left corner, a pencil notation to the bottom border, and five red “Cancelled” stamps, one of which moderately affects the second half of the signature.Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1899. Alfred T. A. Torbert. Union gen-

eral (1833–1880).

In 1864, he was assigned to command a cavalry division under Gen. Phil Sheridan. He drowned in 1880 when the steamer Vera Cruz, which he was traveling on, sunk off Cape Canaveral. Uncommon and crisp Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Half-view in uniform with rank of brigadier general.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1901. Edward D. Townsend. Union general (1817-1893) who was killed in Washington after an accidental shock from a cable car.

Lengthy endorsement, signed “E. D. Townsend,” dated September 13, 1879, written while serving as Adjutant General, on the reverse of a one-page letter to the Attorney General by J. Bradfield, 7.75 x 14.5, September 5, 1879. Letter and reads, in part: “There is a man named Beasley in jail at this place charged with shooting a man named Fox during the war. B. was a soldier in Company F 10th W.Va. Vol. Infantry and was tried by court martial for the same offense within two weeks…As the Government is interested in protecting its soldiers, I trust this case may receive your attention.” The endorsement on the reverse spans two panels, reads, in part: “With reference to the trial of Beasley by General Court Martial…the records in this Office show that Harrison Beasley was enrolled in the 10th Regiment…was mustered into service as Private…he is reported as on duty with Company ‘F’ of said regiment to Dec., 26, 1862, when he deserted…He rejoined… again deserted while on a Scout in Braxton Co., W. Va.” Reverse also bears two other endorsements. In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, two of the endorsement panels taped to edges of letter, and several stamps and notations. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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Train signed CDV 1902. George F. Train. Presiden-

tial candidate in 1872. During the Civil War he helped form the Union Pacific Railroad, and gave numerous speeches denouncing the Confederacy and praising Lincoln and the Union, calling himself “Citizen Train,” he was involved in starting the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. Wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, elegantly signed on the reverse in ink, “God Save the Union, Geo. Francis Train.” Seated view. Imprint on the front mount: George Francis Train. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Curtis Guild, in the Clerk’s Office of the Dist. Court of the Dist. of Mass. Backmark: Silsbee, Case & Company, Boston. In fine condition, with trivial silvering to some of the darker areas of the image. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $250)

Erastus B. Tyler signed CDV 1903. Erastus B. Tyler. Union

general (1822–1891). At the outbreak of the Civil War he helped raise the 7th Ohio Infantry and was elected their colonel. Wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed in the bottom border in ink, “E.B. Tyler, Brig. Genl.” Standing view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Brady, New York imprint on the front mount. Backmark: Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries. In very good condition, with scattered mild spotted discoloration, a moderate area of staining to the top right corner, and light wear. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1904. Union Broadside. Civil War-dated manuscript broadsheet, titled “Show Your Colors,” one page, 6.25 x 8, dated April 27, 1861. This original Civil War broadside was probably used in the Aurora, NY area.

Authored by a Dr. E. Leffingwell, with verses such as “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” “Citizens of Aurora… let us show that we love our country… let us one and all irrespective of party be prepared to protect our own homes.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, mounting remnant to reverse, and scattered toning and light staining.

Particularly important in that it is the handwritten original and perhaps even a draft of a printed version. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1905. Union Broadside.

War-dated printed broadside, 9 x 12, published by the National Union Executive Committee, Astor House, New York, entitled “Is The War A Failure?” Broadside begins: “The Chicago Convention declared that the War against the Rebellion had proven a FAILURE. They put forth as ‘the sense of the American People and on the strength of this declaration, they demanded that ‘immediate efforts be made for a CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES !’. Is this true? Is the war in which we have poured forth our blood and treasure - in which thousands and tens of thousands of our sons and our brothers have laid down their lives, - A FAILURE? Look at the Facts.” In very good condition, with trimmed right edge, lightly affecting a few words of text, partial separations along horizontal folds, a few small areas of paper loss, and scattered toning and staining. This historic, politically oriented broadside looks at reasons for the Civil War, and it lists various statements from Generals Grant, Seymour, Sherman and Dix. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1906.

Union Broadside. War-dated printed Union broadside, tall format printing measures 4 x 11.75, dated September 20 [1864], with the headline announcing “BRILLIANT VICTORY of Gen. Sheridan! Over Breckinridge and Early.” Announcement continues “Two Rebel Generals Killed, and Four Wounded. 2500 Prisoners and 5 Pieces of Artillery Taken.” The printed dispatch by Secretary of War Stanton to Governor Andrew Johnson, reads: “Yesterday, Monday the 19th, Maj. General Sheridan attacked the Rebel forces under Generals Breckenridge and Early, near Bunker Hill, in the Shenandoah Valley, fought a hard battle all day, and a brilliant victory was won by our forces. The enemy were driven off twelve miles, twentyfive hundred prisoners were captured, nine stand of colors and five pieces of artillery were taken, and the rebel killed and wounded left in our hands. The rebel Generals Rhodes and Yeador were killed, and four other Rebel Generals wounded.“ In good to very good condition, with several horizontal creases, scattered toning, creasing and pinholes of paper loss, rough left edge, and a few small tears. At the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864, just after inflicting a severe repulse upon the foe, General Rodes was struck behind the ear by a fragment of shell and died within a few hours. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1907. Union Broadside.

Original Civil War-era soldier’s bounty broadside, 13 x 19, dated March 1, 1866, with the top announcing “BOUNTIES AND LAND WA R R A N T S ! ” Produced by “T.H. Dinsmore & Co., Skowhegan, Maine,” advertising the company’s ability to collect pensions and bounties on behalf of Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War. Dinsmore & Co. proclaims they have “done a very large and successful business,” and that they will not “charge for services until the money is collected, and then only legal fees.” In fragile but good to very good condition, with partial separations along intersecting folds, scattered toning, soiling, and foxing, a few small areas of paper loss, a couple edge tears, and scattered creasing and wrinkling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1908. Union General. Distinguished

full-length 16 x 20 oval portrait of a Union officer standing with sword, signed “M. Wolfe 1889,” at lower left. Framed to an overall size of 22.75 x 27. In fine condition.

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1909. Union Generals. Bold ink signatures

of Philip Sheridan, adding his rank and “Washington D. C., May 16, 1865,” on an off-white 4.5 x 4.5 sheet, with signatures of A. T. A. Torbert, and Samuel P. Heintzelman, on the reverse, with both adding their rank. In fine condition, with a uniform shade of toning and darker areas along the edges, and light rippling to the top edge. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Scarce 1862 portrait of a medical officer and his orderly 1910. Union Medical Officer.

Rare circa 1862 carte-de-visite of a Union medical staff officer with his young African American orderly, trimmed to a size of 2.25 x 4, with photograher’s mark on reverse: Dewey Gibson & Waitz, 102 W. Fifth St., bet Vine and Race, Cincinnati. Trimmed bottom corners and a bit of scattered light soiling, otherwise fine condition.

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An amazing Union diary with first-hand accounts of the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain 1911. Union Diary. Manuscript Diary of Pv. Edwin A. Brown of the 36th Ohio Volunteers covering the period August 21, 1863, to January 8, 1864, 4.25 x 6.5, approximately 80 pages, kept in pencil.

A fine content diary chronicling Brown’s service in Tennessee including action at Brown’s Ferry as well as the Battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.

The diary, reads in part [with some spelling corrected for readability]: “[Sept. 3] got to McMinneville…Poor camp & poor grub and little of it. I don’t like the place… [Sept. 5, 1863]… listened to speeches… to Mr. Herman Maynard Father of Edward, Lieut Co and Provost Marshall a member of Congress, a smart man… [Sept. 7]…got news that Burnsides Headquarters was at Landing good for the East Tennessee Stocks men came in and brung 7 prisoners with them one bad man he had killed 10 Union men…[Sept. 14]… there was about 60 of Old Braggs men came in and gave themselves they report Braggs army in bad condition. [Sept. 15]…27 Regular Rebel soldiers came in and gave themselves up. Inspection, I was consigned to the 2nd floor as head nurse… [Sept. 16]…I was ordered to my Regt We left at 3 ock to to Trollabalma at 5 oak We stayed a few moments at Manchester 12 miles from Tullamoma Tenn we stayed at Tullahoma over night … [ Sept. 29] We took up in line of march at 5 ock went over the largest mountain I ever saw. saw a lot of wagons and ambulances turned over the cliffs and mashed into atoms… Hear cannonading…[Oct. 4] We left camp at 6 ock came along well… 11 ock came to where the wagons was burned Rebels burned 350 wagons lots of ammunition shells We went on to the battlefield and camp. There was 200 mules killed we got 200 that our Boys had recovered…[Oct. 18]…We met a large train of ambulances 100 they was loaded with wounded… [ Oct. 23]…Major Genl Grant came to Chattanooga…[Oct. 29]… 3 ock…head the rattling of muskets. Soon after breakfast we started and went to the river then we heard good many guns our men had crossed the river. We was the 3rd Reg crossed even we got across the Rebels had left that point crossed 2 Pontoons 25 men to the boat got across and went up a rocky bluff. The Rebels threw a few shells down no harm got to the top of this ridge and our Comp was deployed as skirmishers… got dinner and joined the rest of the boys throwing up Breastworks… we made a complete surprise on the Rebels in the morning. 3 oak the pontoon bridge was closed. We got artillery on the mountain at 11 oak our loss

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killed 6 wounded 20 one Lieut Rebels killed 8 wounded not known…. the Rebels had a Brigade of them commanded by Brigadier Genl.

Wood. We understand the Rebels loss 2 killed and wounded 60…In the morning we landed 125 men before Mr. Reb was looking for it we revealed their Pickett Post. It was the best arranged thing I ever saw.

Before Mr. Reb. knew it we had possession of both ridges. General Smith I understand planned the attack this battle was called Browns Ferry… [Oct. 29]…detailed to got on Pickett. Heavy cannonading in the direction of Look Out Mountain… [Nov. 4]…waked up to 2 ock to go across the river we did not get across till about morning there was a building burned up in town when we came threw I was very sick very sick laid in my tent all day…[Nov. 17,1863] Mission Ridge Battle…

Heavy cannoning up the river Supposed to be Gen’s Shermans force it lasted about half hour… [Nov. 20]…orders… to cook 2 days rations and take 100 rounds of cartridge…Great preparations was going on all threw camp for a large fight…I gave Sam Williams all my things to keep till I returned. Also a letter to my parents to send if I should fall [Nov.21]…The orders for us moving was countermanded in the night… [Nov. 22]…throwing a few shells from Fort Wood at a Rebel Wagon train…[Nov. 23] We was waked up at 2 ock and was to march at 3-15 Was to act as independent reserve and the Right.…Stacked arms and 3-15 the Ball commenced in . by Gen’l Howard 11th Corps . [Nov. 24]…heard skirmishing on Lookout 12 ock it came a skirmish engagement and 2 ock we saw our men come around the point of the mountain… 12 ock there was heavy firing of musketry and loud cheering. Sgt. Hookes took 3000 prisoners…[Nov. 25]…Stopped in front of Fort Wood laid there half an hour then marched in to a wood and laid there about 1 hour… skirmishing commenced and we was ordered into rank formed the line of battle went through the woods, fixed bayonets ordered double quick we double quick one mile up the mouton and took their works and 10 pieces artillery and a great lot of prisoners. Fighting lasted 2 hours. Gen. Granger captured 32 artillery he was on our right. Our Regt lost killed 7 wounded 70.”

In very good condition, with toned and worn covers, some page sections loose, and foxing. Accompanied by several post-war miscellaneous receipts and a typewritten transcript of the diary. Further entries are available online at rauction.com. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Very rare 1861 Civil War recruiting broadside printed in German 1912. Union Recruitment Broadside. Civil War era Union

recruiting broadside, printed in German, 6.5 x 10.5, dated August 14, 1861, meant for recruiting a German regiment for the state of Illinois, This exceedingly rare broadside was issued for the recruiting of a Civil War German heritage regiment for the State of Illinois. Printed completely in German with a “Fractur” style font. The heading reads, “Unattached German Regiment for Illinois.” The German text name at the bottom of the page is Julius Raith, who was Colonel of the 43rd Regiment. This regiment is to be organized at Camp Butler near Springfield, which we believe later became the 43rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. Also the 43rd was mustered in at Camp Butler in October of 1861. Several horizontal folds, scattered light toning and soiling, and trimmed vertical edges, otherwise fine condition. A very unusual German text broadside document and certainly worthy of more research. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1913. Union Soldier. Sixth

plate tintype depicting a three-quarter length portrait of a bearded infantryman with a US belt buckle wearing a greatcoat and gauntlet, and holding his musket with fixed bayonet. Image is contained in its full case. In very good condition, with scattered creases to image and expected wear to case.

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1914. Union Soldier.

Rare and stunning soldier’s oval tintype, 1.5 x 2, framed in an ornate, gilt-embellished halfcase frame. In this bust length pose, the mustached soldier sports his army shirt with upturned collar and standard issue cap. Pale red tints of hand coloring to the cheeks and lip were added at the time. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1915. Union Soldier.

Color tinted portrait of a Union soldier, 15.5 x 19.5, depicting the soldier in his frock coat and hat, brandishing his revolver. Framed to an overall size of 18.5 x 22.5. In fine condition.

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Colorful Illustrated souvenir poster of Union soldiers and sailors National Park 1916. Union Soldiers and Sailors National Park. Colorful

illustrated souvenir poster, dated 1897, of Union Soldiers and Sailors National Park.

Published by The Easel Monument Association, Chicago, IL. This is an original, large three-color poster on reinforced canvas backing, measuring 28.75 x 20.5 depicting a proposal for a multitiered monument presented by “Conrad Gleis,” a private in the “Co. AAlton Battalion, Illinois Volunteer Infantry,” who served from May 1864 to October 1864. The illustration depicts an idealized cityscape with well-dressed denizens proudly gazing at the monument, which thanks the “Brave Boys in Blue who on land and sea volunteered their services during that memorable struggle for the preservation of our Union.” A central horizontal crease, some other scattered creases, dampstaining to edges, and some other small tears and separations, otherwise very good. Although Gleis only served 100 days—he was in the hospital for part of that time, he was a proud veteran who wanted a memorial park and monument to be erected. This olive, green and black poster was a ‘souvenir’ that was sold as a fundraiser by the veterans. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1917. Stewart Van Vliet and Foreign Observers. Union general (1815–1901).

He was on the staff of General George B. McClellan and served as chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac. He spent part of the war in New York City furnishing transportation and supplies that were vital to the Union army. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Outdoor view taken on May 1, 1862, at Camp Winfield Scott, Yorktown, Virginia. Seated on the ground in the front is Captain L’Amy of the Royal Army, in the second row, seated from left to right are the Comte de Paris (wearing kepi and uniform with captain’s rank), General Stewart Van Vliet, US Army (wearing bummer’s kepi and high leather boots), and Colonel Beaumont of the Royal Army (wearing felt hat and holding cane). Standing in the back row from left to right are Colonel Neville of the Royal Army (wearing cap and uniform), the Duc de Chatres (wearing kepi and uniform coat with shoulder straps), unidentified man wearing felt hat, unidentified man in background, and Colonel Fletcher of the Royal Army (wearing cap and uniform). 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse: Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 353. Group, General Van Vliet and Friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown. In fine condition, with light toning and wear. RRAuction COA.…(MB $150)

Uncommon ambrotype of soldiers playing cards 1918. Union Soldiers. 1860 Civil War-era, quarter-plate ambrotype, with oval image measuring 2.5 x 3.5, with an image of two uniformed soldiers playing cards. Housed within an ornate brass matte and frame measuring 4.25 x 3.25. In good condition, with some crazing and crackling along outside of central image, with flaking at the upper right that detracts little and with some darkening at the bottom edge. Interesting leisure time and unusual, quite rare gambling related, card-playing theme. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“On my way up the Tennessee River I had a small skirmish with a party of guerillas and killed one and shot the arm off another, and am sorry that I did not send more of them to their long home” 1919.

USS Peosta.

Rare war-dated ALS signed “T. E. Smith,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, February 20, 1864. Commander of the Tennessee gunboat, Thomas E. Smith, writes to his wife, in part: “On my way up the Tennessee River I had a small skirmish with a party of guerillas and killed one and shot the arm off another, and am sorry that I did not send more of them to their long home…Capt.

George W. Brown is here…He has got a new and fine command. His vessel is one of the new monitors. The whole of the vessel is iron with a revolving turret, eight inches solid iron, and his battery consists of two eleven inch guns and is the most formidable looking vessel out here…

The Admiral sails tomorrow and it is supposed that he is about to start an expedition up the Red River, and when that is through, the fighting is about done in his part…” In fine condition, with intersecting folds and some light toning. The USS Peosta, also known as Tinclad #36, was a 204 ton side wheeler that was outfitted as an armed gunboat. She was equipped with 14 heavy guns, making her capable of doing battle on the rivers, as well as land bombardments. She was assigned to duty with the Union naval forces operating on the Tennessee River, protecting Union shipping, and supporting the Union army. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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General Wadsworth pens a letter of promotion for 94th New York’s Colonel, Adrian Root: “I know that Genl. McDowell concurs with me in this favourable opinion...If Mr. Geddy’s does not take the 12th I do not know of a more competent man than Col. Root” 1920. James S. Wadsworth. Union general killed

during the Battle of Wilderness in 1864. War-dated ALS signed “Jas. S. Wadsworth,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, October 28, 1861.

Wadsworth writes to Governor Morgan, in part: “The 21st (Buffalo) Regt. is one of the best from our state. It is so far as my knowledge goes the best—a fair share of this result is due to Lt. Col. Root, and I beg leave to recommend him to your excellency for promotion. I know that Genl. McDowell concurs with me in this favourable opinion of Col. Root.

If Mr. Geddy’s does not take the 12th I do not know of a more competent man than Col. Root. Tho another officer will probably be recommended to you for that plan, as the offices of the Regt. object to take an officer from a Regt. strong side of them, they’re willing to take one from the regular army.” Docketing on the reverse. Two vertical folds, light toning, and a pencil notation to the top edge of the first page and the reverse of the second integral page, otherwise fine condition. An eloquently penned recommendation written just weeks after being appointed commander of the 2nd Brigade in McDowell’s Division of the Army of the Potomac.

Despite his complete lack of military experience at the outbreak of the Civil War, Wadsworth was commissioned a major general in the New York state militia in May 1861. He served as a civilian volunteer aide-de-camp to Major General Irvin McDowell at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 8. McDowell recommended him for command and, on August 9, Wadsworth was commissioned a brigadier general; on October 3 he received command of the 2nd Brigade in McDowell’s Division of the Army of the Potomac. He then led the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, of the I Corps of the army until March 17. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1921. James S. Wadsworth.

Union general killed during the Battle of Wilderness in 1864. ALS signed “Jas. S. Wadsworth,” one page, 7.25 x 8.25, embossed letterhead, October 3, 1855. In his difficult to decipher hand, Wadsworth writes regarding an invitation which will “not be necessary to annex any present condition…” In very good condition, with lightly intersecting folds, one lightly passing through a single letter of the signature, a bit of toning and soiling, a small area of paper loss to the bottom left corner, a small tear to the top left corner, and a few faint pencil notations to the top edge. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1922. James S. Wadsworth. Union general (1807–

1864). Commanded the 1st Division of General John F. Reynold’s 1st Corps at Gettysburg. At the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, while leading his men in an attempt to repel an assault, he was shot off his horse, a bullet entering the back of his head and lodging in his brain. He died two days later. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Seated view in uniform with rank of brigadier general.

He is cradling his sword across his lap, his sash is visible, and he is holding a gauntlet in one hand, the opposite hand is wearing the other gauntlet. Period signature in the bottom border. Backmark: E. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with a mild spot of soiling to the left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1923. Gouvenor K. Warren. Union general

(1830–1882). Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac in 1863. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Superb quality half-view in uniform with rank of major general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1926. William Wells. Union general (1837–1892) who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his gallantry and role in the victory at Gettysburg. Bank check, 8 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Wells, “Wm. Wells,” payable to B. F. Kelley for $102.30, July 31, 1883, and endorsed by Kelley on the reverse. In very good condition, with several vertical creases, scattered light creasing, a few light cancellation cuts, holes, and an ink notation, and show-through from a cancellation stamp on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1924. Cadwallader C. Washburn.

Military officer, politician and businessman (1818–1882) who served as a US congressman, rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Civil War, and founded the company that later became food giant General Mills. Bank check, 7 x 3, filled out and signed by Washburn, “C. C. Washburn,” payable to J. Terry (?) for $100.00, June 3, 1872, and featuring a 2-cent revenue check affixed to the bottom left corner.

In fine condition, with a few cancellation cuts and a small hole to the center. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1925. Alexander S. Webb.

Union general and Medal of Honor recipient (1835–1911). During the Antietam campaign, Webb was chief of staff of General Fitz John Porter’s 5th Corps. Just prior to the battle of Gettysburg, he was promoted to brigadier general, and took command of the 2nd Brigade, Gibbon’s Division, of Hancock’s 2nd Corps. Desirable unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 cartede-visite photo. Superb quality seated view in uniform, with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with light rippling.RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1927. Frank Wheaton. Confederate general (1833–1903).

Promoted to brigadier general on Nov. 29, 1862, he fought at the battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, in 1863 at Marye’s Heights during the Chancellorsville campaign, was a brigade commander during the Gettysburg campaign.

Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in uniform. Backmark: R.W. Addis, Photographer, McClees’ Gallery, 308 Penna. Avenue, Washington, DC. Some trivial toning, a small pin hole to the top edge, and pencil notations on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1928. Orlando B. Wilcox.

Union general and Medal of Honor recipient (1823–1907).

He was commissioned colonel of the 1st Michigan Infantry in 1861. At the 1st battle of Bull Run, he was wounded and captured while in command of a brigade, remaining a prisoner for more than a year, part of the time as a hostage for Rebel privateersmen. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 cartede-visite photo. Half-view pose in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative from Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. In fine condition, with some trivial surface marks and silvering.RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1929. Alpheus S. Williams. Union general

(1810–1878). Accompanied the western army under General W.T. Sherman fighting in the Atlanta campaign, Sherman’s March To The Sea and the 1865 Carolina’s campaign. Sharp unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Rare half-view seated pose in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Backmark: A.S. Morse, Photographer, Dept. of the Cumberland, Branch of Hdqtrs., 25 Cedar St., Nashville, Tennessee. In fine condition, with light rippling and pencil notations on the reverse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1930. Yorktown. Desirable

unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-devisite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Photographic label on the reverse, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 396. Principal Street With Court House, Yorktown. Union soldier can be seen in left foreground.

Light toning, wear, and light silvering to some of the darker areas of the image, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

“The rebel confederacy is tottering and ready to fall. South Carolina is reaping the reward of the treacherous perseverance to destroy the finest country, with the only free Government, on the face of the Globe” 1932. John E. Wool.

American military officer (1784–1869) who served in the War of 1812, Mexican-American War, and Civil War. War-dated ALS signed “John E. Wool, Major General,” one page, 4.75 x 7.5, March 20, 1865. Letter to Summer W. Storm. In full: “Your request is granted with the following remarks.

The rebel confederacy is tottering and ready to fall. South Carolina is reaping the reward of the treacherous perseverance to destroy the finest country, with the only free Government, on the face of the Globe. A few more battles will bring the war to a close, when we shall again become a united people, if not better, certainly wiser and much more powerful.” Letter is affixed to a slightly larger album page. In very good condition, with light horizontal folds, scattered toning and soiling, and a couple small red stains to left edge. A remarkable letter with prophetic content, as the war ended three weeks later, just as Wool had predicted.Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Work pens the chorus from ‘Marching to Georgia,’ his tribute to Sherman 1931. Henry Clay Work. Hand-

written musical manuscript, on a 10 x 3 piece of lined music paper.

Work pens the Alto part for the ninemeasure chorus of his famous song with lyrics, and heads it “Marching thro’ Georgia” in the upper left corner.

Work writes, “Hurrah! hurrah! We bring the jubilee; Hurrah! hurrah! the flag that makes you free: So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching Thro’ Georgia.” In fine condition, with a few vertical creases and wrinkles. Inspired by Sherman’s March to the Sea, Work wrote ‘Marching Through Georgia’ at the end of the previous year. Thanks to its lively melody, the song was immensely popular, its million sheet-music sales being unprecedented. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“We need our full medical staff even as we are & much more if we move forward. Yesterday a division of the Rebels advanced to Fairfax station six miles this side of Centreville” 1933. Samuel Zook.

Union general (1821– 1863) killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg. Scarce wardated ALS signed “S. Z. Zook, Col 57th NYI,” three pages on two lightly-lined adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 10, February 20, 1862.

Letter, written from Camp California, to Dr. Samuel Oakley Van der Poel, Surgeon General of New York. In full: “I have before me your letter to Dr. Merrill dated January 31st in which you said at that time ‘I cannot as yet promote Dr. McKim’ and assigned amongst other reasons his recent graduation & the fear of imposing upon him too great a responsibility. I am glad to find by your letter to me of February 11th that you have changed your views and are now more favorably disposed towards McKim. He will risk the responsibility & the Regt. will risk his experience if you can be induced to promote him. Your department in the event of ‘criticism’ may shelter itself behind the repeated & earnest solicitation of the regt. after four months acquaintance with him, for his advancement.

As. Dr. Ferguson has not yet reported I trust I am not asking too much when I request that his prolonged delay be regarded as a declination of the appointment; and that Dr. McKim be given it. That being done there will remain but one favor more to ask—the immediate appointment of a competent assistant to take Dr. McKim’s place who will report at once. The wishes I have herein expressed are those of all the officers of the regiment and I believe of Dr. Grant as well.” After his signature, Zook continues on with a postscript which reads, “Dr. Grant has read the above & fully concurs in the wish to have Dr. McKim promoted and his place well & immediately filled. We need our full medical staff even as we are & much more if we move forward. Yesterday a division of the Rebels advanced to Fairfax station six miles this side of Centreville.

S.K.Z.” Intersecting folds, a few passing through signature, a bit of mild toning, a couple brushes to text, small separation to hinge, and some ink flecks to postscript, otherwise fine condition.

Dr. R. V. McKim enlisted in the 57th New York Volunteer Infantry as an assistant surgeon September 27, 1861, and was quickly promoted to a full surgeon on February 20, 1862 (the same day of the letter) at Camp California with the rank of major. He was only 21 and one of the youngest surgeons in the Union Army, participating in the Peninsula Campaign, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and Antietam before he became acting brigade surgeon and placed in charge of a division hospital at Harper’s Ferry. After a leave of absence for a well-deserved rest, he resigned before the Battle of Fredericksburg and was mustered out December 3, 1862.

During February 1862, Early and Johnston’s Rebel troops were centered in and around the Centreville area where they had constructed a military railroad for The Battle of Bull Run, but Jefferson ordered Johnston to move his force closer to Richmond. Zook’s regiment, stationed at Camp California just a short distance from Alexandria, saw his first combat in June during the Seven Days Battle and later had his horse shot out from under him at Fredericksburg where his actions earned him a promotion to brigadier general. Less than a month after his own appointment, McKim’s much needed medical skills were required as the Fifty-Seventh New York Volunteer Infantry joined in the Seven Days’ Battle under Zook. The major earned praise for his handling of the wounded, justifying the promotion the commander gave the young surgeon.

On July 2, 1862, Zook was mortally wounded during the Gettysburg battle and died the next day. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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THE CONFEDERACY An Arkansas soldier signs his Amnesty Oath swearing he will “faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion” 1934. Amnesty Oath. Partly-printed DS, signed “John Thompson,” one page, 8 x 6.25, December 18, 1865. Amnesty oath headed at the top: “Amnesty Oath, under Proclamation of the President of the United States, dated May 29, 1865.” In full, “State of Arkansas.

Columbia County. I John Thompson of Columbia County, State of Arkansas, do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Union of States thereunder: and that I will in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves—so help me God.” Signed at the conclusion by Thompson and countersigned by Columbus County Clerk W. B. McNeill. In very good condition, with central horizontal fold, two ink spots over Thompson’s signature and scattered toning and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1935. Andersonville Stockade. Original color 23 x 17 Al.

Jer. Klapp, 1903 lithograph entitled ‘The Anderson Stockade’, featuring an aerial overview of a crowded camp brimming with haggard, tattered prisoners. In very good condition, with light toning, a couple of mild spots of soiling towards the bottom edge, some corner creasing, and a few mild tears along the edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1936. James J. Archer and Charles G. Harker. Archer was a colonel of the 5th Texas, commanding the Texas brigade. After the Battle of Seven Pines, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to A. P. Hill’s division. He is remembered for his leadership in the ‘Light Division,’ his efforts at Gaines Mill, the Manassas campaign, the capture of Harper’s Ferry and the Battle of Antietam.

Harker was a Confederate colonel, serving at Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, and at Stones River, where he earned the promotion to brigadier general. He was mortally wounded on the battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain. Manuscript DS, signed “J. J. Archer,” and “C. G. Harker,” one lined page, 15.75 x 9.5, September 30, 1859. “Roll of New Commissioned Officers and Privates employed on extra duty as Mechanics and Laborers in the field on the…N.W.B. Com. during the month of Sept. 1859,” listing three privates, their companies and ranks, terms of service, and their rate of pay. Intersecting fold, two trivial surface marks, and pencil notations on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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General Barksdale purchases clothing for his regiment in preparation for the First Battle of Bull Run 1937. William Barksdale. Confederate general. A staunch secessionist, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg while leading his brigade’s attack on Union forces not far from Cemetery Ridge. Rare war-dated manuscript receipt, signed “W. Barksdale, Qm. Genl.,” one lined page, 7.5 x 3, May 4, 1861. “Rec’d of Brig. Genl R. Griffith this 4th May 1861 at Corinth in the state of Missi. the sum of Six hundred & Seventy Nine 85/100 Dollars (on account of clothing for the Army of Missi) For which I am accountable, Signed in Duplicate.” In fine condition, with trimmed edges. Just three days prior to writing this receipt, Barksdale was appointed colonel of the 13th Mississippi Infantry, which he would lead into the First Battle of Bull Run. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Beauregard rebuilds a crippled Confederate railroad 1938. P. G. T. Beauregard. Brigadier General of the Confederate Provisional Army (1818–1893) who commanded the forces at Charleston, where he ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Extremely rare partly-printed DS, signed “G. T. Beauregard,” one page, 10 x 6.5, April 25, 1867. A handsomely engraved certificate for four shares of stock in the New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad Company issued to S. Moses, at $.25 a share, signed at the conclusion

by Beauregard as the company’s president. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, a couple passing through single letters of signatures, moderate contrast to end of signature, uniform toning, with a slightly heavier block over end of signature from revenue stamp, and scattered light creases and wrinkles.

Beauregard’s first employment following the war was as chief engineer and general superintendent of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad. Stretching 206 miles from New Orleans to Canton, Mississippi, the railroad was Louisiana’s longest, and one of the finest in the Confederacy. Suffering numerous attempts by Union forces to disrupt it, the railroad emerged from the war in ruins. Beauregard was promoted to company president in 1866, a position he retained until 1870. A rare document, only one of two such certificates known to exist.

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In 1865, shortly after the end of the war, Beauregard endorses a letter from Sherman petitioning for the return of his papers 1939. P. G. T. Beauregard. Handwritten endorsement, “Recd.

at N.O. Augt 13th 1865 G.T.B,” at the bottom of the second page of Beauregard’s copy of a letter from William T. Sherman. (The copy of Sherman’s letter was secretarially written and signed).

Sherman was responding to Beauregard’s letter requesting his personal papers and effects that were seized during the Civil War. The two-page letter measures 7 x 8.5 on two lightly-lined off-white sheets reads, in part: “I have sent both to Genl Hoffman at Washington with this Endorsement…‘they should be returned to him as something too small for a great Government to notice.’”

He suggests other channels he might pursue and concludes: “all conventions should be religiously kept, for on them are based the most Sacred Rights of War and consequent Peace.” In very good condition, with slight separations along intersecting folds to letter, one through middle initial of signature, uniform toning to both pages, scattered creases, and minor paper loss to top left corner of second page. Beauregard surrendered to Sherman near Durham, North Carolina on April 26, 1865. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1940. P. G. T. Beauregard. Ink signature, “I am respectfully, G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, La., Jany. 17th, 1889,” on an off-white 4.25 x 3.5 card.

In fine condition, with some trivial rubbing. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Beauregard endorses a portion of a statement by Confederate spy Thomas Jordan “referring to the Shiloh Campaign” 1941. P. G. T. Beauregard. Unsigned handwritten endorsement on the final

page of an apparently longer manuscript statement signed by Thomas Jordan, one page, 8 x 10.25, no date, addressed to General G. T. Beauregard in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jordan was also a newspaper editor and author. In part, “Neither in my memoir nor now have I sought to criticize the actions of General Johnston. He doubtless had his own reasons for the delay in deciding upon the point at which to assemble the Confederate forces under his direction.

Doubtless, he desired meanwhile to be a little more certain than he was as to the ultimate plan of operations of the enemy upon that theatre of war. What happened however, is a part of the history of affairs in that quarter at that time, and I could not narrate them as they happened within my knowledge when called upon by you for a memoir of them.” Beauregard dockets the reverse on October 26, 1877, at New York, “Gen’l Thos. Jordan relative to Col. W. Preston’s note of Oct 10/77 denying certain facts or statements thereof contained in Gen’l J[ohnston]s narrative of events referring to the Shiloh Campaign of April 1862.” In good to very good condition, with tape repairs and reinforcements to folds, small area of paper loss along one fold, scattered toning and soiling, and some light edge wear and tear, otherwise very good condition. Jordan (1819-1895) was a Confederate spy and later a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. A career soldier in the armies of three nations, he fought in numerous wars and rebellions in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Scarce response from Governor Bonham to the President of the South Carolina Bank, as Bonham “approves suggestions” for blockade-running 1942. Milledge L. Bonham. Confederate general (1813– 1890). Bonham led the South Carolina army in 1861, moving up to brigadier general of the Confederate army in April of that year. The next year found Bonham a member of the First Regular Confederate Congress and, in 1863, assumed the role of Governor of South Carolina. When his term in politics expired, he rejoined the ranks as brigadier general and joined General Joseph E. Johnston’s army during the Carolina’s campaign in 1865. War-dated ANS signed “M. L. Bonham,” one page, 8 x 3.75, June 5, 1864, State of South Carolina, Executive Department, Columbia letterhead. Bonham writes, in full: “C. M. Furman Esqre, Charleston, SC, Have written you. I approve suggestions.” A central horizontal fold, light toning, and trimmed edges, otherwise fine condition. On June 2, 1864, Furman wrote Bonham a letter concerning the blockade-runners, Alice and Fannie, informing the governor that approval had been given for a third of their cargoes to carry “South Carolina” cotton rather than solely Confederate cotton. Furman also makes mention that he “may be able to get the Chicora or one of the other companies to enter into the arrangement in place of the Fannie.” Fantastic and exceptionally rare reference to blockade-running.

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1943. Thomas A. Brander. Confederate

Major during the War Between The States.

After the war he was appointed Major General and Commander of the Virginia Division of the U.C.V. [United Confederate Veterans].

Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Bust view in Confederate uniform with rank of major. Imprint on the front mount, Anderson & Co., Richmond, Va. Backmark: Anderson & Co., 1311 Main St., Richmond, Virginia. In fine condition, with some trivial spotting and light rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1944.

Chambersburg Pennsylvania. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. Scene of the destruction caused during the 1864 Confederate raid into Chambersburg, Pa. View looking down Market Street. Backmark: Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania. Destroyed by the Rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864. Market Street. Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D., 1864, by Chas. E. Meyer, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Published by R. Newell, 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia. In fine condition, with light toning and wear.

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1945. Captured Confederate Cannons. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Park of captured Confederate guns in Richmond, Virginia, April 1865. Richmond buildings are visible in the background, man standing in the right foreground. This is a variant view of an image that was published in “The Images of War.” Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, with a two-cents orange revenue tax stamp on the reverse. In fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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1946. Benjamin F. Cheatham.

Confederate general (1820–1886).

He distinguished himself as a brigade, division, and corps commander in every engagement of the Army of Tennessee from Shiloh to Atlanta. Wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, signed on a slip affixed to the bottom border in ink, “B. F. Cheatham, Mj. Gl. CSA.” Bust view in Confederate uniform.

Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery, with a two-cents orange tax stamp on the reverse. In fine condition, with light toning and some trivial rippling. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1947. Robert H. Chilton.

Confederate brigadier general who served as the Chief of Staff for the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee (1815–1879). Wardated ALS signed “R. H. Chilton,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 10, Head Quarters, Department Northern Virginia letterhead, October 3, 1863. Chilton writes, in part: “The following named men are serving… for…hospital, guard, or other light duty and will report to Brig. Genl. J. H. Wander Comdg. Dept. of…

Richmond, Va. for assignment…certificates of their condition will be forwarded to their company commanders monthly.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light creasing, toning, and rubbing, two small areas of separation at the edge of a fold, pencil notations at the top edge, and a few illegible lines of text written over the main body of text in a similar hand. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1948. Howell Cobb. Signed

book: A Treatise on Field Fortification. First edition. Richmond, Virginia: West and Johnston, 1862. Hardcover, 4 x 6, 168 pages.

Signed on the front pastedown, “Howell Cobb, Athens, Ga.” In fair condition, with toning and dampstaining to pastedowns and interior pages, small paper remnant to top of front pastedown, some bowing to pages and covers, spine partially detached, cloth covers slightly peeling, and wear and surface loss to spine. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

A South–side view of the Rebellion 1949. Civil War Political Broadside.

Printed broadside, 9 x 20, entitled “Epitaph—South-Side View of the Rebellion,” written at the commencement of the Civil War on the Dissolution of the Union. In part: “Here lie the mutilated and disjointed remains of noblest form of Government ever contrived by the wisdom of Man…Of its genuiness there can be no doubt; and believing it [the broadside] will be read with deep interest by thousands of the loyal States, we here re-publish it and here present a perfect fac-simile…Those who desire to know what reason our erring brethren in the disaffected States can assign for taking up arms against the Government may learn by reading our paper…Let this paper be carefully read.

Jackson…his few and memorable words were: ‘The Union - it must and shall be preserved’ of Adams, his great competitor…’I beseech Abolitionists themselves solemnly to pause in their mad and fatal course…These sentiments, and many more, eloquently uttered on the occasion by patriotic citizens from all parts of the Confederacy.”

Intersecting folds, scattered creases and wrinkles, toning and soiling, few small pinholes of paper loss, and rough edges, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1950. Alfred H. Colquitt. Confederate

general (1824–1894).

Colquitt also served as a US Senator from Georgia, and was the 49th governor of the state. He commanded a brigade under Hill at Antietam, and at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg. ALS signed “A. H. Colquitt,” one page, 5 x 8, February 5, 1889. Colquitt writes to Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmage in Brooklyn, New York, in full: “I have received your new book, ‘The Pathway of Life,’ for which I am much obliged. I shall read it, I know, with the same pleasure I have always enjoyed in following anything you have said or written.” In fine condition, with scattered creasing and show-through from mounting on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Give half a chance, t’is all we crave, Though fettered, we have some still brave...Ready, at the signal, up to start. To drive the vile invader forth! Or else to perish by the North” 1954. Confederate Maryland Broadside. Confed1951. Confederate Association of Kentucky. Blank Confederate Association of Kentucky certificate, #724, 11.5 x 8.5, featuring two colored flags and a group of generals conversing around a fire, used to certify a soldier’s rank, command, and residence. In fine condition, with light creasing and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200) 1952. Confederate Bonds. Exceptional lot

of eight different Confederate bonds, ranging in size from 13.5 x 9.75 to 14 x 17, each boasting pictorially stunning vignettes and most of the original coupons still attached. The Confederacy raised some of its operating capitol via the sale of bonds, which normally were of 20 or 30 years duration. Coupons were attached, and upon the date specified on the coupon it was to be clipped out and turned in for a cash redemption. When fully redeemed the bond yielded a certain amount of interest over and above the original purchase price, which varied somewhat. There were also short-term bonds which matured sooner. Of course, those who invested in these bonds lost all remaining monies due when the Confederacy collapse as they were then worthless (as was Confederate paper currency). This gave birth to the phrase “The South will rise again,” uttered by those who fondly believed they would, someday, get their money. In fine condition, with scattered light toning, soiling, creasing and wrinkling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

erate broadside, 5 x 10.5, entitled ‘Das Vis!’ and dated Baltimore, February 10, 1862.

Broadside reads, in part: “Give us one chance, t’is all we ask, Be retribution then our task; We’ve suffered much and waited long, Too weak t’oppose the mighty throng, Which rushed, at the despot’s mandate forth, From every thieves’ den in the North.” In fine condition, with light creasing and toning. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

“To you McDowell, we wish ‘God speed!,’ For you failed them at their utmost need, Of you no more need now be said, Except we’re glad you are not dead!”

1953. Confederate Broadside Poem. Printed Confederate broadside poem, 5.5 x 10.25,

entitled ‘Audax omnia perpeti Gens Lincolna ruit per vetitum nefas,’ by Nicholas Greenberry, in part: “Come pretty Muse give me your help, Keen make my pen as the teamster’s lash, That I may prove to each worthless whelp, Tis useless to strive the South to thrash…To you McDowell, we wish ‘God speed!,’ For you failed them at their utmost need, Of you no more need now be said, Except we’re glad you are not dead!” Some light creasing, a uniform strip of toning across the top edge, staple marks to the top corners, and two mild spots of paper loss, otherwise fine condition.

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1955. Confederate Diary: B.M. Seaton. Brown leather Confed-

erate diary of Benjamin M. Seaton, 5.5 x 7.5, housed in a hardcover presentation folder and slipcase. A solider in the Tenth Texas Infantry, at thirty years old, Seaton was amongst the elder soldiers. Spanning a period of three and a half years, this diary contains accounts of some of the most significant battles, including the Atlanta Campaign.

A member of Company G, Seaton saw action in nine major engagements and several skirmishes, but what fascinated Seaton the most was not the conflict, but the maneuvering tactics that followed, which he writes about with eager fervor.

A few entries of note are as follows, including Seaton’s original grammar, vocabulary, and spelling: January 11, 1863: “Sunday 11th—at 8 A. M. the [gunboat] fireing commenced again and kept up vary study all day and at 10 A. M. small arms commenced and was kept up untell 4 P. M. when the white flag was run up on our wright wich we was vary sory to sea but nevertheless it was so so we were ordered to stack arms and was marched down to the river bank and a strong guard placed around us fer the knight.

We are prisners of war.”

January 12, 1863: “Monday 12th—we lay thar on the bank untell late in [the] eaving when we went on one of ther boats to start to Yankadom. I was vary sick fer several days on the boat—no correct time of anything will be ceapt. We went up the Missippi River to Louisville [St. Louis] some 600 miles by water and thar our officers were taken from us and sent to Camp Chace [Chase] in Ohio near Columbus and the privets went up to Aulton [Alton, Illinois] some 50 miles and thar

taken the cars [railroad] for Chicago to Camp Douglas som 250 miles by railrode. Arrived thar on the 28th—vary cold and snowing—sevare cold weather. The troops suffered a grate deale—it made a grate meny sick and caused a grate many deaths in the command. We cold git no correct news while we remained thar—we wer treated tolerable well about as well as we cold exspect prisners of war to be treated.”

The last journal entry on April 24, 1865, ends abruptly, giving no information as to his destination or plans after the war. He concludes the diary with a list of soldiers, noting their status as “died” or “transferred.”

Ending as abruptly as it began, Seaton, over the course of the entire war, makes no mention of his home, family, or friends, making this account acutely intriguing as the memoirs of a seeming ghost. So little information from the Tenth Texas Infantry has come to print, making this diary exceptional in historical essence and value. Scattered light toning, soiling, and pencil notations throughout the text, and the expected wear to the cover, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the book, The Bugle Softly Blows, containing a complete transcription of the diary, along with information regarding Seaton’s regiment, published by the Texian Press. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1863 Confederate field press printed Civil War broadside for the cavalry 1956. Confederate Field Press Printed Broadside. Extremely rare, original, Confederate field

printed broadside, 6.5 x 12, on fine white woven period paper, dated August 3rd, 1863. Issued by Major General Joseph Wheeler, being General Orders No. 10, at Head Quarters, Wheelers Cavalry Corps. This general order encourages the Cavalry officers to the importance of their adopting all means in their power to insure promotion to the valorous, skillful, and efficient officers and to the soldiers of their respective commands, with instructions for such recommendations. The broadside reads, in part: “This is do to those who by their patriotic devotion to duty, and their valor and skill exhibited in the field, have shown themselves worthy of advancement...the President to make promotions...by appointing officers and soldiers who have been distinguished for exhibiting valor and skill.” The order continues with an example of a recommendation for promotion (signed in type), “Maj. Genl. Joseph Wheeler.” In fine condition, with a few light folds. Fairly well printed for a field document, it is attractive for display, with no significant defects or distractions. Three horizontal folds, a few creases, small tear to bottom edge, and a touch of light soiling, otherwise fine condition.

In December 1862, the Union Army of the Cumberland began to advance from Nashville against Bragg’s army and Wheeler, now commanding all of the Army of Tennessee’s cavalry, skirmished aggressively to delay their advance. He drove into the rear of the Union army, destroying hundreds of wagons and capturing more than 700 prisoners. After the Battle of Stones River, as Bragg’s army withdrew to the Duck River line, Wheeler struck the Union supply lines at Harpeth Shoals on January 12–13, burning three steamboats and capturing more than 400 prisoners. Bragg recommended that Wheeler be promoted as a ‘just reward’ and he became a Major General on January 20, 1863. Wheeler led the army’s Cavalry Corps from January to November 24, then again from December to November 15, 1864. For his actions on January 12–13, 1863, Wheeler and his troopers received the ‘thanks’ of the Confederate Congress on May 1, 1863. A rare opportunity to acquire an original Confederate Field Press Printed Broadside, in recognition of the valor of their soldiers, that is missing in most every Confederate and Civil War related collection.

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1957. Confederate Document. War-

dated Confederate tax receipt, 4.5 x 5.5, Receipt bears two to the page, the first, No. 263 in the amount of $33.16, dated November 6, 1862, and the second, No. 264 in the amount of $33.17, dated November 6, 1862. In very good condition, with a uniform strip of toning along the top edge, scattered light toning, light creasing, mild corner creasing, and two dings to the top edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1958. Confederate Medical. War-dated DS,

one lined page, 7.5 x 10, November 10, 1863, embossed Medical Director’s Office letterhead, affixed by its left edge to a larger cardstock sheet. Confederate medical special orders in which William A. Carrington, Director of General Hospitals in Virginia, relieves a surgeon from duty at Montgomery (Alabama) General Hospital and directs him to report for assignment. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light toning, scattered areas of soiling, and a few mild areas of separation.

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1959. Confederate Notes. Intricately-designed note of Confederate currency, 7.25 x 3, in the sum of $5.00, No. 18210, Series 5. Note bears two ink signatures at the conclusion. Note is affixed to a page within a presentation pamphlet, bearing a printed poem written by a Confederate solider on the opposite page. In fine condition, with scattered light toning and trimmed edges. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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Confederate Navy Flag Officer, Josiah Tattnall, issues a “Sanitary Order” to all commanding officers 1960. Confederate Naval Document.

Ve r y s c a r c e manuscript DS, signed “Josiah Tattnall,” one page, 8 x 10, no date. “General Order, No. 1, From the 15th of June to the 20th of October, all Comd’g Officers will Strictly observe the following ‘Sanitary Order.’ The men are to be protected as far as is compatible with the duties of the Service ‘from the power of the sun,’ ‘night dews,’ and ‘heavy rains.’ Accommodation boats must be judiciously restricted—none later than 9 P. M. being allowed, except by the express authority of the Commander of the vessel. Whenever it is practical, Fresh Provisions must be obtained for the crew. It is desirable that the allowance of water be as liberal as the necessities of the vessels will permit. All boats must have awnings.

Commanders will hoist their pennants when coming alongside of the Flag Ship.” In fine condition, with light creasing and toning. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Rare parole of a Confederate cavalry officer

1961. Confederate Parole. Scarce partly-

printed DS, signed “L. N. Cole Capt CB, 8th Ala Cavalry,” one page, 7.5 x 9.75, May 14, 1865.

Document, numbered at the top “631,” reads, in part: “I, the undersigned, Prisoner of War, belonging to the Army of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, having been surrendered by Lieut.

Gen. R. Taylor, C. L. A., Commanding said Department…do hereby give my solemn parole of honor, that I will not hereafter serve in the Armies of the Confederate States or in any military capacity whatever, against the United States of America.”

Document has been heavily restored and is encapsulated in acid free Mylar. In fair condition, with aforementioned restoration to total fold separations, professional backing, and scattered moderate toning and soiling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Bible of a rebel soldier who participated in Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg 1962. Confederate Soldier’s Bible. Hardcover paragraph bible, 3.75 x 5.5, over 600 pages, 1859, New York, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode. Owner’s signature, “Robert Taylor Scott, 8th Regt., Va. Vols: April 1862,” with several handwritten bible references to opening pages, a couple of loose diary pages, one announcing his baptism, and a couple news clippings. In good condition, with toning and soiling to pages, paper loss to pastedowns, loose and partially detached hinges, wear and rubbing to covers and spine, and missing one portion of locking clasp. 8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Leesburg, Virginia, in May, 1861. The unit was also called “Old Bloody Eighth.” During the war it was brigaded under Generals Cocke, Pickett, R.B. Garnett, and Hunton. In early 1862 the regiment joined Pickett’s Brigade for the Penninsula Campaign, and took part in Pickett’s famous charge at Gettysyburg. On April 6, 1865, the majority of the regiment was captured or killed at the Battle of Sayler’s Creek. Those who escaped that battle were paroled three days later following Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Important telegram sent from Fort Pillow, Tennessee the day it was evacuated by General Villepigue!

1963. Confederate Telegram. South-Western Tele-

graph Company Confederate telegram, one lined page, 5.5 x 8.5, June 3, 1862. “By Telegraph from Fort Pillow, [Tennessee], To Danl. Ruggles, Brig. Genl. Comdg. Grenanda, [Mississippi].” Listed are the conditions that were set worth by the telegraph company. The notice ends with the printed conditions, “All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission subject to the above conditions. N. Green, Pres’t, Louisville, Ky.,” and written below in an unknown hand “Am ordered to Grenada to take command, organize, fortify &c. My troops have all left. Am remaining behind to cover their retreat. My cavalry have not yet arrived from above. Enemy captured four men this morning. Fear they understand my situation,” signed at the conclusion in another hand on the behalf of Villepigue, “Jno. B. Villepigue, Brig. Genl. Comdg.” Docketing on the reverse. A central vertical fold, light show-through from docketing on the reverse, and light rippling at the corners from mounting remnants on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1964. Confederate Veteran Reunion.

Original printed pamphlet entitled ‘Confederate Veteran Reunion, Birmingham, Ala., June 9, 10 and 11, 1908,’ 4 x 9, featuring an image of Jefferson Davis with the print below, “Jefferson Davis Centennial, Passenger Department, Louisville & Nashville Railroad.” The inside bears a lengthy, handwritten quote in red ink entitled, “Dedication of his book ‘Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.’” The second integral page bears an original newspaper clipping from Davis’ 1908 Funeral Parade. In very good condition, with a central horizontal fold, small areas of separation at each end of the fold, scattered toning and soiling, two mild areas of paper loss where two staples once secured the hinge, and light adhesive remnants along the hinge on the back cover. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1965. Confederate Voucher. War-dated

partly-printed Confederate voucher for $150.00, one page on a 8.25 x 5.75 blue sheet affixed to a cardstock album page, dated 1864. Also affixed is a safe conduct pass to Richmond, Virginia, dated November 5, 1864. The pass would be displayed to “pickets” along the route and guaranteed passage even if the holder failed to know the password (which might be changed daily). In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light creasing, and light toning to the voucher; and intersecting folds, scattered light toning, and overlapping text to the pass. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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Six days after the opening attack of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis acknowledges South Carolina’s expression of confidence in him as the provisional president of the Confederacy 1967. Jefferson Davis. War-dated ALS signed “Jeffn Davis,” one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, embossed letterhead, April 18, 1861. Letter as provisional president of the Confederate States, to D. F. Jamison, president of the South Carolina Convention. In full: “I have the pleasure to receive your letter of the 9th inst enclosing a copy of a Resolution, passed by the Convention of the people of South Carolina. For this kind expression of their confidence in me as the Provisional President of the Confederate States, permit me to return through you, my profound and grateful acknowledgments. The approval of a body, so distinguished for its talents and patriotism encourages me in the effort to fulfill the requirements of a position, accepted with much distrust of my ability. With thanks to yourself, personally, for the friendly manner in which you have done me the honor to communicate the Resolution of the Convention.” Intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered creasing and wrinkling, a couple lightly affecting signature, some toning and soiling (heavier to reverse), and light show-through from writing on reverse, otherwise very good condition.

Six days before this letter, on April 12, the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter. On April 18, the day Davis wrote the present letter, Robert E. Lee refused Lincoln’s offer to be field commander of the US. Army and decided to accept the command of the Virginia forces. On April 19 Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring parts of the Southern Confederacy in a state of blockade and denounced any molestation of Federal vessels on the high seas as piracy. In retrospect, Jefferson Davis’s letter reflects a great irony. The support by the seceded states for the President of the Confederacy would erode as the war became protracted. The very issue on which the great struggle centered, self-government for the individual Southern states, became a divisive factor that contributed to the defeat of the Confederacy.

When South Carolina withdrew from the Union in December 1860, Davis still opposed secession, though he believed that the Constitution gave a state the right to withdraw from the original compact of states. Twelve days after Mississippi seceded, Davis made a moving farewell speech in the US Senate and pleaded eloquently for peace between brothers. He had hardly returned to his Brierfield plantation (in Davis Bend, Mississippi, south of Vicksburg) when the Confederate Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, chose him provisional president. Inaugurated on February 18, 1861, his first act was to send a peace commission to Washington to prevent an armed conflict. Lincoln refused to see his emissaries and made secret preparations to send armed ships to relieve Fort Sumter. When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers, four more states, including Virginia, promptly seceded. Davis faced a dire crisis. A president without precedent, he had to mold a brand-new nation in the midst of a war. With few resources except cotton and courage, with a white population only one-quarter that of the North, and with a small fraction of the North’s industrial power, with inferior railroads, no powder mill, no navy, and no shipyard, the agricultural South was in no condition to fight a war. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

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Jefferson Davis attempts to correct the misrepresentation of his views by the press 1968. Jefferson Davis. Book: Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Delivered During the Summer of 1858. Baltimore: John Murphy and Co., 1859. String bound, no covers, 5.75 x 9.25, 26 pages. Jefferson has made 61 pencil revisions, emendations and deletions throughout the text. The text begins with a preface to the speeches: “I have been induced by the persistent misrepresentation of popular Addresses made by me at the North and the South during the year 1858, to collect them, and with extracts from speeches made by me in the Senate in 1850, to present the whole in this connected form; to the end that the case may be fairly before those by whose judgment I am willing to stand or fall.”

In very good condition, with last few pages detached, uniform toning to cover and pages, some creases and edge chips to front cover, as well as a spot of soiling to bottom.

Davis’s speech made on the Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea: “…Senator Davis dwelt at some length on the right-of search question - on the insulting claim which Great Britain made to a peace-right to visit our ships…. Let a foreign power under any pretence whatever, insult the American flag, and it will find that we are not a divided people, but that a mighty arm will be raised to smite down the insulter, and this great country will continue united.”

In Davis’s last speech in this collection, made before the Mississippi Legislature, he concludes, “…if it should ever come to pass that the Constitution shall be perverted to the destruction of our rights…we shall then bear to the federal government the relation our colonial fathers did to the British crown, and…we will in that event redeem our rights even if it be through the process of revolution…. Now, as in 1851, I hold separation from the Union by the State of Mississippi to be the last remedy - the final alternative. In the language of the venerated Calhoun I consider the disruption of the Union as a great though not the greatest calamity. I would cling tenaciously to our constitutional Government, seeing as I do in the fraternal Union of equal States the benefit to all and the fulfillment of that high destiny which our fathers hoped for and left it for their sons to attain.” A longer description is available online at rrauction.com. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“Communities are…formed to protect each individual…

The Constitution of the U.S. is the creation of the people en masse…The Will of the majority is the law of the land” 1969. Jefferson Davis. Letter, written and signed “Jefferson Davis,” by his wife Varina on his behalf, two pages, 7.75 x 12.25, January 8, 1883. In part: “Communities are, or should be, formed to protect each individual, and by punishing wrong to preserve right.

The members by entering the community do not alienate their natural rights, but combine for the greater security of them. The sovereignty of the community is the aggregate of the individual sovereignty and therefore ‘Governments rest on the consent of the governed.’

The state i.e. the people, require agents as well for efficiency as for convenience, and functions are delegated, but sovereignty, indivisible and indefeasible, remains in the People. Some form of Government is necessary to social existence, and the common interest of all is a guarantee to each, that the Government will be the…which the judgment of the whole can devise; but it is usual…us to guard against usurpation by a bill of rights, a barrier over which official…cannot pass even if corruptly using the shield of state sovereignty. The many pages both preceding and following the one cited by your correspondent, I endeavored, on the part of authority and by agreement to report three mischievous errors of recent birth and rapid growth. First that our governments are sovereign. Second, that the Constitution of the U.S. is the creation of the people en masse, instead of a compact between the states i.e. the people of each independent community. Third that the will of the majority is the law of the land, meaning thereby of the U.S. In attacking each and all of these positions, state sovereignty was the heavy battalion relied on, and its leaders were the founders of our Constitutional vision.”

In good to very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, a couple old repairs to folds on reverse, scattered soiling, dampstaining, toning, and a stamp showing through on reverse of pages, trimmed bottom edge of second page, a small repair to paper loss along edge of second page affecting just a couple letters, and a few stray ink marks. The complete text of the letter is available online at rrauction.com. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

“The inalienable rights of man may be entrusted to agents, but the God given endowments cannot be righteously surrendered” 1970. Jefferson Davis. AQS on a 3.75 x 3.5 off-white sheet.

Davis writes: “The inalienable rights of man may be entrusted to agents, but the God given endowments cannot be righteously surrendered.” Signed at the conclusion, “Jefferson Davis, February 5, 1883.” Sheet is affixed to an identical size sheet of heavier stock. In very good condition, with writing and signature a couple shades light, but completely legible, some scattered light toning and wrinkling, and mounting remnants to reverse. Accompanied by an unsigned CDV portrait.

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Broke and desperate, Davis tries to recoup his fortunes and rebuild his life after the war 1971. Jefferson Davis. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 8, December 20, 1870. Letter to T. G. Wharton Esquire, marked at the top “Private.” In full: “At the time of my last visit to you I asked your near neighbor Col. Stewart if he could give me any information in regard to a transaction with his Bank in 1862–3 he informed that his books had been destroyed and his memory did not serve in such cases but that his cashier whose name he mentioned might remember about it. I assumed that he would ask the cashier but as I have not heard from I concluded he preferred not to do so for some good & satisfactory reason, so I apply to you to seek for me at least the relief of knowing that nothing can be learned.

The case is this, in and about 1862 I placed some money in the Bank subject to the draft or to the credit of my Brother. I think there were two deposits one of three thousand dollars and another of nine thousand dollars. I have lost all my papers and the same befell the papers which my Brother took with him to Ala. Unless the Cashier or Clerk remembers with sufficient distinctiveness to establish the fact of the deposit and that it was drawn out; the sum of whatever it was is my loss. Will you have the goodness to make the needful inquiry. Please present my affectionate remembrance to Mrs. Wharton and your Daughters.” Intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, an ink blot to end of signature, two tape remnants to reverse of second page, and scattered toning and soiling, otherwise very good condition.

In February 1862, the newly reelected Confederacy president, concerned about recent military disasters in Tennessee and his reelection, worried about the family’s personal fortunes. On February 21, he penned his brother Joseph that their wealth was at stake should the Union penetrate into Mississippi, writing “Your property would be the next to my own an attraction to the plunderers It therefore seems to me that it might be well to send away as far as possible all which is mine, to send away, even up the Big Black, your cotton and valuables, and be ready to move your negroes and part of the stock.” To that end, Joseph funnelled the two deposits mentioned above “in the Bank.” By May 30, the Davises’ homes had been destroyed and he wrote his wife not to worry about “personal deprivations.” When Lee surrendered in 1865, Davis advised his wife to to take the “little silver” which was “scant store” and sell the land in Mississippi in order to find safe haven in a foreign country. He also returned property he had previously bought to the heirs of the former owner when he was unable to continue payments and declared that he staked all his property and reputation for the Confederacy, money which he personally spent for the cause plus the reminder that was “seized, appropriated, or destroyed.”

When he was released from his prison two years later, Davis found himself desperately in need of money, and expecting no compensation, he became president of the Carolina Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee which failed four years later. Trying to rebuild his life and gain control of his plantation Brierfield, he sought the help of Thomas G. Wharton, Esq., the Attorney General in Mississippi, to help reclaim lost money deposited by Joseph into a southern bank via the clerk, Col. Stewart. His personal papers lost, no hard proof of the deposits and his brother recently dead, it is not known whether Davis recovered this money, but he regained his estate, only to lose it. He lived on the charity of long-time admirer Sarah Ellis Dorsey who offered her cottage, Beauvoir, as a home and the rest of his life was spent writing his book The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

The former Confederate president issues a check in the midst of Reconstruction 1972. Jefferson Davis. Bank check, 8.25 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Davis, payable to T. G. Anderson for $25.00, April 14, 1873. A vertical fold through a single letter of signature, cancellation cut to body, several small staple and tack holes, and a bit of light soiling, otherwise fine condition. Check also bears a two-cent revenue stamp affixed to left side. Just months after issuing this payment, Davis would resign his position as president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company and depart for England. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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Davis provides Judah Benjamin with “one thousand dollars in gold” for the mysterious Confederate Secret Service 1973. Jefferson Davis.

Partly-printed war-dated DS, signed “Jefferson Davis, Pres’t C. S. A.,” one page, 8 x 10, September 1, 1864. Warrant to the Treasury Department, with portions filled in by Davis, who has also crossed off the printed Department of State letterhead and written “Executive Office.” In full: “Please cause a warrant for the sum of one thousand dollars in gold, payable out of the Appropriation for “Secret Service” (Act of Feb. 18, 1864) to be issued in favor of Hon. J.P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, and charged to him on the books of the Treasury.” In good condition, with paper loss to top left corner and left edge, intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered toning, some repaired tears to top edge, a couple other edge tears, mounting remnants to reverse, and a few other cracks to the fragile paper.

During the war, a number of secret operations were mounted with various degrees of official oversight.

Many involved acts that were considered by the Union to go beyond the normal conduct of “civilized” warfare, and allegedly included setting fires in New York City hotels (Election Day plot of 1864), poisoning the New York City water supply, infecting Union soldiers and citizens with smallpox and yellow fever, kidnapping President Lincoln and holding him until Confederate soldiers were released, and blowing up the White House. By 1864, the Confederate government was attempting to gain control over these operations. Secret legislation was put before the Confederate Congress that year to create an official Special and Secret Bureau of the War Department, but the legislation was not enacted until 1865 and never implemented. In April of 1865, Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin burned most of the official papers of the Secret Service just before the evacuation of Richmond, and the full story of Confederate secret operations was lost. A rare document demonstrating the endorsement of Secret Service activities at the highest level of the Confederacy. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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1974. Jefferson Davis. Red

booklet entitled, ‘In Memoriam, Jefferson Davis,’ 6 x 9, 59 pages, featuring a gold nautical star on the back cover. The reverse of the title page reads, “In compliance with the provisions…I have prepared this, the proceedings of the memorial services of the House and Senate in joint sessions, Saturday, March 7, 1891, Sam H. Dixon, Chief Clerk House of Representatives, Twentysecond legislature.” In very good condition, with scattered light toning and spotting to the pages, the expected mild to moderate wear to the cover, a few light scratches and spots of soiling, and three areas of paper loss along the spine. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

1977. Jubal A. Early. Confederate

general (1816–1894).

He was prominent at Salem Church during the Chancellorsville campaign, and at Gettysburg. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Bust view in Confederate uniform. C.D. Fredricks & Co. imprint on the front mount. Backmark: C.D. Fredricks & Co., New York, Paris and Habana. In fine condition, with a light bend to the top right corner. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1978. Jubal A. Early.

1975. Dead Rebel Soldier. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen

3.75 x 2.5 carte-de-visite photo. View of a Confederate soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called “Fort Damnation” by the soldiers, at Petersburg, Va. This view was taken on the morning of April 3, 1865. It has been very nicely hand-tinted in color. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. In fine condition, with light toning and clipped corners. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1976. Thomas F. Drayton. Confederate general and railroad president (1809–1891). Charleston and Savannah Rail Road $510,000 mortgage loan bond, #867, 15 x 10.75, signed at the conclusion in ink as president, “Thos. F. Drayton.” Additionally signed by the secretary and comptroller general. Seven individual $15.00 bonds are attached at the bottom edge. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light toning, and light show-through from writing on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Confederate general (1816–1894). Unsigned wet plate 4.25 x 6.5 W. W. Foster of Richmond, Virginia cabinet photo, signed in ink, “J. A. Early.” In fine condition, with a few trivial creases. Accompanied by the original envelope. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

“I have not an extra copy of the pamphlet containing my address on the campaign against Pope in 1862” 1979. Jubal A. Early. ALS signed “J. A. Early,” one page, lightly-lined, 5.75 x 7.5, embossed

letterhead, June 7, 1888. Early writes, in full: “I have not an extra copy of the pamphlet containing my address on the campaign against Pope in 1862–it was delivered in Baltimore Md for the benefit of the Confederate Survivors Association of Maryland; and by writing to General Bradley T. Johnson at Baltimore Md, you can obtain a copy.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light creasing, and a couple of tears through a portion of the text repaired from behind.

On February 22, 1883, Early attended the first annual meeting of the Association of the Maryland Line at the Academy of Music in Baltimore. At the meeting, the group’s president, General Bradley T. Johnson, outlined the mission of the organization which was first, to collect materials regarding the history of Maryland men in the Confederate Army and secondly, to provide a home for the old and infirm Rebel veterans who received no pensions or bounties from the government. This annual get-together featured Jubal Early as the featured speaker, and he offered an address on the Confederate Campaign against the newly appointed commander of the Army of Virginia in 1862 which was published by Foley Brothers Printers in 1883.

The address covered Jackson’s strategy during the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28-30) in which the Confederate Army handily defeated Pope’s army under the command of Robert E. Lee. Pope, who had been convinced that he trapped Jackson, threw the bulk of his Union forces against him, unaware that Longstreet’s 25,000 men joined Jackson’s right flank. He ordered Porter to attack A.P. Hill’s depleted forces on Jackson’s left to deliver the final blow, but Porter received the message late and instead Kearny launched a fierce attack as Early’s unit arrived just in time to reinforce Hill’s troops positioned at Stony Ridge. Early jumped into the counterattack, helping to drive back the Union forces and opening the way for the Confederate offensive which crushed the Army of Virginia, pushing them back to Bull Run in the largest mass attack of the war. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1980. Jubal A. Early. Crisp ink signature, “J. A. Early, Lynchburg, Michigan,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2.5 card. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1981. Jubal A. Early. Confederate general (1816–1894) who led troops at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania.

Though pardoned by President Johnson in 1868, Early remained unrepentant and was one of the leading supporters of the ‘Lost Cause’ movement, reserving special vitriol for the actions of Confederate General James Longstreet at Gettysburg. Partly-printed war-dated DS, signed “J. A. Early, Brig Genl,” one page, 10 x 7.5, August 8, 1862. A Provision Return for Captain, Colonel John S. Hoff of the Virginia Volunteers, giving an accounting for one day; it reports on rations for 225 men, and includes such items as fresh beef, flour, sugar, candles, soap and salt. Signed at the conclusion in ink by Early and countersigned in pencil by Lt. Colonel A. H. Jackson. In very good condition, with uniform toning, some pencil a bit faded, some light spotting, and two vertical folds. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1982. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

1984. Ambrose P. Hill. Confederate gen-

Confederate general (1821–1877) who earned a reputation as the greatest cavalry officer of the Civil War. A subject of controversy even in his own lifetime, Forrest’s military legacy remains permanently clouded by his prewar career as a millionaire slave trader and, later, his role as first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Original unsigned carte-de-visite of Forrest in his uniform jacket, 2.25 x 4, by E. & H. Anthony of New York, and so marked on the reverse. Some scattered light spotting and foxing to background, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

eral (1825–1865). He gained early fame as the commander of “Hill’s Light Division,” becoming one of Stonewall Jackson’s ablest subordinates. He later commanded a corps under Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia before his death in battle just prior to the end of the war. Rare endorsement signed, “A. P. Hill,” on a blue 3.25 x 3 sheet, August 10, 1863. Hill signs below the endorsement, penned in another hand from the Headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps, “Respectfully forwarded & requested he be returned to his Regt.” In fine condition, with some trivial toning and a slightly rough top and bottom edge. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Gorgas signs off on an 1863 order for “necessary Returns” to Ordnance stores 1983. Josiah Gorgas. One

of a select few Confederate generals of northern descent (1818– 1883). Holding the position of Chief of Ordnance, Gorgas kept the southern armies fully equipped with weapons and ammunition in the face of the Union blockade, creating a munitions industry from the ground up.

War-dated LS signed “J. Gorgas,” one page, 7.5 x 5.75, January 10, 1863. A circular written from the Ordnance Bureau in Richmond, in full: “Captain’s of Companies, attached to commands frequently send to this Bureau Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance stores. By the Regulations, Commandants of Requirements are now responsible for all Ordnance & Ordnance stores in their respective commands & are required, assisted by their Ordnance Sergeants to make out & forward the necessary Returns. You will please call attention to the Regulations in this respect,” signed at the conclusion by Gorgas.

Docketing on the reverse. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one lightly affecting a single letter of the signature, some light soiling, a trivial spot of ink erosion, a pencil notation to the top edge, and a trimmed bottom edge. Although arming the southern forces seemed an impossible task, Gorgas rose to the occasion, building up the Confederate’s munition supply and Ordnance Bureau, which he had operating at top rate by 1863. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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1985. Robert F. Hoke. Confederate general (1837–1912).

He distinguished himself on all the battlefields of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days to Chancellorsville.

He was severely wounded defending Marye’s Heights during the latter campaign. After recovering from his wounds, he brilliantly captured Plymouth, NC. and its garrison with 3,000 Yankees. Crisp wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in Confederate uniform. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. In fine condition, with light toning and slight rippling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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In a revealing letter, Stonewall Jackson’s brother-in-law confides his doubt in Confederate victory: “We can be independent, if we are resolved to be so, otherwise, we deserve our fate” 1986. Daniel H. Hill. Confederate General (1821–1889) and brother-in-law of Thomas

‘Stonewall’ Jackson. War-dated ALS signed “Husband,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.5 x 9.25, February 12, 1862. Letter to his wife, written from Leesburgh, Virginia. In full: “Amid all the sad news, I can still see the guiding and protecting care of a kind Father.

You thought that my removal from North Carolina was very cruel, but had I remained, I would now be a corpse or a prisoner. Let us praise and adore Him always & under all circumstances. I feel more calm than I have done for a long time. The condition of that Island has preyed very much upon my mind. The militia were called out to fortify it, but the mean, unprincipled Governor ordered them back. A month’s work would have saved the Island. The thing is now over, it is with the past, suspense has become reality, & we have only to say, ‘Thy will be done.’ We can be independent, if we are resolved to be so, otherwise, we deserve our fate. There must be a great change, or ruin is inevitable.

Whether there is spirit enough for the emergency, I do not know. After all, what is the use of being concerned about this brief life, when eternity is before us. Trust in God, rely upon the saviour & do our duty. Then all will be well. Many dark hours are before us, but we can make them bright. Excuse a brief note. Love & Kisses to the dear ones at home.” Intersecting folds, a couple mounting remnants to reverse of top edge, lightly trimmed horizontal edges, a uniform shade of toning, and missing top left corner tip, otherwise fine condition.

Hill lived in North Carolina with his wife, Isabella Morrison. The “Island” he refers to in the letter is Roanoke Island, which had been lost a few days before to Union troops. In October, Hill had been assigned command of coastal defenses in North Carolina. He ordered his soldiers to put up earthworks across the center of the island, but was called to Virginia before the work could be completed. With the Confederate forces inadequately equipped and the Island poorly defended, the Battle of Roanoke Island ended in a Union victory. Hill describes Zebulon Vance as the “mean, unprincipled Governor.” An outstanding letter revealing Hill’s doubts about the war’s outcome. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

Ultra-scarce, war-time salt print image 1987. John Bell Hood. Confederate army officer (1831–1879) who, after

graduating near the bottom of his West Point class, served in California and Texas. Resigning to join the Confederate service, Hood commanded a brigade at Second Bull Run and Antietam and a division at Gettysburg, where he was seriously wounded. Exceedingly rare unsigned wet plate, albumen salt print image, mounted to 2.5 x 3.75 card. Bust view in Confederate uniform. No backmark. The view was taken in either the spring or summer of 1862. This card was presented to the family of Major Richard Channing Price by the legendary Confederate cavalry commander, and their cousin, General J.E.B. Stuart. In fine condition, with light toning, wear, and trimmed edges. Incredibly rare opportunity to own an actual wartime Confederate image that was picked out, held, and presented by the legendary Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

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Rare Jackson tactical call orders, instructing Ewell to move his troops for a military strike during the 1862 Shenandoah Campaign 1988. Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. Appointed a brigadier general when the Civil War broke out, Jackson (1824–1863) organized a brigade of Virginians who fought at the first Battle of Bull Run. It was there that the unit was described as standing its ground like a ‘stone wall,’ and the name forever became attached to Jackson. Hours after victories at Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville, Jackson was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died eight days later. War-dated ALS signed “T. J. Jackson, Maj Genl,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.25 x 9.5, April 20, 1862. Letter written from “Conrad Store near Swift Run Gap, 2:20p.m.,” to General Richard S. Ewell. In full: “Since writing my dispatch this morning I have received another one from you. The position I wish you to encamp at tomorrow evening (Monday) is at the intersection of the road from orange C.H. to Stannardsville with the road from Gordonsville to Madison C.H. This will place you within two days march of either Swift Run Gap or Fisherville Gap. You had better have five days rations with you. At last accounts the enemy had not entered Harrisonburg.

The move in Fredricksburg was probably designed to prevent reinforcements being sent to me.”

At the upper portion of the reverse, written and signed for Ewell in a secretarial hand is a message that reads, “more than that as I believe from Fishers Gap and as my teams & c & c will be kept in better order I would recommend that I be left at G until the time you decide my movements either to F. Gap or Swift R Gap—In addition the road from the point you designate to Stannardsville is represented as very bad at this time, nearly impassable. Please let me hear from you at G as soon as possible. I cannot possibly move before tomorrow.”

On the lower portion of the reverse, Ewell writes a response to Jackson, signed “R. S. Ewell,” and reads, in full: “One element in the above p is that I go to the R R should I recalled towards R[ichmond], I will send another express this afternoon from G[ordonsville] & leave one at Stannardsville…manner from G. to M.C.H. [Madison Court House] 20 miles thence to F. Gap 15 or 16.”

In very good condition, with intersecting folds, Jackson’s writing and signature a shade or two light but completely legible, some light showthrough from writing on reverse, and light notations to top border.

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign showed off Jackson’s genius as a tactician as he was able to tie up 60,000 Union troops with a far smaller force. On April 18, Jackson dispatched the above instructions by courier to Ewell in order to join The Army of Virginia near Blue Ridge after a previously missed encounter. As Ewell repositioned his troops, the general marched his troops near Conrad’s Store, establishing his headquarters for four escape routes, allowing for easy troop movements as he planned his next strike. On April 30, Jackson headed for Port Royal and Ewell crossed Swift Run Gap to the general’s former campsite, leading the Union army to believe he was still encamped at Conrad’s Store, but on May 8, Jackson mysteriously appeared at McDowell, striking the Union forces hard, preventing Fremont’s army from joining Banks’ troops, and resulting in Jackson’s first victory of the Shenandoah campaign. Historically significant and autographically rare original tactical orders from one of the South’s greatest generals. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

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1989. John Bell Hood. Confederate army officer (1831–1879) who, after graduating near the bottom of his West Point class, served in California and Texas. Resigning to join the Confederate service, Hood commanded a brigade at Second Bull Run and Antietam and a division at Gettysburg, where he was seriously wounded. Ink signature, “John B. Hood, Bvt. 2nd Lt., Infy,” on a light blue 2.75 x 1 slip clipped from a roster or similar document. Matted and framed with a portrait of Hood, to an overall size of 8.5 x 10.5. In very good condition, with a circular spot of toning to right edge, affecting a small portion of last name of signature and rank, and some stray ink marks above and below signature. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

1990. Juliet Opie Hopkins. Called the ‘Florence Nightingale’ of the Confederate States Army (1818–1890), Hopkins helped establish hospitals for sick and wounded soldiers with the profits she received after selling her estates in New York, Virginia, and Alabama, whose residents contributed largely to assist in her efforts. By June of 1861, Hopkins was appointed chief matron of all state hospitals. Bank check, 6.75 x 2.25, filled out and signed

by Hopkins, “Mrs. A. T. Hopkins,” payable to Pleasant’s & Frazier for $218.60, August 13, 1862. A vertical fold, a small tear to the top edge, and a few small cancellation cuts and notations, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Highly-desirable Confederate note featuring the legendary general 1991. Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. Appointed a brigadier

general when the Civil War broke out, Jackson (1824–1863) organized a brigade of Virginians who fought at the first Battle of Bull Run. It was there that the unit was described as standing its ground like a ‘stone wall,’ and the name forever became attached to Jackson. Hours after victories at Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville, Jackson was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died eight days later. Confederate States of America $500 currency note, #20981, 7.25 x 3.25, dated February 17, 1864, Richmond, Virginia, and bearing a vignette of ‘Lieutenant T. J. Jackson’ in the bottom left corner and one featuring an equestrian statue of General George Washington before the Confederate flag on the left, with two ink signatures at the bottom. In fine condition, with intersecting folds, light toning, and wrinkling. Notes like this one were manufactured in Richmond, Virginia towards the end of the confederacy in 1864, and Jackson was the only Confederate general to appear on such currency. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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Writing to a comrade-in-arms, Johnston admits “insurance is a very uncertain resource” 1992. Joseph E. Johnston. Confederate general (1807–1891) who, when Virginia

seceded from the Union in 1861, resigned his commission as a brigadier general in the regular army—the highest-ranking US officer to do so. Initially commissioned as a major general in the Virginia militia, he relieved ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s command at Harper’s Ferry and organized the Army of the Shenandoah. ALS signed “J. E. Johnston,” one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 10.5, Southern Department, Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company letterhead, January 27, 1871. Letter to James Edmonston. In part: “It gives me great pleasure to receive tidings of you, but I cannot understand why you should suppose my memory so short that you could be forgotten in little more than four years. I am sorry to know that you are not satisfied with your experiment in planting.

The more so because it seems to me that insurance is a very uncertain resource. Unless one can obtain from a good company…it is only in the principal towns that those agencies will support the incumbent. In all others the agencies are held by persons who have other businesses to help the proceeds of insurance. If you are disposed to try, we can give the agencies of the Liverpool & London & Globe (fire) Ins. Co., and of the N.Y. Life Ins: Co.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and some scattered light toning and soiling. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. In 1868 Johnston began acting as an agent for the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, and within four years had a network of more than 120 agents across the deep South. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1993. Joseph B . K e r s h a w.

Confederate general (1822–1894).

Kershaw played a gallant and distinguished part in all the operations of the 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, almost literally, from 1st Manassas to the Appomattox campaign. While temporarily attached to General Ewell’s command on the retreat from Sayler’s Creek, on April 6, 1865, he was captured, and confined at Fort Warren prison. After the war, Kershaw again practiced law, and was elected to the state senate in 1865. Scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo, featuring an ink notation in another hand in the bottom border, “Maj. Gen. Kershaw,” continuing on the reverse, “of Army Northern Virginia.” Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. In fine condition, with some trivial soiling, and slight rippling to the right edge.Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

1994. Fitzhugh Lee.

Ink signature, “Fitzhugh Lee, Governor of Virginia,” on a brown 4 x 2 deckle-edge card, with “Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Affair, Richmond, Sept 30/89,” in another hand. In fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

1995. Robert E. Lee. Two

strands of Robert E. Lee’s’s hair.

The strands are presented in small plastic pouch which is stapled to a letter of authenticity by noted expert, Charles Hamilton, with a photocopy of the original provenance printed on the letter. In fine condition. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from University Archives’ John Reznikoff.

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Lee investigates “suspicious persons” in the Virginia ranks 1996. Robert E. Lee. War-dated LS signed “R. E. Lee,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, June 2, 1861. Letter to “Dinwiddie B. Phillips, Surgeon Va. Army, Woodville, Rappahannock County, Virginia.” Letter reads, in full: “I have received your communication of the 31st ult: referring to two suspicious persons, Brownell and Romines. I have referred it to Gen’l Beauregard, Commanding at Manassas Junction, for his consideration. Capt. Green’s company of which Brownell is a member, is under Gen’l Beauregard’s command.” Professional repairs to separations along horizontal folds on reverse, removed old tape along reverse of mailing folds, scattered toning, primarily to right side and bottom, with a bit over signature, a few thin areas of paper, and several creases, otherwise very good condition.

Lee received Phillips’ letter concerning possible spies among the Confederate troops at Manassas just before the Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the war. Lee was in command of the Virginia state forces in June of 1861 and had just returned from visiting Manassas Junction on May 28. He observed the wide-ranging quality of the troops at Manassas and was very concerned about the selection of a commander for the exposed post, a position that went to his friend, General Beauregard. Phillips later served as surgeon aboard the C.S.S. Virginia (or Merrimac). A remarkable document from early in Lee’s command. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

A scarce and desirable copy of General Order No. 9 1997. Robert E. Lee. A contemporary copy of Lee’s General Order

No. 9, written and signed in an unknown hand, one page, both sides, 5 x 8. Entitled “Farewell address of Gen R E Lee to the army of N V, General Orders No 9.” The address copied here, delivered by Lee to his beleaguered Army of Northern Virginia, reads in full: “After four years of ardious [sic] service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of N. Va. has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of some many hard fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them. But feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuance of the contest, I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen. By the terms of the Agreement, officers and men can return to their homes and remain until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from a consciousness of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly pray that a Merciful God will extend to you His blessings & protection. With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell. R. E. Lee General.” Professional repair on reverse of a complete separation along central horizontal fold, several other small tears and areas of paper loss, a few of which are repaired, scattered toning and soiling, and some show-through from docketing on reverse, otherwise very good condition. Original transcripts signed by Robert E. Lee fetch in excess of $100,000 at auction. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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General Lee finds comfort in “The Divine Life” as his faith sustains him in defeat 1998. Robert E. Lee. ALS signed “RE Lee,” one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 8, August 8, 1866. Letter to Reverend William White, written from Lexington, Virginia. In full: “I have rec’d your note of the 31st Ulto: accompd the work of the Revd Dr. James Craik, ‘The Divine Life,’ & must beg you to express to the author my sincere thanks for his kind remembrance of me.” Matted and framed with a portrait of Lee to an overall size of 17 x 15. Letter appears to have been reinforced with paper. In fine condition, with a central vertical fold, a uniform shade of mild toning, and a small separation near bottom of page.

Reverend Doctor Craik, the rector of Christ Church in Lexington, Kentucky and the author of The Divine Life, was the grandson of the Doctor James Craik who accompanied Washington on the 1755 Braddock expedition, later serving the president throughout the entire Revolutionary War as surgeon-general and personal physician. His wife was the sister of Mrs. George Washington Parke Custis, the mother of Robert E. Lee. A devout Christian his entire life, Lee prayed daily, carrying a book of Common Prayer with him during the war and he was often seen kneeling in prayer as his Rebel troops marched by. In this letter to White, the former general thanked the reverend for Craik’s “kind remembrance of me,” the gift of his book which explored the universality of redemption and its benefits as applied to the necessities of man and how one achieves “the divine life” through salvation. Lee’s personal copy of the The Divine Life was donated to the Virginia Historical Society in 1961.

Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

Lee addresses an envelope to General Wilcox in Mexico City 1999. Robert E. Lee. Hand-addressed envelope panel, 5.25 x 3, addressed in Lee’s hand to “Genl C. M. Wilcox City of Mexico,” and notated by Lee in the lower left: “By Steamer / to Vera Cruz.” An explanatory letter of provenance is written on the reverse, signed “M.F.” Letter reads, “Mexico. 10 Feb. 1866. My dear Rutson, I did not have an autograph of Genl Lee, but here you have his handwriting; it concerned an autograph letter from him dated Lexington Va. 3 [sic, 23] Dec 1865 and which the envelope Wilcox has kindly given me for you. Will it do for your English friend?” In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, show-through from writing on reverse, stamp over end of address, and a few small edge tears. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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Lee signs his instantly recognizable ‘floppy tie’ portrait 2000. Robert E. Lee. Original sepia 2.25 x 3.5 carte-de-visite photo, by the

“’Lee’ Photographic Gallery,” signed under the image in black ink, “R. E. Lee.” Photographer’s imprint on the reverse reads, “The ‘Lee’ Photographic Gallery, 920 Main Street, over the Richmond Musical Exchange. Wm. W. Davies.” Two surface chips, one affecting top of a single letter of signature, and one to background of image, signature and image just a shade light, lightly trimmed top edge, scattered light soiling and staining, and a few chips to left edge, otherwise very good condition. Known as the ‘floppy tie’ portrait, it was taken in 1864 by John W. Davies in the Lee Gallery. Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr., in his article ‘The Fabric of Command: R. E. Lee, Confederate Insignia, and the Perception of Rank’ published in “The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography” (Vol. 98 No. 2, April 1990), wrote that Davies ‘made a single image. The picture was, in fact, a favorite of General Lee and is easily recognized by Lee’s closely cropped beard, ill-fitting collar, and drooping black tie.’ Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

Lee inscribes a CDV for his youngest daughter’s friend, shortly after the last shots were fired in the Civil War 2001. Robert E. Lee. Exceptional

original 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite portrait, taken by Vannerson & Jones in Richmond, Virginia, signed and inscribed on the reverse, “For Miss Lucy Blaine, R. E. Lee.” In very good condition, with rounded corners, a few areas of soiling, slightly affecting signature, silvering to the darker areas of image, tiny emulsion tear near right edge, and an internal revenue stamp affixed to the reverse, canceled June 26, 1865.

June 1865 is the same month that Lee was indicted for treason, though the indictment was never carried forward.

The original recipient of this image was a friend of General Lee’s youngest daughter, Mildred. This image shows three stars on Lee’s right collar, with Lee achieving the rank of General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States of America in January 1865.

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Lee’s most famous wartime photograph 2002. Robert E. Lee. Scarce original 5 x 7 (oval) albumen portrait on a 6.75 x 8.75 mount, the full-length image, originally taken by Julian Vannerson in 1864, depicting Lee in dress uniform, his DeVisme presentation sword given to him by the ladies of Baltimore in one hand and his gloves in the other, signed in ink on the image “R. E. Lee.” Matted and framed to an overall size of 14.5 x 17.5. In fair to good condition, with scattered emulsion losses and abrasions to image (mainly to background), light water spotting (touching face, body, and signature; not affecting legibility), scattered toning and soiling, and subtle feathering of ink. The signature is otherwise dark and bold. Lee is quite elusive in signed images of this size.

An impressive image of Lee, taken during the lull before the start of Grant’s bloody spring offensive in 1864. Of only eight photographs of Lee known to have been taken during the Civil War, the present is the only full standing portrait. Lee is shown in an erect stance, in full uniform and sash, holding a pair of gloves in his right hand and with his left hand resting on the pommel of his dress sword. “The standing view is especially notable in that Lee is wearing both his military sash and his dress sword--the only time he was ever photographed in his sash” (Meredith, The Face of Robert E. Lee, p. 40). Lee disliked sitting for photographs, which explains the paucity of wartime views. He agreed to go to Vannerson, whose work was considered comparable to that of Matthew Brady, to provide an image for the Richmond ladies who were requesting a new likeness. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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2003. Robert E. Lee. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo.

Famous, highly-desirable full-length portrait of General R.E. Lee in his Confederate general’s uniform, with sash, holding gloves, and his famed Maryland presentation sword which was made by Devisme of Paris. Backmark: Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, Virginia. In fine condition, with light toning and mild silvering to the darker areas of the image. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

2004. Robert E. Lee.

Sheet music for ‘General Lee’s Quick March,’ seven pages, 10.5 x 14, featuring an etching of General Lee on the cover.

Published by Oliver Ditson & Co. of Boston. Light creasing and rubbing, both covers detached, a small tear to the right edge, two rusty paperclip impressions to the left edge, a red pencil mark to the front cover; two tears to the edges of the back cover, and a small area of paper loss to the bottom edge of the back cover, otherwise very good condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2005. Robert E. Lee.

Sheet music for ‘Gen. Rob. E. Lee’s Funeral March,’ six pages, 10 x 13, featuring an etched vignette of Lee on the cover, dated October 12, 1870. Published by Chas.

B. Bayly, 221 of Maryland.

In very good condition, with scattered light toning, mild show-through and mirroring to each page from the sheet music on the reverse, and a rough left edge with a few staple marks along the hinge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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2006. Robert E. Lee. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-

de-visite photograph, Lee’s famous war-time head-and-shoulders pose. Bust view in Confederate uniform. Backmark: Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, Virginia, with two-cents blue revenue tax stamp on the reverse. In fine condition, with light toning. RRAuction COA.…

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Lee’s cousin, in command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, provides directions where seized vessels are to be brought 2007. Samuel Phillips Lee. Civil War Union admiral who commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the Mississippi Squadron, providing valuable support to General Thomas in his campaign against General Hood. Three war-dated printed documents: DS, signed “S.P. Lee” as Acting Rear Admiral, Commanding North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, one page, 8.5 x 12.75. U.S. Flag Ship Minnesota, June 10, 1863. Upper portion affixed to 8.5 x 6.25 card upon which an earlier printed document signed “S. P. Lee” has been affixed on the reverse, one page, 5 x 8, U.S. Flag Ship Minnesota, off Newport’s News, Va., April 10, 1863. The April 3, 1863, document is headed “Circular” and quotes an extract from a letter from the Navy Department: “It is the duty of the Paymaster to make out the quarterly muster-roll complete, including the descriptive list of each man.” The June 10, 1863, document is headed: “The following general instructions are to be strictly observed by all concerned under my command. Twenty-two numbered instructions are listed, including 20th. Vessels seized are not to be sent to Hampton Roads, but to Washington in case of small prizes, and to Boston in case of steamers, and all other vessels capable of making the voyage there. All letters, papers, and documents found on board a vessel at the time of seizure must be carefully done up and sent to the District Judge of the United States for the port to which she is ordered, or to the Prize Commissioners thereat, by her Prize-Master, who is to verify them, as having been taken from such vessel”; and a DS signed “S. P. Lee” as Acting Rear Admiral, Commanding North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, one page, 5 x 8, U.S. Flag Ship Minnesota, March 16, 1863. Forwarding an extract from a March 14, 1863, letter from G. V. Fox, Lincoln’s Acting Secretary of the Navy, “in reference to the proceedings of a Summary Court-Martial…” and affixed to a 7 x 9.75 page. General Order from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, December 12, 1862, relating to “Nautical Instruments furnished to vessels of the Navy.” In very good overall condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2009. James Longstreet. Confederate general (1821–1904) who

2008. London News. Original June 4, 1864, edition of The Illustrated

London News, 11.25 x 15.75, 22 pages, featuring a full-length image of an engraving of General Robert E. Lee. Some scattered light spots of toning, mild dampstaining, and creases, otherwise fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

distinguished himself at Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga.

Partly-printed DS, one page, 11.5 x 6.5, November 18, 1870. Certificate for five shares of stock in the New Orleans & North Eastern Railroad Company issued to George Ingram, signed at the bottom by Longstreet as the company’s president. In very good condition, with two vertical folds, one through a single letter of signature, red “Cancelled” notation to body, and uniform toning, heavier on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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The Commander of the navy writes a long account of the South’s position for the London Times in hopes of England’s recognizing the Confederacy 2010. Matthew Fontaine Maury. War-dated LS signed “M. F. Maury C. Navy,” 23 pages, 7.75 x 9.5, August 4, 1862. Admiral Robert Fitz

Roy, Royal Admiralty, of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade and Admiralty in London. The text in two secretarial hands.

Maury gives a Southern account of the war in an effort to gain English recognition of the Confederacy. His letter discusses many subjects and points out the strengths of the Confederacy, the promise of its factories, and the impending lack of cotton shipments to England. Naval themes prevail, including his condemnation of the “paper blockade” and the development of the Confederate navy. In strong terms, this letter expresses Maury’s personal optimism and convincing arguments of his position. In very good condition, with some light spreading and haloing to ink on some of the pages, scattered toning and soiling, foxing to several pages, and light handling wear. A more comprehensive description is available online at rrauction.com. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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2012. William Mahone. Confederate ma-

2011. General J. Bankhead Magruder. Two items: original carte

de visite photo, 2.5 x 4, featuring a full-length image of Magruder in uniform with his presentation sword; and a printed DS, 6 x 9, March 31, 1865. General E. Kirby Smith sends a General Order, stating that “Major General J. B. Magruder is relieved from duty in the District of Arkansas, and will relieve Major General J. G. Walker from the command of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.” In very good condition, with toning, trivial spotting, and silvering to some of the darker areas of the photo, and a central vertical fold, a horizontal fold above the bottom edge, light spotting and a few mild areas of ink erosion to the document. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

jor general (1826–1895) who distinguished himself during the Siege of Petersburg. Three documents, each signed “Wm. Mahone.” A 12.5 x 8.25 Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company interest bond, dated December 2, 1869, signed at the bottom by Mahone; an 11 x 7.25 stock certificate issued to Robert H. Jones for three shares of the Atlantic Mississippi & Ohio Railroad Company, dated February 1, 1872, signed by Mahone as the company’s president; and an ornate 15.5 x 27.5 first mortgage gold interest bond in the amount of $1000.00, signed by Mahone as the company’s president. Certificate retains 57 of its coupons at the bottom. In very good condition, with cancellation holes to two of the signatures, vertical folds through portions of signature, and scattered toning to all three. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

The ‘Gray Ghost’ 2013. John S. Mosby. Fabled Confederate ranger

(1833–1916) whose guerrilla band specialized in attacking and disrupting Union supply lines. He earned the nickname ‘The Gray Ghost’ for his clandestine and highly effective attack tactics. ALS signed “Jno: S. Mosby,” one page, 7.75 x 10.25, October 3, 1903. Letter to “Dear Alice.” In full: “It has been a long time since I heard from you. I don’t remember wh. of us wrote last - it is all the same. I have just recd. a 30 days leave of absence but it is doubtful about my availing myself of it before Nov. 30th. I have a good deal of work wh. I want to close up before I go as I don’t expect to return here. I have just written to Miss Kate & sent you my love by her. I hope Chinn has gotten over the state of agitation he was in last Spring over the Smoot estate. I have had a very pleasant time at Birmingham with my relations there whom I had never seen. Where did you spend the Summer? I spent mine among the pine forests - the thermometer 100°. Still my health is very good.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and a mild shade of toning. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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War-dated letter signed to Confederate Vice President, Alexander H. Stephens 2014. Christopher G. Memminger. War-dated LS signed “C. G. Memminger,” one lined page, 8 x 9.75, embossed Treasury Department, C. S. A., Richmond letterhead, January 19, 1863. A letter to the Honorable A. H. Stephens, Vice President C.S.A. and President of the Senate, in full: “The Resolutions of the States of Alabama and South Carolina in relation to Guaranty of the War Debt are referred to in my Report to Congress of the 10 instant, and copies thereof were intended to accompany that Report. They were accidentally omitted, and I now ask leave to communicate the same.” In fine condition, with horizontal fold passing through the top of the signature, and light creasing. Precertified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Eyewitness accounts of the Monitor and Merrimac!

2015. New Orleans Daily Delta. Complete original issue of the New Orleans Daily

Delta, March 22, 1862, four pages, 16.25 x 21.5. Features include The Monitor and the Merrimac and the defeat of the Cumberland; eyewitness accounts of the famous naval encounter between ironclads at Hampton Roads, Va.; news of action at Island No. 10 on the Tennessee River; the Confederate States Zouaves, numerous Confederate military ads, and more. In very good condition, with uniform toning, some light soiling, tearing and dings to the left edge, and a near complete separation along the central horizontal fold. Confederate newspapers from New Orleans are quite rare. The Crescent City was seized by Admiral Farragut on April 25, 1862, with the formal surrender occurring on April 29th. Shortly afterwards General Benjamin F. Butler occupied the city, and it remained in Federal hands for the remainder of the war. Confederate issues therefore are limited to a brief 16-month period, from the secession of Louisiana in January 1861, to the capture of New Orleans in late April 1862. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

The Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee!

2016. New Orleans Daily Delta. Original issue of the New Orleans Daily Delta, April 12, 1862, four pages. Stories include: Front page coverage of the battle; reports from the battle of Shiloh giving the details of both days of fighting; Generals Beauregard and Grant; list of casualties from the battle of Shiloh; the removal of the remains of Confederate General Albert S. Johnston from the battlefield; the defense of the Mississippi; interesting Order from Thomas Jordan, A.A. General, Army of the Mississippi under heading, LEAD WANTED FOR THE ENEMY: Corinth, March 31, 1862. “General Beauregard instructs me to say that our countrymen of the Valley of the Mississippi may indeed render material aid by converting all the lead piping and house roofing they can possibly spare into bullets to be aimed at our wickedly impelled invaders. Only by lead and steel wielded by men resolute and bent on independence can our homes be now defended”; fighting on the Virginia Peninsula; a letter from a prisoner; the First Session of the Confederate Congress. Numerous recruiting ads for soldiers and sailors, military bounty ads, reward ads for Confederate deserters, reward ads for runaway negroes, and more. In very good condition, with uniform toning, a moderate area of separation along the central horizontal fold, some light edge tearing, and a rough left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“The Battle Desperate. Our Loss Heavy.

Some of Our Generals Wounded.

More of the Great Victory. The Enemy Driven Across the River. Ten Thousand Prisoners and 18 Batteries Captured” 2017. New Orleans Daily Delta. Original issue of the New Orleans Daily Delta, four

pages, 16.5 x 21.5, April 9, 1862. Featured stories and headlines include: Beauregard reports on the battle of Shiloh, a great victory; the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston; Beauregard sends dispatches from Corinth after the battle; Special Dispatches to the Daily Delta; Second Day’s Fighting on the Tennessee River; the Battle Desperate. Our Loss Heavy.

Some of Our Generals Wounded. More of the Great Victory. The Enemy Driven Across the River. Ten Thousand Prisoners and 18 Batteries Captured; Latest news from Island No. 10; the splendid scenes of the bombardment; Grumbling at the North—Mrs. Lincoln’s Grand Ball; the White House festivities. Debate in British Parliament on the American blockade.

News from Memphis; ads offering a reward for Confederate deserters, Confederate Zouaves, news from Confederate Congress, military orders and advertisements, steamboat ads, and more. In very good condition, with uniform toning, a moderate separation along the central horizontal fold, and a rough left edge. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2018. North Carolina Daily Journal. Original issue of the North Carolina Daily Journal, four pages, 15 x 22.25, May 4, 1861. Features include: Front page advertisement for the sale of a negro family; State of North Carolina; A Proclamation by Governor John W. Ellis; General Orders No. 1, by D.H. Hill; The Legislature of North Carolina; The Blockade of the Southern Ports; Lincoln’s Proclamation; President Davis; More Troops for Virginia; Latest News from the North; Numerous military advertisements for troops, goods, etc., a reward ad for Runaway Slave, and more. Light toning, mild corner creasing, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

2019. North Carolina Daily Journal. Original issue of the North Carolina Daily Journal,

four pages, 15 x 22.5, April 23, 1861. Features: Detailed account of the 1861 Baltimore Riots; Passage of Federal Troops Through Maryland Resisted by the People; Thrilling Account of the Scene; Barricading the Track; Troops Resolve to Brave the Storm; The Hirelings Greeted with a Volley of Stones; Baltimoreans Killed and Wounded; Hirelings Killed and Wounded; The Hirelings Bad Marksmen; Stones Better Than Bullets; Terrific Assault upon the Hirelings; They Run For Their Lives; A Piteous Appeal for Mercy; Thousands Gathered at the Camden Station; Fearful Scene; The Inhuman Butchery of R.W. Davis, Esq; Appearance of the Corpse; Particulars of the Murder; Estimable Young Man Shot Dead; Rushing to Arms; The Military; Incidents of the Battle; Correspondence from the Office of the Mayor of Baltimore; The Run to Washington.

Numerous military ads for the Cape Fear Light Artillery, Wilmington Light Infantry, Cape Fear Riflemen, 30th and 39th Regiment NC Militia, German Volunteers, etc. (Future Confederate General) Major D.H. Hill and the North Carolina Military Institute announce their third session. Ads for cotton, railroads, land, goods, services, hotels, restaurants, education, and much, much more. Plus early war news. Light toning, a few edge tears, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

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2020. North Carolina Daily Journal. Original issue of the North Carolina Daily Journal, four pages, 16.5 x 21.5, May 16, 1861. Features include: Major W.H.C. Whiting, C.S.A. serving as the A.I.G., State of North Carolina; An Act to Raise an Additional Military Force for the War Adopted by the Confederate Congress; An Act Vesting Certain Powers in the Postmaster General, C.S.A; Roman Catholicism and Slavery to be Destroyed; From Mahan’s Tactics on Field Fortifications—the Effect of Musketry and Artillery, and the Means of Directing Their Fire to Obtain the Best Results; Target Practice of Small Arms; Table of Effects of Fire on a Target; Numerous Military Recruits Wanted Advertisements, Military Orders, Agricultural and Manufacturing ads, Railroad and Transportation ads, Ad for a publication with sketches of the Confederate victory at Fort Sumter, Negroes For Sale ad, Plantation ads,Military Goods ads, and other early war news. Light toning, a tear to the right edge, and a rough left edge, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

From the battlefield, Pickett answers a letter from his 16-year-old wife that his slave has brought to him and mentions a possible advance by General Robert E. Lee 2021. George E. Pickett. War-dated ALS in pencil, signed

“George,” one lightly lined page both sides, 8 x 10, “Monday 8” [according to the consignor, August 8, 1864]. Pickett writes to his wife Sallie. In part: “Your two lines by Jachin did me a great deal of good my own darling wife. I had not recd them when I rode by Home this morning. Oh my lily you can not tell how anxious I have been on the score of your health since I left. I can not, dare not write what I feel…Dr McKonking sent me a bill for you the first visit…. Capt Bright, Henry & Stratton send you some apples which they picked up yesterday…. I asked Capt. Bright (who goes in this evening with Miss Flora Ragland) to take a good look tomorrow for some clasps for ‘the coral’—En passant my prettier had you not better send a few words of thanks for the coral or are you jealous because Sadie wore them—Ain’t I a mean thing? I would scratch that out if I had time. I saw Capt Edmonds this morning who says there will be no trouble about getting the rooms and twill afford him much pleasure, likewise his wife to have you at her table. If Mass Robt. will only leave us but I have my doubts—Things look something like an advance in another direction. Darling one I do pray you are not suffering from this intense heat we must all ‘suffer some,’ but thank God you have not the flies conjointly–You can form no idea of the numbers, and their tenacity in this region, man & beast are nearly crazy. Bye Bye my own Sallie love…. Masport is still here—Blain will tell you. She is very anxious to see you and the baby—Don’t you wish she didn’t have any baby—what a comfort she would be to you now.” In fair to good condition, with several lines of text very light, old tape repairs to separations along all intersecting folds (small losses at intersections), chips, and scattered toning. “Mass Robert” (actually, Marse (slang for “master”) Robert) refers to Robert E. Lee. Nine days earlier, during the siege of Petersburg, Lee was victorious in the Battle of the Crater as the Army of Northern Virginia drove Union forces led by General George G. Meade eastward.

In the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, the 1st Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia included Pickett’s division.

George Pickett had married Sally Harrison Steward Minge, a great-great grandniece of William Henry Harrison, in January 1851. In November, 1851, Sally died during childbirth. In 1856, at Fort Bellingham, Washington Territory, Pickett married a Native American woman of the Haida tribe, Morning Mist, who gave birth to a son, James Tilton Pickett (1857-1889). Morning Mist died a few years later. Before the Gettysburg campaign, the 38-year-old widower fell in love with a 15-year-old Virginian, LaSalle “Sallie” Corbell (1848-1931), the recipient of this letter.

They were married on November 13, 1863. Their first son, George (1864-1911) was born on July 17, 1864 and is referred to in this letter. In 1912, Sallie Pickett published many of the letters George wrote her in The Love Letters of a Confederate General. They were first published anonymously in issues of the Pictorial Review. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $300)

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At the outbreak of the war, the Fighting Bishop accuses: “Mr. Lincoln’s government is to overrun & subjugate us” 2022. Leonidis Polk.

Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana (1806-1864). His West Point classmate, Jefferson Davis, urged him to accept an appointment as a Confederate general during the Civil War, despite having had no combat experience.

His rank earned him the nickname ‘The Fighting Bishop.’ Polk, a second cousin of James K. Polk, defeated Grant at Belmont and commanded large forces at Shiloh and Chickamauga.

Gen. Braxton Bragg ordered him to be court-martialed for not following orders at Chickamauga, but Davis reinstated him. Polk was killed in action near Pine Mountain, Georgia, in June 1864, and although Davis lavished the highest praise on him as a military leader, most of his peers felt his real talents lay in his ministry. War-dated ALS signed “Leonidis Polk, Majr Genl, Commanding, 2d Department, C.S.A.,” three pages on two sheets, 7.75 x 9.75, July 29, 1861. Letter to Col. Robert W[illia]m Topp, Dr. Fowlks, Judge Caruthers, and Dan[ie]l Leatherman.

In full: “I am satisfied that many of our fellow countrymen in East Tennessee, have, by the course of events, been forced with occupying a position in regard to the question pending between the North & the South which is hardly in keeping with their natural relations, & from which it is our duty in a Spirit of magnanimity to do what we can to relieve them. Without entering into the questions at issue, I feel confident that if they are assured by their Southern fellow countrymen of their disposition to treat them with kindness & to respect their manly feelings, while they are making provision for the protection of our own Tennessee Soil against invasion from the North, they will have no reason to feel aggrieved by the presence of troops in their midst.

They must see that the policy of the U.S. Government on whether Mr Lincoln’s government is to overrun & subjugate us, & they also know that they are threatening to do this through the passes of the Tennessee mountains. What are we to do then? But one thing is left us, & that is to place troops at all of those points at which we are most exposed.

This assuredly in the face of the facts alluded to should form no just ground of complaint on the part of any candid man of sense. It is upon every amount desireable that no irritating language or any offensive bearing should be manifested by the troops towards citizens in East Tennessee or elsewhere, & the commanders will doubtless see that this is not done. Your well known Character & position in relation to the public questions which have agitated us, make it in my opinion a very proper office for you to perform to go to our fellow citizens of East Tennessee & with fraternal words & unfeigned kindness to endeavour to induce them to waive their opposition to the decision of the majority of the voters of the State & to become hereafter as heretofore with us a untied band of brothers. The State of Tennessee in the history

of the year has a fame which among our States has been among the most enviable. For Statesmanship & military distinction she has been excelled by none. In the name of all that is hallowed & precious let us see to it that we transmit to our children an escutcheon unstained by the demoralizing...influences of Social distractions & conflict. Concession in a world like this is inevitable. To bow before the direction of majorities the highest of the duties of American citizenship. May we not hope these gentlemen through you will be a mission of peace, & trust we shall soon bear of but one party in the Eastern End of our beloved Tennessee as there is but one in the East & the Central, district & like the true patriots of our good old mother the Old North State we shall be one & indivisible. With my best wishes for your Success.”

Intersecting folds, a couple passing through the signature, some creasing and wrinkling around folds, scattered toning and soiling, mounting remnants to reverse of second page, and light pencil notations to top of first page, otherwise very good condition.

In Tennessee, the Whig Party split nationally on the slavery issue, and the state became nominally Democratic. Proslavery sentiment was strong in middle and west Tennessee, but less strong in east Tennessee; loyalty to the Union, however, was strong in all sections of the state. As late as February 9, 1861, voters defeated a proposal to hold a convention for the consideration of seceding from the Union. This pro-Union sentiment changed almost overnight when Lincoln called on Tennessee to provide troops to help put down the Southern rebellion. On May 7, 1861, the state entered into a “military league” with the Confederacy, and on June 8 the people of middle and west Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to sever their ties with the union; by an equally overwhelming majority east Tennessee voted to remain in the Union. Thus, when Gov. Isham G. Harris proclaimed that Tennessee had declared its independence of the Union, Andrew Johnson of east Tennessee refused to resign his seat in the U.S. Senate and was upheld in that action by the people of his section. East Tennessee remained Unionist throughout the Civil War and has been strongly Republican in its politics ever since. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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2023. William H. Pope.

Texas senator, lawyer, and soldier (1847-1913) who was influential in writing and passing Texas Jim Crow laws. Original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo of Pope, by H. R. Marks of Austin, Texas, signed in the lower border in black ink, “Sincerely, yours, W. H. Pope,” with “Senator,” added in another hand in the lower left corner.

Some scattered light surface marks and spotting to background, as well as some light toning and foxing to borders, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2025. Rebel Steam Ram Atlanta. Intriguing Rebel Steam Ram ‘Atlanta’ print, 14.25 x 11, featuring an image of the vessel from the side and an aerial view. Caption below reads, “Captured June 17th, 1863, On Exhibition in front of Washington St., for the benefit of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philad, November 1st, 1863.”

In very good condition, with light toning, scattered light areas of soiling, an area of paper loss to the bottom left corner, creasing to the bottom right corner, and a trimmed top edge. The first Atlanta was a casemate southern ironclad, converted from a Scottish-built blockade runner serving in the Confederate Navy. She was captured in battle on the James River, Virginia and then served in the Union Navy for the duration of the Civil War. Before she was repaired in the Federal navy yard and commissioned again in 1864, she was displayed in Philadelphia for the benefit of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, an organization which cared for thousands of Union soldiers as they passed through Philadelphia. The admission fees gathered from those viewing the boat were applied to the saloon and helped with the upkeep and growth of the hospital and other facilities. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

The Missouri congressman, and future Confederate general, ponders “the Oregon question” 2024. Sterling Price. Military officer (1809–1867) who served as an American general during the Mexican-American War and as a Confederate general during the Civil War. ALS, one page both sides, 8 x 10, January 8, 1846. As a Missouri congressman, Price writes to a Mr. Miller. In part: “The Oregon question is the all absorbing question here at this time. It has been ably debated for the last four of five days and the discussion will likely continue some days more. This house will be for the whole of Oregon…I fear the fate of the Oregon question in the senate if the Whigs are united against the notice the Calhoun faction will defeat the measure.” In good condition, with moderate creasing, wrinkling, a few edge tears, toning, soiling, and a few apparent singe marks to the edges. The “Oregon question” undoubtedly had to do with the Oregon Treaty between the US and the United Kingdom, signed on June 15, 1846, which settled boundary claims. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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2026. John Salling. Salling (1856–1959) long claimed to be the second-oldest surviving Confederate veteran. His claim, including a birth date of 1846, remained in the Guinness Book of World Records until 2006, by which time further research established his true age and failed to turn up any record of military service. Commemorative cover with a cachet honoring the Honorable Jefferson Davis, Champion of the South, signed in blue ballpoint, “General John Salling, age 112.” In fine condition, with a few light spots of toning and soiling. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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Rare war-dated order appointing Ruggles in “command of the several Depots and Guards” to “inspect the several stations and take prompt measures to place them in a state of efficient organization” 2027. Daniel Ruggles. Confederate brigadier general (1810-1897) who commanded the 1st Division, 2nd Corps Army of the Mississippi and fought at Shiloh. War-dated manuscript DS, one page, 8.5 x 10.5, embossed letterhead, May 18, 1862. A Special Order from Head Quarters Special Department, assigning “Genl. D. Ruggles…to the command of the several Depots and Guards in the rear of this Army, as a Special Department. He will visit and inspect the several stations and take prompt measures to place them in a state of efficient organization—Reporting direct to these Head Quarters,” signed by Ruggles at the conclusion, “Official Copy, Daniel Ruggles, Brig.

Genle. CSA,” and also signed by Thomas Jordan. Light toning, some trivial creasing, a few small tears, and collector’s notations on the reverse, otherwise fine condition. This order was composed one month after General Ruggles was forced to call for every piece of ammunition to defend the Union’s line against ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ the name given to the repeated Confederate charges against Ruggles’ position during the Battle of Shiloh. A row of 62 cannons, known as ‘Ruggles’ Battery,’ stood in defense against the Confederate onslaught; despite assembling the largest concentration of artillery seen at that point, the Confederates broke through the Union line at 5:30 p. m. on Sunday, April 6, 12 hours after the battle had begun. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

Exceedingly rare Confederate military commission 2028. South Carolina Military Commission. Partly-printed DS, signed “F. W. Pickens,”

one page, 14 x 8.5, November 19, 1861. South Carolina Military Commission, appointing “T. G. Croft as Jr. 2nd Lieutenant of the Co. ‘C’ 16th Regiment S. C. V. mustered into Confederate service for twelve months, Which said company you are to Lead, Train, Muster, and Exercise, according to Military Discipline,” signed by Governor Pickens and William R. Hunt, Deputy Secretary of State.

In very good condition, with three vertical folds, light creasing and toning, and a few small edge tears. A fervent supporter of states rights, Pickens served as the governor of South Carolina, and it was under his administration that the state seceded from the Union and demanded the surrender of all Federal forts in Charleston Harbor. Pickens signed the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession and strongly advocated the secession of all the southern states. On Jan. 9, 1861, he sanctioned the firing upon the Federal relief ship, Star of the West, which was bringing supplies to Major Robert Anderson’s beleaguered garrison. He also approved the bombardment of Fort Sumter which began the War Between the States! RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2029. J. E. B. Stuart. Extremely rare color, gold-embossed cigar label, 4.5 x 4.5, featuring a vibrant imprinted vignette of General Stuart and a printed signature, “J. E. B. Stuart, Majr. Genl.” In fine condition. A foremost cigar label expert notes that this is the first such example he has ever encountered, valued at $1,000–$2,000. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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“It becomes my painful duty to announce to the Division the death, from wounds received in action, of Major Channing Price”—Stuart mourns the death of his trusted adjutant at the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville 2030. J. E. B. Stuart. Manuscript DS, signed “J.E.B. Stuart, Major Genl

Comdg,” one lightly-lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, May 10, 1863. This General Order No. 15 was written from Cavalry Division Headquarters in Northern Virginia and concerns the death of his right-hand man, Channing Price. In full: “It becomes my painful duty to announce to the Division the death, from wounds received in action, of Major Channing Price, Asst: Adjt: General, Cavalry Division. This gallant officer while at the post of duty near the Furnace, in Spottsylvania County, on the 1st of May, received a fatal wound, which in a few hours deprived the Division staff of its most efficient member, the country, of a faithful and gallant defender, and an afflicted family, of its brightest ornament. Surely Death loves a shining man. The purest and best have fallen: let their spirits animate those of us who survive. In token of respect for the memory of the deceased, the Division Staff will wear the usual military badge of mourning for thirty days.” Beautifully double-suede matted and framed with a color portrait of Stuart, and a descriptive plaque, to an overall size of 30 x 27. In fine, clean condition.

Price’s demise came at the Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the many lives lost to secure a surprising Confederate victory. At one point during the fight, Stuart, Price, and General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson followed a small path in the dense growth of Catharine Furnace and came upon a Union encampment. Their initial round of artillery fire gave away their position, however, and resulted in a barrage of Northern return fire.

In the heat of the battle, Price was wounded by shrapnel...and without a tourniquet to bind his wound, the piercing that shortly turned fatal.

Describing Price as a “gallant officer” whose death “deprived the Division staff of its most efficient member, the country, of a faithful and gallant defender,” Stuart immediately bought tourniquets for every member of his staff to carry. Ten days later, the general wrote General Order No. 15...and exactly one year to the day later, would himself be mortally wounded. Oversized. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.…(MB $1000)

The Confederacy’s famed cavalry commander endorses a British volunteer’s service just before Chancellorsville 2031. J. E. B. Stuart. War-dated handwritten endorsement, signed “J.

E. B. Stuart, Major Genl,” dated April 22, 1863, on the reverse of an 8 x 6.5 manuscript document signed by Captain A. Maben Hobson, regarding James Foster. The document reads, in part: “James Foster was a 12 month volunteer in Co. D. 18 VA Battalion of Artillery…he claimed to be a British subject & rec’d his papers as such from the British Consul…he enlisted in my company & has been a good soldier ever since.” Endorsed on the bottom of the reverse, “Approved & respectfully forwarded. J.E.B. Stuart, Major Genl.” Two earlier endorsements appear above Stuart’s, one dated April 19, 1863, signed

by W. C. Wickham, stating Foster “is one of my best men and was not liable to conscription”; and another endorsement written in another hand, signed “Fitz Lee, Brig. Gen’l Cmd.” Right panel bears one more endorsement, written and signed by Walter Taylor. Professionally silked on the document side, two vertical folds, scattered toning and soiling, paper loss to top edge, and show-through from reverse, otherwise very good condition.

Foster was one of the many Englishmen who played active roles in the Confederacy during the Civil War—a loyalty stemming from shared beliefs with those who were their neighbors in such cosmopolitan cities New Orleans. Southern leaders enticed men like Foster to join their cause, where most proved to be “a good soldier.” About a week after Stuart lent his endorsement to this document, he participated in the Battle of Chancellorsville, and on May 2, 1863, joined Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march and pursuit of retreating Union forces.

During this encounter, Stuart learned Jackson had been wounded, resulting in his assuming command of an infantry corps. Though serving as an infantry commander for only a few days, Stuart received high marks for his strong and well-coordinated attack against Union troops at Chancellorsville. A great war-dated document leading up to a major Civil War battle. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $500)

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Hurting from his defeat at Gettysburg, Stuart orders a Yankee back to his company: “He could not be a legal substitute unless a citizen of the confed. states, and if a citizen, the fact that he is a refugee from Pa does not exempt him from conscription” 2032. J. E. B. Stuart. Scarce war-dated handwritten endorsement, signed “J.E.B. Stuart, Major Genl,” dated August 15, 1863, on one panel of a 10 x 8 off-white sheet, together with other endorsements concerning the issue of an unauthorized substitute. Stuart writes, in full: “Hdqrs Cav. Div A.N.V. Respectfully forwarded. It is believed that this substitution is invalid as it does not appear that the substitute is exempt from military duty. He could not be a legal substitute unless a citizen of the confed. states, and if a citizen, the fact that he is a refugee from Pa does not exempt him from conscription. Nothing is said of the age of the substitute. It is therefore presumed that he is not over 45 years of age. Respectfully recommend that Gibson be ordered back to his company.”

Sheet is additionally endorsed by three other officers, including Adjutant W. H. Taylor who notes that the substitute is “clearly illegal,” with two further endorsements on reverse. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light soiling and toning, some mild spotting, and a couple pencil notations.

On August 14, 1862 Charles H. Kelber enlisted as a private in the Virginia 14th Cavalry Regiment, Company H, as a substitute for James S. Gibson at Churchville, Virginia. Deemed an invalid substitute because he was not a citizen from a Confederate State, Stuart recommended that Gibson be ordered back to his company. His substitution orders were annulled and revoked on September 1, 1863 by Col. Preston Luft, but Kelber continued on the rolls as late as April 1, 1864. Also signed by Lt. Col. AAG Hugh Lawson Clay, brother of Confederate Sen. C.C. Clay, and Lt. Enrolling Officer Thomas Goldthwaite on duty at Richmond with the Bureau of Conscription.

Though few northerners enlisted in the Confederate Army, Pennsylvanians like Kelber were the exception. Economically linked with Virginia, many Pennsylvanians sympathized with the south and over 2000 men from the state joined Virginia Regiments. For Stuart, having a Yankee and “a refugee from Pennsylvania” in his midst added to his recent defeats. Having been surprised and defeated at Brandywine Station in the largest cavalry engagement of the war, then arriving late to Gettysburg which enabled the Union army to trap Lee in Virginia, his performance contributed to Lee’s defeat and the deaths of over 27,000 Rebel soldiers, and prompted the need for more soldiers. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $900)

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“I need carbines of long range, do make an effort to procure me a few hundred or even one or two” 2033. J. E. B. Stuart. Desirable war-

dated ALS, one page, 4 x 6, May 17, 1862. Letter written from “Hd Qrs Cavy Brigade,” to Major E. P. Alexander, Chief of Ordnance, ADV. In full: “Have you done anything for that Blakely yet?

Please attend to it at once as we are almost in daily use of it. I need carbines of long range, do make an effort to procure me a few hundred or even one or two. The 6th N[orth] C[arolina] vol[unteers] has 10, and other Inf[antr] y reg[imen]ts 20 [more], & various other non-combatants are thoroughly armed & equipped. Eradicate & eliminate for the cavalry.” Intersecting folds, some scattered light toning and soiling, and a pencil notation and mounting remnants to reverse, otherwise fine c ondition.

Stuart had just fought in the Battle of Williamsburg when he wrote this letter. In mid-May 1862, Confederate troops were taking positions before Richmond, preparing to strike McClellan’s army before it came too close to the capital city. Stuart was charged with keeping Johnson informed of the Union position and skirmished with the advancing Federals. Johnson would attack on May 31 at the Battle of Seven Pines. In his letter to Major Edward Porter Alexander, the chief of ordnance in the Army of Northern Virginia, Stuart asks about a Blakely, a type of cannon, likely in need of repair.

Alexander, an engineer and later a general, is best known for the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg, as well as his use of observation balloons for intelligence.

Shortly after he wrote this letter, Stuart was sent out by Robert E. Lee to locate the right flank of McClellan’s forces.

He not only successfully achieved his mission, but famously rode completely around McClellan’s army to deliver his report to Lee. A fine letter written by one of the real heroes of the Confederacy. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $1000)

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2034. Richard Taylor. Confeder-

ate general (1826– 1879). Son of General and President Zachary Taylor, and brother-in-law of Jefferson Davis.

He served under General Stonewall Jackson in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, and in the Seven Days battles before Richmond. His most celebrated achievement was the complete repulse of Banks’ Red River expedition at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in the spring of 1864. Unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Bust view in Confederate uniform. Backmark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Scattered light spotting, a fingerprint impression to the right of the image, and a pencil notation to the bottom border, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2035. Texas Rangers. War-dated ALS signed “W. Nicholson,”

three pages both sides, 5 x 8, December 25, 1863. Nicholson writes to his Aunt, in part; “We expect to have some skirmishing and fighting today…I took this sheet of paper & envelope from a Yankey.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered creases, a few edge tears, some light toning and soiling, and a couple ink spots. Nicholson was a member of the famous ‘Terry’s Texas Rangers,’ a group of Texas volunteers for the Confederate States Army assembled by Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry in August 1861. In four years these Rangers fought in some 275 engagements in seven states. The unit earned a reputation that ranked it among the most effective mounted regiments in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2036. Tobacco Circular. Printed

Tobacco Circular, 8.25 x 11, three pages on two adjoining sheets, March 2, 1859. A detailed report on the export, various markets, and receipts in the tobacco industry.

Report begins “This month, almost universally a dull period, has proved unusually so this year; in short the limited sales from importer’s hands are scarcely worthy of record; the trade, however, have made rather better progress.” Reverse of second page bears an address panel, postage stamp, and docketing. Intersecting folds, scattered toning, and a business stamp to first page, otherwise fine condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $100)

2037. Virginia White House.

Unsigned wet plate, albumen 4 x 2.5 carte-devisite photo. 1862 Barnard & Gibson imprint on the front mount. Excellent view of ‘White House,’ the plantation home on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, that William Henry Fitzhugh ‘Rooney’ Lee, inherited from his Grandfather Custis. “Rooney” Lee served as a Confederate General during the Civil War and was the son of General Robert E. Lee. Photographic label on the reverse; Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 384. White House, Formerly residence of Mrs. Custis Washington, now the residence of Col. Lee, 17th May 1862. Very sharp view. Desirable 1862 Brady image. In fine condition, with silvering to the darker areas of the image.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2038. Thomas H. Watts. Eighteenth

Governor of Alabama from 1863–1865. Wardated manuscript DS, signed “T. H. Watts, Gov. of Ala.,” one lined page, 7.75 x 3, December 8, 1864. From the Executive Department of Alabama, Governor Watts writes, in full: “Let W. J. Green have one gallon whiskey for need purposes on the usual terms,” signed at the conclusion by Watts and Capt. W. R. Richett. In very good condition, with light creasing, scattered spots of toning, and trimmed edges. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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An eyewitness recounts the first executions by the Confederate Army in 1861: “We had a little excitement yesterday seeing two of the Louisiana Tigers that they were placed on their knees their hands & feet tied behind them to a stake blindfolded and twenty four men shot” 2039. Virginia Infantry. War-dated ALS signed “Newt,” one page both sides, 7.5 x 10, December 10, 1861. Letter, written from “Camps near Centerville, Va.,” to Ellen. In part (with spelling and grammar retained): “The weather is very pleasant we have three…of the prettiest days I ever saw in December and if the Yankees don’t pay us a visit now I can’t tell when they will get another good chance. We have been expecting them every day and have got everything in readiness to receive them with ‘welcum hands and hospitle graves.’ We have all our entrenchments finished and our masked batteries fixed…We had a little excitement yesterday seeing two of the Louisiana Tigers that they were placed on their knees their hands & feet tied behind them to a stake blindfolded and twenty four men shot (twelve at each) and they were killed almost instantly. I did not go to see the sight the crime was for trying to kill an officer and desertion.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, some creasing, and uniform toning.

The soldier who penned this letter was Squier Newton Bosworth (1841–1922) Co. F of the 31st Virginia Infantry, a man well-known for his exquisitely detailed letters. The Louisiana Tigers were a volunteer company comprised primarily of foreign-born Irish Americans from the New Orleans’s waterfront areas, serving as part of Major. Wheat’s 1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. In society, the Irish and the dockworkers were considered the lowest, less valuable than slaves. In the army, they were undisciplined and unruly, constantly fighting and greatly feared. Colonel Richard Taylor, son of Zachary Taylor, was promoted to brigadier general and charged with getting the Tigers under control.

On October 28, a gang of drunken Tiger Zouaves led by privates Dennis Corcoran and Michael O’Brien attacked the brig in an effort to free fellow Tiger John Travers, who was under arrest on murder charges. Besides disarming and knocking a guard to the ground, one of the Zouaves struck Colonel Harry T. Hayes, commander of the 7th Louisiana. Soldiers from the brigade quickly put down the riot and the two instigating privates were arrested. Charged with mutiny, Corcoran and O’Brien were tried, found guilty and court-martialed. Sentenced to death, their highly publicized execution was set for December 6, 1861 at 10:00 a.m. Ewell’s entire division, the press, and the curious watched as the convicted men were led to the stakes rising from the ground, next to two grave sites and two coffins. The men’s hands were bound behind their back and they were forced to kneel, backs against the post as a priest prepared the men to meet their demise. Colonel Kelly of the 9th Louisiana signaled the priest away, the culprits blindfolded and the firing squad of 24 Tiger Rifles shot and killed their fellow Tigers, the first executions of the Confederate Army. For the Tigers and the army, seeing the execution had the desired effect. Recently, the Smithsonian forensic team excavated the site to learn more about the soldier’s uniforms, in turn verifying that the executions describe is this letter took place. Historically important firsthand account from a soldier who witnessed the event. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Captain Wheaton’s “respectfully disapproved” recommendations to place a private in a clerk’s position, citing that “Service as a clerk would be more detrimental to his health than service with his company” 2040. John Wheaton. Confederate general and commander of the elite militia organization, the Chatham Artillery. War-dated handwritten endorsement signed “John F. Wheaton,” one page, 3.5 x 4, October 2, 1863. Wheaton writes from the Headquarters of Chatham Artillery: “Respectfully disapproved on the grounds that asst. Surgeon Magill. Surgeon in chg. of the company is of the opinion, with a full knowledge of private Hunter’s condition, that Service as a clerk would be more detrimental to his health than service with his company.

He is of the opinion that Private Hunter is disqualified for either duty in the field or as a clerk and recomends [sic] that he be discharged from Service.”

Reverse bears docketing in two different hands. In very good condition, with uniform shade of toning, light feathering and haloing to the signature, and mounting remnants on the reverse. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $100)

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2041. Joseph Wheeler. ALS, three

pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 8.25, The McLean Arms and Ordnance Co., Cleveland, Ohio letterhead, September 16, 1903.

Wheeler writes to Mr. Ayres, in part: “I am glad to be able to enclose the letter you suggested. I have been in the East New York to the Adirondacks for a month & it was my hope I would meet you then. I hope all is well with you & it will always give me pleasure to serve you & equally your noble & grand Step, no I mean ‘Forte Mother.’” Light creasing, two small areas of paper loss to the top and bottom of the hinge, and a few pencil notations, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

2043. Joseph Wheeler and William Bate. Wheeler was

a Confederate major general (1836–1906), known as ‘Fightin’ Joe,’ who led his troops in vigorous opposition to Sherman during the Atlanta campaign. Bate served in the Confederate forces in the American Civil War, attaining the rank of major general and commanding a division in the Army of Tennessee. He also served as governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887 and subsequently as United States Senator from 1887 until his death.

Two checks: bank check, 7.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Joseph Wheeler, payable to S. T. Cameron for $65.00, May 20, 1902; and a bank check, 7.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by William Bate, “W. B. Bate,” payable to Ebbitt House for $5.00, February 11, 1905. In very good condition, with vertical folds, cancellation cut and hole to body, and scattered soiling to Wheeler’s check; and cancellation holes through signature of Bate’s check. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/ PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

He delivered important secret dispatches for the Confederate government to Confederate agents in England!

2044. William M. Whistler. Confeder-

“On November 7 his troops crossed the Mississippi river and fought the battle of Belmont Missouri, the opposing force being commanded

by General U. S. Grant” 2042. Joseph Wheeler. Two items: ALS, signed “Joseph Wheeler,”

one page, 7 x 8.5, April 16, 1903. Letter of response to Col. James Dunkins. In part, “I will start at work & do best I can on sketch of Gen. Polk. How many words would you recommend.”; and an unsigned eight-page handwritten manuscript, 8.5 x 15, no date. Manuscript reads, in small part, “On November 7 his troops crossed the Mississippi river and fought the battle of Belmont Missouri, the opposing force being commanded by General U. S. Grant. The advance of the federal forces from Paducah compelled the retirement of Gen. Polk’s troops from Columbus…At the battle of Shiloh Gen. Polk commanded the First Army Corps.” Scattered light toning and soiling, some fold separations, and tape reinforcement to horizontal folds of manuscript, otherwise very good condition. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

ate assistant surgeon in Orr’s South Carolina Rifles (1836–1900). He was the brother of the famous impressionist painter, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who is probably best known for his painting known as ‘Whistler’s Mother,’ the subject being their real life mother, Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler.

After taking leave to visit his mother and brother in London, news of the Confederate surrender reached Whistler. Taking up residence, he would go on to become a prominent surgeon and found the London Throat Hospital. Exceptionally scarce unsigned wet plate, albumen 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photo. Standing view wearing double breasted Confederate frock coat with rank of captain. Carjat & Co. imprint on the front mount. Backmark: Carjat & Co., Paris. In fine condition, with some trivial surface marks. Confederate surgeon images are next to impossible to find. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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War-issued passport for the sloop Crystal Palace 2045. John Henry Winder. Confederate general (1800–1865) who was noted for

commanding prisoner-of-war camps throughout the South during the war. Handwritten passport, no date, but war-issued, signed “JHW,” on a 3 x 4.75 off-white slip.

Pencil notes at top read, “Leon A. Dix, Jos W. Statins, Peter M. Bonawell. Sloop Cristal [sic] Palace from Accomac Va.” Signed at the bottom in ink, “Passport to …Harbor Matthews County JHW.” In very good condition, with some minor paper loss to left edge, uniform toning, and a bit of light ink pooling to Winder’s writing.

Dix and Statins had petitioned for their boats to be allowed to trade to ports where supplies for the Confederacy might be available. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/ DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

2047. Henry A. Wise.

Detailed 1861 linen-backed map from the outbreak of the Civil War, with close-ups of Confederate strongholds 2046. Wyld’s Military Map of the US. Large and colorful original early war map, 23.5 x 34.5, fully titled “Wyld’s Military Map of the United States. The Northern States and the Southern Confederate States with the Forts, Harbours, Arsenals, and Military Positions,” dated at the bottom, “May, 1861.” A folding map on the original linen has close-ups of Charleston Harbor and Fort Sumter, and Pensacola Harbor. Framed to an overall size of 26 x 40. In fine condition, with mild toning. An attractive piece in remarkably fine condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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American statesman and diplomat (1806– 1876) who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate army, where he fought beside Lee at Appomattox Court House. His most notable act as Governor of Virginia (1856–1860) was to sign the death warrant of famed abolitionist John Brown. ALS, one page, 7.5 x 10, embossed letterhead, October 23, 1847. Wise writes from Philadelphia to William Randall, Esq., in full: “I rec’d your note last evening. You couldn’t possibly know that I would arrive so soon! I regretted more than you do that I did’nt meet you, but we will see you next week.

What day, I can’t say until I hear from Mr. Buchanan to whom I write by this mail and whose answer will determine the day on which I will leave here. We will go direct to Washington, but will on our return to Baltimore spend several days and devote a large share of our stay then to you & your family. I desire eagerly to see you. I took the liberty to draw, in anticipation, on you for $322 in favor of a drover named Clayland for some houses I bought of him.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light toning and creasing, an adhesive remnant to the top and bottom edge, and pencil notations to each of the top corners. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Wise’s hand. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.…(MB $200)

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WEAPONS OF THE CIVIL WAR No Federal Firearms License or other permits are required to either purchase or receive these guns as the date of manufacture of this revolver was before the cut-off year of 1898.

Please note: RR Auction does not warranty the safety of the firearm. Therefore, we recommend that, before you use any firearm, purchased here or anywhere else, you have it examined by a qualified gunsmith to determine whether or not it is safe to use.

Notice Regarding the Sale of Ivory and Tortoiseshell: Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing ivory or tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

2048. Cased Smith and Wesson No. 1 1/2 Second Issue Revolver. #115571, caliber .32 rimfire long. 3.5 round barrel with rib,

very good bore. This has matching numbers, 90% factory nickel plating, and factory rosewood grips that retain almost all their original finish with a small flat worn on each side of the butt. Gun is housed in a period mahogany case lined in green baize. The case is in excellent condition with a steel wiping rod, three original cartridges, and a two-piece box Winchester box for .32 rimfire cartridges and a key. This was made around 1874. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2049. Colt 4th Model 1851 Navy Revolver Identified to Texas Ranger Thomas J. Fore. #89169,

caliber .36 with a 7.5” octagonal barrel.

The metal has matching numbers with a plain wedge. All of the steel surfaces have a mixed gray patina with scattered patches of light to moderate pitting (some heavy pitting on the left of the recoil shield and adjacent cylinder). Very little of the cylinder scene remains, however the frame markings are clear and the barrel address is legible. The gun is mechanically good. The one-piece walnut grip fits well but not perfectly and likely came off another Colt. The brass gripstraps have a mottled ocher patina and the backstrap has an old stamping “T. J. FORE”. Thomas J. Fore was born on December 14, 1844 and died on December 14, 1873. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Coryell County, Texas. Included is a photocopy of a Texas military archive card that shows “J. Fore” in the 3rd Corp of the 2nd Frontier District for Coryell County with an enlistment beginning January 30 of 1864. Also included is a 1991 dated handwritten letter by one of Fore’s descendants in which he relates the history of this revolver as he knew it. Included in this packet are two stories about Fore that were published in Coryell County histories, as well as two photos of his rather impressive tombstone.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $500)

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2053. Civil War Dirk Attributed to Pvt. William Harris of the New York Volunteer Infantry. Union soldier of

2050. Civil War Bullets. Five

Civil War-era bullets, one still housed in its jacket, all framed together to an overall size of 4.75 x 5. In very good overall condition.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2051.

Flask. Pewter flask made by James Dixon and Sons, Sheffield. Flask measures 4.5 x 8.25 x 2.5, with a removable cup. Flask is stamped on the bottom, “Made In England, James Dixon and Sons, Sheffield, 1387, 43 ozs,” and also stamped the Dixon’s banner and horn mark. In good condition, with scattered scratches and scuffing, scattered light pitting and tarnishing, and several dents. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Company G, 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, enlisted on July 30, 1862 to serve for three years. He was mustered in as a private on August 23, 1862, and died from effects of disease on November 30, 1863. Civil War Dirk attributed to Pvt. William Harris, Company G, 121st New York Volunteer Infantry. This well-made double edge dagger measures 9˝ overall length with a turned wood handle and its blade appears to be made from a fil. The knife shows appropriate age and is in fine condition with a simple tooled brown leather sheath. Dagger is presented in a shadow box frame measuring 8.5 x 11.5, with an albumen portrait of a whiskered young man in a uniform jacket.

RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

Superb gold plated and cased Tranter Confederate revolver

2052. Gold Plated, Engraved, and Cased British Tranter Percussion Revolver sold by Griswold & Co. of New Orleans. This .44 caliber double trigger

Tranter pattern revolver is engraved on the topstrap by the maker “B. COGSWELL 224 STRAND LONDON” and on the barrel in very tiny letters is the stamp of the retailer “GRISWOLD & CO. N.O.” The trigger is marked “TRANTER” and the right side of the frame is engraved “No. 12445T.” The revolver is engraved with tight British scrollwork and has full gold plating with blued screwheads. The one-piece walnut grip has very fine checkering. This revolver has seen very little use. The 5 15/16” octagonal barrel has a very good bore and its chambers in the cylinder still retains some original gold plating. The mechanism works well although a small easily replaced spring is missing from the upper trigger. About 85% of its gold plating remains on this very attractive revolver. The original wood case is lined in green baize and has an original large trade label inside the lid with “B. COGSWELL / Gun, Rifle & Pistol Manufacturer, / 224 Strand near Temble Bar, London...” The case contains all of its original accessories, including a bag shaped James Dixon and Sons powder flask, a two-cavity mold for Tranter pattern bullets, a Brittania metal oil bottle, a tin for “Tranter’s Patent Bullets”, a tin for “JOYCE” percussion caps, an ebony and brass cleaning rod, an ebony handled turn screw and nipple wrench. Five spare nipples and an original key are also included. The case shows normal wear with a couple of grain cracks in the lid, overall in very good condition with the accessories rating fine or better condition. At the outbreak of the war, Tranter had a contract with the importing firm Hyde & Goodrich in New Orleans to import and distribute his revolvers commercially.

Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Hyde and Goodrich dissolved their partnership, and its successors, Thomas, Griswold & Company, and A. B. Griswold & Company, continued to distribute Tranter’s guns. Among notable Tranter users were Allen Pinkerton, Richard Gatling, and J.E.B. Stuart. This was a showpiece when new and would still be the prime attraction in most gun collections.RRAuction COA.…(MB $1000)

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2054. Grand Army of the Republic.

Model 1860 Field and Staff Officer’s sword with patriotic motif on pommel, Dguard handle, and clamshell guard, depicting eagles and flags. Black leather handle grip has wire wraps. Steel blade, manufactured in Germany, has ornate floral etching with patriotic shield and flags, maker marked “The M.C. Lilly Company. 13 W. 30th St. New York.”

Comes with original tan leather belt with sword hanger strap, and a brass buckle depicting the G.A.R. membership emblem. In good to very good condition, with the expected wear and tarnish from age and handling. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2055. Union Civil War Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber used by Henry C. Stewart of the 1st Iowa Cavalry This saber

has a 35˝ long blade and maker marked on the reverse ricasso “C. ROBY/CHELMSFORD [in an arc]/MASS.” The obverse ricasso is marked “U.S./1864/A.G.M. [the military inspector’s initials]” The blade shows light tarnish but no nicks or pitting. The grip retains all of the leather wrap but none of the wire binding. The brass guard is in fine condition. The steel scabbard retains most of an old black painted finish over scattered light to moderate pitting. Accompanied by a statement of authenticity signed by one of Stewart’s descendants identifying this sword by the maker and date as coming down the family from Henry C. Stewart, Co. K, 1st Iowa cavalry. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2056. Ivory Gripped Colt 1860 Army Revolver.

#81137, caliber .44 with an 8” barrel having a very good bore. This was a standard military issue revolver with a few small inspector’s initials remaining on the metal. All of the steel surfaces have been cleaned to bright. There are no patent markings on the frame, the cylinder scene has been removed, and the “NEW-YORK” barrel address is clearly legible. The numbers match with the exception of “200737” on the backstrap and a plain wedge. The ivory grips are repaired with a small piece of brown bone in the right hand side, otherwise they have nice age toning. The mechanism works well. RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

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2057. Miniature Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver by the United States Historical Society. This is a beautifully made

copy of a standard Colt Model 1860 Army that was cut for a shoulder stock. The serial number is 111 and matches that on the miniature 1851 Navy in this sale. The gun is 6.5˝ in overall length with a 4˝ round barrel.

The frame, hammer and loading lever are case colored; the barrel, cylinder and backstrap are blued; and the one-piece walnut grip is piano-finished. The mechanism functions like the original, however the gun does not actually fire. The mahogany case has a couple of small blemishes, the revolver is like new. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2058. Robert E. Lee Commemorative Percussion Revolver by the U.S. Historical Society. This well-

made reproduction of a Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver is service numbered 1049 and is .36 caliber with a 7.5” octagonal barrel. The metal is gold electro-plated with scrollwork on the frame and barrel lug, arabesques on the barrel, and scenes from Lee’s life(including his home at Arlington) on the cylinder. The one-piece walnut grip has gold plated gripstraps. The revolver is as new in the original French fitted mahogany display case with a tooled leather panel inset in the lid. The case contains an eagle pattern powder flask, a silver medallion with a bust of Robert E. Lee, and a metal cap tin with his signature inscribed. Also included are the original paperwork with a numbered certificate of authenticity and the white cotton gloves used to protect the revolver’s finish. The case and accessories are in excellent condition. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2059. Miniature Cased Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver by the United States Historical Society. This is a beauti-

fully made copy of a Second Model 1851 Navy with a square-back trigger guard.

It is just 6˝ in overall length with a 3.5˝ octagonal barrel, serial #111. The frame, hammer, and loading lever are case colored; the barrel and cylinder are blued; the grips are polished brass, and the one-piece walnut grip is piano-finished. The mechanism functions like the original, but of course this does not actually fire. The mahogany case has a couple of small blemishes, the revolver is like new. The miniature Colt Model 1860 Army revolver in this sale has a matching period number. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

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2060. Union Civil War Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber.

This saber has a 35˝ long blade and is maker marled on the reverse ricasso in an oval with “MANSFIELD & LAMB FORRESTDALE, R.I.” This has a clean, bright blade with only a couple of tiny nicks. The leather grip wrapping shows light wear but is almost all present, the wire biding is intact. The brass guard is in fine condition, as is the steel scabbard which has a dark patina with a couple small patches of corrosion. This maker is less commonly found. RRAuction COA.…(MB $200)

2061. U.S. Military Issue Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver.

#109092, caliber .44, 8” barrel with a very good bore. This is factory cut for a shoulder stock. All numbers match on the metal with the trigger guard having a factory error “10909” and its last digit missing. Many of the small parts have small military inspector’s initials.

The metal retains most of a period reblue that is turning plum. The factory markings are in very good condition with about 70% of the cylinder scene remaining. The gun is mechanically good and its one-piece walnut grip rates very good. The grip has a well done repair at the butt where holes have been filled on each side of the metal. These holes were carved by many Cavalry troopers to attach a leather lanyard. A Colt factory letter is included that indicates this was one of 1000 similar revolvers shipped to the New York Arsenal in 1863.RRAuction COA.…(MB $300)

Scarce military issue Colt Dragoon 2062. ‘US’ Marked Colt 2nd Model Dragoon Revolver. #9732, caliber .44 with a 7.5” part round/part octagonal barrel with a fair

bore. The barrel has the marking “- ADDRESS SAM = COLT NEW YORK CITY” and the left side of the frame is marked “COLT’S / PATENT / U.S.“ All numbers match, including on the wedge. The steel surfaces have been cleaned in the past and now have a smooth dark gray patina. There is no cylinder scene remaining. The barrel lug has a small surface crack at the very rear that looks like an original forging defect.

The brass gripstraps have an ocher patina and the one-piece walnut grip shows wear with an old refinish. This big Colt was made in 1851 and was one of only 2700 made. Because this total included revolvers for civilian sales, U.S. military issue Second Model Dragoons are very uncommon. RRAuction COA.…(MB $500)

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