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GETTYSBURG ROUND TOP CANE $325.00
52116-1
A fine relic from the Gettysburg battlefield, a delicate 38" pyro-designed knobby wood cane with a gnarled wood grip, bearing the name "ROUND-TOP" burned into the shaft, with brass tip at end. This cane was likely carved by a veteran on the battlefield as a souvenir, ca. 1880's. Coated with clear varnish. Very good to fine. The Round Tops were, of course, the scene of some of the hardest fighting of the three-day battle.
RANDALL LEE GIBSON $900.00
52050-1
(1832 - 1892) Confederate brigadier general who led a brigade at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He also fought under Hood at Atlanta and in Tennessee. Fine lot of 15 post-war A.L.S.'s and related correspondence by the former CSA Brigadier General, all relating to his postbellum law practice in New Orleans, the letters are one or two pages with nearly all being on his law office stationery, mostly 4to, (1870-1873), with one letter dated 1878, most accompanied by the original transmittal envelopes addressed to J. Warren Scott Dey, a New York physician, concerning ongoing real estate transactions which the two were involved in New York. In very small part: "...if we cannot get more than $5000 per annum we had better take it any time before the 1st January. We are not in a situation to go without income...I need every dollar of help I can get...I hope you will be lucky about the stores to be rented. The overwhelming & oppressive taxation here...combined to reduce the net income to a small figure...How's the feeling in the Real Estate market in New York? It has seemed to me that with the disappearance of the Ring, there would be a reaction this early spring...and in that event, we could sell the farm or make an exchange of it for desirable and productive uptown property. Perhaps also we might sell the Centre Street stores?...We hope soon to hear something favorable about the 5th Ave corner store & the Front St. stores - and that you may have offers for the Farm and Centre Street property...". Much more content worthy of further research. Very good or better.
HOOD, JOHN BELL $300.00
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(1831 - 1879) Confederate Lieutenent Generalwho led the "Texas Brigade" at Second Bull Run and Antietam, and under Longstreet Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga, where he lost a limb.Scarce signature "John B. Hood" and pre-war rank as Brevet Second Lieutenant of Infantry, cut from a document. A bit closely-cut, slight toning, else a very good and most affordable example.
JOHN GEARY & JOHN HARTRANFT $100.00
46534-1
Unusual Civil War related partly-printed D.S. "Jno. W. Geary" as Governor and by "J.F. Hartranft" as Auditor General, 1p, oblong folio, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1872. A "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certificate of Adjudicated Claim for War Damages," No. 2984, issued to Abraham Hess, acknowledging his "registered claim for the sum of Three Hundred and Ninety One 21/100 Dollars as adjudicated under the act entitled 'An Act to authorize the liquidation of damages sustained by citizens of Pennsylvania during the late rebellion,' and payable only when said claims shall be paid by the United States government.". Elaborate engraved vignette at head depicting William Penn with American Indians and early Pennsylvania settlers. Unfortunately, these claims were rarely paid….Normal age-toning, otherwise in very good condition.
U.S. ARMY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION $100.00
60021-18
Scarce diagram, 29" x 18 1/2", Plate CLXXIV from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies showing many various forms of transportation and medical gear used by the Union Army during the Civil War. Finely detailed images include medicine wagons, ambulances (interior and exterior), army hospital railway cars, kitchen cars, dispensary cars, hospital steamers, and so on. Margins soiled and a bit chipped, one central fold, and a very light area of toning at bottom, else very good. A nice item for reference...or for a doctor's office!
(ARMY GENERAL ORDERS) $60.00
60078-51
Interesting group of four printed General Orders issued by the War Department, all contemporary and separated from original binding. Of particular interest is an order issued on June 18, 1856, charging Capt. Eliakim P. Scammon with drunkenness on duty and conduct unbecoming of an officer. Scammon was found guilty and purged from the Army in late June, 1854. Scammon would later volunteer for Union service during the Civil War, where he attained the rank of brigadier general. A second order, issued on October 21, 1882, concerns another Union general, Eugene Asa Carr. The order constitutes a finding over Carr's actions while leading troops under heavy attack in Arizona. An additional order, dated June 21, 1854, gives special praise to members of the 2nd Dragoons for gallantry in action during battles with Indian tribes in Texas and New Mexico, signed "W.G. Freemont" as Assistant Adjutant General. The last, dated May 30, 1864, finds a Captain L.D. Rowell of the Second Colorado Volunteers guilty of public drunkenness and conduct unbecoming of an officer, and is issued out of St. Louis by the Department of the Missouri. Good to very good.
(CONFEDERATE STEAMBOAT) $95.00
48976-1
[CONFEDERATE STEAMBOAT] D.S., the manifest of the steamer "James Woods", Captain James M. Lee from Nashville (1861). Legal folio manuscript waybill listing shippers, consignors, a description of goods being shipped and shipper's marks. Goods shipped include pork, cotton, and one cotton gin. A fine example. The "James Woods" was a sidewheel paddle steamer built in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1860 with commercial service between Nashville and New Orleans. Late in 1861 the boat was purchased by Lt. I.N. Brown of the CS Navy for conversion and use as a gunboat. Plans for the conversion were interrupted by the approach of the Union forces at Nashville and the "James Woods" was destroyed by fire on Feb. 23, 1862. Very good.
CIVIL WAR ADVERTISEMENTS $200.00
60740-3
Nice grouping of three Civil War-era announcements, each beautifully framed in decorative wood. Lot includes: a program highlighting a charity concert "For the Sick and Wounded MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS ", oblong 4to., Salem, Jan. 6, 1863, organized by the New England Women's Auxiliary Sanitary Commission and featuring local entertainment; an advertisement for a lecture to be given by Prof. Robert A. Fisher at Philadelphia's Sansom St. Hall, entitled, "GUNPOWDER, CANNON, and PROJECTILES!", 8vo., Mar. 31 [n.y.]. The pamphlet promises audiences will see Fisher's "Great Popular Lecture upon these Engines of Modern Warfare, illustrated by Brilliant CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS, ACCURATE MODELS, AND FULL SIZED DIAGRAMS..."; an advertisement for a benefit concert on behalf of the "Admiral Semmes Monument", 8vo., July 9 [1896?], [Mobile]. Semmes captained the infamous CSS Alabama for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
ROGER A. PRYOR $75.00
20511-1
(1828 - 1919) Confederate brigadier general supposedly offered the first shot on Fort Sumter, later captured at Petersburg. Ink signature on a slip of paper, very good.
28803-1_01.jpg BRANCH, LAWRENCE O`BRYAN $200.00
28803-1
(1820 - 1862) Confederate brigadier general who commanded forces at New Bern and later joined Jackson to fight at the Seven Days', Second Bull Run, Harpers Ferry, and Antietam where he died in action.D.S. as president of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company, 1p. oblong 4to., North Carolina, May 26, 1853, a stock certificate for the above mentioned railroad for thirty shares. Folds, ink stain on verso, otherwise very good.
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