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The Most Outstanding Confederate Diary that We Have Had the Privilege of Owning – John S. Tucker, Co. D, 5th Alabama Regiment, Rodes Division, Ewell’s Corps. – BOTH ANTIETAM & GETTYSBURG DESCRIBED – HIS BROTHER KILLED AT GETTYSBURG
Blockade Runner Bond – Palmetto Exporting and Importing Company of South Carolina – Signed by Famous Charlestonian William Ravenel June 3rd, 1863
Early Stereoview, Yellow Mount & Probably by Quinby, Charleston S.C. of the Interior of Fort Sumter in 1861 after Andersons Evacuation!
Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg – UNION BALLOON SHOT AT! – Confederate Letter in Ink with a Rare Jeff Davis “TEN” Stamped Cover – Captain Joseph S. Brown, Sumter Artillery, 3rd Corps Under General A. P. Hill – “I HAVE HUNTED SOME FOR MY HORSE (LOST AT THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE), BUT I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING OF HIM YET. I AM RIDING A BROKEN-DOWN HORSE THAT SERGEANT RICKETTS TOOK UP FOR ME. I NEVER EXPECT TO SEE MY HORSE AGAIN.” – “OUR GUNS ARE ON LEE’S & MARYE’S HILLS… OUR AMMUNITION SEEMED TO BE INFERIOR AND MOST OF OUR SHELL FELL SHORT.” – “(7 A.M.) FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12TH, 1863. THEY HAVE JUST BEEN FIRING AT THE YANKEE BALLOON AND IT WENT DOWN RAPIDLY. WE COULD SEE THE SHELL BURST FROM OUR (WAGON) CAMP IN THE AIR.”
38th Virginia Letter Written on Stationery Captured from the 5th Maine Regiment at the Battle of Bull Run! – “THEY SAY THAT OUR FELLOWS DID NOT FIGHT LIKE MEN BUT LIKE DEVILS & I EXPECT IT WAS A GALLANT FIGHT, BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT ALL THIS GALLANTRY WOULD HAVE WON THEM THE BATTLE HAD NOT THE ALMIGHTY BEEN ON OUR SIDE” “A BATTLEFIELD STREWN FOR MILES WITH THEIR DEAD”
New Price! 56th North Carolina Letter from George B. Dewese (Killed in Action at Globe Tavern, Va.) – Dewese Writing from “Camp Badger, N.C., Sept. 28th, 1862” Talks about Fighting Off the Enemy Blockading Vessels
The Greatest Civil War Illustrated Soldiers Letter from Antietam – R. F. Edwards of Company I 90th Pa. Infantry Writes Home Illustrating his Letter with 5 Drawings of the Confederate Dead!
Famous 19th Mass. Vols. I.D. Disc – Lists Two Battles including Antietam, the Bloodiest One Day Battle of the War, Private George H. Patch was Captured at Antietam
Magnificent Hand Drawn Picture of Johnson’s Island Prisoner of War Camp for Confederate Officers – Drawn by Topographical Engineer G. W. Melvin of the 9th Louisiana Regiment
5TH REGIMENT EXCELSIOR BRIGADE I.D. DISC LISTING 8 BATTLES!
Excavated I.D. Disc from the Battle of Gettysburg – Thomas J. Wood, Co. I, 2nd Delaware Infantry – He was wounded on July 2nd, 1863 – “WHEN ALL THE OFFICERS OF HIS REGIMENT WERE DISABLED OR KILLED, HE ACTED AS COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT”
The Greatest Battle of Chancellorsville Letter that We Know Of – Written by Joseph Moody, Co. H 140th Pa. Infantry – “The Rebels are piled up & not buried. Many of the wounded have been burnt” – “many found who not being able to get out of way have had to suffer untold torture” – “they were fed whiskey & gun powder, maddened & kept up by their Cavalry with drawn swords to urge them on.”
Great Letter from the “REPUBLIC OF SOUTH CAROLINA” – Charleston January 24th, 1861 – James A. Carter, Co. F 23rd S.C. Infantry – “I had the pleasure of seeing the “Star of the West” driven from our Harbour” !
MUSEUM QUALITY EXAMPLE OF CIVIL WAR CALLIGRAPHY – Especially for the Navy or Theater Collector. Headline: UNION AQUATIC THEATRE ON BOARD U.S. STEAM GUN BOAT PORT ROYAL HARBOR OF APALACHICOLA. – Includes the letter sending it home
Historic Letter at a New Price
Fort Sumter March 21st, 1861 – Major Anderson & his men are isolated. Steamers have failed to bring aid to the fort. Dr. Samuel W. Crawford writes to the Post Master in New York concerning mail that he has not received.
AMMUNITION FOR MAXEY GREGG’S 1ST SOUTH CAROLINA VOLS. AS THEY GET READY TO GO NORTH & FIGHT AT THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS !
141st Pa I.D. Disc – His Name is on the PA. Memorial at Gettysburg!
4th North Carolina Private Albert M. White Writes from Yorktown, Virginia – “THEY THROWED ONE OVER HERE THAT WEIGHED 34 LBS. IT WENT 10 FEET IN THE GROUND WHEN IT HIT.”, “WE CAN GIVE THEM SOME THAT WEIGHS 140 LBS. AND LOTS OF THEM.”, “THE ENEMY STARTED A BALLOON UP CLOSE TO THE LINE, AND OUR MEN FIRED ON IT… THEY MADE THE BALLOON MAN COME DOWN IN A HURRY.”
One of Our Best Confederate Covers Along with a Captured Union Patriotic Letter Sheet – Abram C. Pendleton Co. K, 50th Virginia Infantry
Confederate Letter & Two Postal Covers from Augustine T. Smythe Who Served in the CONFEDERATE SIGNAL CORPS & ON THE C.S.S. PALMETTO STATE !!
Broadside from the Fifth Maine Regiment Association – Concerning their 1894 Reunion in Portland Harbor, ME.
Confederate Surgeon Caspar C. Henkel, 37th Virginia Infantry Writes to His Father Dr. L. G. Henkel – The Valley was “WAITING THE APPROACH OF THE VILE INVADERS OF OUR COUNTRY” – “THEY MAY TAKE OUR PROPERTY, OUR HOMES, OUR LIVES, BUT THEY CANNOT DEPRIVE US OF THAT INHERITANCE PREPARED FOR US ABOVE.” – “YOU WILL PLEASE DESTROY THIS LETTER FOR FEAR IT MAY FALL INTO IMPROPER HANDS.”
Sergt. George J. Sager of the 149th New York Infantry Writes Home & Draws a Full-Page Illustration, “This is the way we are now suffering for ‘Our Country” (Getting Stuck in the Mud while Marching!)
One of the Rarest Sheets of Regimental Stationery: “Camp of Instruction Berdan’s U.S. Sharp Shooters Washington, D.C.” – A Camp Scene of Tents, Pickets, & D.C. in the Background. Letter Written by Lieut. John Wilson, 1st Berdan Sharp Shooters
Colorful Examples of Confederate Patriotic Flag Stationery & an Extremely Rare Patriotic Envelope – Both with Period Ink Inscriptions
Highly Desirable Civil War Cavalry Captain’s Shoulder Straps – The Real Deal, Not Later Indian War Period Straps
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