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Including the Property of N. Flayderman & Co. June 9, 2017
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American History Including the Property of N. Flayderman & Co.
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Historic Pieces. Historic Prices. Rayon de Soleil, William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) oil on canvas Sold for $1,102,500 American Tomahawk Descended in the Family of Meriwether Lewis Sold for $1,000,000 Original Colt Texas Paterson Revolver Sold for $205,625 Broncho Buster, Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) bronze cast Sold for $205,625 28 Carat Platinum and Diamond Necklace Made for Marge Schott of The Cincinnati Reds Sold for $192,000 Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Philp & Solomons, 1865-1866 Sold for $144,000 Tiffany Studios Snowball Table Lamp Sold for $126,000 Peter Voulkos, Gash Stoneware Stack Pot Sold for $105,750
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Historic Firearms and Early Militaria, cont. Emery Maury Carolyn Luken
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Contributors: Pat Tench Allen Cebula
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American History Lots 1-395
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1 Sir William Johnson Draft of Letter to General Gage, Discussing the Justice System & Treatment of Indians, June 1766 Draft of a manuscript letter from Sir William Johnson to General Gage, June 27, 1766. 2.5pp, 8.25 x 13 in. Very interesting content relating to the justice/legal system and the treatment of Indians. In Johnson’s hand and with some of his correctiowns, but not signed by him. Final form of this letter published in The Papers of Sir William Johnson, Vol. 12, p. 115. Johnson writes: I have recd. Your favor of the 16th inst. With the inclosures concerning the late Murders at Detroit. I am of your opinion with regard to the delivering up of the Inds. To their Nation, as well as to the proposed attack on the Village which I cannot approve of especially as matters now stand. I am sorry the Mutiny Act obliges ye Sending Murderers to be tryed within the Government, as from the present disposition of our people we can expect little justice for the Indians, and therefore it is better never to send down the Negro, than to Send him to be acquitted here for want (as it may be said) of all the Necessary Law proofs; neither our laws, not our people are much calculated for redressing Indians. And We are in the utmost want of some method for doing them effectual justice without leaving it to the decision of those whose prejudices will not permit them to see the Necessity there is for relieving them in these cases, and the consequences of a different conduct. I shall write to Lt. Col. Campbell and do all that I can in this affair. [Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell, commandant at Detroit] He continues: In the meantime I have a fresh affair of a disagreeable nature to write you upon, The Onondagas Chiefs have been with me from the Six Nations to aquaint me that one of their greatest warriors with these others and a squa [sic], were lately murdered near Fort Pitt on their return from the Cherokee Country that another Onondaga Woman was murdered near the Fort, a Huron at Sandusky by a Trader & ye Shawanese lately that these with Sundry other late instances of the like nature had created a Universal discontent amongst the 6 Nat[ion]s ...they therefore by a large belt desired in the name of the whole Confederacy to know what are our intentions in so doing, & our reasons for these late murders in times of peace adding that they feared it might be a means of extinguishing their council fire. To this I made them the best answer I could which however you may suppose cannot be very satisfactory, since all my assurances are daily contradicted by these unjustifiable actions ...[Then they] addressed me concerning the posts lately abandoned which they said they expected would have been demolished according to promises at the end of the War, but that they are sorry to find that the soldiers have been succeeded by settlers, who are equally disagreeable to them & may in a short time be more so as they draw people there to cultivate lands, that they dreaded ye consequences especially as these places were as so many springs of Rum where their young men were constantly drunk, they therefore begged I would represent the same to you, which I promised to do, at the same time telling them that no settlements were intended, & charging them not to offer violence to any who reside at them, as I should give them an answer shortly.... Sir William Johnson (ca 1715-1774) was born in Ireland but immigrated to North America in 1738 to help his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren establish an Irish settlement in New York. Warren had purchased a tract of land and proposed a settlement he named (of course) Warrensburgh. The land was in the middle of the Mohawk land, the easternmost of the Six Nations, and the Irishmen planned to establish trade with the native peoples. Johnson noticed that trading routes went around Warren’s land, so he bought property where the trade was and began trading furs with the more northern and western groups. Johnson learned the Mohawk language and Iroquois customs in order to be more effective in the trade. This in turn put him in a position to act for the British empire. When war in Europe spread to the Americas in 1744 (War of the Austrian Succession), Johnson was appointed Indian agent in New York. He enlisted many of the Iroquois to fight with the British against the French and their Indian allies to the North (one of which was the Huron, long-time rivals of the
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Iroquois). He fought in a number of skirmishes, but the Battle of Lake George won him the most recognition (and his baronetcy). Johnson continued to acquire land, including 80,000 acres from the Mohawk. On this land he founded Johnstown, where he established a school for Indian and white children, and built Johnson Hall. Although he never married, Johnson had a couple of “common law” wives. When the first, Catherine Weisenberg, died in 1759, Molly Brant, a Mohawk and the older sister of Joseph Brant, moved into Johnson Hall, giving Johnson even more influence with the Mohawk. Rumors also had it that he had had relationships with Elizabeth and Margaret Brant, among several others, prior to this. Johnson died in 1774 at his home of what is thought to have been a stroke, during an Indian conference. Thomas Gage (1719 (?) - 1787) was the British Commander-in-chief of forces in North America from 1763-1775. He fought in the early Indian Wars, and became military governor of Massachusetts Bay in 1774 (where he was to implement the Intolerable Acts - punishment for the Boston Tea Party). He fought alongside George Washington during the Indian Wars, and may have encountered Johnson at that time as well. His later actions led to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, sparking the Revolutionary War. In 1775 he was replaced by General William Howe. $600 - $800
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 2 Pennsylvania Chronicle, July 1769, Incl. Report on American Colonies’ Response to British Taxation Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser, Philadelphia, PA, July 24 to July 31, 1769. 8pp, 9.5 x 11.75 in. Containing a p.6 report, which states that the merchants of New Haven, CT have agreed “…that the measures agreed upon by the merchants of Boston and New York … to restrict the importation of goods from Great Britain until the act of Parliament laying duties on paper, glass, etc. shall be repealed… and we concur in opinion with our brethren in the other colonies that it is our duty to exert ourselves by all lawful means to maintain our constitutional rights…not to be taxed but by our own consent or that of our representatives…” This was the American Colonies’ response to the Townshend Act taxes passed by Great Britain. The issue also contains a news report noting that the armed British sloop Liberty, originally owned by John Hancock, was seized & converted to a tender by the commissioners of the customs. This was to go down in American history as the “Liberty Affair.” HMS Liberty was burned in July 1769 by American colonists in Newport, RI, as one of the first overt American acts of defiance against the British government. With additional reporting on the American Colonies and their resistance to British taxation. $600 - $900
3 Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer: Or the Connecticut, Hudson’s River, New Jersey, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, March 1774 Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer: or, the Connecticut, Hudson’s River, New Jersey, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser, New York, NY, March 17, 1774. 4pp, 11.25 x 18.25 in. Exquisitely rare American Colonial newspaper title in and of itself. In addition, the issue contains inside page news from Boston regarding the Boston Tea Party being repeated on one Captain Gorham’s tea ship loaded with East India Tea. The American colonists had previously thrown the “detested tea” into Boston harbor in December 1773 and repeated this act of protest on March 7 to keep the tea from being unloaded and thus taxed in the American Colonies. The report refers to the previous Boston Tea Party actions as well. $2,000 - $3,000
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 4 Pennsylvania Gazette, March 1775, Incl. Commentary on Conflict between America and the British Over Taxation The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, PA, March 29, 1775. 4pp, 10 x 16.5 in. Pre-Revolutionary War newspaper containing coverage of the conflict over taxation between the British and Americans that would lead to the start of the war just three weeks later. An inside page letter from a personage in Great Britain to his American friend reads in part that “…the (British) ministry are determined to persevere in the great system of American taxation…My earnest advice is to prepare for the worst…and do not relax your vigilance…” The issue also contains a lengthy, detailed inside page report of the so-called Westminster Massacre (Westminster, VT), which Vermont claims was actually the start of the Revolutionary War. The massacre (March 13, 1775) involved the killing of two men by British colonial officials (a band of local men led by the local sheriff ) in Westminster, VT, which was then part of the New Hampshire Grants, whose control was at the time disputed between its residents and the Province of New York. The massacre polarized Vermont citizens and helped in filling the ranks of the Green Mountain Boys for the defense of Vermont. Within two months after the massacre, they would agree that the British posed a bigger threat and marched to Fort Ticonderoga for the defense of Boston. (Information obtained from “A Revolutionary Day” website, March 14, 2017.) $600 - $800
5 Revolutionary War, Scarce 1780 Letter Regarding British Seaman Held as Deserter Dicom, James. ALS, 1p, 6.25 x 8 in., “Lancaster,” England. March 5, 1780. Addressed to the Principal Magistrate in Dumfries, Scotland. Dicom writes regarding a British soldier by the name of Allan Dickson who is being held in a jail in Dumfries as a deserter of the British Navy. Described as a young, able-bodied seaman, the prisoner wished to return to service, and Dicom is requesting that he be transferred to Carlisle Castle, and to lodge him there in a place of security under the care of the goaler [gaoler], as a deserter. He writes, I will pay to the goaler any expences [sic] of the men who conduct him thither, not exceeding thirty shillings, (we have no authority to march to the North of Carlisle). The second page includes a letter datelined “Dumfries,” March 8, 1780, from Will Fergeson to the regulating officer on the impress service Lancaster. He writes that Allan Dickson was a deserter from the 77th Regiment (British), and was this day carried away by a party to join the regiment now lying in Ireland by an order from the Commander in Chief of Scotland. Very scarce Revolutionary War letter regarding the desertion of a British sailor and his imprisonment in a Scottish prison. $500 - $700 8
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6 George III, A Proclamation, Declaring the Cessation of Arms, 1783 Treaty Announcing the End of the American Revolution Printed broadside, 9.25 x 13 in., By the King, A Proclamation. Declaring the Cessation of arms, as well by Sea as Land, agreed upon between his Majesty, the most Christian King, the King of Spain, the States General of the United Provinces, and the United States of America, and enjoining the Observance thereof. February 14, 1783. This was the English announcement of cessation of hostilities; reciprocal proclamation by the American Peace Commissioners was issued on February 20th, and signed in type by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. This particular example appears to be a period copy. It is on laid paper, but lacks the printer information (“London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty. 1783,” which is included on the copy in the Adams papers (https://founders. archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-14-02-0170). $1,000 - $1,500
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 7 George III, Manuscript Appointment Signed for Physician John M. Nooth Manuscript document issued under the command of King George III appointing J[ohn] Mervin Nooth as Physician to our Forces employed or to be employed in North America, 13.75 x 9.5 in., mounted to a cardboard backing. June 25, 1788. Signed upper left George R, with paper GR seal in left margin. John Mervin Nooth (1737-1828) was born in England, and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MD in 1766, having studied rickets for his thesis. His father was an apothecary, and the family seems to have been well-to-do. After graduation he spent a year touring the Continent, and apparently became interested in research. He was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1774, having been nominated by Benjamin Franklin (among others). The following year he published an article on “The description of an apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air,” the 18th century term for carbon dioxide. Part of his goal was to replicate the sparkling waters common to many spas of the day, and thought to be therapeutic. This would make the water affordable to those who could not make a visit to the spa. While it did not necessarily improve the health of Europe and America, it did herald the birth of the carbonated beverage industry. When war broke out in North America, Nooth became physician extraordinary and purveyor in the British Army. He came to New York, and in 1779 became superintendent general of hospitals for British forces. He returned to England with the last British forces, and went on half pay early in 1784. A couple months later he invented a device for giving artificial respiration, among a number of medical inventions. He returned to full pay in 1788 with this appointment, and went to Quebec as superintendent general of hospitals. He was an excellent choice for military medicine, since one of his interests was
the importation of contagious diseases. He was also interested in native plants and their uses, clearly with a goal toward therapeutic applications, and also examined weather, natural features (mineral springs) and even variations in the position of the magnetic pole. Nooth also had interests in socioeconomic factors, seeing the resources in Canada not being utilized to their maximum. He settled in Quebec and took an interest in her prosperity, continuing even after illness required his return to England in 1799. He recovered and continued working for nearly three more decades. Reference: Charles G. Roland, “NOOTH, JOHN MERVIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, May 2, 2017. $500 - $700
8 Revolutionary War, Maryland Cabinet Maker and Musket Manufacturer, Archibold Chisholm, Archive Incl. Documents Relative to Land Granted to Revolutionary War Soldiers Lot of 21 items related to Archibald Chisholm, Annapolis, MD. Includes 5 indentures/deeds, 4 to Archibald Chisholm, all dated 1795, and a single indenture/deed from James West to Thomas Hewitt, 1790; 3 documents relate to the settlement of Archibald Chisholm’s estate by his wife, Elizabeth; 3 tax receipts for Archibald Chisholm and 6 other land documents, including descriptions of properties from John Callahan, Western Shores Land Office (see also Lot 9). Accompanied by one other account page for Elizabeth Chisholm and a “Special Warrant” for Archibald Chisholm from the Western Shores Land Office, plus a few miscellaneous receipts. Archibald Chisholm (ca 1740s - 1810) was born in Scotland and appears to have emigrated at about 20 years of age. He seems to have been in Annapolis in the 1760s where he partnered with fellow Scot John Shaw in a cabinet-making business. The two went their separate ways in 1776. They were in business manufacturing muskets for the Continental Army early in the war. Research indicates that Chisholm also had some knowledge of the manufacture and repair of musical instruments, gaining him some influential connections. He seems to have returned to England at least once, where he observed the style of the day and used the knowledge to keep his business up-to-date. Chisholm retired from cabinet making in 1794, when he purportedly went into land speculation. He died in 1810, a wealthy, well-respected citizen of Annapolis. $500 - $700 SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 9 Revolutionary War, Collection of Land Vouchers for Soldiers Lot of 13 vouchers. Eleven of the 13 take the same form: This tickett[sic] shall entitle the person whose name shall be endorsed on it and his Legal Representation to hold and possess in Fee simple Lott No. _____ of the Land Westward of Fort Cumberland in Washington County... They are (secretarially) signed Daniel Lyons, Daniel Cresap, and Benj. Brookes, Commissioners. These were issued in 1789, per an act of the legislature in 1788. The tickets are for: James Royston, Artillery William Chatland, Private 2d Regiment James Dyer 2d German Regiment Charles Jones, Pvt. German Regiment George Riggs, Pvt. 2d M.) Regiment John Donovan 4th Maryland Regiment John Burnet, Prvt. 5th Maryland Regiment James West “Recruit of 1781” John Ryan, “Soldr.” 2d Regiment William Norton (?) Mathew More 2d & 4th Maryland Regiments One only includes John Fitzgerald Junior Cat (Captain?) of the Maryland Artillery is entitled to Lot No. 907 of the land Westward of Fort Cumberland. Signed John Callahan, Regtr. Off. WS. (Registrar of Western Shore Land Office) (The John Callahan house in Annapolis is on the National Register) The final piece is a land description for Lots 147 and 1844 (Beginning at a bannded(?) maple...running north eighty nine and a half perches,... etc.), also signed by John Callahan, Registrar Off. W.S. Continental Congress required Maryland to send eight regiments/ battalions (basically the same at that time) as their contribution to Washington’s 88 battalions. The Maryland Line consisted of seven regiments, with the eighth often referred to as the “German Regiment” (with at least two representatives in this group). It wasn’t until late in 1776 that Congress gave Washington the authority to raise regiments to serve in the Continental Army under Federal control, not part of any state’s line. As the war progressed, the structure and sophistication of the Continental Army developed. As is usually the case, it underwent a number of reorganizations as needed during the conflict. The issue then arose, who is to pay these men and how? The initial regiments were to be supplied and paid by their respective states.
10 Society of the Cincinnati Membership Badge 18 karat gold and enamel badge, height approx. 1.5 in., width approx. 1 in. The badge is presented in the form of a drop-winged eagle with sharply pointed gold wings and white enamel tail. Hand-painted discs are positioned at the eagle’s center, the obverse depicting Roman senators meeting with Cincinnatus. The white outer band is inscribed Omnia. Relinquit. Servat. Rempb. The reverse depicts Cincinnatus at the plow with peaked towers visible in the background, white outer band inscribed Inst. A.D. 1783. Virt. ___m. Soci. Cin. Rum. (with some loss to lettering). The eagle is suspended from a pale blue and white ribbon, 3.5 in. long overall. The Society of the Cincinnati was created as a hereditary veterans’ organization by General George Washington’s senior officers soon after the Revolutionary War. In December 1783, Washington was elected the first President of the Society. He served until his death in 1799, when he was succeeded by Alexander Hamilton. The Society’s earliest members included General Henry Knox, considered the originator; General Friedrich William von Steuben; General Nathanael Greene; Commodore John Barry; and Captain John Paul Jones. Foreign officers who fought in the American Revolution such as Generals Rochambeau and Lafayette also became members. $500 - $1,000 10
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Later Continental Army units became the responsibility of the Federals. There was very little coming in to the central government, which was printing its own money, not backed by anything much (like silver or gold). The states were also printing their own money. By the end of the war, not much of the paper money had any value. But the nation had land, and it wanted people to settle that land, and so gave land in lieu of money for military service. In this case, Fort Cumberland, sitting at the confluence of Wills Creek and the Potomac River, was built in 1754 and controlled by the Maryland militia, and so was essentially the westernmost area controlled by the state. By making grants of this land, it would extend Maryland’s control westward. She had already been in border disputes over the years with Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Former military men could also help defend against Indians, etc. One seldom finds these “land tickets.” Many early Maryland service, pension, and land records were destroyed in a fire in 1800. We encounter more often the land deeds/indentures held by each family received when they recorded their lot with the local land offices. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE WAR OF 1812 11 War of 1812, USS Oneida, Sackets Harbor Relic Cane Single-piece, tapered hardwood shaft, 35.25 in. ln., no ferrule, with shield-shaped plaque attached inscribed USS Oneida/ Sackets Harbor/ War of/ 18[1]2. A fine relic cane fashioned from wood salvaged from the USS Oneida, a brig of war for the US Navy during the War of 1812. Between 1808-1809, the USS Oneida was built at Oswego, NY and under the command of Lieutenant M.T. Woolsey, she was brought to Sackets Harbor, NY. The ship played a significant role in detecting and repulsing the British during the first attack on Sackets Harbor on July 19, 1812. It is believed that this exchange between the British and the Oneida crew constitutes the first shots fired on US land during the War of 1812. $700 - $1,000
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12 War of 1812 Archive of Captain Samuel Clark, 4th Company, 134th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia Lot of approx. 21 documents, including several muster rolls, regimental orders, correspondence, discharges, a warrant, and more, related to Captain Samuel Clark, 4th Company, 134th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. The lot features: • Regimental Orders, June 16th, 1812. Signed by Thomas Hosack, Lt. Col. 134th Reg. to Capt. Samuel Clark. (Approx. 8 x 13 in.) Orders to select a corporal and ten privates for detached duty, to be drawn from the first class, or second if there are not enough in the first, starting with the first man in the list until the group is complete. Then a commissioned officer is to be put in charge of these men. Also includes instructions as to what they need to have with them, where to meet, etc. The War of 1812 officially began two days after this order was issued. • Muster Roll of the 4th Company 134th Regt. ...doing duty at Erie. Most “commenced service” between the 24th and 30th of July and their service to expire between the 9th and 12th of August. Signed by Samuel Clark, Capt., and Thomas Hosack, Lt. Col. (7.75 x 12.5 in.) • Regimental Orders, August 18, 1812, to Capt. Clark to recruit his first and second classes (unless they have been drafted into Federal service), and have them meet at the home of Joseph Alexander on November 2. Signed by Thomas Hosack, Lt. Col. (7.75 x 7.5 in.) • Subsistant[sic] Account of Samuel Clark, 4th Co., 134th Regt. PA militia, July 26 - August 12, 1813. • Subsistance Account of Samuel Clark, 4th Co., 134th Regt, PA militia, July 26 - August 12, 1813 - Duplicate copy. • Regimental Order, Head Quarters, Erie, January 18, 1814. Captains to report the strength of their companies, how many sick, how many on furlough, etc. by order of Lt. Col. John C. Wallace, Officer of the day. (Approx. 5 x 7.5 in.) • Orders for company to march to Erie, PA and what each is to furnish and what the state will furnish. January 2, 1814. Signed
Capt. Samuel Clark and Lt. Col. Thomas Hosack. • “Warrant” - appointment of Silas Cossett as sergeant , October 24, 1814. 2nd Brigade, 16th Division Pennsylvania Militia. • “Class list,” October 24, 1814 (12.25 x 16.5 in.), listing men in classes 1 through 10, plus officers, each with ages and residences (most from Mercer). (no companies or battalions listed.) • Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Clark, 10th Co., 27th Regt. October 23, 1815. Officers and 84 men (ink) plus (another column in pencil) (12.25 x 15 in.). • Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Clark, 1st Monday in May 1815. Officers plus 78 men, plus (12.25 x 15 in.)
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THE WAR OF 1812 • Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Clark, 2nd Monday in May 1815, Officers plus 86 men, plus (12.25 x 15 in.) • Listing of men, possibly a draft page later copied more neatly?, no date or unit information, but Samuel Clark is one of the captains. (7.75 x 12.25 in.) • Three slips from August 1813, for men discharged after completing their service (13, 19 and 20 days!). Two written by Clark, one by Hosack. • Muster Roll of the Mercer Light Infantry, February 22nd, 1823, Capt. Samuel Clark. (2/3 of a 7.5 x 12.5 in. sheet) Non-military items include: Promissory note to Samuel Clark for $9.84, Exeter, July 4, 1801. (Approx. 3 x 7.5 in.) (possibly for military supplies); Certificate stating that Samuel Clark and Margaret Hosack were married October 17, 1805. (3 x 7.5 in.); ALS, Buffalo, June 22, 1836,
2pp. A.L. Clark to Samuel Clark (brother). Mostly personal; ALS, Buffalo, October 24, 1837, 1p. A.L. Clark to Samuel Clark; Coolspring, Mar 9, 1841, to Samuel Clark from Thomas Hosack, requesting furniture he ordered from Clark, and ordering more. 7.5 x 9.75 in. Samuel Clark is a bit difficult to locate, but Mercer Co. would have been very rural in the first decades of the 19th century. The county was not created until 1800, so records are sparse. Looking at the War of 1812 pension records, there are two Samuel Clarks in Mercer Co. This one is likely 1781-1855. He has no spouse listed, but the other Samuel is listed as being born in 1796; he would have been too young to marry in 1805. From the correspondence in this lot, it would appear that Samuel Clark was a cabinet maker. Beyond that, not much is known. $800 - $1,200
THE MEXICAN WAR 13 Mexican War Officers, Including Brevet Major George Ramsey, PostMexican War ALS Discussing the Battle of Monterrey, Plus Lot of 5. Four Mexican War pre-war documents and one post-war. All with transcriptions. ALS, Fort Monroe Arsenal, December 8, 1851, 5pp (7 x 8.5 in.). George D. Ramsay, Bvt. Maj. to Colonel John Mercier (?), U.S. Army, N.York. George D. Ramsay (18021882, USMA 1820), Chief of Ordnance 1863-64. Ramsay was inducted into the Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame in 1984. He served for half a century, and kept the Union army supplied during the Civil War. This letter was written in response to rumors regarding his behavior at the Battle of Monterrey, in which he implies that everything he did was following orders of Colonel Mercier and others, that he behaved honorably and with skill handling a mortar that had no platform. ALS, Philadelphia, October 22, 1842, Office of Purchase QM’s Department, 2pp. Henry Stanton, Co. & Adjt. QM Genl., US Army to Colonel Thomas Aspinwal [sic], United States Consul, London. Asking Colonel Aspinwall if he can procure ten beds such as those the British Army uses for trials in the US Army, since he (Stanton) does not have any “mercantile correspondents” in England. Henry Stanton (ca 1796 - 1856) served in the War of 1812, in the Seminole wars in Florida, and in the Mexican War. He was brevetted brigadier general for meritorious conduct on January 1, 1847. AN, n.d. other than Dec. 23rd. Invitation from Colonel & Mrs. Davenport to M. Nicolet(t). At the bottom: Egg-Nogg!!!!!! Clearly a holiday party. Colonel William Davenport (1787-1858) enlisted in 1812 as a captain, worked his way up the ranks to colonel. He served in the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars, the Black Hawk War (distinguishing himself at the Battle of Bad Axe) and the Mexican War. He resigned at the end of January 1850. His Seminole War papers are in the University of Florida collections, other papers at UNC. ALS, Fort Adams, August 5, 1844, 1p. Captain Francis Taylor to Lieutenant Sam G. French. A somewhat vague letter about the impending meeting of the Artillery Board. Francis Taylor attended USMA, graduating in 1825. He served in the Artillery School at Ft. Monroe, and many other subsequent postings (Charleston Harbor, Plattsburg, NY, Trenton, NJ; Fort Adams, RI (1842-44), Pensacola, FL, Ft. McHenry, MD, Ft. Brown, TX, and more. He fought against the 12
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Seminoles, and was posted in New York during the Canada Border Disturbances. He went to Mexico, earning brevets for “Gal. & Mer. Conduct” in the Battle of Cerro Gordo (major) and Churubusco (lieutenant colonel). Samuel Gibbs French (1818-1910) also graduated USMA (1843) and served in the Mexican War. At the start of the Civil War, he took a commission with the Confederacy, even though he was a native of NJ. There are memorials and markers to honor French in both northern (Philadelphia) and southern sites (Vicksburg, MS). ALS, Baltimore, August 1, 1845, 1p. William H. Watson to Samuel L. Clement, Esq. About meeting at the Imes’ Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Watson (1808-1846) commanded the Baltimore and District of Columbia volunteers in the Mexican War. Before that he served in the Maryland militia and in the US Navy fighting pirates in the West Indies. A monument to Watson stands at the corner of West North Ave. and Mount Royal Terr. in Baltimore. Watson was killed at the Battle of Monterrey (September 22, 1846), and that event is referenced in the fourth verse of “Maryland! My Maryland!:” ...With Ringgold’s spirit for the fray. With Watson’s blood at Monterey, With fearless Lowe and dashing May, Maryland! My Maryland! $600 - $800
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14 Adjutant General Ebenezer Stone, Massachusetts Infantry, Archive Incl. Personal Correspondence The collection consists of over 25 original letters and other ephemera from the personal archive of Ebenezer Stone, Massachusetts Infantry, and Adjutant General of Massachusetts from 1851-1860. He was also a prosperous local businessman. Ebenezer Whitten Stone was born June 10, 1801. He entered the Army in 1817. When he left in 1821 he became a merchant in the Boston area, first in clothing, then in drugs, paints and dyes from 1843-1850. He married Catharine Louisa Whitcomb on November 22, 1825 and settled eventually in Roxbury. When he left the Army, he enlisted in the Boston City Guards, part of the Massachusetts Militia and worked his way through the ranks of the guard. In 1830, he was admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. He held local civil positions as well, as a representative to the General Court and later, as a councilman in Roxbury. In 1851 he was appointed Adjutant General of Massachusetts. He made his first priority a complete inventory of arms, equipment and organization of the state militia. He recommended purchasing new percussion muskets and suggested a state-wide militia encampment with training. He eventually wrote the “Digest of the Militia Laws of Massachusetts.” As soon as war broke out, Stone enlisted, becoming captain of Co. D, 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Because Stone had updated the militia a decade earlier and Governor Andrews had anticipated war and began preparations as soon as he was sworn in in January, the 1st Massachusetts was the first unit to reach Washington fully armed and ready to fight. A few other individuals or small companies had arrived earlier, especially from Pennsylvania, but most were untrained and unarmed. Stone served the entire war and was brevetted lieutenant colonel for gallantry with the 61st Massachusetts before the fall of Richmond. Ebenezer and Catharine had a number of children, including Elizabeth (Lizzie), Mary, and Caroline (Carrie), Frances and Henry are listed in the 1870 census. A couple others died in infancy. Ebenezer died in 1880, nearing his 70th year. He does not show up in the 1880 census, but
Catharine and the five children are still listed as living in the home. Somewhat interestingly, the three daughters, whose letters are part of this archive, do not seem to have married. The archive includes stockholder handwritten with signatures by: Ebenezer Stone; Axel Dearborn, iron foundry owner of Dorchester; Gustavus Farley; Robert Farley; James W. Vose, cabinet and piano maker Boston; William G. Glynn; George Sheldon, author of the first volume of History of Deerfield published. In 1870 Sheldon founded the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) and in 1880 opened the Memorial Hall Museum after PVMA purchased the building from Deerfield Academy, Plus “Statement of Sundry Stocks purchased by E.W. Stone for joint account with John Lilley…” and two other accounts of joint stocks. Also a statement concerning a case against John Lilley in the Dist. Of Mass. Circuit court. And Stone’s certificate as an Insurance Broker, 1876. “A Synopsis of a Court Martial of Forty Days” by Robert Caverly. Lowell (MA): Samuel N. Merrill, 1858. 8vo, printed wraps (rear wrap missing), 24pp. This is a pamphlet-style book that involves a case that General E.W. Stone brought against Robert B. Caverly for “unmilitary and unofficerlike conduct while on duty,” as an officer in the Lowell (MA) Guards. The court martial was held in Salem (even though most witnesses lived in Lowell) and lasted 40 days. Peacetime courtsmartial are a bit unusual, and Caverly speculates: “… it sometimes turns out to be the offspring of an inordinate ambition to gratify private animosity or revenge, rather than to illicit truth or to establish justice. Such seems to have been the origin of the Salem Court-Martial of 1858, as will appear by glancing at its extraordinary developments and proceedings.” He then proceeds to summarize the charges, most found to be untrue. The first unusual feature of this proceeding, according to the defendant, was that the entire complaint was published in newspapers throughout the state before any charges were brought or the defendant notified of them. Then, somewhere along the line, all “evidence” of the problem events was lost, or in one case, burned (intentionally, on the orders of the complainant) on the day the individual concerned was to testify. And so the trial went, until the deliberations were interrupted when all officers of the court were invited to, and attended, a dinner party given by the complainant.
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THE MEXICAN WAR The court then decided that Caverly was guilty of conduct that was “highly irregular and open to exception,” without any of this every being defined or included in the original charges – which had been found to be untrue. And when he requested clarification as to “how the Court could have arrived at such a result,” the General decided to “…not order a further hearing, because a ‘new trial would consume much time, and involve the Commonwealth in greatly increased expenses.’” Caverly then wonders at the expenses of a 40-day trial held 30 miles away from where the witnesses all lived, that was conducted on untrue accusations for which any supposed evidence had been destroyed. ANS to “Gen’l Stone” (Boston, February 21, 1875) from John Lilley, stating in rather vague terms that we have talked about the “situation” but it does not look favorable. . . though I have not forgotten your service. . . John Lilley of Pennsylvania was a medal of honor recipient and soldier in the Union Army. He was made famous by his action of capturing the enemy flag during the Battle of Petersburg. 1844 Indenture Letter signed Stone and brother, also signed by Mace Tisdale, Josiah Hovey, etc. regarding rent of Stone Brothers business located at No. 1 Long Wharf, Boston. It states specifically …no oil shall be boiled in said store… Another Indenture from August 1, 1820, Leasing Dwelling House to Dolly Stephens, Benj. Loring and Simon Greene, by David Greenough bounded on the south by Brattle Street, on West by “a passage way” (alley?) on North by land of heirs of E. Gray and East by land of J (I?).H. Bradford, for one year. Another Indenture dated April 10, 1828, for same Dwelling House leased by Ebenezer Stone to Hannah Leaves(?) and Samuel Billings. Pamphlet/ book titled “Opinion of The Attorney General Concerning the Compensation of Brevet Lieut. General Winfield Scott” published by AOP Nicholson (Washington), 1856. Two 8vo signatures stitched together. The material was written by Caleb Cushing to Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis. Winfield Scott had “…submitted an account for brevet pay during certain periods of time, when he claims to have been on duty and to have had a command according to his brevet rank.” The Congress had resolved, “That the grade of Lieutenant General be, and the same is hereby revived in the army of the United States, in order that when, in the opinion of the President and Senate, it shall be deemed proper to acknowledge eminent services of a major general of the army in the late war with Mexico,, in the mode already provided for in subordinate grades, the grade of lieutenant general may be specially conferred by brevet, and by brevet only, …: Provided, however, Than when the said grade of lieutenant general by brevet shall have once been filled and have become vacant, this joint resolution shall thereafter expire…” Scott was only the second person to be appointed to this lofty rank, the first being General George Washington. Because of this, there was no regular pay associated with the rank, and the Attorney General was asked to determine appropriate compensation. There is an inscription in pencil on the cover: Presented to Ebenezer Stone by John H. Clifford. Signed by Clifford, a politician and lawyer from New Bedford, MA, who served as the Attorney General during the 1850s Letter to Miss CM Stone from Charles Noyes, Post Chaplain, Gallops Island, BH (Boston Harbor). December 31, 1861. Tells her that they don’t have an adequate space for religious services. They had a school room set up, but it was taken for officers’ quarters. Also have a Lyceum but no room in which to meet. Help not coming from QM. Requesting help (via donations) from citizens to construct a simple building with meeting room, school room and library. God bless you for what you have already done for the poor Blacks. God will surely bless you in what you may do for our poor and needy soldiers of whatever race or color. Memorandum: To His Excellency John H. Clifford, Governor of the Commonwealth, and Commander in Chief of the Militia of Massachusetts: We the undersigned beg leave to recommend to your Excellency the continuance in Office as Adjutant General, Ebenezer W. Stone, the present incumbent.” Signed by the Mayor and Aldermen of Roxbury. (Sam. Walker, B.F. Campbell, John Hunt, Rebon Curtis, James Guild, George Curtis, Abram. G. Parker, Alvah Kittredge). Although undated, Samuel Walker was Mayor of Roxbury from 1851 to 1853.
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Memo from Adjutant General of Massachusetts on official letterhead, October 1, 1859, about the formation of a company of Cadets in the First Division. Not signed. Poole’s Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1858. Twelfth Series. Boston: H.W. Dutton and Son, Printers, 1858. 8vo, printed wraps, 20pp. with Stone listed as adjutant general. With Ebenezer W. Stone’s identifying signature on front wrap. Hitchcock, Calvin. A Discourse Delivered Before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, June 7, 1841 Being the CCIIId Anniversary. Boston: J. Howe, 1841. 8vo, green paper wraps (not printed), 21pp. Copyright pages lists Ebenezer W. Stone as captain in 1841. Stone, James M. The Improvements of the State House, the Investigation Thereof Investigated, and Misrepresentations Exposed. Boston: A. Williams & Co., Publ., 1868. 8vo, printed paper wraps, 93pp. With inscription Genl. Ebenezer W. Stone from the Author across the top of the front wrap. Front wrap detached. Some water stains. Letter from E.J. Stone, Forest Grove, November 18, 1877, age 16. To the President of the United States, requesting an at-large appointment to USMA West Point. He notes: Son of 1st Lt. E.W. Stone, 21st Inftry, Brvt. Lt. Col. U.S.A. My Father entered the Volunteer Service in Mass. Vols. May 1861 – Served through the Rebellion and was then appointed into the regular Army. Living in the Army I do not understand that I can acquire the residence required by Law to obtain an appointment from any state or Territory and would therefore ask an appointment at large. Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate, on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, January, 1830. Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co., printers, 1850. 8vo, printed paper wraps, 84pp. Letter from Stone’s brother mentioning a female falling ill at Fort Lee (NJ?), bleeding from stomach, etc., possibly from some type of illness. Letter, 1p + a bit, 8 x 13 in. Farmington, October 22, 1855, to E.W. Stone, Esqr. From Solomon Cowles. Much about his prize-winning cow, which got her feet cut on a rough road so now he can’t walk her to the nearest rail line to go to the Great National Exhibition. ALS, At Sea, USS Dolphin, May 24, 1902. 11pp on 5 x 8 in. stationery. To “Aunt Fannie (Stone)” from “Genie.” He talks about a five-day stay at Annapolis, in which “the Frenchman” and some of the French legation came on board. They were anchored in the harbor with the Olympia, Kearsarge and Alabama. He describes the dinner given in honor of the visitors, noting that he was seated at the end of the head table, giving him a great overall view of the scene. The President and his entourage came onboard the Dolphin. Many other events followed. The Dolphin was then to go to West Point to escort the French from there to New York Harbor. His wife had become chairman of the committee planning a big lawn party for the Woman’s Army-Navy League and was nearly exhausted. The rest is mostly personal. With a collector’s card or bookmark with the “Olympia” and an oval portrait of Admiral Dewey. Pamphlet, Thompson, A.C., Pastor. A Pastoral in War-Time. Remarks at the Fellowship Meeting of the Eliot Church, Boston. Wednesday Evening, May 4, 1898. Boston: Beacon Press, 1898. 12mo, printed wraps, saddlestitched with string, 18pp. Gorner, C.A. Englisch. Lustspiel in Einem Aufzuge. Boston, S.R. Urbino, 1865. 12mo, in printed paper wraps (rear missing), 59pp. Play, “English” in German. Accompanied by a number of personal family letters. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE MEXICAN WAR 15 Extremely Rare Hand Drawn & Painted Sword Catalogs of Widmann & Co. & Horstmann, Philadelphia, Ca Late 1840s-1851 Pages from two sword catalogs, that of F.W. Widmann (pre-1848) and their successors, W.H. Horstmann & Sons. One catalog consists of an oblong 5.75 x. 9.5 in. album, originally with 3/4 leather. Spine is now gone and most pages loose. Sword styles are numbered in Arabic, pages have Roman numerals. There is no correspondence between the two (first page is Roman I, style No. 6; next is page II, swords No. 12 and 33, etc.) There are approx. 35 pages of hand-drawn and colored swords, each with a description (in ink). Pages 3, 20, 23 are blank, with only style numbers and/or page numbers; p. 29 which has a penciled sword, description in ink; p. 35 blank; p. 39 has a penciled number, and rough penciled description. Otherwise, pages 1 - XXXVII, XL - XLII, XLIV present. Next follows a page with a crescent gorget and two eagles and a shield sketched at top. The gorget has an inscription: To Colonel Elijah Ward / From the second Brigade staff / N.Y.S.M / 4th July 1848. Followed by a series of larger sketches, mostly in pencil, drawn on two pages. Many of these have presentation notes, either in a box in the upper left corner of the pair of pages, occasionally with additional quotes or battles penned in the upper right; a few include the inscriptions on the scabbard or a plaque at neck of the sword, such as: Presented to Charles Baxter / by the Independent Tompkins / Blues as a Testimonial of their/ regard November 1846 Presented / By the noncom Officers & Privates / of Co. A New York Legion to / Lieut C. Benjamin Young / New York Octo: 1846 Citizens of Rochester / Presented / To / Major Lowd 2nd Regiment Artillery / U.S.A. as a testimony of their admiration / of his gallant conduct at the defence of / Fort Brown May 1846 Presented to Lieut Charles P. Morris of the 8th Regt / Infantry by the 1st & 2nd Regt U.S.V & other citizens of the / city of New York interested in his welfare as a testimony / of regard & their admiration of his gallant conduct on the fields / of Palo Alto & Rasaca de la Palma August 13 1846 Presented / By the citizens of the Town of Fishkill / To Captain Stewart Van Vleet 3d Regt U.S. Artillery / as a token of their estimation of his services in the / Battles of his country May 1847 Presented to / Lieut M.C. Marin U.S.N. by the Citizens / of Brooklyn LI as a token of their appreciation / of his gallant conduct at the capture of / Alvarado & Flacotalpam Sept 1847 “Andentes fortuna jurat� and Presented to Lieut. Charles G. Hunter / U.S. Navy by his fellow citizens of New York for / his gallantry in the capture of Alvarado & Flacotalpam / while in command of the U.S. Steamer Scourge on the thirty first day of March 1847 Presented / By the State of Louisiana / to General Z Taylor in / testimony of the high opinion / held by the people of this state / of the skill, conduct & judgmt. / shown by him during his / military life but particularly / during the Battle of Palo Alto / on the 8th & Resaca de la / Palma on the 9th May / 1846 Tucked into the back of the album are 45 pages, loose, between approx. 5 x 8 in. and 6 x 9 in., all with Sept. 1851 in the lower left corner. They include pen-&-ink drawings of swords, similar to those described in the first section, but not colored. The drawings are titled but include very basic descriptions. However, according to some of the materials with the catalog, particularly one letter written by Norm Flayderman, in this group are some swords they did not know existed, especially, some Marine swords: Marine
Musician and Marine Music Boy (like the first, but smaller), Marine Sergeant and Marine Officer. Accompanied by a document with docketing on verso: Description of Swords WHH&S Nov/52. The two pages have listings of swords from 401 to 446, divided by leather scabbards and metal scabbards, some with old style numbers on them. This appears to tie this catalog to the Horstmann company. A rare and wonderful piece of historic militaria. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $2,000 - $4,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 16 Articles of War for the Government of the Armies of the Confederate States, 1861 Charlestown: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. 24pp, 6 x 8.75 in., printed wrappers. These articles create a loose structure organizing an assortment of local militias, state regiments and companies. WorldCat.org locates 14 copies. Parrish & Willingham Confederate Imprints, 2217. $800 - $1,000
17 Rare Confederate Texas Military Broadside, Special Instructions To Enrolling Officers, Houston, 1862 Printed broadside, 9 x 15.75 in. Special Instructions To Enrolling Officers and Assistant Enrolling Officers. Houston, Texas Publishing House, June 25, 1862. Orders for all enrolling officers to list all men between the ages of 18 and 35 in their respective counties for three years Confederate military service. Instructions are given for handling “aliens,� disability, and exempt employment. For example: Persons applying for certificates of exemption, on account of employment or official position, in accordance with law, will be required to take the accompanying oath; and all exempts under this head will be promptly reported. If, however, the exempt should change his vocation and place himself outside the pale of exemption, it will be the duty of the enrolling officer of his district, county, or beat, to enroll him and report him for duty. Civil officers are only exempt during their term of office. The law in regard to Apothecaries will be liberally construed, and Physicians filling their prescriptions at their own offices will be recognized as Apothecaries and exempted... All gunsmiths actually engaged in their business and all persons employed by them in the manufacture or repairing of arms will be exempt from Conscription so long as thus engaged.... Signed in type John S. Ford, Col. 2d Reg. TMR, Superintendent Conscripts. Parrish & Willingham only locate one copy in the National Archives. Twenty-nine are listed as holding microform copies by WorldCat. See also Lot 93, which concerns the Confederate draft. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 18 CSA Proclamation Issued by Louisiana Governor Henry W. Allen Calling for All Persons to Disavow Loyalty to the Union, 1864 Very rare imprint, 5 x 8 in. Executive Office, Shreveport, LA, June 14, 1864. To all Persons residing within the Confederate Lines, in the State of Louisiana, who have taken the Oath of Allegiance to the US Government. Allen goes on: Having received many letters asking advice on this subject, I take this method of replying. By the laws of Louisiana, who ever takes the oath of allegiance to the United States is disfranchised, and cannot enjoy any civil right. If you are true to such oaths you must be false to us, our country, and its cause. You should take your choice, either to keep your oath and go to the enemy, or repudiate it and remain with us. As you did not depart with the enemy, I believe that most of you (and I hope all) did not design to forswear your fealty to your State and country.... As an oath imposed under any duress whatever is not binding legally, morally or religiously, my counsel is — join the army at once, and wash out the stain on your names in the blood of your enemies.... If you can carry a musket,... get face to face with the base foe who has robbed and insulted you, and tried by every means to disgrace you... I give you this advice in full view of all the circumstances. I would give it to my brother or my son....All persons pursuing the course here laid down shall be recommended to the next General Assembly as good and patriotic citizens, worthy of being restored to all their former rights and privileges. From the beginning of the war, Lincoln realized that control of the Mississippi River would be key to winning the war. All manner of goods, munitions and troops moved along the watery corridor. New Orleans was captured by the end of April 1862, with little fighting in the city itself (thus sparing much of the historic architecture we see today). The city was governed by General Benjamin Butler, who acquired the epithet “The Beast” for his actions in the city, especially General Order #28 (the “Woman Order,” in which he stated that women who harassed Union troops were no better than prostitutes, and would be treated as such). Butler was replaced in December by Nathaniel Banks, a bit more acceptable to some, but by that time, much of the populace was completely offended and hostile. (Butler did, however, organize a cleanup of the city, and it became one of the healthiest 19th century cities in North America. He also focused on work for the poor and other social projects.) Union forces continued to fight for the River, moving from both south and north. By 1863, they controlled all but a 150-mile strip between Vicksburg, MS and Port Hudson, LA. Once Vicksburg fell in July, the river was Union territory. As the Union troops took more territory (mostly along the rivers), Louisiana moved her capital to Shreveport (from whence this was issued). Somewhat surprisingly the state was almost undefended other than the few ports along the rivers. Governor Moore called for the formation of partisan ranger units to fight Union troops. In this proclamation, Governor Allen essentially repeats this call, asking men to join armed units, depending on their age and physical abilities. In his address to Congress December 8, 1863, Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, outlining his plan for reunification of the United States. Louisiana became something of a laboratory. The plan included a full pardon and restoration of property for all “rebels” except the highest ranking Confederate officials. This would have been very appealing to “average” citizens, who would not lose all they owned (theoretically) because of the war. It also allowed for a new state government to be formed when an oath of allegiance was taken by 10 percent of those who voted in 1860 (the “10 Percent Plan”). It lastly encouraged newly “reconstructed” states to plan on how to deal with freed slaves. Overall the plan was easy and charitable for most Southerners (“With malice toward none, with charity for all...” this theme was repeated in Lincoln’s second inaugural address just months later.) By early 1864 Louisiana approved a new Union constitution and held a Union election on February 22, selecting Michael Hahn as Governor. The Confederate supporters had elected Henry Allen in later 1863,
and he also took office in 1864. It was certainly this division of the state that prompted Allen to issue his proclamation offered here. In spite of its Union affiliation, General Smith’s Army was the last Confederate army to surrender on May 26, 1865. (Stand Watie surrendered on June 23, but his unit of Indians was not a full army.) After Smith’s surrender, both Governors Moore and Allen fled to Mexico, fearing reprisals. Moore eventually returned, but Allen died in Mexico. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 19 Confederate Broadside Concerning Potential Recruitment of Slaves, 1864 Broadside Circular, 12 x 18 in., n.d, n.p., but presumed Richmond, September 1864 (the latest dates on sections of the circular). This is concerning use of free blacks and slaves in the military and how they were to be enrolled in service. General Orders, No. 32, Richmond, March 11, 1864 1. The Act of Congress relative to the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities, and the instructions of the War Department relative to its execution, are published for the information of those concerned: An Act to increase the efficiency of the Army by the employment of Free Negroes and Slaves in certain capacities. Whereas the efficiency of the army is greatly diminished by the withdrawal from the ranks of able-bodied soldiers to act as teamsters, and in various other capacities in which free negroes and slaves might be advantageously employed:...That all male free negroes and other free persons of color...resident in the Confederate States, between the ages of 18 and 50 years, shall be held liable to perform such duties with the army of in connection with the military defences of the country, in the way of work upon fortifications or in government works for the production or preparation of materials of war, or in military Hospitals, as the Secretary of War or the Commanding General of the Trans-Mississippi Department may from time to time prescribe; and while engaged in the performance of such duties, shall receive rations and clothing, and compensation at the rate of eleven dollars a month, under such rules and regulations as the said Secretary may establish..... The remainder deals with the details, such as exemptions, enrollment with the Engineer Department, etc. Though desperately short of manpower by 1864, the Confederacy just could not enlist free men of color into service. The Union had created the USCT in May 1863, although some states had colored militia units prior to that time. Nearly 200,000 men served honorably in these units, even though they suffered more if captured (often Confederates just shot them rather than put them in prison camps). They proved themselves
early on as brave and capable soldiers, which surely the Confederate troops on the other side of the battlefield observed. The South had a long history of not arming negroes, free or slave, in part because they significantly outnumbered white Southerners. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
20 How Have the Mighty Fallen! Jeff Davis is No More, Richmond Enquirer Broadside Printed broadside, 15 x 19.25 in. Richmond Enquirer, printer. With Mourning borders. n.d. (WorldCat identifies it as April 1865.) A satirical poster on the demise of the Confederacy and Davis: Lamentarium Funus! (A Sad Funeral) How Have the Mighty Fallen! If ye have tears, prepare to shed them now, because JEFF hath gone to his long home, and the mourners skedaddle about the streets. The Beauty and Pride of the Confederacy hath perish in the “Last Ditch.” Tell it not in Pelham! Publish it not in the Hub, lest the Daughters of the Uncircumcised rejoice, lest the whelps of the Yankees triumph...PS No. 2. Owing to the scarcity of coin, J.D.’s eyes remain unclosed. P.S. No. 3. Gen. Wigfall with a Corporal’s guard will form the “Hab-his-kark-cuss” for the occasion. N.B. For further particulars see small Bills. With additional references to events of the war. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,200
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 21 Rare Broadside Recruiting Citizens of Baltimore County for Service Printed broadside, approx. 9.5 x 11.75 in., with attached list of manuscript names, 6.25 x 7.25 in. To the Citizens of Baltimore County. Citizens of Baltimore County: Committees have been appointed in your different Districts to enroll men and receive contributions for the defence of your State. You are hereby requested promptly to register your names and offer your contributions, of any nature whatsoever, to the nearest committee in your District, and to hold yourselves in readiness to answer the call of the constituted authorities of your State whenever she may require. J.H. McHenry, Chairman of Committee of Public Safety for Baltimore Co. This would appear to be a call for militia members. At the beginning, Maryland tried desperately to stay out of the war. Some have noted that it seemed like she just wanted everyone to go away and leave her alone. But this was the only connection between Washington, DC and the rest of the Federal states. Lincoln was certainly NOT going to allow her to secede. Within the state there were strong supporters on both sides, and some of the first blood drawn was in Baltimore as Union troops had to travel from one rail line to another in order to continue their journey to the capital, and they were attacked by Southern sympathizers. After the Baltimore riots, troops moved through Annapolis to reach Washington. Even before the war broke out, Lincoln reportedly had to sneak quietly through Baltimore at night on his journey from Illinois to the capital because of vehement opposition to his election. It was a proverbial “powderkeg,” waiting for something to create a spark. The presence of large numbers of Union troops on their way to the capital city was enough to provide that spark. WorldCat only finds one other copy of this at the New York Historical Society. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $600 - $800
22 Civil War 15th Infantry, US Army Recruitment Broadside Printed broadside, 11.5 x 16.75 in., calling for Able Bodied Unmarried Men to join the US Army, 15th Infantry, for three years of service. An unfinished example, lacking the name of the location where men can apply as well as the name of the 15th Infantry recruiting officer. On May 3, 1861, the 15th US Infantry was activated, with its initial headquarters at Wheeling, WV, followed by Cleveland, OH, Newport Barracks, KY, and finally Fort Adams, RI. By the end of the Civil War, the regiment had fought in 22 major engagements, including Shiloh, Corinth (1st), Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, and Atlanta as a part of BG King’s Brigade of Johnson’s Division, XIV Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. The regiment was a key element of the only regular brigade in Sherman’s Army. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 23 Civil War Recruitment Broadsides for the 2nd and 7th Vermont Infantries, September 1861 Lot of 2 printed broadsides, the first, 12.75 x 16.25 in., recruiting 100 Able-Bodied Men! for Seventh Regiment Vt. Infantry. With the additional request, A Good Drummer is Wanted, noting Persons under twenty-one years of age cannot enlist without the written consent of their parent, master or guardian. Signed in print by Recruiting Officer Charles C. Ruggles. Poultney, VT, September 3, 1861. The 7th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry was a three years regiment, serving in the Western Theater, predominantly in Louisiana and Florida, from February 1862 to March 1866. It was the longest serving Vermont regiment during the war and was engaged in, or present at, the 1862 first Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Baton Rouge, Gonzales Station, the Mobile campaign and Spanish Fort, and Whistler, AL. Printed broadside, 13 x 8 in., headed, USA / Soldiers Attend!, calling for 20 able-bodied young men to increase Co. I in the 2d Vermont Regiment, under the command of Capt. V.S. Fullam. Signed in print by Recruiting Officer B.B. Fullam. Ludlow, VT, September 9, 1861. The 2nd Vermont Infantry was a three year regiment, and the first from the state placed in the field as a result of Lincoln’s call for troops. From June 1861 to July 1865, the 2nd VT served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. It was a member of the famous Vermont Brigade and served longer in the service than all but one other Vermont unit, the 7th VT. The 2nd VT took part in many battles including 1st Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and more. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,200
24 Civil War Recruitment Broadside for the Rockingham Light Infantry, 5th New Hampshire Volunteers Printed broadside, 27.5 x 40 in. Fall in to Defend The Flag of Our Union! Calling for men to join the Rockingham Light Infantry, 5th New Hampshire Volunteers. The broadside goes on to give bounty and pay, equipage, training, etc. The subscriber... has opened an office at the store of J. Blake & Son, Raymond....Gilman H. Tucker, Recruiting Officer. Raymond, September 13, 1861. Printed by the Poster Press of McFarland & Jenks, Concord, NH. The 5th New Hampshire gained some “fame” by being one of the units (some say THE unit) that suffered the greatest loss in battle. Upon entry into the Federal system, the unit joined the Army of the Potomac. It was in most of the major battles from the Rappahannock River, to Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and many more. The regiment lost 18 officers, more than other similar units. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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25 Civil War Broadsides Recruiting Soldiers from Amesbury, Massachusetts, Ca 1863-1865 Lot of 4 broadsides, including: Come One! Come All! Eighty Recruits Wanted! / Strong inducements are now offered to all who enlist in any of the veteran regiments now in the field. You can have your choice of Regiments - Infantry, Cavalry or Artillery. The broadside goes on to list the bounty and pay schedules. Recruiting Officers, Selectmen of Amesbury and Salisbury. 21.5 x 27.75 in., on very light weight paper (almost “tissue” paper). Although there is no date, the Union added the Invalid Corps in April 1863, changing the title to “Veteran Reserve Corps” just under a year later (G.O. No. 111, March 18, 1864). Somewhere around this time is most likely when this broadside was issued.
Men of Amesbury. Will You Fill the Quota of the Town and thus avoid the Draft? As usual, listing bounties - in this case, however, one can choose either a cash bounty from the state or a small bounty plus $20 per month extra pay (total $770 from the state alone). Amesbury, December 5, 1863. 16 x 22 in. Recruits Wanted by the Town of Amesbury...June 7, 1864. Gives the bounties from the town, the state and the Federal government (total $550). 16 x 18 in. WANTED for Heavy Artillery and Cavalry....The Largest Bounties will be Paid. Also, State Aid given to Mothers and Families...Amesbury, February 4, 1865. 14 x 15 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,500 - $3,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 26 Emancipation Proclamation Broadside, Remarks of S. Hathaway at a Reception of the 25th Massachusetts Volunteers Printed broadside, single sheet, 8.5 x 18.5 in. Given at the Astor House, New York; November 1, 1862. An address with moving and romantic language paying homage to the brave men of the 25th, and linking their history with that of the soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War. Also, contains a passage making an early reference to the Emancipation Proclamation: You go as soldiers to fight for your country, and to obey the orders of your superiors; and not as critics or interpreters. But if, through the providence of God, in this clashing of swords and this crossing of bayonets, there should come a mightier crash - a crash of the falling millions of shackles from fettered limbs, and if, mingling in the triumphant shouts of victory, there should go up the exultant song of freedom from millions of emancipated souls - while all the world is singing its “glory hallelujahs” of joy, the poor soldier may at least, from behind his leather neck-stock, drop a devout and a heartfelt amen! Although the Emancipation Proclamation was not officially issued until January 1, 1863, a Preliminary Emancipation was issued on September 22, 1862 following the Battle of Antietam. $500 - $700
27 Civil War, Franklin County, Massachusetts Broadside Recruiting Soldiers for Colonel Taylor’s Regiment Printed broadside, 14.5 x 21 in. Illustrated with panoply of flags and arms, the broadside reads, in part: To the Rescue! / Franklin County Attention! / Rally! Rally! Rally! / The New Union Regiment / Col. Taylor Having been authorised by Gov. Andrew to raise one of the new Regiments called for by the late requisition of President Lincoln, has commenced recruiting for a Regiment, which will be made equal in every respect to that has or will leave the State. / Lieutenant H.S. Hall, Formerly of the Salem Zouaves, is authorised to Recruit in this County...Printed in Boston by J.H. & F.F. Farwell, Steam Job Printers and Engravers. Lieutenant Henry (or Harvey) S. Hall was a member of the Salem Zouaves in April 1861 when war broke out (8th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Co. I). Since these units were already in existence, they were among the first to respond. The Salem Zouaves left the state on April 18, 1861, basically even before war was officially declared. Fort Sumter was bombarded April 12 and April 19 Lincoln ordered the blockade of Southern ports, effectively declaring war on his own nation. When the Zouaves arrived at Anapolis, they found themselves guarding the USS Constitution, and sailing her to New York to take the historic vessel out of the South. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $700 - $1,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 28 Civil War Illustrated Recruitment Broadside for the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, Plus Lot of 2 printed broadsides, the first, 6 x 11.25 in. Boldly headed, 4th Mass. Cavalry!, with illustration of armed trooper on horseback below. The broadside continues, This most popular and easy branch of the service is now fast filling its ranks, and is soon to depart for the field, and you are offered the last opportunity to enlist in this dashingly brilliant arm of the service, commanded by superior men, with the veteran officer and tried soldier, Col. Arnold A. Rand, To Lead them to Victory! This Cavalry presents inducements seldom offered, as it is the only Cavalry now being raised in the State, with the single exception of the Fifth Mass., which is colored. It is to join a Battalion now in the field, consequently are veterans... Avoid the Draft, which is Imminent...J.H. & F.F. Farwell Printing, Boston, n.d. Pencil note (with manuscript manicule) above the illustration, Discovered in time and never circulated or printed. a.a.h. Second broadside, 9.75 x 6.75 in. Cavalry Horses Wanted! Below with blank sections for date and location where purchases will be made. Vermont, 1862. Both with pencil and other notations on verso suggesting these came from the printer’s book of samples/proofs. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
29 Civil War Recruitment Broadside, 15th New York Cavalry, Ho for Texas! Printed broadside, 19 x 24 in. Produced by Daily Journal Print, Newburgh, NY. Ho! For Texas! Fifty Men Wanted for the 15th New York Cavalry. Last Chance to join this Splendid Regiment. Apply to Lieutenant Chas. H. Lyon, I. Jenkinson’s Office,... Newburgh. The 15th New York Cavalry was organized in the spring of 1863 by Colonels Robert Richardson and John P. Coppinger. Most of the men were from Syracuse, but a number also came from surrounding counties. Charles Lyon enlisted in January 1864 as a lieutenant, so the broadside likely dates from early 1864 (a lot of recruiting was done before the start of “fighting season”). Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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30 Civil War Recruitment Broadside for the 44th New York Volunteers, Ellsworth’s Avengers Printed broadside, 13.5 x 20 in., Recruits Wanted! For the Ellsworth 44th Regiment! Now in the Field, Col. J.C. Rice, Commanding. Signed in type by J.H. Lunt, Recruiting Sergeant, Plattsburgh, NY, August 29, 1862. Framed, 18 x 24 in. The 44th New York Volunteers, or “Ellsworth’s Avengers,” was a zouave unit that was recruited in response to the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the aide to President Lincoln who was the first Union casualty of the war. Ellsworth was gunned down trying to remove a large Confederate flag from the roof of an inn in Alexandria, which was visible from the White House. The regiment saw some of the toughest fighting of the war, experiencing heavy casualties in the
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Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Battle of the Wilderness. At the time that this broadside was printed, the 44th NY had already suffered heavy losses in the Peninsular Campaign. It was in the midst of fighting at the Second Battle of Bull Run and was looking to recruit 300 or 400 new soldiers. The broadside states, in part, in the discharge of their duties, their ranks have been thinned, and now stand in need of brave recruits. . . In an old regiment of this character, the new recruit is qualified for active service in one-third the time required to fit a new regiment for the field, and they offer a brother’s welcome to such as come forward promptly to share their trials and their glory. $2,500 - $4,500
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31 Civil War Broadside Recruiting Tennessee Battalion for the 51st New York Volunteers, April 1863 Printed broadside, 12 x 16.5 in. Boldly headed Tennessee Batallion!/ Rendezvous for the Refugees of East Tennessee, the broadside states, in part, Companies for the 51st Reg’t New York Vols. Infantry, are to be recruited from among the Refugees of Tennessee with the privilege of placing at their head officers from that State, to be commissioned directly by the United States Government. This noble regiment one of the First to take the field in this war, has made itself conspicuous among the New York Troops. How glorious its past has been; how glorious its future will be...The broadside lists several battles in which the 51st participated, including Roanoke, New Bern, Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and more, and goes on to rally the loyal and young flag of East Tennessee to Come to the Rescue!, for with Experience on one side, youth and strength on the other, the 51st NY cannot fail to achieve New Victories! The broadside closes with strong words against the so-called Southern Confederacy and its despotism, calling for the refugees to join the Fighting Regiment in avenging the outrageous
acts committed upon our mothers, sisters, upon ourselves and loyal friends. Signed in type by 1st Lieutenant J.R. Edwards of Anderson County, E. Tenn., from Lexington, KY, April 26, 1863. With Edwards’ name crossed out in pencil and Bernard W. Krimans(?) written above. The 51st NY was organized at New York City in July 1861 and mustered in for a three year enlistment on October 23, 1861 under the command of Colonel Edward Ferrero. This broadside was issued while the 51st was attached to the Army of the Ohio after having their ranks decimated during the battle of 2nd Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg while serving with the Army of the Potomac. Despite the devastating losses, the regiment went on to see action at Vicksburg, Jackson, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, the Siege of Petersburg, Appomattox Campaign, and more before mustering out on July 25, 1865. A rare, never-before-seen broadside in which East Tennessee residents are called to arms in an eastern regiment. $2,000 - $3,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 32 Civil War Recruiting Broadside, 66th New York Volunteer Infantry Printed broadside, 23.25 x 37.75 in. (sight), with bold heading Volunteers Wanted! For the 66th NYV Infantry, of Hancock’s Brilliant Charging Corps, Being the Advance of Gen. Meade’s Grand Army of Virginia, featuring a large spread-winged eagle emblem. The broadside promises $1333 bounty and advance pay for Veterans, and $1158 for new recruits. Volunteers are asked to apply at the office of Captain Isaac Jenkinson in Newburgh. From (Captain) Simeon Birdsall and (Lieutenant) Lawrence Brennan. Framed, 26.5 x 40.5 in. The 66th New York was organized by the state at New York City in October 1861, by the consolidation of the Mechanic Rifles, Colonel James H. Bull, with the Governor’s Guard, Colonel Joseph C. Pinckney, of the Old Sixth Militia, with the latter as colonel. Recruited primarily at New York City, the 66th mustered in for three years of service in November 1861. It first served in Graham’s brigade, Buell’s division from November 1861 to January 1862, then it was a part of French’s brigade, Sumner’s division, which became the 3rd brigade, 1st division, army corps, Army of the Potomac. It was present at Yorktown, Fair Oaks, and the Seven Days’ battles, but suffered its most severe loss at Antietam, with 103 killed, wounded or captured. The 66th then proceeded to Fredericksburg, where it lost 75 men. It went on to join the 3rd, or Zook’s brigade, of Hancock’s division, in March 1862, which suffered severely at Chancellorsville and went on to see arduous service at Gettysburg, Auburn, and Bristoe Station. After going into winter quarters with the Army of the Potomac, the 66th was assigned to the 4th brigade of its old division in March 1864, and it participated in Grant’s campaign in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg. After the fall of Petersburg, the 66th was ordered to Fort Richmond, NY harbor, and remained there until it was mustered out August 30, 1865. $2,000 - $4,000
33 Civil War Recruitment Broadside for the 126th New York Volunteers Printed broadside featuring spread winged eagle near top, 11.5 x 18.25 in. (sight), framed, 13.25 x 19.75 in. To Arms! / More Yates Co. Metal Wanted!, the broadside appeals to the patriotic young men of New York to rally once again for the country and the flag, in an attempt...to raise a Volunteer Company in Yates County, to be attached to the New Southern Tier Regiment! This would result in the raising of the 126th New York Volunteers. Signed in print by Recruiting Officer R.A. Bassett, June 11, 1862, Dundee, NY. The 126th New York Volunteers left the state on August 26, 1862, and took part in its first fighting during the siege of Harper’s Ferry, receiving the brunt of the enemy attack and suffering a large share of the casualties. The men of the 126th were part of the 12,400 prisoners of war surrendered on September 15. They were immediately paroled and spent three months at Camp Douglas in Chicago, IL, awaiting notice of exchange. As soon as notice was received in December, the regiment returned to Union Mills, VA. The 126th NY was a critical part of the battle of Gettysburg. Situated between the Copse of Trees and Ziegler’s Grove on Cemetery Ridge, the regiment was a significant element in repelling Pickett’s Charge, fending off Trimble and Pettigrew’s forces. At Gettysburg, the 126th lost over 15 percent of its men. The regiment went on to take part in Auburn Ford, Bristoe Station, Wilderness, Po River, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomy, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Hatcher’s Run, Boydton Road, Farmville, and Appomattox. The 126th NY was mustered out at Alexandria, VA, June 3, 1865. $1,200 - $1,600
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 34 Civil War Broadside Recruiting Volunteers from Lima, New York Printed broadside, 13.75 x 20.75 in. 300,000 Volunteers Called For. / Now is the time to Enlist, for the Preservation of your Country’s Honor / Head Quarters at Lima, NY/ at Capt. Jacob S. Galintines Tent. Printed by S.F. Jory, with address listed as Office Over Dr. E. Salmon’s Drug Store, Lima, NY. This was likely a response to Lincoln’s October 17, 1863 call for 300,000 additional men (Proclamation 107). He had also called for 300,000 in July 1862, but this would have been before Jacob Galentine was in Federal service. Jacob Stull Galentine (1834-1871) enlisted at Portage, NY in September 1862, in the 136th NY Infantry. By January, he was moved to the Quartermaster’s Department as 1st lieutenant, then made commissary sergeant in April. HDS does not list him as achieving the rank of captain, but he could have served in the state militia at that rank. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
35 New York British Volunteers, Civil War Recruitment Broadside Printed broadside, 10.75 x 15.5 in. Headed, New York British Volunteers. No. 6 or Company F. Under the Command of Captain James C. Robertson, Late of Her Majesty’s Indian Forces, and Ross-shire Rifle Reg’t. Is now Forming at the Mercer House....Scotchmen are particularly invited to enroll themselves in this Company. Printed by W.F. Kost, Steam Book and Job Printed, New York. The Civil War saw many ethnic units - especially German, Irish, Scottish. Many German regiments came from the Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri), whereas Irish units were more common in the East (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts). There was also a smattering of others - Scandinavians from the upper Midwest, Italians mostly from the East. Even British and Canadians, and a few French and Poles. New York, as the immigration hub, fielded units of many nationalities. Many immigrants enlisted with the goal securing for America the freedom that they did not find in their homeland. Germans, especially, had been swarming to American shores after the failed revolution of 1848, and formed dozens of Civil War units. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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36 New York City Draft Riots, Civil War Broadside A rare, printed broadside urging New Yorkers to not riot, 11.5 x 18 in., stating in part: To the Laboring Men of New York...Stop and Think!... Stand by the Law!...For when the law is broken and property destroyed, and lives lost, we all suffer more or less by the injury...Stand by the Union, the Constitution and the Laws! Then peace, freedom and prosperity will be secure to you and your children after you. Anonymously signed by a Democratic Workingman, but thought to be publisher-activist Sinclair Tousey (1818-1887). Saturday, July 18, 1863. Framed, 14.25 x 20.75 in. Extremely rare for being issued so close to the riots, only a few institutional copies are known to exist. The working classes of heavily-immigrant New York City had been lukewarm to the war from the start, owing to the fact that a majority of the South’s exports passed through the ports and markets of the city and therefore provided many immigrant jobs. The Emancipation
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Proclamation of January 1863 strengthened immigrant opposition to the war as many foresaw free blacks migrating to the city in droves to compete for already low-paying jobs. The conscription act was the final straw, and local Democrats and Southern sympathizers seized on the opportunity to foment rebellion against blacks, Republican supporters and newspaper offices, and eventually federal troops, resulting in what was likened to a Confederate victory. Printer Samuel Tousey put his presses to work immediately, plastering his Stop and Think! and Don’t Unchain the Tiger! broadsides throughout the city in an attempt to quell the hysteria. Although signed A Democratic Workingman, Tousey was in fact a committed Republican. His New York Times obituary of 1887 states that “he joined the Republican Party at its organization, and throughout the war was on terms of intimacy with many of its leaders,” and says of his anti-riot appeals such as the one offered here, that “a most wholesome effect was produced.” $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 37 Civil War, Pennsylvania Recruitment Broadside for Tingley’s Light Battery Printed broadside, 19 x 24 in., featuring bold heading, Tingley’s Light Battery!, illustrated with large open winged, fierce American eagle astride a US shield, with flowing riband in beak, lettered Enlist! Avoid Drafting! The broadside announces a meeting that will be held on the evening of August 15, 1862, at the home of A. Walton, Seven Stars Hotel, to aid in recruiting the Battery, naming several officers that will be addressing the meeting, including Colonels J.W. Forney and T.W. Duffield, Captain Tingley, among other distinguished speakers. The Seven Stars Hotel is listed as the recruiting office. Printed by W.W. Axe & Co., Frankford, [PA]. With period, lightly penciled inscription along right margin, next to eagle, referencing the name and address of the recruiting office, as well as the name of Recruiting Officer John T. Stone. Clement Tingley Jr. was a 1st lieutenant in Knap’s Light Battery (Independent Battery E, PA Light Artillery). He enlisted in August 1861 and resigned in May 1862. It is possible that he then began recruiting for the state or attempted to raise his own unit, but history does not record what happened to Tingley after he resigned his commission, and this unit does not appear to have ever formed (at least under this name). Pennsylvania recruited over 40 Light Battery units, 18 of which (nearly half ) were militia, according to HDS. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,200
38 Civil War Recruitment Broadside for Morgan Artillery Corps of Pennsylvania Printed broadside, 11.75 x 18.5 in. Illustrated with cannon and flag. Headed, Morgan Artillery Corps / Regiment Accepted / Attention! Volunteers!! / Volunteers would do well to enroll themselves in the Morgan Artillery Corps attached to Col. Jno. K. Murphy’s Regiment of Artillery / Recruits will be taken at Major C.M. Berry’s Saloon, North-west corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, and at D.B. Heilig’s, South-east corner of Ridge Avenue and Spring Garden street. Signed in print by Captain William Rickards, Jr. and Lieutenant Lemuel C. Reeves. Printed at Evening Journal Book and Job Printing Office, Philadelphia. William Rickards was commissioned into the 29th PA Infantry in July 1861. He was captured at Winchester, VA and exchanged just under four months later. Then he was wounded at Kennesaw Mountain, GA in late 1864. Rickards enlisted as a captain, earning promotions to lieutenant colonel just after he returned to his unit following his release, and as full colonel the following year. He died in 1900. Lemuel Reeves also enlisted in the 29th PA Infantry in July 1861. He resigned in February 1862. These suggest a date for the poster as some time before February 1862 when Rickards was still captain and Reeves was still in service. John Kidd Murphy (1796-1876) enlisted at the same time as these two men. He was commissioned as colonel of the 29th PA Infantry. He is listed as POW, but place and date uncertain. Considering his exchange place is the same as Rickards’, he was likely also captured at Winchester, VA. He was discharged for disability in April 1863, and joined the Veteran Reserve Corps in late winter 1864. Murphy was awarded a brevet brigadier generalcy in March 1865. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 39 Civil War, US Navy Broadside, The Conscript Bill! How to Avoid It!! Printed broadside, boldly headed The Conscript Bill!/ How to Avoid it!!/ U.S. Navy/ 1000 Men Wanted, for 12 Months!, promoting the perks of joining the US Navy, including higher pay, $50,000,000 in prizes, opportunities for promotions, and chances for warrants, bounties, and medals of honor. With contact information for E.Y. Butler, USN Recruiting Officer, Salem, MA. Printed by Wright & Potter’s Boston Printing Establishment. 12.5 x 16.25 in., framed, 18 x 22 in. Restored by The Conservation Center, Chicago, IL, and accompanied by copy of treatment recommendations. Ex. The Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut and the USS Hartford; Previously sold in these rooms, June 13, 2014, American History Auction, Lot 141; consigned by private collector. $2,000 - $4,000
40 Appeal to the People of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson as Union, WarTime Governor of Tennessee, Broadside Initialed by Johnson, 1862 Broadside, 8 x 10.5 in. Printed in three columns and signed in type by Johnson, Nashville, TN, March 18, 1862. Inscribed at the bottom in ink by Johnson, With regards of A.J. Johnson tells his fellow Tennesseans: In this condition of affairs it devolved upon the President, bound by his official oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and charged by the law with the duty of suppressing insurrection and domestic violence, to resist and repel this rebellious force by the military arm of the government, and thus to re establish the Federal authority.... Meanwhile, the State government has disappeared. The Executive has abdicated; the Legislature has dissolved; the Judiciary is in abeyance. The great ship of state, freighted with its precious cargo of human interests and human hopes, its sails all set, and its glorious old flag unfurled, has been suddenly abandoned by its officers and mutinous crew, and left to float at the mercy of the winds,... I have been appointed, in the absence of the regular and established State authorities, as Military Governor for the time being, to preserve the public property of the State, to give the protection of law actively enforced to her citizens, and, as speedily as may be, to restore her government to the same condition as before the existing rebellion.... I shall, therefore, as early as practicable, designate for various positions under the State and county governments, from among my fellow citizens, persons of probity and intelligence, and bearing true allegiance to the Constitution and Government of the United States, who will execute the functions of their respective offices, until their places can be filled by the action of the people. Their authority, when their appointments shall have been made, will be accordingly respected and observed. To the people themselves, the protection of the Government is extended. All their rights will be duly respected, and their wrongs redressed when made known.... One of the more reassuring mandates from military governors. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500 30
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 41 Richmond Whig, April 14, 1865, Union Occupation Newspaper Printed the Day Lincoln Was Assassinated Richmond Whig, Richmond, VA, April 14, 1865. 8pp, 12 x 18 in. Civil War newspaper printed by Union Occupation forces in the former Confederate capital city of Richmond on the very day that President Abraham Lincoln was to be assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. The issue contains a prominent front page headline, The Pursuit of Lee, and a prominent back page headline, The Surrender of Lee’s Army. It relays a great deal of information on the surrender of CSA General Lee to Union General Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA, and thus the end of the Civil War. $500 - $700
42 Mississippi River Squadron Bound Order Book, 1861-1865 One volume, 8 x 13 in., comprised of 73 documents, 48 printed circulars and orders, received by Acting Assistant Paymaster A.W. Pearson, and 25 manuscripts dating from October 19, 1861-August 27, 1865, concerning orders and policies of the Navy and Treasury departments, particularly relating to the Mississippi River Squadron, on such issues as provisions, clothing, and general stores; audits; salaries of officers and military personnel; enlistment records, records and payments of contrabands; expenses for food rations; etc. The manuscript items pertain to the same issues. Most of the manuscripts are letters sent from squadron paymasters to Pearson in his role as Acting Assistant Paymaster. Alexander W. Pearson (ca 1834-1898) was born in Ireland and moved to the United States as a child. Before the Civil War he worked as a carpenter. He entered the US Navy as an acting assistant paymaster on July 22, 1862, and served in the Mississippi River Squadron or the Western Gunboat Flotilla, spending part of the time on the hospital ship USS Red Rover. He mustered out of the service on February 24, 1866. After the war he lived in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked in manufacturing and was very active in the local Masonic order. He died of a heart condition. The USS Red Rover was the US Navy’s first hospital ship. Originally a commercial side-wheel steamer, the vessel was built in Missouri in 1859 and was purchased in New Orleans in November 1861 by the Confederacy for a barracks ship. While the Red Rover was not armed, she did participate in the blockade of the Western Gunboat Flotilla of the Union Army on Island no. 10 in the Mississippi River, where she was damaged by the bombardment from the flotilla in March 15, 1862. The Red Rover was captured by Union forces when Island no. 10 fell on April 7, 1862. The vessel was subsequently refitted by the Union Army as a hospital ship and from June 1862 served the Mississippi Squadron in that capacity throughout the Civil War. The USS Red Rover was involved in the Vicksburg Campaign as well as the White River expedition. She was decommissioned in December 1865. One letter in the collection is General Order No. 31, dated January 17, 1863, and written out in hand on US Mississippi Squadron letterhead: On the first day of every month, the Commanders of all vessels will forward me a list of all contrabands on board at that time. The following ruled form, will be observed-viz. Name-Age-Date of appearance on board-Date of entry on ship’s books-Rating-Pay-Employment-Remarks.
The order was written in a secretarial hand but signed by Acting Rear Admiral David D. Porter. An example of the letters in the scrapbook to Pearson as acting assistant paymaster on the hospital ship, USS Red Rover, is one from late 1864 from E. W. Dunn, the Mississippi Squadron fleet paymaster. Written on the letterhead of Office Fleet Paymaster, US Mississippi Squadron, the order reads: When men, enlisted in the Naval Service since July 1, 1864, are transferred to you with the remark against their names (“Entitled to Bounty”) you are authorized to credit them on your roll, with Bounty, as Specified by the act of Congress July 4th 1864 assuming in such cases that the Bounty Credit to which they are Entitled has not yet been given them. An earlier letter to Pearson, dated March 24, 1864, came from S.W.J. Tabor, an auditor in the Treasury Department, concerning
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints pay for stewards on board the USS Red Rover. To your inquiry of the 15th inst. I reply, that the pay for all appointed Stewards, like the pay of Secretaries and Clerks, commences from the date when they leave their domicils [sic] in obedience to orders. When a Surgeons Steward is the sole medical officer on board, and is responsible for the medical stores under his charge, he is, by regulation, entitled to receive $40 a month from the date when and so long as he be in that position and no longer. If he have received an advance from the Navy Agent and die before he report, such an advance is authorized and at the risk of the Government. On August 22, 1864, Pearson received a letter from C. Storrs, Acting Auditor in the US Treasury Department concerning payments to certain individuals. In reply to your letter of the 9th Inst. I would state that the Navy Agents should discontinue payments upon all allotments after the expiration of the time, as reported by the Paymasters; unless some extenuating cause intervenes, for instance, when a man is detained beyond his term or known to be a prisoner of War. It is not necessary to notify the N. Agents to discontinue allotments when paid in full; such a course would only encumber the Office... As the war was in its last days, paymasters such as Pearson still had much work to do, as indicated by this July 14, 1865 letter to Pearson from auditor Tabor. I reply in the affirmative to your inquiry of the 28th ulto. The general order of the Department, to which you refer, is to be obeyed irrespective of the fact, whether or not, the men are overpaid, when discharged. Such overpayments cannot lawfully arise, except from advances in Clothing & Small Stores necessary for their “health & comfort” and the Department, I presume, in issuing that order for discharge, regarded it as a greater economy to lose their overpayments, than needlessly to continue the payment of their wages. On August 19, 1865, Tabor wrote a letter to Pearson concerning the latter’s duty regarding the payment of bounties. It is the duty of the Accounting Officers of the
Treasury, to “take care that the laws (in relation to all receipts and disbursements of public moneys) be faithfully executed.” The enclosed Circular, will indicate, explicitly, what is your duty in relation to the payment of Government bounties conferred for enlistment by the Acts of July 1st & 4th 1864. Any overpayments Paymasters may make in conflict with the provisions of those laws, I will feel it my duty to disallow in the settlement of their accounts. An interesting collection of documents that highlight the business side of Union Army and Navy operations that historians have mostly ignored, as well as the role of a Union Navy paymaster. $1,000 - $1,500
43 Civil War, Battle of Chattanooga, 1864, Rare Printed General’s Report The Three Days’ Battle of Chattanooga, 23rd, 24th, 25th November, 1864. An Unofficial Dispatch from General [Montgomery C.] Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States, to the Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Now First Correctly Printed. Washington, DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. First edition, 8vo, 9 x 5.75 in., 8pp, publisher’s printed wrappers. Library of Congress (duplicate) ink-stamp on rear cover. Sabin 47393. The date of the event on the “correctly printed” edition reads November, 1864. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816-1892) was a career US Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the US Army during and after the Civil War. Despite his Southern birth, Meigs strongly opposed secession and remained loyal to the Union; his record as Quartermaster General was regarded as outstanding, both in effectiveness and in ethical probity, and Secretary of State William H. Seward viewed it as a key factor in Union victory. He was one of the principal architects of Arlington National Cemetery; the choice of its location, on Robert E. Lee’s family estate, Arlington House, was partly a gesture to humiliate Lee for siding with the South. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Broadsides & Other Imprints 44 Pen and Ink Map of the Battlefield of Nashville, Tennessee, December 1864, by J. Cowen Pen and ink on board, 9.5 x 11.5 in. Titled in ink, Map of the Battle of Nashville Dec. 15th & 16th 1864 / Based on the Government Map Surveyed and Drawn Under the Direction of Gen. Tower by M. Peseux. By J. Cowen. Published in The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art, p. 400, plate 674. With penciled notes and publisher’s information at margins, not impacting drawing. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $800 - $1,000
45 Civil War Bound Volume of Union General Orders, January - December 1864 String-bound volume lacking hard covers, approx. 5.5 x 8 in., containing approx. 200 original Union General Orders from January through December, 1864. They are not bound in chronological order. Issued by the Union War Department, the General Orders feature content related to African Americans, W.T. Sherman, U.S. Grant being named Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, as well as many Proclamations signed in type by Abraham Lincoln or General Grant. $1,000 - $1,500
46 Civil War Bound Volume of General Orders, War Department, 1865 Crudely bound volume, 5.75 x 8 in., titled GENERAL ORDERS / War Department / 1865, containing 171 original General Orders issued by the Union War Department during the Civil War. The orders bound in chronological order from January 7, 1865 through January 30, 1866. Among these are General Orders with content related to Sherman’s March through Georgia, Proclamations signed in type by Abraham Lincoln, black bordered order with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, surrender of Lee to Grant, several orders signed in type by General U.S. Grant, Colored troops, and many many more. These are bound in one volume and contain 171 of 176 called for General Orders (the other 5 were never bound into the volume). $1,200 - $1,600
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THE CIVIL WAR | Maps & Atlases 47 Atlas to Accompany the Official Records, 3 Volumes, 1891-1895 Davis, Maj. George B., Perry, Leslie, and Kirkley, Joseph W. Compiled by Capt. Calvin D. Cowles. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: GPO, 1891-1895, 3 volumes. Elephant folio, original three-quarter leather binding with dark maroon leather spine and corners over red cloth boards, marbled page edges. All 175 double-page plates called for are present. Volume I includes Table of Contents, Authorities (Persons Responsible for Maps, Sketches, Etc. Printed in Volumes 1 to 53, Inclusive), Authorities (Names of Commanding Officers... Responsible for the Maps and Sketches...), Index (Maps and Sketches, Etc. Printed in Volumes 1 to 53, Inclusive), Index (Embracing the titles of all Maps, Plans, Sketches, Views, and Illustrations, ...and the names of places mentioned in the Summaries of Military Events in Series I and which also appear in the Atlas). Plates 1-70. Volume II - Plates 71 - 135-C. Volume III - Plates 136 - 175. Unusual to find these intact and in this condition. Boards are a bit rough, but they did their job in protecting the maps within. $2,500 - $4,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Union
48 Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Armed Militiaman Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a young militia officer seated in a studio setting, holding an officer’s sword in his left hand, which is partially visible in the foreground. The subject’s uniform is lightly tinted red, while the uniform buttons, epaulets, and embellishments as well as the sword’s hilt and scabbard are highlighted in gold. Housed in full leather case separated at hinge. Ca 1840-1850. $500 - $700
49 Civil War Quarter Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Double Armed Cavalryman Uncased quarter plate ruby ambrotype of a young Union trooper standing in a studio setting, holding a cavalry saber at his side, with a Dean and Adams percussion revolver tucked in his belt. The cavalryman’s buttons, belt buckle, and saber hilt are highlighted in gold. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $400 - $600
50 Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of David H. Bennett, 28th New York, KIA at Antietam, Wearing Captured CSA Kepi Sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a soldier seated in a studio setting, wearing what is described as a captured Confederate kepi in an accompanying note written and signed by the soldier, David H. Bennett. The 3.75 x 1.25 in. note reads, Who Ever sees this note first will please / answer it and remember that it is from / A true hearted Union Soldier if he has got on / a Secess [Secesh] Cap, true to the union and to all / Who he professes to be true to. / Farewell, / D.H. Bennett. Ambrotype housed in full pressed paper case. David H. Bennett was not even past his teens when he enlisted in the army on April 30, 1861. The eager young man mustered into the 28th New York Infantry, Co. D, towards the end of the next month. Throughout the first part of his service he and the regiment engaged with the enemy several times at a great loss. Two of the most notable battles were Bull Run and Antietam, where Bennett perished. $2,000 - $3,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Union 51 Private Adam Motzer, 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype Plus Bone Ring Lot of 2, featuring sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a uniformed soldier armed with rifle and bayonet, with penciled note behind case identifying the subject as Pvt. Adam Motzer, Co. A, 93rd PVI. Housed in full case with interior velvet lining stamped, J.T. Williams Premium Gallery York, PA. Accompanied by bone ring with cross carved at top. The 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Lebanon, PA in the fall of 1861, mustering in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel James Mayland McCarter. Adam Motzer enlisted as a private on February 26, 1864 and mustered into Co. A of the Pennsylvania 93rd the same day. Before Motzer enlisted, the 93rd PA was heavily involved in a number of major engagements, such as Yorktown, Williamsburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Despite his late entry into the war, Motzer joined the 93rd PA just in time to participate in several battles, including the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, and Appomattox Court House, among many others. He mustered out on June 27, 1865 at Washington, DC. $500 - $700
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52 Two Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotypes of the Same Civil War Soldier Lot of 2 sixth plate ruby ambrotypes of the same soldier from the same sitting, taken early in the Civil War. The young soldier wears a forage hat and a military jacket with epaulets over a striped shirt. Epaulets, hat insignia, buttons, and ring tinted gold, and red-tinted cheeks. Acquired by the consignor from two separate sources and married together in a fine Beehive and Farm Tools Union case (Krainik-123). A fantastic pair of ambrotypes. $800 - $1,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Union 53 Civil War Ruby Ambrotype and Tintype of Armed Troopers, One from the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Plus Ribbon Lot of 3, including sixth plate ruby ambrotype portrait of mustached trooper armed with pistol and saber. His hat bears the crossed saber insignia and initials OVC. Housed in full thermoplastic case; quarter plate tintype showing a soldier sporting a mustache and beard who bears a resemblance to the trooper pictured in the ambrotype, standing in a studio setting with a cavalry saber in his right hand and a pistol in his left. The subject’s pants are lightly tinted blue. Housed in half case that is not original to the tintype; and silk ribbon identified to the 1st OV Cavalry, approx. 5.75 x 1 in. The 1st Ohio Cavalry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, OH, between August and late October of 1861. It mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Owen P. Ransom. The regiment participated in several battles, including Kernstown, Winchester, Second Battle of Bull Run, and Stones River, where the 1st distinguished itself in a “heroic charge” that resulted in the loss of their colonel, Minor Millikin. The 1st OH went on to see action at Gettysburg (Companies A and C), the Tullahoma Campaign, Wheeler’s Raid into east Tennessee, and Chickamauga. Following the capture of Jefferson Davis, the regiment saw hard fighting during the Atlanta and Selma campaigns, ending their service on occupation duty in South Carolina. The 1st OH mustered out in September 1865. $500 - $700
54 Civil War Sixth Plate Ambrotypes of Armed Soldiers, One Holding Rare Rupertus Revolver Lot of 2 sixth plate ambrotypes, including ruby ambrotype of a young, sober-looking soldier seated in a studio setting, displaying what appears to be a rare Jacob Rupertus revolver, his uniform buttons highlighted in gold. Housed in full thermoplastic case; and clear glass ambrotype of a seated, uniformed soldier, his cheeks lightly tinted pink, holding a revolver in his hands, housed in full pressed paper case with period note pinned to velvet lining identifying the subject as Jas. M. Perkins about 1861. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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55 Wood Frame Containing 30 Civil War Ambrotypes and Tintypes, Many Armed with Revolvers, Rifles, and Knives Lot of 30 Civil War ambrotypes and tintypes, including 6 sixth plate portraits and 24 ninth plate portraits, all under mats and glass and encased in a 19th-century wood frame, 14.75 x 18.25 in. overall. Starting with the top row of sixth plate portraits, images of note include (from left to right): first, uniformed soldier with what appears to be Bowie knife tucked in his belt and rifle bayonet; second soldier holding a musket; third, bust-length view of soldier with Colt Navy and musket; fourth, seated soldier with musket; fifth, waist-length portrait of soldier with a Bowie knife and Colt Navy tucked in his belt, also holding a musket; sixth, seated soldier with musket.
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Second row of ninth plate portraits (from left to right): second, standing soldier with musket and percussion revolver; fourth, waistlength portrait of soldier with musket; fifth, serious looking gent displaying a small pocket percussion revolver; eighth, uniformed soldier with Colt 1860 Army revolver and sword. Third row of ninth plate portraits (from left to right): third, bust-length portrait of bearded gentleman wearing Zouave-style cap, tinted red. Fourth row of ninth plate portraits (from left to right): second, bustlength image of soldier with unusual spur trigger percussion revolver attached to his chest strap; fourth, portrait of young boy in Zouavestyle uniform with prop gun; fifth, bust-length portrait of soldier displaying his Bowie knife. $3,000 - $5,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Union 56 Quarter Plate Tintype of Side-Wheel Steamer Augusta, Plus Lot of 5, featuring quarter plate tintype of a side-wheel steamship identified as the Augusta. Large crowds of people are gathered on the two levels of the steamship, looking towards the camera. The American flag can be seen flying at one end of the ship. Housed in half case. Accompanied by 4 spoons, each engraved Augusta on the handle, and marked Sunderlin & Weaver on reverse. The second USS Augusta was a side-wheel steamer in the US Navy during the Civil War. William H. Webb designed and constructed her in 1853 at New York City and she operated out of that port carrying passengers and freight for the New York and Savannah Steam Navigation Company. She was named for the city of Augusta, GA. Early in the Civil War, the Federal Government purchased the Augusta at New York on August 1, 1861 and fitted her for naval service. She was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on September 28, 1861, and placed under Enoch Greenleafe Parrott’s command. She began her service in the task force to capture a naval base on the Confederacy’s Atlantic coast and participated in many blockades. She survived a hurricane and engaged in battle at Fort Walker on Hilton Head. She captured the Island Belle and Planter. The Planter, however was not a war prize. Her pilot, a slave named Robert Smalls, quietly slipped out to sea with his family and a few friends while the captain was ashore. After reaching Union waters, Smalls hoisted the white flag from the stolen ship and surrendered the vessel to the Union; earning his freedom and the freedom of several more slaves.
The Augusta was damaged several times during the war, but was repaired and recommissioned because of her famed sea-worthiness. The army decommissioned her in January 1865, but recommissioned her the next year for another term of service. The Navy sold her and, in 1872, she was re-documented as the Magnolia, but was lost during a storm five years later. $500 - $700
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57 David G. Farragut, Five CDVs by Anthony & Alden Lot of 5 CDVs of David G. Farragut as rear admiral, including a pair of portraits credited on verso to E. & H.T. Anthony, New York; 2 CDVs credited to A.E. Alden, Providence, RI, the first being a portrait on patriotic mount of Farragut, the second featuring small portraits of Farragut and Commodore William D. Porter, again on a patriotic mount; and an uncredited view of Farragut, with printed identification on verso. The Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut $400 - $600
58 David G. Farragut, Four CDVs by Whipple and Critcherson & Storer Lot of 4 cartes of D.G. Farragut as rear admiral, including 3 portraits credited to Whipple, Boston; and a single portrait with Critcherson & Storer, Newport, RI imprint on verso. The Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut $400 - $600
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THE CIVIL WAR | CDVS & Cabinet Cards | The Union 59 Admiral David G. Farragut, Large Format Albumen Photograph Large format photograph, 13 x 17.5 in. (sight) of D.G. Farragut as vice admiral, produced by Sarony & Co., New York, matted and housed in patriotic frame, 20 x 26.5 in. Ex. Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut and the USS Hartford; previously sold in these rooms, June 13, 2014, American History Auction, Lot 45; consigned by a private collector. $400 - $600
60 General George B. McClellan, Signed CDV and Autographed Note from the 1864 New York Metropolitan Fair Lot of 2, featuring albumen CDV by Brady/Anthony, signed by George McClellan with the rank of major general in the recto margin, tipped in to a 4.5 x 7.75 in. sheet of paper with a note in McClellan’s hand, New York Metropolitan Fair/ April 1864/ For the benefit of Sick & Wounded Soldiers. The Metropolitan Fair was organized by the US Sanitary Commission, and it seems McClellan signed this piece to be sold or auctioned to raise money for the benefit of the commission. $600 - $800
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61 General James B. McPherson Signed CDV Uncredited, waist-length portrait of James B. McPherson as major general, autographed on verso Major General / Jas. B. McPherson / USA / (Age 36 years). The able but ambitious James. B. McPherson (1828-1864) attained corps command under his friend and mentor General W.T. Sherman, and was given Sherman’s old Army of the Tennessee in the buildup to the Atlanta campaign. Sherman may have harbored doubts about McPherson’s elevation and never fully relinquished the Army of the Tennessee even after he ascended to overall command of the western armies. McPherson has remained an enigma and was under a cloud when he was killed in action during the climax of Hood’s July 22, 1864 assault on the Union left. $600 - $800 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | CDVS & Cabinet Cards | The Union 62 W.T. Sherman, Twice Signed Cabinet Photograph Cabinet card of W.T. Sherman in full military dress with his sword by his side, signed on mount recto, W.T. Sherman, General, 1889. Mount verso signed and inscribed in ink, To Miss Jessie McNamera(?) with kindest compliments of W.T. Sherman, General, New York, March 26, 1889. Copyrighted 1888 by Sarony, New York. $1,000 - $1,500
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63 Colonel George E. Waring Jr. Civil War CDV Striking studio view of George Waring, Jr. dressed in uniform, standing with a fur-lined cape draped over his shoulders, partially leaning against the sword he holds at his side. The cavalry crossed saber insignia is visible on his cap. Verso imprint of Hoelke & Benecke, St. Louis, MO. Pound Ridge, NY, native George Waring, Jr. (1833-1898) was trained in agricultural chemistry and worked as agricultural and drainage engineer for construction of New York’s Central Park during the early 1860s. However, he resigned at the start of the Civil War to accept a military commission as major. He raised six companies of cavalry for Missouri, and these units were eventually consolidated as the 4th Missouri Cavalry under Waring, who was promoted to colonel in January 1862. He commanded the 4th MO throughout the war, principally in the Southwest, and mustered out on March 25, 1865. After the war, Waring devoted himself to agriculture, cattle breeding and drainage until 1877, when drainage and sanitary engineering became his main focus. When a yellow fever epidemic devastated Memphis, TN in 1878, the National Board of Health sent Waring to design and implement a better sewage drainage system for the city. Waring gained a national reputation for his success in Memphis, and in 1895 he was appointed sanitation commissioner of New York City. He is credited with making a major impact on the city, implementing reforms that would become the foundations for modern recycling, garbage collection, and street sweeping. At the close of the Spanish American War in 1898, President William McKinley appointed Waring to conduct a study of the sanitary situation in Cuba. However, while in Cuba, Waring contracted yellow fever and died shortly after returning to New York City in October 1898. Descended Directly in the Family of Edward Parke Custis Lewis $300 - $500
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THE CIVIL WAR | CDVS & Cabinet Cards | The Union 64 Captain Harlan Page Lloyd, 24th New York Light Artillery (Barry’s Rocket Battery), 22nd New York Cavalry, and Aide to General Custer, CDV Collection Lot of 10, comprised of 9 CDVs and a single war-date letter written by Harlan Page Lloyd. Photographs include 5 CDVs of Lloyd in uniform and as a civilian, one being a group shot in which Lloyd appears in the upper left. Three of the views are credited to Atwater of Angelica, NY, while one of the civilian portraits is credited to African American photographer, J.P. Ball & Son, Cincinnati, OH. Accompanied by a wardate CDV of J.C. Peck with great penciled inscription on verso to High Private Lloyd, asking for a fat contract when Lloyd becomes a general; CDV of 24th New York Light Artillery (Barry’s Rocket Battery) Private Robert Turner, KIA battle of Whitehall, NC, December 16, 1862; CDV of Lieutenant George Hastings, POW Plymouth, NC, April 20, 1864, & Frederick E. Hastings, both from the 24th New York Light Artillery (Barry’s Rocket Battery); and CDV of Lloyd’s unidentified classmate. Accompanied by 12pp letter written by Lloyd from Plymouth, NC, August 31, 1863 to his sister. He writes to her about the status of the company, their recent positions, and the wildest ride he ever had. He and a small company of men rode quiet a distance through purported guerrilla and Confederate Cavalry infested woods to inform Lieutenant Fred Hastings and his group of prisoners that they had halted. They expected it to be a short ride, but found themselves miles away from their current position. They finally reached him. Thrilled by the danger, Lloyd wrote, there was a strange indescribable pleasure about it. Later on in their journey they encountered a grand, large plantation. They stayed for the night and explored the home as well as the grounds. In great detail, Lloyd described to his sister the architecture of the old home and its grand, but scavenged contents as well as the large amount of slave cabins and the wards left behind that did not travel with their master. The overseer treated the officers to a fine meal served on china and allowed them to spend the night on feather beds with clean white sheets. A rare delight for a soldier. He concluded his note acknowledging his duty as a soldier and how he was at peace about the possibility of dying in the field. Harlan Page Lloyd began his military career as a private in the 24th New York Light Artillery on August 30, 1862. Military life suited him well and he rose through the ranks to sergeant in November 1862, 1st sergeant in January 1863, and was discharged for a promotion to 1st lieutenant of the 22nd New York Cavalry in February 1864.
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With the 22nd, he fought hard with his men at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, and earned his final promotion to captain in December 1864. While campaigning with Sheridan and acting as an aide to Custer during the Shenandoah Campaign, he was wounded in the lung. Determined to finish his service towards the end of the war, he continued to fight until he mustered out with his men at Winchester, VA on August 1, 1865. At one time he was promoted to major but there are no records of the promotion. After the war, he formed a legal practice in Cincinnati and had a partnership with President Taft. $500 - $700
65 1st Lieutenant Francis E. Brownell, Ellsworth’s Avenger, Signed CDV Rare carte of 1st Lieutenant Francis Brownell in uniform, proudly displaying the medals on his jacket, his Staff Officer’s sword in his belt, beautifully autographed on verso Truly Yours / Frank E. Brownell/ US Army, with Gurney & Son, New York imprint. Francis E. Brownell (1840-1894), 11th New York, made famous as Ellsworth’s Avengers for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor in 1877. After slaying Elmer Ellsworth’s murderer (innkeeper James W. Jackson) on the stairs of the Marshall House and posing for a popular Brady CDV standing on the Secessionist rag that caused Ellsworth’s martyrdom, Brownell became an officer in the regular 11th US Infantry. He resigned his commission in November 1863. Thereafter, Brownell saw to his own reputation, twice petitioning the War Department for the Medal of Honor and becoming a self-appointed custodian of Ellsworth memorabilia and keeper of the flame. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | CDVS & Cabinet Cards | The Union 66 Civil War Drummer Robert Hendershot, 8th Michigan Infantry, CDV Albumen CDV of R.H. Hendershot, Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock, made famous by his reported exploits during the battle of Fredericksburg at the tender age of thirteen, with J.B. Smith, Marble Block, Utica, NY, backmark. The young drummer is uniformed in full regalia. Hendershot has been described as a rather self-serving character (deserting once) and with the patronage of George Eastman of New York parlayed his “patriotism” into a mini commercial empire of wartime road shows and drumming exhibitions, selling CDVs like this one. Those who knew him did not like him, but to his credit he must have been a smart, gritty kid. $500 - $700
67 Miss Major Pauline Cushman, Union Spy, Signed CDV CDV by C.D. Fredricks & Co., New York, of the Union spy wearing a dress, signed in black ink in the recto margin. Cushman (1833-1897) was an aspiring teenage actress when she became involved in espionage on behalf of the Union. Caught with incriminating information, Cushman was sentenced to be executed as a spy and saved only by the timely arrival of Federal troops at her prison in Shelbyville, TN. Lincoln awarded Cushman an honorary major’s commission and she engaged in cloak and dagger work until growing notoriety blew her cover. With the benefit of a populist biography, Cushman toured the country speaking about her wartime exploits and profiting from the sale of CDVs. Cushman’s later years were marked by physical decline and tragedy, and at the age of 60, she died in San Francisco of a morphine overdose said to have been a suicide. Autographed Cushman CDVs are exceedingly rare, but we were able to confirm the signature by comparing it to the frontispiece engraving in her 1865 biography. $800 - $1,200
68 Pauline Cushman, Union Scout & Spy, Barnum’s Museum Broadside Printed, double-sided broadside, 4.5 x 12 in., each side promoting Barnum’s Museum and daily appearances of Miss Major Pauline Cushman! Union Scout & Spy between June 30 - July 21, 1864. With reverse side noting that books of Cushman’s thrilling adventures, and Carte de Visites for sale in the Museum at 25 cents each. Printed by Thos. E. Bartow, 12 Ann St., Next to the Museum. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | CDVS & Cabinet Cards | The Union 69 Civil War CDV of Bonsall & Gibson’s Photograph Tent and Charles Waldack’s Photo Wagon, Cincinnati Civil War-era albumen CDV of a photo tent emblazoned PICTURES across the broad side and Headquarters for Photographs/ Bonsall & Gibson on the entrance, with the photographers (presumably) posed in front. Behind the tent is a tall photo wagon painted with the name of another noted Cincinnati photographer, Charles Waldack, and advertising All Styles, All Kinds of Photographs. Carte’s verso bears the imprint of Dewey & Gibson, who operated a photograph studio at 102 W. Fifth Street in downtown Cincinnati. A different view of the same photograph tent is shown in a quarter plate ambrotype, dated 1863, which was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013 as part of the exhibit “Photography and the American Civil War.” That information, along with the scenery in the background of the photograph, which includes several other tents, makes it likely that this scene was captured at Camp Dennison, the Civil War recruiting and training camp 15 miles east of Cincinnati along the line of the Little Miami Railroad. $1,000 - $1,500
70 Burnside Manufacturing Plant, Providence, Rhode Island, Rare CDV Outdoor view of Burnside Rifle Works, Providence, RI, as captioned below image, uncredited. Before the Civil War, Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881) was a prominent rifle manufacturer. He owned the Burnside Rifle Company, which was considered one of the most respected arms manufacturers during the 19th century. However, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Burnside, who was a brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia at the time, quickly answered the call for troops and raised the 1st Rhode Island Volunteers in April 1861. Within a year, he was appointed a major general and compiled an extensive if unspectacular war record including a stint as Army of the Potomac commander. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Stereoviews 71 Alexander Gardner Civil War Stereoviews of Confederate Dead at Gettysburg and Antietam Lot of 2, each on buff mounts with Gardner’s 1863 copyright line imprinted in the recto margin and printed paper labels on verso from Gardner’s Photographic Incidents of the War series, bearing the titles No. 227 Scene in a Wheat-field on the Confederate Right at the Battle of Gettysburg and No. 566 Confederate Soldiers As They Fell At The Battle Of Antietam. $1,000 - $1,500
72 Fort Sumter & Fort Moultrie Stereoviews by Soule, Lot of Three Lot of 3 stereoviews, each credited on mount recto and verso to John P. Soule, Boston, MA, from his series of War Views documenting Charleston, SC and Forts in Vicinity between March and April, 1865, including the following titles: No. 335, Fort Sumpter [sic] from the Bar, featuring Mathew Brady at far right looking in the direction of two men seated on photo equipment; No. 336, Palmetto fortifications on the Channel Side of Fort Sumpter [sic]; No. 353, Interior of Fort Moultrie Battery B. and group of Palmetto Trees in distance. $500 - $700
73 Civil War Stereoviews by E. & H.T. Anthony, Lot of Six Lot of 6 stereoviews published by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Each title is printed on verso applied paper label, and include: The Great Eastern. From foot of Hammond Street; Partial View of the “Sound Steamer” “Bristol”; Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, USA, in profile; Fraser’s House; used by Gen. Butler for officers’ purposes; View showing how close the Picket lines were to each other, near Petersburgh [sic], Va.; & Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman, at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. This particular view captures Sherman’s Grand Army, looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury Buildings, with Major General Slocum and Staff and Army of Georgia passing in Review. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Stereoviews 74 Ulysses S. Grant Stereoviews, Lot of Four Lot of 4 stereoviews, 2 of which are published by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, each titled on verso applied paper label. The first showing Lieut. Gen. Grant at his Head Quarters, Va., from negative by Brady & Co., Washington. The second is a profile portrait of Lieutenant General Grant. Accompanied by standing portrait of Major General Grant by J. Gurney & Son, New York City, and a post-war view of Grant’s inauguration with inked caption and March 4, 1873 date on verso, as well as note recognizing the photographer as D.R. Holmes of Washington. $500 - $700
THE CIVIL WAR | Large Format Images | The Union
75 Ulysses S. Grant, Large Format Photograph Taken Upon his Arrival in Washington, DC to Meet Lincoln, March 1864 Albumen photograph, 9.25 x 12.75 in., on original 16 x 20 in. mount, framed, 20 x 24 in. A very rare portrait likely printed around the time of U.S. Grant’s death in 1885 from the original, wet plate collodion negative taken on March 8, 1864 by Mathew Brady when Grant first arrived at Washington, DC to meet with President Abraham Lincoln and receive his commission as commander of the Army of the Potomac. A period, calligraphic manuscript label affixed to the mount below the portrait is inscribed as follows: Ulysses S. Grant as Major General / This picture was taken in Washington, DC Mar. 1863 [sic], immediately after his arrival from the West to take command of the Army of the Potomac. It shows plainly the hard work done by him and the mental anxiety which he must have had at the time when he was called by President Lincoln to assume this important command which had so many times tried to reach Richmond but which under his leadership marched to victory and the close of the Rebellion. $1,000 - $1,500 46
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76 Major Generals Anderson and Burnside, Albumen Photograph Albumen photograph of Civil War Generals Robert Anderson and Ambrose Burnside seated together with another, unidentified gentleman on the front porch of an unknown residence, with a house servant standing directly behind Anderson, 5 x 6.75 in., on 6.25 x 9.5 in. mount. This photograph was likely included in the Philadelphia Photographer, and is accompanied by a modern, typed explanatory paragraph that would have been published with the photo, describing the photographer, his process, and the camera used to take the image. In this case, the photo was taken by J.C. Brown while out “along the noble Hudson.” As they drove by in a carriage, Brown immediately recognized Anderson and Burnside, and proposed to take a picture of them at the nearby home of a mutual friend. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Large Format Images | The Union 77 Mathew Brady at Gettysburg, Civil War Albumen Photograph Albumen photograph, 7.75 x 5.5 in., showing famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady at McPherson’s Woods in Gettysburg, PA, ca 1863. The photograph was taken several days after the end of the battle on July 3, 1863, and shows Brady gazing at the battlefield where Union General John Reynolds was picked off by a rebel sharpshooter and killed. Glue residue on photo’s reverse indicates that it was previously mounted in an album. $500 - $800
78 Civil War-Period Wedding Photograph of Major General Edward McCook & Mary Thompson, Incl. Generals Long, Murray, & Upton Albumen photograph, 16.5 x 12.625 in., believed to be the official wedding party at the marriage of Major General Edward M. McCook to Mary Thompson, June 21, 1865, taken just after the end of the Civil War. The other officers in the portrait are from left to right: Brigadier General Eli Long, Brigadier General Eli Murray, and Major General Emory Upton. Mary Thompson is the lady seated in the middle wearing white and the other ladies, while unidentified, are thought to be Mary’s sister seated to the left and Edward McCook’s sister standing to the right. Although uncredited, the photograph is marked Chicago. Housed in what is believed to be the original, missionstyle frame, 28 x 24 in. Edward McCook served in many important capacities. He was among the very first settlers in the Pike’s Peak region of Colorado having come west during the Gold Rush. He was the delegate from what was then called Arapahoe County to the Kansas Territorial Legislature. During the war, he was among the famous “Fighting McCooks” first defending Washington, DC and later active in the Southern Campaign including the captures of Montgomery and Selma, AL. He accepted the surrender of Confederate forces in Georgia and Florida and then served as Military Governor of Florida. He was appointed as the ambassador to the Hawaiian Islands. He was active in creating the Territory of Colorado and served as its fifth governor. He was also the second governor after Colorado gained statehood. He and his wife were both active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the west. All of the generals depicted in the portrait were associated at one time with the cavalry corps commanded by Major General James Harrison Wilson and are thought to have all participated in the capture of Selma, AL. Like McCook, the other officers were highly accomplished. Brigadier General Eli Long had a commendable Civil War record, including fighting at Murfreesboro, Stone River, Chickamauga, Farmington and Knoxville, TN, Lovejoy’s Station in
Georgia, and the capture of Selma, AL. He was reported wounded five times during the war but survived to become a successful businessman in Baltimore and New Jersey. Brigadier General Eli Huston became the territorial governor of Utah following the war and was notorious for persecution of the Mormons. Murray, UT is named after him. Major General Emory Upton was an 1861 West Point graduate and classmate to George Custer. He is credited with having fired the first shot at the First Battle of Bull Run and was active in many major battles during the war. He was wounded while commanding forces at the Battle of Spotsylvania. He authored several important treatises on infantry tactics. Upton went on to serve as Commandant of West Point after the Civil War and died while acting as the Commandant of The Presidio in San Francisco. $500 - $800
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CIVIL WAR MAGIC LANTERN SLIDE COLLECTION
79 Extensive Collection of Civil War Magic Lantern Slides Lot of 157 magic lantern slides of Civil War subjects. All are standard 3.25 x 4 in. slides, most with publisher’s information and titles, and the majority in 4 x 7 in. wood casing. The images are sourced from original negatives by Mathew Brady, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alexander Gardner, and other noted Civil War-era photographers, but most were published in lantern slide format by those who acquired rights to the negatives after the war, or published them without rights (for example, E. & H.T. Anthony’s negatives were acquired by Taylor & Huntington, who published many of the slides in this lot). Other publishers present in this grouping include T.H. McAllister, Brady & Co., Buckeye Stereopticon Co., et al. All are cataloged by the consignor, and a full inventory is available upon request. The images comprise a fine record of the personalities and events of the Civil War. There are 20 slides featuring Abraham Lincoln, including studio portraits by Gardner (3), Brady, Alexander Hesler (3), Samuel M. Altschuler (2), Samuel M. Fassett, Abraham B. Byers, F.E. Stevens, and Nicholas Shepherd, plus Gardner’s Incidents of the War images
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of Lincoln at Antietam meeting with General McClellan (2) and with Pinkerton and General McClernand (2). Other personalities include General Grant (8, including 3 of the “Council of War”), General George A. Custer (2), General McClellan (5), General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis (2), General Sherman, General Miles, General Hancock, General Pickett, Stephen A. Douglas, and others. Battlefields and operations depicted include 22 views of Gettysburg, including a view of the Confederate dead gathered for burial, General Meade at his tent, dead horse of the 9th Massachusetts, and views of Little Round Top, the Devil’s Den, and other sites. Also views of Antietam, Bull Run, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, City Point, Bermuda Hundred, Washington, Charleston and Fort Sumter, Richmond and Libby Prison, and the destruction of Atlanta. Of special note are views of Union and Confederate dead at Fort Mahone, Cold Harbor, Fredericksburg, and Dunker Church, the executions of Henry Wirz and William Johnson (two-view series), and a three views titled “The Darkey in the Air,” showing an African American being thrown up in the air by Union soldiers holding a blanket. $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Confederacy
80 Confederate Half Plate Ruby Ambrotype of a Triple Armed Georgia Rebel Wearing a McElroy Bowie Half plate ruby ambrotype portrait of an unidentified Confederate soldier with a rare Confederate McElroy Bowie knife tucked in his belt as well as a percussion Confederate revolver. The Rebel holds a Confederate rifle in his right hand and a cap in his left. A cartridge box and what appears to be a powder flask hang from the soldier’s belt. Accompanied by issue of North South Trader’s Civil War, Vol. 40, No. 1, in which the ambrotype is published (“W.J. McElroy: Macon Maker,” by L.D. Eberhart, pp. 30-31). $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Cased Images | The Confederacy 81 Civil War Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Captain T. James Linebarger, 28th North Carolina Infantry, WIA Three Times, Incl. Gettysburg A sublime sixth plate ambrotype portrait of Captain T. James Linebarger in regulation double-breasted uniform with separate period inked identifying notes, housed in a brown pressed paper case, also with pencil identification behind plate. At the age of 23, T. James Linebarger first enlisted in Co. C (“South Fork Farmers”) of the 28th North Carolina State Troops as a private and was subsequently promoted to 2nd lieutenant ((9/26/61), 1st lieutenant (2/27/62), and captain (4/14/62). Miraculously, he was wounded three times during the war—Fredericksburg (12/23/62), Chancellorsville (5/3/63) and Gettysburg 7/3/63—and soldiered on to surrender with the remnants of the ANV at Appomattox Court House in command of the 28th North Carolina. His is the iconic Army of Northern Virginia story supremely documented in the sources. The illustrious captain penned a wartime diary which was quoted at length in an August 1942 article found in The Journal of Southern History (Vol. 8, No. 3), held in the collection of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A recent (2013) eponymous regimental history by Frances H. Casstevens contains references and a photograph of Captain Linebarger. Additionally, two recent books by author Don Ernsberger entitled Meade’s Breakthrough at Fredericksburg, and Also for Glory, The Pettigrew-Trimble Charge sheds light on the role of the 28th NCST and animate the circumstances under which Linebarger was wounded at each respective battle. On July 3 “as the company approached” the fences at the ‘high-water mark’ of Pickett’s Charge, “Captain Linebarger would be wounded in the groin (but make it back to his lines).” The 28th
North Carolina lost its battle flag during the grand assault which was picked up off the field by a captain in the 126th New York. Captain Linebarger’s wound was severe; he did not return to duty until October 1864. Post-war, Thomas James Linebarger (1838-1928) returned to North Carolina and married in 1866. He engaged in farming as the family brood grew to nine children. In 1878 he was appointed Postmaster in Lincoln County, NC, serving in that capacity for a decade before retiring and relocating to Rock Hill, SC. Surviving correspondence from the 1890s illustrates a nearly 30 year old feud ongoing between Linebarger and former senior officers of the regiment. Captain Linebarger earnestly believed that he had been slighted during the war by not being endorsed for the vacant colonelcy. The old veteran died of a heart attack (according to his obituary from the The Evening Herald, Rock Hill, SC) at age 90 on August 25, 1928. He was buried in the local Laurelwood Cemetery in York County where many of his extended family reside. The consignor relates that the image descended in Linebarger’s family through his son Andrew P. Linebarger, to his granddaughter Esther Leona Linebarger who married Roy Mitchell Gullick, Sr. The consignor purchased the ambrotype at the tag sale of the Gullick residence. $2,000 - $3,000
82 Sixth Plate Ambrotype of a Possible Confederate with Officer’s Sword and Sash Sixth plate ambrotype of a bearded soldier posed with an officer’s sword, wearing an officer’s sash and two-piece belt buckle. Goldtinted buttons, D-guard, and scabbard locket. Housed in full pressed paper case. $500 - $700
83 Civil War Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of a Young Boy in a Zoauve Outfit with Drum, by G.S. Cook, Charleston, South Carolina Sixth plate ruby ambrotype of a young boy dressed in a Zouavestyle cap and jacket, posed on a chair playing a drum. Housed under convex glass in a half case with Cook/ Artist/ Charleston on the back cover. George Smith Cook (1819-1902) began his photography career by opening one of the first daguerreotype studios in New Orleans and moved throughout the South, eventually settling in Richmond. He was in Charleston during the Civil War and is often credited with taking the first known live combat photograph, showing Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie. This ambrotype was recently displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is housed in a Met archival box with Met catalog information. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | CDVs | The Confederacy 84 Southern CDV Collection Featuring Confederate Officers, Members of the Edward Parke Custis Lewis Family, and More Lot of 22 CDVs, featuring 7 wartime copy cartes of Confederate officers, an uncredited copy view of CSA President Jefferson Davis, and 16 civilian portraits, some members of the family of Confederate Army Colonel Edward Parke Custis Lewis, including his brothers and CSA officers John and Henry. Many of the cartes are credited to photographers in the south such as C.R. Rees & Bros. of Richmond, VA, Washburn of New Orleans, LA, Bingham and Y. Day, both from Memphis, TN, as well as studios in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and St. Louis. Identified Confederate officers include: uncredited period copy photograph of Army of Northern Virginia Cavalry Corps commander, J.E.B. Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864, after original photograph taken by Vannerson of Richmond in 1862, plus outdoor view of memorial honoring Stuart, with sign attached that reads Stuart / Dead, Yet Alive / Mortal, Yet Immortal; General Richard S. Ewell, by Lumpkin & Tomlinson, Richmond, VA, with 2 cent revenue stamp; General Robert E. Rodes, by Lumpkin & Tomlinson, with 2 cent revenue stamp; the oldest Confederate general in the Civil War, David E. Twiggs, uncredited; and Lieutenant General and South Carolina Governor Wade Hampton, uncredited. Members of the Edward Parke Custis Lewis family include two brothers, John Redman Coxe Lewis (posed with one of his children) and Henry Llewellyn Dangerfield Lewis. John served in the US Navy for 11 years and was with Commodore Perry during the US expedition to Japan. In 1861, he entered the Confederate army as a major, commanding Jamestown Island and Mobile, AL under the leadership of General Stephen D. Lee. Initially a drillmaster with the 27th VA Infantry, Henry went on to serve with the 1st and 6th VA Cavalries, working as a courier with J.E.B. Stuart’s staff while with the 6th VA. Additional family members include Esther Mariah Coxe Lewis, mother to Edward, John, and Henry; Edward’s wife Lucy Balmain Ware;
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charming portraits of young children, one being a studio view of a little boy in traditional Scottish or Irish dress and a portrait of a well dressed young lad posed with a rifle; and unidentified subjects, likely Lewis family members or friends. See also Lots 89-90. Descended Directly in the Family of Edward Parke Custis Lewis $1,000 - $1,500
85 Civil War CDVs Depicting Jefferson Davis Disguised as a Woman, Group of 7 Lot of 7 different cartes, most dated 1865, showing cartoons or composite portraits depicting the capture of Jefferson Davis as he tries to escape in a dress, including examples published by William H. Mumler, Boston, MA (2); J.H. Bufford & Sons, Boston; Francis Hacker, Rhode Island; Gibson & Co., Ohio; Samuel Crobaugh, Cleveland, OH; and an uncredited carte. Following his flight and capture (reported in the press as having been apprehended dressed as a woman) the ex-President was depicted in a series of derisive, humorous “cartoons” that illustrated the prevailing story line at Davis’ expense. Throughout the war, Davis had been singled out for mockery, being variously depicted as a devil with horns, a viperous fork-tongued slave owner breathing fire and so forth. The President of the Confederacy was conveniently demonized as the enemy of the North, as was Lincoln in the South. $500 - $700
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86 General Benjamin Pritchard, Uniform Cape Worn During the Capture of Jefferson Davis Blue Union cape/cloak worn by Benjamin Pritchard, known for the capture of CSA President Jefferson Davis in Allegan, MI. The cape is dark blue wool, lined with heavy cotton, trimmed with a black flat braid. A single button closes it at the neck (this cloth-covered button is a replacement). Short standing collar has seven buttonholes, possibly intended to attach the cape to a coat so the cape remains in place. An October 27, 2016 letter from a previous owner states that the cape was acquired from the Pritchard Estate in Allegan, MI by a local historian who found it amongst a pile of blankets, who in turn sold it to the previous owner in 2005. The cape was later sold to the Union Drummer Boy of Gettysburg, PA before it was purchased by the consignor in 2016.
Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, Benjamin Pritchard (1835-1907) was brevetted brigadier general on May 10, 1865 for his role in leading the 4th Michigan Cavalry in the capture of Jefferson Davis in the weeks surrounding the close of the Civil War. In addition to his brevet, Pritchard received a $3000 share of the bounty that President Andrew Johnson offered for the apprehension of Davis. Following the war, Pritchard, who had gained a reputation as a national hero, returned to his home in Allegan, MI, to practice law. Although he declined opportunities to run for Governor and Congress, Pritchard served two terms of office as State Treasurer of Michigan from 1880-1884. $4,000 - $6,000
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ROBERT E. LEE DESK WITH PROVENANCE
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ROBERT E. LEE DESK WITH PROVENANCE 87 Robert E. Lee Desk Presented to his Personal Physician, Dr. Robert Madison, with Exceptional Provenance Desk presented to Dr. Robert Madison, Robert E. Lee’s personal physician, accompanied by November 10, 1870 letter from Mary Custis Lee, written shortly after General Lee’s death on October 12, 1870. A diminutive fall-front desk in walnut and mixed woods, having an open shelf gallery with a shaped crest and turned finials, over a fall-front writing surface opening to reveal a fitted interior, the lower section with one dovetailed drawer with inlaid escutcheon, the whole rising on turned legs; ht. 57.7, wd. 25, dp. 18.75 in. No key. Three original finials and one replacement. Dr. Robert Madison (1828-1878) was the son of the nephew of President James Madison (his grandfather was the President’s youngest brother). Orphaned at a young age, he was adopted by an aunt and uncle in his mother’s family. At age seventeen, he attended William and Mary College. After graduating, he briefly attended the University of Virginia before enrolling at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He earned his degree in 1851 and began practicing medicine. Eight years later, the Virginia Military Institute voted him on the board and installed him as a professor. There, he became the personal physician to Thomas (the future “Stonewall”) Jackson until the beginning of the war when Jackson left VMI to join the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, Madison served as Surgeon-in-Charge of a hospital at Orange Court House. After the war, he returned to VMI and resumed his position. In 1866, Dr. Madison moved to Staunton, VA, to care for his wife who was in poor health. Ultimately, he returned to VMI and attended the Grace Episcopal Church with the Lee Family. In 1869, he became one of General Lee’s personal physicians, along with Dr. Howard Barton, and attended to him in his final moments in 1870. As a skilled and experienced doctor from the period, his notes have allowed doctors to evaluate Lee’s health in his final decade and are vital to the diagnosis of Lee’s death. After Lee’s death, Mary Custis Lee gifted this small desk to their trusted doctor. She wrote him: You must allow me the great pleasure of presenting you with a little table, used by the General and myself for several years and which Mrs. Madison and yourself must keep as a memento of our pleasant intercourse with you in Lexington (Lexington, November 10, 1870) Mary Custis Lee. Madison gladly received the desk and it remained in the family, passing it to his second son by his second marriage, Edmund Bolling Madison who gave it to his daughter, Helen Dolly Madison. It then passed to the consignor’s mother, thence to the consignor. Reference: Mainwaring, R.D., MD and H.D. Riley, Jr. MD. “The Lexington Physicians of General Robert E. Lee.” Southern Medical Association, Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 98, No. 8 (Aug. 2005): 800-804. $15,000 - $25,000
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88 Robert E. Lee, ALS, 1855, Regarding Cullum’s Register of Graduates Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870, USMA 1829). ALS, 3pp, approx. 5 x 8 in., September 7, 1855. Jefferson Barracks, MO, addressed to Captain G. W. Cullum (1809-1892, USMA 1833). True to the early spirit of the academy, both Lee and Cullum were commissioned into the Engineers Corps. Cullum spent some time until 1858 in charge of the fortifications of Fort Sumter, Fort Johnson and Castle Pinckney in Charleston Harbor, and Fort Caswell at Smithville, NC. At about the same time Lee was building the defenses of the Savannah River to protect that important southern port city. In 1850 Cullum began a project to collect biographies of the first halfcentury of graduates from the Academy, which had been officially formed in 1802. For easy reference he devised a system to number the graduates based in part on class rank and graduation year. The Cullum numbering system is still used today, with some modifications (now alphabetical by year). Cullum would certainly have approached Robert E. Lee for any stories he could contribute. Lee served as Superintendent of West Point from 1852 - 1855, a position Cullum would also hold at the end of the Civil War, 1864-1866.
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General Cullum would serve the Union Army during the Civil War, initially on General Henry Halleck’s staff. Lee, of course, resigned his commission to serve his home state of Virginia, and later the Confederacy. Cullum retired in 1874, and lived long enough to complete 3 volumes of his Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, 1802-1850. In this letter Lee begins by telling Cullum that he had earlier sent information for his forthcoming Register. He goes on to say that he had hoped to obtain some information about some residents of St. Louis, but so far had not heard back from them. Lee did, however, have information about one individual: Gen. Hitchcock writes me that his brother Samuel, No. 490, died at sea returning from Europe 1 August 1851. The rest of the letter concerns military activities in the West. Lee implied to Cullum that he would be moving around for a while and might not be able to collect more information or write to him for a bit, as he was at Jefferson Barracks then headed to Ft. Leavenworth (for a court martial) and back to Jefferson Barracks before marching his unit to northern Texas. $3,000 - $5,000
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89 Robert E. Lee & Family, Exceptional Archive Featuring CDVs Signed by Robert and G.W. Custis Lee, Plus Mary Custis Lee Signed CDV & ALS Lot of 5, featuring: Robert E. Lee signed CDV, autographed R.E. Lee; Mary Custis Lee signed CDV and ALS, both autographed M.C. Lee; Robert E. Lee, Jr. signed CDV, autographed R.E. Lee; and George W. Custis Lee signed CDV, autographed G.W. Custis Lee. The Lee family CDVs are credited to Vannerson & Jones of Richmond, VA. The accompanying letter from Mary Custis Lee was written from Lexington, December 26, 1865. To Mrs. (Elizabeth Alexander Ware) Britton. Mrs. Britton, Lee’s distant relative, had just lost her only child to yellow fever. To help raise her spirits, she sent Britton her and General Lee’s likenesses as well as a sympathetic letter in the care of their mutual relation, Mrs. (Maria Coxe) Lewis. Lee writes: Mrs. Lewis intimated to me that you would be gratified to have a likeness of Genl. Lee & I am glad to have it in my power to afford you such a gratification. I have (?) at present but his profile which we all think excellent, Lucy has one of the others so you can have both views of the face. Lucy Lewis, whom Lee mentions, was another mutual relation. She was wife to Confederate colonel, lawyer, and politician, Edward Parke Custis Lewis, whose paternal grandparents were Lawrence Lewis, a nephew of George Washington, and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington. E.P. Custis Lewis was a 1st cousin, once removed of Mary Custis Lee. Lucy Lewis and Mary Custis Lee developed a strong relationship while living together at their extended family’s plantation in Berryville, VA, Audley Plantation, during the Civil War. In the letter offered here, Lee writes, I most truly love & appreciate [my dear little Lucy]. You will find in her affection & true piety - all the consolation which can alleviate such sorrow. The recipient of Lee’s letter, Elizabeth Alexander Ware Britton, was sister-in-law to E.P. Custis Lewis. This archive in addition to Lots 63, 84, and 90 descended in the family of E.P. Custis Lewis. Descended in the Family of Edward Parke Custis Lewis $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Robert E. Lee & Family 90 CSA Colonel Edward Parke Custis Lewis, CDV & Correspondence Lot of 3, featuring CDV of Edward Parke Custis Lewis, credited to C.R. Rees & Bros., Richmond, VA. ANS from Lewis to his wife, Lucy, n.d., at Leetown. Notes that he has been accepted on Colonel Chambliss’ staff. I send this by Lt. Turner’s servant who wishes his horses to stay at Audley a day or two on their way to Fauquier. Ask Mother to let them run in the yard. ALS, Washington, January 18, 1867. On Attorney General’s Office letterhead. Certifying that E.P.C. Lewis has taken the oath of allegiance and submitted it with his application for a pardon. Just after the war ended and he returned home, his wife Lucy died August 26, 1866, likely as a complication of childbirth, considering their daughter Lucy Ware Lewis was born August 26, 1866. After Lucy’s death, Lewis moved to Hoboken, NJ to practice law. In 1869, he got remarried to Mary Picton Stevens Garnett (a second cousin of Lewis). He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1878, and became active in national politics, including working for Grover Cleveland’s election. Cleveland appointed him Consul General to Portugal in 1885, where he served the next four years when he returned to Hoboken to resume his law practice. He died there two years later. See also Lots 84 and 89. Descended in the Family of Edward Parke Custis Lewis $300 - $500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 91 1860 Letter to Samuel Colt from H. Richardson Regarding a Call for Arms 1p, approx. 9.25 x 10.75 in. Richmond, VA, January 26, 1860. Signed by Wm. H. Richardson, Adjutant General of Virginia. To Samuel Colt requesting an exchange of arms, and possible purchase of others. General Richardson requests of Colt: In the extraordinary call for arms of all descriptions growing out of the occurrences at Harpers ferry in October last, the State is in want of some descriptions of arms for immediate use, that cannot be procured as speedily as necessary. The Legislature had made large appropriations both for pulling the Armoury into operation and for the purchase of arms - both which measures a gentleman who I understood was connected with your establishment, called on me not very long since, and in a brief conversation which was all I then had time for stated, that any portion of the arms which the Governor purchased of you could be exchanged for such others as the State has most immediate need of. In that case we desire to exchange the revolving rifle muskets for Cavalry sabres & probably pistols & that immediately. Can you do this & if so upon what terms? General William H. Richardson formed the First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in May 1851 from volunteer militias in Richmond and surrounding counties. The regiment consisted of ten companies by the middle of the decade before the war, and many were mustered into Confederate service once war erupted. The regiment was called out to defend Harpers Ferry, only to find Brown and his men had already been captured by a unit of US Marines under command of Colonel Robert E. Lee. One wonders if General Richardson ever regretted trading those revolving rifles. Colt had produced an experimental revolving rifle some decades earlier, but the real production piece was rolled out in 1855, and was not widely distributed for a couple years while design adjustments were made. The early revolvers (both pistol and rifle) used paper cartridges, and ran the risk of “chain fire” if gunpowder leaked into crevices around the firing cylinder. This loose powder could then ignite and ignite any other unfired cartridges in the cylinder, which then drove metal and hot gases into the arm and wrist of the user. (Pistols weren’t quite as much of a problem since they 58
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were held behind the trigger and cylinder.) As a result, commanders distrusted the weapon, and eventually Colt stopped producing them, even though the development of metal cartridges would solve the problem, and revolving pistols remained popular. This may have been a contributing reason for Richardson wanting to exchange these weapons. If maintained properly, however, they could be effective. Colt did sell between four and five thousand to the US Military during the Civil War. Reportedly Confederate forces at Snodgrass Hill in the Battle of Chickamauga thought they were facing an entire division, when in fact it was only the 21st Ohio armed with Colt 1855 revolving rifles. $700 - $1,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 92 CDVs of Samuel Colt and View of Factory Ruins after Fire in Hartford Lot of 2 cartes de visite, including uncredited view of Samuel Colt (1814-1862), firearms innovator and industrialist. A rare portrait showing Colt not long before his death in 1862. Accompanied by a view of the ruins of Colonel Colt’s Patent Firearms factory at Hartford, CT, destroyed by fire in 1864, credited to N.A. & R.A. Moore on verso. $700 - $1,000
93 Judah P. Benjamin LS on CSA War Department Letterhead, 1862 Benjamin, Judah P. (1811-1884). First Jewish US Senator (LA, 1853-61), 1st CSA Attorney General (1861), 2nd CSA Secretary of War. (1861-62), 3rd CSA Secretary of State (186265). LS, Richmond [VA], February 1, 1861 (year pre-printed, with a “2” in pencil above it), 2pp, on War Department letterhead. Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin writes to J.J. [John Jones] Pettus, Governor of Mississippi, requesting the state’s quota of troops, per the Confederate Congress. In compliance with the recent act of Congress entitled “An act to authorise the President to call upon the Several States for troops to serve for three years or during the war.” I am instructed by the President to call upon the Governors of the several states to fill up the quota of troops enlisted for the war to an amount equal to six per centum of the total white population. According to this basis the number of troops still required from the state of Mississippi would be sixteen thousand three hundred and forty three. He then subtracts the number of new one-year recruits, and estimates that half will re-enlist for the additional years. I have therefore the honor to request your Excellency to furnish ... seven regiments of troops for the war.... These troops will be mustered into service at convenient camps of instruction which you are respectfully requested to select, and will there be clothed, supplied and armed at the expense of the Confederate States. Each soldier will receive a bounty of fifty dollars when the regiment or company is mustered into service and will be allowed transportation from his home to the place of rendezvous. It is earnestly desired that the troops now called for be ready to take the field by the 15th March ... He concludes by pointing out that if the number of men who re-enlist varies from the estimate, this requisition will be modified accordingly. The expectation (at least the public face) was that the war would be over by Christmas. When it wasn’t, both sides found it necessary to gear up for the beginning of the late spring/early summer campaigns. At the time, this February call-up would barely give them time to enlist, reach their training camps, receive supplies and be ready for the field. Many troops - North and South - went into the field only partially supplied.
Within just two short months, in April 1862, the first Conscription Act was passed by the Confederate Congress making all men between the ages of 18 and 35 liable for a three-year term of service. All one-year recruits were extended to three years. Certain essential occupations were exempted (i.e. railroad and river workers, druggists, miners, etc.). The act was amended many times. The provision that caused much resentment exempted men who owned 20 or more slaves, clearly protecting rich over poor white men. The Confederacy still ran short of manpower. By the end of 1863, they abolished the practice of hiring a substitute (if one had the money to do so; this caused friction in the North, also); the age of service was extended in February 1864 (down to 17 and up to 50 years). And still they could not match the greater availability of northern populations. As the war dragged on, desertion rates increased. Confederate officers noted that the men most likely to desert were the poorest. When the men were primary support for their families, the family suffered; of course, that suffering increased the longer the men were in service. It was not proper Southern gentlemanly behavior to let one’s family suffer. By September 1864, even President Davis had to admit that two-thirds of soldiers were absent, most without leave. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 94 CSA 1st Sergeant Greer H. Baughman, Caskie’s Battery, Dearing Battalion Pickett’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia, Archive Incl. Detailed Gettysburg Letter Lot of of 6 letters, with 2 covers identified to 1st Sergeant Greer H. Baughman, Caskie’s Battery, Dearing Battalion Pickett’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Collection includes an exceptional letter describing actions taken at Gettysburg, letters regarding the Seven Day’s Campaign, and a letter in which he discusses a friend who was killed by a sharpshooter while stationed at Petersburg. From the Battle of Gettysburg, a portion of Greer’s letter to his mother reads: The army is once again on Southern soil. We recrossed the Potomac on the morning of the 14th after traveling in the rain all night and going only 5 miles…the most miserable march I ever made. We had been in position for two days awaiting an attack…it would have been much better for us to have remained in Pennsylvania until the fall so as to have saved the Dutch farmers the trouble of gathering in their grain and also to have given our farmers an opportunity of harvesting uninterrupted…I was very well satisfied while in the enemy’s country. I fared very well…I did not like the people, but as long as they would supply my wants they answered my purpose very well. The papers have all published an account of the battle of Gettysburg…it was the hottest artillery fight I have ever been in… there could [not] have been less than two huddled and fifty cannon firing at the same time. We opened on them with one hundred and twenty pieces…nearly every battery but ours suffered pretty heavily. I cannot account for it. The Battery on our left, Capt. Blount, not ten yards from us lost 7 men killed and wounded and the one on our right Capt. Macon lost several men. We had only two men very slightly wounded…and five horses killed…the shell come very near us, but…a “miss is as good as a mile.” While riding over the field, late in the afternoon, after the fight I had my horse shot by one of the Yankee sharpshooters, but did not hurt him. It passed over his back and stung him enough to make him caper about at a great rate. No doubt he (my horse) thought he was badly wounded. During the fight on the 3rd (our day) we are said to have disabled a great many of the enemy’s guns…as many as fifty. I saw four caissons… explode. We had quite a lively time of it while it lasted…our ammunition gave out in the hottest part of the battle. To that fact alone we owe our failure to gain one of the grandest victories of the war. We have a great many reports regarding the fall of Vicksburg. Some of the papers say it has fallen, others that it has not…I hope it has not surrendered…it certainly cannot hold out always…Johnston…does not render it any assistance… when it is certainly known that it has been captured it will have a very bad effect on our army…many men that I have heard speak of it say we might as well give up, that we are gone and…one cause was bound to fail. It makes me really angry to hear people speak in that manner (Camp at Bunker Hill, Frederick Co., VA, July 16, 1863). $1,800 - $2,500
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95 Confederate Stonewall Brigade Letters from Private John W. Middleton, 27th Virginia Infantry, WIA & POW Pickett’s Charge, Gettysburg Lot of 7 letters written by Private John W. Middleton (1835-1907), Co. H, 27th Virginia Infantry, WIA & POW Pickett’s Charge, Gettysburg July 3, 1863. The Confederate war experience changed quickly from one of revelry to near revulsion for John W. Middleton, a private in the 27th Virginia Infantry in the Stonewall Brigade. Despite being under the command of purportedly one of the greatest military tacticians in US history, Stonewall Jackson, Middleton did not always have a high opinion of his leader. After marching for days, going 36 hours without food, and camping in the snow without fires or tents, John Middleton wrote home, General Jackson has over done the thing this time and…he cannot undue them now (Camp near Unger’s Store, January 9, 1861[2]). Conditions did not get better a few weeks later, and a dreadful drop in enlistments (experienced on both sides of the picket line) forced Jackson to find creative ways to keep his men fighting and combat desertion. One way was to grant furloughs after the men promised to reenlist...I do not think any man ought to sell his privileges for the next two years merely to see home for a few days, commented Middleton (Camp in the woods, January 30, 1862). As time passed, Middleton became less optimistic of the South’s chances of victory. He wrote, I am convinced that the south will be overrun this summer…I hope they will defer any active measures in this section till my time expires as I do not care about being a martyr for the south. I do not covet the glory gained by battles (Camp near Winchester, [VA], February 28, 1862). He continued to fight under his commander
and increasingly felt that he would not survive. I dread the next fight for a great deal…are sure to be killed, he wrote. If it has to be done why not now? Let the worse come and end this suspense. I would rather know my fate…then remain in this painful suspense…I would rather have peace as we once had than the best farm in Virginia (Camp Elk Run, April 29, 1862). The pull of home and the desire to live rather than die for a cause he no longer supported forced him to desert the Confederate Army on December 20, 1862. He did; however, return to his regiment on February 24, 1863. Two days after his return, he commented: The soldiers are poorly shod and clad. Things look…to be tending downwards…we [do not] have any thing like such an army that we had ten months ago. The officers are more strict now than they ever have been which seems to have no other affect than to make the men reckless…I have some doubts about a transfer to [the] cavalry in Va. but I am determined to get away from here (Camp Winder, February 25, 1863). Middleton never got away from the regiment. He remained with the 27th until he was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg and captured by the enemy. A month later he attempted to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Union. People believed his father to be a “Union man,” but his brother was an officer in the 4th Tennessee Volunteers (John and Travis Bussey, Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record, p. 1653). Regardless, the Union denied him the chance and confined him at Fort McHenry until May 15, 1865. Refer to cowans.com for additional transcribed letters included in the archive. $1,500 - $2,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 96 Confederate POW from Gettysburg, Lieutenant Thomas Fargason, 14th Alabama Infantry, Civil War Letters from Johnson’s Island War-date Confederate officer’s POW letter collection consisting of 4 single-sided letters written by 1st Lieutenant Thomas B. Fargason, Company D, 14th Alabama Infantry, while prisoner at Johnson’s Island, OH, after being captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. As stated, Fargason’s letters are written from Johnson’s Island. They are dated December 22, 1863; January 10, January 29, and May 26, 1864. Based on the narrative that unfolds in the letters, Fargason was in possession of a Bible that belonged to Private Stephen Warren, 13th Massachusetts Volunteers, who was then acting as hospital attendant at the USA General Hospital at Frederick, MD. Now, Fargason wanted to return the Bible to its original owner. Fargason and Warren then became pen pals of a sort, and here we offer Fargason’s side of the conversation. Fargason does not appear on the list of deceased Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island, so it is likely he survived. Warren served, for a time, as hospital attendant at Frederick, MD until he returned to his regiment. A resident of Westborough, MA, he survived the war and returned to his hometown following his discharge. Fargason’s first letter discusses the return of the Bible to Warren, and explains how he came to have it: Johnson’s Island. Dec 22nd 1863... It affords me great pleasure to enable to return to you your Testament. I have marked it some, in noting particular passages, in reading; it was done before I had any opportunity of returning it to you. I have carried it most of the time in my pocket, and being frequently exposed to drenching rain, it is a little soiled... It was with me at Harper’s Ferry, when it was surrendered to our fources last year, at Sharpsburg, from thence to the Hospital at Winchester, thence to Staunton, where I obtained a Furloug, and visited my home in Alabama, thence back to the army in Virginia, it was with me in the battle of Chancellorsville, and then again at the hard contested battle of Gettysburg. There I was captured, and subsequently bought to this Prison...You write from the Hospital. Are you Sick or Wounded? To what Regiment, Brigade, and Corps do you belong?... Fargason’s January 10, 1864 letter is written in response to a letter from Warren, and he sends thanks for a Bible that Warren has sent him. He writes: I am 1st Lt of Company “D” 14th Ala Regt. My Regt is in Wilcox’s Brigade, Anderson’s Division, A.P. Hill’s Corps. I do not know that I have ever seen any of your Regt... State to me if there are any Alabamians in your Hospital, and if any have died there...
His January 27, 1864 letter has ribbon affixed at the top left corner that was used to tie down a ring (not present) that he gifts to Warren. The last letter in the group sends additional personal information, and wishes Warren well upon hearing that Warren is to return to the front. He writes: My address is Mill Town, Ala. Should you be so unfortunate as to be captured write to my wife, and no doubt she will do what she can for you… A touching group showing the human side of the war. $1,000 - $1,500
97 Johnson’s Island, Ohio, CSA Prisoner of War Autograph Album Page Collection, 1864 Twelve war-date Johnson’s Island, OH, Confederate officer’s prisoner of war autograph album pages, ca 1864, detached from a Johnson’s Island POW souvenir book totaling 24pp, each 8vo, all but one inscribed both front and back. Examples vary from prisoners captured at Shelbyville, TN to Gettysburg, PA. All names are inscribed in period ink, many with place of capture and/or home town. Refer to cowans.com for a complete listing of the signatures included in the collection. $600 - $800 62
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 98 Confederate POW William T. Colquitt, 1st Tennessee Infantry, Co. H, the “Maury Grays,” Civil War Archive, Incl. Letters Written from Rock Island Prison Lot of 20, including 18 Civil War letters written by William T. Colquitt, a small child’s chair made by Colquitt, ca 1840s, and a book regarding Rock Island Prison. William T. Colquitt was born in Columbia, TN in 1835. His father was a carpenter who owned several slaves. His mother and sister were accomplished piano players and his brother raised a small family. Colquitt worked as a carpenter until he enlisted in the Maury Grays, Co. H, in the spring of 1861. Like most men on both sides, he expected a short term of service and was optimistic at the start. However, he soon became disenchanted with the idea of war and the Confederacy. During the first year of his service he wrote home: During the time of our travel we passed several very pretty towns and a great number of our wounded men were at the hospitals. They was in a big fight at Mansy Junction. I had the pleasure of talking with a number of them. They gave me a very accurate account of the battle. They routed the yanks very bad, killed thousands and thousands of them but didn’t know the number…Son soon as our men got [the artillery and wagons] they commenced a heavy fire on the cowardly rascals and they fell like stalks before the sythe (Bath County, VA, July 30). Romney is about thirty miles from this place and the enemy is about sixty or eighty thousand strong and I understand well fortified I am very sure we will whip them but it will be a bloody fight indeed, there will be many good southerner who will have to bite the dust and I may be one of the number but god grant that I may come through well and sound. I am not much afraid if I was I would have stayed home but I hope in a few more months to return home and find you all engaged in the same great blessing (Winchester, December 29, 1861). By the spring of 1862, the tone of his letters changed dramatically especially after the Confederate Congress passed the Conscription Act, which made all able bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 liable for a three year term of service. Coliquitt’s year of service suddenly became a three year sentence. A private is looked upon to be as good as a negro but not any better, he wrote. My opinion is that this is a very unholy and unjust war brought on by political men who are now reaping the benefit of office and in no danger of getting hurt (Knoxville, March 10, 1862). While some politicians grew fat, many Confederate soldiers starved. I have no dout that you hear we get plenty to eat but I can tell you it’s a mistake, he wrote. We get just enough to make one meal per day if it was not for the few potatoes we buy I don’t know what we would do (Chattanooga, August 18, 1863). Despite his dislike of the service, his brother George still wanted to enlist. This country is not worth 25 cents to cash it would be a good act if the South would make the yanky a present of it so stay home George, wrote Colquitt (no date).
Rations remained low and proper equipment became more scarce. We poor Rebs are having a very hard time going naked starving and working on fortifications five hours every day, wrote Coliquitt. I think the times are very gloomy for the South the soldiers in our part of the army are very much disheartened and demorilised…I will try and stay until the first of next May which will be the expiration of our time you may then expect us all who are able to walk for we are coming not only a few but a very good force we are determined to get there or die in trying to get home (Chattanooga, August 18, 1863). He tried to run home after the Battle at Mission Ridge, but Union soldiers captured him and sent him to Rock Island prison in Illinois. Tell brother to try and have me releast there has been several left this prison by taking the oath so I want him to see Gov Johnson and through him I think he can get me releast, he wrote (Rock Island, Barracks 25, April 12, 1864). His family was unable to coordinate his release because they were no longer accepting applications. Colquitt was better fed in prison than on the front lines and hand fished with some of his friends in a nearby river. It is possible that he attempted to hide the conditions from his loved ones. The overcrowded camp and poor conditions led to the deaths of over 2,000 of its prisoners in the two years of its operation. Colquitt continued to plead to his family to coordinate his release. In February 1865, his father drafted a letter to President Lincoln on behalf of his son: He joined to 1st Tenn Regt for state service of one year and before expiration of said term of service voluntary conscription act of the Confederate Congress passed and he was inducted with all others and was forced to continue, explained his father. [He] left or deserted said service at the Missonary Ridge fight…but was taken prisoner by some federal troops and taken…[he] is desirous to be released and willing to take the oath required under your Excellency’s proclamation and be restored to that liberty as free American Citizen (no date). He also sent other letters, currying favor from anyone he could to curry for his son’s freedom. It worked. The Union released Colquitt from prison. He was one of eight remaining members of the original 120 imprisoned in his regiment. Accompanied by a child’s chair made by Colquitt prior to the war, which is 22 in. tall, 14 in. at widest point. The family relates that the small knob that should be on the back right upright was burned off when one of Colquitt’s daughters fell into the fireplace with the chair. She was burned and scarred for life as a result of the accident. Descended in the Family of W.T. Colquitt $2,000 - $3,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy 99 Confederate Captain John A. Mackey, 2nd Tennessee Infantry, Co. B, Civil War Correspondence Lot of 10 war-date letters from Confederate Captain John A. Mackey from June 1861 to December 1862, including some from the Battle of Fredericksburg. Also included is an excerpt from Confederate Veteran’s Magazine about his life, service, and death. John A. Mackey’s family was comprised of farmers and some owned slaves. Like most young Southern men, he enlisted in the Confederate Army to fight for the cause of his home state and the institution his family participated in. He joined the army on April 27, 1861, was commissioned a captain in the newly-formed 2nd Tennessee Infantry, Co. B, and was gun captain for Ship Point Battery No. 1. Military life in the Confederacy; however, came with many hardships such as: poor leadership and starvation. He wrote to his sister: The whole regiment are very much dissatisfied with [Col Bute] for he is drunk all the time Gen Nolens told him yesterday that he quit running his man us much and our commanding officer is not much better for all of them get drunk when they get the chance and are so mean to us (no date or place). In addition to drunken superiors, they also drilled them for hours without adequate provisions, which exhausted the men. Mackey explained: I know I am doing wrong, but I have concealed the meanness of our officers long as I can. They have starved us and run us so much that none of us have life enough to move. His men pleaded for something to eat, but he could get but little satisfaction from [his] superior officers, which discouraged him. I hardly have life enough in me to command my section or even to give a command….we have been on the point of starvation, he wrote. (Camp Jackson, Fredericksburg, VA, June 16, 1861). Starvation extended itself even in battle at Fredericksburg. He explained, Our company alone was places on a little island…any way we looked we could see large Men of War with a great many guns aboard and then they would fire upon us…We staid on the island as long as we could without eating…we had to steel everything we got to eat out of some mans house that we took…But I hope I never see such harsh times again (Fredericksburg, VA, June 9, 1861 ). He also fell victim to the harsh treatment and over punishment by superior officers when he was confined to his tent and told to stay there until further orders were given (Camp near Cottage Grove, TN, December 17, 1862). During his service, Mackey saw a considerable amount of action and wrote often about it. A few small excerpts of his letters with battle content read: We faced the enemy boldly and ran them back to their side of the River. They have made several light attacks upon us since, but have ran away every time. Last Saturday when they made such a desperate attack on us, we only fired sixty two guns while they fired five hundred and ninety nine they never even hurt one of our men. But we killed 90 some of their men and tore their ships and boats all to pieces and sunk some of them (Fredericksburg, VA, June 9, 1861). We fired one cannon loaded with Grape shot which took effect at the head of the column killing and wounding from end to end, those that was
100 Confederate Captain W.T. Lokey, 12th Alabama Cavalry, KIA, Civil War Letters to his Sweetheart, Cornelia Colquitt, Plus Lot of 8, featuring 6 letters written by CSA Captain W.T. Lokey to Cornelia Colquitt, accompanied by her folding lap desk as identified by the Colquitt family and antique ink well stand. Cornelia Colquitt was an accomplished pianist and Southern belle living in Columbia, TN during the Civil War. Her family hosted many “patriots” who served the Confederacy. One such person was Captain William T. Lokey of the 12th Alabama Cavalry. While stationed in Columbia, Cornelia caught his eye, and, according to family lore, it was love at first sight. With much regret I will have to decline visiting you today as we are now ready to march, wrote Lokey (Columbia, TN, February 19, 1863). In his next letter, he requested that he write her and that she do the same. He concluded, It is useless for me to attempt to express my love to you, for I am not possessor of the language to do so 64
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left turned to run our men fired upon them with muskets as long as we could see them. The next day we took one of their men as prisoner and he said that 500 of their men were missing but could not tell if they were killed or what had become of them (Camp Jackson, Fredericksburg, VA, June 16, 1861). We have been firing from [the new batteries] for two days and have wounded two vessels very badly. This morning when day broke, we commenced fire upon a ship that was trying to zap our blockade several of our shells took effect in the side of the boat then the boat whistled for assistance and a man of war skiffed up to her and pulled her to the Maryland shore (Camp Holmes, VA, October 16, 1861). Mackey survived starvation and shelling and was able to return home, later marrying Mary Elizabeth Allen. He was an active member of the Confederate Veteran’s Association and died during the Confederate Veteran’s Ball in 1916, surrounded by smiling faces, while the band was playing “Dixie” (excerpt from Confederate Veteran’s Magazine). Descended in the Family of John A. Mackey $900 - $1,200
(Shelbyville, TN, February 27, 1863). Lokey was not a prolific writer. He wrote brief correspondence littered with errors and occasionally attached poems to the end of them to express his affections for his sweetheart. He wrote infrequently and always apologized for the lack of writing; owing it to soldier life and a notoriously unreliable Confederate post. He shared his grief with her over the loss of his friend Micheleton Noles who was shot and killed at a battle in Nashville, TN. You know I must feel very sad as Unkle Mich was like a father to me, he wrote (McMinnville, TN, May 27, 1863). He also briefly described a battle near McMinnville, TN. He wrote, [We] attacked the enemy about fifty strong killing three and wounding eight or ten and capturing twenty five with two large mail bags…[with] important papers Official Business (McMinnville, TN, May 27, 1863). Near Shelbyville he told Cornelia that, It is generally believed among us that we will have an engagement here, that we will whip the Yankees BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy out of Tennessee (Camp near Shelbyville, June 12, 1863). He was correct. A few weeks later he and the regiment engaged at the Battle of Shelbyville. Three months later he and the regiment were engaged at Chickamauga. Lokey survived the battle, but later perished with 20 other men while defending a bridge near Rome during the Dalton-Atlanta campaign. Lokey’s correspondence ceased after his June letter. After not hearing from her beau for some time, Cornelia and her friend began writing to other Confederate officers and hospitals inquiring about his whereabouts. On July 1, 1866, Cornelia received her answer, although it was most likely not what she wanted to hear. Dr. A.G. Bennet wrote, There is a gentleman residing near central Ala, who had two sons in the Confederate Army. His name is Early Lokey. The sons, were, Sam’l Lokey, and W.T. Lokey. The latter was killed near Rome Geo, in May 1864. Sam’l Lokey lost an arm and I understand from a neighbor is now living with his father (Wokes Bluff, AL, July 1, 1866). Records confirm that Lokey perished in the battle, and Cornelia never married. Cornelia Colquitt’s desk, which accompanies the correspondence, is thought to be English made, ca early 1840s. Constructed from attractive mahogany colored hard wood with brass inlays. When closed, it measures 12 x 9.5 x 4.25 in. When open, 19 x 12 x 2.75 in. An ink well stand that descended in the Colquitt family is also included, comprised of 9 x 5 in. wood base with two inset glass bottles with decorative brass caps. Descended in the Family of W.T. Colquitt $800 - $1,200
101 Civil War Diary and Correspondence of William W. Hathaway, 17th North Carolina Infantry Original war-date journal and sketchbook from CSA private William W. Hathaway, 17th North Carolina Infantry, for 1862. Joseph B. Hathaway and Eveline Hathaway found an abandoned baby in Tyrell County, North Carolina on October 4, 1836. They took in the child as their own and named him William W. Hathaway, celebrating his birthday as the day they discovered him. The family was poor and used to heartache. Joseph worked as a laborer and cared for his seven children, but only three survived him. Joseph joined four of his children in the afterlife before 1860; leaving the young Hathaway as the head of the household. Hathaway worked as a farmer before enlisting in the Confederate army on April 2, 1862. He was commissioned a sergeant in the second organization of the 17th North Carolina Infantry, Co. H. Before departing for the front, several of his friends scrawled their names and personal messages inside his journal. Charles F. Harget and Steven E. Russell wrote, We part today never to meat again. Harget mustered into the 2nd North Carolina Infantry and was wounded at Malvern Hill, while Russell mustered into the 51st North Carolina Light Artillery. He became sick and left his regiment for a short time, only to re-enlist and serve with the 2nd Light Artillery. Hathaway had a tender heart, he enjoyed drawing and writing poetry in his spare time. When he joined the war effort, he continued to draw and write. Before leaving home he wrote an original piece that read: Oh beauteous peace Sweet union of our state What else but thou gives Safety strength and glory to a people
Such alas is not ours to be thankful for We live in a state of wore and not of peace, (September 18, 1862). Not long after leaving, Hathaway suffered from a serious illness that hospitalized him for quite some time. He wrote his mother, If it should be my fate to fall in the defence of my country I hope the prears of my beloved mother will folter me to my grave where I am no more on earth but I hope to meate them and you in a better world than this where wore is over and truble is no more for ever (Confederate Hospital, Raleigh, NC, September 20, 1862). He continued to write original poetry and sketch
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy in his journal from his bedside. The journal also included prayers for the Confederate President, a roster of all of the battles in the Civil War and Revolutionary War, and copies of other works that touched him. Towards the beginning of his journal he gives very brief, but descriptive excerpts of the action and movements of his troop during his first combat experience at Plymouth as well as the attempt to take the capitol. Hathaway survived the war and his illness, but he was demoted to a private sometime before 1863. He is on record up until 1864. There are no records of when he mustered out of the army or if he surrendered at any time. It is possible he saw action at Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee near Durham’s Station, NC on April 26, 1865. The lot also includes various documents relating to his service and letters from descendants concerning genealogical research. $800 - $1,200
102 Confederate Private Thomas Blalock of Captain Birch’s Company, 50th North Carolina, Civil War Archive Lot of approx. 16, including ca 12 war-date letters written by Thomas Blalock while in the field in Virginia and North Carolina between July 13, 1862-April 19, 1863. Blalock mustered into Company A, North Carolina 50th Infantry. His company engaged in multiple skirmishes, but most of their hardships were the result of lack of equipment and food, and rampant disease. Blalock was a young farmer of 25 when he enlisted, leaving a young wife at home. Most of his letters are written to her, and a few are accompanied by the original transmittal envelopes. The earliest letter in the group is written from Petersburg, VA on July 13, 1862 (2pp, on repurposed ledger paper, 5.75 x 9 in.). Blalock tells his wife that they have had a hard march of two days; slept without tents for five nights. There is no fighting going on, but his brother William is sick, though not dangerously. He thinks he will be home as the war will soon end. With cover. Writing from Drewry’s Bluff on September 9, 1862 he sends two letters home, a 2pp letter to his mother, written together with his brother William. William sends news that his legs are swelled but he is doing well; their company is about 12 miles away on picket duty. Thomas wants to see if he can get William home. With cover. William was 18 at this time. Despite the multiple illnesses, he managed to survive the war.
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On the same day, Thomas writes to his wife with news that Stonewall Jackson has crossed the Potomac into Maryland. He hopes Jackson will whop them well and that his company may have to go to them. But he does not believe they will be called to North Carolina. They are on the James River as guards and a comrade has jaundice. With cover. Blalock writes one more letter from Virginia, and the rest of the correspondence is from North Carolina. The letters mainly concern Thomas’ efforts to keep William from harm, and their troop movements. During this time, Susan (Thomas’ wife) has lost her mother, and Thomas is unable to get a furlough home. Disease is a frequent theme, and in a letter from Kinston, NC dated February 15, 1863 (2pp, 5 x 8 in.) Thomas is worried about smallpox reaching home and wants her to get vaccinated. Writing on April 19, 1863 (2pp, 6 x 8 in.) Blalock writes that they are now at Greenville. They were at Washing[ton, NC], but there was not much fighting going on. He wants to come see her and the children as he is tired of war, just as all men are. He has sent fifty dollars to pay off an old bond; wants her to get money to help pay off the remainder as he does not want to be liable for the interest. With cover. The following week on April 26, 1863, Blalock writes his final letter (4pp, 5 x 8 in.). His company is suffering very hard times. He is nearly barefoot and ragged; they are promised to be clothed soon and they have to buy their own meat and bread. Very often, they do without. They have marched very hard and have been exposed to bad BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Confederacy weather including a hail storm. He does not know how they are going to live without peace being declared; thinks the war will soon come to an end because food is so scarce and men are tired of it. He reports that men are running [deserting] everyday; but that none of his company have deserted yet. William is at Kinston with the tents. This letter has a stamped (pair of Jeff Davis five cent stamps) cover. Thomas Blalock died of disease the following month on May 26, 1863. The group includes 2 documents transmitting warrant payments to Thomas’ widow in the 1880s, and a sheet listing Blalock’s expenditures in 1860. $1,200 - $1,500
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts 103 Civil War Letters to the British Consul in Richmond Describing the Battle of Hampton Roads and the Monitor & Merrimack Lot of 3 letters written by Myer Myers of Norfolk, VA, to the British Consul in Richmond, with two pertaining to the Battle of Hampton Roads. The earliest letter, Norfolk, June 13, 1861, is a brief letter in which he notes that the Merrimack has been raised, docked, and repaired. The Germantown and Plymouth were also to be raised and repaired. The letter dated March 9, 1862, 2pp, is a very early account of the Battle of Hampton Roads, in which Myers refers to the Monitor as the iron clad steamer Erickson. Another, not dated and much more detailed, was clearly written several days later, after Myers was able to gather more information. In the March 9th letter, all he seems to be sure about is the sinking of the Cumberland and Congress by the Merrimack, and the subsequent treachery of troops on shore and also on the Congress, which had surrendered, but joined the shore troops in firing on the unarmed boat from the Merrimack that was on its way to the Congress to receive her flag and swords of her officers. Captain Franklin Buchanan was so infuriated, he ordered the Congress burned. When the fire reached her magazine, she blew up.
In the third letter, 3.5pp, noted only British Vice Consulate, Norfolk, Virginia, n.d., Myers gives the same basic scenario, but notes that in the firing, two of the men on the Virginia’s/Merrimack’s boat were killed as well as two of the men being taken off the Congress. Although most people have the image of the Battle of Hampton Roads as being between the Merrimack and Monitor, there were many other vessels involved. Myers notes that when the Virginia was first encountered, the Cumberland and Congress each fired a signal to the other Federal fleet at Fort Monroe. Of course, other Confederate vessels were also alerted to the impending battle. The Minnesota, Roanoke and St. Lawrence immediately headed to aid the Cumberland and Congress. The Minnesota was grounded on the way. He writes: The Virginia next came down the South Channel to the Minnesota when an engagement at 2 1/2 miles distance took place between the two vessels. The Virginia altho constantly hulled received no injury. The Minnesota was completely riddled and would doubtless have been totally destroyed but for the lowness of the tide which prevented the Virginia’s nearer approach and selecting a more damaging position. The Minnesota was much damaged losing in killed and wounded nearly half her crew. The Virginia left to take on the St. Lawrence, planning to return to the Minnesota later. However, two other Confederate vessels, the
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Jamestown and Yorktown came upon the Minnesota, and began firing. One shot entered her boiler and she exploded. Myers notes, When the smoke cleared away not a vestige of the gun boat, or her crew, was visible. He continues: The next day Sunday morning brought and entirely new element into the action - during Saturday night arrived the Iron clad Federal Steamer Monitor with a Martello tower. The Monitor, and Virginia, were engaged for several hours, and early in the fight, at very close quarters. Yet neither of them appeared to receive any material injury from shot, notwithstanding the 11 inch round shot one of which carried away the muzzle of Virginia’s bow gun, most of the fragments flying inside, and wounding 5 men, but doing no further injury... The Virginia finding she could inflict no injury with shot, determined to try the effect of her ram, and that failing, whether a chance might not offer for boarding - nearly half the ram had been carried away when running into the Cumberland - the Remainder struck a fair blow which caused the Monitor to reel, and list considerably - but when she became disengaged she moved off apparently uninjured. After this, the Monitor fought at long range. She was enabled to select her distance being faster than her rival, drawing only 10 feet water, while the Virginia drew 22 feet.
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He notes that after fighting to a draw, and the Virginia sustaining the damage to her prow, the captain decided to return to port for refitting, and the other Confederate vessels accompanied her. Myer Myers (about 1795-1877) was born in Virginia, son of Moses and Eliza Myers. Moses built the first brick residence in Norfolk (corner Bank and E. Freemason) after the British nearly flattened the town during the Revolutionary War. The family occupied the residence for 5 generations, which is now a museum. Myers traveled extensively in Europe. In 1816, after a stint in the War of 1812, he went there to track down a cargo of tobacco that had been shipped to Norway. He ended up spending five years in Europe, learning several languages and acquiring some social “polish.” He kept $5000 he recovered for the tobacco, and set up a business in Richmond. He married Judith Marx in 1826. After his other brothers died, Myers moved back to Norfolk. Moses had been a consul for the Netherlands, vice-consul for Denmark and collector of customs for Norfolk and Portsmouth. Myers continued in the consular service, becoming consul to Great Britain in Norfolk. He was also President of the Bank of Virginia (Information obtained from the Chrysler Museum of Art website, March 15, 2017.) $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | The Union | Generals 104 Ciphered Battlefield Communication, Burnside to McClellan, September 1862 Manuscript ciphered communication, Hd Qrs, Right wing &c. / in Field near Damascus / Sept 10th 8 Pm. 2pp, 7.5 x 9.75 in. Ciphered messages are extremely rare, especially in private hands. We were only able to locate a few decoded messages (such as the second page below). The original message: Caldwell Katy Thomas for just state shall to & their to has in regards with this that everything to market a affairs will the drink Adam received of send new report return indicate left accordance office directions but udder seem on once pigeons - I the reports well following indicate here squadron at you would the neighborhood your Todd I corps road Ridgeville camps the road miles palestina the boy two the Damascus & & Ridgeville trinity supporting on move ahead shall is in two at Damascus three from at road side from of reserve half Market on Andes of National Animals show. Carefully the distance of two new a the forks miles threaten Damascus new are company within Market ramble all that new papers signed umber Citizens Pelton without miles pigeons Andes when the road in market established of two and the the the market house left him that ny new to a windpipe of new direction our sent out of meeting reports informed had Argyle left. Doyle The decoded version was provided to a General Peter C. Doyle (coincidentally, since Burnside’s code name was “Doyle,”) much later - with manuscript note at bottom: Above is a translation of the “cipher despatch” signed “Doyle,” furnished by the “War Department” Washington DC February 20th, 1895, at the request of Gen. Peter C. Doyle, Buffalo NY. General McClellan: The following report just received will indicate the state of affairs here. I shall send a squadron of cavalry to New Market at once, and report to you on their return. Everything would seem to indicate that the enemy has left this neighborhood, but in accordance with your directions I shall move carefully. Hooker’s corps is on the National Road in supporting distance of Ridgeville; two divisions of Reno’s corps at Ridgeville; two on the Damascus and New Market Road, three and a half miles from Damascus. The reserve artillery at the forks of the road, two miles from Damascus in the direction of New Market, where our headquarters are established. Reno sent a company of cavalry out to within two miles of New Market and without meeting any pickets. The captain reports that all the citizens informed him that the enemy had left New Market. Burnside / Major-General This communication between senior commanders is part of the positioning of troops during the week prior to the battle at Antietam. These towns are just northwest of Washington, DC. The Union had intercepted one of Lee’s communications with his commanders, so the Federal commanders knew what he was planning to do. (And the Federal communications were ciphered, in case Lee did the same to them.) Burnside moved out of the DC area up through Brookeville (MD) to New Market while Hooker was just down the road near Ridgeville. Along with Franklin and Sumner, both moving in the same direction along parallel routes, none had encountered any Confederates in the area. Lee’s troops were moving through Virginia toward Harpers Ferry, then to the north-northeast. The Armies finally met on September 17, 1862 near Sharpsburg, MD, nearly due north of Harpers Ferry. The Battle of Antietam (as the Union recorded it, the Battle of Sharpsburg as it would be known in the Confederacy) would be the single bloodiest day in American history to date, with casualties (dead and wounded) of nearly 23,000. The battles with greater losses were all multi-day battles. $5,000 - $8,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Massachusetts 105 Major Charles P. Chandler, 1st Massachusetts Infantry, Two Civil War Diaries incl. First Battle of Bull Run and Siege of Yorktown, 1861-1862 Lot of 2 diaries, 1861 and 1862, written by Major Charles P. Chandler, 1st Regimental Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Both are daily diaries with entries on the majority of the days. Under the command of Colonel Robert Cowdin, the 1st Massachusetts Volunteers saw action at the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Williamsburg, Battle of Fair Oaks, and Seven Pines. Major Chandler was killed in action at Glendale at the end of June 1862. Early in 1861, Chandler writes about the weather in Brookline, MA, and his day-to-day family affairs. Several news clippings are tipped in, which confirm Chandler’s record of the harsh New England winter. On January 8, 1861, he writes, Col. Cowdin...called to present my commission as 3rd Lieutenant of Company “A.” February and March details many meetings and social affairs. Chandler apparently was involved in the practice of law. He also notes reading quite often, including finishing the Bible. By April 14...everyone talking of War. The excitement is intense...the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter is stirring up the nation. Soon, Chandler is drilling Company A almost every day. On May 16, he meets with Governor Andrew and is offered a commission of major for the war; commission is voted by officers of the 1st Regiment with 31, or 33 affirmative votes out of 36, which is described as a compliment. The 1st MA mustered in on May 23, 1861, and the company boards a steamer on June 15 for Philadelphia, via railroad to Baltimore then Washington, DC. Chandler writes on June 19, The 1st Massachusetts Regiment marched out of Washington, paying a passing salute to the President. I walked four miles, having got no horse yet, and found it rough enough. Encamped at Camp Banks in Georgetown Heights for the next several weeks with much drilling and complaints about the heat. He notes on July 7, My disrespect for Colonel (left blank) as an officer and man is fast-becoming a disgust. By July 14, they have advanced to Great Falls of the Potomac where Chandler is often left in command. Interestingly on July 21, the Battle of Bull Run, Chandler talks about receiving a crowd of letters at mail call. The main battle is on our right, two miles off, we expect an attack each moment. I [sic] up in a tree see much of the fight: it is a terrible sight. He continues the following day, The flight of our army has been scandalous...cold and tired - fires and coffee and food do us good...had they followed us up on Sunday night, Washington would now be theirs (July 22). By August 22, the 1st MA encamps at Bladensburg, MD as part of Hooker’s Brigade. On this day, Chandler writes verbatim his orders from Brigadier General Hooker making him Field Officer of the Day. Chandler is very proud of each advancement. A couple days later, Hooker’s Brigade is reviewed on parade by the President of the United States. Things go downhill for Chandler as he is soon laid up with camp fever. He writes...am weak, and my mouth and throat are sore from canker so that I cannot eat (October 14). By October 30, Chandler is well enough to sit for a Brady portrait; however, curiously he is not back with his regiment but staying in Baltimore through midNovember. He sits on a court-martial case (his background was in law) and also makes note on December 7 that up in the balloon, first time
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in my life, held by ropes at some 700 feet. He suffers more illness into December. On the 12th, Chandler remarks...hospital still, tho I feel ready for duty, but the doctors and Lieut. Col. seems to hinder it. Chandler discusses his work as Judge Advocate, and a general order is written on January 16, 1862 (included in the appendix) in which he lists the 13 officers in a General Court Martial he is overseeing. He also serves at the General Court Martial for Hooker’s Division at Posey’s House into April 1862. By mid-April, Chandler is back with his regiment and moving towards Yorktown, VA, where he participates in the Siege of Yorktown. He writes on April 17, Our brigade, and am told the whole army, was called out at 3 o’clock this morning and stood on our arms, over an hour, awaiting an attack...after breakfast I was over to look at the rebel forts - saw a few of the “varments.” Chandler continues on April 22...a rumor afloat that General Joe Johnston at Yorktown, by flag of truce...gave us notice to leave these premises in forty-eight hours. This turned out to be false as the “siege” ended in early May with the Confederate forces slipping away. He reports on the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5...and here occurred the fearful fight before Williamsburg...lasted all day...our division suffered fearfully and would have been whipped had not Kearny come up to reinforce us - our regiment was first in, opening, as skirmishes, the fight. I felt very little fear - perhaps some. His brigade missed most of the action at the Battle of Fair Oaks. Heavy firing heard at no great distance...a battle evidently going. The following day, June 2, he reports, news reach us of a battle on our right...we were victorious. Chandler was killed in action on June 30, 1862 at White Oak Swamp/ Glendale. The last journal entry is from June 16...awakened early... because of sharp musketry on our picket lines...sent mother a large letter began on picket Saturday...and finished this morning. Included with the diaries is an affidavit dated October 24, 1980, stating the diaries were acquired directly from a Chandler heir in July 1949. $2,000 - $4,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Massachusetts 106 Private Morton Thompson, 3rd Massachusetts Infantry, Civil War Archive Lot of 24 war-date letters, some with original covers, written from New Bern, NC, by Nathaniel Morton, 3rd Massachusetts Infantry, Co. A, dating from November 1862-May 1863. Nathaniel Morton Thompson was a 20-year-old student when he left the books for glory and adventure on the war front. He enlisted on April 16, 1861 and mustered into the 3rd Massachusetts Infantry, Co. A, on April 23, 1861. He mustered out at Boston on July 22, 1861 and reenlisted into the same regiment on September 23, 1862. Two months later, his regiment headed South. From North Carolina, he wrote: The prettiest sight I have seen I think was when the expedition went up the river…yesterday morning about 3 o’clock I was standing on picket a few rods from camp. I heard a train of cars approaching I listened and found that they stopped at this station…there was some movement among the troops here. In a few moments the artillery bugle sounded the roll call… Lieut. Lyon came down without stopped to give the countersign [and] told us that NewBern was threatened…we formed a line, marched on board the cars and when the sun rose…seen a train of cars containing 3 companies of infantry, their bright muskets gleaning in the sunlight. Some were singing, others eating hard bread and all went in better spirits and with some courage than was expected. Behind the cars which carried the infantry were the two pieces of cannon and their appendages. Behind those were…the horses of the infantry and cavalry. When we reached New Bern we learned that some of our pickets had been fired at and driven in, but nothing was sent for but a battery so the infantry and cavalry all returned (Newport Barracks, [New Bern, NC], November 13, 1862). For the majority of his service, the regiment stayed in South Carolina. Generals sent many orders for them to go to the front, but received second sets of orders to remain. It became somewhat of a joke for the men. Thos. Bourne, while drinking at the water pail last night, said “Here’s to the 3d regt. may she be like an old maid. Always ready and never wanted.” He is our budget of fun (Camp Jordan, New Bern, NC, April 7, 1863). The fight would never come and almost all the original men, excluding very few who died of either illness or perished during minor skirmishes, returned home. Morton, with the rest of the men, mustered out of Camp Hooker in Lakeville, MA on June 26, 1863. Refer to cowans.com for additional transcribed letters included in the archive. $800 - $1,000
107 Sergeant James A. Bailey, Co. E, 5th Massachusetts Volunteers, Civil War Archive Lot of 11 war-date letters written by Sergeant James A. Bailey, Company E, 5th Massachusetts (3 Months) Volunteers, including CSA calling card & typed biography regarding Bailey. The CSA calling card is inscribed by both Sergeant Bailey and one of his Alabama prisoners. One side is inscribed: D.D. Fiquet, Tuskaloosa, (sic) Ala., which is Private Dominique Deux Fiquet, 5th Alabama Infantry. On the other side, Bailey penned: Sergt. J. A. Bailey, Co. E, 5th Regt. M.V.M. Sergeant James A. Bailey began his service towards the beginning of the war. The city he departed from gave him a raucous exit. Bailey described, We have had a great time coming on. Every depot we stoped at had a band of music, refreshments & etc (St. Nicholas Hotel, [Boston], Sunday, [April 21, 1861]). What was very uncommon; however, was his send off by the President. Before leaving for the front Bailey and his friend Emerson visited the White House and asked to see the President. Remarkably, they were granted this request, We were shown into his room & shook hands with him and talked with him about 20 minutes. He is a fine man…our bits are quite mad to think we got the start of them and have been trying to see him but they cant come it (Washington, April 28, [1861]). He even managed to grab a token to send to his family. He wrote, I send you a flower from Old Abe’s Hot House. It was plucked by his young son…this letter it is written amid the SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Massachusetts noise of 300 or 400 men so you must excuse mistakes (Washington, April 28, [1861]). Soon after, Bailey and the 5th Massachusetts marched the long way to the front lines. He described: We have had a hard march & drill this afternoon…we were on our pins &…was double quick…such a rough piece of ground you never saw. A long field with ditches and holes & puddles of water, steep banks & etc. with an old brick yard at one end. It looked some like a battlefield so many fell down in jumping the ditches & banks…some gave out not being able to stand it, but I went through it without a fall…Jim…a soldier in marching order carries…his arms are a gun weighing 10 lbs & the Sergeants carry a sword & revolver, a cartridge box & 24 rounds of cartridges & caps…a haversack with tin plate, knife & fork & dipper…we have an overcoat which we either wear or roll up & strap on top of our knapsacks…his house & furniture are all on his back. It does not seem very heavy at first but after marching a few miles he find he has got just as much as he can stagger under (Washington, May 13, [1861]). In a second letter, Bailey also explained the crushing weight of their clothing: The picture had to be taken very dark in order to show the grey uniform. I will get one in our undress uniform…we do not wear our dress hats at all. They are so heavy they would kill a man to carry one round. Nor do we hardly ever wear our coats. We drill all together in blue shirts (Washington, May 22, [1861]). There was some infighting with superiors as to the regiment’s position. Bailey wrote, Gen. Butler wants to have us join the 6 [Mass.] regt. as both belong to his brigade, but Old [Winfield] Scott wants to have us stay where we are. He says somebody must be here & as we are a very orderly set of men it would be cheaper to keep us here, but Old Butler wants to show us off. He would do most anything to gain a little reputation (Washington, May 22, [1861]). The regiment did not travel far and oversaw some of the forts in the area, including prisons. Bailey described some of his wards: We have sent about a dozen drunkards to the lockup & we have 3 or 4 here now…the Zouaves brought in 4 prisoners, 3 of them are soldiers belonging to the Alabama regiment & the other is a citizen who was their guide. 15 of them were out scouting [when] these 4 were taken. The rest look leg bail…I have had a long talk with [one of the men]. He is a young fellow about 23 years old…he says the rebels are spoiling for a fight… they will soon get a belly full (Alexandria, VA, July 14, 1861).
A few weeks later, Bailey and the 5th marched for the First Battle of Bull Run. After the fight, Bailey wrote: I came mighty near losing [my letters] last Sunday [battle of First Bull Run] when we went into the fight. We were ordered to through down our blankets & haversacks. When we retreated I was bound to find my haversack if possible. I didnt like the idea of my letters being read by the rebels & after a while I had the good luck to find it…very few of our boys got theirs. They came back with out guns or anything else. I lost my blankets but picked up 2 others much poorer than my own. I brought everything else back. I was bound to stick to my “good” as long as I could walk. That battle field was a hard looking sight. All kinds of weapons… ammunition, wagons, provisions, clothing & worse of all men & horseplay scattered all around…we expect to start for home some time next week…in our regt. there are about 25 killed & missing. We are quartered in a large hall attached to Willard Hotel, but we don’t dine at the hotel… we are getting over our troubles pretty well. A great many are lame & foot sore…my self just a little lame that’s all…Jim…excuse this scrawling for their has been a “heap of trouble on the old man’s mind.” He’s getting better though (Washington, July 26, [1861]). Bailey finished his three month term and did not re-enlist. Refef to cowans.com for additional transcribed letters included in the archive. $700 - $1,000
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Connecticut 108 19th Century Archive of the Beach & Cooke Families, Bradford, Connecticut, Incl. Civil War Correspondence of Samuel Beach, 27th CT Infantry Lot of approximately 200 items, including 31 war-date letters and one post-war journal featuring an account of the Battle of Fredericksburg written by Samuel Beach, 27th Connecticut Infantry. Accompanied by 5 pre-war letters and 3 war-date letters from Samuel G. Cooke, 50th Illinois Infantry and 44th USCT Infantry, in addition to 113 family papers, documents, and letters spanning from 1832 until 1899; 1860s farm schedule with musings about breeds of farm animals; and an 1860s ledger counting expenses from an oil mill among other places. On December 13, 1862 Corporal Samuel Beach, 27th Connecticut Infantry Co. B, found himself in the middle of one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War—Fredericksburg. He wrote: Our troops all passed the fence coming on with every little opportunity. Like a wiley tiger crouching for his prey to come within reach, [the rebels] watch and wait. The first line of the brigade are now coming to the line, and passing into the 72
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Connecticut doomed area. The bursts of artillery on all the heights and the discharge of muskets from the fire and rifle pits. Was like a tremendous blow in the face (post-war journal account, ca 1880s). After his men faced the slaughter of the fence, they pushed forward. Beach and some of his friends from Bradford, CT sheltered themselves from the storm of bullets against a brick house. After their retreat, he went to the hospital to assess the damage and the wounded. I could hardly believe it [George Bennet] that marched along with us with the tread of a giant sat there his hair disheveled the sleeve of his coat cut off at the should and gone his arm shattered by a ball his face the picture of dismay. Our eyes met one short earnest gaze of recognition and his head dropped on his bosom then tears gushed out the great stout hearted George Bennet sobbed like a child (post-war journal account, ca 1880s). Beach and his friends tried to help their friend and desperately reached for his sleeve with his shattered arm, trying to clean him, while they waited for the overwhelmed surgeons and nurses to make their way towards their comrade. Beach’s service started on a much more optimistic note. His brotherin-law, Samuel G. Cooke was very enthusiastic about the cause and attempted to form a company at his home in Meridian, IL. [He] is one of the leading spirits, wrote Beach’s friend, Howard. Everybody around here is full of patriotism or as Alice says everyone and their mother is full of fight (Meridian, June 29, 1861). That fall, some men from Meridian, including Cooke, enlisted to be a part of the 50th Illinois Infantry, Co. A. Death soon greeted the eager young men, almost as soon as they stepped on the battlefield. Cooke wrote to Beach: A lady in Meridian received a letter from her husband last night the 50th were in the battle [at Pittsburgh, Tennessee]. He gave the names of the killed and wounded our boys were not mentioned so we thankfully conclude they are safe as she knows them well. One Meridian man was blown to pieces by a shell. He leaves a young wife and two little children…every field officer killed except the Major (Samuel Cooke, Paducah, March 27, 1862). Cooke experienced much bloodshed at the battle of Corinth. Later that fall, Cooke wrote a concerned letter to his brother-in-law: We heard of hard fighting in Virginia and hope you are not engaged in it. The prospect is of another battle here soon the troops left here last night to dispute the crossing of the term R___ by rebel forces supposed to be the advance of General Bragg commanding was heard in that direction… Since I last wrote you I have been attached from the reg and am in the engineering department under Capt Capell we have four or five hundred contrabands working on the fortifications (Samuel Cooke, Corinth, MS, November 19, 1862). Little did Cooke know, that in a month his brother-in-law would be in the thick of fighting just as he had been at the Battle of Shiloh earlier that spring. Cooke experienced more action at the Battle of Corinth and unexpectedly in the winter of 1864 while on a scouting journey. He wrote: The fourth day of the last scout we fell in with a gang of rebs surprised them and captured a major and four men with the horses, army saddles, bridles of BB of he the gang most of them escaped by running in the woods. The captured maj told our col, that there was a regt and a half within 20 miles of him coming to meet him which caused him to feel quite uneasy…he feared they would capture the whole of us before we could get back however we escaped them and arrived in camp about 8 next morning (Samuel Cooke, Lynnville, TN, December 23, 1864). Cooke left his regiment for a promotion to 1st lieutenant of the 44th USCT, Co. A on September 9, 1864, but resigned a year later on May 25, 1865. While Cooke served on the front, Beach spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital due to back issues, colds, and other ailments. While recovering from the measles, he wrote his wife, My health is much the same don’t think I should be able to destroy Lee’s army alone I hope Meade will succeed in doing so (S. Beach, Convalescent
camp, Alexandria, VA, July 14, 1863). Earlier in the year, the regiment experienced an epidemic of illness that took the lives of 22 men, including his friend George Baldwin. He wrote to his wife: George [Baldwin] was a good soldier he enlisted from motives of patriotism and principle…he was what we call too conscientious and contrived to perform his duties when unable to his great, if not fatal disadvantage, Few pierced that terrible storm of bullets at the Battle of Fredericksburg to a point so much the enemy worlds as he. Few came nearer being killed than he, a ball passing through his cap. But the hardships and exposure of the march, and the battle of Fredericksburg was a terrible sacrifice all over the land especially to the 27th. And the poor soldier that remains turns inquiring what is the gain for all this expense of valuable life and treasure (Camp near Falmouth, VA, January 25, 1863). Beach and the men cried over the loss of their friend and thought of his funeral from the front. One mother, who went to the front to retrieve her dead son; however, received the shock of her life. Beach explained: A Mrs. Patterson came here last night after the body…she had been to the front and engaged a surgeon to embalm his body and then came here to the Hospital for his body. When she alighted from the ambulance who should step out of the ward but the very son she was after. Probably there was few happier women in this country than she last night (S. Beach, 1st Division Hospital 2nd Corps Near Brooks station, VA, May 24). Beach finished his service and mustered out of the army on July 23, 1863, soon after fighting hard at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. The remainder of the archive consists of various family papers mostly concerning Connecticut and farming. There is also a sizable collection of letters speaking of an amusement park Beach opened in Branford, CT after the Civil War. $2,000 - $3,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Connecticut 109 Private David W. Sharpe, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Civil War Archive Lot of 24 war-date letters, May 1861-May 1865; 1862 CSA almanac found at Yorktown; and cabinet card of Private David W. Sharpe, Co. B, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. David W. Sharpe enlisted in the army with ambitions of becoming a captain. Even though he served throughout the war, from May 22, 1861 until September 25, 1865, he never received a single promotion. The same day he enlisted for the army, he mustered into the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Co. B, and stayed with the regiment for his two terms of service. The first year was very quiet despite traveling often and intensely training for the battles that would eventually come. Before his first chance to experience action, Sharpe wrote home to his family: I believe I have not told you about our Siege Train. We are the first volunteer siege train ever got up in the United States...We are within a mile and a half of the rebel entrenchments. We shall…siege Yorktown in a few days. I suppose the people north are wondering why we do not attack Yorktown but if they could see the work we have to do to get ready they would not wonder at it. We have twenty mortars (ten of them ten-inch mortars), twelve thirty-two pounder rifled siege guns, two howitzers, five one hundred pounder rifled siege guns and more guns and mortars to come. Our company (B) has the five one hundred pdrs…the rifled guns throw shells as well as shot. Some of the officers have been firing one thirty-two pdr this afternoon. It easily threw a shot across the river, a distance of two or three miles from here (Camp Engalls, near Yorktown, VA, April 19, 1862). Despite throwing some shells towards the enemy, there was not much more action that day. Finally, a few weeks later, Sharpe and his men met their enemy on the field. He described the Siege of Yorktown to his family: We had the first brush with the rebels yesterday…the engineers commenced to throw up a breastwork on the right of the battery for another two-hundred pounder (in plain sight of the rebels). They commenced to throw shells at us…their shells all went over us but few of them burst. They had fired but a few times when we had orders to prepare for action…we had those guns loaded in least time imaginable. We threw shot and shells into Yorktown and in their batteries and solid shot from our two-hundred pounder at their shipping in the harbor. One of our shots carried away the end of the dock and another struck a schooner and damaged it so much that it had to be towed away…we fired thirty five rounds during the afternoon and the rebels between twenty and thirty. None of us was hurt and it is not known how many of the rebels were killed…the war will be ended soon after we take Yorktown…[May 3rd]… Hurrah for the war!... You would laugh to see us drop on our breast when we see a shell coming. We like…dodging the shells but we gave them fun…( No. 1 Battery near Yorktown, VA, May 1st, 3rd and 7th, 1862). Fighting continued into June. His regiment averted disaster thanks to the warning of two African-American men: There were two regiments of infantry and one masked battery lying in ambush for us…the n*****s met us when we got within a mile of them and told the colonel…the next time we went out…with General Porter’s Division and drove the rebels back beyond the Richmond and Harrisburg Railroad [Virginia Central RR] and took over 500 prisoners. Our regiment was on the field but were held in reserve. There were 250 of our men killed, wounded and taken prisoner. We are now in General Sykes Brigade which is the reserve…the attack on Richmond will commence in a day or two…(Camp ten miles before Richmond, VA, June 2, 1862). Sharpe wrote home again about the action throughout the Seven Days Battle Campaign and the Battle of 74
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Malvern Hill. In one of the letters he wrote: I did not have time to write half what I wanted in the last letter…in my last I spoke about Andrew Bodge being wounded in the leg…he was seriously wounded but it is only a flesh wound. He was wounded [by friendly fire at Malvern Hill] in the last fight we were in. We had our batteries planted on a high hill and were shelling the woods about a half mile in front of us. Then gunboats were also shelling the woods. Another gunboat coming up the river saw us firing and mistook us for the Rebels and fired a shell plumb into company “F” battery, wounding four of which Andrew was one. Those four were the only ones wounded that day. We have had only one man wounded or killed in our company that was Corporal Thos. Hyland who was killed in the fight in Smith’s Division on…the 27th… (Battery B, [City Point Landing, VA], July 8, 1862). Frustrated from the lack of recognition his regiment received for their efforts in the battle, Sharpe wrote: The papers speak about the bravery of the batteries that were on the right and left of us…and do not speak of us at all. We (our battery) stood to our guns as well and did as much…as any of them…that lying old hypocrite Greely of the Tribune says we have lost nearly all of the siege guns. He is a liar and I wish we had him here to set up as a target to shoot at. We would show him whether we have lost…or not (Battery B, [City Point Landing, VA], July 8, 1862). Sharpe continued to write home as he fought through the war. He wrote his last letter home in May 1865, four months before he mustered out of service on September 25, 1865 in the nation’s capital. Refer to cowans.com for additional transcribed letters from the archive. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Connecticut 110 Hosford Brothers, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, Civil War Archive Lot of 56 letters (35 war-date) from the Hosford family of Connecticut. Thirty five of the letters are from Benjamin Franklin Hosford and William Addison Hosford, dating from April 30, 1861-April 7, 1865, to family members, especially their mother, concerning their service in the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. The archive contains 17 letters from Benjamin F. Hosford, all but one to his mother Sophia Hosford, concerning his Civil War activities. Benjamin Franklin Hosford (1835-1864) was born in Williamstown, MA, the seventh child of Arad (1795-1859) and Sophia Bardwell Hosford (1802-1872). He enlisted at New Haven, CT in April 1861. He was mustered into service in Company D, 19th Connecticut Volunteers (renamed the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery) and served until he was shot in the head and killed on October 19, 1864 at the Battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia. His earliest letter is from New Haven, CT, on April 30, 1861, informing his mother that he and his younger brother Charles Lyman Hosford (1839-1927) have both enlisted in the Winsted Rifle Company [2nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry], and are now quartered in this city waiting further orders....It does not seem now that we will have to face the enemy at all, but if we do, I am ready to “pitch in.” On May 20, Hosford wrote his mother from Washington, DC, and reported that he arrived in the nation’s capital on May 14. We have been very busy since in fixing up our camp grounds....We do not contemplate any fighting within the time for which we enlisted [three months], although we are all mighty anxious to step over into Virginia, and “clean out” a few encampments of secessionists, who are already in sight of us on the oposite [sic] banks of the Potomac river. By early June, Hosford’s regiment was still in Washington. In a June 5 letter to his mother, he wrote that Our boys are all healthy, and itching to have a scrape with the Southern devils. Two of Hosford’s letters home describe his time back in Connecticut after his three month’s service ended. It appears that he looked for employment before re-enlisting in the service with the 19th Connecticut Infantry sometime in September 1862. By October 1 Hosford was in camp in Alexandria, VA, and told his mother that we have a double duty to do now, viz. guarding the City of Alexandria & drilling every ½ day besides. I am on Patrol duty every other night in the city and as often as every 3d day besides. Later that month Hosford was afflicted with bilious fever, which he referred to in a December 4 letter to his sister. I certainly have had a long, hard time of it with the Bilious fever. It will be six weeks tomorrow since I was taken down and I am not well enough to go into camp yet. I was taken by the Surgeon to a private boarding house in town...where I have received the best of care all for 4 dollars per week, which is considered very cheap here. The fact is, this is about the only Union family in the city, they are northern folks. The Secesh people charge from 7 to 10 dollars per week for board, and there are lots of sick officers of the army here who are obliged to pay 10 dollars a week for a place to stay, and poor at that. Hosford had recovered from his illness by the beginning of 1863 and was stationed in Fort Worth, near Alexandria, VA, which was part of the defenses of Washington, DC. By the fall of 1863 and winter of 1864, Hosford was working as an army recruiter in a Conscript Camp at Fair Haven, CT. In an October 1 letter to his mother, Hosford described his duties at the camp. My duty at present is to inspect all the conscripts as they come in, to see that they have none but Government clothes, etc., etc. He was back at Fort Worth by the beginning of 1864.
On January 29, 1865, Hosford wrote his mother that the Confederate forces were deserting in large numbers and that Lee’s army was on its last legs. A great many Rebels come into our lines & give themselves up every day & I believe Genl. Lee’s Army must be growing weaker every day. The Rebels will have to give up I think before many months have passed perhaps before many weeks have passed. They never can stand another such a campaign as they experienced last summer & fall....I never was so heartily sick of the war as I am this winter. The archive includes 18 letters written by younger brother William Addison Hosford (1837-1912), the eighth child of Arad and Sophia Hosford. He was employed as a teacher in Oswego, NY, when he enlisted at age 23 in Company B, 24th New York Infantry in May 1861, from which he mustered out in late May 1863. While with the 24th, Hosford was captured on August 30, 1862 during the Second Battle of Bull Run. He later enlisted with Company D, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and served as a quartermaster sergeant. Hosford and his wife, Alice Rebecca Simpson, lived in Connecticut for a short time after their marriage in 1866. They then homesteaded in Voorhees Valley, near St. Edwards, NE, about 1870 and later moved about 1894 to Albion, NE, where Hosford died in 1912. His first letter, dated June 28, is from Elmira, NY, where Hosford and his regiment, the 24th New York Infantry, were waiting orders to depart to Washington, DC. By the beginning of 1862, Hosford was in Arlington, VA, working as a clerk for General Irvin McDowell in Robert E. Lee’s former home. In a January 27, 1862 letter to his brother Benjamin, Hosford provided an update on his activities. My health is good, and I just succeeded in obtaining a detail as clerk to Gen. McDowell, and while I write am sitting in his office in Gen. Lee’s house - big thingMcDowell’s clerk. Captured in the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862, Hosford was eventually freed through prisoner exchange sometime later that year. He completed his service with the 24th New York Infantry in May 1863. The beginning of 1864 found Hosford back
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Connecticut in Uncle Samuel’s Service, working in New Haven, CT, as a clerk in the Post Adjutant’s Office in the same Conscript Camp in which his brother Benjamin was working, according to a January 11, 1864 letter to his mother. In a letter to his mother, dated March 8, 1864, Hosford was, along with his brother Benjamin, with the 2nd Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, at Fort Worth, VA. I am now fairly a soldier again, and I assure you I am contented and happy to be here. I am really and heartily glad to be again in the service, for we have a government worth sustaining. Passing through City Point, VA, in September 1864, Hosford wrote his mother concerning General Ulysses S. Grant in a September 9 letter. Genl. Grant’s Head Quarters are here, and like a true soldier he lives in a tent. He is a very plain man, seems always in a deep study, often converses with the common soldier as freely as with commissioned officers, and is the favorite of all who know him.
By the end of 1864, Hosford’s regiment participated in General Grant’s siege of Petersburg, VA. In a December 12, 1864 letter to his mother, Hosford wrote that I cannot tell of course what Genl. Grant’s plans are, but I do believe he will make some great attack upon the Enemy before long. The Rebs can never drive us from our position here-we are too well fortified & have too many men for them but I do think we can dislodge them. In addition to the Civil War letters of the two Hosford brothers, there are 21 from various family members, including several from Sophia Hosford to her children, dating from the 1850s to 1911, concerning family matters. $1,000 - $2,000
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | New York 111 Civil War New York Rocket Battalion Soldier’s Diary Union soldier’s diary written by a member of the New York Rocket Battalion, also known as General Barry’s Rocket Battalion of Artillery, which was organized in Albany, NY, on December 5, 1861, and mustered into service on December 6-7, 1861. The diary, 110pp, 3.5 x 5.4 in., with entries, mostly in pencil, on every page (though not for every day) from November 23, 1861-June 29, 1862, recorded by an unidentified soldier in the New York Rocket Battalion. Entries primarily concern the movements of the battalion, including skirmishes and casualties, activities in camp, and descriptions of locations. The battalion left New York several days later for Washington, DC, where it served until late April 1862. From May 1862 until February 1863, the battalion was stationed in North Carolina, where it participated in the Battle of New Bern and saw action at Young’s Cross Roads. During its time of service with the Union Army, the battalion used eight breech-loading cannon that fired heavy rotary rockets, known as Hale Rockets after their British inventor William Hale (17971870). They proved to be unreliable in battle, however, and their use was discontinued. The New York Rocket Battalion was disbanded in February of 1863. On April 12, 1862 the diarist, encamped in Washington, DC, mentioned that we are now going on our fourth month and no pay yet....to Day we got 24 new Rockett Guns. We will soon be ready to meet the enemy with them. Two days later, he reported critically on the trials of the new guns. They went and tried the Rocketts this afternoon and they proved as I expected a perfect failure. This Battalion has been a humbug all through. The battalion departed Washington, DC, via ships for North Carolina on April 28, 1862. One vessel, the USS Oneida, was, according to the diarist, a small one and afforded the soldiers cramped quarters: the way we are stowed away in her put me in mind of a Slave Ship...we sleep in the hold amongst the hay and bags of feed but with so little room that we get to crawl around on our hands and knees. The next day, as the ship sailed down the Potomac River and passed George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the diarist lashed out at the Confederates. I could not help thinking strongly of the condition of the country he periled his noble life for was in, placed in that wretched situation by a set of Double Damned traitors, who for the sake of power and gain, would send this, greatest of all countries to Destruction and sink her into oblivion. On May 3, 1862, the battalion anchored in front of Fortress Monroe, and the diarist recorded his thoughts: the fort was the finest and largest Fort they have in the United States. It is a Beauty...while I am writing this I can count over a hundred Vessels of all kinds from Man of Wars and Gun Boats down to schooners like ours, among the rest of them lays the little Monitor under the Guns of the Fortress. By May 7, the battalion had reached Cape Hatteras, off the North Carolina coast, where it received orders to proceed to New Bern. The next day, after reading a May 5, 1862 issue of the New York Herald, 76
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the diarist expressed hope that President Lincoln’s Executive Order of February 28, restoring some commerce with Southern states, will soon bring the War to a close. God grant that it will, because it will be a benefit to all around to both North and South. On May 10, 1862, closing in on New Bern, he commented on passing a Confederate masked or disguised battery. Of course you can see it now. The Guns are on it yet....This is just the place for the Rebels to build Masked Batteries, but Burnside cleared them all out, and if you want to make them scamper let them know that Burnside is comming [sic]. His name is a terror to them. In addition to masked batteries inside of every quarter of a mile all along, there were about Thirty Boats that the Rebels sunk for a blockade to keep Burnside from getting to New Bern. As for New Bern, the diarist found it the most Beautiful little City that I have seen yet. From what I can see, the streets are thickly shaded with trees, which in comming [sic] toward it gives it a splendid appearance. The next day, his entry mentioned that before evacuating the Confederates set fire to this City. They burnt down all the Brick Buildings along the River, and up in the City all the fine Brick Buildings, and would have burnt down the whole City if Burnside had not charged on them and drove them away, and put out the fire. His May 13, 1862 entry recounted Burnside’s successful campaign to capture New Bern. Burnside took this place the last of March. They had no Artillery with them. The 21st Mass. was the first to enter the City. They landed Seven Miles below the City and Marched along shore while the Gun Boats went along the River Shelling the Rebels out of their Masked Batteries. The 21st Mass. lost 40 men. They drove the Rebels to the Bridge, which crossed the River. When they got to the Bridge, they hoisted the Stars and Stripes, which deceived our Gun Boats, and gave the Rebels a chance to cross the Bridge, which they no sooner done than they set fire to it and burnt it down. They then went to Work and set fire to the City, but our troops arrived in time to prevent its total destruction. On May 14, the battalion began artillery drills amidst a Confederate threat: This morning we commenced to Drill before Six Oclock, and kept it up till Twelve Oclock, in fact we got to Drill most all day. Artillery is very BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | New York hard Work, very heavy to manage. This afternoon we had a regular old fashioned Thunder Storm, and how it did Lightning and such heavy thunder and oh how it did rain, and we had to Drill through the whole of it, and in the height of it came Marching orders at double quick, for the Rebels had drove in our Pickets only Six Miles from here, and the March had to be made through this Drenching rain. I tell you we are in a place now where we got to sleep through the night with one eye open. We do not know what moment the Rebels will be upon us. On May 16, 1862 the diarist noted casualties resulting from a skirmish with Confederate troops at Trenton, NC. We have lost so far in our fight at Trenton 8 Privates and a Captain and a Major was shot in the Neck and Leg, but is alive yet. Two more companies of cavalry left for Trenton to Day. The Confederate threat was soon replaced by hot weather and sickness in camp. By May 24, 1862, the diarist had lost his temper after days of scorching heat and bouts of dysentery. This is a fine Morning but we are in a bad fix. Here we are Hundreds of Miles from our Homes, Most of us got the Diarrhea and no Doctor to take care of us. Our Officers are a set of mean Shit Asses, all they care for is themselves. They can’t even drill us without making a Mistake and there is not a Private Soldier in the Company but what can learn them Military tactics.
The battalion and the division to which it was attached was reviewed on May 31, 1862, and recorded in the diary. To Day our Division was reviewed to Day by Gen. Burnside and the new [Military] Govn. Stanly. It was a long procession of Infantry Cavalry and Artillery. We was reviewed in the street, and then paraded through the Principle streets of the City. It made some of the Rebels look very sour, but it is no use they got to make the best of it. There was another review on June 3, 1862, and the diarist noted General Burnside’s popularity with his fellow soldiers. Burnside when he goes past the Flags, always takes off his hat and bows his head in honor of them. The soldiers love him. He is a large Man, and if you want justice done you go to him. It is unclear when the diarist left the Union Army, but his battalion was disbanded in February 1863. The diary, which offers a fascinating glimpse at camp life of an artillery soldier in North Carolina during the spring and summer of 1862, is accompanied by a handwritten transcription of sample entries. $1,000 - $1,500
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | New Jersey 112 Corporal Alonzo Hedden, 15th New Jersey Volunteers, Collection Incl. 1865 Diary, Relics, Corps Badge, GAR Ribbons, and More Lot of 8 items identified to Alonzo Hedden of the 15th New Jersey Volunteers, featuring 1865 diary mentioning fall of Petersburg, Appomattox campaign, Lee’s surrender, and Lincoln’s assassination; personal Bible inscribed by Hedden and Henry H. Bickley, Co. E, 10th NJ. Both were wounded at Spotsylvania and seem to have been in the same hospital. Bickley died of his wounds, while Hedden survived and kept possession of the Bible until his death in 1915; 1888 Gettysburg monument ribbon for the 15th NJ Veterans, approx. 7.25 in. ln.; 2 wood fragments, each approx. .75 x .25 in., accompanied by penciled note identifying them as Richmond relics, one from Libby Prison, the other from the Rebel Capitol building; Hedden’s 6th corps badge; New Jersey Memorial service certificate, 18 x 14 in.; and GAR 1st New Jersey Brigade membership card. Prior to his journal entries, Alonzo Hedden had a bloody term of service. He enlisted in the army on August 8, 1862 as a private and mustered into the 15th New Jersey Infantry, Co. F, later that month. He and the regiment began their service in the thick of battle at Fredericksburg, losing 30 men. At Chancellorsville, the regiment fought into the night and lost a devastating number of 159 men, either wounded, killed, or missing. Mercifully, the regiment was present at Gettysburg, but was not heavily engaged. That changed, however, at Spotsylvania Court House. After fighting for several days and losing more than 100 men, the regiment pressed on, with many marching to their deaths against the enemy. The commanding officer led what was left of his troops and saw only 75 sets of eyes staring back at him. The remaining 40 bodies, nearly one fifth of the regiment, lay on the breastwork, in the ditch, or on the narrow open space in front. The bloodshed did not stop there. It continued through the fighting at Cold Harbor and Winchester, but not to the same extent. It was a miraculous accomplishment for Hedden to make it as far as Petersburg and to witness the fall of the Confederacy during the Appomattox Campaign. In his journal, he wrote, Start on the march go about 13 miles halt a flag of truce Went out soon heard that Lee had surrendered emence cheering go in camp for the night… (April 9, 1865). The celebrations soon quieted after the sombre news was received that their President and Commander-in-Chief died. Nothing going on on account of presidents death even to division head quarters, wrote Hedden (April 19, 1865). He continued to be silent in the last pages of his diary and only occasionally scribbled in the margins. $1,000 - $1,500 SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Pennsylvania 113 Private Peter M. Holden, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Died at Andersonville, Civil War Archive Lot of 17 letters, various lengths (mostly 3-4pp, 8vo), primarily written while Holden’s regiment operated in the northern Shenandoah Valley, dated between April 5-June 26, 1864. Holden writes to various members of his family about the daily routines of camp life, lack of horses and firearms, and the occasional skirmish (one of the letters is written on a patriotic song sheet with an image printed by Charles Magnus). Most notable in the group is a letter from Samuel T. Ford to an uncle of Holden’s, letting him know of Holden’s death in Andersonville. A poem commemorating his death is also included. Peter M. Holden served as a private in Company B, 12th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (113th Volunteers). His service lasted approximately three months: he mustered in on March 31, 1864 and was captured on June 29, 1864 and sent to Andersonville prison in Georgia. He died from disease on October 9, 1864, one of almost 13,000 men to die at the prison. Holden’s first letter was written to his sister Sarah on April 5, 1864, from a camp near Harpers Ferry, where his regiment was attached to the Reserve Division of the Department of West Virginia. He reported on a skirmish with Confederate troops: about a hundred of our men went out on a scout they mit [sic] about five hundred rebels...the rebels captured twenty of our baggage wagens [sic] loaded with grain. About the middle of April, Holden’s regiment moved to Camp Davis, near Sandy Hook, NJ, where they were without adequate arms and horses. In an April 25 letter to his sister, Holden reported that they were still without an adequate number of horses. There is about twelve hundred men in the 12 cavalry and only about two hundred horses. I think we will stay here till we get horses and arms. While waiting for arms and horses to arrive, Holden and his fellow soldiers follow the daily routines of camp life. We have to black our boots and clean out our tents every morning. By early May, the 12th Regiment was back in Harpers Ferry, where Holden wrote a letter to his mother on May 6, 1864 about an event concerning a group of Confederate soldiers dressed in disguise as black women. The rebels is getting prety [sic] thick around us. There was six of them dressed up in wimens [sic] clothes and came into harpers ferry and passed for nigers [sic]. By the end of the month, horses finally arrived but not all the arms that were needed. In a May 23 letter to his sister, Holden mentioned that he received a good hors [sic] only he is prety [sic] small. The whole of our regiment is here now we haven’t got any arms yet....There was a hundred rebels came within 2 miles of here. Last night we sent out a squad of men them that had arms. They caught 3 without any fighting. While Holden wrote of the difficulty of obtaining an adequate supply of arms, he reported in a June 4, 1864 letter that, as far as he was concerned, there was plenty of food to eat. In a June 15 letter, Holden wrote that he had just got in from Saber Drill. It is the first time i [sic] ever drilled with a Saber. On June 25, four days before he was captured by Rebel troops, Holden wrote his mother from Harpers Ferry that he was well and hearty and that he was participating in picket duty, which takes fifty men out of our regiment every day. They divide up into three parties 1. 2 and 3 the first party goes on first and stands 2 hours and then the second and so on. So you see we have to stand five hours on post and four off. In the archive is a letter from Samuel T. Ford in Mill Village, PA, to Stephen Holden, uncle of Peter M. Holden, dated December 23, 1864: I take the liberty to wright [sic] you a few lines to ask a few questions concerning a young man by the name of Peter M. Holdin who is supposed to be a Son of your brother Thomas Holdin. This Peter M. Holdin was taken prisoner on the 29th day of June 1864 and was taken to Andersonville in Georgia and thare [sic] kept until about the first of October and then he was taken Sick and died and when he found that he must die he requested that his parents Should be informed of it and as a promise to a dying man I Samuel T. Ford will try to fullfil [sic] that promise and thaire fore [sic] I wright [sic] you those lines to ask you if you have a nephew by that name and if you know of any one of that name....Please let [sic] me know if you know eney [sic] one by this name...
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The last document in the archive is a four-stanza handwritten poem, 5 x 8 in., Composed on the death of Peter Holden by a friend of the Holden family, Emma Odell, for Holden’s mother. $900 - $1,200
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Pennsylvania 114 Civil War Correspondence from the Carnahan Family of Indiana County, Pennsylvania Lot features 38 war-date letters, including: 19 war-date letters by Private John R. Carnahan, Co. K, 67th Pennsylvania Volunteers.; 7 war-date letters by Musician James C. Carnahan 78th PA Volunteers, who died in early 1863, including January 11, 1863 letter with battle content; 7 war-date soldier’s letters concerning James’ death, several by Musician Samuel Fleming, 78th PA and others from the 78th; 3 additional war-date letters by Samuel Fleming; 2 wardate letters by Private John S. Fleming, Co. K, 67th PA; war-date military letter by Musician Robert B. Carroll, 40th PA Volunteers; 2 1865 Iowa frontier letters with good content; and much more war-date and post-war family correspondence. John R. Carnahan enlisted in the army on October 29, 1862 and mustered into the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, Co. H, two months after his brother James joined as a drummer in the 78th Pennsylvania Infantry. The brothers faced some fierce fighting, but only one would survive. John wrote his father, was very sorry to her the death of James I thought when he had escaped the bullet of that hard battle [Stones River] that he was safe ([Harpers Ferry, VA], February 27, 1863). James succumbed to disease at Stone’s River on February 11, 1863. His family was unable to retrieve his body so his bones remained near the battlefield. John continued to fight on, but more for the cause of his country than slavery. He wrote, For my part I would care [less] whare slavery was if the war was over (December 11, 1863). Despite the carnage he experienced at the Battle of Winchester, where the Rebels captured all except about 75 men of the command in his regiment, Carnahan believed that Fredericksburg was the worse he ever faced. He explained: We crossed the Rapidan river and there we met the enemy watching to give us battle and we had [the] most desperate fighting ever the world knew. We fought them 8 days and drove them back about fifteen miles. I was…detailed to take off wounded which we got a great many of them. We lost a great many men but they lost more and now our army [is] as
strong as when we crossed the river and I think that will end [the] war now (Fredericksburg, May 18, 1864). The war; however, was far from over and so was its destructive power. While traveling through Virginia, Carnahan noted, this is a beautiful valley and good ground but the army destroys everything [that] comes before them. I do not like to see them burning grain stacks and barns, but they will do it (Camp near Berryville, September 4, 1864). His friend and fellow soldier, John S. Fleming, felt the same way. He wrote to Carnahan’s father: You cant imagine what a dreary…desolate region of country this is. You might travel…and not see as many rails as would fence a potato patch and very few houses. What few thare is we have to feed thare wives and children while the husband and father is in armies against us. It seems a little hard but it would not be Christian like to let them starve (Head Quarters Co. K, 67th PA Volunteers, March 5, 1864). Despite the South’s desperate circumstances at home and on the picket line, the Confederacy continued to fight with tenacity. The promise of a short war no longer seemed feasible to Carnahan. He wrote, the taking of Atlanta will be a pretty hard stroke on the rebs but still they continue to fight. I am afraid it is going to take us a long time yet to get the South whipped (Camp near Berryville, September 4, 1864). Eager to see the end of the war, he was determined to cast his vote for George McClellan over Lincoln (Camp near Berryville, September 4, 1864). Other soldiers did not agree with him and voted to keep Lincoln in office. Carnahan mustered out of service at Washington, DC on July 14, 1865 and returned home to his incomplete family. Also included in the lot are letters addressed to Carnahan’s brother James from his friend, Samuel Fleming of the 78th PA Infantry, Co. A. Like James, Samuel was also a drummer and wrote about drumming out a soldier who refused to take an Oath of Allegiance, his equipment, and other common soldier topics. Refer to cowans.com for transcriptions of additional letters included in the archive. $1,500 - $2,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Pennsylvania 115 Sergeant James Drolsbaugh, 171st Pennsylvania Volunteers, Civil War Archive The archive includes an 8pp journal, 7.75 x 9.75 in., on four single disbound sheets, covering the period October 15, 1862 to March 28, 1863; 15 letters, various sizes and lengths (most two pages), most written in ink, dating from October 28, 1862 to March 27, 1864; a document, 5.5 x 8.25 in., dated August 1862, from the United States Deputy Marshall notifying Drolsbaugh that he is eligible to be drafted into the US Army; his appointment, 14.75 x 9.5 in., as First Sergeant in Company F of the 171st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia, signed at Suffolk, VA, on December 24, 1862; a document, 8.25 x 11 in.,, from the Pennsylvania’s Adjutant General’s Office, dated February 12, 1889, with official seal, certifying Drolsbaugh’s service as First Sergeant in Company F of the 171st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and an albumen, dated 1867, of Drolsbaugh’s daughter Effie and Thomas M. Drolsbaugh, possibly the son of James and Elisa Drolsbaugh. Also included in the archive are several documents relating to Thomas M. Drolsbaugh’s service in the Ohio National Guard in the 1890s. Drolsbaugh’s journal, which begins on October 15, 1862, the day he was drafted, reads like a running narrative of five of his ten months of service in the 171st Regiment. He noted his regiment’s arrival in Baltimore on the early hours of November 29, 1861, during which time he and his fellow soldiers received a much better reception than previous Union regiments. We left harrisburg the evening of the 28 of november got into baltimore at 4 oclock in the morning. The union men and weeman [sic] hoisted their windows and run out their union flags and cheered us all through town. The journal then recounts travels through Washington, DC, Fortress Monroe, Norfolk and Suffolk, VA, and Gatesville, NC, where his regiment met Confederate resistance. December 29th took a march for gaitesville at 12 oclock we were halted Buy the rebbels. our cavalry was sent to the front and the rebbels fled. we started and went to gaitesville where were to take the boat but the rebbels got in ahead of us and we had to take another road. after dark the rebbels came in sight of us they were cavalry. i see them ride through a cornfield...but we did not know how many there was. we got orders to halt and Load. we were Drawn in line along the road. the rebbels did not advance on us and we were not anxious to attack them. after some time we were ordered to Sleep on our arms and we were so tired we lay down in the woods without supper and we did not care whether the rebbels took us or not. On January 1, 1863, Drolsbaugh and his regiment arrived at New Bern, NC. While in North Carolina, the regiment, according to Drolsbaugh, plundered all their houses and took what they wanted . the weemen [sic] would scream and cry but it of no use. i thought a pity of them for all they were robbed and i did not steal or take anything from them. Drolsbaugh thought New Bern was a splendid town and country, although the rebels burned the best part of the town before they left it. On January 22, 1863 the regiment learned that Confederates were planning to burn down the rest of the town, so they erected fortifications…we got to work and made a rifle pit 185 yds. long...the ditch was 10 feet wide 8 feet deep all done...we extended our rifle pit afterwards to the neuse river and the 75th regiment built a fort in front of our rifle pit. Although this threat did not materialize, another Confederate threat did. On March 13, 1863, rebbels commenced Driving in our pickets and threatened to burn town...a brisk cannonading commenced above town and lasted till dark when the rebbels was repulsed and drove back. we were drawn up in line of Battle at our breastworks Saturday and Sunday morning at 4 oclock the rebbels began to come down the Trent river on Sunday. So at 2 oclock our Brigade went out to meet them....Monday morning we advanced to the rebbels works and found them deserted. Drolsbaugh’s 15 war-date letters, all addressed to his wife and daughter, complement the journal he may have been sending home
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concurrently with the letters. The letters concentrate on camp life, his health, and his interest in his loved ones at home. There are 3 letters written from New Bern, NC, where Drolsbaugh’s regiment was stationed for a time in 1863. In a February 13, 1863 letter, he writes of the physical effects of a march. i was nearly Dead after out march. i was all overheated and Broke out and the blood run out of my nose for several days. i was so weak for 2 Weaks i could hardly walk but attended to my business all the time. In this letter, Drolsbaugh admitted he likes army life despite its Trials and Troubles. He would certainly Bear the Toils and trials with more pleasure and pride than i do during war time. One letter addressed to Dear friends, dated May 13, 1863 from Washington, DC, was written by an E. Duncan on behalf of Drolsbaugh, who was sick. I am sorry to inform you that my friend Jas. Drolsbaugh is sick at present. he has not been well for some time but was able to go about until the 11 inst. he was taken to the hospital. he is better this morning. he thinks he can come to camp in a few days....i cannot tell what is the matter with him as the Doctor will not tell us. Drolsbaugh’s protracted illness may explain his journal stopping on March 28, 1863. In a May 27 letter, Drolsbaugh, in a very shaky hand, informed his wife and daughter that he was getting well again. i have had the Swamp Fever. i can Walk about every day But i am so nervous i cant write. By June 22, Drolsbaugh was out of the hospital and back in camp in Washington, DC, but not doing any duty. Additional information regarding the archive is available at cowans.com. $700 - $1,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Pennsylvania
116 Private David W. Moser, 199th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Civil War Archive Archive of 35 letters written by private David Moser, 199th Pennsylvania Infantry, from various locations including Philadelphia, Dutch Gap, VA, Richmond, Burkville Station, and Appomattox Court House, dating from September 1864 through June 1865. The group also includes an 1865 letter that soldier Edwin Rickert sent to his sister, Sarah Moser. David Moser was Pennsylvanian German and spelled many of his words phonetically. David Moser was born in Scranton, PA in 1834 and died in 1929. Late in the war, he mustered into the 199th Pennsylvania Regiment on September 24, 1864 and served until its end. His regiment originally mustered into service at Philadelphia in September and October of 1864 for one year. It joined the Army of the James in October at deep Bottom Landing and was assigned to the 1st brigade, 1st division, 24th corps. Awestruck by the maginitude of men, he wrote, I have seen more men since I am down hear than I thought was in the world (Camp Catvalinlar [Cadwalader, Philadelphia], September 30, [1864]). Moser and the regiment’s position was on the extreme right of the line on New Market road, and erected substantial breast works. They saw little action, sometimes seeing dirt or dark tunnels more than they did the enemy. Heavy cannon fire reminded them that the enemy was still nearby. He wrote home, They are sending shells here every day but it don’t amount to much. I go to work at 12 o’clock at night and quit at 8…the Johnnies is to sleep every time we got to work and if they was awake they could not hurt us [as it is] only about 50 yards before we get in the tunnel…thare was some heavy firing on our left some thisland off yesterday but what it amounted to I cant tell but I
hope the Joneys cum out on the short end and I think they did (Dutch Gap, VA, November 3, 1864). Shortly after it went into winter quarters with the army and thoroughly drilled and disciplined until moving to Richmond. It served trench duty there until March 1865 and participated in the Appomattox Campaign from March 28 to April 9, 1865. It shared in the final assault on the works of Petersburg April 2, 1865, as a part of Foster’s division, which captured Forts Gregg and Alexander. After the fall of Petersburg, it followed in pursuit of Lee’s retreating army to Burkesville and thence to Appomattox, losing two killed and one wounded in the skirmish at Rice’s station April 6, and two killed and eight wounded near Appomattox on April 9th. Moser wrote, I was not in that fight as I was on picket, but I was in on Sunday last and it was mighty hot for awhile but we got old Lee and his whole army surrounded…he surrendered his whole forces in this place...I believe that all the fighting is over and the war and everything will soon come rite (Camp near Appomattox Court House, VA, April 11, 1865). After Lee’s final surrender it moved to Richmond, where it mustered out on June 28, 1865. Moser’s letters detail many of the regiment’s activities beginning at Camp Cadwalader in Philadelphia. From Dutch Gap, he described tunneling and canal work as well as picket duty, camp life, and activities near Petersburg. He spoke of dealing with hungry prisoners and, more importantly, his pursuit of Lee and engaging with his men at Appomattox. He also discusses the devastating effects of war on the citizens of Richmond and his sorrow over the assassination of his Commander in Chief. Additional transcriptions of Moser’s letters are available at cowans.com. $1,000 - $1,500
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117 Private Thomas J. Bond, 2nd Ohio Volunteers, Civil War Archive Lot of 34 war-date letters from Private Thomas J. Bond, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. G. The beginning of the war for many soldiers was exciting, because all were convinced the war would be short and glorious. Thomas Bond was one of the many men who enlisted in the army during the first years of the war. He applied for three years of service and mustered in as a private in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. G, on September 5, 1861. Twenty days after mustering in, he packed his knapsack and was cheered all the way out of Cincinnati while he departed for the front (Cincinnati, OH, September 25, 1861). After we got to the city we marched down to the ferry…the next morning they put us to work at building tents, described Bond. Our company has seven…and one commissary tent each tent contains fourteen inhabitants…they are very much crowded and it keeps us warm to lay close to gather. They was the largest crowd of people in the camp that I ever saw. They was a thick as could be put together (Cincinnati, OH, September 25, 1861). A few nights into their journey, their first casualty occurred. It was not a rebel soldier, but an African-American man they suspected was trying to poison the well. The negro went after some water and the guard halted him. The second time he laughed…the third time…he would not stop and he shot him through the heart killing him instantly, wrote Bond (Cincinnati, OH, September 25, 1861). After marching for months and wading waist deep in mud the night before, Bond and the regiment finally met the enemy in a serious fight. We poured forth a volley of shot and scattered the enemy in every direction, wrote Bond. We fetched our cannon and she pord forth a shell shell which scattered every thing around. We sent out skirmishers in all directions. We marched 1/2 mile further and was in site of the city of West Liberty… on the city and throwed several bomb shells in the city and tore everything to pieces. Then we into the city and took possession… did not see a human being in it (Battle of West Liberty, KY, October 23, 1861). The deserted town was an eerie sight. People left in such
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a hurry their breakfasts were still on the table. Bond and the men gorged themselves on the abandoned goods before setting out to investigate more of the town. We sent men to find how many they was killed and found 21 dead bodies in the woods, wrote Bond. They was but one man in our reg. wounded and he was in a cavalry company (Battle of West Liberty, KY, October 23, 1861). Beyond tasty foods paper also became a cherished and scarce commodity. We tare up all the books that has any paper in it to make envelopes and letters for paper home, wrote Bond (Prestonsburgh, November 17, [1861]). After the Battle of West Liberty, Bond and the 2nd OVI experienced heavy fighting at Perryville and Stones River while pursuing General Morgan and his men. After nearly two years of chasing they finally captured 250 of his men as well as one of his most prized relations, his wife (Murfreesboro, TN, April 26, [1863]). With this victory also came some defeat. Bond and his regiment lost heavily at the Battle of Chickamauga. A few days after the fight, Bond wrote home: We have not heard from any of the boys that was taken. We do not know whether they are killed or taken prisoners or not but I think they was taken prisoner. Our brigade had 1800 when we went into the fight and now we number 900 for duty…our Regt had something over 400 now we have 190 left…our company had 41 men now we have 24 so you may know how we lost, but we only know of one being killed and 3 wounded (Chattanooga, [TN], Oct. 9, 63). Towards the end of his service, Bond did not want to continue his career in the army. He explained, I am not going to enlist till I see some of the men that is at home come and try it…and see how they will like it (Camp near Chattanooga, [TN], Dec. 31, [1863]). After fighting at the Battles of Missionary Ridge and Resaca, Bond kept to his word and did not reenlist for another term of service. He mustered out of service on October 10, 1864. Additional transcriptions are available at cowans.com. $1,200 - $1,600
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Ohio 118 Private Henry Fulton, 20th Ohio Volunteers, Shot by Rebel Guerrillas Near Pine Level, NC, April 10, 1865, DOW, Civil War Archive Lot of 13 war-date letters written by Private Henry Fulton, 20th Ohio Volunteers, Co. G, who was shot by Rebel guerrillas near Pine Level, NC, on April 10, 1865. He died of his wounds two days later at Raleigh, NC. Twenty-three-year-old Henry Fulton enlisted in the army on August 30, 1862. That same day he mustered into the 20th Ohio Volunteers. He saw some action, but at no major battles in his first year. He did have experience with a gun, but he accidentally shot his bunkmate with a pistol. He explained: About ten days ago while we were on the march up the Yazoo one of our boys found a pistol…a Dutchman in the company loaded it and left it laying on my bed. I was at a run washing and come up picked up the pistol and was looking at it when it went off and shot Ed Knox. The ball struck him in the hip and passed through near the bone and…through the bowels. The ball was taken out. He was hauled in an ambulance 70 miles. It is very severe and painful wound. He has been sent up the river. I am very anxious to hear from him…Know was sent off four days after he was shot…I have bunked with him ever since I come to the army. It was a sad affair…I don’t think his wound is mortal, but it may be. He is shot in a dangerous place (In the rear of Vicksburg, [MS], June 7, 1863). He recovered, but the wound nearly took his life and ultimately ended his term of service. Fulton continued with his company and saw some action at the Battle of Vicksburg as well as other fights in the Mississippi region. He described to his brother: Surrendered on the 4th of July with all the artillery, men, munitions of war etc so this Southern Gibraltar, this Western Sevastopol is our at last. It cost a struggle but it is the greatest victory since the war began. We captured 31,000 prisoners, 17 generals, nearly 100 pieces of artillery, 40,000 stand of small arms, three trains of cars and several locomotives. Sherman & McClelland’s corps have crossed Black river and are now after Johnson. I saw 11 prisoners this morning from Johnson’s army. They were taken near Champion Hill battle ground and report Johnson retreating towards Jackson where he will make a stand. They say he has 40,000 men (Bovina, MS, July 8, 1863). While he and many of the men fought bravely, one of his superiors did not show the same valor. He explained: When we were at the Battle of Raymond [Captain William H.] Jacobs got sick and went to an ambulance and Lieut. Stevenson got wounded in the first of the fight so we went through [the battle] without any officers… at Champion Hill Jacobs did not have time to leave the company. We got into the fight before we knew it and then he acted the coward and at Vicksburgh he was sick until he thought the hard fighting was over and we had breastworks built to protect him (Bovina, MS, July 8, 1863). James Newtown came to take the place of the cowardly captain, but Fulton did not like his new leader. He wrote: The Lieut. Colonel of this regt came here about a month ago to take command. He has been on Gen. Cox’s staff for the last year. He left the Regt while at Lagrange. Since he came back he has been drunk nearly all the time he would come out on dress parade so drunk he could not sheath his sword and adjutant had to lead him off the parade ground. He was a tyrant as well as drunkard. He went to town got drunk and drew his revolver on the guard and would have been court martialed but he sent in his resignation. He was a fine looking man and a West Point student. He was expelled from there six months before his time to graduate for getting
drunk. Maj. Fry will command the regt. He is a fine man and liked by all (Vicksburg, [MS], December 29, [1863]). More of his and his brother’s friends were wounded including Walter L. Case, 31st Ohio Volunteers. He wrote to Fulton’s brother, William: I was wounded through the right breast and was taken prisoner and kept ten days and paroled and sent to Chattanooga and from there to Nashville and got a furlough for 20 days…most of the men have reenlisted and are now at home…I am not fit for service again. I am rather unlucky (Private Walter L. Case, Co. H, 31st Ohio Volunteers to Henry’s brother William Newton Fulton, Gen. Hospital, No. 19, Ward 2nd, Nashville, TN, March 7, 1864). While Case considered his status unlucky, he was not as unlucky as Fulton would be. An enemy bullet struck Fulton in Pine Level, NC on April 10, 1865. Two days later, he died of his wounds at a hospital in Raleigh. Perhaps the unluckiest aspect of all is that the war came to an end less than a month after his death. Additional transcribed letters are available at cowans.com. $800 - $1,000
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119 Union Sergeant George W. Early, 89th Ohio Volunteers, Civil War Diary Perpetual diary (New York: A. Liebenroth & Von Auw, 1862), 3 x 4.75 in., bound in black leather covered cloth, kept by George W. Early, a sergeant in the 89th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. Early joined the 89th Ohio Volunteers on August 19, 1862 at age 26 and was appointed sergeant on August 26th, the day the regiment was mustered into service. Organized at Camp Dennison, OH, they were mustered in for three years of service on August 26, 1862 and attached to the Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio; the 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Department of the Ohio; the Army of Kentucky, Department of the Cumberland; and various brigades and divisions of the Department of the Cumberland. The regiment participated in a number of engagements, including the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, and the Siege of Atlanta. The diary entries, at least those through August 18, match up to the year 1863, while double entries for both 1862 and 1863 begin on August 19, 1862, the day Early enlisted in the 89th Regiment, and run to September 1, 1862, where there are 1862 entries only through December. Early’s diary entries, most written in pencil, record weather, daily routines of camp life, movements of his regiment, and military news. This is an interesting diary that offers a glimpse into the daily life of a Union soldier serving in West Virginia and Tennessee during 1862-1863. Early’s diary begins in August 1862, when he enters the service and then proceeds to document his daily activities in various camps and his regiment’s attachment to the Kanawha Division, the District of West Virginia and then to the Department of the Cumberland. Early’s regiment arrived at Fort Donelson, TN, at midnight on March 3, 1863. The next day Early’s diary entry noted that the Confederate attempt
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to retake the fort from Union forces was defeated by the 83rd Illinois Regiment under Colonel Abner Harding. Early visited the battlefield afterwards as recorded that he saw heaps of Rebels. On February 5, Early was still at Fort Donelson, where he claimed the Union fleet consisted of 44 Steamers and 6 gun boats and that 160 Rebels were buried at Donelson. From Fort Donelson, Early’s regiment moved to Nashville, where he visited the town and on February 8 visited the Tomb of J. K. Polk. From Nashville, Early’s regiment moved up the Cumberland River to Gallatin and then Carthage, TN. On March 25, 1863, Early’s regiment and the 36th Ohio Regiment marched to Rome, TN, Surrounded the town & waited till morning to search for rebels. Finding none the next day, the troops moved on to Middleton, TN, where they captured mail, 4 horses 3 rebels. On April 14th, outside of Middleton, Early wrote of a small skirmish with Confederates. Commenced firing at pickets at 10 oclock. Skirmished till 2 oclock....Co. E. all stood well. On July 7, 1863, Early, writing from a camp in Murfreesboro, TN, between several entries that noted his trouble with dysentery, recorded the good news concerning the Battle of Gettysburg and the successful siege of Vicksburg. Good news from the East. Lee whipped badly....Captured 30,000 prisoners in the East. Vicksburg is ours. While camped at Alexandria, TN, Early noted the first birthday of Sammy B. Early, his son, on April 24, 1863. Three months later, on August 6, 1863, Early recorded the death of Sammy 1 year, 3 M, 13 D old. In an entry dated August 12, Early wrote that he had Read Sad news of Sammy. Oh! What grief....Oh! how gloomy. The next day, still grieving, Early noted that he received a letter from his wife, stating the death of my son Sammy. What a hard stroke to us. Oh! Could I only have seen him, but alas! He is with his Redeemer. May God have mercy on my wife. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Illinois 120 Elias Baker, 46th Illinois Infantry, Civil War Archive Lot of 5 war-date letters from Private Elias Baker, 46th Illinois Infantry, Co. G. Baker enlisted in the army on October 8, 1861, and within a week he mustered into the 46th Illinois. His term of service was quiet until he and his regiment saw action at the Battle of Shiloh and suffered considerable loss. After the fight, he wrote, I am glad to hear that our Col. [John A. Davis] is getting along so well but it is sad to hear of so many of our companions dying who were wounded in the battle [of Shiloh] (Corinth, MS, May 17, 1862). The day of his letter, he and the men prepared for the siege of Corinth. He described: The pickets of the two armies are in continual conflict with each other. There were several pickets on our side killed & wounded last night… The rebels will soon have to leave or…there will have to be a fight before long. Some think that they will not stand a fight here. If they do I think it will be the last fighting we will have to do. The 15th are all furnished with new Enfield guns. We are to have them too as soon as they can get them from the [Pittsburg] landing (Corinth, MS, May 17, 1862). They continued to fight throughout the Vicksburg campaign. During that time, Baker chose to re-enlist. Baker and his friends encountered some bad luck not on the battlefield, but at camp. Elias Hackel our baker had his tent fly lying near our cook tent and some of the boys began throwing coals on it and it finally burnt it up. I was not directly engaged in the affair but was rather a abettor, he explained. We were brought to head quarters under guard until the next day when it resulted in fine of three dollars…upon each of us. I thought you might get the report of me being under arrest and thought it best to explain it to you (Natchez, MS, August 30, 1863). Baker continued to serve well after the war ended. He mustered out of Baton Rouge on January 20, 1866. Refer to cowans.com for additional transcriptions. $600 - $800
121 Corporal David F. McGowan, 47th Illinois Volunteers, Civil War Archive Lot of 11 war-date letters, mostly by David F. McGowan, 47th Illinois Infantry, Co. I. David F. McGowan was living in Illinois and working in his father’s hotel before the war. Like many young men, he enlisted at the very beginning of the war on September 4, 1861. He was commissioned a corporal of the 47th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Acclimated to the milder weather up North, an August summer in Mississippi made McGowan feel as if he were about to boil. The heat here is stunning, wrote McGowan. We can almost boil potatoes without any fire (Camp Rienzi, MS, August 14, 1862). While the Mississippi sun drained his energy, so did the constant suspense of an approaching enemy. He wrote, It is very tiresome work looking for the enemy everyday…you know what it is to be kept in continued suspense. I have quit looking for them all together… (Camp Rienzi, MS, August 14, 1862). The rebels came and the battle commenced. He also encountered the enemy at the Second Battle of Corinth, where his regiment lost many; thirty killed and over 100 wounded. War weary and uncertain of his future, McGowan gave up on dreaming of his future and became apathetic. If our Country is to be broken up, it seems to me, I would not care what becomes of myself. There are many people who don’t appear to care what becomes of the country while they can make money & take things easy, he wrote. It makes me feel bad to think that there are so many men who ought to be in the ranks that can stay at home when if they would do their duty this war might be ended in a few short months (On Steamer Sunshine, December 3, 1863). He tried to enjoy the present and received a promotion to 1st sergeant on October 11, 1864. He spent his leisure time admiring the Southern belles in the towns he visited. One encounter with SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Illinois a Memphis woman, however, almost became deadly. Calling it an exciting adventure he told his friend: I was walking about town and stepped into a large hotel and passing along a large passage when quite a fine looking lady came up and shook hands, chiding me for not calling sooner. She was a perfect stranger to me. We continued walking along the passage when I stepped on her skirts. I…apologized for my awkwardness. She only laughed and held her skirts up, when as ill luck would have it I got my foot through her hoops. And such a time as I had getting extricated. As fast as I could get my foot out at one place I would get it in at another. However, I finally got clear and we proceeded. We soon came to where there were a number of ladies and gentlemen when my companion going up to speak to one of the gentlemen I thought I would return to the hospital. Just as I was going out the door I felt a rope around my neck…I was lassoed. I struggled manfully, but vainly and soon found myself suffering for a want of…breath. Just as I was being overcome by strangulation I awoke and found myself in a profuse perspiration (Memphis, TN, July 6, 1864). He finished his term of service and mustered out of Springfield, IL on October 11, 1864. Still not acclimated to civilian life, McGowan wrote his friend that he felt as restless as a-a-a monkey on a hot griddle and it would it will take [him] a month to get straightened out (Patapsco Hotel, Ellicott’s Mills, [MD], November 21,1864). Proud of his son, his father told him that he wished him to take over the family hotel. By 1869, he moved to Washington DC and began working as a clerk. He then became a clerk for the Treasury Department. McGowan met and married his wife, Ida, who was nearly 20 years his junior. He continued to work for the government until at least 1920, when he was 84 years old. He died sometime before 1924, when his wife filed to collect his pension. Refer to cowans.com for additional transcribed letters. $600 - $800
122 Civil War Archive Featuring Correspondence of Private Montgomery Hickman, 97th Illinois Volunteers Lot of 32 war-date letters, including 26 written by Private Montgomery Hickman, Co. I, 97th Illinois Volunteers. Private James Montgomery Hickman was an unassuming, but very humorous 44-year-old man. The same day he enlisted in the army, he signed another very important document; a marriage license with Cynthia A Luster. In one of his first letters to his bride he wrote: It is just one month today since were married…I cannot help thinking that if I had not turned soldier I might have been with you on this beautiful morning…it would make me very unhappy to think you regretted your hasty match…there are about ten thousand in this camp…there are quite a variety of characters here too-good, bad and indifferent=moral and immoral. We have preaching, speaking, dancing, gambling, drinking & swearing…all at the same time…I do sometimes…swear a little when I get provoked. Our regiment received their arms this morning…we will leave soon for Dixie or some other port…we will likely go to Kentucky (Camp Butler, [Springfield, IL] September 21, 1862). The regiment traveled to Kentucky, and the long marches were tiresome. He wrote his wife, I wouldn’t mind a bit to stand up all day and shoot at rebels but I don’t want to do any more marching than I can help (Falmouth, KY, October 21, 1862). The men tried to remain optimistic, while some regretted their decision to enlist, The camp is full of wild rumors…about peace going to be made which of course is only believed by those homesick persons who haven’t the heart or courage to stand up for their country like men, wrote Hickman. I would like to see you very much…but if I wanted to leave the service of my country when she needs my help, as bad as a great many here do, I would deserve to be shot. I never 86
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want to see your face against unless I can do so with honor, and I know my little wife is not the one who will encourage her husband to desert (Nicholasville, KY, November 9, 1862). Hickman and his regiment moved further south and traveled down the Mississippi River. He finally met the enemy at Vicksburg and described the encounter to his wife: [We] have “seen the elephant.” Two weeks ago today our fleet left Memphis with colors flying and went down the river to take Vicksburgh… today they are on their way back in a style that looks very much like a retreat…The fight had been begun before we landed and we could hear cannonading going on all day Sunday. Our regiment was not called on to do anything until Tuesday…we did not do much except to drive in the rebel pickets…we were treated to a shower of bullets and a few shells… close enough to convince us that we came to Mississippi at an unhealthy season…the battles on the left wing of the army was very severe and we have lost some valuable officers and I fear many good men…We were kept in that wet, muddy bottom, on about half rations until Thursday night when the whole army retreated back to the boats…we were glad to “get out of the wilderness…If all or even half the rumors…are true this war is just now commenced and it will not surprise me a bit if I have to serve out my three years. I will do so cheerfully, if necessary, and then go again if they need me though at the same time I do not like soldiering. It is the most abominable dog’s life a man ever led (Going Up the Mississippi River, January 4, 1863). Hickman was right again. The war was not close to being over and he would have to serve his full term of service. While he equated living as a soldier to life as a dog, his wife questioned the quality of his food and if he was eating healthy. He responded, We have any quantity of BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Illinois ‘greens’ here and I wish you were here to eat some as I believe women all like such trash. I am sorry to say I care but little about them (Milliken’s Bend, LA, March 14, 1863). Also like dogs, he felt soldiering was more about digging than shelling. He wrote to his wife, I have done so much spading on the canal and levee since I have been down in this country that I think I would make a very good gardner. Its dig, dig, all the time and when they can find no work for us…they make us dig holes one day and fill them up the next…our guns are getting rusty but we have mighty bright spades (Milliken’s Bend, LA, March 14, 1863). The regiment was in danger again, not from bullets, but from a train collision that left many injured. I am pretty much recovered from the bruises I received in the railroad collision…I have been out of the hospital four or five days and am able to do duty again. I am sill sore and a little lame, but it will soon wear off, wrote Hickman (New Orleans, LA, November 16, 1863). Some of his friends; however, suffered more serious injuries including one whom doctors predicted would be lame for the rest of his life. Like any woman, Cynthia Hickman wanted a photograph of her husband. Since they married so soon before Hickman left for the front, she most likely did not have any photographs of her beloved. She wrote her husband often, pleading with him to have his photograph taken. He finally consented and sent her his likeness along with some jibes: You have been tormenting me a long time for a true likeness…and now that you have it I hope you will love it…I am pretty sure of one thing. You will never ask for another one…I didn’t know I was so ugly before… it would make “Old Abe” feel sorry (New Orleans, LA, December 8, 1863). Cynthia most likely disagreed with her husband and was pleased to receive it. Even though he did not enjoy service, Hickman still respected it and recognized its value. I think all good men should support the government more warmly now than at any other time, he wrote. True, there may be speculation and rascality going on among some of those in high places, but the cause is better now than it ever was because nearer the end…I do not expect to reenlist…but I expect to serve out my time… the war will end in another year. I have great faith in Grant and Sherman’s final success (Morganza, LA, August 10, 1864). Again, Hickman was right to assume the war would be over soon, but not before he faced more action at the Siege of Fort Blakely. He wrote to his wife: Our loss in the affair did not exceed ten killed and wounded. The Johnnies had…fifty killed and wounded, among the former Brig. Genl. Clanton… we captured 350 prisoners. We captured two trains of cars on the Mobile & Montgomery Railroad loaded with commissary stores etc and destroyed the road for miles in different places…it was a very successful… expedition…it reflects great credit on Gen. Steele who commands the forces…We are now regularly besieging it…it is Vicksburg over again…a
123 Private Dick Ransom, Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery Light Artillery, Exceptional Civil War Archive, incl. References to W.T. Sherman Lot of 46, including 11 war-date letters written by Private Dick Ransom to his friends and family accompanied by modern photocopies of additional correspondence, 22 war-date letters from Ransom’s mother, father, and sister, as well as photographs and other personal items. “War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over,” said General William Tecumseh Sherman. In many ways, Sherman was a proponent of total war. He and the troops under his command were responsible for the “March to the Sea,” which destroyed cities and towns in a 40 to 60-mile-wide war path through Georgia. Yet, it was not the first time his men set fire to cities. Two years earlier, on Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition from December 20, 1862, to January 2, 1863, one of the thousands of soldiers under
continual clatter of musketry, shot and shell day and night…all the while we are ceaselessly digging, digging, digging them out of their holes. This is the fifth day we have been at it…our advance rifle pits are now within a quarter of a mile of their works. How long it will last I don’t know…it is very exciting as well as fatiguing life and tasks a man’s endurance (Blakely, AL near Mobile, April 7, 1865). Hickman mustered out of service a little over a month later on May 22, 1865. He returned home to his wife, and, despite being middleaged, the couple had four children together. Additional transcriptions are available at cowans.com. $1,000 - $1,500
Sherman’s command, Dick Ransom, witnessed and participated in the looting and burning of Southern towns and cities. While traveling down river, Ransom wrote extraordinarily detailed letters home about the movements and the actions of Sherman’s unruly bunch, revealing their cavalier attitudes towards ceasing Southerners’ property and how some Union soldiers viewed African Americans as “creatures” and treated them like slaves. Five days into the expedition on board steamer Des Arc, Ransom wrote home: The Commander of the Division we are now in is Gen. A.J. Smith, a West Pointer. and the men do not like him at all He is no such man as Morgan L. Smith of our Division we are the right of the right division now before we were the left of the left Division There are four Divisions here under Gen. W.T. Sherman The two Smiths-Gen. Stiel’s and Gen. Morgan’s Ours is most all Ohio troops. We were selected. (our two guns and ten men) to go on this boat as Gen. Smith’s artillery escort and there are two companies
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of Infantry and ten men of Cavalry So we are not crowded as other boats are (about 25 miles above Vicksburg, December 25, 1862). Similar to the behaviors of soldiers during the “March to the Sea” several men broke rank and burned a town. Ransom wrote: On Monday morning some of the soldiers set a house on fire in the town and soon enough more were going to burn the most of the place… Tuesday night we went as far as Gaine’s Landing Ark and tied up for the night the place begun to be burnt before dark and kept up all night and in the morning but one or two houses were left. Gen. Smith ordered that the men that set the fires to be tied hand and foot and thrown into them or if the fire was burnt out when they were caught he would throw them tied into the river and if one was caught before two in the morning he should be hung and one was caught and brought in and he told him he should be shot at two o’clock the next day but before the time came he told him he might go that Gen. Sherman had pardoned him and gave him agood talking to and let him go (about 25 miles above Vicksburg, December 25, 1862). On a lighter note, mischief (or insubordination, depending on one’s perspective) happened aboard the ships. Ransom wrote: Since we have boarded on this boat we have drawn our own fodder from barrels boxes and etc. around the boat such as flour, bacon, coffee, sugar, rice, molasses, vinegar, candles, soap-hard tack and sow belly and some of the boys have been down in the hold and tapped sundry barrels of pure government “jiggers” which is said to be the “real stuff” direct from the inspectors without reducing (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 5, 1862). A few soldiers took advantage of their liberties and stole a large amount of goods from below. Ransom wrote: Last night about nine o’clock [the Colonel] had a guard of infantry placed all over this boat to protect the “hard tack” …but the boys say that there was more stolen last night than altogether since we have been on the boat so that it must be the infantry that did it all but some of the infantry guards lost their ramrods some of their bayonets some of their cartridge boxes &c. which they say were stolen but it seems impossible (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 5, 1862). 88
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Obviously, the soldiers sold the goods on the ships and their own equipment to an eager buyer. Union men not only profited from the goods on the ship but also by looting homes. Ransom explained to his family: In ransacking a secesh house today at Pecan Grove one of the boys made from two hundred and forty dollars of the “Bank of Tennessee” which is worth a premium above “green backs” in Memphis, which makes me think if we were in Memphis before Gold was sold for 45 per ct premium in green backs and the whole of the “change” in the “Bank of Tenn” 5-10-25 and 50 cent shinplasters such as I sent you specimens if only some-worse worn (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 5, 1862). In another instance, a battery boy stole a mule from a distracted Southerner...he never saw Mr. Mule but some three boys had some “long eared money” to divide after selling muley to some speculative hack driver or livery and sale stable keeper, wrote Ransom (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 5, 1862). Ransom confiscated some goods of his own and benefited from his friends’ acquisitions. He explained, This morning we went out of our tents and into the mud-hunted around and found three secesh houses deserted and took possession of them and moved into two of them and the officers take the other for headquarters... I took dinner with DeGraff and Allen who have confiscated a couple of good rooms over a store on Front Row and got a cooking stove and a couple of contrabands to do the work for them they draw their rations etc. and live high-drawing extra pay and “live in town” (Memphis, TN, December 14, 1862). However, the voyage on the river was not entirely smooth. Stuck on the muddy shallow banks, part of the duty of the men was to move the boats off shore. Ransom explained: Again we are landed or not landed either but tied up for the purpose of “wooding up” with fence rails. The Colonel who is on the boat “Meteor” towing us tries to make our boys bring rails (The way they get them is to bring two or three on their backs from the fence about twenty rods from the river bank) and the boys make him send one of his infantry guards with the musket and one rail at a time and that is sure to be a rotten one or one that is small enough to be so light as to be almost worthless for wooding a steamboat…I suppose it to be a very easy matter for a good BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts | Illinois rebel battery and a couple of regiments to make us “lay to” and surrender just now. Then we might get a “free pass” to Vicksburg or be paroled and sent to Camp Douglass or some place east may be to be kept till exchanged (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 6, 1862). Disease and dysentery also spread rapidly through the steamers stuffed with soldiers, which abruptly changed the light-hearted nature of the journey sour. Ransom wrote: I believe that there never was such a change in the minds of the same number of men as there has been here since we started “down river.” So many of the boys are sick and the Yazoo water and swamps, and bayous gave most all the diarhoea and then such a disgust of the commanding officers all round and of the general management of the expedition and then being obliged to retreat and that too probably all the way back to Memphis and the verdict of the whole this is “defeated and beaten” it is enough to sicken three quarters of the men, of war and demoralized (if such a thing is yet possible) the whole of the army (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 6, 1862). Other than dysentery and being stuck in the mud, Ransom’s descriptions sound more like a leisure cruise than a military expedition, but he was still part of a mission. On pursuit of Rebel troops, Ransom’s officers sent scouts to scan the areas for the enemy. Sometimes, information would come to them from more unlikely sources—runaway slaves. Ransom encountered such a group and wrote, some “reliable contrabands” …have just come in bundles and all and want to go with us “up norf” and the information these “intelligent” creatures bring is that there is a rebel force of about 5,00 men and one battery of artillery about 15 miles ahead of us up the river (Pecan Grove, Louisiana Corral Co., January 6, 1862). While resting on a river bank in the middle of the night, news came of approaching rebel forces and a Union retreat. The men furiously tore down their camp in order to board the ships. Unaware of the news, Ransom had a startling wakeup call when his tent began to be packed away while he was still inside. He wrote: The tent was jerked down on to me and all there was in it news had come in that our forces were retreating and the n*****s must pack up our baggage and stuff and move it down to the water ready to put on a boat I put my clothes, overcoat and a blanket and found the man the captain’s n***** Hostter that brought the news soon Serg’t Cone came and I found out that the whole army was going to be drawn back and put on the boats before morning…two of the pickets who came in reported that the rebels were building bridges across that bayou we had been fighting over and probably intended to cross and attack us in the morning There was nothing come in behind our two guns but one reg’t Infantry, and they reported that rebel scouts followed right behind us clear in to the edge of the woods…Our guns are on the “Louisiana” but we could not put the horses or ourselves on for she has a cabin full of wounded soldiers, many with legs and arms amputated and shot in all sorts of places I don’t know how many there are such but I believe several boatloads there are between two and three hundred on her (January 1, 1863). A few weeks before, Ransom described another anticipated attack: The alarm was given that a large rebel force was driving our men in and all hands were ordered to unload and get into position on the bank for a fight. Several thousand infantry and some big guns were immediately put out and Capt. Cooley began to unload his four guns which lay nearby us and it was discovered that only a very few of our men coming in with ten prisoners and 210 head of cattle and mules The prisoners were dressed in all kinds of garb and mounded and armed with all kinds of guns one had a rifle worth $150. They are from Texas. (On Louisiana Shore, December 25, 1862). The Rebel and Union armies finally met one another on the battlefield. Ransom describes his march into battle while suffering from the measles: About 3 o’clock the cannonading was commenced and kept up pretty hot. Apparently ten miles from us. About day light we marched out of camp in the direction of the firing passing troops and batteries all the way almost
for about 7 or 8 miles. The nearer we came to the fighting-the hotter and plainer it grew- the cannonading at this time was more terrific than at any other time. The boys may have some of them worn long faces but the most of “Squad 6”- I noticed- grew more and more reckless as they neared the enemy- We were not allowed to ride but all had to walk in our places beside the gun ready for the action in one moment the same as on drill. Before we started out the Captain talked to the boys for a few minutes giving advice &c and he never spoke to them when they approved him so much though anyone could see that the most of them thought that they might be safe under some other man but still they pitied him because what he said showed that he wanted to do right and he wanted to and meant to try to take care of the boys…. We finally stopped in the woods I should think about eight miles from the boats and nearly north of Vicksburg. The city being in sight from a short distance from us and we could “hear the bells.” Where our guns were planted down on the “River Bottoms” in the woods. the water marks on the trees for high water was eighteen feet above the ground and was so far the whole distance back to the Yazoo. Where we lay there we were only about a mile West of the Mississippi. and the fighting was between some of our big guns on the west of us and some batteries across a bayou, on the hills, which we must take to get into Vicksburg- I believe that our artillery beat them on Sunday morning and the infantry and all were driven into Vicksburg and we had the hill- here Morgan L. Smith was wounded leading a charge across the bayou where the men hesitated to go-he got a bullet through his belt in front and it lodged between two bones in his back and he has had to give up command of the 2nd Div. Then our A.J. Smith took his place and Brig. Gen. Burnbridge took this- the 1st Div. Before noon we heard a good deal of heavy firing of infantry volleys and single shots and finally it all ceased and not much more was heard till the next morning though an occasional big gun would start us a little for we lay where they could shell us all to pieces from Vicksburg. Sunday night the horses were kept standing hitched up all night and the boys had to curl up and lie down where they could raise up and be in the shot to do his part at the gun…in the morning I was so very weak I could hardly walk and about 10 o’clock Serg’t Cone came to me and told me I had the measles and must go back to camp…I could hardly bear to go back and we expected to have our first fight every minute…[at camp] Only two white men stayed in the tent with me Carry and Tripp but 3 or 4 n*****s slept over on the other side. Tripp got me some ginger tea and I got one of the n****** by giving him some whiskey to promise to wait on me till I get well. and I kept him nearly busy trotting for me making grull and making composition fesser, lobelia, &c and I did not go out of my tent for anything…I believe it was the first time I wished I was home and then I believe I dreamt it. But I would have given anything on Tuesday to have seen a good nice white woman coming into the tent there as I lay-just to see me (January 3, 1863). In addition to the correspondence, the archive includes: 6 CDVs of Ransom, 5 taken in civilian clothing during the war, one of which is backmarked by McGill and Almond, Louisville, KY; gem-sized tintype he references in a letter offered in the lot; American Express Company receipt dated April 13, 1863; clipping from The Longmont Ledger and Longmont Press, dated July 16 and 17, 1885, celebrating the Golden Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ransom; 2 CDVs of Mrs. Ransom taken by J.H. Tatman, Connersville, IN and Swaine & Mote, Richmond, IN; a gem-sized tintype of Louie Perham included in a letter to Dick Ransom on August 19, 1866, credited to J.W. and F.R. Tinsley, Chicago; 4 cards, one for his affiliation with Freemasons and 3 introduction cards printed for Ransom to give to employers in need of a practical accountant in Colorado, which reads “I want a job!”; and modern copies of supplementary research on Ransom. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Autographs & Manuscripts 124 Hand Made Union Patriotic Song Book Containing “Year of Jubilee or KINGDOM has COME!” Fine pen and ink folk art song book containing seven songs popular during the Civil War era. Tastefully accomplished in calligraphy, each of these songs were lovingly penned inside a hand sewn, 8 x 6.625 in. booklet, ca 1863-1864, with “KINGDOM has COME” appearing at the center of the booklet, while the last song, entitled “Lament of the IRISH EMIGRANT” is dated February 21, 1864. All but two of the melodies are exactly two pages in length. Included in this song book is the wildly popular anti-slavery song entitled “Year of Jubilee or KINGDOM has COME!” In ebonic format, the lyrics, read, in part: “I come up Norf on a little bender, Left Missus at home wid no one to tender her. Ole Massa’s gone, I dun-no what to; Sambo pretty sure he don’t much care to…Met general Beauregard, on my way…he said up Norf, dey would skin and eat me…he said he had just whipp’d Gen-ral Bu-el, Grant and Wallace…in a dual. I axed him den, why he was running away. Sam-bo, says he, dat question aint fair play…Molasses Junction was a big scarecrow…its wooden guns nobody dare go; but when McClellan got a good ready De Southern Gentry seemed quite unsteady….Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation, De two tallest tings in dis tall nation; Hurrah den boys…Den sound de horn…beat de drum…Kingdom has come, boys, we’ve good times, beny…” Other songs include, “On A Green Grassy Knoll,” “The Old Mountain Tree,” “Harmonian Waltz,” “Squire Jone’s Daughter,” and “The Sweet Birds Are Singing.” $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Art David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection Lots 125-135 While the photographic process evolved rapidly from its inception in 1839 and the wet plate process of taking photographs was coming into widespread use by the start of the Civil War, it was a cumbersome process in the field as well as the studio. More significantly, at that time the photographs themselves could not be reproduced as illustrations accompanying written reports of the war. As a result, publishers of newspapers and other periodicals in major cities, primarily in the North, employed a number of sketch artists who traveled with armies to draw the scenes that they witnessed. These sketches, most frequently pencil on paper with brief identifications of people and places, were then sent back by courier to the periodical publishers. The battlefield sketches received by the publishers were then copied by engraving artists onto wooden blocks, which were used in printing presses to illustrate printed articles covering the war. Unlike the photographers of the day, who were limited to capturing the aftermath of battles, the sketch artists had the advantage of recording what they were witnessing as the events occurred before their eyes. Lots 125-132 and 135 feature the original artwork of noted battlefield artist Alfred R. Waud (1828-1891). Born and raised in London, Waud studied at the Government School of Design at Somerset House before immigrating to the United States in 1850. Upon his arrival, Waud worked primarily as a freelance artist until May of 1861 when he was retained as a sketch artist and special correspondent by the New York Illustrated Newspaper to report on the war. At the close of 1861, Waud joined Harper’s Weekly, where he was employed through the end of the war. He continued to work for Harper’s Weekly in addition to a number of other publishers following the war and his career flourished. While touring battlefields in the South in 1891, Waud died in Marietta, GA. The Library of Congress houses most of his original wartime sketches, with some remaining in private hands. In the 1880s, the popular Century Magazine started publishing the narratives of Civil War veterans and retained a large number of sketch artists including Waud to illustrate the articles. They used interviews, photographs, and prior war-date sketches to produce accurate pictorial representations of the war. These illustrated accounts were incorporated into a large four-volume work entitled Battles and Leaders of the Civil War in 1881. Almost a century later, in 1973, American Heritage Magazine acquired the collection of drawings that had been held by Century Magazine, which were subsequently reproduced in The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art published in 1974. Christie›s conducted two public auctions in 1988, which were comprised of the remaining original Century Magazine Collection of Civil War artwork that was dispersed by American Heritage Magazine, and a number of drawings by Waud were acquired by the consignor, with many being offered today. See also Lot 44.
125 Washington, DC, Navy Yard, April 1861, Watercolor and Gouache by Alfred R. Waud Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8 x 2 in., matted, 12 x 16.5 in. Initialed A.R.W. After sketch by Waud done a few days prior to the outbreak of hostilities. The USS Pensacola appears at the far left. Reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1, p. 617; Alfred R. Waud, Civil War Artist, p. 76, plate 2. A sharp, detailed panorama. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $2,500 - $3,500 SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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126 Civil War, Yorktown, Virginia, March 1862, Two Wartime Sketches by Alfred R. Waud Lot of 2 wartime sketches, pencil and white wash on heavy brown paper, each initialed in pencil lower right A.R.W. Both probably drawn in March 1862, and unpublished. Including the following, as captioned in pencil by Waud: Magazine at the Head of a Ravine Sketched in the Works of Yorktown, 4.375 x 5 in. Reverse features drawing of unidentified officer. Road to the Land Face of the Yorktown Fortifications - Union Artillery and Balloon, 3 x 8 in. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,200 - $1,800
127 General George B. McClellan Bidding Farewell to Army of Potomac, November 10, 1862, Watercolor by Alfred R. Waud Watercolor, 10.5 x 14.75 in., matted and framed, 17.75 x 21.5 in. Signed lower left A.R. Waud. After wartime sketch by Waud. McClellan was relieved of command by order of President Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam. This was the second time Lincoln relieved McClellan of
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command, and although he was never to receive another command he was very popular with his men. In 1864, he was nominated by the Democratic Party to run for President against Lincoln and lost. McClellan later served as Governor of New Jersey. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $4,000 - $6,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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128 Lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson Holding his Battery to its Work in an Exposed Position, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Watercolor by Alfred R. Waud Watercolor on paper, 10 x 15.5 in., matted and framed, 18.5 x 22.75 in. Initialed lower left A.R.W. An exceptional scene showing Lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson holding his Battery [G, 4th United States Artillery] to its work in an exposed position, July 1, 1863, Union Right, Gettysburg, PA, after a wartime sketch by Waud. Reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 3, p. 280. One of the many Union heroes in the Battle of Gettysburg, Wilkeson was killed several hours after the original sketch was made by a massed Confederate artillery. At that moment, Wilkeson’s father, a correspondent, was at General Meade’s Headquarters a short distance away. A strong and compelling piece of art. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $5,000 - $7,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Art 129 The Devil’s Den, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Pen and Ink Sketch by Alfred R. Waud Pen and ink on board, 6.625 x 9.25 in. Initialed lower left A.R.W. After a wartime sketch by Waud. Inscribed, Vincent’s Brigade falling back from the Devil’s Den July 2, 1863. Reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 3, p. 323; The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art, p. 229, plate 240. Incredible eyewitness view of Colonel Vincent’s Brigade withdrawing after heavy fighting in the Devil’s Den. Confederates are seen pushing forward over the rocks with a color bearer standing tall at the left center of the scene. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,500 - $2,500
130 Explosion of the Petersburg Mine, Virginia, July 1864, Pen and Ink Sketch by Alfred R. Waud Pen and ink on board, 12 x 15 in., matted and framed, 19 x 23 in. Initialed lower left A.R.W. After a wartime sketch by Waud. Reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 4, p. 561; The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art, pp. 290-291, plate 305. Magnificent detailed rendering of overview of battlefield from behind Union line at the instant of the explosion of the mine. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,000 - $1,500
131 A Sap Roller, Petersburg, Virginia, Watercolor and Gouache by Alfred R. Waud Watercolor and gouache on paper, 9.3125 x 14.375 in., matted. Initialed lower left A.R.W. After a wartime sketch by Waud. Reproduced in The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art, p. 289, plate 304. A wonderful, accomplished night scene. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,000 - $1,500
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132 General Custer’s Division Retiring from Mt. Jackson, Virginia, and Burning the Forage, October 1864, Watercolor and Gouache by Alfred R. Waud Watercolor and gouache on paper, 7.5 x 10.5 in., matted and framed, 15.5 x 18 in. General George Custer’s Division (3rd) Retiring from Near Mt. Jackson, Virginia, and Burning the Forage. October 7, 1864. Initialed lower left, A.R.W. After a wartime sketch by Waud. Reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 4, p. 512; Alfred R. Waud, Civil War Artist, p. 169, plate 88, and wartime sketch p. 168, plate 87. General Custer on horseback stands out prominently in right foreground (as if depicted in 3-D), with his division in the background finishing its destructive campaign. Beautifully finished artwork. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $6,000 - $8,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Art 133 Confederate Casualty, Petersburg, Virginia, April 1865, Civil War Sketch by Allen C. Redwood Pencil and ink on board, 9 x 10 in. Initialed lower left by the artist, Allen C. Redwood. After a photograph of a dead Confederate soldier from the 55th Virginia Regiment by Thomas C. Roche. Reproduced in The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art, p. 310, plate 327. At the age of 17, Allen C. Redwood (1844-1922) enlisted in the 55th Regiment of the Army of Northern Virginia, which saw action in several battles including Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg and captured twice. Redwood eventually achieved the rank of regimental sergeant major, making him one of the very few sketch artists who fought in combat as an officer. Following the war, he documented his experiences through his illustrations, producing work for Scribner’s, Harper’s Weekly, and Century Magazine. Redwood was also sent to Cuba to cover the Spanish American War by Harper’s Weekly in 1898. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,500 - $2,500
134 Civil War-Period Watercolor, 9th New York Armed Hawkins Zouave by Caroline Hubert An accomplished period watercolor on paper dated 1865 and signed by an undocumented artist. 7.75 x 10.5 in. (sight), in contemporary gilded frame under glass, 13 x 15.75 in. This romanticized portrait of a Hawkins’ Zouave was the cover art of the May 1979 issue of Civil War Times Magazine. The painting highlights the traditional Zouave uniform comprising a short blue jacket without collar or buttons trimmed in red with distinctive tombeau design, baggy red trousers, red fez, and white leggings. The iconic uniform was inspired by native North African dress that was first adopted by the French Army in the 1830s upon the organization of a regiment intended for foreign service. Following the Crimean War the uniform gained popularity in the United States when Elmer Ellsworth organized his famous Chicago Zouave Cadets in 1858. On the eve of the Civil War a number of urban militia companies were attired in variations of the Zouave dress. This included the New York Zouaves that served as the nucleus of the 9th New York, Hawkins’ Zoauves of Civil War fame. The 9th New York was raised in New York City and mustered into service on April 23, 1861. The Zouaves were assigned to Burnside’s Expeditionary Corps and saw extensive service in North Carolina including operations at Fort Hatteras and Camden in 1862. Later, the regiment joined the 9th Corps in time for the Maryland Campaign and fought at South Mountain and Antietam where the 9th New York suffered 233 killed, wounded, and missing. The remnants of the regiment assembled at Fredericksburg and fought gamely at that battle on December 12-15, 1862. The regiment then marched to Suffolk in March 1863 and joined the 7th Corps defences seeing action against Longstreet’s Corps in April before mustering out on May 20, 1863. We note that nothing could be found relating to the artist Caroline Hubert. The watercolor is accompanied by a copy of the May 1979 feature issue of Civil War Times Illustrated and a contemporary sales catalog by noted Civil War dealer and author Craig Caba in which the painting is noted. Property of Another Consignor $500 - $700 96
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THE CIVIL WAR | Art 135 Office of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Demopolis, Alabama, June 1865, Pencil Sketch by Alfred R. Waud Pencil and white wash on paper, 6.25 x 9.25 in., matted and framed, 14 x 18 in. Titled lower left and signed and dated lower right A.R. Waud, June 10, [18]65. Original post-Civil War sketch by Waud. David L. Hack Civil War Art Collection $1,000 - $1,500
136 Scarce Chromolithograph Atlanta Campaign, Army of the Cumberland, Divine Service by Rev. P.P. Cooney Chromolithograph, 27.5 x 21.5 in. (sight), entitled Divine Service by Rev. P.P. Cooney C.S.C. Chaplain Gen. of Ind[iana] Troops in the Field, with central scene set in clover-shaped border, plus captions Atlanta Campaign / Army of the Cumberland, and 1st Irish Regt. & 35th Indiana Vol./ Easter Sunday 1864. With smaller vignettes in corners depicting Reverend P.P. Cooney, soldiers receiving holy communion, a battle scene, and sisters in field hospital. Copyrighted by Louis Kurz, Washington, DC, 1877. Published by American Oleograph Co., Milwaukee, WI. Paper laid on canvas, housed in period frame, 31.75 x 26 in. $500 - $700
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137 Civil War, Complete Collection of 18 Lithographs Published by L. Prang & Co. Lot of 18 chromolithographs, each approx. 21.5 x 15 in. (not including margins), and framed, 26 x 19 in. Copyrighted 1887 by L. Prang & Co., Boston, MA, each chromolithograph presents a dramatic depiction of a specific Civil War battle based on the artwork of Thure de Thulstrup and J.O. Davidson. The battles, which are identified at lower left in each print, include: Battle between the “Monitor” and “Merrimac” Battle of Shiloh The Capture of New Orleans Battle of Antietam Laying the Pontoons at Fredericksburg Siege of Vicksburg: Assault on Fort Hill Passing the Batteries at Port Hudson
Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Chattanooga Spotsylvania and the Bloody Angle Kenesaw [Kennesaw] Mountain: The Charge of Logan’s Corps “Kearsarge” and “Alabama”: Hauling Down the Flag Siege of Atlanta Battle of Mobile Bay Sheridan’s Final Charge at Winchester Sheridan’s Ride Holding the Pass at Allatoona Capture of Fort Fisher A rare opportunity to acquire a complete collection of Prang & Co. Civil War chromolithographs. $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Art 138 Colonel Ellsworth Commemorative Polychrome Pitcher Molded polychrome stoneware pitcher illustrating the shooting of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the first conspicuous casualty of the Civil War, at Alexandria, VA. Although lacking a maker’s mark, the pitcher was made by Millington, Astbury, and Poulson, Trenton, NJ, ca 1861. A baluster form pitcher with spurred handle, molded in relief on one side with a dramatic depiction of Colonel Ellsworth, who lies dead at the bottom of the stairwell, while three soldiers, one identified as F.E. Brownell, struggle to fight the man who shot Ellsworth in the chest, identified as J.W. Jackson / The Traitor on the pitcher. Brownell, the soldier shown bayoneting Jackson, was credited with killing the traitor, and later received the Medal of Honor for his actions. The reverse side is imprinted with the phrase Union and the Constitution, and features a molded relief of an American Eagle with snake in beak perched above a fallen Confederate Flag, with an American Flag flying at right above a gathering of rifles. With gilt highlights and initials that appear to be G.B. Approx. 8 in. at widest point, 8.5 in. tall. This is believed to be the first commemorative pitcher made by a US potter. $1,500 - $2,500
139 Confederate Army Captain William A. Webb & Wife, Oil on Canvas Portraits by J.P. Walker Lot of 2 oil on canvas portraits of Captain William Webb dressed in his Confederate Navy Uniform and his wife, each 24.25 x 29 in., housed in matching gilt frames, 29.25 x 30.25 in. Each signed lower right by New York artist J.P. Walker. The paintings were purportedly produced while Captain Webb was on house arrest in New York City, following his 1863 capture. His wife was allowed to stay with him while he served as a prisoner of war. William A. Webb was a decorated US Navy officer. After serving in the Navy for over 20 years, he left to support the Confederacy. He was immediately commissioned a captain and took command of the armed gunboat CSS Teaser. After successfully fighting at the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Confederacy assigned him to a “special mission,” utilizing boats armed with spar torpedoes to attack each of the seven Union ironclads at Charleston. Webb’s ship was not involved in the
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fight, but the mission was successful and helped him gain command of the CSS Atlanta. Overconfident in his abilities, Webb worked against orders and headed a mission with two other ships on the Warsaw Sound in June 1863. The Union knocked a hole in the casemate in one of the two steamers, severely weakening his fleet. The blow forced him to surrender, making the Atlanta the first Confederate ironclad to surrender to the Union. This resulted in the Union’s imprisonment of Webb and his men. Webb was the first paroled and immediately returned to the front. He took command of the CSS Richmond from October through November 1864. He relinquished his position due to declining health. The next year he left the Confederacy and went to England, where he took the oath of allegiance in May 1865. Shortly after, Webb returned to Virginia and received a presidential pardon. Ex Gary Hendershot Collection $4,000 - $6,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | Art 140 Confederate Marble Plaque Marble plaque, approx. 10 x 12 in. max. dimensions, 10 lbs 13 oz. Central image of flag with ten strips and single large star in canton and five small stars, one between each point, surrounded by scrollwork, acanthus leaves and flowers. Elaborately scrolled initials N.D.T.(?) sc. Georgia Info, An Online Georgia Almanac notes: “After the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in November 1860, unofficial flags consisting of a single star on a solid background began appearing across the South. As each star on the US flag signified a state, a single star indicated that the state had withdrawn (or planned to withdraw) from the Union, which would make it a sovereign power.” This flag resembles Florida’s “Chase flag,” which had 13 stripes (red and white, blue canton, white star), and was the same as the Texas Navy flag (1836-1845). The Louisiana secessionist flag had 13 stripes, alternating blue-white-red-white, and a red canton with a gold star. However, Louisiana was the sixth state to secede, which may be the “five small-one large” star symbolism. All other secessionist flags had more elaborate seals and symbols, such as the pelican on Louisiana’s flag (there was at least one with a pelican in the large star), the palmetto on South Carolina’s, or the state seal on Virginia’s. Many had two or three broad stripes, like the first Confederate National flag. $600 - $800
THE CIVIL WAR | The Confederacy 141 Confederate Cane Presented by Colonel J.M. Higgins to J. William Purdy Gutta-percha shaft, 33.75 in. ln., 1.5 in. brass ferrule, with 14 karat gold (tested) knob engraved: Col. J.M. Higgins, C.S.A. / to / J. Wm. Purdy / 1862. We have been unable to locate the Confederate service records of Colonel J.M. Higgins or J. William. Purdy. $1,000 - $1,500
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142 Confederate POW Cotton Stone Folk Art Pipe Likely Carved at Gratiot Street Prison, Missouri Confederate cotton stone folk art pipe likely carved by a POW at McDowell Medical College, which was converted to Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis, MO during the Civil War. Small pipe comprised of round bowl and shank, carved in semi-professional style, with rope-like twist narrow relief border around bowl. A large palmetto tree design is carved in high relief on front of bowl, with a semi-circular cluster of twelve five-pointed stars and sunburst-like motif below, and what appears to be a brick or stone wall at the
base of the tree trunk. Left side of bowl features high relief carved representation of the stars and bars flag flying atop a pole, with a small brick wall serving as the flag’s base and a large pyramid of cannon balls stacked beside it. Right side of bowl with small flag on pole (no design visible) flying beside a branch and leaf motif. Underside of bowl is supported by very high relief carving of a human hand (holding up the bowl). Overall width approx. 2.25 in.; bowl height 1.875 in., dia. 1.25 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $2,000 - $3,000
143 Confederate POW Cotton Stone Folk Art Pipe Carved at McDowell Medical College, Missouri Confederate cotton stone folk art pipe carved by POW who served time at McDowell Medical College, which was converted to Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis, MO, during the Civil War. In comparison with other examples carved at the same prison, this pipe is very small and different in shape. Front of bowl features low relief carving of an eagle in flight, clutching what appears to be a small stars and bars Confederate flag on a pole, positioned above the incised carved phrase, Gone / South, over small relief carved crossed flags and cannon barrels. A large building with a tall dome at center and two smaller wings at each side is represented in relief on the left side of the bowl and
is identified in incised carved script as McDowell College. A small American flag is clearly flying atop the dome. The incised carved date 1862 is visible at the pointed base, below the college. A large Confederate stars and bars flying atop a slanted flagpole is carved in relief on the bowl’s right side. Each corner at the top of the bowl includes a small, relief carved five-point star, and the small bridge piece connecting the top of the bowl to the mouth of the stem is neatly incised carved with the initials, A.E.M. Maximum width 2 in.; triangular shaped square bowl ht. 1.375 in., width on each side approx. 1 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,500 - $3,000
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144 Libby Prison Folk Art Carved Laurel Root Pipe Folk art carved pipe, dark brown wood, likely laurel root. Entire front and large portion of each side of bowl with three large, crudely carved lines of text in high relief, G.W. Heath / Co. K 1 PRVC / Libby June, with the rest of the date in high relief around the top of the bowl on the reverse side facing towards the shank, 27. 1862 (June 27, 1862). Maximum width 2.75 in.; bowl height 2.5 in., dia. 1.375 in.
George W. Heath enlisted in Philadelphia as a private on June 4, 1861 and mustered into the 36th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He and his regiment fought heavily at Malvern Hill, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Heath was most likely wounded and captured at the Wilderness with 272 other men in his regiment. There is no record of Heath being captured and sent to Libby. He was discharged for disability on November 11, 1862 by a surgeon’s certificate. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $600 - $800
145 Civil War Folk Art Pipe Possibly Carved by POW Captured by CSA General N.B. Forrest During Streight’s Raid, May 1863 Small folk art carved pipe, wood nicely grained and polished, possibly laurel root. Front features handsomely carved, large five point star over small crossed flagpoles, each flying a very small American flag, with the following letters carved in high relief around the star: W…R…U…S…K. With Chaplain Hills incised carved in a curved panel on left side of bowl’s front, and Stone River incised carved in similar curved panel on right side. Underside of bowl with carved, semi-circular riband incised carved, Captured May 3, 1863 / Rome, GA. Overall width 2.375 in.; bowl height 1.75 in., dia. 1.25 in. The inscription on the underside of the bowl indicates that the pipe’s owner was captured during Streight’s raid, which began in Northern Alabama under the leadership of Union Colonel Abel D. Streight on April 19 and ended near Rome, GA, on May 3, 1863. Streight’s goal was to destroy parts of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which was supplying the Confederate Army of Tennessee. However, the raid was poorly supplied and planned, and concluded with the defeat and capture of Streight and his 1,700 men by Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his 500 men. The captured Union soldiers were then taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, VA, which suggests that this pipe was likely carved by a POW serving time at the notorious Confederate prison. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $2,000 - $4,000 SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 146 Cane Made from Andersonville Prison Stockade Wood cane, approx. 35.5 in. ln., 1.5 in. ferrule, with a silver and wood derby handle with cast horses and floral motifs on the edges as well as a neck inscribed Prison Stockade/ Andersonville, GA, with decorative cast flowers and a jockey/rider on horseback on the edges. The end of the handle bears the initials DWP. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
147 Civil War Patriotic Folk Art Carved Bone Items, Including One by an Andersonville POW Lot of 3, including a large shield-shaped pendant, approx. 1.75 x 2 in., inscribed on verso Made by a Union Soldier in Andersonville Prison 1865 / Thigh Bone Union C(ow?). Accompanied by two rectangular kerchief slides, one of which features a shield and stars and one a shield and heart with an arrow through it. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $600 - $800
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 148 Civil War Folk Art Carved ID Tag, Badges, Ribbons, & Letter Identified to W.D. Remington, 50th New York Engineers Lot of 7 items collected by W. Remington, Co. C, 50th New York Volunteers, featuring folk art carved bone, shield-shaped identification tag likely meant to be worn on a ribbon or band around the soldier’s neck, 1.5 x 1.5 in. The front features a fine, high relief carved turreted castle as worn by members of the engineering divisions, with incised carving above, Co. C. 50. N.Y.V. (50th New York Volunteers). Like the front, the reverse is carved with a decorative border, and the following battle names are neatly carved and highlighted in red, Fred. burg / Chancelory / Deep. Run / Stick. in. Mud / Germania. F.O.D. / Po. Run. Accompanied by 2pp letter penned by W.D. Remington, the soldier that almost certainly carved the bone tag described above, dated February 11, 1863, from Camp in the Woods Near Fredericksburg. In the letter to his mother, Remington discusses visiting with Major Brainard [of the regiment]. He goes on to describe a gift he plans on making for his brother. I will make him a present of a nice little laurel root ring with a castle upon the top and the United States coat of arms upon each side. He adds, I have made a Bible of the root and wear it upon my watch cord with a clasp and raised binding upon the back cut out of wood with a knife and sealing wax set in the corners and upon the clasp, upon the back I have cut the words “HOLY BIBLE,” it is filled with sealing wax and looks nice. I intend to make a smaller one and send it home in a letter to you to put upon the mantelpiece in the parlor. The lot also features a five-part ladder badge engraved as follows, Co. C / 50 / New York / Engineers / Corps, with two tassels suspended from bottom link, 5 in. overall; small brass insignia representing the engineer corps (2), the first 1.75 x 1.25 in., the second 1 x .75 in.; silk ribbon (separated into two parts) with partial, applied paper labels, E / 50th / [New] York / Volunteer, approx. 4.25 in. long; and cello reunion badge that reads, Andersonville 1864 / Death Before Dishonor, attached to silk ribbon with silver text, Union Ex-Prisoners of War Ass’n of Western Mass. / Greenfield, Mass. April 9, 1911., approx. 3.75 in. long. The 50th New York was originally raised as an infantry regiment in September 1861 from Elmira and surrounding areas in central and western New York. Converted into an engineer regiment the next month, it served throughout the war, with the various detachments digging trenches and building pontoon bridges, roads, and fortifications. The 50th played a major role in several battles and campaigns, including Yorktown, Harper’s Ferry, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg. Wesley D. Remington enlisted as a private in Rome, NY on August 26, 1862 and mustered into Co.
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149 Unique Folk Art Carving of Civil War Battle Between the USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack Medium to dark wood, possibly walnut, 22 x 8 in., approx. 2.25 in. thick. High relief carving purportedly representing the world’s first sea battle between ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack. The carving is comprised of two ships with smoking cannon and smokestacks, clashing against one another. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 150 Patriotic Meerschaum Pipe Very large, professionally made and commercially purchased meerschaum pipe with very high relief, fine quality detailed American eagle at center, clutching arrows and olive branches in its talons, with US shield on its breast. The eagle holds a riband in its mouth, the remainder of which is suspended above the eagle, carved with the phrase, E Pluribus Unum. Overall width including bowl and shank approx. 5.25 in.; bowl height 4.25 in., width (at widest point including eagle’s wings) 2.75 in.; tobacco chamber dia. 1.375 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,500 - $2,500
151 Civil War Patriotic Folk Art Carved Pipe Folk art carved pipe, medium brown in color, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl beautifully carved with a large oval shaped, highly detailed leaf and branch motif with Union over 1862 at its center. Small projection on back for stem also relief carved in a spiral-like motif. Overall width approx. 4 in. While bulbous in shape, the bowl is tapered narrower at top, tapered bowl height approx. 2.5 in., dia. at its top approx. 2 in., and almost 3 inches in dia. at its mid-section. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 152 Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Featuring American Eagles Folk art carved pipe, light brown in color, possibly laurel root. Each side features very large, American eagle relief carved in profile, with the eagles’ heads facing off against each other, almost beak to beak. The outer wing of each eagle is folded backward while the opposite wing points upward; eagles’ claws touching each other. Accompanied by stem, possibly original to pipe. Overall length with stem 7 in., overall length without stem approx. 4 in.; bowl height approx. 2.125 in., dia. 1.75 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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153 Civil War Folk Art Carved Roanoke Pipe Featuring Bird Uniquely shaped folk art pipe, medium brown in color, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl features large, semi-circular, high relief carved lettering, O.M. Roanoke. Lower portion of bowl crudely carved in the form of a bird, including a head, body, and wings. Underside of section where bowl meets shank carved in form of leaf. Overall width 5.5 in.; bowl height 3.5 in., dia. (slightly oval) 1.75 in. Although this cannot be confirmed, this pipe may relate to the Battle of Roanoke Island, which was fought in the North Carolina sounds and just south of the Virginia border on February 7-8, 1862 and resulted in a Union victory. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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154 General George McClellan Pipe Small gutta percha pipe, right side featuring military bust of George McClellan in fairly high relief, with leafy branch below. Left side with eagle perched atop an American flag hanging from a flagpole, with leafy branch below. Overall width approx. 2.5 in.; bowl height 1.75 in., dia. 1 in. A rare pipe, possibly made in conjunction with McClellan’s 1864 presidential campaign. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
155 Civil War Folk Art Pipe, Possibly U.S. Engineers, 1863 Delicate, nicely made folk art carved soldier’s pipe, medium to dark brown in color, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl features only relief carving, consisting of three large letters, U.S.E., possibly U.S. Engineers. The date 1863 is inlaid in brass above the three letters. Brass inlay in oval design surrounds the date and relief carved letters, with the outer edge of the brass oval inlay completely encircled with very tiny, evenly spaced small brass studs. Brass inlays in the form of Co. and B are at top of bowl, on left and right sides. With several tiny brass line
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and stud inlays on both sides of the lower bowl and along the shank. Initials of the original owner, T.J.N., in tiny decorative brass inlay are at extreme bottom of bowl and underside of shank. Top edge of shank also edged in brass, and entire perimeter of flat top of bowl’s wall edged in brass, with numerous tiny round brass inlays decorating the flat top. Overall width of bowl and stem 2.175 in.; bowl height 1.75 in., dia. 1.25 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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156 Massachusetts 33rd Regiment, Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Featuring Fighting Dogs Folk art, soldier carved pipe, nice medium brown patina, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl features extremely high relief carvings of two pitbulls (tails upright) on the verge of fighting, with large, neatly and deeply incised carved name Falmouth above the dogs, and abbreviation VA just below their heads. The dogs stand atop a fancy, high relief riband-like carving, with deep incised carved lettering, 33rd Reg. Mass. Vol’s. Dec. 1862. Overall width 3.5 in.; bowl height approx. 2.5 in., dia. 1.5 in.
Organized at Springfield, MA, the 33rd Massachusetts Infantry mustered in for a three year enlistment on August 6, 1862 under the command of Colonel Adin B. Underwood. The regiment saw action at several major battles, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where it was posted on East Cemetery Hill and then between that and Culp’s Hill, helping repel Hays & Hoke’s brigades, with 8 killed and 38 wounded. The 33rd MA went on to participate at Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta Campaign, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and more before mustering out on June 11, 1865. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
157 Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Identified to H. Riffin, 17th New York Volunteers Folk art carved pipe, dark brown in color, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl features very high relief carved partial profile view of a large eagle with upraised wings, holding riband in claw with relief carved lettering Traitors Beware. (There was a small triangular shaped inlay (now lacking) obscuring just a few letters of Beware.) Extreme bottom of bowl features relief carved flower surrounded by two lines of carved lettering Chancellorville [sic] / Fredericksburg (b no longer present). With Bull Run / Antetam [sic] carved in high relief on left side of bowl, and Yorktown / Hanover carved in high relief on right side.
Shank features large, relief carved acorn-like motif and branch design, with semi-circular lettering above identifying the pipe to H. Riffin. Co. F. 17. NYV. (second i in Riffin no longer present). Overall width 3 in.; bowl height 2.25 in., dia. 1.625 in. The 17th New York Volunteers mustered into the US service on May 28, 1861, for a two year term. It participated in Yorktown, the Peninsular Campaign, Manassas, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancelorsville. We were unable to find any documentation for a soldier by the name of H. Riffin who served with the 17th New York. $800 - $1,200
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 158 Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe of Lieutenant H.A. Speler, 35th New Jersey Volunteers Folk art carved pipe, medium to dark brown in color with nicely grained wood. Neatly incised carving in seven lines across the front (the top line semi-circular), Lt. H.A. Speler / Co. K. / 35. NJV / Savannah / Fell the / 21 Of. Dec. / 1864. With additional text incised carved in two lines around the back, side, and edges of the bowl, Millen. Dec. the 5 & 9 / Oliver. Station. Overall width approx. 2.75 in.; bowl height 2.25 in., dia. 1.5 in. Accompanying stem not original to the pipe. We could not locate records for a Lt. H.A. Speler. The 35th New Jersey Volunteers mustered into service in September 1863 and participated in the Atlanta Campaign. During its term of service, 19 solders resigned, 65 were discharged, 42 of those for promotions, 196 were transferred, 147 died, and 451 of its men deserted. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
159 Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Identified to Isaac Morgan, 7th Michigan Volunteers, KIA Wilderness Folk art carved burl wood pipe, light to medium brown with fine patina. The front and sides of the bowl are almost entirely covered with an incised panel and high relief carved text in five large lines: Isaac. Morgan. Co. D 7 MV / Fair Oaks. Antietam / Fredricks.burg [sic] VA / Glendale. Yorktown / Peach Orchard. Incised branch and leaf motif below the panel. Overall height 2.5 in., overall width 2.75 in.; maximum dia. at top of bowl approx. 2 in.
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Twenty-six-year-old Isaac Morgan enlisted on August 10, 1861. Twelve days later he mustered into the 7th Michigan Volunteers, Co. D. Morgan fought through and survived battles at Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. However, he did not survive his last engagement at the Battle of the Wilderness. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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160 Illinois 24th Infantry, Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Presented by Captain P. Hand to Lieutenant Colonel G.E. Briand Folk art carved presentation pipe, light to medium brown in color, possibly laurel root. Front of bowl with five lines of text carved in high relief, Chicamauga [sic] / Prsnt / By / Capt. P. Hand / To / Lt. Col. G. E. Briand. Bottom of bowl and underside covered with fancy, multiwidth tapered fluted motifs. Bowl’s top edge also includes fancy, relief carved, rope-like design. Overall width 3.25 in.; bowl height 2.75 in., dia. 1.75 in.
Captain Peter Hand enlisted on July 8, 1861 as a 2nd lieutenant in the 24th Illinois Infantry, Co. G. By the winter, he received his first promotion to 1st lieutenant and his second as captain on November 24, 1862. He transferred to Co. K and took command of the men. He mustered out of service on August 15, 1864. We could find no service records for G.E. Briand. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
161 Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Identified to L. Bartholomew, 36th Illinois Volunteers Folk art carved burl wood pipe, medium to dark brown in color. Front of bowl features large, high relief carved eagle, its left wing fully open, right wing folded downward. A riband inscribed E. Pluribus Unum flows in the eagle’s beak. Right side with large, high relief carved text in two lines, 36 / ILL, left side relief carved, Co. A. The wide rim of the bowl entirely covered with wide silver and edged in matching silver. Flat top of silver inscribed, L. Bartholomew. 1864. A small extension (into which the stem fits) on reverse of pipe is also beautifully silver mounted to the pipe. Accompanied by original, custom fitted wooden stem with original small silver link chain. Mouthpiece not original to pipe. Overall length including stem 7 in., overall width of bowl and shank 3 in.; bowl height 2 in., dia. 1.75 in. Leman Bartholomew enlisted in the army at Elgin, IL on August 8, 1861. He mustered into the 36th Illinois Infantry, Co. A, on September 13, 1861. He received several promotions including 2nd lieutenant by July 1, 1865. With the 36th IL, Bartholomew fought through the Battles of Stone River and Chickamauga. He mustered out of New Orleans on October 8, 1865. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,200
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162 Illinois 85th Infantry, Civil War Folk Art Carved Pipe Presented by H.G. Yardley to J.H. Havighorst Very handsomely grained folk art carved pipe, wood medium to dark brown in color, possibly laurel root. The pipe features fine, deep incised lettering that is included within individual curved / flowing riband-like panels. The following is carved around the bowl’s top, almost encircling it, Lookout Mt. / Perryville/ Stone River. Bowl’s front section features long, flowing riband encircling all three sides, carved Presented / by / H. G. Yardley / to / J. H. Havighorst. Flowing ribands along bottom of bowl and entire left side carved Polk Creek / Buzzard Roost. And in similar manner, flowing ribands on the opposite side
carved Chickamauga / Missionary Ridge. Overall height 3 in., overall width approx. 3.5 in.; bowl’s outside dia. 1.75 in. Henry G. Yardley enlisted as a private on August 15, 1862. A few weeks later, Yardley mustered into the 85th Illinois Infantry, Co. C. He fought with the regiment at Chickamauga, Stone’s River, and with Sherman’s March to the Sea. The recipient of his carving was John H. Havighorst, a reverend in his hometown, Mason County, IL. Yardley mustered out of service at Washington, DC on June 5, 1865 and returned home to his family. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
163 Civil War Folk Art Carved Army of the Potomac Pipe Identified to C. Knapp Nicely grained, folk art carved dark wood pipe, likely laurel root. Front of bowl with large open winged flying eagle over lettering relief carved in two large wavy lines, Bull Run / Army of the Potomac. Bowl’s underside features three large palm leaves carved in high relief. Left
side with relief carved battles Antietam / Fredericksburg; right side Hannover. Stem section on reverse high relief carved with soldier’s name C. Knapp. Overall width 3.75 in.; bowl height 2 in., dia. approx. 1.875 in. We were unable to locate the service records of C. Knapp. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,200
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164 Civil War, Patriotic Folk Art Carved Pipe Referencing Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, and More Folk art pipe, neatly carved in high relief. A deeply carved panel on each side features a very high relief acorn-like motif at its center. A large, open winged American eagle clutching olive branches in its claws, with shield on its breast marked Union covers the front three sides of the bowl. The two back panels are carved with high relief lettering, Mission Ridge / Lookout Mountain, while the projection which holds the stem is carved at each side (which faces the two panels just described), Jonesboro and Atlanta respectively. The entire length of the back side of the projection for the stem is carved in high relief, Chickamauga. Overall width of pipe with bowl and its projection at bottom 3 in., height 2.25 in.; both bowl and pipe are octagon-shaped with maximum dia. 1.75 in. With original, long matching stem and horn mouthpiece, both intact. Overall height including stem and mouthpiece 9 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
165 Civil War Folk Art Pipe Carved in the Form of a Soldier’s Boot Folk art pipe carved in the full modeled shape of a pointed military boot, light brown in color, possibly laurel root. The shank extending from the boot’s front features large, incised carved lettering, Co. L. 10. R (Company L, 10th Regiment). The opposite side of the shank is initialed J.G.K. Underside/sole of boot incised carved in three lines Va. / March / 1. 1865. Overall width 3.5 in., overall height 2.5 in.; bowl dia. 1.25 in. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 166 CSA Soldier, John D. Whittington, 4th Alabama Infantry, Ambrotype, Folk Art Carved Pipe & Fob Lot of 4, featuring incomplete Confederate soldier’s tobacco pipe, carved fob, sixth plate ambrotype, and notary card identified to John D. Whittington. The collection features a folk art, partially carved Confederate soldier’s tobacco pipe in an incomplete state, with partial branch of tree from which it was carved still in tact. The bowl is hollowed out in an almost completely finished state, while the stem has never been bored through and the base still shows its clean cut from the rest of the tree branch. The name of the noted Civil War battle, Lookout Mt., is crudely incised carved on the bowl’s rim, possibly referring to the location where the wood for the pipe was acquired. The pipe’s exterior is almost entirely rough with the exception of a crude, relief carved design of a skull and crossbones over a leaf shaped panel, which has a lighter, incised carving of a smaller skull and crossbones. The panel also includes three small initials F.C.B. carved in three separate spots around the skull and crossbones. Overall height 6.25 in.; bowl height approx. 3 in. The pipe is accompanied by a sixth plate ambrotype of two young Confederate servicemen shown seated, arm in arm, wearing identical CS blouses and wide brim felt hats. Housed in half case. Flayderman notes that the original owner strongly believed that one of the young soldiers pictured in the ambrotype was Alabama soldier John D. Whittington, although this cannot be confirmed. A small wooden “fob,” 3 in. overall, with neatly incised carved large initials J.D.W. and an original business card of Jno. D. Whittington / Justice of the Peace, showing his address as Richmond, (Dallas Co.), Ala. are included with the lot. Norm Flayderman purchased this group from an Alabama antique dealer in 1986. In a letter to Flayderman from the antique dealer, dated April 7, 1986 (which is included with the lot), he describes John D. Whittington as “a Native Alabamian as far as I can determine. His young life was spent in Selma (Dallas County) Ala. At the time of the War between the States, Whittington enlisted in the Confederate Army (the 4th Ala. Inf.)...” The dealer also relates that the “ambrotype, carved pipe, and carved fob were found together in a box in a drawer” in a Richmond, Dallas County, AL Country Store that Whittington ran after the Civil War. No further information has been discovered regarding Whittington’s service with the 4th Alabama Infantry. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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167 Civil War Archive of Lieutenant Colonel Dana Willis King, 8th New Hampshire Infantry, Incl. POW Carved Powder Horn, Medal, and Photographs Archive of Lieutenant Colonel Dana Willis King, 8th New Hampshire Infantry. King was 29-years-old and living in Nashua when he enlisted on April 30, 1861, and mustered into Co. F. of the 1st New Hampshire with the rank of corporal. He served his three months and mustered out in August, then was commissioned into Co. A, 8th New Hampshire Infantry as a second lieutenant that October. King was promoted to captain by the end of 1863, after more than two years of service in Louisiana. At Sabine Pass on April 8, 1864, he was wounded and taken prisoner, along with 42 others of his regiment. Captain King was exchanged in late October of 1864, and returned to his unit, mustering out more than six months after the end of hostilities with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The centerpiece of the lot is a powder horn carved while King was imprisoned at Camp Ford in Tyler, TX, featuring the text Presented to Capt. J.H. Landers by Capt. D.W. King/ Prisoner of War/ Tyler, Texas. The powder horn’s largest motif is a large, windowless log cabin over the fancy lettering King’s Cabin. Just below the cabin and lettering is a large figure (typical of other Tyler horns) of a bare-breasted mermaid holding in her upraised right arm a mirror into which she is looking. On reverse side, a large decorative carving of an American shield, with an American flag flying on either side of that shield and the caption above Forever, and below a large alligator. Additional decorations on the horn include a fine detail of a second American eagle, wings downward, holding in both its claws a large anchor, with a semiarched design above surrounded by a cluster of stars. Other very small designs throughout the horn represent the head of a dog; three stacked upward pointing military muskets; crossed sabers; a coiled snake; profile view of a field cannon on two wheeled mount; a small drum; a wooden barrel labeled Pork, with a pig’s head poking out of its top; a wooden rack with clothes drying on it including a large blanket inscribed with the letters US, with a pair of trousers hanging over it; horse head in profile; various camp pests including a beetle, spider, and millipede; and at the top inner side of the horn near the spout, a decided scull and crossbones motif over a large five point star with a sunburst-like motif surrounding it. Completely encircling the horn just to the left of the lengthy presentation inscription, a very wide band with a chain-like border on both upper and lower sides, filled with five point star motifs, with a small Masonic symbol near the bottom. The archive also includes a fine ninth plate ruby ambrotype of King as a lieutenant, holding his officer’s sword; an exceptional CDV of King in
tattered clothing, taken by Theo. Lilienthal in New Orleans just after King was exchanged and published in the regimental history, The Old Eighth, which is also included in the lot; real photo postcard of King as an old man, dressed in his GAR uniform and seated in a wheelchair; CDV and ninth plate ambrotype of his friend and comrade Henry J. Durgin, the principal musician of the 8th NHV, who was captured and imprisoned with King; cabinet cart of King in his captain’s uniform; and ten late-19th-century cabinet cards and other photographs of King in civilian dress, his home in Nashua, and his grave. Manuscript notes and photocopied research also included. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $3,000 - $5,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 168 Civil War POW Carved Powder Horn Presented to Warren Potter by E.E. Bowes, 18th Connecticut Volunteers Prisoner of war carved powder horn, overall 11.5 in. Front section of horn carved with flying American eagle (wings open) holding American shield in claws, the eagles beak holding a flying riband with national motto in it. That design engraved over four wrap-around type lines of beautifully lettered inscription: Presented to / Warren Potter. / By/ E.E. Bowes of Co. K, 18’th Reg. C.V. Small riband on side of inscription with large carved date 1865. A large standing figure of a horse tied by its bridle to a hitching post is carved just below the inscription, at the bottom of the horn. Dome shaped wooden vase with neatly placed, small brass studs affixing it to the bottom of the horn, with some slight decorative carving and a narrow band around those studs. Edward E. Bowes resided in Killingly, CT before enlisting in the army as a private on August 8, 1862. That same day, he mustered into the 18th Connecticut Volunteers, Co. K. He remained at Fort McHenry before being ordered out to the Shenandoah Valley. His first experience in battle was an absolute disaster. The Battle of Winchester ended with Bowes and 500 other men in his regiment being captured by the enemy. Bowes was listed as a POW at Winchester on June 15, 1863 and was not paroled until the following month. His superiors promoted him to corporal on May 19, 1865, and he mustered out of service at Harpers Ferry on June 27, 1865.
169 Civil War POW Carved Powder Horn Identified to Carl Rieger, 174th & 162nd New York Infantries, Captured at Pleasant Hill, LA Approx. 12 in. overall. Four carved lines of lettering filling much of the center Carl Reiger / Prisoner of War. Tyler. Texas. / Captured at Pleasant Hill, La. / April 9’th, 1864. The reverse side of the horn is carved nicely with an open-winged flying American eagle over shield and panoply of American flags over a large design of female figure of liberty holding upright in left hand large American flag on a pole and in her right hand a sword with large American shield marked Liberty by her lower leg. On left side of her skirt the two-thirds view of an American man-of-war sailing vessel flying the US flag and on her left side a small American eagle with US shield on its breast over a ribbon emblazoned E Plurebus Unum [sic]. Other decorative flower and star motifs with wavy line decoration around the base of horn. Wooden base quite interesting with high relief floral-like design of multi-petalled plant or flower-like design. Carl Rieger was 21-years-old when he enlisted at New York City and mustered into Co. E, 174th New York Infantry, on November 6, 1862, with the rank of private. In February 1864 he transferred into Co. E
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The Civil War Database turns up records for eight soldiers by the name of Warren Potter. The most likely candidate is Warren J. Potter, who was a 21-year-old farmer from Greenfield, MA. He enlisted in the army on December 12, 1863 and mustered into the 34th Massachusetts Infantry, Co. F. He served in the Shenandoah Valley, the same area as Bowes. Wounded twice at New Market in March 1864 and at Winchester on September 1864, Potter continued to fight with the 34th until transferring to the 24th Massachusetts Infantry, Co. A, on June 16, 1865. He mustered out of service on January 20, 1866 at Richmond. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $800 - $1,000
of the 162nd New York, along with many others from the 174th, though the rolls of his new unit recorded his name as “Carl Reugar.” At Pleasant Hill, 13 members of the unit were killed, 37 wounded, and Private Rieger and 49 others captured. He was returned on May 27th of 1865, and discharged at New York on July 8th. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $2,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
THE CIVIL WAR | POW & Folk Art 170 Civil War POW Carved Powder Horn Identified to Nicholas S. Hawkins, 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Captured at Red River Prisoner of war carved powder horn, 15 in. overall, neck of horn and spout octagon carved with nicely made wooden plug at bottom with deep, neat fluted channels encircling it and two wide rows (typical of other Tyler, TX horns). Carved in 5 large lines filling half the length of the horn in all capital letters (some of them fancy edged): N. S. HAWKINS. / PRISONER OF WAR / TYLER TEXAS. / CAPTURED AT SNAGGY POINT ON RED RIVER, LA. / MAY 3’d 64. Nicholas S. Hawkins enlisted at the age of 37 on August 20, 1862. He mustered into Co. A, 120th OVI, as a musician, two months later, and HDS records of his capture match the inscription on the powder horn. Hawkins survived his imprisonment and mustered out at Camp Chase in Columbus on June 6, 1865. Other carvings typical of the Camp Ford horns include a small log cabin with chimney and caption below it Nicks Cabin; a simple very large figure of a Union soldier running with a large American flag and on the other side a very large female figure of liberty holding in her left hand the flagpole with a large American flag flying above it and holding in her right hand a sword pointing downwards towards a large American shield at her lower leg and foot, the shield inscribed Union; an open winged American eagle holding a ribbon with the national motto on it; a small naval vessel and an interesting small
171 Civil War POW Carved Powder Horn Identified to N.L. Cannon, Captured at Sabine Pass, Imprisoned at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas Prisoner of war carved powder horn, 15.5 in. overall. Nicely carved spout; turned wooden base and screw-out with round wood plug. Octagonal, upper portion of horn carved on each side: N. L. Cannon / Prisoner of War / Tyler / Texas / Captured at / Sabine Pass / Sept. 8th / 1863. Lower section carved with large American eagle, wings downward, over an American shield with draped and furled crossed Union flags on either side, over a three-masted, square-rigged manof-war sailing vessel (no flag flying). Opposite side of lower half features carved, semi-nude female figure representing Lady Liberty (as found on other Tyler, TX carved horns) holding a sword in one hand, which is pointing downward towards an American shield, with partial American flags flying behind her, and a small lighthouse with a building beside carved below. To the left of Lady Liberty, a smaller figure of a fully dressed Lady Liberty is carved with American flags crossed behind her and a Union Monitor-type turreted war vessel flying two American flags (all different styles) carved below.
view encircling bottom of the horn of a three horse team pulling a wagon with supplies on it and behind the wagon on the ground guarded by a soldier with a rifle on his shoulder standing by a flagpole with a small banner inscribed “Army,” under which are piles of barrels and crates with various labels Flour / Hard Tack / Coffee / Mess Beef / Pork / Rice / Sugar / Tea / Flour… and nearby those supplies a soldier labeled with a banner Confed with rifle on shoulder is seated on a bale of Cotton, a crate of Meal and a barrel of Mule Beef. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $2,000 - $3,000
The carver is most likely Nathan Cannon who served in the 5th Illinois Cavalry. His regiment served in Texas, making it plausible that the Confederates captured him there. No further records are available regarding the soldier. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,500 - $2,500
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THE CIVIL WAR | Badges & Ribbons 172 Civil War ID Tag for Gideon Dutcher, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, WIA Cold Harbor Sterling silver tag, 1 x 1.375 in., engraved in script G.M. Dutcher / Hopedale / Mass., reverse stamped 37 / Mass / V., marked Sterling at top. Gideon Dutcher, a 26-year-old mason from a little town called Hopedale, MA, enlisted in Co. A, 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, after Lincoln’s June/July 1862 call for 300,000 troops. In late August Major Oliver Edwards was given permission to organize the 37th Regiment of Infantry, mostly drawn from the four western Massachusetts counties. They were mustered into US service between August 30 and September 4, 1862. They moved to Washington, where they remained for the better part of September, before being sent to Frederick, MD to join Devens’ Brigade, Couch’s Division, 4th Corps, Army of the Potomac. Shortly after, Devens’ unit became part of the 6th Corps. The 37th made several expeditions into Maryland, but its first battle experience came on the left at Fredericksburg, December 11 - 15, 1862. It went into winter camp, but in January 1863 it participated in Burnside’s “Mud March,” then returned to its camp. In the spring campaign the 37th was engaged at Marye’s Heights and Salem Church. It was part of the forced march to Gettysburg the night of July 1-2, covering 35 miles in an 18-hour march. The unit suffered heavy losses on the 3rd as it shifted from point to point to bolster the fighting units. In August, the 37th was sent to New York City to enforce the draft, and by autumn it was fighting at Rappahannock Station and Mine Run.
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173 Civil War Corps Badge Identified to George W. Annis, 12th Iowa Infantry Silver, 1.5 x 2.25 in., two-part corps badge. The first part consists of a spread winged eagle, its wings pointing downward toward a flowing riband inscribed with the name Geo. W. Annis. Co. F. 12. Io. V.V. The second part is in the form of the XVI Corps, 1st Division badge, the obverse side engraved 16th AC / 3d Brig 1 Div. Five battle names are engraved on the reverse side, with Jackson 1st & 2d at center, surrounded by Ft. Donelson, Vicksburg, Nashville, and Spanish Ft. George W. Annis enlisted in the army as a private on September 5, 1861. By October 26th, he mustered into the 12th Iowa Infantry, Co. F. Before making it to the battlefield, however, the company lost heavily after disease spread throughout the camp at winter quarters. The surviving men, which included Annis, marched South to fight the enemy. The regiment’s most glorious action was at Shiloh. From the advance until sundown, it managed to hold back the enemy. Demoralized, Rebels withdrew to a new point to wait for reinforcements from Buell. It continued its service quietly, compared to Shiloh, and finished its term in Memphis, where Annis mustered out with his fellow soldiers on January 20, 1866. $500 - $700 118 AMERICAN HISTORY
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In the spring of 1864, the 37th headed for the Wilderness. They fought at Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, before being sent to Petersburg. It conducted several other operations, such as those at Charles Town and Winchester, returning to Petersburg. It was also involved at Hatcher’s Run and Fort Fisher before the final assault on Petersburg. It was involved at Sailor’s Creek on April 6, 1865, capturing Generals Ewell, Kershaw and Custis Lee. But being a short distance away, they missed the “real action” at Appomattox Court House on the 9th. The 37th Massachusetts was closing in on its term of service by this point, so they were one of the earlier units mustered out. They participated in the Grand Review, then mustered out in Washington on June 21, returning to Readville for final payment on the 2nd of July. Dutcher then disappears from the records; we have been unable to even locate his date of death. $500 - $700
174 Gettysburg Survivors of the 1st Minnesota Infantry Ribbon Blue silk ribbon, 5.25 in. ln., identified in gold to Survivors of 1st Minn. Vol. Inft’y / Gettysburg, PA. July 2nd, 1863-1897. With cello disk at center featuring Gettysburg memorial erected in honor of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers. Original Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, NJ paper label affixed on back of ribbon. On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, during Longstreet’s Assault, the 1st Minnesota performed one of the most critical actions of the battle. While Sickles’ Corps was falling back, Longstreet’s men advanced to penetrate the center of the Union line, which had been thinned out to support other sectors. General Hancock rode up to the 1st Minnesota, with the only organized Union troops at hand, and ordered them to take the colors from the advancing Confederate forces. The 1st Minnesota’s sacrificial charge halted the Confederate advance and secured time for the Union line to reform, forcing General Lee into a final, desperate gamble with Pickett’s Charge the following day. The survivors of the 1st Minnesota were involved in repelling that charge as well. The regiment suffered substantial losses during the battle, including approximately 215 killed and wounded. On July 2, 1897, a monument of granite and bronze was unveiled at the area of Cemetery Ridge from which the 1st Minnesota launched its charge. All the survivors, which amounted to around 135, were transported to and back at the expense of the state. (Information obtained from Stone Sentinels: The Battle of Gettysburg website, February 2, 2017.) $500 - $700 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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175 U.S. Sanitary Commission Medical Lamp used in the Battle of Gettysburg Lantern patented by Philos Blake (No. 8650, January 13, 1852). Approx. 13.5 in. tall, globe ca. 5.5 in. dia. with U.S. San. Com. (United States Sanitary Commission) etched on it. An old tag accompanying the lantern reads: Used by the U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Battlefield of Gettysburg. A second brass tag is numbered 130. According to notes accompanying the lantern, these were removed to protect the globe in recent years. According to Blake’s patent description, this lamp had an oval cuff on the stand so the forearm could be inserted into it, and a weight in the bottom to keep it upright. “My improved lantern is designed chiefly for the use of railroad conductors, freight agents and others who while carrying a lantern have occasion to use both hands in performing manipulations which require light to be above their hands. Lanterns have heretofore been provided with a large ring at their top, by means of which they may be suspended from the arm. In this way the hands are at liberty, but the light is too low down to aid their manipulations.” The United States Sanitary Commission was an extra-governmental relief agency created by Federal legislation in June 1861. It is sometimes seen as a fore-runner of the Red Cross. Ben Lossing credits the formation of the USSC to the women. “It was the product of divine seed, that took root in the hear of a woman, and by her it was chiefly nourished...On the day when the president called for seventy-five thousand men to suppress the Slave-holders’ insurrection, women of Bridgeport, Connecticut, organized a society for the purpose of affording relief and comfort to the volunteers.. In Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the same day, a woman took steps for the formation of a society for the same purpose, and a few days later, the women of Lowell did the same....These were the first outcroppings of the tenderest feelings of women, everywhere, when the men were summoned to the field.” In June 1861, Henry Bellows was named President of the USSC, and Frederick Law Olmsted its executive secretary. They were set up in an office in the Treasury Building in Washington, DC. The Sanitary commission performed functions supplemental to those of the Federal government. By the end of the war, they were raising millions of dollars, much of it at Sanitary Fairs. They also provided nurses, hospitals, special hospital trains, cooks, and filled many other requests - dominoes, checkerboards, cradles for protecting wounded limbs, writing tables - whatever would help the men in their recovery. As the war progressed, many other organizations found ways to help, inspired by the USSC. After the Battle of Shiloh, David Tod, Governor of Ohio, sent three hospital ships, staffed with nurses, doctors, and supplies, down the rivers to the battlefield. By the end of the war, the fleet numbered almost a dozen floating hospitals. Accompanied by histories and information about the lantern. Lossing, Ben. Pictorial History of the Civil War. 1866. $4,000 - $6,000
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THE CIVIL WAR | Equipment 176 Civil War-Era Mechanical Breast Pump with Original Case Rare brass and blown glass mechanical breast pump manufactured by S. Maw & Son of London, accompanied by original, illustrated instruction sheet, ca 1860s. Housed in original, beautiful and finely made flame mahogany case, approx. 4.75 x 4.5 by 2.75 in., with recessed, brass locking mechanism and fitted interior and purple velvet fabric liner on the inside surface of the base. The breast pump itself is a precision made, medical instrument made entirely of brass except for the graceful glass “cup” that would be fit over the nipple and act to catch the breast milk as the pump was operated. It retains the original brass cap that covers the fitting by which the two pieces were joined. While undated, it carries the mark of the manufacturer S. Maw & Son. This company existed from 1807 until at least 1974 but operated under the name “S. Maw & Son” from 1861 through 1870. $500 - $700
THE CIVIL WAR 177 Civil War-Era Tobacco Items, Including Advertising Box and Packaged Tobacco Lot of 9, including a John Anderson & Co.’s Solace Tobacco box with gilt cover illustration of their New York headquarters and a chromolithographed scene under the lid showing Jean Nicot presenting the tobacco plant to Queen Catherine de Medici in 1655. Box measures 8 x 10.5 x 5 in. high, built to hold six dozen packages, and has an 1862 registration date on the side. Also included are three unopened packages of John Anderson & Co.’s Honey-Dew FineCut tobacco; an unopened log of Thos. Hoyt & Co.’s Excelsior No. 1 Smoking Tobacco; an unopened package of Wm. H. Goodwin & Co.’s Pure Yellow Bank Tobacco, with 1859 registration date; an unopened package of A.H. Mickle & Sons Grape Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco; a package of Mrs. G.B. Miller & Co.’s Smoking Tobacco; and an empty packet of Let’er Rip Fine Cut Tobacco, produced by Toledo Tobacco Works Co., Toledo, OH. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $600 - $800
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178 The Soldier’s Comfort, Very Rare Confederate Smoking Tobacco Unopened package of smoking tobacco produced by southern manufacturer, 4 x 2 x 4 in. height, with the following printed on the front: The Soldier’s Comfort Smoking Tobacco, Manufactured by D.B. & N.W. Harris, Frederick’s Hall, Virginia. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $400 - $600
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THE CIVIL WAR | Flags & Patriotic Textiles 179 Ohio 125th Volunteers, Civil War Regimental Flag Relic with Letter from Soldier Who Acquired It Lot of 2, featuring 12 x 9 in. section of cotton, machine-stitched regimental flag identified in ink to the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and inscribed with the names of the battles in which the flag had been used by the regiment. The flag is inscribed as follows (original spelling retained): 125th OVI / Chickamauga - Mishionary Ridge Dandridge - Rockey Fase Ridge - Resackey - Mudy Crick - New Hope - Kenasaw Mountain - Peachtree Crick - Front of Atlanta - Jonesburow Lovejoy Station - Franklin - Nashville / 1862-1865. Accompanied by letter, 1.5pp, from Private Edwin C. Woodworth, written from Camp of the 125th Ohio, Huntsville, AL, dated July 14, 1865, in which he refers to the piece of the regimental flag upon which he wrote the names of the battles, noting that 187 men felled under the flag. He also advises his mother not to wash the flag or the ink will come off. With original envelope. Edwin Woodworth enlisted as a private in September 1862 and mustered into Co. B of the 125th Ohio Infantry in November 1862. Under the command of Colonel Emerson Opdycke, the 125th OH was initially involved in long marches and skirmishes until taking part in the Battle of Chickamauga. The regiment, which gained a high reputation for its fighting qualities, then participated in the Battle of Missionary Ridge and joined William Tecumseh Sherman in his Atlanta Campaign. It fought all the way until the end, at the Battle of Jonesborough, and then preceded to follow Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood North to Nashville, TN. Private Woodworth remained with the 125th OH through June 20, 1865 when he mustered out of service. $500 - $700
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180 GAR 48-Star American Flag for 115th New York Volunteers Silk, 12 x 8 in., printed flag with 48 stars configured in six rows of eight. Overprinted, 1862. / 115th Regt., N.Y.V. / Canajoharie. / 1905. Nicknamed the “Iron Hearted Regiment,” the 115th New York Volunteer Infantry was comprised of soldiers recruited from the counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Saratoga, NY. After mustering into the service on August 26, 1862, the 115th NY quickly found itself in the thick of the action during the Siege at Harper’s Ferry. It went on to participate in several major battles over the next three years, including Olustee, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and the capture of Fort Fisher. The 115th mustered out at Raleigh, NC on June 17, 1865. $500 - $700
181 UCV, Confederate First National Parade Flag Cotton, 12.25 x 8 in., printed United Confederate Veterans parade flag. A variation of the First National Confederate flag, with canton featuring one star surrounded by a ring of twelve slightly smaller stars. Ca late 19th century. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700
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THE CIVIL WAR | Flags & Patriotic Textiles 182 Our Heroes and Our Flag Post-Civil War Confederate Textile Printed, polished cotton kerchief, 17.5 x 17.5 in., after the lithograph Our Heroes Our Flags published by the Southern Lithograph Co. in 1896. Stonewall Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, and Robert E. Lee surrounded by variations of the CSA flag. Rare textile, not published in Threads of History. $500 - $700
FLAGS & PATRIOTIC TEXTILES 183 Rare 33-Star American Parade Flag Cotton, 6 x 8.25 in., printed flag with 33 stars configured in double medallion with elongated central star, flanked by star in each corner. Attached to original wooden rod, 14.25 in. ln. Representing Oregon’s admission to the Union. Ca 1859-1861. $1,000 - $1,500
184 US Centennial 1776-1876 Swallowtail Pennant Cotton, 27 x 17 in., printed swallowtail pennant with 1776 / Centennial / 1876 in blue oval at center, surrounded by 13 stars, printed atop red stripes. A fine, graphic flag almost certainly produced in conjunction with the Centennial celebration in 1876. $500 - $700
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FLAGS & PATRIOTIC TEXTILES 185 Bolt of 42-Star American Flags Bolt of four 42-star printed cotton flags, each 17 x 11.5 in., stars configured in six rows of seven. 35 x 23 in. overall. Ca 1889-1890. The 42-star flag was never official. Five stars were added on July 4, 1890: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington (42nd state November 1889) and Idaho (July 3, 1890). Very likely many of these were made to celebrate Washington’s statehood, not knowing that Idaho would be admitted at the last minute. $500 - $700
WORLD WAR I 186 British General Reginald Wingate Presentation Cane, 1911 35.25 in. ln., no ferrule; silver handle decorated with nielloed geometric and floral motifs, marked 84 (Russian Silver Standard) and ABDIN, maker’s name, mounted on an ebony shaft. With the following inscription engraved on botton of handle: Presented by Sir Reginald Wingate / Sirdar & Governor General of the Soudan [sic] / To I.H.F. Thomas / June 1st 1911. Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet (1861-1953), was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He acted as Director of Egyptian Military Intelligence and served in the campaigns of 1896-1898, which resulted in the reconquest of the Sudan. He fought in many battles against supporters of al-Mahdi, a nationalist rebel who opposed the British-supported Egyptian overlordship of the Sudan. In 1899, Wingate succeeded Lord Kitchener as Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. His administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1899 and 1916 proved to be successful. The country regained a higher level of prosperity and its infrastructure was rebuilt and expanded. Wingate was most likely in Khartoum for business when this cane was presented to I.H.F. Thomas, but unfortunately, no information could be found as to the identify of Thomas and why this cane was given to him. In 1909, Wingate fell ill with colic and suffered multiple gastrointestinal upsets. He eventually underwent surgery to have gallstones removed. Apparently, after his illness, Wingate remembered those who had helped him, so it is possible that Thomas supported him during that difficult period of time, and that Wingate wanted to honor him with this cane (Daly, 1997: 183-185). $700 - $1,000
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WORLD WAR I 187 World War I, Britons Join Your Country’s Army! Poster, 1914 Recruiting poster, 19.5 x 27.5 in. (sight), depicting Lord Herbert Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War, at center, calling for Britons [Lord Kitchener] “Wants You”/ Join Your Country’s Army! God Save the King! Designed by Alfred Leete (1882-1933), 1914. Framed, 21 x 29 in. Developed from a magazine cover produced by Leete for the London Opinion in 1914, this recruitment poster is considered one of the most impactful, iconic examples of World War I-period propaganda. The design has inspired a great number of imitations, including James Montgomery Flagg’s famous Uncle Sam US Army recruitment poster. $800 - $1,200
188 World War I, Gee I Wish I Were A Man Poster by Howard Chandler Christy, 1918 Full sheet lithographic poster, 27 x 41 in., Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I’d Join the Navy, Naval Reserve or Coast Guard, after the artwork of Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952), 1918. A vibrant example of the classic World War I recruiting poster featuring Christy’s iconic depiction of the female, would-be sailor. $800 - $1,200
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189 Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Collection Incl. Flag, Photographs, Autographs, and More A collection of 34 items mostly related to Ira H. Hayes and Iwo Jima. Includes: 3 war date ALsS from Ira Hayes to his family while he was stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA; a modern scrapbook with 6 photographs of Hayes; a gold foil rendition of the iconic image “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima� presented in a commemorative folder produced by the Adel Products Division; 6 newspaper clippings; 5 addressed envelopes; 4 autographed sheets of commemorative three cent postal stamps signed by Hayes, fellow flag-raiser Rene Gangon, Navy Cross recipient John Bradley, and photographer Joe Rosenthal, accompanied by a TLS from Rosenthal to Charles Kozak consenting to sign the stamp pages; 6 first day covers commemorating the event; 1970 issues of the Indian Record; a modern copy of the raising of the flag on cardstock; and a wool machine sewn 48-star American Flag. Ira H. Hays grew up a shy child who almost never spoke unless spoken to. He was the oldest of six children, but one of the last two to survive. He was a Pima American Indian and a voracious reader. He joined the service as an act of patriotism and served in the Pacific theater. His shyness and reserved nature was in direct contradiction with the national fame he gained after raising the second American flag on Mount Suribachi. He toured with the other surviving flag members in order to sell war bonds, before he returned to service. Hays was an alcoholic and died in 1955 as a result of alcohol poisoning and exposure to cold. The next month, his parents buried him with full military honors at Arlington Cemetery. $1,000 - $1,500
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WORLD WAR II 190 World War II, Original Naval Dispatch Announcing Victory in Japan, August 15, 1945 Typed Naval dispatch, 1p, 8 x 6.5 in. Naval Message form. Accompanied by notarized affidavit from consignor attesting to provenance of the dispatch. Dated 2341 August 14, 1945 GCT (Greenwich Civil Time - Universal Time after 1952) (at the top, dated August 15, since the Pacific is transected by the International Date Line). This message was received in the radio room of the USS Vella Gulf CVE-111, an escort carrier, at sea in the Northwest Pacific with 26th carrier division of the 7th fleet (just days before she had been anchored at Okinawa). All hands of the United States Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard may take satisfaction in the conclusion of the war against Japan and pride in the part played by them in accomplishing that result. The demobilization of the armed forces of the United States and the return to conditions of peace will create problems taxing the patience and control almost as great as the tensions of war. I wish that the discipline which has served so well to bring this democracy through hours of great crisis be maintained to the end that nothing shall mar the record of accomplishment and glory that now belongs to the Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard. James Forrestall [SECNAV] The person who acquired this copy was a radio man assigned to Vella Gulf. He relates his service and the circumstances by which this was acquired in a notarized typed statement. He served until June 1946. $2,000 - $3,000
191 Chester Nimitz ALS, Plus Typed Printed Speech with his Notes Lot of 3. Nimitz, Chester W. (1885-1966). Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet who engineered the “island-hopping” strategy that won the Pacific war. ALS to Bob (Robert R.) Gros, Gros’ response, and 9pp typed speech that was to be given by Nimitz to the House Armed Services Committee (with over a page of holograph notes). ALS, 2pp, on Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Berkeley, CA letterhead, June 11, 1958. Nimitz writes to Gros: I enclose a copy of the statement which I had prepared for Vinson’s Committee but did not use because I was not called. However, I may be called before the Senate Armed Forces Committee, and if so, will use it. I am grateful that you will hold the paper secure. You are free - however - to help yourself to such of the ideas expressed - if you believe in them....Aunt Catherine joins me in warmest regards... The second letter is typed carbon copy, June 23, 1958 with typed Robert R. Gros, Vice President. (possibly Vice President, public relations, for Pacific Gas and Electric Co., often lectured on international relations, according to Online Archive of California). After commenting on Nimitz’ speech, Gros says: I do hope you are called before the Senate Armed Forces Committee and I expressed that same hope to Tom Gates during the course of a pleasant visit I had with him in Washington last week.... I am utterly shocked at the hint thrown out by the Secretary of Defense yesterday that they might sack Arleigh Burke because of his testimony. ...it is the very negation of the democratic process to inhibit a professional officer’s testifying to his honest convictions when called before a Congressional Committee... In the speech that he planned to give before one of the Armed Forces Committees, Nimitz gives his opinion that he believes all armed services should remain independent. I am one of those ‘obtuse admirals’ who believes that if we should unfortunately engage in World 126 AMERICAN HISTORY
War III in the predictable future - say the next five or ten years - we will use many of the methods and in considerable part the same weapons greatly improved of course - that we used in World War II. ...It has always been my belief that each service should have the tools it needs to carry out its major function - even though other services use similar tools. ...My great concern is that during all the experimentation now going on with missiles of all kinds, none of which have as yet proved themselves at long (over 200-300 miles ) range, we will neglect the proved weapons of World War II. While there have been great advances, there have been only a few changes. Even the atom powered submarine has only a few improvements. It is a steam turbine driven ship with a reactor furnishing heat instead of a boiler. The British had steam driven subs in World War I, and long before that the Turks had a small steam driven sub... $500 - $700 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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192 Ohio State University 1970 AntiWar Demonstrations, Large Collection of Photographs Lot includes 250+ snapshot photographs from the 1970 Ohio State University riots, April 15 to May 7, 1970, and 50+ from the demonstrations in Washington, DC, on May 9, 1970, in protest of the American incursion into Cambodia and the Kent State shootings. Almost all measure 5 x 3.5 in. The photographer is unknown, but the content suggests he or she was a student amateur photographer involved in both demonstrations. The Ohio State riots were one of the largest student demonstrations of the Vietnam War era but were overshadowed by the contemporaneous demonstrations at Kent State, which resulted in the deaths of four students. Seven protesters were shot at Ohio State but all survived, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes took the unprecedented step of shutting down the campus for two weeks in the middle of the quarter. $500 - $1,000
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193 Whole Plate Daguerreotype of a Naval Officer by James Earle McClees, Philadelphia Striking whole plate daguerreotype of an unidentified naval officer, displayed under mat stamped McClees at lower left and Phila at lower right. Housed in full leather case. The unknown subject in the portrait wears the full dress, doublebreasted frock coat appearing to rank as Master. Note the white gloves typically worn for formal occasions. The uniform coat may be partially transitional, but the sword he holds is unquestionably the Model 1852 tied to the new Navy Regulations of the same year. The collar for a line officer was traditionally worn standing up. Except for two rows of thin gold lace around the edges the collar rank was plain for a Master, having no insignia. Here the collar is worn down while the coat appears to have been made this way. A Master’s simple cuff
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rank consisted of three large naval anchor buttons sewn horizontally across. However, the three smaller anchor buttons sewn vertically near the back of the cuff are not visible in this portrait. The gold dress epaulets show the smaller wire coils consistent with a Master. While the top of the epaulets are unadorned by regulations, this pair appears to include raised insignia of some sort near the top edge. The officer wears a striking beaver skin cocked dress hat (or fore-andaft cap) trimmed in black silk with six twisted metallic gold coils and black silk cockade, which was not universally worn. James E. McClees (1821-1887) was a highly accomplished daguerreotypist, active in both Philadelphia and Washington, DC over a period of more than 20 years. This large and costly portrait is a remarkable example of his work. Philadelphia was home to a large navy yard at the time. $5,000 - $7,000
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 194 Fabulous Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of a Captain and his Family A fine quarter plate daguerreotype of a mustached captain posed with his wife and young daughter, their cheeks lightly tinted pink. The unidentified captain was likely a Regular Army officer who saw service in the Mexican War. Housed in full pressed paper case. Ca late 1840s. This company grade officer wears a pre-1851 single breasted fatigue coat having eight to ten silvered eagle buttons. The narrower shoulder straps are embroidered (silver) around the edges showing the two bars of a captain. The distinctive Mexican War era high square collar is casually worn open to reveal a stylish black silk cravat. The pair of regulation small silver cuff buttons on the plain cuff are not visible. The winter trousers appear to be lighter sky blue wool with a narrow half inch seam stripe. There is nothing else about the uniform coat that would aid in identifying this officer. An exceptional Mexican War-period family portrait illustrating the softer side of an army officer’s life. $1,000 - $1,500
195 Half Plate Ambrotype of White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church & Graveyard Near Newark, Delaware Half plate ambrotype of a church with graveyard in the foreground and members of the congregation posed out front. Accompanied by a note with period pen inscription that reads, White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, about 2 1/2 miles east of Newark, Delaware, on main road to Wilmington. The stone tablet above the door to the church is legible under magnification and reads: White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Built 1752 Rebuilt 1855. Housed in full leatherette case. $1,000 - $1,500
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 196 Mathew Brady, Half Plate Ambrotype of a Family, the Mother Holding a Cased Image Remarkable half plate Cuttings Patent ambrotype of a family of four, comprised of a mother and father with two young boys. The mother clutches a half or whole plate case in her hands. Mat stamped Brady / Cuttings Patent / July 4 & 11, 1854. Housed in full pressed paper case. $400 - $600
197 Fine Half Plate Ambrotype of Four Dapper Young Gents Lounging and Smoking Half plate ambrotype of four sharply-dressed young men wearing fashionable hats, smoking, and posed with their legs across each other. Housed in half case. $300 - $500
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 198 Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of a Mathematics Teacher with Young Students Fabulous quarter plate daguerreotype of a schoolmaster, presumably a mathematics instructor, posed with his students. The schoolmaster holds an open book with his left hand while raising his right hand and holding up two fingers. A young boy wearing a checkered vest, in his early teens, stands next to the instructor while three younger students, two young boys and a young girl with curls, sit in the front holding chalk boards in their laps. The image was included in the 2006 Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition Young America: Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture, and was aptly titled The Math Lesson. The published exhibition book by Claire Perry accompanies the image and lists the daguerreotype as part of the “Exhibition Checklist” on page 231. $3,000 - $5,000
199 Sixth Plate Occupational Daguerreotype of a Carpenter Exceptional sixth plate daguerreotype of a young carpenter wearing work clothes and hat, posed with a hammer in one hand, his other hand on a tool with which he is working something clamped into the vise on the table beside him. A few additional woodworking tools also rest on the table. Housed in full leather case with floral designs. $3,000 - $5,000
200 Sixth Plate Occupational Ruby Ambrotype, Possibly Accountants Sixth plate Cuttings Patent ruby ambrotype of three young men seated at a table, sharply dressed and writing. Housed in Hummingbirds on Branch Union case (Krainik-170). $500 - $700
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 201 Exceptional Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of a Young Man and his Dog An outstanding sixth plate ambrotype of a fashionably-dressed young gentleman posed with his dog, the dog obediently staying still for the photographer and looking into the camera. Housed in a floral pressed paper case. $2,500 - $3,500
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202 Occupational Tintypes and Ambrotypes of Firemen, Group of Four, Including “Fireman’s Duty” Union Case Lot of 4, including three sixth plate tintypes and a ninth plate ambrotype. One of the sixth plate tintypes is a hand-tinted portrait of a young firefighter wearing a red bib emblazoned with the number 1 and holding his cap, housed in a Fireman’s Duty Union case with ink inscription under the plate, A Present to Miss L. B____/ From [R?]A. Busby, Dubuque, Iowa. Another sixth plate tintype of a standing fireman wearing a 1 bib with crossed ladder and pick emblem, pinned with a badge or medal, also holding his hat, the imaged housed in a half pressed paper case. Last sixth plate tintype of a mustachioed fireman with a 2 on his bib, hat, and belt buckle, housed in a small gilt frame. Lastly, a ninth plate ambrotype of a young fireman wearing a shirt embroidered with a 1, a fire pick, ladder, and stars on his collar, with red-tinted cuffs and wearing a twopiece belt buckle. $800 - $1,200
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 203 Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of a Boy Posed with a Toy Sailboat Sixth plate daguerreotype of a mother and son, the boy displaying a model sailboat. Housed in a half pressed paper case with a partial note inked by the boy, later in life, describing it as being taken in Richmond (no state) when he was nine-years-old. $800 - $1,200
204 Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of a Young Violinist & his Sister Sixth plate daguerreotype of a brother and his young sister posed together. The brother, who is seated, props his violin on his lap as well as his bow, while his sister, wearing black lace fingerless gloves and stiff curls, drapes her hand over his shoulder and holds what appears to be a piece of sheet music. Housed in half case. $300 - $500
205 Sixth Plate Relievo Ambrotype of Young Woman by Charles Richard Rees, Richmond, Virginia Elegant sixth plate relievo ambrotype of a young woman signed in the plate by Charles Richard Rees of Richmond, VA. The image came with a printed contemporary tag identifying the subject as Rebecca Bassett Atkinson and dating the portrait to ca 1860. Housed in a Wreath of Grapes Union case (Krainik-188). $400 - $600
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY 206 Fine Group of Advertising Cabinet Cards Lot of 5 cabinet photographs of young women promoting various businesses, including: 2 studio views credited to Howard, Nelson, NE, the first showing a girl holding a sign for Dress Making / Mrs. Tucker, with spools of thread hanging from her dress and wrapped around her wrists as bracelets. The second shows a young girl with sign for J. Hintzel / Attorney, wearing pens and pencils in her hair and on her dress; studio view of woman wearing a dress decorated with garland, with an advertisement for Davis Powder hanging from one of the strands plus what appears to be an ad for Ariosa Coffee, among other promotional items, with R.L. Henderson, Bellaire, OH imprint; portrait of teenage girl displaying sign for Strack’s City Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor, her hat, sash, and dress adorned with circular objects, possibly cookies, with R. Donahue, Hornellsville, NY imprint; and view of young woman holding sign for Wood Bros. Pharmacy, Elmo, MO, with assorted bottles, mirrors, brushes, and other goods hanging from her dress, credited to Carpenter. $700 - $1,000
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207 Early Photographs of Winter Park, Florida, 1880s, Group of 43 Lot of 43 albumen photographs on boudoir card mounts (8 x 5 in.), showing Winter Park, FL, and the surrounding area in the mid-to-late 1880s. Includes views of the main streets, residences, a view of some of the first buildings at Rollins College (Pinehurst Cottage and Knowles Hall), Lake Virginia, Lake Osceola, citrus orchards, the residences of Major Abercrombie, Dr. Tantum, Honorable Lewis Lawrence, and more. Winter Park was one of Florida’s first planned communities, planned and developed by Northerners Loring Augustus Chase and Oliver E. Chapman in the early 1880s when a South Florida Railroad line was laid connecting Orlando and Sanford. They enacted strict guidelines regarding architectural style and advertised the community in the Northeast and East Coast, eventually leading to one of the first of many real estate bubbles in the state. Rollins College was founded in Winter Park in 1885, and although Florida State and the University of Florida trace their roots to seminaries founded before that, Rollins still regards itself as the oldest four-year college in Florida. $500 - $700 6 of 43 134 AMERICAN HISTORY
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208 Very Rare 1890s Photograph Album of Guatemala, Incl. Cities, Natives, and President Reyna Barrios Album, 10.5 x 12.5 in., containing 48 pages, most pages with two 8 x 5 in. silver gelatin photographs. First page with a cabinet card of a young woman published by photographers Kildare y Valdeavellano of Guatemala, C.A, with modern penciled note on verso identifying her as Alice McClellan, ca 1896, a Latina who worked at Schaldenbrand Studio in Pittsburgh, PA, and compiled this album during a trip to Guatemala. The album is housed in fine protective casing with a 12 x 15 in. photograph of the interior of the Schaldenbrand Studio. Many of the photographs in the album have credit in the negative to E.J. Kildare.
The album contains several views of downtown Guatemala City, including the Palacio Nacional, the Catedral de Ciudad de Guatemala, the city square and markets, and views of the surrounding towns and landscape along the railroads. There are many views of the native inhabitants, including views of daily life and studio portraits. Toward the end are a series of portraits of a light-skinned young Latina woman and several men, some dressed in military uniforms, including two portraits of Jose Maria Reina Barrios (1854-1898) who served as President of Guatemala from 1892 until his death. $2,000 - $4,000
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209 Album of Hand-Colored Photographs of Japan, Ca 1891 Album with cover featuring painted and enamel and bone-inlaid Japanese scene, 10.75 x 14 in., containing 50 hand-colored 8 x 10 in. photographs of Japan, mounted recto/verso, most titled in the negative. Photographs include scenes in Yokohama, Tokyo, Miyanoshita, Yumoto, Nikko, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kobe, and Nagasaki, as well as an outstanding series of studio shots of posed scenes such
as Japanese women taking tea, doing their hair, playing New Year’s games, weaving, and more. A fine group shot of samurai warriors is also included. With manuscript presentation note mounted on inside front cover from Joseph Chambers, in which he states that the album was bought at Miyanoshita, “a delightful Mountain resort” in Japan on October 18, 1891. $1,000 - $2,000
210 Botanist Jason R. Swallen, Extensive Photographic Archive Lot comprised of 6 leather albums, 7.5 x 9.25 in., with gilt Kodak Library on the spines, containing over 1,050 silver gelatin photographs, accompanied by 12pp of typed and manuscript notes of botanist Jason R. Swallen, which identify a portion of the photographs included in the albums. Jason Richard Swallen (1903-1991) was a native Ohioan, born in Alliance and earning a baccalaureate degree from Ohio Wesleyan
University. He went on to a Masters’ program at Kansas State Agricultural College, earning his MS in 1925. As a botanist, he specialized in grasses (agrostology), publishing on the grasses of California and the American Southwest (Texas, Louisiana & Northeastern Mexico), plus Tennessee and Kentucky, Honduras and the Peten (Guatemala), northeast Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia and more. Of the 6 photo albums offered here, 2 have notes indicating what is
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY pictured, most being from Brazil (Fordlandia - in Para state, set up by Henry Ford in an effort to increase rubber production). They seem to date from the mid-1930s (ca 1935). Accompanied by 6pp typed and 6pp manuscript notes, which describe the contents of the pair of albums. These 2 photo albums contain 422 images combined, most 2.5 x 4.25 in., but some ranging in size from 2 x 2.5 to 3.5 x 5.5 in. Some of the photos housed in the second album may date from ca 1939. The four remaining albums contain over 630 additional photographs. Only a few document the grasses, while far more feature the roads, villages, and surrounding country (mountains, swamps, etc.), which is important for geography and soil information. Again, most measure 2.5 x 4.25 in.
211 Autochrome Lumière of Samuel Clemens’ Daughter Clara with Husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, & Their Daughter, Plus Lot of 7: Autochrome Lumière, 7.25 x 9.25 in., housed in wooden frame/case, 12.25 x 15.25 in. overall. The image shows Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936), Clara Clemens (18741962) and their daughter Nina (1910-1966). Gabrilowitsch was the founding director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra beginning in 1919, Clara Clemens was the only surviving daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), and their daughter Nina was the only grandchild of Samuel Clemens. They are pictured in the garden of the home they purchased at 611 W. Boston Boulevard in the Boston Edison neighborhood of Detroit in 1919 for $125,000. Although uncredited, it is possible that this image was produced by Alvin Coburn, an autochrome enthusiast who photographed many noteworthy personalities from this period, including Samuel Clemens. After the death of Gabrilowitsch in 1936, Clara purchased Casa Allegra in 1939 and moved to Los Angeles. Casa Allegra was a 12-room, two-story Hollywood home on five walled acres, with a swimming pool and a large flagstone terrace. (She purchased the mini-estate from pioneering film producer Jesse Lanksy.) In 1944 Clara married her second husband, Jacques Alexandria Samossoud, a gambler. Clara bought Nina a house on El Contento Dr. and set up an irrevocable trust from the Twain estate that gave her daughter $1500 a month for life. When Clara Clemens, died in 1962, Nina was cut out of her mother’s will, and most of the large estate Twain left had been squandered by Clara’s second husband Samossoud. Less than a year after Clara died in 1966, Nina contested the will she had been cut out of receiving a 35% settlement of the Clemens estate from Samossoud. Nina sold her home on El Contento Dr. and moved into 1922 H. Highland apt. 61 and 63. When Nina passed away in 1966 her will showed she had left the bulk of her estate, valued at about $50,000, to the American Cancer Society.
Swallen spent some time in Brazil as an agricultural production officer working in Inter-American Affairs. He worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry after receiving his MS. He became curator of Division of Grasses at the National Museum / Smithsonian in 1946, which was reorganized into the Department of Botany in 1947. He chaired the Botany Department from 1950-1965. There are two grass genera and several species named for him. In 1954 he was awarded an honorary DSc. by Ohio Wesleyan. $500 - $1,000
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Accompanied by 6 silver gelatin photographs, including 4 portraits of Clara Clemens and Nina Gabrilowitsch, each 5 x 7 in., plus an 8 x 10 in. portrait of Clara and an 8 x 10 in. photograph capturing Nina gathered together with a number of young boys, likely participants in a Huck Finn look-alike contest that was held in Hannibal, MO, October 25, 1935. Nina was the judge. This Autochrome Lumière and accompanying photographs were purchased at an estate sale at Casa Allegra held before the sale of the Clara Clemens’ home in 1987. $1,600 - $2,800
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212 E.O. Goldbeck, Mt. McKinley, Alaska, Signed Panoramic Photograph Panoramic silver gelatin print, 44 x 9 in., including margins, 45.75 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, Mt. McKinley and the Alaska Range - Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska, copyrighted lower right in negative to Goldbeck, National Photo & News, San Antonio, TX. Ink signed lower right, E.O. Goldbeck. Originally taken in 1957. Mounted to cardstock. San Antonio, TX native and commercial photographer Eugene Omar Goldbeck (1891-1986) developed an early interest in photography after taking a picture of President McKinley during a one-day visit to San Antonio in 1901. Goldbeck traveled throughout the western US and South America after high school, taking “kidnapped” or impromptu photos of people, then offering the photos for sale to the individuals afterwards. Around 1912, he purchased his first Cirkut
camera, which allowed him to capture views of expansive landscapes and large groups of people. Goldbeck became well known for the panoramic photographs he produced using the Cirkut camera. During World War I, he served in the Photographic Division of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. After the war, he established the National Photo and News Service in San Antonio. As a result of travelling to military bases to photograph large groups throughout his career, Goldbeck earned the title of “unofficial photographer of the military.” He may be best known for his large Cirkut panoramic photographs of military bases and personnel, which sometimes included over 20,000 people. (Information obtained from Handbook of Texas Online, “Goldbeck, Eugene Omar.” By Kendall Curlee, May 6, 2017.) $600 - $800
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213 E.O. Goldbeck, Gateway to Yosemite Valley, Signed Panoramic Photograph, Plus Lot of 2: panoramic silver gelatin print, 21.125 x 9 in., including margins, 22.75 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, Gateway to Yosemite Valley, copyrighted lower right in negative to Goldbeck, National Photo & News Service, San Antonio, TX. Ink signed in print, lower right, E.O. Goldbeck. With Goldbeck Panorama handstamp on verso. Accompanied by silver gelatin photograph of the artist in June 1988, 8 x 10 in. $600 - $800
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214 E.O. Goldbeck, Rio de Janiero, Signed Panoramic Photograph Panoramic silver gelatin print, 47 x 9 in., including margins, 48.5 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, Rio de Janiero - The World’s Most Beautifully Situated City - 1960, copyrighted lower right in negative to Goldbeck, National Photo & News Service, San Antonio, TX. Ink signed in print, lower right, E.O. Goldbeck. $600 - $800
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215 E.O. Goldbeck Panoramic Photographs of Texas, Incl. 3rd Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Tex., 1922, Plus Lot of 2: panoramic silver gelatin print, 27.75 x 9 in., including margins, 28.75 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, 3rd Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Tex., May 14th, 1922, and copyrighted, E.O. Goldbeck, S.A. Texas. Ink signed lower right, E.O. Goldbeck. With Goldbeck Panorama handstamp on verso. Plus sepia toned panoramic silver gelatin print, 44.5 x 6.75 in., including margins, 48 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, Goose Creek Oil Field, and copyrighted twice in the negative to F.J. Schlueter, Houston, TX. Taken by Schlueter in Burkburnett, TX, 1919, and printed by E.O. Goldbeck. $600 - $800
216 E.O. Goldbeck, US Corps of Cadets, West Point, 1938, Signed Panoramic Photograph Panoramic silver gelatin print, 58 x 9 in., including margins, 60 x 10 in. Titled in the negative, US Corps of Cadets - West Point, 4-30-38, with additional caption lower left, USMA Band. Ink signed in lower right margin, E.O. Goldbeck. $500 - $700
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217 Wood Plantation Horn, Found in Kentucky Stave construction with seven wrought copper bands, made of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana), with fine old polished and weathered patina, 4.75 in. dia. at bell, 46.5 in. long. Previously sold in these rooms, June 7, 2008, Spring Historic Americana Auction, Lot 613; consigned by a private collector. $1,500 - $2,500
218 Barbed Punishment Collar for Enslaved African Americans Blacksmith made, of hand-forged iron, with hinged opening and opposing hand-forged locking device. Collar 1.25 in. high, with 6 in. diameter opening, having four barbed spikes, 32.5 in. from end to end. The consignor relates that this collar was purchased in 1982 from the collection of Bernard Gilliam of Johnson City, TN, who acquired the item from a Charleston, SC collector in the 1950s. A spiked punishment collar of a different design is illustrated in the famous carte de visite of the Louisiana slave Wilson Chinn issued during the Civil War, and used to inflame Northern sensibilities. An identical collar can be seen in a Civil War-era illustration from an unspecified source, available for viewing on the website of the New York Public Library, residing in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. A remarkable artifact. $4,000 - $6,000
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219 Slave Collar with Bells Used for the Punishment for Attempted Escape Blacksmith-made, of hand-forged iron, with hinged opening and opposing hand-forged locking device. Collar 1.25 in. high, with 5.5 x 6 in. diameter opening, having three prongs extending 14 in. from the collar, raising to 11 in. above the collar, each with a bell at the end. The consignor relates that this collar was purchased in 1982 from the collection of Bernard Gilliam of Johnson City, TN, who acquired the item from a Charleston, SC collector in the 1950s. $4,000 - $6,000
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220 African Americana, Shoe Shine Box with Midwestern & Western United States Trade Tokens Wooden shoe shine box, 13.75 x 6 x 5.75 in., with over 80 trade tokens from locations throughout the midwest and western United States tacked on each side of the box. A name plate handstamped I am W.F. Taylor’s Dog Nig. Whoe’s dog are you? is mounted atop the box, with a symbolic chain and leather strap attached to one side. Ca late 19th century.
Although little is known about this box’s original owner, it has been suggested that it may have been made and used by a former slave who journeyed west seeking promise and opportunity. The box may have served as his trade sign, and it is possible that the tokens displayed on the box were sold or traded to those that the owner met during his travels or received from the men’s shoes he shined. $1,500 - $2,500
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SLAVERY & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 221 Uncle Tom and Little Eva Staffordshire Figure Colorful Staffordshire figurine of Uncle Tom holding Little Eva upon his lap, 10.5 in. high. $300 - $500
222 Female Runaway Slave, Illustrated Reward Broadside, Alexandria, Virginia, 1851 Printed broadside, 18 x 12 in., with 2.75 x 3.5 in. illustration of young, female slave at top left, framed, 27.5 x 21.5 in. Boldly headed, 20 Dollars Reward!, the broadside continues...Ranaway in the month of June last, from the subscriber residing in Alexandria, Va., Negro Woman, Lucy, called Lucy Payne. With a detailed description of the runaway slave, in part: Aged about 50 years, well set and fleshy; full breast, front 142 AMERICAN HISTORY
teeth decayed, greyish hair, the nail on one of her four-fingers injured... wears a handkerchief generally on her head. The broadside closes with a suggestion that she is likely being harbored in or near Tennelly Town or Washington City, where her husband George Payne resides. Signed in print by John Hooff. Printed at the Alexandria Gazette Office, Alexandria, VA, February 19, 1851. $2,500 - $3,500 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
SLAVERY & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 223 Alexander S. Twombly Diary Documenting his Senior Trip to Cuba and a Slave Auction in Charleston, Ca 1853-1854 Approximately 153pp journal documenting Yale graduate, Alexander Stevenson Twombly’s journey to Cuba from the spring of 1853 to the summer of 1854. Beyond Cuba, Twombly visited several places in the United States including a slave market in Charleston, SC and a ball at the White House, hosted by President Franklin Pierce. Alexander Stevenson Twombly came from a privileged household. Proud of his heritage, Twombly recorded his family’s “pedigree” in the first pages of his journal. The Twomblys came from England to Dover, NH in 1656 after a land grant. They continued to live in prominence and prosperity in the Americas for generations. Twombly’s father, Alexander Hamilton Twombly, engaged in mercantile shipping pursuits, acted as director of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, and served as a Representative and Senator for Massachusetts (Decennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College, p. 620). His brother, Hamilton McKown Twombly, went to Harvard and entered the family business. Furthering the family’s prominent position in society, Hamilton married Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly, daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, the heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt’s enormous fortune. Alexander Twombly neglected to include his brother Hamilton along with his four other siblings in his account of the family lineage in his journal. Twombly chose to pursue a humbler profession in ministry. He enrolled in Yale his sophomore year of college. His well-connected family allowed him to travel extensively. During his senior year at Yale in 1853, he traveled to Cuba with his friend Sally, and kept a journal. Before exiting the United States, he spent some time in Charleston, SC. During his stay, he took a tour of the city and experienced the ugliness of the slave trade. Amused and appalled, he wrote: [Our guide] said the negroes outnumbered the whites but were in very good order—knew their place—I hardly knew how to treat [the negroes], whether to be pleasant lest they should take advantages, or to cuff them and make them mind quickly—[Our guide] propounded a strange theory of mullato girls—said this Presbyterian “The mullato girls are very pretty… and they answer as mistresses well—not a case of seduction of a white lady has been known for a long time but” said he “the southern blood is hot—it must(?) have way, and these mullatos are not disgraced by being made mistresses of the white men—and they are true as steel—“ I tried to make him feel the immorality of such things that be partially(?) allowed but said It was a [illegible] of greater evil and therefore a good thing (p. 41). Later that day, he witnessed a sale. He wrote: Went to see an auction sale of negroes 101 plantation hands-Stupid looking, clothed in coarse woolen and sold in families—they brout good prices, varying from $500 and $700 per head—there were two auctioneers one to jabber and the other to keep his eyes open and get the bids—The jabereer was a cut-throat villain Oh Such a humid man! I could have shaken his hide off—the other a nicer looking but ugly wretch I could not pity the negroes much—They seemed satisfied and did not mind it much—but the idea of selling human flesh was to me horrid—I said nothing but thought much (p. 43) Although Twombly thought much of it, he did not discuss the unsettling experience any more. Instead, he moved on to happier thoughts and scenes of the city. Yet, the issue of slavery continued to resurface throughout his journey. After arriving in Cuba, Half clad negroes are scattered here and there quite thickly some with only pants to cover them with their ebony shoulder very uniquely to a stranger, carrying large casks of tobacco, welcomed them in the harbor (January 21, 1854). He visited large plantations, sampled coffee, munched on plantains, and documented his curious musings on the architecture and culture of the place.
He returned to Columbia, SC in March of 1854. Once again, the issue of slavery resurfaced on a coach ride to Washington, DC. He wrote, At Wilmington this morning I met a very intelligent S. Carolinian who had been to attend court at Marion(?)—Had a talk about the secession movement—He told me that the feelings had been very strong—that a majority of 6000 only had put it down that now many would not feel badly to separate from the Union – but said he “I myself am a seccesionsit, for the south gains nothing from the present tarrif laws, but this argument is a bad one against secession—We should fall to pieces without Union” (p. 121). After saying his goodbyes to the Southern gentleman, he and Sally wandered around Washington and dined with the President. He described, Taking Sally on my arm, we entered a large ball—long and brilliant; passed into a cozy(?) little room and thro’ that into the Reception room where the Old Pres, Franklin Pierce Esq, shook my hand and bowed to Sally (p. 126). He and Sally navigated through several rooms and a motley collection of people...one fellow with the shabbiest coat—old maiden ladies dressed with no task and much economy—Here a clerk of a dry good store and there the Prince of Nassau—In comes a rough old sea captain and nearby an elegantly attired fashioned lady (May 30, 1854, pp. 126-127) The journal ends after he returned to Yale to complete his studies. Twombly graduated that year and pursued some theological courses in Andover, NH. Instead of completing his studies, he opted to study abroad in several European and Eastern countries. Upon his return, he married and served as a pastor at several churches in New England. He fathered five sons, four of whom studied and graduated from Yale. From 1881 until 1885, Twombly was President of the Yale Alumni Association. During that time, in 1883, the college awarded him an honorary Doctorate in Divinity. Keeping with his traveling spirit, he ventured to Hawaii and was the acting pastor of the Central Union Church at Honolulu for several months. Inspired by his time there, he authored Hawaii and its People: The Land of the Rainbow Palm (1899) and Kelea, the Surf Rider: A Romance of Pagan Hawaii (1900). He died in 1907. Yale University currently has a collection of Twombly’s papers spanning from 1843 to 1907, housed at Sterling Memorial Library. Sources: Record and Statistics, by Yale University Class of 1854, published in 1896. Yale University Papers, Guide to the Alexander Stevenson Twombly Papers. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $600 - $800
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224 Important CDV Album Containing Photographs of Spiritualists, Social Reformers, Suffragettes, and Abolitionists, Incl. Sojourner Truth Leather album, 7 x 8.75 in., containing 140 CDVs, both original “from life” photographs as well as commercially printed portraits of some of the most important and influential personalities of the second half of the 19th century, with index at front identifying over 100 individuals pictured in the album. The CDVs are credited primarily to photographers in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, such as Mathew Brady, Napoleon Sarony, J.W. Hurn, F. Gutekunst, and spirit photographer William H. Mumler, and a number include 2 cent internal revenue stamps on verso. The theme of this collection overlaps between an interest in abolitionists, suffragettes and women’s rights activists, religious and social reformers, and spiritualists. The album was likely put together between the 1860s-1880s and reflects the rise in interest in spiritualism and social reform following the Civil War. Notable personalities include: Abolitionists, Suffragettes, Women’s Rights Activists, & Reformers Sojourner Truth, rare portrait in which she holds her knitting to the camera. With imprint, I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance/ Sojourner Truth, verso with imprint of Wright’s New York Gallery / Battlecreek, Mich. Robert Smalls, enslaved African American who emancipated himself from slavery during the Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston Harbor and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the US Blockade. He gained his freedom and later served as US Representative from South Carolina. By B.F. Reimer, Philadelphia. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, feminist, abolitionist, alleged spy, Civil War POW, and surgeon. To date, Walker is the only female and one of only eight civilians to receive the Medal of Honor, which was presented to her for her heroic efforts during the Civil War. By Broadbent & Phillips, Philadelphia. 144 AMERICAN HISTORY
Views of the Slave Children from New Orleans (2), sold prior to and during the Civil War to further the abolitionist cause and raise money for education of former slaves, credited to Hurn and McClees in Philadelphia. Additional activists include Frederick Douglass; Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, half black / half American Indian, first black diplomat in US; Wendell Phillips; John Brown; Gerrit Smith; Edward M. Davis; Harriet Beecher Stowe with Lyman and Henry Ward Beecher; Theodore Tilton; Dr. Henry T. Child; Dr. Hiram W. Thomas; Robert Dale Owen; Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, abolitionist and first woman to give political address to the US Congress; Robert Purvis, helped found American Anti-Slavery Society and Library Company of Colored People; William Dodge; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Lucretia Mott (2); and Emily Faithful, English women’s rights activist and publisher. Spiritualists Group of CDVs from the studio of spirit photographer, William H. Mumler, Boston, including a “self portrait with spirit, and two additional “spirit images,” one with Massachusetts clairvoyant Dr. C.T. Buffum. Mumler’s spirit photos are extremely rare, as he famously destroyed his negatives after P.T. Barnum ruined his career by charging him with fraud. Additional subjects include Mrs. Nellie J. Temple Brigham, medium from Massachusetts; Andrew Jackson Davis, spiritualist with clairvoyant powers; A.E. Mossop, spiritualist lecturer; Frances Ann Conant, American spirit medium and frequent sitter for Mumler; Dr. Henry T. Child, published spiritualist; Orson Squire Fowler and Samuel Robert Wells (autographed view), noted phrenologists. Civil War Politicians & Soldiers Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad, famous commercially printed carte; Charles Sumner, Massachusetts Senator; Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War; General Benjamin F. Butler, by Anthony/Brady; Colonel John C. Fremont and his wife, Jessie Ann Benton Fremont; Confederate sympathizer Zaidee J. Bagwell; and Fanny Brown, the last of John Wilkes Booth’s “Ladies” to be identified. BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
SLAVERY & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Civil War soldiers include Colonel Nathan W. Daniels, 2nd Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guard, one of the earliest all-black regiments; Major General Henry J. Madill, 6th PA Reserves and 141st PA Volunteers, fought at Gettysburg, WIA April 1865; signed view of W.S. Vincent, 34th PA Infantry, WIA; and Charles Godfrey Leland, fought at Gettysburg and later became influential in the arts and crafts movement, by Anthony/Brady. Other Personalities Explorers Alexander von Humboldt and Elisha Kent Kane, by Anthony/Brady; female artists Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, by Anthony/
Brady, and Rosa Bonheur; Bayard Taylor, by Anthony/Brady; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Victor Hugo; Charles Dickens; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Florence Nightingale; and famous entertainers of the day, such as the Hutchinson Family Singers, Emma J. Nichols (possibly signed), Cousin Reuben, and “Kate” Field. This exceptional collection of photographs is accompanied by a detailed outline of its contents, which is available upon request. $6,000 - $8,000
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SLAVERY & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 225 Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of an African American Nanny with Two White Children and Their Cat, Plus Lot of 2, including sixth plate ruby ambrotype of African American woman sitting between two young white children, presumably her charges as a nanny or housekeeper, with a cat posed on her lap, ca 1860s, housed in a full floral paper case; and sixth plate tintype of a possible mixed-race nanny and her charge, housed in a half case. $500 - $700
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226 Civil War-Period CDVS of African American Slaves and “Contraband” Lot of 3 CDVs, including studio view of aged African American gentleman, verso with credit to Geo. Wells, Macon, MO and 2 cent internal revenue stamp signed Wells (likely in photographer’s hand) and dated May 1865. Modern penciled note on verso identifies subject as ex slave: CDV with inked manuscript title on recto Opeloussas and Uncle Tom, and spurious caption penciled on verso Slave boys Savanna 1863. Although uncredited, this is one of a series of images taken by McPherson and Oliver in Louisiana after the fall of Port Hudson; and uncredited portrait of an African American woman, with penciled notes on verso, For all my children and Old Aunt Coly. $600 - $800
227 Frederick Douglass & his Grandson, Rare Cabinet Card Cabinet card photograph with imprint of Notman Photo Co., Boston. A studio view of famed African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass later in life, seated in claw foot armchair, holding a paper, with his handsome young grandson, Joseph Douglass, standing at his side. The younger Douglass was an accomplished concert violinist, educator, and conductor. $1,000 - $1,500
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228 Frederick Douglass, First Edition of his Autobiography, 1845 Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845, first edition. 12mo in embossed brown cloth boards, gilt title on cover, with frontis portrait of Douglass, 125pp. $500 - $700 229 Tennessee Lynching Drawing From Life, 1923 Watercolor on board, 13.5 x 31.5 in. (sight), inscribed lower right, Drawn from life in Tennessee / The hanging of Billy West / John Steven (Stenein/Stinson(?)) 1923. Framed, 17.25 x 35.25 in. Research uncovered few results for either name. There were individuals named William West and John Stinson in Whitley County, KY and Scott County, TN. It is possible that Billy West resided in Scott County, but was taken across state lines to Kentucky to be lynched. This, however, cannot be confirmed. $1,000 - $1,500
230 Harry Benson, Signed Photograph of Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Children Silver gelatin print, 13 x 19.25 in., including margins, 16 x 20 in. Housed under mat pencil signed and dated lower right, Harry Benson 1983. A striking portrait by Benson (Scottish, b. 1929) capturing Coretta Scott King and her four children watching from a doorway as the body of Dr. Martin Luther King is removed from an airplane at Hartsfield airport in Atlanta in 1968. Dr. King’s body had just been flown from Memphis to Atlanta for burial. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 231 George Washington ANS Regarding his Free Frank Postage Privileges Washington, George (1732-1799). First President of the United States (1789-1797). 2 x 3 in., on laid paper, with a manicle (pointing hand) and the note: As the Law exempting me from payment of Postage, is not worded as I expected it wd. [would] have been, and as I believe it was intended to be — Pray let me know whether you are charged Postage for my letters to you? Not meaning you should do so. Signed GWash, with the additional note, At Phil’a, no [charges?] made of my letters Franked. The Continental Congress gave itself franking privileges as early as 1775; the first US Congress passed a franking law in 1789. The privilege was abolished in 1873, but re-established in 1891, after many exceptions to the ban had accumulated. Today government officials may send official business, constituent bulk mails and a few other uses. Although the note is not dated, one would guess about 1789 when the law was written for the new nation, but the specifics were as yet unclear. $3,000 - $5,000
232 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison DS Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826). President of the United States (18011809). DS, 1p, 11.5 x 17.5 in. (sight), on vellum with seal lower left., n.d. Signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison (17511836) as Secretary of State (1801-1809). The document is a partially printed ship’s passage, signed and affixed with the Great Seal of the United States, but unused, with the spaces left blank. Ca 1801-1809. Framed, 14 x 20.5 in. $2,000 - $3,000
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 233 James Madison DS as President, 1809 Madison, James (1751-1836). President of the United States (18091817). DS, 1p, 10 x 15.5 in. (sight), on vellum with partial seal lower left, October 27, 1809. Signed by James Madison as President and Robert Smith (1757-1842) as Secretary of State (1809-1811). Partially printed ship’s passage for the Ship Washington of New London commanded by Laban Williams. Framed, 13 x 18 in. In addition to being captain of the Washington, Williams also captained several other whaling ships including the Dauphin and Leonidas. He died in New Orleans on July 11, 1817. A month later, his body was returned to Connecticut for burial. $1,000 - $1,500
234 James Monroe DS, 1814 Monroe, James (1758-1831). President of the United States (18171825). DS, 2pp, approx. 8 x 13.25 in. April 14, 1814. Letter of marque, naming the schooner Grecian of Baltimore, as a privateer. Signed by James Monroe as Secretary of State and J. Price, Collector of the Port of Baltimore. Instructions for these private armed vessels, signed in type by Henry Clay as Speaker of the House and Wm. Crawford, President Pro-tempore of Senate, and approved (in type) by James Madison. In its early years, the nation did not have a large permanent Navy. The small Navy was formed during the Revolution, but disbanded at the end of the war. American ships began to suffer at the hands of pirates, especially from the Barbary (North African Muslim) States, so in 1794, a permanent standing Navy was formed, originally consisting of six frigates. So when the “second revolution” erupted in 1812, as had been the case during the first Revolution, private vessels were licensed and armed to serve the United States, often engaging in activity that would, in other contexts, be considered piracy. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 235 John Quincy Adams, Oration on the Life and Character of Lafayette, Signed & Inscribed First Edition, 1835 Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848). President of the United States (1825-1829). Oration on the Life and Character of Lafayette. Washington (DC): Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835, first edition, with tipped in page at front, inscribed Nathaniel P. Tallmadge from John Quincy Adams. Tallmadge was a US Senator from New York. 8vo, original green calf binding with gilt borders, gilt title and decorative devices on spine, small library number on spine, and library stamps on front endpapers and title page. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) came to America to help in the cause of the revolt of the colonies from their motherland. He became as an adopted son to the “Father of the Country,” and an honorary citizen to the people of the nation. He returned to France after the war, and helped write the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.” He tried to be the voice of moderation, but ran afoul the more radical revolutionaries in France, who ordered his arrest. He fled France, only to be arrested and imprisoned in the Netherlands. After Napoleon secured his release, he returned to France, but would not support the Bonaparte regime. Lafayette was invited to return to the United States by James Monroe in 1824, in part in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the nation. He did, traveling to all states then part of the Union (24 in all) between July 1824 and September 1825, receiving a hero’s welcome wherever he went. By the time he left, Adams had
become President, and he ordered a warship to take the French hero home. Lafayette died in May 1834, of complications from a bout of pneumonia a couple months earlier. Adams, having crossed paths with the General throughout his political life, both in America and in France, was asked to give this Oration on December 31, 1834 to both houses of Congress. $1,000 - $1,500
236 Andrew Jackson ALS as President, March 1830 Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845). President of the United States (1829-1837). ALS, 2pp, [Washington], March 12, 1830. Signed Andrew Jackson. To “Mr. Ingham, Sec. of the Treasury.” Requesting the defence submitted in the case of Mr. Brackenridge, District Attorney for Western PA. Samuel Delucenna Ingham (1779-1860) served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, then the US House representing Pennsylvania. Jackson appointed him Secretary of the Treasury in 1829, a position he would hold for just over two years. Ingham would disagree with Jackson over the Second Bank of the United States, which Ingham supported and Jackson deemed unconstitutional. Although he was never able to bring Jackson around to supporting the US Bank, Ingham would end up resigning over a totally different issue (the so-called “Petticoat Affair”). $1,000 - $2,000
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 237 Lowell Mercury Extra, Two Broadsides Featuring Messages from President Andrew Jackson on Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833 Lot of 2 large, single sheet broadsides, the first, 15 x 20 in., The Lowell Mercury, Telegraph, and Compend(ium)—-Extra. (MA), dated December 14, 1832. With bold caption headline that reads, Proclamation, By Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. The “Extra” features the entire Proclamation by Jackson to the people of South Carolina and is signed in type by the President, December 10, 1832. Printed in six columns of type on the front page and two columns of type on the back, with the remaining four columns blank. Written by Edward Livingston, the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina was issued by Jackson on December 10, 1832. It was penned at the height of the Nullification Crisis and is a direct response to the Ordinance of Nullification passed by the South Carolina legislature in November 1832. Its purpose was to subdue the Nullification Crisis created by South Carolina’s ordinance and to denounce the doctrine of nullification. The proclamation outlines the actions taken by the South Carolina legislature and rejects the insistence on state sovereignty, focusing on the preservation of the Union as the primary issue. It declares nullification to be “incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which It was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.” The proclamation also appeals to citizens to resist the violation of the Constitution. Large broadside “Extra,” 22 in. x 25.25 in., Lowell Mercury-Extra (MA), dated January 17, 1833. The broadside contains the full text of President Andrew Jackson’s Message to the US Congress on the Nullification Crisis, which is printed in full in eight columns of type and signed in type by Andrew Jackson / Washington, DC / Jan. 16, 1833. President Jackson’s Message of January 1833 was his response to South Carolina passing the Ordinance of Nullification. Jackson called upon the Federal Government to pass a “force bill” to require South Carolina to collect Federal tariffs or else. The “Force Bill” was passed by Congress and consisted of eight sections expanding presidential power. It was designed to compel the state of South Carolina’s compliance with a series of federal tariffs. The bill was opposed by John Calhoun and other leading South Carolinians. Among other things, the legislation stipulated that the president could, if he deemed it necessary, deploy the US Army to force South Carolina to comply with the law. It authorized the president to use whatever force he deemed necessary to enforce federal tariffs. South Carolina purported to nullify the Force Bill as well, but simultaneously, a Compromise Tariff was passed by Congress, defusing the crisis. While the Force Bill rejected the concept of individual states’ rights to nullify federal law or to secede from the Union, this was not universally accepted. It would arise again during the build-up to the Civil War. $1,500 - $2,000
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238 William Henry Harrison ALS to John Reily, 1817 Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841). President of the United States (1841). ALS as a Representative for Ohio, 1p, “Washington.” July 24, 1817. Addressed to John Reily, co-author of the Ohio State Constitution. Harrison writes to Reily asking that he accept a copy of the laws of the United States. He also discusses a Captain Robroray(?). Reverse side franked by Harrison. $1,000 - $1,500
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln 239 William Henry Harrison, 1840 Campaign Hard Cider Barrel Bank Still bank in the form of a forged iron, “Hard Cider” barrel produced to promote William Henry Harrison’s 1840 Presidential campaign. Approx. 7.5 in. long, 5 in. tall. The bank is comprised of four hand wrought, bronze hoops, two of which extend to form the bronze feet. One end of the barrel reads Harrison Cider Extra, and the other end reads, Boston O.K. The lettering is black on a gilt background. The bank includes a removable insert in the bung hole at the top, which has a hand-cut slot, suggesting that this may be a very early example of an iron still bank. A rare example of Harrison campaign memorabilia. $2,000 - $3,000
POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 240 James K. Polk and James Buchanan, Presidential Signed Appointment Polk, James K. (1795-1849). President of the United States (18451849). DS on vellum, 1p, 15.5 x 15.25 in., with embossed seal affixed lower left, Washington. March 18, 1848. Appointment of John Keatley (misspelled “Keatly”) as Marshal of the United States in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Signed by Polk as President and James Buchanan (1791-1868) as Secretary of State (1845-1849). John Keatley (1810-1890) was a prominent Pennsylvanian who served as justice of the peace and a state representative for Clarion County, PA, until he was appointed US Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania by President Polk. He held this position for 15 months. Keatley was later appointed an additional paymaster in the Army by Secretary Stanton and worked in that position from November 1862-December 1865. $1,000 - $1,500
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 241 Zachary Taylor Free Frank and Signed Inscription Lot of 2. Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850). President of the United States (1849-1850). Free frank envelope, 5.75 x 3.25 in., addressed to Henry Grimmell Esq. New York City, and franked upper right Free Z. Taylor. With postmark that appears to read Washington DC APR. 28. Inscription and signature on light blue paper, clipped, 4 x 2.25 in., which reads Very respectfully/ Your obt. serv’t/ Z. Taylor. Back reads For Sister Augusta in ink and President in pencil. $700 - $1,000
242 James Buchanan ALS, February 1857 Buchanan, James (1791-1868). President of the United States (18571861). ALS, 1p, Wheatland. February 28, 1857. Signed James Buchanan. To Colonel John W. Forney. In this letter to John Weiss Forney (1817-1881), Buchanan is offering him either the Naval office at Philadelphia or the Consulate at Liverpool, for the signal services which you have rendered to the Democratic party. Forney, like Buchanan, was a Pennsylvanian who served as the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House. He had already served at the port of Philadelphia, appointed by Polk. When Forney left that post, he purchased half interest in the Pennsylvanian, a Democratic paper which attained national status. As head of the Pennsylvania delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, he was instrumental in getting Buchanan on the ticket. After helping to get Buchanan elected, his support dwindled, in part over the issue of admission of Kansas to the Union. Forney then joined in the organization of the new Republican Party. He did not take either of these offered positions, but did return to the port of Philadelphia under Grant’s administration. $600 - $800
243 James Buchanan, Four Language Ships’ Paper Signed as President Buchanan, James (1791-1868). President of the United States (1857-1861). Partially printed ship DS, 1p, 22 x 16.5 in. Four-language (French, Spanish, English, Dutch) letters authorizing passage of captains and ships, although this example is not completed. Signed by Buchanan as President and Lewis Cass (1782-1866) as Secretary of State (1857-1860). Retains large US seal at center right. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Before Lincoln 244 The Folly of Secession, Political Cartoon Featuring President Buchanan Lithograph, 12 x 16 in., published by Currier & Ives, although lacking an imprint, 1861. Housed in carved wood frame, 17 x 21 in. overall. Early in 1861, South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens attempted to attract other Southern states to the secessionist cause. President James Buchanan tried to preserve the Union, which created a struggle for control of the Union, depicted as the cow in the political cartoon offered here. With Buchanan and the Union distracted, Georgia “collected the cream” and seized the recently improved Fort Pulaski, before officially seceding. $800 - $1,200
245 Sixth Plate Ambrotype of a Man Wearing 1856 Fremont & Dayton Campaign Ribbon Sixth plate ambrotype of a gentleman wearing an 1856 Fremont & Dayton campaign ribbon featuring an American flag and a likeness of John C. Fremont, the 1856 Republican nominee, with his name and that of his running mate at bottom and an illegible motto at top. Housed in pressed paper case. $500 - $700
POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 246 Abraham Lincoln, Clipped Signature as President, July 10, 1861 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865). President of the United States (18611865). Clipped signature of Lincoln as President, 4.5 x 1.5 in. (sight), signed A. Lincoln, July 10, 1861. Presented with photograph of Lincoln originally taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady’s Washington Gallery, February 9, 1864, printed by Frederick Hill Meserve and affixed to period CDV mount. The signature and photograph are beautifully mounted in a period frame with period glass, 12.5 x 14.5 in. Lincoln’s signature is extremely fine, brilliant, and dark. An excellent example. $3,000 - $4,000
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 247 Abraham Lincoln Appointment Signed as President for Richard P.H. Durkee, Captain, US Army, 14th Regiment Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865). President of the United States (18611865). DS, 1p, 13.75 x 17.75 in., with embossed seal affixed upper left, Washington. February 21, 1862. Appointment of Richard P.H. Durkee as Captain in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry...to rank as such from October 25, 1861. Signed by Lincoln as President and Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) as Secretary of War (1862-1868). Richard Durkee enlisted in the army as a 1st lieutenant on May 14, 1861 and mustered into the 14th US Army Infantry. Within five months, he received his first promotion to captain. He suffered through the battle of Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and earned a second promotion to adjutant on September 13, 1863. He resigned from his position on July 11, 1863. $3,000 - $6,000
248 Salmon P. Chase ALS to John M. Millikin Mentioning Lincoln, 1864 Chase, Salmon P. (1808-1873). US Secretary of Treasury (1861-1864) and Sixth Chief Justice to the United States (1864-1873). ALS, 2.5pp., Washington. September 14, 1864. Addressed to John M. Millikin, Ohio State Treasurer (1876-1878). A portion of the letter reads: Recently I fear that some folks have been saying that I would not support the Union nominee. You don’t need any assurance that I have said nothing to warrant any such sayings. I wish that Mr. Lincoln and especially that some of his most trusted advisers were more in harmony with the sentiments of the great majority of the Americans(?) that they seem to be, but I have doubted that Mr. Lincoln’s heart is for Union and Nation and I answer that there is little or no hope for the principles and measures to which the best years of my life have been devoted craft through his election. The sympathies of all enemies of the country are with the Chicago candidates; the sympathies of those who love the country should be with the Baltimore nominees...
Lincoln and Chase had a tumultuous working relationship. Prior to his nomination, Chase ran against Lincoln to be the Republican nominee. Chase ultimately lost, but Lincoln awarded him a seat on his cabinet as Secretary of Treasury. Chase worked tirelessly to finance the Civil War, implemented a unified nationwide banking system with the National Banking Act, and began utilizing paper currency to function as war notes, also known as “greenback” bills. After repeated threats to resign from his position, Chase ultimately left his seat on the cabinet in June 1864. However, Lincoln nominated him to replace Roger Taney’s seat on the Supreme Court after Taney’s death in October. See also Lot 289, featuring papers related to the Millikin Family. $800 - $1,200
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 249 Rare, Uncut Sheet of 1860 Campaign Ferrotypes, Incl. Lincoln, Hamlin, Bell, Everett, and More Uncut tintype sheet, as it was originally manufactured, 4.25 x 3.25 in., including 15 complete portraits, 20mm dia., and 2 incomplete portraits, of the following candidates for President and Vice President in 1860: Abraham Lincoln (3 complete, 1 incomplete); Hannibal Hamlin (3 complete, 1 incomplete); John Bell (1); Edward Everett (1); Stephen A. Douglas (2); Herschel V. Johnson (1); J.C. Breckinridge (2); and Joseph Lane (2). With indecipherable stamp along bottom edge. $800 - $1,200
250 Rare John Bell & Edward Everett 1860 Campaign “Doughnut” Ferrotype in Largest Size Brass “doughnut” mount, 1.85 in. dia., approx. .25 in. thick, featuring ferrotypes of the 1860 Constitutional Union Party candidates for President and Vice President on either side, John Bell and Edward Everett. $2,000 - $3,000
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 251 Beardless Abraham Lincoln, Wigwam Grand March Sheet Music and More Large bound volume of antebellum and Civil War-era sheet music, ca 1861, 10.25 x 13.5 in. cloth covered boards. The highlight is a complete example of The “Wigwam” Grand March published in 1860 after Lincoln’s nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate. There are some sheet music examples with illustrated covers including ca 1861-2 titles such as, Gen. Fremont’s March and Col. Baker’s Funeral March. While others like All Hail to the Stars and Stripes or the Dying Volunteer have typical printed covers. The balance of the titles are fairly nondescript and typical of the period including opera, instrumental, sentimental and some Stephen Foster melodies. $1,000 - $1,500
252 Abraham Lincoln Campaign Propaganda, Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality, July 4, 1863 Printed broadside, 6 x 9 in., on very thin paper. Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality. July 4th, 1863. At present affixed to heavy paperstock. Philadelphia: Johnson’s, [1863]. Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party were accused of favoring African-Americans over white Americans, the Emancipation Proclamation did not sit well with everyone, nor did the enlistment of African-American troops during the war, which also was not going particularly well for the Union in early 1863. There were even accusations of Lincoln himself being of African descent. Lincoln fully expected to lose the election the following year, and with the war raging, both parties played the “race card.” The so-called “Copperheads,” a faction of the Northern Democrats wanted immediate peace with the Confederacy, and encouraged soldiers to desert, draft resistance, and other civil disobedience. They were particularly a Republican target in the mid-war elections. To counter the claims of “favoritism,” this broadside was issued. The broadside takes the form of Questions and Answers, showing that Democrats had a long history of favoring negroes. For example: ...Who gave the negroes the right of suffrage in New York; The Democratic party. Who presided over the convention which gave this privilege to negroes? Martin Van Buren, a Democrat.... Who made the negro a citizen of the State of Maine? The Democratic party. Who enacted a similar law in Massachusetts? The Democratic party.... Who helped to give free negroes the right to vote in Tennessee under her Constitution of 1796? General Jackson. Was General Jackson a good Democrat? He generally passed as such. Who with the above facts, and many others, staring them in the face, are continually whining about “negro suffrage” and negro equality? The Democratic party. All these things were done by Democrats, and yet they deny being in favor of negro equality, and charge it upon the Republicans - just like the thief who cries “stop thief” the loudest. N.B. - Send your Democratic friend one of these Valuable Documents, Sold Wholesale and Retail at Johnson’s, No. 7 North Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Generally attributed to the Republican Party as early literature in the Lincoln bid for re-election. However, OCLC locates a similar broadside, with the title “A Short Catechism on Negro Equality.” This example is dated 1837-1841, and only one institution, the Library of Virginia,
is shown holding it. There are a few differences in the questions, such as: “Who procured a negro woman to deliver abolition lectures in Bridesburg? Henry W. Ditman, a leader of the Democratic Party.” The remainder is essentially the same, including the last paragraph, mentioning the Republicans. It is generally agreed that the modern Party formed in 1854, out of a coalition of antislavery Whigs and Free Soil Democrats, which would suggest the date as later than the 1830s. There appear to be two Civil War editions, both with the title “Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality”: the one offered here, generally dated to 1863 from the date just below the title, and 1864, which has an additional question at the end of the list: “Who voted against the White Soldier voting in Penn’a in 1864? The Democratic party,” and an additional ad in the footnote (“N.B.”) for Johnson’s - “See his Political Songs,” not found in the 1863 edition. WorldCat finds four “hard” copies of the 1863 printing and six microform (microfiche) copies, plus 94 copies of the 1864 - 93 “hard” copies (“book”), one microform, one “ebook” (Cornell) and possibly one at Chicago Public (labeled by WorldCat as “1865?”). There seems to be some variation in each of these printings, particularly with regard to font and capitalizations within the text. There is another “Shorter Catechism” that is only 3.75 x 6 in., and is not found in any institution by WorldCat. A scarce broadside that foreshadows the modern Civil Rights movements. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 253 New York Herald, November 1864, Announcing Re-Election of Lincoln as President New York Herald, New York, November 9, 1864. 8pp, 15.75 x 22 in. With bold, front page “stacked” headlines announcing the re-election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. $600 - $800
254 1864 Presidential Campaign Broadside Seeking the GermanAmerican Vote Printed broadside, 19 x 24 in. Gedruckt bei King und Baird, Philadelphia (Printed by King and Baird). Rare Presidential Campaign poster from the 1864 campaign entirely in German to appeal to German-speaking voters. Pennsylvania had a large German-speaking population (and still does in “Amish country”), as did New York, Ohio, Missouri and several other states. The 74th PA was one of the better-known German-American regiments during the Civil War, and New York and Ohio each fielded ten German-American regiments. They were an important contingent of voters. Immigrants from all nations made up nearly a quarter of Union soldiers, and over 200,000 of those were German-speaking. Large Gothic headlines Willkuhrliche Verhastungen (Arbitrary Arrests). Then two columns: The Platform and The Candidate. Although our German is less than perfect, it appears that “The Platform” sets up a condition, and “The Candidate” gives McClellan’s position on the argument set up in the platform. Under “Arbitrary Arrests,” “The Platform” deals with military precedence over constitutional law in times of war, and notes that when the military prevails, both liberty and private rights are trampled. It goes on to point out that civil power has been subordinated and administrative powers usurped in states which are not in turmoil (presumably meaning those which did not secede). Then in “The Candidate” section it quotes McClellan’s orders concerning the Maryland Legislature from September 16, 1861: ...it is necessary that a meeting of the legislature at any place and time be prevented. Keep yourself and your troops ready to arrest members of both houses. The list of who you should arrest, should include the administrators of both houses, secretaries, clerks and officials. Arrests have to be sure and without fail. My opinion is that the arrest should happen during the meeting. Below these two paragraphs is a second headline: Einmischung in die Wahlen (“interference in the elections”) in which it is suggested that there was a shameless repression of the constitution in.... Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Delaware elections; that...will be regarded as revolutionary in forthcoming elections and will be combated with all the means at our command (translation from the German). In “The Candidate” paragraph, they quote McClellan’s orders of October 29, 1861 in which he ordered enough troops so that pro158 AMERICAN HISTORY
Union voters would not be intimidated by “disunionists” or interfere with their rights. The first sounds anti-McClellan, the second, almost pro-McClellan, although he did order troops to be stationed at polling places (which could certainly intimidate some voters, especially immigrants). The states mentioned in “The Platform” are, of course, all the “Border States,” those with strong pro-Confederate populations, but which did not secede. The broadside seems to emphasize that these states were all being treated as enemy states, and their Constitutional rights were being infringed upon. A rare German language broadside, with most of the text intact. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $500 - $700 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana 255 Abraham Lincoln Silhouette Portrait from Life by Captain Ralph Chandler, April 6, 1865, Plus Unpublished silhouette portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Drawing in India ink, on course, stiff paper, with inscription beneath profile portrait, Drawn from life by Capt. Ralph Chandler, at Richmond, Va., April 6, 1865. 3.375 x 5 in. (sight), 6.75 x 8 in. overall, housed under mat on which is written a quotation from Lincoln’s second Inaugural speech, Fondly do we hope - Fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war, may we speedily pass away. March 4, 1865. A unique item, and quite possibly the last portrait made of President Lincoln from life, as eight days later, he was assassinated. Captain Ralph Chandler (1829-1889) was commander of the steamer Maumee, and served as such during the Fort Fisher campaign. By April, 1865, the Maumee was operating on the James River, and Chandler most likely had the opportunity at that time to draw Abraham Lincoln during his visit to Richmond. Photocopies of records from the National Archives in Washington, DC, regarding Chandler’s Naval service are included with this lot. The portrait is accompanied by the auction catalog in which the item was originally listed in 1920. The silhouette was presented as Lot 276 in Stan V. Hankel’s Great Autograph Sale, held in Philadelphia, July 1, 1920. The portrait was acquired from the collection of Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), a noted New York collector and painter who drew portraits of Lincoln and other presidents. A clipping of the printed auction description from another copy of Hankel’s’ catalog is also present. The consignor purchased the silhouette from the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, IL, and a letter from the shop authenticating the portrait is included as well. $2,000 - $3,000
POLITICS IN AMERICA | Lincolniana | Assassination & Funeral 256 Abraham Lincoln, Unique Handmade Mourning Badge Mourning badge comprised of Abraham Lincoln memorial carte de visite that has been trimmed down and affixed to black silk ribbon, 2.25 x 8.25 in. A period, handwritten note pinned to the ribbon states, Mourning Badge Worn by W.A. Farren (?) on the day of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Made by the Wearer’s Mother. A fine badge made to honor the slain president. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Assassination & Funeral 257 Alexander Gardner, Albumen Photograph of the Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators Albumen photograph, 6.5 x 8.75 in. on mount trimmed to 7.5 x 10.25 in., capturing the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators from the gallows in the yard of Fort McNair, Washington, DC. Taken on July 7, 1865, this is one of a series of seven photographs produced by Alexander Gardner. The conspirators include, from left to right, Mary Surratt (seated in the black dress), Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt. A crowd of civilians and soldiers watch as the hoods for the hanging are fitted and the nooses are adjusted. Matted and framed, 22.75 x 21.5 in. $3,000 - $4,000
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258 Andrew Johnson DS as President, April 1865 Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875). President of the United States (18651869). Partially printed DS, 1p, 16 x 10 in., with seal affixed lower left, Washington, DC. April 25, 1865. Signed by Johnson as President and William Hunter (1805-1886) as acting Secretary of State (1865). Appointment of Nehemiah D. Sperry as Deputy Postmaster at New Haven, in the State of Connecticut. $500 - $700
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259 Ulysses S. Grant Appointment Signed as President for Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, 1875 Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). President of the United States (18691877). Partially printed DS, 1p, 22 x 17.75 in., with seal affixed lower left, Washington, DC. April 26, 1875. Signed by Grant as President and Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) as Secretary of State (1869-1877). Appointment of Edwards Pierrepont (1817-1892) as Attorney General of the United States. Edwards Pierrepont of New York graduated from Yale and New Haven Law School. He practiced law in Columbus, OH from 1841 to 1845 and served as a judge of the Superior Court of New York City from 1857 to 1860. After serving as a member of a Military Commission, a member of the New York state constitutional convention in 1867, and attorney for the Southern District of New York, President Grant appointed him Attorney General in 1875, a position he held until 1876. $2,000 - $3,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln 260 U.S. Grant, Enormous Illustrated Funeral Broadside Large, printed broadside, 27 x 41.5 in. (sight), featuring a detailed, heroic portrait of General U.S. Grant on horseback, approx. 16 x 22 in., announcing that Excursion Tickets to New York and return will be sold by the West Shore Railway on August 5, 6, 7, and 8 for Grant’s funeral services, from Henry Monett, General Passenger Agent, New York. Framed, 30.75 x 45 in. Grant’s funeral procession made its way through New York City on August 8, 1885, and crowds packed together to witness this historic occasion. People outside of New York took advantage of the special trains that offered low fares to the event. Subsequently, Grant was accompanied by a column of mourners that stretched seven miles long. The route of the procession through New York was made to extend as far as possible, and many of the buildings along the route were draped in black to honor Grant. $800 - $1,200
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261 U.S. Grant’s Tomb, Archive Incl. Photographs and Design Proposal for Tomb Lot of 9, comprised of 2 albumen photographs, 10 x 12.5 in., each on original 16 x 19.75 in. mount with printed caption, showing interior and exterior views of General Grant’s temporary tomb at Riverside Park, NY. Each copyrighted in the negative, Pach Bros., 1885, with additional credit for the New York City studio printed on each mount. The lot also features an unsuccessful design proposal for the Grant Memorial, 18 x 24 in., accompanied by the original envelope with small circular portrait of Grant and typed note mounted on front, addressed to Mrs. General Grant / Subject to the approval of the Committee.
An 8 x 6 in. albumen photograph of an English interior setting inscribed to Mrs. Grant and 4 concept prints produced by architect Carl Pfeiffer, each approx. 8 x 10 in. or smaller, for a proposed residence called “Osseo Lodge” in West Virginia and a cottage at Long Branch, NJ are also included with the lot. One of the prints showing an exterior view of the “Osseo Lodge” is inscribed on the mount to U.S. Grant, Jr. Esq. Acquired by the consignor from the Estate of Julia Dent Boggs, Mrs. U.S. Grant. $800 - $1,200
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 262 Rutherford B. Hayes ALS as President, July 1879 Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893). Brevet Brigadier General, USA, Member House (1865-1867), Governor of Ohio (1876-1877), and President of the United States (1877-1881). ALS, 2pp, Washington, DC, July 1, 1879, on White House letterhead. Signed R.B. Hayes, to George Wm. Curtis. At top Private. ...I have tried to maintain the National authority against the heresy of ultra States rights, and that 1. The U.S. Government has the authority and is in duty bound to enact and enforce laws to secure honesty in the Congressional elections. 2. That the House of Representatives can not, even if the Senate consents, absorb the whole legislative power of the Government. 3. That the military power is to be subordinate to the Civil power, at elections and everywhere. 4. That non partisan juries are desirable. 5. That test-oaths are out of place in our system. In all this I have I believe the support of the sober second thought of thoughtful people... But upon the whole the Congressional feeling towards the Administration among Republicans of all sorts was never so friendly as it is now. $600 - $800
263 James A. Garfield, Two Letters to Ohio Lieutenant Samuel Cole with Additional Documentation, 1866-1869 Lot of 8. Garfield, James (1831-1881). President of the United States (1881). Featuring 2 ALsS on House of Representatives letterhead, plus 6 other letters and documents concerning Samuel Cole. Archivally framed together, 16 x 18.5 in. The first letter is on Ways & Means Committee letterhead, dated December 4, 1866. Garfield tells Cole that it is too late to secure an appointment in the regular army, but that he would be willing to bring Cole’s recommendation to the Secretary of War and help in any way possible. The second letter is on Fortieth Congress letterhead, dated March 12, 1869. Addressed to J.D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior, recommending Mr. Cole for a clerkship. A notebook of research accompanies the letters. In this are 6 other notes, letters, and special orders relating to Cole’s service during the Civil War, including: General Order No. 3, Camp Chase, July 8, 1862, with instructions for Lieutenant Cole for requesting leaves of absence for the men of the 45th OVI; 7 x 7 in. note informing Lieutenant Cole that the next day he is officer of the guard, signed for Garfield by his AAG. Letter to E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War, January 31, 1867. From Samuel Cole, requesting a leave for 30 days to prepare for an examination, upon which board he was currently serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the 9th US Cavalry. The board was for Examination of Officers promoted to Cavalry, overseen by Major General David Hunter (USMA 1822, Cullum #310). (Although retired from active duty in July 1866, Hunter was commissioned to the Examination Board from August 1866 to January 1868.) Note to Lieutenant Cole, Co. F, 45th OVI from Miles Payne, Captain Co. F, 45th OVI. Camp Townsend, August 31, 1862. You are hereby ordered to take every Negro man within one mile of said camp and report him in person to me at my head quarters in said camp immediately. Said Negroes to be used to build a stockade as a defence against to attacks on the enemy and to be released to their masters as soon as said work is completed. Letter addressed to J.A. Garfield, from J.C. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel 96th IL Infantry. recommending Lieutenant Cole for a commission as captain and ADC in the regular army. John Corson Smith was lieutenant colonel of the 96th IL, and received a colonelcy by brevet in February 1865 and brigadier general by brevet in June 1865. 162 AMERICAN HISTORY
Special Orders No. 248, Oct. 28, 1885, correcting Cole’s status between November 3, 1864 and February 4, 1865 to captain. Samuel H. Cole (1833-1886) was born in Union County, PA. He married twice and had four children with his second wife Kate Smith, with only one surviving into adulthood. Cole died in May 1886, and his headstone lists his rank as lieutenant, which may have been the reason for Special Orders No. 248. Kate was applying for widow’s benefits, and certainly there would have been a bit more for a captain than a lieutenant (plus the pay differential for the four months listed). Cole enlisted as a private in the 7th OVI, a 100-day regiment, on April 20, 1861, as soon as the call went out for men. Most of the unit re-enlisted in a three year unit when their term was up, but Cole returned home, and re-enlisted in the 42nd OVI in October. This unit was commanded by James A. Garfield. A mere four months into his service, Cole resigned his commission (reason not stated). He enlisted again with the 45th OVI in June 1862, but on a night raid, he rode his horse over an embankment. The horse fell on him breaking a number of bones. He resigned his commission in June 1863, almost exactly a year after he entered service. By the end of 1863, he was again in service, this time with the 9th Cavalry. This time he contracted malaria and had his eye injured by BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts a branch. The injury did not seem serious at the time, but later he became blind in that eye, and then the other eye. He was never able to obtain disability for the blindness (likely because it was hard to tie to the events in the field after so many years). He served in the siege of Atlanta, then Sherman’s March to the Sea. He was discharged in February 1865, just before the end of the war. He appears to have not returned to Portage Co. As the letters indicate, by 1867 he was in the 9th US Cavalry, and at the time of the letter to the Secretary of War, stationed in Washington, DC. $800 - $1,200
264 James A. Garfield, ALS from House of Representatives, April 1879 Garfield, James (1831-1881). President of the United States (1881). ALS, 1p, on US House of Representatives letterhead, Washington, DC. April 12, 1879. Signed J.A. Garfield. To Hon F. Thorp, Columbus, OH. He tells Thorp, I note what you say of the situation there, and I hope my friends will stand firm in protecting me in the position I have taken in regard to the Governorship. Fellow Ohioan Rutherford Hayes suggested Garfield seek the Ohio governorship as a road to the White House, but Garfield decided to reject that path and to instead seek one of the Senate seats for Ohio. He was elected to the Senate, but before he could take his seat, he became the Republican Party’s “dark horse” nominee for President. He would be elected, of course, then shot on July 2nd by Charles Guiteau. After eleven weeks, Garfield died, just the second President to be assassinated, after Abraham Lincoln. $600 - $800
265 Benjamin Harrison, Appointment Signed as President, 1889 Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901). President of the United States (18891893). DS, March 23, 1889, Washington, signed by Benjamin Harrison as President. Appointment for Andrew C. Bradley, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia (now US District Court for the District of Columbia). Framed, 15.25 x 19.25 in. (sight). Andrew Coyle Bradley (1844-1902) was a native of the District of Columbia, and graduate of Harvard. The Bradley family had long been associated with the Federal District. Abraham Bradley (1767-1838, of Connecticut) was appointed Postmaster General by George Washington, and remained in that post until dismissed by Andrew Jackson in 1829. But the family was by this time entrenched in the city. Abraham’s son, Joseph Habersham Bradley (1803-1887) became a lawyer, and was involved in the Lincoln conspirators’ trial (for which he was disbarred for representing the Surratts). He was later reinstated by the Supreme Court. Another son of Abraham Bradley was Charles (1816-1881). Charles worked at the National Bank of the Republic and Franklin Fire Insurance Co., but his son, Andrew Coyle Bradley followed his uncle into the practice of law. Upon Justice Bradley’s death, the Daily Washington Law Reporter (Vol. 30) devoted three and a half pages, with memorial contributions by five prominent Washingtonians as well as the main memorial. See also Lots 287-288. Descended Directly in the Bradley Family $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 266 Grover Cleveland DS as President, 1893 Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908). President of the United States (1885-1889, 1893-1897). Engraved statement of friendship addressed To his Excellency General Don J. Santos Zelaya, President of the Government Junta of the Republic of Nicaragua. 2pp, 9.25 x 13.25 in. Washington, DC, October 9, 1893. Signed by Grover Cleveland as President and Secretary of State, W.Q. Gresham (1832-1895). Great and Good Friend: I have received your letter of August 24th last, by which you announce that the Junta over which you preside, has assumed the Executive Power of Nicaragua. Reciprocating the sentiments of friendship for the United States expressed in your communication, and apprising you of the constant desire of this Government for the true prosperity of Nicaragua, as well as of my personal good wishes. $500 - $700
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln 267 McKinley & Hobart, Jugate Campaign Flag Day Poster, 1896 Printed campaign poster, red and blue on white, newsprint-type paper, 22.75 x 16.5 in., with 45-star canton and spread-winged eagle above oval medallion portraits of William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart, with the slogan Sound Money-Protection And Prosperity below. While promoting McKinley and Hobart, the Republican nominees for President and Vice President, this vibrant campaign poster also advertises Flag Day, Saturday, Oct. 31st, (1896). With the 1896 presidential election just days away, this poster represents one of the last significant pushes by the Republican National Committee before the voters went to the polls. Signed in print by Republican National Committee Chairman M.A. Hanna, Chicago, October 17, 1896. $500 - $700
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 268 Theodore Roosevelt, Contract Employing Cherokee Nation Attorney, Signed as President, February 1908 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919). President of the United States (1901-1909). Partially printed DS as President, 2pp, 8.5 x 14 in. Contract Employing William W. Hastings, Esq., as Attorney for the Cherokee Nation. January 4, 1908. The document notes that the appointment is subject to the approval of the President of the United States as provided by Section 28 of the act of April 26th, 1906,... Thus it was approved and signed by Roosevelt at Washington, DC, February 3, 1908. Signed by Francis Ellington Leupp (1849-1918) as the Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs (1905-1909), January 29, 1908, and the Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, January 31, 1908, also at Washington. Contract signed by William Wirt Hastings (1866-1938) as Attorney of the Cherokee Nation (1907-1914), and by William Charles Rogers (1847-1917) as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1903-1917), at Muskogee, OK. Accompanied by 2 related documents from the Third Judicial District, State of Oklahoma, Muskogee County as testimony of the contract. One signed by John H. King as Judge and one by Toney Matney as 164 AMERICAN HISTORY
Clerk for the District Court for the Third Judicial District. With loose document stamped Office of Indian Affairs/ File 3940, dated Jan. 20 1908, and Department of the Interior/ Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes./ Received/ Jan. 13 1908. $800 - $1,200 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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269 Extensive Archive of a Roosevelt Family Friend, Elizabeth Evans, Incl. Some Accounts of a White House Visit and Trip to Sagamore Hill Lot of 400+ items owned by Elizabeth Evans, including 9 photograph albums and diaries, one written during her overnight stay in the White House with the Roosevelts. The lot also includes approximately 18 additional items related to the Roosevelts, such as personal photographs of Edith Roosevelt during Evans’ 1933 stay at Sagamore Hill; an ALS from Evans to her mother describing her stay; an ALS from Edith Roosevelt discussing a flight she took with Colonel Francis T. Evans (Evans’ husband) in Haiti; another ALS from Edith Roosevelt; 1903 White House invitation; various covers featuring Theodore Roosevelt; and other papers describing her night and stay with the first family. Although Ethel Roosevelt had a difficult time making friends at the National Cathedral School, she found one in Elizabeth Kibbey Evans. Ethel first invited Evans to the White House for an old fashioned kind of Christmas Party in 1903. It was a beautiful party—so formal—so Christmasy, wrote Evans. The two enjoyed their time together at the party with Alice Roosevelt as well. Ethel and Evans continued their friendship and, in 1906, Ethel invited Evans to spend the night in the White House. Ecstatic about her stay, Evans penned all the details and later in life drew maps of where her room was as well as the rooms of other family members. She arrived at the White House before dinner and ate with the family. Afterwards she played cards with Archie,
Quentin, and Mrs. Roosevelt until she went to bed. The next morning she woke early and carefully tiptoed to Edith’s room because she was scared to death she was going to meet someone in her pajamas and messy morning hair (April 7, 1907). She and Ethel dressed and went down to have breakfast with the President, First Lady, and other members of the family. Evans left the White House but continued her friendship with the family for many years. However, that same year, Evans had to leave Washington with her family. Evans went on to marry Francis T. Evans, a dashing pilot who would make history as one of the earliest US Marine Corps aviators, the first person to perform a loop in seaplane, and a pioneer of stall and spin recovery techniques. While stationed in Haiti in 1930, they hosted Mrs. Edith Roosevelt. Francis Evans happily took her on a plane ride and sent her photographs so she could remember it. That flight with your husband is a wonderful memory, Edith Roosevelt wrote to Evans. It was an experience that taught me to love the air, and feel its inspiration (Mortlake Manor, Brooklyn, CT, July 7, 1930). Three years later, Evans visited Mrs. Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, after receiving an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt. At the Roosevelt’s sanctuary, she wrote her mother on the residence’s stationery about her restful visit and spending time with Mrs. Roosevelt, Ethel, and Kermit. The remaining items in the archive all relate to Evans and her world travels. In the margins of many of the items she writes about her experiences. $1,000 - $2,000
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln 270 Theodore Roosevelt, The Fargo Bottling Works Co. Malt Cream Tin Sign Rare chromolithographed tin advertisement promoting the Fargo Bottling Works Co. Malt Cream, “The Great Health Drink,” featuring a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, reproduced by Collier’s Weekly from a painting by John S. Sargent, copyright 1903, printed on tin by the Meek & Beach Co., Coshocton, OH. 11.25 x 17.25 in. (sight), housed in what appears to be the original decorative frame, 14.5 x 22.5 in. $800 - $1,200
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 271 Cavalryman George L. Morrison, Collection of Military Documents Incl. William Taft Appointment Signed as President Lot of 5 documents related to George L. Morrison and his military career, including: Taft, William Howard (1857-1930). President of the United States (1909-1913). DS, 15 x 19 in., commission for George L. Morrison as 1st lieutenant of the US Cavalry. Cromwell, Benedict (1869-1852). Assistant Secretary of War (19171920). DS, 11.5 x 14.5 in., granting Morrison a commission as captain in the United States Army on May 15, 1920. Alger, R.A. (1836-1907). Secretary of War (1897-1899). DS, framed, 8 x 11 in. (sight), framed, 10 x 11.5 in. West Point certificate making Morrison a cadet on June 13, 1899. Accompanied by West Point graduation certificate given to Morrison in 1903 and diploma for the Mounted Service School, issued to Morrison in July 1908 with its original seals and ribbons. $600 - $800
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln 272 Rare Dutch Woodrow Wilson 1919 League of Nations Advertising Poster Dutch advertising poster, 30.5 x 42.5 in. (sight), using Woodrow Wilson’s arrival in Europe to promote a brand of shoe polish, dated 1919. The poster depicts a toothy Wilson grinning while a boy polishes his shoe. The ocean liner George Washington is visible in the background. Wilson traveled across the Atlantic aboard the George Washington in December 1918, making him the first US President to visit Europe while in office. The English translation of the poster reads When Wilson set foot on shore, his shoes were polished with “Drietand” (Trident) shoe-cream. The picture shows the by law approved and established trademark of the Amsterdam Chemical Factory. With artist’s signature and date H. Sanders ‘19. Framed, 35 x 47 in. $1,000 - $1,500
POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 273 Woodrow Wilson TLS as President of Princeton, Regarding Controversy Surrounding Meat Packing Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924). President of the United States (1913-1921). TLS as President of Princeton University (1902-1910), 2pp, Princeton, NJ. April 20, 1910. On Princeton University, President’s Room letterhead. Signed Woodrow Wilson. To Thomas Creigh, an attorney for Cudahy Packing Company, which became one of the largest meat packers in the US within a decade. It was one of the first S&P 500 companies. Wilson wrote Creigh: ...The statement I made about the meat business in the speech to which you refer was based upon a great many conversations I have had with men who had, at one time or another, been engaged in the business of raising cattle. They had all made practically the same statement to me, namely that whatever the fluctuations in the price of meat, the price of cattle on the hoof remained stationary, and stationary at so low a figure as to make the raising of cattle, except on a very large scale and under very favorable circumstances, unprofitable. They had for that reason gone out of the business. I realize, of course, that these statements may be touched with personal feeling and may have been exaggerated, but I took it for granted, from my knowledge of the men themselves, that what they stated was in substance true. I should be very much interested to know whether you have any statistics upon that point or can refer me to any. I certainly had
no intention of being unfair to the meat packers, and I know how easy it is to misjudge in complicated questions of this sort. After being Princeton University’s president, Wilson went on to serve as governor of New Jersey (1911-1913) before he was elected president in 1913. He led the nation through World War I and passed progressive policies unequalled until the New Deal. Wilson remains the only president to hold a PhD. $400 - $600
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 274 Warren G. Harding TLS as President, 1922 Harding, Warren G. (1865-1923). President of the United States (19211923). TNS as President, 1p, Washington, DC. August 14, 1922, on White House letterhead. Signed Warren G. Harding. To Colonel Thomas O. Marvin, Chairman, US Tariff Commission. Harding writes: Thank you for your note of August 9th, conveying a quotation which gives evidence of Great Britain’s determination to protect its shipping. I think most of our government agencies have long since been convinced of that fact, but it seems to be difficult to have the American people understand it. $500 - $700
275 Herbert Hoover, Two TLsS from Department of Commerce Lot of 2. Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964). President of the United States (1929-1933). TLS as Secretary of Commerce, 4pp, Department of Commerce/ Office of the Secretary/ Washington. November 4, 1925. Addressed to Hon. Wallace H. White, Jr. (1877-1952) on the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries/ House of Representatives. Hoover responds to White’s request for his policy on the Government Merchant Marine. He lists sixteen points outlining his policy.
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TLS as Secretary of Commerce, 2pp, Department of Commerce/ Office of the Secretary/ Washington. August 24, 1923. Addressed to F.R. Wadleigh as Federal Fuel Distributor, Washington, DC. Hoover writes to Wadleigh regarding the desire of the National Coal Association to fix the price of coal. $1,000 - $1,500
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 276 House Resolution 25, Fulbright Moves to Create International Power Precursor of United Nations 78th Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 25 / Concurrent Resolution. Declaring the sense of the Congress with respect to participation by the United States in prevention of future aggression and the maintenance of peace. Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just and lasting peace, among the nations of the world,... Passed the House of Representatives September 21, 1943. Signed by South Trimble, Clerk, with red border and foil House of Representatives seal. 8.5 x 13.25 in. (sight), framed, 14 x 18 in. Introduced by J. William Fulbright (1905-1995), longest serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In his three decades in Congress, his influence on foreign policy was profound. This resolution set the stage for the establishment of the United Nations after the war. He also, of course, had an equally profound influence on education with the scholarship that bears his name. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. $800 - $1,200
277 Harry Truman TLS as President, October 1948, Plus Draft Truman, Harry (1884-1972). President of the United States (19451953). TLS, 1p, Washington, October 5, 1948. On White House letterhead. Initialed H.S.T. Cover letter for a draft of ...a memorandum to Secretary of Defense for implementing a program for the Reserve Corps. To Dr. Steelman. Truman asks: ...I’ll appreciate it if you will have the three Secretaries - the Army, Navy and Air and the Secretary of Defense, as well as the Budget and the Attorney General, all line up an Executive Order to implement this program. Attached is a draft with many penciled corrections and additions, and a carbon copy of the corrected draft, both on legal size paper. Dr. John R. Steelman was Truman’s Assistant, a position that would become Chief of Staff. He served from December 1946 to January 1953. As an academic, Steelman was especially interested in policies on science and higher education. $1,500 - $2,500
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 278 Harry Truman TLS as President, January 1951 Truman, Harry (1884-1972). President of the United States (1945-1953). TLS, 1p, Washington, DC, January 31, 1951. Signed Harry Truman. To Channing Frothingham, MD, Boston, MA. I hope you do not think that my failure to make earlier acknowledgment of your thoughtful letter re national health insurance indicates any lack of appreciation on my part... I am more grateful than I can tell you for this assurance of your continued loyal support of the national health insurance program. As you so frankly indicate, that program has powerful enemies who are not above misrepresenting its aim and purpose, in fact its fundamental principle. Despite all obstacles it has been my observation that in the nearly two years since we met to discuss the program, understand and appreciation of its merits have shown steady increase. I, too, believe that its further development is inevitable.... $1,000 - $1,500
279 Dwight Eisenhower TLS, July 21, 1951 Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969). President of the United States (1953-1961). TLS, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe, July 21, 1951. 1p on DDE personal letterhead. Signed Ike Eisenhower. To Hon. Bernard M. Baruch. Commenting on talks Baruch gave at West Point and VMI and thanking him for the fruit basket that was sent to the Eisenhower family. Ike also notes: It was a great privilege to have to opportunity of talking to you while you were here; from you, I always seem to gain a better understanding of my own job. This seems to apply no matter what the job happens to be at the moment. Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) was an investor and financier who used much of his fortune for philanthropic endeavors. He was also an adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. Just after the turn of the century, he had amassed a fortune in sugar speculation, and had started his own brokerage firm. He left Wall Street in 1916 to advise Wilson, serving on Council of National Defense and the War Industries Board. As a member of the Paris Peace Conference, he did not like the reparations imposed on Germany by England and France, and fully supported Wilson’s League of Nations. Between the wars, he tried to form a more powerful War Industries Board, and encouraged preparation for another war (which he knew was coming). When the second World War came, Baruch became a special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. Baruch was known as a “park bench statesman,” since he walked most days and could often be found discussing politics and government on a bench in Lafayette (DC) or Central (NYC) Park. On his 90th birthday, a bench was dedicated to him in Lafayette Park by the Boy Scouts. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 280 Dwight Eisenhower, Two TLsS as President, 1959 and 1960 Lot of 2 TLsS. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969). President of the United States (1953-1961). Washington, May 18, 1959, 1p on White House letterhead, Signed Dwight Eisenhower. To Hon. Lewis Strauss, Secretary of Commerce. On forming an ad hoc committee reporting to the Secretary of Commerce addressing problems affecting the textile industry. Pencil note at bottom re: copies sent. Washington, July 6, 1960, 1p on White House letterhead. Initialed D.E. To Hon. Carl Curtis, US Senate thanking him for supporting the President’s veto of the Federal pay legislation, even though the veto was overridden. Bottom with PERSONAL. TN at top in different color ribbon, File. Senator has seen this. Two of Eisenhower’s goals as President were to contain the USSR and to reduce federal deficits. The second letter falls in the latter category. He notes ...the nation has been saddled with an additional, and largely unjustified, annual expenditure of eight hundred million dollars. $500 - $700
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281 John F. Kennedy TLS, May 1947 Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963). President of the United States (1961-1963). TLS, 1p, Washington, DC, May 28, 1947, on House of Representatives letterhead. Signed Jack Kennedy. With holograph postscript. Addressed to William Kelly, East Boston, MA. Tells Mr. Kelly that he is enclosing copies of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner and TaftHartley Labor bills, as Kelly requested. Kennedy also notes that the Taft-Hartley bill is still in conference, and thus needs to be returned to both houses for action. The postscript concerns the other: Billy: The T.E.W. bill is complex - Am gettin[g] some digests made of it and will send them to you... Lower right corner has water stain that has also wiped out a few letters of the P.S. $1,000 - $1,500
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282 John F. Kennedy Signed Member’s Pass, House of Representatives, 1950 Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963). President of the United States (1961-1963). Partially printed House of Representatives Member’s Pass, 4.5 x 2.75 in., Washington, DC. July 19, 1950. Admitting Mr. William H. Stewart to the 51st (or 81st) Session. Signed by Kennedy as US Representative for Massachusetts’ 11th Congressional District (1947-1953). $1,000 - $2,000
283 John F. Kennedy, Signed Pass, United States Senate Chamber, 1953 Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963). President of the United States (19611963). Partially printed United States Senate Chamber Pass, 4.5 x 2.75 in., Washington, DC. 1953. Admitting Mr. William H. Stewart to the reserved gallery for the 83d Congress. Signed by Kennedy as US Senator for Massachusetts (1953-1960). The pass is mounted on 7 x 10.5 in. page previously cut from album. $1,000 - $2,000
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284 President Kennedy’s Wounds, Hand-Drawn Diagram Described and Signed by Dr. Robert McClelland of Parkland Hospital, Dallas Ink diagram on paper, 7.75 x 5 in. A pictorial representation of the head wounds suffered by John F. Kennedy as described by Dr. Robert McClelland, who was on duty at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963, ink signed at bottom, Drawn by Robert N. McClelland, MD. Accompanied by Baylor University Medical Center business card identified to and signed by Dr. Ronald C. Jones, who was also on duty at Parkland Hospital on November 22 and was part of the team that tried to save President Kennedy’s life. Two days later, these doctors also attempted unsuccessfully to save the life of Kennedy’s shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald. The diagram is matted together with a modern copy of an image showing the two doctors posed with their colleagues. Based on his close study of Kennedy’s skull, Dr. McClelland openly questioned the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Kennedy was shot by the lone gunman from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. He felt that Kennedy was shot not only from the back, but also the front, concluding that there was more than one gunman involved and that the president was the victim of a conspiracy. $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | After Lincoln | Autographs & Manuscripts 285 Warren Court, Signatures of All Supreme Court Justices, Ca 1962 Charles Evans Hughes cover and stamp with first day cancellation, April 11, 1962, at Washington, with the signatures of Chief Justice Earl Warren and all Associate Justices on the US Supreme Court at that date (there were only eight due to the resignation of Charles Evans Whitaker 11 days prior), plus the signatures of the two justices who joined the court later that year. Starting with Warren at top center and going clockwise, the signatures include: Earl Warren (1891-1974; Chief Justice 1953-1969); Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965; Associate Justice 1939-1962); Tom C. Clark (1899-1977; 1949-1967); William J. Brennan (1906-1997; 1956-1990); Byron White (1917-2002; 1963-1993); Arthur Goldberg (1908-1990; 1962-1965); Potter Stewart (1915-1985; 1958-1981); John Marshall Harlan II (1899-1971; 19591971); William O. Douglas (1898-1980; 1939-1975); Hugo Black (1886-1971; 1937-1971). $800 - $1,200
286 Ronald Reagan TLS as President, July 1981, Plus Lot of 2. Reagan, Ronald (1911-2004). President of the United States (1981-1989). TLS as President, 1p, The White House, Washington. July 9, 1981. Addressed to John O. Koehler, Assistant General Manager, World Services Division, Associated Press. Reagan thanks Koehler for the information he gathered in the captive nations, as he writes, particularly the resurgence of religion, which he thinks may be the Soviet’s Achilles’ heel. He also comments on criticism of his perceived lack of foreign policy so far in his term, but writes I just don’t happen to think that it’s wise to always stand up and put in quotation marks in front of the world what your foreign policy is. Bush, George H.W. (b. 1924). President of the United States (19891993). Signed campaign bumper sticker that reads George Bush/ For President, 15 x 3.5 in., signed upper right. Letter purchased from Alexander Historical Auctions $500 - $700
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POLITICS IN AMERICA | Autographs & Manuscripts 287 Early US Post Office Correspondence & Records, Incl. Letters from Postmaster Generals, Ca 1820s Collection of 45 papers related to early United States postal history including ALsS by postmaster generals, W.T. Barry and General John McLean, ca 1820s until the early 1830s. Other items of note include a copy of a letter addressed to President John Quincy Adams, May 23, 1826 concerning Henry Wertz’ nomination as justice of the peace, written by A.C.(?); a handwritten copy of the 1822 regulations for the postal service; many documents on appointments and dismissals of Washington clerks; and an ALS by first postmaster assistant, William A. Bradley. Descended in the family of Abraham Bradley, Assistant Postmaster General of the US, Ca 1793-1829 $1,000 - $1,500
288 US Post Office Book of Receipts Made Out to 1st Assistant Postmaster General, Abraham Bradley Book containing approx. 51pp of receipts from the earliest years of the US Post Office, made out to Abraham Bradley, Assistant Postmaster General of the United States from the Washington administration through the Jackson Administration for payments made to his clerks, October 1801-December 1802. Abraham Bradley (1767-1838) most likely did not expect he would make such an impact on American postal history. Working over a span of thirty years and serving as postmaster five different times, Bradley (a former lawyer and cartographer) worked tirelessly to make the Postal Service a reliable provider since its official beginning in 1792. He utilized his skills in cartography to compile and publish the first combined map of post office stations along with their routes and the distance between them. He also orchestrated and applied rigorous schedules and routes that promoted efficiency. He made several more updated versions of his maps in order to represent the ever-expanding nation. He served under several presidents until, by a partisan move, Andrew Jackson ousted him from his long-time position, discarded his maps, and revised them in 1829. Bradley left graciously and worked for the Franklin Insurance Company until his death in 1838. See also Lot 265. Descended in the family of Abraham Bradley, Assistant Postmaster General of the US, Ca 1793-1829 $500 - $1,000
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289 Millikin Family Papers Incl. Appointments signed by Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley, the Last Will and Testament of Colonel John Minor Millikin, KIA at Stone’s River, & More A collection of approx. 34 papers from Hamilton, OH, ca 1801-1893. Much of the archive consists of papers related to or written by some of Hamilton’s “founding fathers” as well as papers belonging to the Millikin family, who played an important role in the history of Hamilton and the state of Ohio. Items include: 2 letters related to John Reily, including an 1801 ALS from Secretary of Treasury Albert Gallatin, Hamilton land sales, and other business dealings; 7 documents, letters, and bills related to Daniel Millikin and his sons Minor and John M. Millikin including Rutherford B. Hayes DS and William McKinley DS as Governors of Ohio making Daniel “Dan” Millikin and John Millikin Trustees of Miami University; 3 documents related to Paul Huston; 3 documents related to John Woods and his business interests in the Little Miami River; autograph of famed illustrator Robert McCloskey; and miscellaneous papers. In 1791, Fort Hamilton was the last line of defense into Indian country. By 1800, the army abandoned the fort but some settlers remained. Hamilton gradually grew into a profitable town that depended on the steady currents of the Miami River. Local historians credit the city’s development to several men. A few were John Reily, Dr. Daniel Millikin, and Johnathan Woods. John Reily devoted his life to the pen and state government. Before he assisted writing the Ohio Constitution, Secretary of Treasury Albert Gallatin authorized Reily to become John Cleeves Symmes’s clerk for lands lying between the Miami River in Northwest Ohio for three terms (Gallatin, Treasury Department, October 9, 1801). Reily settled in the area after his first appointment in 1799. After living there for two years, he hoped to purchase 155 acres of land from land speculator Johnathan Dayton (Johnathan Dayton, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, November 1, 1801). Reily endeavored to expand his land holdings again in 1805 and attempted to purchase more land from Dayton. Some disputes over Israel Ludlow’s surveying errors complicated the sale. Exasperated, Dayton wrote to Reily to purchase the plots however as you think best, I shall be perfectly satisfied (Cincinnati, April 29, 1805). Two years after Reily’s purchase, another prominent member of Hamilton society moved into town, Dr. Daniel Millikin. Daniel Millikin was the first permanent physician to settle in the area in 1807. Life as a pioneer doctor was busy and uncomfortable. Being the only doctor for at least 25 miles, he endured extensive travel on horseback through inclement weather and exposed himself to many communicable diseases. He suffered ill health for most of his life. Nonetheless, he treated his patients well and fathered sixteen children. 176 AMERICAN HISTORY
Johnathan Woods came “late” to the area in 1819, but almost immediately impacted the city. He established a law practice, and, within a year, served as a county prosecuting attorney. In 1825, he went to Washington as the representative for Butler and Warren counties. From the capital, he wrote to Dr. Daniel Millikin’s son, John, about a pressing issue with American Indians in Georgia. When the president sent his message a negotiation was pending with the Indians the result of which it was hoped would supersede the necessity of bringing the matter before us for investigation but that hope as we are informed is at an end, wrote Woods (Washington, December 30, 1825). Compared to Georgia and other newly established states, Woods felt optimistic about Ohio’s prospects. Near the end of his letter he wrote, I am more fully than ever convinced that Ohio is destined to one of the most prosperous states (Washington, December 30, 1825). After leaving Washington, he returned to Hamilton and operated several profitable businesses. While each of the community builders had children that influenced the community, neither Wood’s nor Reily’s children had more influence than Millikin’s sons, John M. (1804-1884) and Thomas (18081873). Instead of pursing a career in medicine, John and Thomas followed a path similar to Johnathan Woods. Both earned their law degrees and developed successful law practices. Thomas’s work moved him out of Hamilton, but John elected to stay. He earned his law degree at Washington College and was admitted to the bar in Ohio on September 5, 1827. He entered a partnership with William Bebb and continued to practice law until Bebb left to serve as Governor of Ohio in 1846. After losing his partner to politics, he retired to his farm and became heavily involved in agriculture and business. The allure of Washington eventually captured Millikin. He exited retirement and ran for the office of Ohio State Treasurer in 1876. After earning the nomination, he served for two terms (William Allen signed appointment, January 27, 1877). While serving as Treasurer, Governor Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him a trustee of Miami University (Rutherford B. Hayes signed appointment, May 3, 1869). Millikin ran for a third term as Treasurer, but lost the general election in 1878. Instead of continuing his political career, he chose to retire to his farm and family. Like his father, two of his sons made important contributions to the city. Dr. “Dan,” gave life to the city, and Minor sacrificed his. Minor M. Millikin was John’s second born, but eldest surviving child. He attended Miami University in 1852 and matriculated from Harvard Law School. After earning his law degree, he chose to raise China pigs instead of arguments. Once the Civil War began, he left his wife, young son, and farm to join the army. He enlisted in the 1st Ohio Cavalry as a major and eventually earned the rank of colonel. An adept commander, he directed his men through Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, and Stones River. Less than a month before his death, he authored a portent last will and testament on BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
POLITICS IN AMERICA | Autographs & Manuscripts December 1, 1862. Instead of the adopting the traditional form, he opted to write a beautiful, deeply personal statement: Death is always the condition of living, but to the soldier its immanency and certainty sums also the condition of its usefulness and glory, wrote Minor. It has been my habit always to keep a will, but as my last is uselessly long, and as to my human age, life seems less than ever likely to stay long with me, I will now write another. I have very little to say….to my most faithful, loving wife, Mary, I give all of my property of whatsoever kind….[including] my share due from my grandfather’s estate…there is not a single condition attached to this desire…I give all I have, and all I ever would have had to her…. On December 31, 1862 at Stone’s River, Millikin wheeled his regiment and led an unsupported sabre-charge against the enemy. As the enemy swallowed the regiment, Millikin reportedly engaged in a one-on-one sword fight with a rebel soldier. It ended when another Confederate soldier, Private John Bowers of Company K of the Texas Rangers, interrupted the contest by shooting and killing Millikin. Unable to sustain its position, the regiment fell back, leaving behind their leader’s lifeless body. Hamilton newspapers among others wrote of his death. Whitelaw Reid wrote, “Justice never lost a more faithful champion, nor his country a more promising genius or heroic son… He lived long enough to die for his country, and who would have asked for a more glorious destiny?” (Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War, p
750.) After the battle, his men retrieved his body from the bloody field and delivered it home. He is currently interred at Hamilton. John Millikin’s other son, Daniel, also known as Dan, opted to follow the example of his namesake. Dan was one of the most respected men in Hamilton. He was one of the first graduates of Hamilton High School and earned his degree in medicine at Miami Medical College in Cincinnati. He owned and operated a practice for over forty years in his hometown. In 1884, he joined the Miami Medical faculty and served as its first chair position of Medical Chemistry. Governor William McKinley appointed him a trustee at Miami University, continuing the tradition. Adding to his impressive list of accomplishments, he served as president of the Ohio Medical Association, president of the Hamilton Board of Education, and contributed many articles to literary and scientific journals. When he died in 1914, more than 500 people attended the memorial services. Although much has changed in Hamilton, Dr. Daniel Millikin’s descendants remain important fixtures in the community and cherish their deep connection to their hometown to this day. The archive offered in the lot is a small part of their long, continued history and descends directly in the family. $800 - $1,000
HOCKADAY FAMILY ARCHIVE 290 The Pioneering Hockaday Family of Missouri and Kentucky, Archive Incl. Correspondence, Photographs, and Land Grants Signed by John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson, 1812-1883 200+ items, mostly correspondence, as well as some family photographs, ca 1812-1883, from the pioneering Hockaday family as well as the Mills family, both from Missouri and Kentucky. Includes: 77 letters, ca 1822-1870, from John and Lucy Mills of Winchester, KY to their daughter Emily Hockaday or other members of the Hockaday family, including Irvine O. Hockaday; 37 letters to Irvine from friends and family, 1812-1863; 4 letters, 1812-1818, concerning the Boone family and Missouri; 27 legal documents, mostly lists of taxable property, that includes the numbers and ages of Hockaday’s slaves; December 18, 1824 issue of the Missouri Intelligencer No. 6 Vol. VI 4 pp. with article speaking about the Convention of St. Petersburg concerning compensating slaves from slave holding states Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as a second article about the Treaty of Ghent and compensation for property taken including slaves; February 21, 1829 page from The Jeffersonian with at least two cases presided over by I.O. Hockaday; 1827 manuscript land survey for a tract surveyed by Benjamin George; a broadside of The Expunged Resolution of the US Senate on March 28, 1834 published in Washington March 28, 1864; Andrew Jackson presidential signed land grant for area in Missouri signed on March 1, 1831; three John Quincy Adams signed land grants for land in Missouri, dated May 1, 1826 and January 1, 1828 (2); sixth plate early daguerreotype portrait of who appears to be an elderly John Mills, although this cannot be confirmed, and printed photographs of Mills and his daughter Emily Mills Hockaday. The Hockadays were long-time residents of Kentucky and settled there early in its history. They knew the Boone family, and Irvine Hockaday was friendly enough with Alphonso Boone, Daniel Boone’s grandson, to share a few letters; one of which is included in the lot. Consistent with the pioneering spirit of Daniel Boone, Alphonso and his father set out for Missouri as early as 1818 to survey territory. They expect to be gone all winter, Irvine’s aunt, Margret, wrote to him (Ohio, October 18, 1818). Less than two years later, Irvine followed his friend west to Missouri. Before he departed for the frontier, he proposed to Emily Mills, the daughter of Dr. John and Lucy Mills of Winchester, KY. From the plains, Irvine wrote his sweetheart about territory and his prospects:
I arrived in this place on yesterday in good health, after being on the road twenty five days, you will say that I have traveled slowly to be that length of time traveling about 600 miles, but in coming to this place I spent a good deal of time in viewing the country adjacent to the road which retarded my progress very much. I am sorry to say that I am disappointed in the country it does not by any means come to my expectations, it is true there is a great deal of rich land in this country, but at the same time the objections to the country are very serious, good water, timber, and healthy situations are hard to find; notwithstanding I am disappointed in the country I still wish to settle here provided I situate myself advantageously. I think a young man situated as I am can do much better in this country than in Kentucky although the situation may not be so pleasant at first. I am quite distressed at the idea of bringing you to this country in its present state of improvement, your situation will be so materially changed as I prefer the worse from what it is at present, that I cannot think of it but with the most painful censations, though I hope you will
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HOCKADAY FAMILY ARCHIVE not become discouraged, I flatter myself that it will terminate our mutual advantage and happiness. I am well apprised and convinced that young men situated as I am cannot prosper and do well without undergoing many privations and conveniences in the early part of life and I do consider myself one of the happiest men when I recollect that one like yourself has consented to become the partner of my cares and perplexities of this life…I am now making to establish myself in this country is with the entire view and expectation of promoting your happiness as well as my own (Irvine, Franklin, MO, October 30, 1820). A few weeks later, he wrote a similar letter to his future father-inlaw, but added that the legislature of this state was still in progress and made several new counties, but had not found their courts or appointed judges. He doubted that he would receive a position as judge because he had several powerful opponents who were citizens of Missouri, which he felt was a great advantage (St. Louis, November 17, 1820). Nevertheless, he received his appointment as a circuit court judge and as treasurer of Calloway County, laying the foundation for the fabulous wealth he and his family later enjoyed. He became one of the most prominent citizens in Missouri and helped found the city of Fulton. After Emily moved to the frontier, her mother wrote her, I must confess I have never experienced such trials before I think nothing can equal I with me to be separated from any part of my family I think if ever we should all meet again I shall know what happiness is and not until then (Lucy Mills, Winchester, September 20, 1822). They would be separated for a considerable amount of time. Irvine’s work and their nine children kept them from traveling to Kentucky, although some of their children lived with their grandparents later. As Missouri changed, so did Kentucky. John, Emily’s father, was particularly affected during the Second Great Awakening in the United States and wrote to his daughter about the sea of new believers traveling to many revivals in their town. He described to his daughter: On Friday February 1 as preparatory of the administration of the Lord’s Supper, meeting was held as usual on such occasions, after or during the service enquirers was called on to take seats near the pulpit, there were scarce but some few approached; on the day following this plan was renewed, and more, perhaps double their number came forward; this was again the case on Sunday evening and an immense crowd came forward; meeting was held again on Monday, and the numbers have been continually adding and meetings held twice a day ever since, and it has just broke up or rather adjourned until Tuesday, to give place to all to attend a Methodist meeting to be held from this evening until Monday, and on Tuesday the Presbyterians commence again. And o my dear child could you witness the affecting scene of your poor old mother assisting some ten or fifteen others going from person to person administering the consoling promises of the savior along the benches to the enquirers for you are to understand that their number have now become too great for the minister to converse with[illegible] all; these with him takes up two hours at each meeting; and there to hear the sweet effeminate voices of the Boys that are now converts praying in publick and the most solemn silence observed by all it would melt the stoutest heart; no rains or storms prevent the meetings; stores and taverns are shut up while whole households press up…what I would give if you could only be here… The Methodists held their meeting four days instead of two and about forty or fifty have joined them during the meeting about half of them blacks and amoungst them Matilda and (Billy) a boy I have swapped off Henry for…It has been several months since I have been awakened, but the revival has quickened me afresh, and such an outpouring of the spirit was never been seen in my days (September 10, 1835). Matilda, Billy, and Henry were all slaves owned by John at one time. He was a moderately successful farmer, but a more successful doctor. Like many agrarian Southern gentlemen, he owned slaves, but very few. Census records indicate that in 1820 he owned seven slaves. Thirty years later, that number was reduced to five. Therefore, it is interesting that during revivals slaves and other African Americans were invited to attend church meetings with their owners and worshiped in the same space.
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John also mentions a rapid series of arsons supposedly committed by a group of five African American men found hiding under the steps of one of the buildings. After making a full confession, a judge sentenced them to hang a few weeks later (September 10, 1835). After the hanging of a 16-year-old boy, he describes that possibly 10,000 people attended the event. He mentions other cases and legal happenings in the area he thought would interest his son-in-law, Irvine. Similar to Emily’s family, Irvine shared a close bond with his children and his in-laws. All the Hockadays exchanged letters and wrote often to, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Hockaday, while she helped care for her cousins at her grandparents’ home. Health, as always, was a major topic of the letters. An epidemic of cholera unsettled the family in 1849. Issac McGirk wrote to his sister-in-law, Lizzy, We are all afraid of the cholera and father will not let us eat even a green apple, it goes so hard with me that I am compelled to steal them (Fulton, MO, August 3, 1849). Teasing Lizzy and highlighting his love of sweets he continued, Mag and Ev won’t bread and molasses without crying for it. You must not get married before you come home, so that I can get plenty of cake (Fulton, MO, August 3, 1849). Lizzy, however, would never be a bride. Almost all her sisters, on the other hand, found suitable matches. As often is the case of a large family, there was a favorite. Lucy, the family favorite, was well loved and had a vibrant personality. She attracted the attention of prominent Kentucky livestock herder, Solomon Van Meter. Their union was very brief. Within a year of their marriage and soon after the birth of their only daughter, Lucy died. She was only 26. After hearing of her death, Irvine responded mournfully: Your grandfather’s letter of the 26th giving us the truly melancholy tidings of the death of our dear Lucy came to hand a few days ago, this news was a great shock to us you may be sure, we can hardly realize the fact, we are so reluctant to give her up, she was dear to us indeed, we had our hearts so much let upon her, and we were in every respect so proud, and perhaps vain of her, that we almost feel that it has been a visitation of providence sent to teach us that we were giving too much of our affections to one of this world and not bestowing love and reverence enough to our heavenly father, but after all the ways of providence are mysterious and past finding out…I feel very much for you, I know you feel lonely and miss your sister more than we do, and in addition you have the care and trouble BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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of her dear little babe, this I hope will be of no great trouble to you, but rather a pleasure to have charge of the dearest object of her affections save one…take care for it until it can be sent to your mother…I believe that possession of the baby is the only thing that will quiet her grief…We are anxious to know the state of mind you sister Lucy died in, how did she meet death? Did she meet it calmly and quietly and with a hope of future happiness? I long to hear what she did—I know she was naturally of very timidness(?) and weak nerves, and fear that the idea of death alarmed her greatly, but hope that the Lord gave her in her time of need, strength and fortitude to meet her destiny with composure and resignation…if it was otherwise I do not want to hear it…(Fulton, MO, December 12, 1849). The family received Lucy’s youngest daughter, renamed Lucy, after being orphaned at ten. She remained in Kentucky until her grandparents relocated with her to Missouri in 1860. Although the Hockadays were slave holders (as indicated in the taxable property lists in the archive dating from 1836-1856, which notes their slaves) they did not support the Confederacy, like the majority of their extended family. Emily wrote to her daughter Margret and husband Isaac M. McGirk about how distressed their grandparents were when they heard their troublesome relation,
Willie, joined the Confederate Army. I earnestly hope it is not true [that he joined the Confederacy], wrote Emily, If it is the poor boy is utterly lost and sacrificed (Fulton, MO, February 24, 1862). Emily and Irvine’s son, John and son-in-laws’ R.B. Price, Issac McGirk, and James Stephens joined the Union. We are much gratified at [them taking the oath] and relieved that they have returned to their allegiance, wrote Emily (Fulton, MO, February 24, 1862). Even though they supported the Union, Emily mentions that their negros behave remarkably well, better than most everybodys, implying that they might have owned slaves in Missouri (Fulton, MO, February 24, 1862). More trouble came when William McGirk was imprisoned for suspicion of treason. The family wrote a group letter to their daughter, Margret McGirk, assuring her of his innocence and offering their sympathy. Lord grant(?) he can prove himself clear of any disloyal act and be permitted to remain at home, wrote Emily. As soon as your Father learns what is done in the premises he will do all he can to relieve him if it can be done we fear it cannot be done when there is so many arrested that they will carry out [illegible] tyrannical plans (November 3, 1862/63). Irvine died suddenly in 1864. Emily continued on without him, living at their farm with her children until her death in 1890. $4,000 - $6,000
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MISSOURI TERRITORY DRAWINGS OF ROBERT BEVERLY PRICE 291 Robert Beverly Price, Original Drawings of the Missouri Territory, Some Featured in The First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri, Ca 1855, Plus Lot of 100+ items. The collection features 17 original drawings, many early sketches of the drawings used in The First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri, ranging in size from 11 x 9.5 in. to 17.5 x 11 in., signed and annotated by Robert Beverly Price, held in an art portfolio stamped R.B. Price. Accompanied by a copy of The First and Second Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Missouri; 60 letters between Price, his wife, and other members of his family as well as business associates spanning from 1861 to 1918; a Missouri broadsheet titled “Francis” Platform. The Democratic Nominee for Mayor Defines His Position, published by the St. Louis Dispatch, March 1885. Photographs include a sixth plate ambrotype of a young R.B. Price; oval salt print featuring a honeymoon portrait of Price and his wife; a CDV sized tintype of R.B. Price, his second wife, and other family members; cabinet card of an aging Price taken by a photographer in Paris; 7 CDVs of members of the Price family; 6 mounted photographs of Price including one with his family lounging on their lawn in front of a tennis court, ca 1900s; sixth plate oval ambrotype of Price’s daughter Florence holding her bottle and sixth plate ambrotype of Florence seated in a chair; quarter plate tintype of all of Price’s children, including Edwin, Emma, and Florence, taken in 1864; salt print after a daguerreotype of Dr. Edwin Price, R.B. Price’s father, along with a pamphlet with his obituary; 4 silver gelatin photographs housed in hanging wall frames, featuring portraits of Pugh Williamson and others that were gifted to William and Mary College in 1943 with correspondence from the college as well as other genealogical paperwork; newspaper clippings concerning the Price family; and more. Robert Beverly Price was born in Charlotte county, VA, October 17, 1832. His father, Dr. Edwin Price, was a practicing physician who weighed nearly three hundred pounds. Despite his weight, he followed his family from Virginia to Missouri in a large elliptical
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spring carriage filled with household goods. They settled in Missouri in the late 1830s. Dr. Price sent Robert to the University of Missouri where he studied engineering and geology. He used his degree with his first occupation as a draftsman for the State Geological Survey, under professor G.C. Swallow. Under the influence of his first fatherin-law, Moss Prewitt, he entered banking and opened and operated the Boone County National Bank, one of the most profitable banks in the area. In addition to banking he once owned the Wabash Railroad line between Columbia and Centralia in addition to building and operating the first electric lighting and waterworks system in Columbia. (Information obtained from the University of MissouriColumbia School of Law Website, March 15, 2017.) Consignor purchased the archive directly from the Price family descendants. $6,000 - $8,000
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FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR FAMILY ARCHIVE 292 Francis Preston Blair Sr. and Family, Extensive Archive Featuring Letter in which Blair Discusses Advice Given to John Crittenden on his 1860 Compromise, Plus Lot of 116+ items. The highlight of the archive is a 4pp letter dated December 21, 1860 from “Silver Spring,” written by Francis Preston Blair Sr. to his son, Francis Preston Blair Jr., in which he discusses advising John J. Crittenden on the “Crittenden Compromise” as well as his attempts to find a place for his other son Montgomery in Lincoln’s administration. Francis Preston Blair Sr. (1791-1876) was a well-respected figure in Washington politics. His speech impediment kept him from running for office, but his adept management of The Washington Globe made him a vital part of the Democratic Party’s success in the 1830s and 1840s. His service to the party earned him a position on President Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet,” and allowed him to continue to advise other presidents including Abraham Lincoln. He is credited with helping form the original Republican Party. Lincoln said that, “The Blairs have to an unusual degree the spirit of clan. Their family is a close corporation. Frank is their hope and pride. They have a way of going with a rush for anything they undertake, especially have Montgomery and the Old Gentleman” (Mr. Lincoln’s White House: Frank P. Blair Jr. (1821-1875), The Lehrman Institute). Demonstrating the power of Blair Sr.’s opinion, Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden pulled aside Blair Sr. and asked the former Kentuckian for his advice days after proposing his failed Crittenden Compromise. In Blair Sr.’s December 21, 1860 letter to his son, he described the SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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exchange with Crittenden. He told me he was ready to do anything in his power to stop the headlong course on which S. Carolina sought to involve the slave states & to give Lincoln an easy & prosperous administration, wrote Blair. I asked him to hunt up the law establishing the New Mexican Territory, & then pointed to the section giving power to its Legislature to make laws touching all proper subjects of local concern – such laws to be submitted to Congress & to become invalid if disapproved by that body… I told him I had proposed to Crittenden & King to meet Douglas’s new project by the old one of 1850. They assented to the idea of making our stand immoveably on the old Landmarks. Crittenden told me he would instantly modify his plan so as to base it on this suggestion. If he does & [missing paper] replacing the Missouri line limited at its old point on the west, & makes both compromises permanent in an amendment to the Constitution the effect would be to give the free states that part of Texas above 36.30 and around the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott principle, in all the territories by recognizing the supreme Legislative power of Congress over them. Crittenden commended Blair Sr.’s suggestions and said they were in line with the political legacy left behind by Henry Clay. He immediately went to work on the revisions, but Blair Sr.’s suggestions did not stave off the war. In the same letter, Blair Sr. discusses his son Montgomery Blair’s political prospects in Lincoln’s administration. Trumbull showed me a letter from Lincoln to Hamlin today, in which the latter says he means to tender [Mony.?] a place in his Cabinet – but will not commit himself, he wrote. This is a proper reservation. I mentioned it to your brother, who said he would be sorry(?) to take a place, if any circumstances should occur to change the favorable disposition now entertained. Montgomery denied the first appointment, but the following year he accepted a position in Lincoln’s cabinet as Postmaster General. The recipient of the letter, Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875) used his political influence to convince Missouri to stay with the Union
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rather than join the Confederacy. He also became a major general in the Union Army, commanding Sherman’s troops during his March to the Sea, which won him the respect of Sherman in addition to General Ulysses S. Grant. He enjoyed a successful political career and earned the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1868, but lost the election due to his harsh criticisms of the dangers of African Americans rising to power. He suffered a debilitating stroke in 1873, but remained in politics until his death in 1875. In addition to the letter, the lot includes: envelope with wax seals custom made for Andrew Jackson, given to Blair by Jackson in 1829 with a later letter of provenance from the family; an 1835 Missouri land grant to Antoine Granalin Hath signed by Peter G. Glover, accompanied by a newspaper clipping of an article speaking on political controversy involving Glover and Blair Sr.; CDV of Blair Jr. and his 1868 running mate Horatio Seymour; Francis Preston Blair Jr.’s calling card; woodcut print of Francis Preston Blair Jr. with his facsimile signature, 7 x 10 in.; illustrated campaign song sheet for Seymour and Blair; printed portrait of Blair; 1872 subscription list for the Congressional Globe Office in Washington, DC; pamphlet entitled Personal Recollections of Some of Missouri’s Eminent Statesmen and Lawyers delivered by Charles P. Johnson, 1903; 5 letters from wellknown chemist Andrew A. Blair, ca 1873-1883; cabinet card of Andrew A. Blair, his brother, and their African American nurse; 12 letters from Appoline Blair, wife of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and a copy of the Blair family crest; 5 CDVs of different family members; a clean half plate daguerreotype of two women identified as Appoline Alexander/ Alexandria(?) Blair and Ester(?) Biddle; a booklet entitled Blair House Past and Present: An Account of Its Life and Times in the City of Washington; two booklets entitled Annals of Silver Springs by Gist Blair; 8 letters from Gist Blair; 10 miscellaneous family letters; a stock share for the American Systematic Benefice Society; Stephens College report card for Emily Blair; two etchings of Emily Blair; plus approx. 55 papers, letters, and documents pertaining to the Blair family lineage. $3,000 - $5,000 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR FAMILY ARCHIVE 293 Francis Preston Blair, West Point Academy Archive Incl. Circular and Letter Mentioning The First African American Graduate, Henry O. Flipper Collection of 120 items, including approx. 47 letters related to Francis “Frank” Preston Blair III mostly during his time at West Point. The correspondence from Blair, his family, and prominent friends of the family like General William T. Sherman and Benjamin Butler, range in date from 1873 until 1903. Additional items include military circulars, general orders, personal photographs, invitations, programs, and other items related to West Point and reunions. The 4 letters from William T. Sherman date from 1877-1881 and discuss West Point, later military service, and military decorum, while the 4 letters from Benjamin F. Butler concern Blair’s deployment and service as well as the tragic death of his son, Benjamin Israel Butler, who was a close friend to Blair. Another letter of note is from Blair’s famous father, General Francis Preston Blair Jr., speaking about West Point’s first African American graduate, Henry O. Flipper, who was one of Blair’s classmates. Francis Preston Blair III was one of eight children born to Civil War General, Senator, and Representative of Missouri, and the 1868 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Francis Preston Blair Jr. Blair certainly felt the pressure to live up to his father’s legacy, and Blair Jr. ensured his son did not forget it either. Prior to his son’s entrance exams to West Point, Blair Jr. wrote to the young man: My pride and affection are bound up in you and I shall rejoice or fall deeply grieved as you shall succeed or fail in your career (Northbrook, June 1, 1873). To their relief, he passed. Blair Jr. relayed the happy news to his wife and sent the circular announcing not only their son’s acceptance but also another famous general’s son and the first African American Graduate of West Point, Henry O. Flipper. It seems that one third of the applicants failed, Ben Butler has a son in the class and I believe there are two negroes, one of them named Flipper, wrote Blair Jr. I saw in one of the papers that he passed the best examination of any of the applicants (no date, 1873). His acceptance into the institution, however, did not relieve any pressure from his father or family. Although his father was extremely rebellious when he was in college, having been expelled from the University of North Carolina and Yale, he urged his son to do well. Less than a week after his son’s admittance, Blair Jr. wrote: I want you to apply yourself vigorously to your studies and to make it a sort of religion with you to conform to all the rules and orders of this institution…my ruined health and our straightened circumstances make us more than ever dependent for happiness on our children…(June 6, 1873). Overcome by the pressure, Blair followed instructions to please his paralyzed father, but he made one great error less than one week later. Without his parents knowledge and for unspoken reasons, Blair married without their permission. The obviously unsuitable match grieved Blair so much he threatened to commit suicide in an attempt to avoid disappointing his parents. An initialed letter addressed to Clifton Springs Sanatorium (the place Blair Jr. stayed while recovering from a debilitating stroke) read, We have the painful duty to perform of
announcing the marriage of your son who is at West Point. He will not speak upon the subject…Do not speak upon the subject to your son as he will kill himself…(West Point, NY, June 11, 1873). Neither Blair Jr. nor his mother Apolline wrote their son about the incident. It was dealt with quickly and quietly. The marriage was most likely annulled. There are no records of divorce or marriage for Blair at that time. Blair continued with his studies and developed a friendship with Benjamin Butler’s son, Ben. Like all the students at West Point, he ostracized Flipper and never spoke of him in his letters. He and Ben graduated. Although they went their separate ways after graduation, they remained close friends. Blair was stationed at Fort Hamilton and, with the help of General William T. Sherman, retained his commission while studying law at Columbia University in New York. After receiving his degree, he met a more suitable partner, Florence Price, a member of a prominent, pioneering Missouri family. Blair quit his post in 1882, married Florence, and became an assistant professor of law at the University of Missouri. A year prior to leaving the army, Blair received word about the sudden death of his friend, Ben. A few months before his death, the two exchanged letters and Ben spoke about his plans to sail. His sister wrote a long, detailed letter to Blair about the days surrounding his sudden diagnosis of kidney failure and his death. Touched by his friend’s life, Blair authored a meaningful obituary and asked General Butler if he could publish it. Butler responded, Had my feelings of regard not been quite sufficiently extended to you before, as Ben’s classmate and chum, your very kind note of sympathy and [the obituary you wrote for the Army and Navy Journal]… strengthened his admiration for Blair (Boston, MA, September 23, 1881). Like his father, Blair lost his life after suffering a debilitating stroke in 1914. Surprisingly, West Point mentioned that he was the last surviving member of his 1877 class. West Point failed to mention that at least one of its graduates, Henry O. Flipper, still lived because he was discharged from the army on false charges by a vindictive superior officer years prior. Flipper was not pardoned from his harsh sentence until the 1990s. $2,000 - $4,000
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AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS 294 George IV Manuscript Document Signed, 1815 George William Frederick (1738-1820) and the Prince Regent, George Augustus Frederick, later to become George IV (1762-1830). Order to affix the Great Seal to the Ratification of a Treaty of Accession, concluded at Vienna 25 Mar. 1815. A manuscript document, 7.75 x 12.5 in., consisting of 10 leaves (5 folded and stitched at center fold), with the Treaty in both English and French. Wax and paper seal on first page. Signed by the Prince Regent, the future George IV. George III was King of Great Britain, then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760-1820. His reign was marked by conflict from America to Europe to Africa and Asia. He suffered from episodic mental illness (although the cause is much disputed), until finally, in the last decade of his life, he was truly unable to reign and a Regent was appointed to take over the daily running of the nation. The Prince of Wales, the future George IV, would be that regent. $800 - $1,200
295 David BenGurion TLS, April 1956 Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973). Founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister (1948-1953, 1955-1963). TLS, 1p (6 x 7.75 in.) Jerusalem, April 20, 1956 (9th of Iyar 5717). On State of Israel letterhead. To Abba Kushi, Mayor of Haifa. With English translation. Ben-Gurion apologizes for not participating in the opening of an Industrial Section in the city of Haifa. The situation is forcing us to check every minute. Not only will the Army stand a high test, also the strength of the whole economy and our first industrial opportunity will stand our national test. Sure I am - that our industry will not disappoint. (from the translation) The reference is unclear, but Arab guerrillas, mostly Palestinian fedayeen, had been mounting attacks from Syria, Egypt and Jordan, eventually focusing along the Gaza strip. These attacks were used by Israel to justify the Sinai Campaign later in 1956, in which Israel invaded Egypt (“Suez Crisis�). David Ben-Gurion had been a Zionist from an early age. He became a leader and eventually Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization. This made him head of the Jewish community in Palestine and he led the fight for the formation of Israel after WWII. He led the nation during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and is seen as one of the founding fathers of Israel. (See also Lot 296) $500 - $700
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296 David Ben-Gurion ALS & DS Lot of 2. Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973). Founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister (1948-1953, 1955-1963). ALS, 1p, Tel Aviv, Israel, 5.5 x 7.25 in. November 17, 1964. Written in Hebrew with later translation. Ben-Gurion appears to be responding to a government crisis, writing that the purity of the State should come before any impure government (translation quoted). DS, 2pp, Jerusalem, Israel, 8.25 x 13 in. December 5, 1956. Written in Hebrew, regarding the relationship of Israel with Honduras. Also signed by Izhak Ben-Zvi (1884-1963) as President of Israel (1952-1963). Accompanied by a copy of the document in French, 2pp, unsigned. A translation of the French copy indicates this is a letter of introduction for General David Shaltiel, who is appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Honduras from the State of Israel. $800 - $1,200
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AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS 297 Nikita Khrushchev Signed Booklet, Plus Telegram Addressed to JFK Lot of 2. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894 – 1971). Politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-1964), and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier (1958-1964). Responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Russian booklet printed in Moscow, 6pp, 8 x 10.5 in., containing illustrations and poetry (in both Russian and English). Title page signed by Khrushchev, and dated in a different hand, 1962. Accompanied by telegram for President John F. Kennedy from Moscow, 8.5 x 5.5 in., stamped The White House, Washington at top, and dated 1962 May 21 PM 3 25. Addressed to The President, Care Mrs. Lincoln White House, the telegram states, Many Happy Returns from your Moscow Constituents. $500 - $1,000
298 Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and William B. Mayo Signed Stock Certificates in Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company Stock Certificate Book Stock receipt booklet for the Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company containing 97 stock receipts dating from the company’s incorporation in 1845 through 1935. Seventeen of the receipts signed by Henry Ford (1863-1947) or his son Edsel Ford (1893-1943) (2 signed by father and son) beginning in 1918. Two also include the signature of Ford’s chief power engineer William B. Mayo (1866-1944). In 1840, Hamilton engineer John Wardell Erwin (1808-1889), who had previously worked on the National Road and the Miami & Erie Canal, conceived a plan to increase the city’s industrial production by diverting water from the Miami River through the downtown area in order to power shops and mills. Erwin surveyed the area himself and submitted his plan to the state legislature, which voted to authorize
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it through the incorporation of the Hamilton and Rossville Hydraulic Company in 1841. The next year the directors of the company were William Bebb, Lewis D. Campbell, Henry S. Earhart, Jacob Hittel, Jacob Matthias, Andrew McCleary, Lamoi Rigdon, and John Woods. Erwin did not involve himself directly in the company but instead partnered with William Hunter to construct a flour mill under the name Erwin, Hunter & Erwin, which became the first business to lease power when water began flowing on January 27, 1845. Other businesses began to lease the cheap source of power. By the 1860s, the company powered approximately four large paper mills, four machine shops, three flouring mills, a woolen mill, and two factories that produced agricultural implements. It continued to power more businesses well into the 1900s. Attracted by the cost-effectiveness, Henry Ford began leasing its energy for his Cincinnati Ford plant in 1915. Ford acquired the plant in 1918 by buying approximately 200,000 dollars worth of shares; many are in the book offered here. $4,000 - $6,000
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299 Apollo Moonwalkers, Photographs Signed by All Twelve Astronauts Lot of 12. Between December 1968 and December 1972, nine Apollo missions went to the moon. On these, there were 24 astronauts, of which half actually walked on the moon’s surface. All are included in this lot, most on official NASA color 8 x 10 in. photos. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - moonwalk, July 21, 1969 [NASA photo, inscribed and signed] Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 - moonwalk, July 21, 1969 [NASA photo of him on moon, signed Lois & Buzz Aldrin, inscribed and dated] Charles “Pete” Conrad - Apollo 12 - moonwalk November 19-20, 1969 [photo of Conrad on stony surface with training vehicle (NASA?), signed] Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - moonwalk November 19-20, 1969 [photo on same training mission (NASA?), signed plus Apollo XII] Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - moonwalk February 5-6, 1971 [limited edition photo of President Kennedy presenting Distinguished Service Medal to Shepard, numbered 779/2500, signed]
Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - moonwalk February 5-6, 1971 [NASA photo of Mitchell in civilian clothing, holding model of lunar lander, signed in upper darker area of photo, a bit hard to see] David Scott - Apollo 15 - moonwalk July 31 - August 2, 1971[NASA photo with model lunar rover, inscribed, signed and dated] James Irwin - Apollo 15 - moonwalk July 31 - August 2, 1971 [NASA photo of Irwin on moon saluting US flag, inscribed and signed] John Young - Apollo 16 - moonwalk April 21-23, 1972 [NASA photo of crew of 9th Shuttle Orbital Flight (STS-9), inscribed and signed] Charles (Charlie) Duke - Apollo 16 - moonwalk April 21-23, 1971 [NASA photo signed with Apollo 16] Eugene (Gene) Cernan - Apollo 17 - December 11-14, 1972 [NASA photo, sgd and inscribed, w/COA signed June 17, 2003] Harrison H. Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December 11-14, 1972 [NASA photo, inscribed and signed, w/COA signed February 7, 2005] $2,000 - $4,000
300 Helen Keller Signed Photograph Keller, Helen (1880-1968). Signed photograph, 6.5 x 8.75 in., on 10.75 x 14 in. mount. Autographed Helen Keller on mount below photograph and inscribed lower left Wrentham/ 1904, with Wrentham 04 written in a different hand lower right. The beautifully posed portrait of Keller is copyrighted 1904 by Whitman, the photographer, at lower left. Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan shared a home together in Wrentham, MA from 1903 to 1917. Anne Sullivan and her husband John Albert Macy were also married in the Wrentham home in 1905, and lived in it with Keller. Sullivan and Keller sold the property in 1917, several years after Sullivan’s separation from Macy in 1914. $1,000 - $1,500
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GENERAL AMERICANA | Women’s Suffrage 301 Family Archive of Chicago Power Couple, Ellen Martin Henrotin, Writer, Activist, and Staunch Suffragette and her Husband Charles Henrotin, Founder of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Ca 1901-1922 Lot of 140+ items related to Ellen Martin Henrotin, her husband Charles Henrotin, and their son Edward, among other family members and Chicago elites. The lot contains approx. 33 letters between Charles and his son Edward, some from Edward to his future wife, as well as 28 letters written by Ellen to her daughter-in-law or sons, ca 1901-1921. Other miscellaneous items include over 47 images, either cabinet cards or larger format photographs of family and friends. Photos of the Turkish Royal family from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair are also enclosed, with inscriptions on the reverse by Hakky Bey. Ellen Martin’s speeches (none concerning women’s rights), pamphlets from former organizations she headed, and a small collection of 16 silver gelatin photographs of the Park Ridge School for Girls and her edits on its mission statement are included in the lot, as well as several newspaper clippings related to the family and their relatives. Ellen Martin Henrotin (1847-1922) was a well-read intellectual woman, educated in Europe. Soon after her return to the United States, she met and married the son of a Belgian immigrant and successful financier, Charles Henrotin on September 2, 1869. A force to be reckoned with, she tirelessly worked towards female independence and advocated for the women’s right to vote and right to financial independence. She was president of the Federation of the Women’s Club of the United States, president of the Women’s Trade Union, and treasurer and member of the original governing board for the Protective Agency for Women and Children. She also headed and helped finance the Industrial School for Girls (renamed the Park Ridge School for Girls) as well as other homes for women and children that promoted female independence and taught women and young girls viable skills that would help them earn a living. She worked alongside her husband as vice president and acting president of the World’s Congress of Auxiliaries for the World’s Columbian Fair in Chicago in 1893. For her work, she received the Order of Chefakat in 1893. Other honors included Officier de l’Academie by the French Republic in 1899 and medal of l’Ordre de Leopold in 1905 for her leadership at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. She suggested that women possessed unrealized power and potential to become corporate directors and could learn to manage their own financial affairs. However, after the death of her husband, she was unable to continue financing most of her previous efforts and became less active. Charles Henrotin (1843-1914) was once described as one of the ablest financiers in Chicago. At a young age, his family immigrated to the United States. He attended the University of Notre Dame and worked for several different companies until he began his own business in 1877. He also founded the Chicago Stock Exchange and served on the New York Stock Exchange as well. After his father’s death, he was appointed the Consul of Belgium and eventually of Turkey as well. His diplomacy abroad earned him many favors with the Belgian and Turkish government. He was knighted by the Belgian King in 1888 and received the order of the crown in 1906. His son Edward wrote to his intended Emily Blair, [it] is the only thing left for the King to give him. I am pleased he got it (Chicago, September 11, 1906). In addition to his leadership in global politics, he became director of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. However, success often precedes failure. A looming financial crisis in Chicago in 1910 began to threaten their fortune and resulted in the accruement of many debts. Charles wrote to his son Edward, who escaped the financial sector to become a sheep herder in New York, telling him he ought to be glad he was no longer in business and told his son that he could not afford to send him 50 dollars to help his burgeoning farm. The correspondence between Edward (Ted) and Charles mainly involved discussions of Ellen, the sheep business, and other family news until Charles’ sudden death from a heart attack in 1914. His death brought along a flood of letters of sympathy from Chicago elites and financiers. Included in the lot are some of those letters. Bereaved, Ellen focused much of her energy on helping the Park Ridge School for Girls and wrote loving letters to her sons and
daughter-in-law Emily. As finances continued to dwindle she spent increasing amounts of time with Edward in New York. After a long struggle with illness she finally took her last breath in 1922. An outpouring of love came from the Chicago community again. Many wrote letters to her boys, especially Edward and his wife, to show support, solidarity, and love for the bold woman who was an important part of “Old Chicago.” Also included in the lot is a group of Henrotin family papers dating from the 1940s concerning a wooden bed potentially built by a slave in Sapelo Island, GA, and silver gelatin photographs of the heirloom. $1,000 - $1,500
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GENERAL AMERICANA | Women’s Suffrage 302 Woman Suffrage Ballot, North Dakota, Small Broadside, Plus Lot of 3, featuring small window broadside, 9 x 6 in., which boldly states Vote on the Woman Suffrage Ballot First and Be Sure You Vote Yes, issued by the North Dakota Votes for Women League, ca 1914; 5.75 x 2.125 in. Votes for Women handbill printed in red and blue, which asks This is supposed to be a “government of, for and by the people?” / Are Women People?, produced by Allied Printing Trades Council, New York City, ca 1920; 3.25 x 5.25 in. double-sided imprint entitled Another Nail in the Perennial Slander, with article commenting on the suffrage movement authored by Lewis T. Guild of the Fargo Courier News, ca 1913-1920. Guild began serving as managing editor and treasurer of the Fargo Courier News in 1913. An exceptionally rare trio of items relative to the women’s suffrage movement in North Dakota. $500 - $700
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TRANSPORTATION 303 Ship Gentoo Logbook of Captain Leander Freeman, Ca 18611866 Bound captain’s log, 356pp, identified on the cover to Captain L. Freeman, Ship Gentoo, containing entries from three voyages taken from December 1861 until October 1865, accompanied by CDV and cabinet card of Freeman. Leander Freeman came from a long line of seafaring stock. His father, Edmund Freeman, was a ship captain who died at sea in 1823. Two of his brothers also followed the profession. Freeman took control of the Gentoo in July 1854. Less than four years earlier, a ship by the same name wrecked off the coast of South Africa. Many of the surviving women on board became women of ill-repute. As a result, the word “gentoo” became a slang word for prostitute in Cape Town (Elizabeth Van Heyningen, University of Western Cape, No. 22 (November 1995), “Gentoo—A Case of Mistaken Identity?”, p. 73). Freeman, however, did not lead the ship to disaster and attempted to keep a well-run vessel. From December 1861 until October 1865, he kept detailed notes in his personal log about the position of the ship, the weather conditions, and other events. Occasionally, he penned personal notes about his life on land and the family he left behind. Near the beginning of his journal, he wrote, This is the 6th anniversary of the birth of my beloved son, Charlie. God bless him; I hope he is well as his proud father as this moment, but God forbid that the circumstances of his life should force him in to the rough and tumble way of living that his father has known, and is still experiencing. Here he is 23 days from Boston and only seen the sun four times since leaving the port (December 1861). His son, Charlie, was from his second marriage to Elizabeth Ham. He had two other daughters by his first marriage with his great love, Hannah Snow. She tragically died of typhoid fever ten years into their marriage in 1843. Despite her death, he still celebrated their wedding anniversary and had his crew fire the cannon in celebration. Freeman attempted to be as timely as possible with his shipments from Boston, Liverpool, Valparaiso, and other areas in the Caribbean and South America. Weather and unruly crews sometimes disrupted his plans. On his way to Valparaiso, he wrote, This is a tedious passage. Having made seven voyages in the “Gentoo,” my average passages to the equator have been only 26 days, whereas I am now 46 days out and lay(?) have becumbered(?); very annoying (Monday, March 31, 1862, Liverpool to Valparaiso). The voyage continued to crawl on at a slow pace. 188 AMERICAN HISTORY
He went so far to say that it was killing him and acted upon his very vitals like a slow poison (April 13, 1862 from Liverpool for Valparaiso). Restless, the crew became unruly and once they landed in Carrizal Bajo. They attempted to drink away their frustrations, which resulted in punishments. Freeman wrote: James Dole, seaman, came on board, little the worse for liquor, and soon asked permission to go on shore again which was refused him upon which he threatened to go on shore, at all events and threw a plank over the bows and was preparing to do the same with the wash-deck tub, when he was ordered off, placed in rooms and lodged in the sail room to be kept out of further mischief at 6 pm send the boat on shore for the remaining livery men, one of which come on board, too having been placed in caliboose(?) for bad conduct and two others refused to come on board (Sunday, June 29, 1862, in the cove of Carrizal Bajo). BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
TRANSPORTATION They remained there for several days as their punishment, but escaped before they served their time. Freeman explained, John Dryton, seaman, stole the boat and deserted the ship; found the boat carefully tied to the wharf, the men I shall not look for, congratulating myself for having got rid of all the rowdies of the ship, discharged this day (Carrizal Bay, July 2, 1862). Freeman left the port without the deserters and did not attempt to send out any bounty for their capture. He sailed on to complete his voyage and return home to his family. Before he returned home, however, another soldier deserted the crew. Short staffed, he attempted to send out a reward for the wayward sailor’s capture, but it is not certain whether or not he returned. The remainder of the book includes typical inscriptions regarding the weather, direction of the wind, and position of the boat. It also includes the exact coordinates of the ship and the dates. A CDV showing Freeman as a young man inscribed to his daughter, with verso imprint of W. Atkinson, Liverpool, and a cabinet card of the aged sailor credited to photographers Dames and Butler of San Francisco accompany the logbook. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
304 Greely Expedition, Photograph Signed by One of the Survivors Albumen photograph of five men, 5 x 7 in., on 8 x 10 in. mount. Below printed image: Copyright August, 1884, by A.W. Anderson. On cardboard mount, lower right corner, signed Julius R. Frederick. In 1881 the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (International Polar Expedition) was undertaken to set up a meteorological station as part of the First International Polar Year and to collect astronomical and polar magnetic data. The expedition was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely (5th US Cavalry) and consisted of 21 officers and men. They picked up four others, including a physician and a scientist who remained from the previous year’s expedition (Howgate). The relief expeditions planned the next two years were unable to reach the expedition because of weather conditions. In desperate need of supplies, Greely took his crew and headed south to Cape Sabine, but the second year’s relief did not make it that far north. Greely did not get very far south. By 1884, a larger expedition was organized to rescue the men. Four ships made it to Greely’s camp, but, unfortunately, only seven men had survived the winter. They were: Henry Biederbick, David Brainard, Maurice Connell, Joseph Elison, Julius Frederick (pictured here), Adolphus Greely, and Francis Long. Elison died on the return voyage. Greely was hailed as a hero, although allegations of cannibalism later marred the honors. However, the seven survivors were so weak that their survival was initially uncertain (and, as mentioned, one did not). They should not have been in that poor condition had they actually eaten the other 19. The physician suggested that the men probably would not have lived another 48 hours. There was probably no foundation to the rumors. $500 - $700
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TRANSPORTATION 305 Bronze Plaque After the Currier Print The Great Race on the Mississippi, Commemorating the Steamer Tom Greene’s Victory in the 1930 Ohio River Steamboat Race at Cincinnati Bronze, 20 x 30 in., weight 85 lbs. The scene featured on the plaque is from the 1870 Currier & Ives print, The Great Race on the Mississippi, depicting the steamer Robt. E. Lee’s victory over the Natchez in a race from New Orleans to St. Louis. The inscription reads: Commodore George F. Schott Trophy/ Third Annual Ohio River Steamboat Race/ Won By/ Str. Tom Greene - Capt. Tom Greene/ In A Race June 28, 1930/ From Fernbank Dam to Coney Island with/ The Str. Betsy Ann - Capt. Frederick Way, Jr./ William A.A. Castellini, Chairman. A wood relic taken from the Tom Greene is inlaid in the bronze in the sidewheel of the Lee. Accompanied by a photograph of the unveiling of this plaque, which stood at the headquarters of the Greene Line Steamboat Company, later the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, at Yeatman’s Cove in Cincinnati, until the building was razed for the construction of Riverfront Stadium in 1970, after which it was presented to and has remained in the Greene family. $500 - $700
NEWSPAPERS & OTHER IMPRINTS 306 Pennsylvania Gazette, November 1753, Incl. Advertisements for the Sale of Negroes & Jewish Merchant Firms Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, PA, November 22, 1753. 6pp, 9.5 x 15 in. Colonial American newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, containing the “B Franklin and D Hall” imprint at the bottom of page 5/6. The issue includes two inside page advertisements for the “sale of Negroes” by the printer, Benjamin Franklin. Advertisements for two Jewish merchant firms, “Levy and Franks” as well as “Meyer and Levy,” are also included. A fine, early Benjamin Franklin imprint with Judaica and African Americana content. $700 - $1,000
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307 Pennsylvania Gazette, January 1754, Featuring Numismatic Content Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, PA, January 1, 1754. 4pp, Colonial American newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, with “B Franklin and D Hall” imprint at the bottom of page 3/4. The issue contains lengthy, detailed numismatic content on p. 2, relating to coins used in the American Colonies in the pre-French and Indian War era as well as how to determine if a coin was counterfeit. $1,000 - $1,500
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NEWSPAPERS & OTHER IMPRINTS 308 Columbian Centinel, June 1792, with Front Page Printing of “An Act to Provide for a Copper Coinage” Columbian Centinel, Boston, MA, June 20, 1792. 4pp, 10.5 x 17 in. Featuring prominent front page printing of “An Act to Provide for a Copper Coinage,” signed in type by George Washington as US President. This act authorized the US Mint to produce copper cents and half-cents for the US Government and further authorized these copper coins to be the only lawful coins to be accepted as legal tender for debts in the United States after 1792. A highly displayable item for a present-day numismatist and serious collector of early US copper coins. $800 - $1,000
309 The Universal Gazette, Washington, DC, Regarding Landmark US Supreme Court Case, “Marbury vs. Madison”, 1801 The Universal Gazette, Washington, DC, December 24, 1801. 4pp, 12 x 19.5 in. Featuring inside page headline, Supreme Court of the United States, with the particulars of the famous judicial case that would come to be known as “Marbury vs. Madison.” This article represents the beginning of the case being reviewed by the US Supreme Court, which ended in 1803 with the Marbury vs. Madison decision. This landmark Supreme Court case formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate Executive and Judicial branches of the US Government. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia by President John Adams but whose commission was not subsequently delivered. He petitioned the Supreme Court to force the new Secretary of State, James Madison, to deliver the documents. With John Marshall as Chief Justice, the Court found that Madison’s refusal to deliver the commission was illegal and correctable. Nevertheless, the Court stopped short of ordering Madison to hand over Marbury’s commission. Instead, it held that the provision of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that enabled Marbury to bring his claim to the Supreme Court was itself unconstitutional because it purported to extend the Court’s original jurisdiction beyond that which Article III established. The petition was subsequently denied. $500 - $700
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NEWSPAPERS & OTHER IMPRINTS 310 Ward’s Vegetable Hair Oil, Large Illustrated Broadside, 1832 Illustrated broadside, 13.5 x 19.5 in. A fine, “quack medicine” advertising broadside for Ward’s Vegetable Hair Oil, featuring a large, prominent 13 x 7 in. engraving showing men and a woman growing hair as a result of the use of “Ward’s Vegetable Hair Oil.” Printed by Mark M. Aiken, Printer, Liberty-Street, NY, 1832. $500 - $700
BOOKS & BROADSIDES 311 Brook Farm Utopian Community, Hand-Painted 1845 Book of Wildlife Green board bound book with a pastoral scene on the cover, 20pp, with 20 illustrations of bird species and flowers during the month of May and June, 1845. Includes its original board bound box with spine label, Brook Farms, in gold lettering as well as its original marble board book sleeve. Brook Farm was a Utopian agricultural educational settlement founded by Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia in the 1840s. Located just outside of Boston, the farm and communal living experiment offered its supporters profit sharing in its products. It attempted to balance labor with leisure and paid all its inhabitants equally, including women. It produced handmade clothing and ran a for profit school for young children, college preparatory classes, and adult education. Since its establishment, the community was not financially stable and, the burning of Phalanstery happened, the community was unable to financially recover. Ultimately, lack of finances led to its dissolution in 1847. $2,000 - $3,000
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BOOKS & BROADSIDES 312 James F. LeClare, Nurseryman’s Colored Fruit Book Oblong 5.5 x 8.75 in. leather bound book with gilt cover title J.F. LeClare, Nurseryman, Brighton, NY No. 530. Marbled endpapers. Certificate affixed to front pastedown indicates that this book was the property of S.M. Campbell (salesman), issued May 13, 1889. This book contains color plates for 15 varieties of Apples, 10 Pears, 5 Cherries, 9 Plums, 11 Peaches, 2 Quinces and one each Mulberry, Apricot and Nectarine (55 total). $500 - $700
313 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lippincott Magazine, July 1890 Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Lippincott Magazine, July 1890, Ward, Locke Publishers (issued simultaneously in UK and US). 8vo, covers missing, Dorian Gray is 100pp after p. 24 of ads. This appears to be the American edition. This was the first appearance of Dorian Gray in print. The novel was thought to offend British moral sensibilities, so before publication, editor J.M. Stoddart removed about 500 words (without Wilde’s knowledge). The entire version before censorship (as submitted to Lippincott) was recently published by Harvard University Press in 2011. The year after the Lippincott publication, Wilde had a new version published, expanding the text from the original 13 to 20 chapters. He also “softened” the homoerotic themes in response to criticism received after the Lippincott version was published. In the Preface to the “new” version, Wilde addressed the critics and defended “art for art’s sake” and the rights of the artist. At times, as much as the novel itself, the preface has been famous, especially among artists, in its own right. The 1891 version has rarely, if ever, been out of print. $1,200 - $1,500
314 New Orleans Blue Book, Guide to Storyville [Struve, Billy, attrib.] Blue Book. [New Orleans], n.d. 16mo, blue printed wraps, 96 unnumbered pp. In 1897, in an attempt to control prostitution, New Orleans created a district just inland from the French Quarter in which prostitution would be legal, modeled on similar districts in European cities. The legislation was written by city alderman Sidney Story, and, much to his consternation, “The District” (as it was known to the locals) acquired the nickname “Storyville.” Shortly after, the first “Blue Books” were published, the earliest appearing about 1898 and the latest about 1915. There are about 16 recognized editions, but may well be more since few were dated. Special editions for the Mardi Gras season were published some years. These guides had covers of all colors; “blue” referred to their contents, which was a guide to the pleasures available in “The District,” although no specific acts or prices were listed. A few early editions did list some women as “French,” which appears to relate to a specialty of fellatio rather than their nationality. The guides break down the working women by race - white, colored, and “octoroon,” a designation of mixed ancestry. The earliest guides also noted Jewish women, although this apparently later edition does not make that distinction.
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BOOKS & BROADSIDES The women are listed alphabetically, with the white listings first, followed by octoroon (only one page) and colored. Madams are in capital letters. A few pages are mixed, titled “Late Arrivals.” These lists are followed by listings of cabarets (noted as “white” or “colored” which is interesting, since it was illegal for blacks to enter the district). The end has descriptions of 23 of the establishments, some identified by name, others by Madam. The Arlington, for example, bills itself as: “Absolutely and unquestionably the most decorative and costly fitted out sporting palace ever placed before the American public.” Or, “Miss (May) Evans is one woman among the fair sex who is regarded as an all-round jolly good fellow, and one which is always laughing and making all those around her do likewise....The signal of May’s mansion is: ‘Let’s all live and enjoy life while we can.’” Emma Johnson’s “The Studio” ad has the only photograph of the establishment.
Although not specifically acknowledged, these guides were thought to have been edited by Billy Struve and published by Tom Anderson, the unofficial mayor of Storyville. Billy was a former police reporter and became Anderson’s restaurant manager. In this edition, Anderson has an ad on the first inside advertising page (the ads are mostly on the left pages, information about “pleasure houses” on the right pages) and the rear cover. The other ads are primarily for alcohol, especially whiskies (bourbon and rye seemed to be popular), but also beer, wine and gin and cigars, obvious accompaniments to an evening in The District. There are also ads for glassware, lawyers, a drug store, taxis, sparkling and ozone waters, candy, piano tuners, a laundry specializing in cleaning corsets, and even jewelry. Although these were printed by the thousands, very few seem to have survived. A few authors have suggested that men disposed of them before their wives found them. $800 - $1,000
MAPS & ATLASES 315 Regni Mexicani Seu Novae Hispaniae, Ca 1720 Homann [Family]. Regni Mexicani Seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae Nec Non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali accurata Tabula, exhibita A Joh. Baptista Homanno, Noriberge. Ca 1720. Map of Eastern North America and Central America from the Great Lakes to northern Venezuela, and as far west as Texas. Most of Florida west to most of Texas labeled “Ludoviciana.” Wonderful graphic images of a sailing vessel lower left, to the right of that is a naval battle with a number of landing craft rowing away from the action. Right center is a large diorama of a meeting of traders with American Indians, and in the background, men mining in mountains - both with picks and deep shaft mines. A constant stream of men with wheelbarrows is coming to and going from the mine. Title cartouche with a native leader, and products of the land - fish, tobacco, beaver pelts, and more. $1,000 - $2,000
316 Great Lakes, Map by d’Anville, 1775 D’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782). Partie Occidentale du Canada et Septentrionale de la Louisiane avec une Partie de la Pensilvanie. Venice: Paolo Santini, 1775. Approx. 19 x 23 in. print area (and sight); framed and glazed. Outline color around lakes and on pictorial relief; large hand-colored title cartouche with acanthus strapwork and hanging branches. Place names in French. The map illustrates most of the five Great Lakes, the southern tip of James Bay, and part of the interior river system just past the confluence of the Missouri and Illinois with the Mississippi River. D’Anville was well known in his day for his accuracy in map production. Although he never left Paris, he was in a position to gain information coming in from traders and explorers. Many relied on his maps, particularly of the southern part of the continent. Jefferson was trying to obtain d’Anville’s Carte de la Louisiane (1732) around the time of the purchase of that territory by the United States, as was Meriwether Lewis before starting on his expedition west. (Note, it was still the most accurate map available nearly three-quarters of a century after its production.) It is unknown whether Jefferson ever located the map, but he owned at least seven other d’Anville maps. This map, like many French maps, includes many names of American Indian peoples and places. $800 - $1,200 194 AMERICAN HISTORY
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MAPS & ATLASES 317 New Map of the Whole Continent of America, Divided Into North and South and West Indies, 1794 D’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782). A New Map of the Whole Continent of America, Divided into North and South and West Indies wherein are exactly Described the United States of North America as well as The Several European Possessions according to the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles, Jan. 20, 1783. Compiled from Mr. D’Anville’s Maps of that Continent with the addition of the Spanish Discoveries in 1773 to the North of California & Corrected in the several Parts belonging to Great Britain from the Original Materials of Governor Pownall, MP. London: Published by Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Two sheets, copper plate engraving; overall size approx. 40.5 x 47 in. Hand-colored, with elaborate title cartouche lower right depicting many different exotic New World plants, some twined around acanthus leaf and scrollwork “frame,” with alligator at bottom and what may be a beaver in background. Waterfalls lower left, a feather headdress to the left of them. Insert lower left: The supplement to North America containing the countries adjoining to Baffins & Hudsons Bays. Above that is a chart of the European nations and their colonial claims in the New World. D’Anville is recognized as one of the best scientific mapmakers of the 18th century, although this version of the map was published after his death. An earlier version appeared in 1772, with a Paris treaty date of February 10, 1763; one with the same January date as this was published by Robert Sayer in 1786 (both held by LOC). “California” appears to apply only to the Baja peninsula. What we know today as California is labeled “New Albion.” West of the Mississippi has sweeping labels for Louisiana, New Mexico and New Navarre with no real boundaries. This version includes details of the Pacific Northwest defined by Captain George Vancouver in his explorations. Thomas Pownall was a Colonial Governor of Massachusetts Bay from 1757-1760. After his return to England, he served in the British Parliament. $700 - $1,000
318 The World on Mercator’s Projection, John Pinkerton, 1812 Pinkerton, John (1758-1826). The world on Mercator’s Projection. [Eastern and Western Parts]. Drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt. 352 Strand. London: published ... 1812, by Cadell & Davies, Strand & Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row. Engraved map on two sheets, full handcoloring, relief shown by hachures. Dissected and mounted on linen, folded into brown cloth boards (possibly originally half-leather - spine now missing), gilt title on front, marbled endpapers. 29.25 x 41.5 in. Pinkerton mapped the routes of many of the explorers up to that time, such as Cook, Vancouver, etc. The map also appeared in “A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities... Directed and Superintended by John Pinkerton...” One of many atlas maps also issued separately. $500 - $700
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319 Pocket Globe, with Initials Indicating Carl Bauer, Nuremberg Miniature globe, Nuremberg, Carl Bauer, ca 1825. 3-in. globe in a pasteboard box, hand-colored lithograph of Naval officer leaning on a standing globe on the top; the globe has “C.B.” on the horizon just below where the officer is leaning on it. Box has a gilt “wallpaper” design on dark blue background. Globe has 12 hand-colored lithographed gores over mache (?) sphere; pins at the axis allow it to sit in the box loosely so it can be turned without removing it. Names are in English. The small size necessitates some “geographical license;” for example, there are only two islands in the Caribbean, yet Europe knew of many more - this was where Columbus landed. Micronesia posed an even greater problem, since many of those tiny islands barely appear on much larger maps and globes. Bauer clearly selected the “important” (in the day) landmarks to emphasize. Although miniature globes first appeared in the 18th century, they became extremely popular in the early 19th century, likely prompting the Bauer family to expand their variety and production of these. Johann Bernard Bauer (1752-1839) and sons, Carl Johann Sigmund Bauer (1780-1857) and Peter (1783-1847) were makers of scientific instruments as well as globes. $2,000 - $4,000 Detail
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320 Peltzer’s Atlas of Chicago in Four Volumes Peltzer, Otto. Peltzer’s Atlas of the City of Chicago embracing all the subdivided territory within the legal boundaries of the City and Containing all recorded Maps and Showing all streets and Alleys opened by the Authorities... Compiled from the Cook County Records, Original Maps, Documents and other most reliable sources. Drawn to a scale of 100 feet to an inch [8 sheets to the Government Section] By G.R. Hoffman, Draughtsman under the Board of Public Works and Edwd. A. Fox, Civil Engineer and Surveyor Revised, corrected and with Marginal Notes by Otto Peltzer, in charge of the Map Department of the Board of Public Works. Chicago: Published by Peltzer, Fox & Hoffman, 1872. Double elephant folio (24 x 33.5 in.). Three volumes have leather boards, black with red corners and spine, gilt lettering on front; marbled endpapers. The fourth volume has lighter boards and is bound in coarse cloth, plain endpapers. The first three volumes have had covers made in this same coarse cloth with Peltzer’s Atlas of Chicago printed on them in black. The third volume has a pocket created on the inside front board using this cloth and marbled paper, presumably for a map or index now missing. The first three volumes have pages that are glued back-to-back, with a map on each side. Volume 1 has maps 1-82, with page 26 being numbered, but blank. Volume 2 has an index and maps 83-108, with the last being linen backed. Volume 3 has maps 109-135, with the last here also linen backed. The fourth volume has lighter paper, not glued back-to-back, no title page. The maps present are: Index map (linen backed), 1-18, 20, 24-25, 27-29, 31, 35-44, 46, 49, 51-52, 54, 57-60, 62-69, 74-75, 79-80, 82-83, 8688, 91-92, 100. It is unclear how this volume relates to the other three, since there seems to be no correspondence between Map 1 in this volume and Map 1 in the other, etc.
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MAPS & ATLASES Otto Peltzer (1836-1919) was born in Prussia in 1836, immigrating with his parents in 1849 to a farm in Wisconsin. Shortly after he moved to Chicago, Peltzer took a position in the recorder’s office. In 1853 he began working as a draughtsman. For a short time he pursued a career in the law, but abandoned that direction. He returned to his earlier position, where he became chief draughtsman of the board of public works. In that position, he was responsible for compiling city atlases. In 1871, the Great Fire destroyed all records of the city and county. Peltzer quickly assembled the maps from his own personal collection and published the Atlas of Chicago in 1872. In 1872 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives where he introduced legislation for compulsory education, a state board of health, and licensing for surveyors, doctors and pharmacists. After one term, he returned to the Board of Public Works. He resigned a few years later to open his own title and abstract office. In his spare time, Peltzer wrote, mostly for the stage. One of his dramas was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld (Sr.) at the Chicago Musical College. Peltzer died in Oak Park in 1919. $4,000 - $6,000
321 Chicago Surveyor Emil Rudolph, Hand-Colored Map of Brighton Park Area, Incl. Illinois-Michigan Canal Two equally large notes: T. 39, N. R. 13 E. (Township 39 North Range 13 East) and West 1/2 of Sec. 36. Copyright 1889 by Emil Rudolph & Fred I. Fee. There are a couple “blocks” (of the map) of surveyor’s notes below the former “title.” Dissected map on linen, 20.5 x 28.75 in., of the Brighton Park area of Chicago. Near the center of the map is the (former) Illinois & Michigan Canal. A couple blocks south of the canal is the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis R.R. The easternmost blocks just south of the rail line show shops, a bunk house, a roundhouse and a tank for the railroad. Brighton Park was incorporated in 1851. It survived the fire in 1871, and was annexed to Chicago in 1889, likely the reason for this survey map being created. The area northwest of the canal is blank on this map. Emil Rudolph (1855-1941) was a Chicago area surveyor who is credited with saving the county surveyors’ records from City Hall as it was burning in the fire of 1871 as well as surveying about 90 percent of the buildings in the loop. He surveyed the straightening of the Chicago River, the Northwest elevated line, and Union Station, in addition to many real estate units. Most of his career was with Chicago Guarantee Survey Company. Rudolph was just a young man of 15 or so at the time of the fire, and he was shown the following year in front of William Kerfoot’s real estate office - the first building erected in the “burn district” after the fire. One of the earliest surviving maps created by Rudolph that we have been able to locate. $400 - $600 198 AMERICAN HISTORY
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322 A Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians...Under the Command of Major General St. Clair, Signed by Pioneer Statesman, James McBride A Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-one, was Conducted Under the Command of Major General St. Clair. Half green morocco with marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine and raised bands, marbled pastedowns and fore-edge with the title page and inside board cover signed by James McBride. Printed by Jane Aitken: Philadelphia, 1812. 273pp. with the extended list of subscribers not found in all copies. Due to his friendly relations with American Indians and impressive military career, Congress appointed Brigadier General Arthur St. Clair the first governor of the Northwest Territory in 1777. St. Clair failed to subdue American Indian resistance and suffered a demoralizing defeat against Chief Little Turtle near the Wabash River in Ohio Territory in 1792. Of the 1,400 men under his command, 623 soldiers were killed and another 258 wounded; making it the most overwhelming defeat by the American Indians in the history of the United States. Overcome with surprise and indignation, when George Washington heard the news at a dinner party, the typically polished president purportedly spewed insults towards the beaten general saying, “Did not my last words warn him against a surprise” (William
Menzies, Catalogue of the books, manuscripts and engravings belonging to William Menzies, 1875, p. 356). Shocked, Congress ordered an investigation into the defeat while Washington demanded St. Clair resign. St. Clair resigned, and Major General Anthony “Mad Anthony” Wayne took his place. The investigation eventually found that St. Clair’s defeat was due to inadequate forces, gross mismanagement by the quartermaster and contractors, and the lack of discipline and experience in the troops. Congress permitted St. Clair to remain Governor of the Northwest Territory, but Thomas Jefferson removed him after he refused to recognize Ohio’s statehood. Defeated politically and personally, he retreated to his estate in Pennsylvania and established a foundry that made stoves and castings. Although Congress excused him for the Battle of Wabash River, it failed to repay him for his expenditures while serving as governor. As a result, he lost most of his fortune. He died in a small log cabin on August 31, 1818. A self-educated man, James McBride (1788-1859) remarkably became a pioneer author and antiquarian; archaeologist; Miami University Secretary and President of the Board of Trustees; Butler County’s fifth Sheriff; a surveyor; the first Mayor of Hamilton, OH; and an officer of other various entities. He also authored an important account of the history of Hamilton, OH titled Pioneer Biography: Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Early Settlers of Butler County, Ohio. $600 - $800
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LATE INDIAN WARS | George A. Custer 323 George A. Custer, Civil War CDV by Mathew Brady Full-length carte de visite of Custer as brigadier general, with recto and verso imprints of Brady’s New York studio. Illustrated in Katz’ Custer in Photographs [K-31], taken on or about February 15, 1864. $800 - $1,200
324 George A. Custer CDV by John Goldin & Co. CDV of George Armstrong Custer taken in May 1865 by John Goldin & Co., Washington, DC. Illustrated in Katz’ Custer in Photographs [K-70]. Housed in oval brass frame with black velveteen edge (mourning?), with loop at top for hanging. $500 - $700
325 George Armstrong Custer CDV by Mora Albumen CDV with Joseph Mora’s 707 Broadway, NY imprint on mount recto. A less frequently encountered portrait of Custer in civilian dress taken by Mora in 1876 (K-147 variant). This would be Custer’s last formal sitting for a photograph. $800 - $1,200
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LATE INDIAN WARS | George A. Custer 326 Myles Keogh Cabinet Photograph, Plus Lot of 3, featuring cabinet photograph of Myles Keogh in civilian dress, credited on mount verso to E. Klauber, Louisville, KY. Accompanied by printed lecture delivered by G.A. Hayes-McCoy at University College, Galway, on October 19, 1965 entitled Captain Myles Walter Keogh, United States Army 1840-1876, 46pp. A native of Ireland, Keogh served as a mercenary in the Pope’s military in actions against Garibaldi. He was awarded the Pro Petri Sede Medal and Cross of the Order of St. Gregory. After his short-lived Papal service he emigrated to the US in May 1862 to seek fame and fortune in the military, and during the Civil War was staff officer to General Buford with a distinguished record. Following the war, Keogh received a commission as captain in the 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer. Although he lost his life with the rest of the 7th at Little Bighorn, Keogh and Custer apparently were not as dismembered as the remainder of the unit, some reports suggest because of the religious medals (Papal) he wore in battle. Keogh’s horse, Comanche, is considered the only military survivor of the battle. The lot also includes a CDV of friend and fellow Irishman, Daniel Joseph Keily, dressed in full uniform, wearing his Pro Petri Sede Medal and Cross of the Order of St. Gregory, and holding a sword, possibly signed and inscribed on verso, Daniel Keily, Premier Lieutenant au Service de ? Siege, Rome January 19th, 1861. With partially visible credit to Roman photographer on mount verso. Keily served with Keogh in the Papal Army in 1860 and they were recruited into the Union Army together as captains. $600 - $800
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327 Charles De Rudio, 7th Cavalry, Cabinet Card by D.F. Barry Cabinet card of Charles De Rudio, blindstamped twice by Barry, with Barry’s Superior, WI label on back of mat. Housed in wood frame, 12 x 14 in. Italian-born aristocrat Charles De Rudio (1832-1910) joined the Italian patriots in the 1848 uprising at the age of 15 and helped defend Rome and Venice against the Austrians. In 1858, he was part of the famous Orsini Plot which sought to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb. While Orsini and two others were hanged, De Rudio was sentenced to Devil’s Island, from which he soon escaped with about a dozen other prisoners. Just prior to the start of the Civil War, De Rudio emigrated to New York and volunteered with the 79th New York Volunteers, serving at the Siege of Petersburg. He was then commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd USCT, with which he served until January 1866 when he was honorably discharged. A little over a year later, he received an appointment to the 7th Cavalry. Initially a 2nd lieutenant in Co. H, Benteen’s unit, he later was promoted to 1st lieutenant in Co. E. This was the position he held during the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Assigned to Reno’s Battalion, De Rudio survived the battle. $700 - $1,000
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LATE INDIAN WARS | George A. Custer 328 George Custer’s Scout, Curley, Large Format Photograph by F. Jay Haynes Albumen photograph, 8 x 12 in. Although uncredited, the photograph was taken by F. Jay Haynes as the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad and Yellowstone National Park, based in Fargo, DT. Ca 1880s. A large, impressive portrait of Curley (ca 18561923), the Crow scout for General Custer and one of the few US Army survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn. Housed in original, wooden frame, 13.5 x 17.5 in. $800 - $1,200
329 J. Bartlett Rich, Little Bighorn & Crow Reservation Photographs, Lot of Ten Lot of 10 silver gelatin photographs, 6 x 8 in., all with penciled annotations on verso and 5 with the backstamp of J. Bartlett Rich, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs include: Original Custer Scouts and Cross Marking Spot Where General Custer Fell, with “Goes Ahead,” “Harry Moccasin,” and “White Man Runs Him” pictured in the image; portrait of the photographer J.B. Rich on horseback in front of a teepee at an Indian Village in Montana; Indian Village at Crow on the Little Bighorn (2 different views); Old Indian Woman carrying water into camp at Crow Montana on the Little Bighorn; Indian War Dance, Crow, Montana; Preparing for sham battle, Crow & Cheyenne Indians; The Sentinel on the Hills, providing a dramatic view of an American Indian riding atop his horse on a hillside, with lengthy caption on verso; untitled view of American Indians standing outside a teepee on a riverbank; and a photograph of a group of men with horses and supplies, possibly members of the Wanamaker Expedition, captioned in part, First rest on the rugged trail...on our journey towards Cloud Peak.
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LATE INDIAN WARS | George A. Custer J.B. Rich (1866-1942) served as a photographer on the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition in 1908. He accompanied famed American Indian photographer and author of The Vanishing Race, Joseph K. Dixon on the expedition, spending three months with him at the Crow Reservation in Montana. Their primary purpose was to shoot a film depicting Crow life and document the Little Bighorn Re-enactment held that year. The results were then shown at exhibitions and educational seminars at the famous John Wanamaker Department store in Rich’s hometown of Philadelphia. Rich later exhibited his photographs in shows sponsored by Eastman Kodak in New York in 1912. The following year, his work was shown at the 8th Annual Photo Exhibition, held at Wanamaker’s Department Store, which was judged by Alfred Steiglitz. Rich’s commercial work has not survived and no known examples of the work offered here have appeared at auction. $2,000 - $4,000
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330 Custer’s Last Stand, Anheuser-Busch Chromolithograph Iconic chromolithograph titled Custer’s Last Fight, with lower left imprint, Entered According to Act of Congress by Adolphus Busch, March 30th 1896 in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington DC, 41.5 x 31.75 in. (sight), framed, 45.5 x 35.5 in. A dramatic depiction of General Custer standing defiantly with his sword suspended in the air as members of the 7th Cavalry of the US Army are massacred by the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne at the Battle of Little Bighorn. $1,000 - $1,500
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331 Little Bighorn Relic Collection of Bullets, Cartridges, & Horse Bone Acquired by Custer Scholar, James Hutchins Lot of 20+, comprised of 12 bullets, 5 cartridge cases, 1 complete shell, 1 horse talus/tarsus, plus 2 maps, a 3pp notarized affidavit of provenance, and a letter (1+ pages, dated May 7, 1980) from James Hutchins to Norm Flayderman regarding the collection offered here. From Mr. Hutchins’ affidavit, each page notarized and signed by Mr. Hutchins: I, James S. Hutchins….author of Boots and Saddles at the Little Bighorn (Ft. Collins, Colo.: Old Army Press, 1976) and other works relating to the equipage of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 25-26 June 1876, and to US cavalry equipage in general, 1865-1890, do swear and affirm to the truth of the statements that follow, designated A to I inclusive. A. A. I personally found all of the accompanying bullets marked 1 to 7 inclusive and 14 and 15, all of the accompanying empty cartridge cases marked 9 to 13 inclusive, and the accompanying complete cartridge marked 8, at or very close to the points indicated either on the accompanying map marked Map 1 and bearing my signature, being a copy of the US Geological Survey map of Custer Battlefield, Montana, or on the accompanying map marked Map 2 and bearing my signature, being a detailed map on the defensive position on the bluffs just east of the Little Bighorn River that was occupied by 7th Cavalry troops under Major Marcus A. Reno and Capt. Frederick W. Benteen during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 25-26 June 1876. The listing continues with dates and circumstances of each find, and whether they were from cavalry or Indian guns, depending on caliber
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and what the 7th was issued. For example, B. ...The spherical bullet marked 3 was fired from a smoothbore gun in the hands of an Indian... I. The accompanying portion of horse bone…marked 16, was found by my good friend, the late Ralph G. Cartwright, of Lead, So. Dakota, on Custer Battlefield in 1928 and by him given to me when we were at Custer Battlefield in August 1956.... [At that time Mr. Cartwright also showed Mr. Hutchins where he found the bone.] The first map, the USGS map mentioned by Mr. Hutchins, (17.5 x 22 in.) has a manuscript note: Map 1 / The points marked 10 to 16 incl. on this map indicate the places where the accompanying bullets, cartridge cases, and horse bone numbered 10 to 16 incl., were found on Custer Battlefield as described in the accompanying statement. James Hutchins 1 May 1980. The other map is on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper with the following: Map 2 / The area denoted in red and the points marked 8 and 9 indicate the places where the accompanying bullets, complete cartridge, and cartridge case, numbered 1 to 9 incl., were found by me as described in the accompanying statement. James S. Hutchins 7 May 1980. Accompanied by additional envelope containing 3 bullets - 2 minies, one deformed, the other not, and one spherical - with a 3 x 5 in. card dated July 1957: Shells from Indian guns (center fire) and bullets from Reno-Benteen battlefield of the Custer engagement June 25-26 1876 at the Big Horn Montana purchased by me at the battlefield. (signed) R.H. Golden. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $1,000 - $1,500
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Lot 331
QUARTER PLATE AMBROTYPE OF DAKOTA INDIAN 332 Exceptionally Rare Quarter Plate Ambrotype of a Dakota Indian Quarter plate, hand-colored ambrotype of a Dakota Indian seated in a studio setting, wearing a feather head dress and wrapped in a blanket, with a quiver, bow and arrows extending from beneath the blanket. Housed in full pressed paper case. Ca mid 1850s. The subject is probably Mdewakanton, a Dakota tribe located in the immediate area around Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. Photographers working in the area at this time include B.F. Upton and Joel Whitney, although there is no indication that either made ambrotypes. The absence of a sacred pipe indicates that the subject is not a chief. The quiver, bow and arrows make him an “everyman,” though his carefully coiffed hair suggests a family of high status. He may have been a scout for an early expedition in Minnesota, who was photographed at the insistence of an officer who wanted to remember him, perhaps someone stationed at Fort Snelling. A rare and desirable ambrotype portrait of a Dakota Indian. Our sincere thanks to Mike Cowdrey for providing information regarding this image. $3,000 - $5,000
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333 Alexander Gardner, Four Stereoviews from the 1868 Peace Commission at Fort Laramie, with Titles in Gardner’s Hand Lot of 4, all on yellow mounts with inked titles on verso handwritten by Alexander Gardner. Titles include: No. 29/ Bears Claw - a Crow Warrior mounted on his mule; No. 42/ Indian girl sewing in front of Tepee; No. 90/ Ferry on North Platte; and No. 97/ Chimney Rock on Plains bet. Cheyenne & Ft. Laramie.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed in 1868, and guaranteed the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills in Wyoming Territory. The purpose of the negotiations was to end Indian hostilities between white settlers and miners traveling the Bozeman Trail in parts of Wyoming and Montana. Gardner witnessed and documented the event. Working for the US Government Peace Commission, he was the only photographer present. Gardner, missing the actual signing of the treaty, focused on the people and events that followed. $2,000 - $3,000
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334 Fort Yates, Dakota Territory, Series of Albumen Photographs, Plus Lot of 11, comprised of a series of 9 albumen photographs (boudoir card and larger) of Fort Yates and Camp Ruger, Dakota, ca 1880s, including 2 photographs of officers posed with their families at their quarters identified as being from the 12th Infantry and 8th Cavalry, distant views of Fort Yates and Camp Ruger, Sioux Council 1889, Indian Camp, an Indian burial tree, two men standing atop Pyramid Butte, and what appears to be a view of a herd of dead cattle. The lot
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is accompanied by a silver gelatin cabinet card of Fort Yates on issue day, and a five cent Fort Yates post exchange token stamped by Co. L, 13th Infantry. Located on the banks of the Missouri River, Fort Yates was established December 23, 1874. It was about 10 miles from the South Dakota line and established as headquarters for the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Agency. George Yates, for whom the fort was named, was captain of the 7th US Cavalry and was killed June 25, 1876 in the Battle of Little Bighorn. $1,500 - $2,500 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
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335 Trager & Ford Boudoir Photograph of General Miles and Buffalo Bill Cody at Wounded Knee Boudoir card photograph titled in the negative No. 109/ Pine Ridge Agency S.D./ Copyrighted by the N.W. Photo Co. Chadron, Neb., with the four main subjects identified in the negative as (left to right) Buffalo Bill Cody, Captain Baldwin, General Nelson A. Miles, and Captain Moss. Verso with Trager & Ford’s imprint and the pencil inscription So. Dakota Wounded Knee. $600 - $800
336 Indian Religious Dance, Rare Boudoir Card by Mitchell & DeGroff, Indian Territory Boudoir photograph titled in the negative, Indian Religious Dance. Mourning departed Braves. D10½, credited on mount verso to Mitchell & DeGroff’s Pioneer Photograph Studio of Guthrie, Indian Territory. A rare view by Mitchell & DeGroff, who were best known for their photographs documenting the Oklahoma Land Run in the late 1880s. $600 - $800 SEE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND CONDITION REPORTS OF ALL LOTS AT COWANS.COM
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WOUNDED KNEE & PINE RIDGE AGENCY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
337 Wounded Knee Massacre & Pine Ridge Agency, Exceptional Photograph Album An exceptional photo album documenting the Wounded Knee Massacre and scenes in and around Pine Ridge Agency in the year 1891. Album is 7 x 10 in, bound in burgundy buckram, containing 52 boudoir-size albumen prints, approx. 4 x 7 in. to 6 x 8 in., most with credit in the negative to Northwestern Photo Co., Chadron, Nebraska. That outfit’s proprietor, George Trager (1861-1948) photographed most of the views made December 1890 to January 1891 and his partner Clarence Moreledge photographed another series of views on July 4, 1891. Cowan’s has never seen a Wounded Knee album this extensive in our 20+ years and several of the photographs we have never seen in person or even published in photographic histories of the event, such as Jensen, Carter & Paul’s Eyewitness at Wounded Knee. All of the most well-known Wounded Knee scenes are present, including “Bird’s Eye View of 7th Cav. Camp at Wounded Knee S.D.before the Fight With Chief Big Foot’s Band Dec. 29th 1891,” the views of US military and Indian scout groups posed together, and views taken on New Years Day, 1891 showing the battlefield following the massacre, Chief Big Foot’s contorted corpse, the gathering of the Sioux dead, burial of the frozen bodies in the mass grave surrounded by US soldiers, and Buffalo Bill Cody and General Miles inspecting the scene on horseback. Lesser seen photographs include portraits of the “Leaders of the Hostile Indians” Chiefs Two Strike, Crow Dog and High Hawk, by themselves and with Buffalo Bill and Major Burke, “Disarming Hostile Indians” showing Indians laying down their arms as US Cavalry lines the ridge above them, a view of “Capt. Taylor’s Noted Indian Scouts,” Chief Fast Thunder’s Camp, Red Cloud’s home, and more.
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Also included are photographs taken on and around July 4, 1891, attributed to Trager’s partner Clarence Moreledge, who resorted to saloon robbery soon after breaking his partnership with Trager. These include general views of Pine Ridge Agency and its school, series of photographs of an Omaha dance, Sioux Indians dancing the Scalp Dance, Sioux gathering for beef issue day and waiting in line for rations, “A Sioux Graveyard” showing several simple wood caskets placed on and around a bed frame, Two Strike and Crow Dog’s camp, and many more. Of particular note is a photograph titled “Troop B Ogallala Indian Scouts” showing the well-outfitted scouts posed with their lieutenant, John J. Pershing, the future General of the Armies during World War I, and a fine photograph of US soldiers posed around a Hotchkiss gun. A copy portrait of Sitting Bull is followed by portraits of Chief Flying Horse, The Misses Few Tails, and Indian Policeman Fast Horse, all posed in front of the same muslin backdrop painted with scenes of Indians in battle. The album is stamped several times “These Views Made By Frank E. Pilbeam/ Hermosa S. Dak.”, and “Frank Pilbeam/ Photographer/ Lansing, Mich.” Though Pilbeam is clearly not responsible for the views and we could find no record of him ever being in South Dakota and only a few references of a Frank Pilbeam in Michigan, where he ran an amusement company, the album was recently found in a home near Lansing. A rare and remarkable find. A comparable album is unlikely to surface again anytime soon. $5,000 - $7,000
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LATE INDIAN WARS | Photography 338 Kit Carson, Photographic Enlargement by D.F. Barry Photographic enlargement of Christopher “Kit” Carson, 11.5 x 19.5 in. (sight), with D.F. Barry blindstamp in lower right corner. Housed in original wood frame with Barry’s Superior, WI paper label on back, 17.5 x 25.5 in. overall. The original photograph was taken in 1868 and Barry likely produced a photographic enlargement at a later date. The only other example that has been located is housed at the Denver Public Library. Carson (1809-1868), a noted trapper, guide, Indian Agent, and fighter, commanded campaigns against the Apache, Comanche and Navajo, most of whom surrendered to him in 1864, forcing nearly 8,000 on the “Long Walk” of 300 miles from Arizona to Fort Sumner, NM. $1,000 - $1,500
339 George Crook, Rare CDV, 1865 Albumen carte of George Crook as major or lieutenant colonel of the 3rd or 23rd US Infantry, verso imprint of Henry Ulke, Washington, DC, dated 1865. General George R. Crook (1828-1890) commanded the 36th Ohio, the Kanawha Division, and the VIII Corps of the Union Army during the Civil War. He commanded several other divisions during the Indian Wars and is best remembered as the adversary of Geronimo and his band of unconquered Apaches. Crook spent his final years as commander of the Department of the Missouri while speaking out against the unjust treatment of his former Indian adversaries. $600 - $800
340 Very Rare Stereoview of Geronimo Imprisoned at San Antonio, by Leach & Hanna, Plus Lot of 2 stereoviews by Leach & Hanna of Cherokee & Llano, TX, including one titled Geronimo’s Camp, San Antonio, Tex., showing the Apache leader soon after he surrendered to the United States Government in 1886, posing confidently with several of his compatriots. Second view shows an indigenous American or Mexican mother and her three daughters posed in front of their Jacal, a traditional thatched hut. $500 - $700
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341 Boudoir Card Photograph of Condemned Apache Murderers at San Carlos, Indian Territory, Including Nah-deiz-az, Murderer of US Army Policeman Boudoir card photograph of five Apache Indians, the center subject with a red “X” over his head, with the corresponding description on verso Nah-deiz-az/ Murdered Lt. Seward Mott/ To be hung Dec. 27, 1889. The man on the far left is marked with a “2” and he is described on verso as Bi-the-ja-be-tish(?)-to-ce-aw/ Murdered Herman J. Casper near Globe in 1888. Sentenced for life and escaped. Although unidentified in the image, the photo also shows Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl, better known as the Apache Kid, a White Mountain Apache scout turned renegade, considered by some to be the fiercest Apache next to Geronimo.
Nah-deiz-az was condemned for the murder of Lieutenant Seward Mott, who was serving as chief of police at San Carlos. Mott had arrested Nah-deiz-az’s father for refusing a work order, which the son claimed was unfair because his father was crippled. Mott then attempted to arrest Nah-deiz-az for questioning his authority, and the Apache drew a revolver, killing him. This photograph descended in the family of William Wallace Chapel (1839-1922), who operated a trading post and served as postmaster at San Carlos, Gila County, Arizona Territory, ca 1886-1890. $1,500 - $2,500
342 Cabinet Card of Apache Scouts, San Carlos, Ariz. Cabinet card titled in the negative, 28. Apache Scouts. San Carlos, Ariz., showing a seated scout wearing a first sergeant’s jacket, cartridge belt, and holding a Winchester rifle. Standing beside him is an unarmed Apache in Anglo dress, wearing an eagle feather in his hair. An uncredited view, possibly taken by A.F. Randall or C.S. Fly, ca 1880s. Both photographers were known to have produced views of San Carlos at this time. $900 - $1,200
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LATE INDIAN WARS | Photography 343 Boudoir Photographs of US Military at San Carlos, Arizona, Including Buffalo Soldiers and Their Officers Lot of 2, both on similar boudoir card mounts lacking a photographer’s imprint. One shows eight officers and one man in civilian dress, with one of the officers wearing a 10th US Cavalry kepi and another a 24th US Infantry kepi — both “Buffalo Soldier” units assigned to San Carlos ca 1888-1892 to deal with the Apaches (and both of which had members recognized for bravery in the Wham Paymaster robbery of 1889, just outside San Carlos). The other view shows about ten African American soldiers on horseback, presumably soldiers of the 10th US Cavalry, as well as a white officer, a white civilian, at least one Apache, and pack animals. In the background are seven Sibley tents and one permanent structure. This photograph descended in the family of William Wallace Chapel (1839-1922), who operated a trading post and served as postmaster at San Carlos, Gila County, Arizona Territory, ca 1886-1890. $1,000 - $1,500
344 Indian Trading Stores at San Carlos, Ariz., Rare Boudoir Photograph Very rare view titled in the negative Indian Trading Stores at San Carlos, Ariz., with a 12-oxen and 10-oxen train visible in the square and the US Post Office in the background. An uncredited view, possibly taken by A.F. Randall or C.S. Fly, ca 1880s. Both photographers were known to have produced views of San Carlos at this time. This photograph descended in the family of William Wallace Chapel (1839-1922), who operated a trading post and served as postmaster at San Carlos, Gila County, Arizona Territory, ca 1886-1890. $600 - $800
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345 Ft. Defiance and Oraibi, Arizona, Large Format Albumen Photographs by Hillers and Mindeleff, Ca 1880s Lot of 14 large format albumen photographs of cowboys, pueblo villages, and scenery near Ft. Defiance and Oraibi, Arizona. Images include: 5 photographs stamped by photographer Cosmos Mindeleff/ Season of 1885, and titled in pencil Sam, Upright Rocks Kiakima ruin near Zuni N.M., General View of Ft. Defiance from N(?) E., Ojo Calinete, view of house with portico occupying south end of NW cluster Zuni N.M., and Toaiolma(?) near Zuni N.M. Each measure 9.5 x 7.25 in., mounted, 14 x 11 in.; 2 unmarked photographs titled Sa-zgin—Black Rocks from the West and Standing Rock near Fort Defiance, 7 x 9.5 in., mounted, 11 x 14 in.; 6 photographs signed in the negative by John K. Hillers and titled in the negative Cliff Ruins Near Fort Wingate N.M., The Old __Tower Near Fort Wingate N.M., Tewa Mokitown, Orabi Mokitown, Dangers Rock Wolpi Ariz, and Mummy Cave Canon Del Muerte Ariz., 13 x 10 in., mounted, 14 x 11 in.; and untitled photograph of a man on a natural stone bridge across an empty river bed, 10 x 8 in. with mount. Cosmos Mindeleff, under the employ of his brother, studied Pueblo architecture in the 1880s and pursued a career in archaeology as well as ethnology. The photographs offered in the lot are most likely from his survey of the great pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico for the Smithsonian Institute. He returned to Washington in 1888 to report his findings and present many valuable archaeological artifacts from the journey. By 1890, he left the Smithsonian to pursue a career in architecture in Arizona and attempted to fortify some of its structures. He ended his professional life as a reporter for various newspapers and enjoyed traveling around the world and writing.
John K. Hillers came to the United States from Europe in 1852 and worked as a policeman and soldier. Originally hired as a boatman for the second Powell expedition down the Colorado River in 1871, Hillers replaced Walter Clement Powell as one of the expedition’s photographers. The opportunity marked the beginning of his 20-year career as a government photographer documenting the American West. The images by Hillers included in the lot are most likely from the first James Stevenson expedition to the Southwest. $1,000 - $1,500
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AMERICAN INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY 346 D.F. Barry, Four Photographs of Identified Indian Chiefs, Incl. Chief Joseph Lot of 4 photographs, each with D.F. Barry’s blindstamp at lower right, including the following subjects: enlarged portrait of Nez Perce leader, Chief Joseph, 8 x 10 in.; Sioux Chiefs Cottonwood and Black Bull, approx. 5 x 7 in., each mounted in photographer’s original cardstock folder with closing cover, with Barry’s blindstamp on recto and printed paper label advertising his Superior, WI studio on verso; and enlarged portrait of John Grass, chief of the Blackfeet and Lakota during the Battle of Little Bighorn, 7.25 x 11 in. $800 - $1,200
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347 L.A. Huffman Photograph of a Crow Warrior Silver gelatin print, 10.25 x 13.5 in. (sight), made from the original L.A. Huffman negative by Coffrin’s Old West Gallery in Bozeman, MT. Titled in the original negative, A Crow Warrior, originally produced ca 1881. Matted and framed, 17 x 20 in. $300 - $500
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348 Silver Gelatin Studio Photograph of a Sioux Woman Silver gelatin photograph, photographer unknown, 6 x 8 in., with ink inscribed 28 on mount below image, 9.75 x 11.25 in. overall. The subject wears a classic, three-skin dress made ca 1870 with fullybeaded cape. The hem of the skirt is fringed and the corner panels are hung with tin-cone tinklers. The tie thongs of her moccasins appear to be decorated with dyed fluffs. $300 - $500
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AMERICAN INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY 349 Julia Tuell Collection of Northern Cheyenne Photographs Lot of 10 silver gelatin prints, most approx. 6.5 x 8.5 in., on 10 x 12 in. mount. Eight signed on mount verso, J.E. Tuell / Elizabeth, Ind., two with J.E. Tuell / Lame Deer, Mont. handstamp on verso. One with extensive notation in Tuell’s hand on verso. The photographs were taken beginning in 1906, documenting the lives of the Northern Cheyenne in Southeastern Montana. Accompanied by Julia E. Tuell biography, Women and Warriors of the Plains. Identified subjects include: Old “Wool” captured and held prisoner four days in battle between Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Chief Lame Deer, the latter being killed. the squaw at the present time is 94 years old, oldest Cheyenne on Reservation, 1906 Lamedeer, Mont., as inscribed and dated in Tuell’s hand; Travois; “Red Cherries” & wives; “Strong Left Hand,” Cheyenne Squaw; Lamedeer, Montana; Indian Grave; plus 4 untitled views. Julia Tuell (1886-1960) moved west accompanying her school teacher husband. Eventually settling at Lame Deer Agency, Montana, she became interested in photography, and began taking images of the Northern Cheyenne. She became a keen observer of Cheyenne culture, and because of her status as a woman, was allowed access to scenes of daily and ceremonial life usually considered off limits to whites. Her photographs of the Sun Dance, for example, record scenes that were fast-fading on the Northern Plains. Some of the men she photographed were present and fought at the Little Bighorn, defeating General Custer. $4,000 - $6,000
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Newspapers 350 Iapi Oaye. The Word Carrier, Very Rare Sioux Indian Language Newspaper, Complete Run of Twelve Monthly Issues, 1874 Iapi Oaye. The Word Carrier, Sioux Indian language newspaper printed by the Dakota Mission, Greenwood, Dakota Territory, during the time of the Sioux Indian War in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. Volume III, January 1874-December 1874, issues 1-12, each 4pp, 11 x 15.5 in., containing large woodcut engraving on front page. The text on pages 1-3 is printed in the Dakota Sioux language, in the Santee dialect. Only the back page of each issue is printed in English. A complete run of a very rare, early American Indian newspaper. $800 - $1,200
WESTERN AMERICANA | Mining 351 Rare Corporate Stock Seal Press / Embosser from the New York and Black Hills Gold Mining Company Rare corporate stock seal press / embosser from the first quartz mill established in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. Measures 12.25 in. H. x 6.625 in. L. x 2.375 in. W. with a 2 in. dia. seal. Similar to the Gold Rush in California, the discovery of gold on sacred Sioux lands in the Black Hills, SD resulted in a flood of new settlers. Threatened by the influx of white men, the Sioux began to attack miners and their camps. On June 25-26, 1876 Sitting Bull and an army of American Indians met General Custer’s at Little Bighorn. Custer and 267 men died and lost. The battle did not stop the miners or businesses from establishing in the area. One company was The Black Hills Gold Mining Company. Jabez Chase and a group of men formed The Black Hills Gold Mining Company in Cheyenne, WY, and established the very first Quartz Mill on October 7th, 1876. Two of their earliest mines were The Hidden Treasure & Esmeralda Mines. In order to receive more investors from the East, the company re-named itself the New York and Black Hills Gold Mining Company. The seal reads: New York and Black Hills Gold Mining Company around perimeter, and Corporate Seal at center. $500 - $700
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Mining 352 Three Stock Certificates for American Express Company Signed by Wells and/or Fargo Lot of 3 stock certificates signed by Henry Wells (1805-1878) and/or William Fargo (1818-1881), owners of Wells Fargo Company. The first for 10 shares, No. 1466, January 2, 1863, signed by Wells as President and Fargo as Secretary (although not his best signature). Alexander Holland was Treasurer. Certificate approx. 8 x 12 in., trimmed close on left side. Center vignette of “Safety & Dispatch.” Brown 5 cent Washington stamp upper left. Blue cancels through signatures. Second stock certificate for one share, No. 1349, January 2, 1865. Signed by Wells as President, Fargo as Secretary (this one more typical of Fargo’s signature), and Holland as Treasurer. Also with “Safety & Dispatch” vignette. Blue “Canceled” across center and cancels across signatures. Also with brown 5 cent stamp. Third stock certificate for 100 shares in the American Merchant’s Union Express Company, No. 2770, February 3, 1869. Signed by Fargo as President. Secretary was J.N. Knapp, Treasurer E.P. Ross. Countersigned by agent of Farmers Loan and Trust. The vignette changed with the company, but includes many of the same elements as the earlier one - stage coach, ships, train, boxes of cargo, etc. $1,500 - $2,500
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353 Group of Arizona and Nevada Mining Stocks, Including Tombstone and “Diamondfield Jack” Davis Signature Lot of 4, including: Tombstone Con’d Gold & Silver Mining Co., Tombstone, Arizona Territory, certificate No. 43, 9.5 x 4 in., dated at San Francisco, June 30, 1881, for 60,000 shares, to F. Clay, Trustee. Daisy Wonder Mining Co., Goldfield, NV, certificate No. 1419, 9.75 x 5.5 in., dated October 16, 1911, for 500 shares to Newfort Wilson & Co., signed by company president Jack “Diamondfield Jack” Davis (1864-1949). Prior to striking it rich in Nevada, where he established a number of mining towns, “Diamondfield Jack” Davis was mistakenly accused and convicted of killing two sheep herders in Cassia County, Idaho in 1896, known as the “Deep Creek Murders.” After serving six years in prison, Davis was officially pardoned for the “Deep Creek Murders” in December 1902. Arizona Copper Mining and Smelting Co., Yavapai County, Arizona Territory, certificate No. 275, 10.25 x 8 in., dated March 28, 1899, for 490 shares to W.A. Farish. Maricopa Copper Mining Milling and Smelting Company, certificate No. 57, 11 x 8.5 in., dated January 2, 1917, for 280,000 shares to J.W. Walker. $600 - $800
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Mining 354 California Gold Miner, Lengthy Letter Written from San Francisco, 1850 ALS signed Potts, 8pp, 8.5 x 10.5 in., San Francisco, California. April 11, 1850. Potts was an ambitious seaman who decided to remain in San Francisco during the height of the California gold rush. He wrote to his sister, Sally, California is a golden land. I have no doubt that the whole peninsula from Oregon to Cape St. Lucas is one immense gold mine… New mines of unknown richness are being discovered ever day. Yet, for as many men as he saw gain fortunes, he witnessed an equal amount lose them to lady luck. You can form no idea of the gold which may be seen even in this city. I have visited gambling rooms and their name is “legion,” he wrote. More than over half the diggers as soon as they have accumulated a sum say $2000 or $3000 dolls, come down here and in a short time all is given for the support of the gambling table…I saw a man bet 100 dabloons on every turn of the card for 12 or 13 turns, when he broke up the fund of the table and departed. I saw the same man the day after at another table and, from his appearance, from his apparent anxiety, I judge he had lost all. One hopes that Potts did not fall into the same temptations of so many men and gamble away what he earned. He was a studied man and had some worldly experience from his travels. However, his identity remains a mystery, as does his fate. In his letter, he does go on to describe more about the gold in the area and the people in town. Overall, it is a fantastic Gold Rush letter. A valuable item for any collection. $400 - $600
355 Gold Rush Illustrated Lettersheets Published in San Francisco, Incl. Correspondence from Identified Miner Lot of 2 illustrated lettersheets with correspondence from the same miner, James W. Ward, to his parents in Richmond, IN, both dated at Volcano Bar of Middle Fork of the American River, June 15 and September 8, 1851. The earlier letter is on an 8.25 x 10.75 in. lettersheet with full-page cover illustration and 2.5pp of correspondence. The illustration is credited to Cooke & Lecount, San Francisco, and features eight scenes of Gold Rush life, starting with the voyage to California on the bark Eliza, gambling at Monte Bank after arrival in San Francisco, traveling to the mines, making camp, washing gold, and the final two frames being either “One of the few who return” to San Francisco with gold or “The End of the Many,” showing a makeshift grave in the Sierra Nevadas. All scenes are positioned around a central illustration of an elephant, referencing the popular 19th-century idiom “Seeing the Elephant,” meaning gaining life experience by making an arduous journey, such as traveling one of the trails to settle in the West, joining the Gold Rush, or going to war. In the letter, the miner responds to the first later he received while in California, relating to things back home in Indiana, and says all letters should now reach him through the post office in Coloma. He tells his father that he has spent $800 on a claim on the American River and expects to get $3,000 out of it, and is a partner in the “Ohio Volcano Mining Co.” with 17 others who control 275 yards of the bed of the river.
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The second lettersheet is the same size, also sold by Cooke & Lecount, and features a more artistic representations of gold mining in California, titled “Miners at Work with Long Toms,” copied from a daguerreotype sketch by Justh & Quirot. In the 2+pp of text, written one day after his one year anniversary in California, the young Mr. Ward tells his parents the claim is still paying well, but rains are threatening to drown them out. He says he has enclosed $5 of gold and will leave it to his parents to divide among themselves and his sisters, and he will probably not return home for at least a year. $500 - $700
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Mining 356 Occupational CDV of a California Gold Miner CDV of a man posed with a pickaxe and shovel, taken by E.A. Kusel, of Oroville, California, located in the Sierra Nevada foothills and one of the main supply towns for gold miners during the California Gold Rush. $600 - $800
357 James Ben Ali Haggin, Wealthy Miner and Horse Breeder, Family Collection Featuring Photographs, Signed Documents, and More Lot of 100+ items from the family of James Ben Ali Haggin, ca 18501920. Haggin (1822-1914) was once considered to be among the three wealthiest men in America who made his fortune in the mining industry (Comstock Lode, Homestake, Anaconda) with Hearst and Tevis based out of Sacramento and San Francisco. His connections were extensive in the horse racing realm, owning several prominent and world champion racers, both in California and Kentucky. He had mansions in California, Kentucky, Rhode Island, and New York City. The lot is comprised primarily of photographs and ephemera, featuring: Approx. 30 photographs of James Ben Ali Haggin taken from 1859 until his death in 1914, several autographed, including an 1859 CDV taken in Paris by Mayer & Pierson; cabinet photographs credited to
Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco and Hargrave, NY; a number of large, formal portraits of Haggin later in life, ranging in size from 6 x 9 in. up to 9 x 11 in. These include several by the Misses Selby in New York, as well as portraits credited to G.W. Pach, Lakewood, NJ, and Campbell Studio in the Waldorf Astoria. Plus, an assortment of snapshots of Haggin later in life. Accompanied by cabinet photograph of Mrs. J.B. Haggin (Eliza Jane “Jennie” Sanders Haggin). Cabinet photo of Haggin’s mansion on Rincon Hill (Nob Hill) in San Francisco ca 1860-1870. The mansion was the first built on the hill and was destroyed during the San Francisco earthquake and fire. 2 blueprints to his Villa Rosa mansion in Newport, RI; 3 real photo postcards of the exterior of the mansion; 1 large photo of the exterior of the mansion and grounds; 2 photographs of the interior of the elaborate Haggin mansion in New York City; and 2 photographs of the exterior of Haggin’s Lexington, KY mansion.
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Cabinet photo of Haggin’s world famous racing horse, Salvator, dated 1890, who set the world’s record at the time in his set distance; original printed poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox entitled, “How Salvator Won”; and a photograph of a cartoon image of W.C. Whitney and J.B. Haggin scheming about horse rearing in Kentucky. Unique souvenir photo booklet, 7 x 5.5 in., containing 13 original 4.75 x 3.5 in. photographs and 3 prints/postcards showing various locations in Harrodsburg, KY, Haggin’s birthplace. Each image is captioned, and several relate to the Haggin family. Views include Fort Harrod and the oldest burial ground in KY; cabin where Lincoln’s parents, Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married; Greenville College; and the Haggin farm. A grouping of 8 early bank checks (1853-1855) from California, drawn from a variety of exchange and banking houses by Laura Sanders, a sister-in-law to Haggin, including: Drexel, Sather & Church - Sacramento; Page, Bacon & Co. California (3); B.F. Hastings & Co. - Sacramento; Wells, Fargo & Co. - Sacramento (2). Signed agreement between J.B. Haggin and his wife, Margaret V. Haggin in 1901 pertaining to the drinking of coffee by Mrs. Haggin. Mr. Haggin agreed to pay his wife $5 for every day she did not drink coffee, and Mrs. Haggin agreed to pay her husband $20 for every day she did. Cabinet photo of Lloyd Tevis, partner of Haggin in early years in California, and long-term Wells Fargo President; cabinet photo of Mrs. Lloyd Tevis (Susan Gano Tevis). Both by Taber, San Francisco. CDV of Cadet E.W. Jameson of the Highland Military Academy in Worcester, MA, dated 1864. Research indicates that an individual by the same name served as spy in Richmond and was discovered and hung, but we cannot confirm that this is the same person; plus late 19th century copy photo of Brigadier General William Price Sanders (Brother-in-law to Haggin) who served in the US Army during the Civil War and was mortally wounded at the siege of Vicksburg, TN. Cabinet photo of prominent merchandiser and banker, John Amsden, Sr. and cabinet photo of his wife, Laura Sanders Amsden. Accompanied by a number of photos of descendants, friends, and more. Full inventory available upon request. $800 - $1,200
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358 Albumen Photographs of San Francisco, Washington, Oregon, & Australia Attributed to Alanson Snook Disbound album containing 86 albumen photographs documenting San Francisco, Washington Territory, Oregon, and Australia, with a few images credited to Caney Photo. Although the remaining images are uncredited, it has been suggested that they were taken by Alanson Snook, a photographer based in Elmira, NY. The photographs, mounted recto/verso, many with period captions, range in size, with the majority measuring approx. 8 x 6 in., (38), some a bit smaller. The remaining photos measure from 4.25 x 2.5 in. or slightly larger, up to 9.25 x 7.5 in. (19). Ca 1860s-1870s. The centerpiece is a group of 15 photographs of San Francisco and its surroundings, including birds-eye-views of the city from California Street Hill and Telegraph Hill, photos of Alcatraz Island, the cable road running through Market Street and California Street, a Chinese restaurant, the Cliff House, and a birds-eye-view taken from Governor Leland Stanford’s residence. Photographs of Elmira, NY, Multnomah Falls, Oneonta Gorge, and Mount Hood in Oregon as well as Mount Rainier in Washington are included, along with a number of photographs taken abroad in New Zealand, including Mt. Victoria, Rockhampton and Sydney, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tahiti, Egypt, and more. The photographs document the architecture, scenery, wildlife, exotic flora and fauna of the areas, and local residents, including a studio portrait of two gentleman that appear to be Aboriginal Australians identified as Black Trackers. $2,000 - $4,000
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WESTERN AMERICANA | California 359 La Fiesta De Las Flores, Los Angeles, 1906, Rare Poster by Schmidt Litho Co. Lithographed poster, 42 x 54 in., La Fiesta de las Flores, Los Angeles, May 7 - 12, 1906. Recently mounted on linen, but reportedly had same bright colors when found. Two pages in green and yellow outfits blow on flower “trumpets.” The festival was begun in 1894 as a multi-day event celebrating the cultural heritage of Los Angeles and Southern California in general. It was sponsored by the Los Angeles Merchants Association, and joined a few years later by the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. Advertisements for the 1896 event mention the parade as including “Spanish caballeros, Mexican Vaqueros, Indians, and Chinese,” plus a carnival of “30,000 maskers” and a floral parade. Although it was halted during the Spanish American War, the festival was revived in 1901. This level of multiculturalism was unusual in that time. Charles Lummis helped with the early festivals, using his associations with Isleta Pueblo to include Pueblo Indians in 1895. He also oversaw the historic tableaux and provided archaeological and cultural materials (costumes and ceremonial items). Lummis was at least striving for historical accuracy in the midst of a marketing event. (Information obtained from the Online Archive of California, May 9, 2017.) $500 - $700
WESTERN AMERICANA | Texas 360 Excellent Republic of Texas Letter Describing Plans for the Capital City of Austin, 1839, Plus Lot of 2, including 3pp ALS from W.D. Shelton to his brother about the Republic of Texas, ca 1839, and his 1862 Civil War discharge document. W.D. Shelton was an ambitious man who saw potential in the lawlessness of the newly formed Republic of Texas. He wrote his brother, James R. Shelton: I wish, but feeling, determined in my own mind to be a citizen of Texas… No country probably under the sun, offered so extensive a field for the lawyer, as this…I am now preparing myself, and will by the next term court, in September be ready, enter this extensive field of operation with no other determination than excelling… It is true that Texas sprang into existence under peculiar circumstances, and from her birth, as a nation up to the present time has been seen of wide and I say, wild speculation a field for fraud…But this is not all, Texas….(Republic of Texas, San Augustine, May 10, 1839). Shelton did not attempt to describe the landscape to his brother, but he discussed the vast opportunities for speculation in land and business. He also spoke about the establishment of many aspects of the city, including a new capital. Counties have been appointed to locate the Seat of Government, in other words to select the most suitable location to affix the capital of the Republic upon at the foot of the mountains at a place called Waterloo on the Colorado River. The city will be called The City of Austin. Establishing Austin as the capital was more difficult than anticipated. President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet moved there October 17, 1839, but between encroaching Mexican troops threatening to take the city and Sam Houston’s men trying to move the Republic of Texas national archives from Austin to Houston in 1842, the city struggled to maintain permanent status as the capital. Despite numerous challenges, Austin was officially named the state capital in 1845 at the same time that the annexation of Texas to the United States was approved. Despite his optimism about opportunities in Texas, Shelton was unsuccessful in his efforts. He failed to start a profitable practice in
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Texas and moved back home to Columbia, TN. He remained there until at least 1861, when, at the onset of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army. He mustered into the 2ndTennessee Volunteers, Co. B, but by June of the next year he applied for discharge due to chronic bronchitis. Offered in the lot are his discharge papers. On the application, surgeon Thomas Mattingly wrote, at his advanced age (58 yrs) he is not likely to recover (Baldwin, June 6, 1862). His superiors approved the discharge. Instead of returning to Columbia, he resettled in Tupelo, MS. $500 - $700 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
WESTERN AMERICANA | Texas 361 Texas Land and Immigration Company Broadsides, Maps, and More Lot of 23. A Collection of Texas immigration ads, many with the purple advertising stamps of Henry W. Hannan (1844-1879) of Swan Creek, OH, agent with the Texas Land and Immigration Company. The lot is comprised of many railroad brochures, some with early Texas maps, most showing the rail lines. Highlights include: Banking, Law, Land and Collection Office of Stewart & Habight, Austin, Texas (Law firm specializing in land and banking), verso with map of Texas. No dates, but probably last quarter 19th century, as the other information in this lot dates between 1876-1878. Wanted Mortgaged Property! I desire to purchase the equities in some choice pieces of improved and unimproved….property. Also desire to purchase the rights of Parties who have Contracts with any Railroad Company for Lands…Soldiers’ Additional homesteads Bought and Sold…” D.H. Talbot, General Land, Scrip and Warrant Broker, Sioux City, IA. July 1, 1878. 9.5 x 12.25 in. The Texas Landmark. Notes on Northwest Texas, presented by Henry H. Hannan, Texas Land Locator, and Land and Emigration Agent. Dealer in Texas Land Script, Script Lands, and Patented Lands, Agent for Railroad Lands in Texas and Arkansas. Swan Creek, Ohio. Folded 8.25 x 10.5 sheet; with Hannan’s purple stamp. Texas Lands! Special Bargains! By Henry H. Hannan, Land and Emigration Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio. 2 copies. Folded 8.25 x 10.5 sheet (four-page pamphlet) with Hannan’s purple stamp. Homes in Texas on the Line of the International & Gt. Northern Railroad and How to Reach Them. 21 x 25 in. broadside/newspaper. Verso with map of Texas showing the railroad line into the eastern part of the state. Map surrounded by various ads, such as “Texas Wants One Million of Emigrants Annually for 20 Years to cultivate her Lands, to develop her Mineral Resources, to Manufacture her Raw Material, and to make her what she is destined to be, the Great Empire State of the Union, and the International & Great Northern R.R. Co. wants one-half of these emigrants…” with Hannan’s and others’ purple stamps. To Exchange. Have a fine lot of lands in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, and other States and Territories to sell or exchange… D.H. Talbot, General Land, Scrip and Warrant Broker, Sioux City, IA. July 1, 1878. ALS, October 2, 1877, re: three plots of land, with sketch map of the plots in the top margin of the letter. Signed Henry Hannan. 7.75 x 12.5 in. Pamphlet, 3.5 x 6 in., gilt printed wraps, 1877, 8pp. Cover title: Texas Land and Immigration Company. Its Organization, Articles and Purposes of Association, Certificate of Corporate Existence, Endorsement of the State of Texas and By-Laws. With Hannan’s purple stamp. Brochure, 12.5 x 15.75 in. green paper. One side printed with map of Texas, state and Indian Territory colored, county boundaries marked and outlined. Folds into 3 x 6 brochure, printed in red and black. (2 copies – one with scorched area lower right.) Both with Hannan’s purple stamp. Broadside/newspaper, 16 x 19.75 in. Recto with Texas Lands! The Empire State of the South. Includes railroad routes and rates. Verso with map of east Texas, Louisiana, and surrounding areas. “A Geographically Correct County Map of States Traversed by the St Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and its Connections.” With Hannan’s purple stamp. Broadside, 7 x 12 in.Texas Colony Excursion Leaving Rushsylvania, Ohio, Oct. 14th….Under the Auspices of H.S. Hyatt, Esq., Editor of the “Texas Products and Progress,” Dallas Texas. (2 copies) Newspaper, “Texas Products and Progress,” H.S. Hyatt, ed. Dallas, Texas: October 1878. 10 x 13.5 in., 16pp. With small “Apology” affixed to front page: “We feel it a duty to apologize for the many egregious errors that appear in this number of the Progress, by saying that it was issued during the Editor’s absence, who cannot vouch for the condition of either proof reader or pressman.” Henry Hannan’s purple stamp.
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The Texas Bureau of Immigration. Notice, 8 x 10 in., Texas Land and Immigration Company, St. Louis, MO. “An impression may have obtained in the country that, because the late Constitutional Convention annulled the Bureau of immigration, the people of Texas were indifferent regarding any further immigration into the State. This is a great mistake, as will be manifest by the recent action of the Legislature, inviting the good and industrious immigrant from all lands, through the channel especially opened by the TEXAS LAND AND IMMIGRATION CO….” With Hannan’s purple stamp. (3 copies) Refer to cowans.com for further information regarding the contents of the lot. $1,000 - $1,500
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Texas 362 Rare CDV Collection Featuring Views of Matamoros and Texas, Incl. Photographs by Louis de Planque and Henry Doerr Lot of 11 CDVs, plus Texas ephemera. Five CDVs are town views, including one with the backmark of Henry Doerr of San Antonio, showing Mission Concepcion in that city; one with the backmark of Louis De Planque, Traveling in the State of Texas, showing a mule-drawn carriage in an unidentified city; an uncredited view, likely by De Planque, looking across a pontoon bridge over the Rio Grande from Brownsville, TX, into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, ca November 1866, while Brownsville was under Federal occupation following the end of the Civil War (the 114th US Colored Troops were stationed at this crossing and the view looking the other way clearly shows an African American US soldier guarding the bridge); an uncredited view of a town on the banks of a river, likely Brownsville; and a view of an unidentified plaza, suggested to be Matamoros or somewhere in northeastern Mexico. The remaining CDVs are a series of 4 portraits of young siblings by Henry Doerr, San Antonio, and 2 portraits of children by Marks of Houston, TX, both with revenue stamps on verso. Also a handbill for the Order of Exercises of the Galveston Female Academy, June 28, 1871. $1,500 - $2,500 5 of 11
363 Edmund J. Davis, Union Officer & Reconstruction Governor of Texas, CDV Collection Incl. Photographs of Davis, his Family, and the Governor’s Mansion Lot of 8 CDVs, including: Civil War-era carte of Brigadier General Edmund J. Davis in uniform with his brother, Waters J. Davis, taken on June 28, 1865, by the New Orleans Photographic Co. Accompanied by a charming portrait of Davis’ young sons, Britton and Waters Davis, taken on the same day; 2 studio portraits of Davis’ wife, Lizzie Britton Davis, the first embossed Pollock, the second taken by Oliphant in Austin, TX, showing Lizzie Britton Davis with her brother Frank Britton; 2 portraits of Frank Britton, one by Condit & Collamer, the other uncredited; and hand-colored portrait of Lizzie Britton Davis’ great niece, Belle Armstrong, imprint of W.W. Washburn, New Orleans. The collection also includes an outdoor view of the Texas Governor’s Mansion, with H.B. Hillyer’s Art Rooms, Austin, Texas backmark and unsigned penciled inscription to Mrs. Davis. Originally born in St. Augustine, FL, General Edmund J. Davis moved with his family to Galvaston, TX in 1848. Davis settled and stayed in Texas most of his life, establishing a law practice and serving as a judge, until he fled the state after opposing Texas’ secession and refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. Arriving safely in Washington, he met with President Abraham Lincoln and received a colonel’s commission as well as an authorization to recruit the cavalry regiment that became the First Texas Cavalry. By the end of the war, he reached the rank of brigadier general and mustered out at that rank. Despite Davis’ former affiliation with the democratic party, after the war, he participated in state politics as a
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Texas Unionist and Republican. He failed to secure the nomination as senator, but narrowly won the gubernatorial race in 1869. His controversial administration received opposition from both parties, costing him his re-election by a vote of two-to-one in 1873. He tried several times to regain the seat, but was never successful. One of Davis’ two sons, Britton (pictured in a CDV included in the lot), attended West Point and became an officer and scout in the United States Army. He played a key role in ending the Geronimo campaign. $1,000 - $1,500
364 Captain Richard King, Founder of King Ranch, Texas, Rare CDVs of the Captain, his Family, & the Ranch by Louis de Planque Lot of 4 CDVs, all but one with Louis de Planque, Travelling in the State of Texas backmark. Images include: portrait of Captain Robert King, no backmark but attributed to de Planque, and a portrait of his wife, Henrietta, with de Planque backmark; outdoor view of King Ranch with a horse and two carts parked near the large home; and view of Captain King’s family seated in a horse-drawn buggy at their ranch in Kingsville, TX, verified by the King Ranch. Richard King’s personality was almost as big as the state of Texas, and his personal narrative reads like a Western folk tale. Born on the other side of the United States to poor Irish parents, his parents indentured him in New York as a jeweler’s apprentice. He escaped and stowed away on a river boat bound for Alabama. Sympathetic boat captains Hugh Monroe and Joe Holland discovered King, made him a “cabin cub,” and taught him the art of navigation and life on the river. At the onset of the Seminole War in Florida, he enlisted in the army but did not abandon his career on the river. Instead, he transported troops down river during the Seminole War and the Mexican War. King entered business at the United States/Mexico border, and became a principal partner with his war buddy Mifflin Kenedy, in the steamboat firms of M. Kenedy & Company and King, Kenedy & Company. The firms dominated the Rio Grande and made the men a considerable amount of money. Diversifying his portfolio, King entered land speculation, railroads, and, like many Texas entrepreneurs, ranching. King Ranch began after a formal land purchase in 1853. He and his wife, Henrietta originally settled in a mud and stick jacal, but eventually replaced it with a grand house overlooking Santa Gertrudis Creek. The ranch operated on the Hispanic legacy of patrón-peón “feudal” rule. Its foundation stock was in Long Horns, but included other grazing animals. Its breeding program produced the Santa Gertrudis cattle, which were more resistant to heat and disease making it an important Texas cattle breed. After King’s death in 1885, Henrietta and her son-in-law Robert Justus Kleberg continued to expand its land holdings, reaching a size of 1,173,000 acres by 1925. The King Ranch still exists today and covers nearly 1,300 square miles, an area larger than the entire state of Rhode Island. $1,000 - $1,500
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Texas 365 Mexican CDV of Armed Cowboys Albumen CDV with the verso stamp of Juan J. Silveira, Fotografio / Minatitlan, and the inked identification W.S. Harris and Friend. Both men wear riding boots and have pistols tucked into their belts. Minatitlan is a port city at the southern point of Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, southeast of Veracruz. $600 - $800
366 Quanah Parker, Texas State Fair Route Day Badge, Plus RPPC Lot of 2, featuring 1.75 in. dia. cello badge featuring portrait of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, with Quanah Route Day below, attached to a silk ribbon with imprint, Crosbyton, Texas 1910, overall length including cello 4 in. This badge was undoubtedly worn by an attendee of the Texas State Fair in October 1910, when Quanah Parker and his family were the featured guests for “Quanah Route Day.” Accompanied by real photo postcard of the legendary Comanche chief. Born in Wichita Falls, TX to noted war chief, Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a well-known captive and convert to the Indian way of life, Quanah grew to become the last great Comanche chief who often navigated between two worlds. He led an unsuccessful attack against white expansion in northwest Texas (1874–75) as an act of defiance to move his people to a reservation, but later persuaded other Comanche bands to conform and move to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. He became a successful business man by amassing $40,000 worth of stock in the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway and made powerful friends such as Teddy Roosevelt. Yet, he refused to cut his braids, convert to Christianity, and remain monogamous. He died in 1911 of an unknown illness while visiting the Cheyenne Reservation. $900 - $1,200
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Homesteaders 367 Cherokee Land Rush of 1893, Two Boudoir Cards by P.A. Miller Lot of 2 silver gelatin boudoir photographs, including a view of “Boomers” at camp and a unique shot capturing a large crowd of eager homesteaders gathered to participate in the Cherokee Land Rush, each with P.A. Miller’s Arkansas City, KS, handstamp on verso. These historic images capture the “rush” for new homesteads in the 225 mile long, 58 mile wide “Cherokee Strip” between southern Kansas and Oklahoma Territory. Sold by the Cherokee to the government, by the time of the opening, more than 100,000 people gathered on the border, nearly 30,000 alone around Arkansas City. At noon on September 16th, 1893, the homesteaders, most mounted on horseback, but others on foot and in wagons, “boomed” across the border to secure prime claims. $1,000 - $1,500 1 of 2 226 AMERICAN HISTORY
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368 Exceptional Group of Oklahoma Land Rush Photographs Lot of 7 boudoir cards, plus an advertising card for Ariosa Coffee featuring a Puck cartoon related to the Land Rush. The photographs are credited to Walters and Evington, Guthrie, OK, with some titled in the negative, including: Boomer’s Crossing Salt Fork River; View of North Park “Guthrie OH. 89”; Holding down [illegible]; Birds-eye-view of Guthrie. July 14-89. Accompanied by 3 photographs showing the settlers at camp. $1,000 - $1,500
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WESTERN AMERICANA | North Dakota
369 Farms and Farm Lands of North Dakota, Fine Photograph Album Produced by Wheelock & Wheelock, Inc. Leather-bound album, 10.75 x 13 in., featuring 50 silver gelatin photographs, most 6.75 x 8.5 in., showing the farms, crops, prairie lands, towns, and other scenes across North Dakota, ca 1910. Giltimprinted cover reads Farm and Farm Lands of North Dakota/ Wheelock & Wheelock, Inc., and the first 2 photographs show the Wheelock & Wheelock Farm Lands & Loans Home Office in downtown Fargo. Likely a one-of-a-kind counter display or a salesman’s album, with titles of individual photographs such as The Virgin Prairie of North Dakota; A Solid Section of Wheat South of Casselton; This Farmer Has
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“Made Good” in North Dakota; Corn is Becoming a Very Profitable Crop in North Dakota; Beans Do Wonderfully Well in North Dakota; etc. Many photos show Wheelock’s farms in Cass County and views of the farms, grain silos, railroads, and towns of Casselton, Harwood, Buffalo, Amenia, Jamestown, Mapletown, with the final photograph showing a group of two dozen men posed on and around a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train, titled A Party of Satisfied Land Buyers. Also of note is a photograph of Automobiles Awaiting Arrival of Japanese Commissioners at Fargo. $2,000 - $3,000
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370 Early Photographs of Bismarck, Dakota Territory (North Dakota), by H.J. Lowry, Including River Steamers and the 1887 Flood Lot of 11, including 9 boudoir card photographs on similar brown mounts, 4 of which show a Missouri River flood and ice jam at Bismarck, D.T., including a view of a train running along the icejammed river, probably during the flood of March 1887; a view of downtown Bismarck, centered on the First National Bank building, with several other signs legible, including an NPRR land office; and 4 views of Missouri River steamboats, including the Benton Line steamer Helena loaded with goods underneath the NPRR bridge at Bismarck and a steamer under construction.
Notes accompanying the photographs identify the photographer as H.J. Lowry, who we cannot place in Bismarck, but is known to have operated a studio in Helena, MT, ca 1885, so it is likely he took these shots when traveling on the aforementioned Helena, which ran from Fort Benton, MT, all the way down the Missouri to the Mississippi and beyond. Also included, a 4 x 8.25 in. albumen photograph of a small Missouri River steamer named Melda, by Gilbert of Mandan, ND; and an uncredited stereoview of a liquor store, stock exchange, drug store, and general store, which can be placed in Bismarck in the early 1880s by researching the business names. $1,000 - $1,500
371 Fargo, Dakota Territory, Trunk Manufacturer John Monson, Rare Illustrated Broadside Promoting his Trunk Store Large and rare broadside poster, 15.25 x 23.5 in. (sight), advertising the Broadway Trunk Store of John Monson, Fargo, Dakota Territory. Featuring a fabulous train lithograph at top. Quite an exceptional illustrated advertisement. Framed, 19.5 x 27.75 in. John Monson was born near Neenah, WI on February 4, 1853. He worked in Wisconsin logging camps and rafted logs down the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. In March 1882, he came to Fargo and opened a men’s furnishings store on Broadway. In 1900 he established the Monson Trunk Factory, which changed names to The Monson Trunk Factory and the Monson Luggage Company when his son took over operations in 1919. In 1910, the company constructed the “largest trunk in the world,” which could hold an automobile. The trunk was displayed at the Fair Grounds in Fargo. The business continued operations until 1977, remaining in the family the entire time. $1,000 - $1,500
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ALASKA PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM BY ALBERT J. JOHNSON
372 Outstanding Alaska Photograph Album Featuring Photographs by Albert J. Johnson Leather album, 10.25 x 13.75 in., with gilt-imprinted title Alaska Views, and the name of the traveler who purchased the album, J.W. Thurston/ Seattle. The album contains 69 photographs, the vast majority of which are 7.5 x 9.5 in. silver gelatin prints by Albert Johnson, almost all titled in the negative and dated 1906-1908. Toward the end are some snapshots of Mr. Thurston and family, as well as 2 fold-out panoramas composed of multiple photographs, showing Nome (3 photographs, 8 x 10 in.) and Fairbanks (4). Johnson’s photographs document a wide range of Alaskan life in the early 20th century. In addition to the standard town and mining views, there is a focus on community and social life, with subjects such as the 1908 Fairbanks Fourth of July celebration, a midnight baseball game on the summer solstice, the Fairbanks public school, salmon fishing, the Fairbanks to Valdez US Mail sleigh, and D.T Kennedy’s pack train. Also a series of images of the fire that destroyed much of the city on May 22, 1906, and several photographs of Alaska natives, including both scenes from daily life and studio portraits. $4,000 - $6,000
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Outlaws & Lawmen 373 Judge Roy Bean, “The Law West of the Pecos,” Signed Texas Law Document Bean, Roy (1825-1903). 1p, 8 x 9.5 in., Precinct No. 6, Pecos County, TX, no date (ca 1880s), transferring custody of Martain Nester(sp?), a state’s witness in the case of Texas vs. R.A. Durham, to Pecos County Sheriff John Edgar. Roy Bean is one of the legendary characters of the West, at various times in his life the criminal, at others the judge. Born in Mason County, KY about 1825, as a young man he headed west to join his brothers, one in California, the other in New Mexico. After various adventures, including shooting a man in a duel, driving slaves to New Orleans for sale, selling stolen firewood and watered down milk, and more, he headed for Texas. He eventually ended up blockade running for the Confederacy, moving cotton between San Antonio an Matamoros, Mexico, and bringing supplies back. By the late 1870s he was operating a saloon in Beanville. As the railroads moved West, so did Bean, setting up saloons near construction camps, until finally settling at a site 20 miles west of the Pecos River in 1882. Although it had been named Langtry after George Langtry, an engineer with the railroad, Bean had seen a photo of Lillie Langtry, a British actress (from Jersey), and was so smitten he named his new saloon “The Jersey Lilly” and insisted that the town was named for her. The eccentric proprietor of the combination saloon/courthouse came to be known as “The Law West of the Pecos.” $1,200 - $1,800
374 Tintype of Train Robber & Jesse James Affiliate, John Bugler CDV-sized tintype of John Bugler, a crony of Jesse James. Bugler was a part of the posse on James’ last train robbery aboard the Chicago and Alton Railroad. Authorities arrested Bugler and tried him for his involvement. The New York Times published an article that mentions Bugler and his role in recruiting “Bill” Ryan, a country well diggerturned-train robber, into James’ gang member. This image came from an Independence, MO album that contained other known James and Quantrill associates. $500 - $700
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Outlaws & Lawmen 375 Emmett Dalton, Two Signed Photographs, One with Tom Mix Lot of 2 silver gelatin photographs, each approx. 7 x 9 in. (sight), inscribed to George Weston Pierson and signed by Emmett Dalton (1871-1937), each dated July 22, 1931, framed, 11 x 9 in. One of the photographs, showing Dalton and famed Western movie star Tom Mix (1880-1940) together, deep in conversation, is also autographed by Mix. The accompanying photograph, which has undergone some water damage, shows Dalton on horseback. Emmett Dalton was one of fifteen children born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton. His brothers Bob and Grat served briefly as lawmen, but saw more profit as law breakers. They formed a gang, headed by their brother Bob, and robbed banks and trains throughout Oklahoma. The gang decided to rob two banks in the town of Coffeyville, but the job turned into a massacre. Most of the gang members died in a shootout. Miraculously; however, Emmett managed to survive after
receiving 23 bullet wounds. The state of Oklahoma tried him and found him guilty of murder. They sentenced him to life in prison, but, after serving 14 years, released him. Seeing opportunity in his notorious fame, he moved to California and became an actor and author. He starred in several Western films, some alongside actor and Hollywood’s first Western megastar, Tom Mix. Dalton died in Los Angeles in 1937. $2,000 - $3,000
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376 Two Early CDVs of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Lot of 2 CDVs, both copy cartes of Cody in his Buffalo Bill outfit, ca 1870s. Both uncredited, but the standing pose bears an advertisement on verso for photographic novelty cards such as itself. $500 - $700
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377 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Woodburytype Cabinet Card Woodburytype cabinet card, titled on mount below image, Col. W.F. Cody / “Buffalo Bill.” The showman wears his full show regalia including fringed buckskin jacket, oversized belt buckle, and cavalry boots, and poses with his Winchester rifle. No photographer is credited but this view is known to have been made during one of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show tours of England in the early 1890s. $600 - $800 BID LIVE ONLINE AT BIDSQUARE.COM
WESTERN AMERICANA | Wild West Shows | Buffalo Bill 378 Candid Photographs of William F. Cody at Campo Bonito, his Mine In Arizona Lot of 10 photographs, most 3.25 x 5.5 in., of William F. Cody at Campo Bonito, his mine near Oracle, Arizona, including two with Colonel Daniel Burns Dyer, his partner in the Cody-Dyer Mining Co., three with Dyer and/or other partners in front of mining equipment, one displaying game, one with his family, one with an Indian woman and her child, and one dressed as Santa Claus for the children of Oracle in 1911. These photographs were descended directly in the family of William F. Cody through his greatgranddaughter until 2014. $1,000 - $1,500
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379 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Real Photo Postcards Lot of 11, including 10 real photo postcards, all but one unused, and a 4 x 6 in. composite souvenir photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, and Doc Carver. Real photo postcards include (some titled in the negative): five individual portraits of Buffalo Bill Cody, one in which he is mounted on horseback at Training Camp at Deming named in his honor, taken by W.H. Horne Co. of El Paso, TX, a small oval photograph of Cody accompanied by inked note written from Cody, WY, portraits credited to Oxley and Doubleday, and unmarked photo of Cody with Wild West Show; Horne Co. view of Cody communicating with American Indian at camp, captioned Sign Language of the Indians; Horne Co. photo of Cody with two women; Buffalo Bill & Count Monack; Buffalo Bill and Sioux Indians; and Chief Red Wolfe and Mrs. W.F. Cody. $600 - $800
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380 Buffalo Bill Cody, Items Presented to him by Veterans of The Charge of the Light Brigade in Recognition of a Benefit Held by Cody in Manchester, England, 1891 Lot includes a helmet plate and two horse bridle medallions bearing the emblems and insignia of Her Majesty’s 17th Lancers, housed in the original leatherette, velvet-lined presentation box bearing a brass plate engraved PRESENTED BY THE VETERANS OF HER MAJESTY’S 17TH LANCERS TO BUFFALO BILL/ 31ST JULY 1891/ MANCHESTER ENGLAND. The lot is accompanied by modern research documenting how and why the veterans of the 17th Lancers, who gallantly led the famous Charge of the Light Brigade against the Russian forces at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, felt compelled to make a presentation to the famous showman and legend of the American West. William F. Cody had brought his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show to England for the first time in 1887 in honor of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, traveling across the Atlantic with over 100 Indians and other performers and over 200 horses and American buffalo. The tour was a smashing success, with near-daily shows in London from May to October in London and then in a specially-built arena in Manchester from November to May of 1888, being attended by of 2.5 million spectators, including Queen Victoria and scores of other dignitaries and foreign leaders from across Europe. The performers were especially fond of their accommodations in Manchester, and the citizens of the city responded in kind, naming streets in the Salford area things like Buffalo Court and Kansas Avenue — names which persist to the present day. The show was equally popular when it returned for the 1891 season. Cody’s show was later styled “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World,” incorporating skilled horseman and warriors from cultures across the globe, whom he regarded united by talent and honor more than national allegiance. One of the most famed cavalry forces in the world was the 17th Lancers and their compatriots, immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 1854 poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” During one of his visits Cody met Sergeant-Major J.I. Nunnerley, one of only 38 of the 145 Lancers who returned from the Charge, and through their meetings became aware of the plight of the few surviving veterans of the Charge, many who had fallen on hard times, received only small government pensions, and suffered from poor health and lingering
wounds. Cody, known to be a generous soul and humanitarian, decided to invite the survivors to a performance to be honored, and that the proceeds from the show would be for their benefit. An ad taken out in the Manchester Evening News of July 29, 1891, extolled the show as “The Event of a Lifetime!/ Extraordinary Combined Attraction for the Balaclava Veterans’ Benefit.” Cody obtained the permission of Colonel Waldrop of the 12th Lancers to employ his troops for a mounted lance drill and sword exercise, accompanied by a performance of the 12th Lancers band and an exhibition of “Miniature Volunteers (aged 6 to 10 years)” to create a “Unique Military Spectacle” involving the “The Heroes of the Past/ England’s Defenders of the Present/ The Soldier Lads of the Future” along with “The Experienced Red and White Warriors of the West” and “The Entire Wild West Programme.” The final line of the ad read in bold, “HELP THE CAUSE! COME! ATTEND!” Several photographs of the event exist. One is a group portrait of the 17 beneficiaries of the event who were able to attend, including Sergeant-Major Nunnerley and six other veterans of the 17th Lancers, four veterans of the 11th Hussars, five from the 8th Hussars, and one from the 4th Light Dragoons, with the old veterans wearing ill-fitting uniforms affixed with their medals, sporting white beards and holding their canes, and one proudly displaying his wooden leg. Another portrait shows the same group posed in the middle of the arena with Cody himself at center and several Indians and other performers standing beside him. Local newspapers reported the benefit as highly successful, and one article notes the strong feelings it aroused in the public: ...Last night, the proprietors of the Wild West Company put aside a liberal proportion of their takings for the benefit of a fund to provide the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava with the necessities of life. Deeply as all right-minded people must feel the kindness that has prompted this, no other impression can be left than that it is a scandal that such a function should be possible. For American caterers of public amusement, however distinguished they may be, to have to step in to support our worn-out and neglected heroes is almost a national disgrace to us. All honour, however, to Buffalo Bill and his comrades for their kindness and charity... A truly exceptional and unique item uniting one of the most famous figures of the American West with one of the most indelible events in the history of the British military. $8,000 - $10,000
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Wild West Shows | Buffalo Bill 381 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody ALS Regarding his Partner Nate Salsbury’s Death and Barnum’s Circus, 1902 Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill” (1846-1917). ALS, 2pp, 4.5 x 7 in., on letterhead with E. Ranch, Olympia, London. W. and buffalo embossed in gold, written from Plymouth. July 31, [1902]. Addressed to Bill, and accompanied by original envelope inscribed to W.A. Bell / Bell Show Print / Sigourney / Iowa / USA. Nathan “Nate” Salsbury was producer and manager of the highly successful Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show that toured the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. He helped Cody launch it in 1883 and continued to work with him until his death in 1902. Bereaved personally and professionally, Cody wrote to his friend W.A. Bell, I am all alone now Salsbury’s death—and Mr. Starr and Mr. Cooke both had to go to America to help the Barnum Circus in its trouble so I am driving it all. It was a massive undertaking, and Cody was understandably overwhelmed by it. Cody’s success and public interest in the Wild West inspired many to begin their own Western shows. W.A. Bell, a professional printer who printed many Wild West show items, contemplated entering into the business and consulted not only Cody, but also another character and customer—the “Poet Scout,” Captain Jack Crawford. Crawford and Cody met each other during the Great Sioux War. They were friends, but had a rocky relationship. Early in their show careers, Crawford joined Cody’s act in 1876. The relationship soured by the summer of 1877 when Crawford accidentally shot himself backstage. He blamed the incident on Cody’s drunkenness. The two dissolved their partnership and went their separate ways. Cody orchestrated a large theatrical show, while Crawford lectured across the nation and published many poems and books. Crawford lampooned dime novels, where Cody initially made his fame, and blamed them for young men turning to criminal activities, poverty,
and dissipation. Crawford supposedly criticized Cody’s management and performance to their mutual friend W.A. Bell in the letter offered here. Bell mentioned it in a previous letter to Cody. In response, Cody wrote, In regards to Crawford, he has never made a financial success in his life his [illegible] was but he can talk. My advice my friend is to stay out of show business and be entertained. We were not able to find any records for a Wild West Show headed by W.A. Bell. We assume that he heeded Cody’s advice and did not enter into show business, but continued to print Western related items throughout the rest of his career. $900 - $1,200
382 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Two 1916 ALsS to his Lawyer Regarding Financial Woes and Failing Health Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill” (1846-1917). 2 ALsS, both on illustrated letterhead for Buffalo Bill and the 101 Ranch Shows Combined with The Military Pageant “Preparedness” and addressed to his lawyer Henry J. Hersey, written less than five months before Cody’s death. First is 1p, dated at Gary, IN, August 28 [1916]. Cody struggled with the financial management of his show for many years, in part due to his desire to make sure his employees were fairly paid and happy. Changing tastes and declining popularity in the 20th century had dwindled his once-great fortune and forced him to form partnerships with Pawnee Bill, Sells-Floto Circus, and the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch, the latter offering no ownership and a daily fee of $100 plus a percentage of profits above $2,750. Cody laments sparse crowds and other issues but seems satisfied that the show will go on: We just could not get them to coming. The entire press jumps on us all over for cruelty to animals. And said the grand stand had been condemned for years it was not safe, etc...I guess the promoters played about even. All [ill.] money was paid duly and fully. The people well fed and happy $ got $900 out of it. Just my $100 a day. Now we have a new worry. Are talking a rail road strike. But it may never happen. So I won’t even worry until it does. Second letter 2pp, dated at Chillicothe, OH, September 19 [1916]. Cody is now in desperate financial trouble and considering selling off everything to meet his obligations: I think Link is trying to get a receiver for all the property...Walls might win by default...Walls letter accompanying the Petition & Summons explained nothing. I wish I could find someone who wanted a hotel proposition. And a growing one. I would sell the Irma Hotel...and the hotel farms and 160 acres, all improved...maybe an ad in the Colorado Register...I am not very strong and so worn out I can’t think, let alone act... $2,000 - $2,500 236 AMERICAN HISTORY
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383 Annie Oakley Cabinet Card by Stacy Rare cabinet card of Annie Oakley, with her facsimile signature and Stacy’s Brooklyn, NY imprint on mount below image. Annie is photographed with a shotgun thrown over her shoulder, while a lever-action rifle leans at left against the backdrop. An open case filled with Annie’s medals and two revolvers rest at her feet. $1,000 - $1,500
384 Annie Oakley Cabinet Card by Brisbois Cabinet card portrait of Annie Oakley standing with an L.C. Smith shotgun in her right hand, plus a Stevens-Lord single shot pistol as well as a Smith & Wesson New Model 3 target revolver, both with pearl grips, and engraved and gold plated, sitting at her feet, with Brisbois / Chicago imprint as well as Oakley’s facsimile signature below image. $600 - $800
385 Annie Oakley, Two Cabinet Cards by Brisbois Lot of 2 cabinet card portraits of Annie Oakley, each with Brisbois / Chicago imprint as well as Oakley’s facsimile signature below image. The first shows Annie standing at the ready with an L.C. Smith shotgun in her right hand, plus a StevensLord single shot pistol and a Smith & Wesson New Model 3 target revolver, both with pearl grips, and engraved and gold plated, sitting at her feet. The second is a bust-length view of Annie, her chest decorated with numerous medals. $1,000 - $1,500
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Wild West Shows | Annie Oakley 386 Annie Oakley and her Dog Dave, Photograph Taken During a Shooting Excursion, Inscribed by Frank Butler Silver gelatin photograph, 6.5 x 4.5 in., capturing Annie Oakley hunting in Pinehurst, NC with her trusted companion, Dave. With verso inscription from Oakley’s husband, Frank Butler, in which he describes the scene, plus handstamp from Merrow of Pinehurst, NC. Frank and Annie retired briefly in Pinehurst before resettling in Greenville, OH. Accompanied by documentation attesting that the photograph previously descended through the family of Frank Butler’s brother William. $600 - $800
387 Annie Oakley Target Card Shot Through Once Promotional target card, 4.5 x 2.75 in., with Compliments of Annie Oakley and heart printed in vibrant red, the heart shot through once by Oakley. With penciled notation on verso indicating that the card was shot at 30 ft. $1,000 - $2,000
WESTERN AMERICANA | Wild West Shows 388 Extremely Rare Stereoview of Johnny Baker A rare, charismatic portrait of Johnny Baker never before seen in stereoview form. Blindstamped by J.C. Hemment, ca 1907. Lewis “Johnny” Baker was like a son to Buffalo Bill. Baker idolized the superstar as a young child and accompanied Cody’s Wild West on tour from its inception until its end. He was a regular cast member by 1885 and a permanent fixture in Cody’s personal and professional life. After Cody’s death, he was the chief custodian of his legacy and founded the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum in 1921. $300 - $500
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389 Doc Carver Collection, Incl. Shot Half-Dollar, CDV, Large Photograph, and Ephemera Lot of 4, including a shot-through 1875 US half dollar; a fine Negretti & Zambra albumen CDV of Carver posed with his rifle and wearing his performance regalia (fringed buckskin jacket with beaded disks and strips); a 4.5 x 6 in. photograph of Carver, housed in a sleeve with the imprint of photographer A.H. Arnold, Omaha, from the Julia Cody Goodman estate (wearing a civilian jacket with shooting medals on his chest); and a promotional biography titled “The Romantic History of a Marvellous Marksman / Dr. William F. Carver of California,” 4pp, 4.5 x 6 in., advertising a performance at Beacon Park (Boston?), ca 1878-1880. The “biography” seems to have been written more for entertainment than for facts. It claims the Carver family moved from Saratoga, where he was born, to Minnesota where his parents were killed in the Spirit Lake Massacre of 1845 and he was kidnapped and raised by Dakotas. William Frank Carver was born in 1851 (not 1840 as the pamphlet claims), likely in Winslow, IL, and his mother lived until 1907. There is actually no credible information about his childhood, as he told many different stories, none of which are verifiable. “Doc” trained as a dentist and migrated west in 1872. He practiced dentistry at Fort McPherson and North Platte, NE. It was while in this area that he met William F. Cody and “Texas Jack” Omohundro, and other future Wild West stars. About this time he seems to have moved to Frontier County, NE, with brother and sister Ena Raymonde and “Paddy” Miles. Ena was a markswoman, and it appears that it was here that he began to develop his shooting skills. By the end of the decade, Carver was becoming widely known as a marksman, and took advantage of the opportunities offered as a guide in hunting expeditions that were popular with men of leisure from more urban areas both here and abroad who were looking for a “frontier experience.” For some of these he joined Cody. In between, Carver would take a few weeks to practice dentistry. In 1876 Carver went to California, still perfecting his shooting skills. He took on the moniker “Evil Spirit,” for which he had several other different origin stories - the Indians gave it to him because his skills were superhuman, or Spotted Tail gave it to him because he killed a white buffalo, etc. All fiction.
But what was true was the skill he developed. One of his first awards was for shooting 885 out of 1,000 target balls in San Francisco. A few months later, he and Texas Jack traveled together giving shooting exhibitions. Carver also issued a general challenge to Captain Adam H. Bogardus, champion trap shooter. Bogardus ignored the “young ‘un” for years until February 1883, when the two met for a match in Louisville, KY. Carver won, as he also did in two matches in Chicago. There followed a series of 25 matches sponsored by the Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Company - Carver won 19 of those. In 1883, he partnered with Buffalo Bill to get a Wild West show on the road. It only lasted one season, as the two showmen apparently had a clash of egos. They divided assets, and Cody joined with Nate Salsbury, forming Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, which would last for decades. Carver also called his new show “Wild West,” and the two fought for years over naming rights, the division of the earlier company, etc. Carver then organized as “Wild America,” taking his show over essentially the same circuit as Cody. The two avoided each other as much as possible, and remained enemies for life. The economic depression of the early 1890s and competition from many other “Wild West” shows finally seem to have destroyed Carver’s show, but he continued shooting matches until about 1896. He then developed a diving horse act, with many stories as to how that idea came about (escaping from bandits, and more). Initially it was coupled with shooting exhibitions and other acts, but eventually became just the diving horses. After attending an Old-Timers’ convention in 1927, he received word that his favorite horse had drowned. According to his daughter-inlaw, he seemed to lose the will to live after that, and, indeed, died just two months later. $1,500 - $2,000
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390 Charles Nordin, Nebraska Photographer, Glass Negative Collection Incl. Wild West Show Views of Doc Carver and Buffalo Bill, Plus American Indians Lot of 80+, comprised of approx. 78 dry plate negatives ranging in size from 4 x 5 in. (11) to 5 x 7 in. (63) and 6.5 x 8.5 in. (4); plus approx. 6 celluloid negatives. Included are over a dozen images of diving horses, both on the ground and “in action.” The collection also features portraits of Wild West performers, including a glass plate negative of the classic image of Doc Carver with all of his shooting medals on his chest (see also Lot 389); plus images of Indians in studio settings and groups at what appears to be a Wild West Show. The Brule Sioux accused Carver of kidnapping members of the tribe and keeping them captive for the show. Carver had them returned to their reservation. Copy negatives of Western artwork are also included. Some of the more interesting are copy negatives of early Wild West show posters, many promoting Doc’s show, but also a couple for “Cody and Carver’s Rocky Mountain & Prairie Exhibition,” which occurred the one year the two showmen worked together.
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Accompanied by small negatives of “Famous Pistols,” as well as 4 copy negatives showing John Dillinger in the morgue. Charles Nordin of Omaha, NE, was born in Sweden in 1878, emigrating to America with his parents at the age of just six. The family settled in Phelps Co., NE. Nordin married twice, with two children born in each marriage. He was a builder and contractor, but his hobby was collecting Indian and frontier material. An article in Nebraska History magazine by Nordin just after Carver’s death in 1927 featured a photograph of eight older men taken at Norfolk, NE, June 16, 1927. This was the meeting attended by Carver just months before his death. Nordin and Carver are standing next to each other in the back row. Property of N. Flayderman & Co. $700 - $1,000
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GRAHAM & BUTLER AMERICA’S OWN RIFLE TEAM POSTER
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GRAHAM & BUTLER AMERICA’S OWN RIFLE TEAM POSTER
391 Graham & Butler, America’s Own Rifle Team and Champion All Around Shots, Rare Poster by Strobridge Litho Co. Chromolithographed poster, 18.5 x 28 in., promoting Graham & Butler, America’s Own Rifle Team and Champion All Around Shots. The fanciful poster beautifully illustrates difficult trick shots like the original back bending shot where the shooter contorts his back behind and fires upside down, and the harrowing original double reaction shots where the pair shoots an apple off their heads with four rifles. This is the same show in which Annie Oakley made her stage debut. The only other example that has been found is housed at the Cincinnati Historic Society. Printed by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati, OH, 1882. Conserved and linen backed. Frank Butler was a sharp-shooting vaudeville performer who captured the heart of female marksman, Annie Oakley. He lost a shooting contest to her when she was 15, “I was a beaten man the moment she appeared,” said Butler, “for I was taken off guard.” He might have lost the match, but he won her hand in marriage. The couple toured the country and Butler profited from his skills in a circus act with his partner, Baughman, while Annie watched from behind the curtain. In 1882, however, Butler’s contract with the circus finished and he began his own show with a new partner, John Graham. The two produced the Graham & Butler Rifle Team. One night before a show in Springfield, Ohio, Graham was too sick to perform. Desperate, Butler asked his young wife to hold the targets. Either rattled by his partner’s illness or building suspense for the audience, Butler repeatedly missed the targets. Out from the stands a lone voice shouted, “Let the girl shoot!” Butler gave Annie her gun. “The crowd went into an uproar,” explained Butler, “and when I attempted to resume my act I was howled down and Annie continued.” Recognizing opportunity, Butler dropped Graham and partnered with his wife creating the Butler & Oakley show. Annie’s star continued to rise while Butler’s stagnated. He became her manager and never shot against her in public again. Unlike modern celebrity relationships, however, the two stayed devoted to each other. Butler recognized that her success helped them both. They were married for 50 years until Annie’s death. Distraught over the loss of his love “with rain drops in her eyes,” Butler followed her to the grave 18 days later. Previously sold in these rooms, November 20, 2015, American History Auction, Lot 309; consigned by a private collector. $15,000 - $20,000
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WESTERN AMERICANA | Wild West Shows | Posters & Souvenirs 392 Hon. William F. Cody Lithograph, Plus Lot of 2, featuring oval, hand-colored lithograph titled at bottom, Hon. William F. Cody (Buffalo-Bill), 9.75 x 12 in., which appears to have been trimmed from a larger sheet, framed, 16 x 18.5 in. Accompanied by 3.5 x 5.5 in. imprint, the front featuring a smaller version of the handcolored lithograph of Cody, 2.625 x 3.5 in., reverse with promotional information regarding Buffalo Bill’s Last and Best Serial. Deadly-Eye, The Unknown Scout; or, the Branded Brotherhood, and penciled date Sept. 11, 1875. $400 - $600
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393 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West & Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East, Pennants, Medal, and Photograph Lot of 4, including a gilt-on-red “Farewell Souvenir” pennant from the 1911 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West & Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East season, 6 x 12 in.; a navy blue pennant from the same season, featuring the Two Bills on horseback, 8.5 x 17.5 in; a souvenir medal/watch fob featuring the Two Bills in profile, 1.5 in. dia. plus 4 in. strap; and silver gelatin photograph by Gessford, NY, of the Two Bills seated together wearing show regalia, signed in the lower margin by G.W. Lillie/ “Pawnee Bill.” $600 - $800
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394 Buffalo Bill and 101 Ranch The Military Pageant: Preparedness Chromolithograph Poster Two sheets, 30.25 x 40 in. overall, backed on linen slightly larger. Exceptional color lithograph by Strobridge, copyright 1916, the left side advertising Buffalo Bill (Himself ) and the 101 Ranch Shows Combined, with Cody and and Indian Chief leading a troop of US soldiers and a facsimile of a 1910 letter from Chief of Staff of the United States Army Major General Hugh L. Scott to Johnny Baker, authorizing Cody’s request for furloughed soldiers to perform in the show. Right frame featuring the different groups of performers, including Arabian Circus Kings & Expert Desert Horsemen; Japan’s Fearless Fighting Men; Genuine Siberian Cossacks; and Johnny Baker/ Arena Director and World’s Champion Rifle Shot. $3,000 - $5,000
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THE GREAT MEXICAN WAR MOVIE POSTER 395 The Great Mexican War (1914), Three Sheet Lithograph Movie Poster The Great Mexican War, by El Paso Feature Film Co., 1914. “4 Reels in Motion Pictures.” Poster measures 41.375 x 81.375 in. on slightly larger linen backing. Poster printed by Schmidt Litho. Co., San Francisco. “Pictures Taken by Dr. Chas. A. Pryor, Associated Press Reporter and President El Paso Feature Film Co.” Three vignettes: “Federal Gunners at Battle of Ojinaga, Mexico;” a group of nine people, the man in front (apparently next to Dr. Pryor) with bandages around his head, titled “Soldier Shot Through Brain in Mexican War;” and “Generals Mercado and Castro.” At the time, Americans were intensely interested in the Mexican War. It was happening on their southern border, and the combatants routinely crossed that border. Probably better known than Generals Mercado and Castro, was Pancho Villa, who was supported by many Americans, until he crossed into New Mexico and killed American soldiers and civilians. Salazar was a brigade commander under General Francisco Castro. Generals Mercado and Salazar were fighting Pancho Villa in the border town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua in early 1914. When they crossed the river at Presidio, TX to escape Villa, they were arrested by the American army. Two years later, Salazar was released from prison in New Mexico by Villa, and joined his guerrillas, becoming one of Villa’s most trusted lieutenants. Salazar was killed in battle in August 1917. According to a History Detectives’ investigation, Charles Pryor was not an Associated Press reporter. Apparently he traveled the country with his film, and was arrested for taking money from theaters and not delivering the film. Short clips from the film are available at: http://www. criticalpast.com/video/65675023028_Generals-Mercadoand-General-Castro_Federal-soldiers_hidden-treasure_ Charles-Pryor. (Information obtained from pbs.org, History Detectives Special Investigations, May 9, 2017.) $3,000 - $5,000
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The Little Prince Signed/Limited First French Edition, 1943 The Book Collection of Dr. Ivan Gilbert
The Book Collection of Dr. Ivan Gilbert
Property of N. Flayderman & Co.
Timed Online Bidsquare Auction June 8-19, 2017
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Hotels & Restaurants Cincinnati, Ohio is one of the best places to live in the U.S., according to a March 2016 ranking from U.S. News & World Report. Cowan’s is proud to call Cincinnati home base and pleased to suggest the following hotels, restaurants and areas of interest to our clients. Where to Stay Downtown Hilton Netherland Plaza Downtown Cincinnati 513.421.9100 www.hilton.com Since 1931, The Netherland Plaza is one of the finest examples of French Art Deco architecture and interior design. 21C Museum Hotel 513.578.6600 www.21cmuseumhotels.com/cincinnati Rated the #1 Hotel in the Midwest by Conde Nast Traveler, 21C is a boutique hotel, contemporary art museum and civic center in the heart of downtown.
Where to Eat, cont. Dewey’s Pizza, Multiple Locations Forno Osteria + Bar, Central Ruth’s, Central Melt, Central Gordo’s Pub, Central Seasons 52, Central Things to See and Do Cincinnati Art Museum – cincinnatiartmuseum.org Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features a diverse, encyclopedic art collection of more than 67,000 works. Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens – cincinnatizoo.org In operation for 140 year, the Cincinnati Zoo is rated by peer zoological parks as one of the best zoos in the nation.
Central Marriott Courtyard Cincinnati Rookwood 513.672.7100 www.marriott.com Centrally located, this Marriott Courtyard is close to dining and shops and just 10 minutes from Cowan’s Auctions.
Cincinnati Museum Center, Union Terminal – cincimuseum.org Since its opening in 1933, Union Terminal is one of the most widely regarded examples of the Art Deco style and houses three museums, an OMNIMAX® Theater and the Cincinnati History Library and Archives.
Clifton House Bed and Breakfast 513.221.7600 www.thecliftonhouse.com A Classical Revival manor home B&B located in the unique neighborhood of Gaslight Clifton, close to the University of Cincinnati.
Findlay Market – findlaymarket.org Findlay Market is Ohio’s oldest continuously operated public market and is home to more than 40 indoor merchants selling meat, fish, poultry, produce, flowers, cheese, deli, and ethnic foods.
Where to Eat The Orchids at Palm Court, Downtown Boca, Downtown Metropole, Downtown Harvest Bistro, Central
Fountain Square – myfountainsquare.com A historic gathering place downtown, hosting free concerts & other cultural events as well as a seasonal ice rink. Krohn Conservatory – cincinnatiparks.com Indoor botanical garden featuring 3,500+ plant species, a rainforest waterfall and butterfly shows.
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Terms and Conditions By registering and bidding in an auction conducted by Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. (“Cowan’s”), bidders (whether present in person, by telephone, by agent, by written or telephone absentee bid instruction, or through a live internet connection) agree to be bound by these terms. These are the complete and only terms and conditions on which all property is offered for sale. Cowan’s retains the right to bar any bidder from participating in any auction and to exclude or reject any bid. 1) REGISTRATION. All bidders must register their name, permanent street address (no P.O. Boxes), and telephone number prior to the auction. Unless known to Cowan’s, all registrants are required to present two forms of identification, at least one of which must include a current photograph. Bidders may be required to present a valid Visa or MasterCard. By registering with Cowan’s or submitting an absentee bid form, an individual registrant authorizes Cowan’s to obtain a copy of his or her consumer credit report and authorizes Cowan’s, at its sole discretion, to use the information contained therein to make business decisions regarding the registrant’s participation in the bidding process. 2) ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS. Bidding on any item, whether in person, by phone, by absentee bid or via a live internet auction indicates the bidder’s agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions for Bidders. Any right of bidder under this agreement shall not be assignable and shall only be enforceable by the original buyer. The rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by the laws of the state of Ohio. All bidders submit to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in Hamilton County in the State of Ohio. 3) TERMS OF SALE. Announcements made the day of auction take precedence over any previous communication. The auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw any lot at any time before its final sale and to reject any bid for any reason. The highest bidder for each lot acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the “buyer”. If any dispute arises as to any bidding, or between two or more bidders, at the sole discretion of the auctioneer, the successful bidder will be determined or the disputed lot shall be put up again at the last undisputed bid and resold. 4) BUYER’S PREMIUM. (a) Buyer’s Premium for “Firearms” auctions; the Auctioneer will collect and retain from the Buyer, as additional commission, a premium equal to 17.5% the Sale Price of each Lot up to and including $200,000, plus 15% of the amount by which the Sale Price exceeds $200,000. (b) Buyer’s Premium for “Fine and Decorative Art”, “Modern Ceramics”, “American Indian and Western Art”, “American History”, “Fine Jewelry and Timepieces” and any other specialized auctions; the Auctioneer will collect and retain from the Buyer, as additional commission, a premium equal to 20% the Sale Price of each Lot up to and including $200,000, plus 15% of the amount by which the Sale Price exceeds $200,000. (c) Buyer’s Premium for online, timed and other third-party bidding platforms may vary. 5) ESTIMATES AND RESERVES. Presale estimates are intended to be guides and may or may not reflect the ultimate hammer price of a lot. Cowan’s retains the right to change estimates on any lot up to time of sale. A reserve is a confidential minimum price agreed upon by the seller of the lot and Cowan’s. In the case of reserved lots, the seller has authorized Cowan’s to bid on seller’s behalf until the reserve price is reached. In no case will the reserve be higher than the low presale estimate. Cowan’s standard house reserve on all property at auction is one-half of the low estimate. 6) WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS. Cowan’s makes a limited warranty only to the original buyer of record concerning the authenticity of each lot for a period of 14 days after bidder’s receipt of the purchased lot. If a buyer is not satisfied that the lot purchased is genuine, the buyer may, at his or her own expense, obtain the opinion of two mutually agreed upon recognized experts in the field of the disputed lot. If these experts determine that the item is not genuine, the buyer’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the rescission of the sale and refund of the amount paid for the item. It is specifically understood and agreed that the rescission of the sale and refund is exclusive and in lieu of any other remedy which might otherwise be available as a matter of law or in equity, and such remedy is conditioned upon the buyer returning the property in the same condition as at the time of sale. Cowan’s shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages. All sales are final, with no returns or refunds except as provided in this limited warranty. Except as provided in the immediately proceeding paragraph, EVERY LOT IS SOLD “AS IS”, without any representations or warranties by Cowan’s or the seller as to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, condition or value of the property, or the correctness or completeness of the catalog or other description of the property, and no statement, whether written or oral, shall be deemed such a representation, warranty or assumption of liability. Cowan’s makes no representation or warranty that the buyer of manuscript material, photographs, prints or works of art will acquire any copyright or reproduction rights. Cowan’s does not guarantee the working order of any clock, watch, electronic or mechanical device. Dimensions given in the catalog descriptions may be approximate. 7) DEFINITIONS OF AUTHORSHIP. “By” or “Maker/Artist” — in our opinion, the work is by the artist or maker stated “Attributed to” — in our opinion, the work is probably, but not definitely, by the artist or maker stated “Signed” or “Marked” — in our opinion, the signature or mark is that of the stated artist or maker “Bearing the signature (or mark) of” — in our opinion, the signature or mark is probably, but not definitely, that of the artist or maker stated “Circle of” — in our opinion, the work is of the period and by an artist or maker closely associated with the stated artist or maker “School of” — in our opinion, the work is by a pupil or follower of the stated artist or maker “Manner of” — in our opinion, the work is of the period and done in the style of the stated artist or maker “After” — in our opinion, the work is a copy of a work by the stated artist or maker 8) INSPECTION. Except for Online-Only Auctions, all lots are available for inspection prior to the auction. Condition reports for most items can be found online at Cowan’s website, www.cowans.com, and prospective bidders are encouraged to contact Cowan’s directly for additional information regarding the condition of any lot. Cowan’s does not warrant the condition of any item. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Buyers interested in the condition of an item are encouraged to contact Cowan’s and, to the best of our ability, we will document for the prospective bidder the condition status on any lot. Condition is always a subjective evaluation and final responsibility rests with the buyer to assess the condition of any item sold by Cowan’s. ABSENTEE, TELEPHONE AND INTERNET BIDDING Absentee and telephone bidding is offered as a free service to our customers and prospective bidders. Cowan’s shall not be responsible for any errors or failures in executing bids, either absentee, telephone or via the internet. 9) ABSENTEE BIDDING. Absentee bids are accepted via mail, fax, email and on Cowan’s website. Such bids will be posted with the time and date of arrival, with ties being awarded to the earliest bidder. Absentee bids that are faxed or emailed to Cowan’s need to be in the office at least 2 hours before the sale begins. An absentee bidder unknown to Cowan’s may be required to submit a bank letter of credit prior to the auction, or, using a credit card, deposit with Cowan’s a fee equaling 30% of the absentee bid. All absentee bids are executed competitively by a member of the auction staff. The auction staff will try to purchase the lot for the lowest price possible and will bid up to the amount designated by the absentee bidder only if necessary. Cowan’s does not accept “buy bids,” or absentee bids which have no limit. In the event of a tie bid between a floor and an absentee bidder, the floor bid will be honored.
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10) TELEPHONE BIDDING. Bidding live via the telephone is available on a first come, first served basis for those lots with a low estimate of $500 or greater. In order for Cowan’s to efficiently serve the needs of those who wish to bid by phone, please note the following: (a) To participate in the auction by telephone, potential bidders must complete and sign the absentee bid form and check “I WISH TO BID BY TELEPHONE” for the designated lots. Potential bidders may also reserve a phone line on Cowan’s website. If faxing or emailing requests for phone bidding, they need to be in Cowan’s office 2 hours before the sale begins. Once the auction begins, requests left on Cowan’s website may not be retrieved by the staff. (b) Telephone bidders are advised to indicate an “insurance bid”, which amount will become an absentee bid, pursuant to the absentee bidding process set forth above, if Cowan’s can not reach the bidder by telephone for a particular indicated lot. (c) Telephone bidders must disable any caller ID or other call blocking mechanism. (d) Cowan’s sells about 100 lots per hour, so telephone bidders should plan accordingly. Cowan’s will attempt to reach each telephone bidder, but Cowan’s is in no way responsible for missed calls. 11) INTERNET BIDDING. Internet bidding is available through our website; additionally, Cowan’s may post certain auctions on Bidsquare (bidsquare.com) or Proxibid (proxibid.com). There may be terms which apply solely to internet bids that should be reviewed online at the time of sale. Cowan’s is not responsible for any failure to execute a bid and shall have no liability to any bidder for any technical or other failure associated with an internet auction. 12) BIDDING INCREMENTS. The following increments are used at the auction. Absentee bids must fall within these increments. Cowan’s will automatically reduce any absentee bid to the closest increment if the bid falls outside the published range of increments. For Bids Falling Between Bidding Increment $0-500 $25 $501-1,000 $50 $1,001-3,000 $100 $3,001-5,000 $250 $5,001 and up $500 or at the discretion of the auctioneer Cowan’s reserves the right to modify increments at any time during the auction. AFTER THE AUCTION 13) BUYER’S RESPONSIBILITY. Upon the fall of the hammer, title to the offered lot shall pass to the buyer and the buyer immediately (a) assumes full risk and responsibility for the lot, including liability for loss or damage and (b) is liable for payment of the Purchase Price (as defined below) to Cowan’s. It is the buyer’s responsibility to ask specific questions on condition related concerns prior to the auction. Cowan’s will not rescind sales with buyers that have disputes regarding firearm’s bore condition. 14) PURCHASE PRICE AND PAYMENT. The discounted “Purchase Price” for each lot shall equal the hammer price, buyer’s premium, sales tax and, if applicable, all packing, handling, insurance and shipping costs. Payment may be made with cash, personal or traveler’s check or credit card. Cowan’s reserves the right to hold a purchased lot until a check has cleared. A convenience fee of $15.00 will be assessed to all transactions made in the alternate payment channels: Phone payments are made available as a convenience outside Cowan’s Auctions customary payment channels, therefore these payments are qualified as payments made in the alternative payment channel. All forms of payment made using this method will be assessed the convenience fee. Please call Cowan’s Auctions if you have any questions regarding this policy. PLEASE NOTE: A surcharge of 3% will be assessed to all credit card transactions. This surcharge is not greater than our cost of acceptance. Buyers who are present at the auction must pay the full Purchase Price at the time of the sale. Buyers who bid by telephone, by internet, or who are absentee bidders will be invoiced within 5 days after the close of the auction and must pay the full Purchase Price for each purchased lot within 14 days after the date of the auction. No property will be released by Cowan’s unless the Purchase Price has been paid in full. Institutional billing may be available, and should be arranged prior to the auction. Cowan’s may impose late charges of 1.5% per month (or the highest interest rate allowed) on any amount owed to Cowan’s that remains unpaid after 30 days. Buyer shall be liable for any collection costs or attorney’s fees incurred by Cowan’s to collect payment, to the extent permitted by law. 15) SALES TAX. Buyers are required to pay any applicable state and local sales tax. 16) SHIPPING. At the request of the buyer, Cowan’s will authorize the shipment of purchased items usually within two weeks after payment has been received. Shipment is generally made via UPS or Fed-Ex Ground. Unless buyer gives special instructions, the shipping method shall be at the sole discretion Cowan’s Auctions. Cowan’s is in no way responsible for the acts or omissions of independent handlers, packers or shippers of purchased items or for any loss, damage or delay from the packing or shipping of any property. ADVICE TO INTERNATIONAL BUYERS. Cowan’s will not ship any package containing a firearm to any location other than within the United States. Buyers outside the United States must make their own shipping arrangements taking full risk for the transportation of any firearm. Property made of or containing certain plant or animal materials, such as coral, crocodile, ivory, whalebone, baleen, tortoiseshell, etc., may require a license or certificate before exportation from the United States and importation to another country. If you are purchasing items that contain these materials, you need to check the government wildlife import requirements in the countries from which and to which the item is being shipped prior to bidding. Since the export and import licenses are independently issued by the countries of origin and destination, obtaining one does not guarantee that you can obtain the other. Purchasers are responsible for making timely payments on items won at auction, even if a license is delayed or denied. 17) SHIPPING CHARGES. Buyers are required to pay for all packing, shipping and insurance charges. Overseas duty charges are the responsibility of the successful bidder. Be aware that for larger and/or valuable items, shipping charges can be substantial. 18) REMOVAL AND STORAGE OF PROPERTY. If purchased property has not been removed, or Cowan’s has not received shipping instructions within 21 days after the auction date, a $10 per item per day storage fee may be charged to the buyer. 19) CANCELLATION OF SALE. If purchased property remains in the custody of Cowan’s for a period of 60 days following the auction, Cowan’s may, at its option, cancel the sale, retaining as liquidated damages any payments made by the buyer, or resell the property at auction or by any other commercially reasonable means, for the account and at the risk of the buyer, and in such event, buyer shall be liable for the payment of all deficiencies plus all of Cowan’s costs, including but not limited to storage and costs of both sales. This right of cancellation is in addition to any and all other remedies available to Cowan’s. Copyright © 2017 Cowan’s Auctions
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