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Item #010005 1864 – Broadsheet requesting donations of Relics, Curiosities, and Autographs, as...

1864 – Broadsheet requesting donations of Relics, Curiosities, and Autographs, as well as examples of manufacturing and craftsmanship to be exhibited and sold during the U.S. Sanitary Commission’s Great Central Fair to be held in June of 1864

Philadelphia: U.S. Sanitary Commission. Unbound. A three-page broadsheet, measuring 8” x 10”, titled “GREAT CENTRAL FAIR, / To be held at Philadelphia, June 1864, / FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION.” It was published jointly on March 1, 1864 by the commission’s Executive Committee of the Great..... More

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Item #010004 1863 – Letter from a soldier in one of the most disgraced Union regiments of the...

1863 – Letter from a soldier in one of the most disgraced Union regiments of the Civil War reporting that it had been banished to Hilton Head Island as punishment for burning its barracks in Chicago and destroying a historic fence at Yorktown after it had been paroled following its ignominious surrender at Harper’s Ferry

Hilton Head, South Carolina. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter, sent by Jacob Brown to his father, is written on rather scarce patriotic stationary featuring a strutting rooster in red and blue, titled “Game Cock of Uncle Sam 1776 1882”. It is datelined “Head-quarters Hilton Reg’t Co. B. 115th regt..... More

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Item #009940 1864 – Letter from a Confederate soldier in the 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment at...

1864 – Letter from a Confederate soldier in the 60th Alabama Infantry Regiment at Petersburg, Virginia reporting on desertions from his unit and the probable execution of one soldier caught in an attempt.

Petersburg, Virginia: 1864”. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter from Joseph “Wyatt” Wilson is datelined “Camp 60th Alabama Regt. Gr’s Brig. [Gracie’s Brigade] / Petersburg Va Dec 23rd 1864”. The letter was written in pencil but is easy to read except for two blurred lines that can be read using..... More

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Item #009937 1863 – Letter from a soldier in the 25 Connecticut Volunteer Infantry written...

1863 – Letter from a soldier in the 25 Connecticut Volunteer Infantry written March 1863 during the Bayou Teche campaign as the unit skirmished its way from Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Brashear City at Berwick Bay in preparation for General Nathaniel Bank’s Overland Expedition into Texas later that fall

Donaldsonville, Louisiana: 1863. Envelope or Cover. This three-page letter from Private Edwin Thorne at Donaldsonville, Louisiana to his mother in Connecticut is dated “March 30 / 60”. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope which bears a New Orleans arrival postmark dated April 6, 1863. Simultaneously, the envelope received..... More

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Item #009913 Confederate soldier’s letter describing his unit’s fight against Birney’s...

Confederate soldier’s letter describing his unit’s fight against Birney’s Colored Brigade at the Battle of Fussel’s Mill

Brazzell Hill, Virginia: 1864. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter measures 7” x 8.5”. It is from William J. Kirkland of the 33rd North Carolina Infantry and datelined “Brazzell Hill, Va. Aug. 19th. 1864.” (Perhaps “Brazzell Hill” was a mistaken understanding of “Fussel’s Mill.”) The letter is enclosed in its..... More

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Item #009846 1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John...

1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John “Johnnie” Ware, enclosed in its original rare ‘internal’ Pony Express envelope

San Francisco: June 12, 1861. Envelope or Cover. California politics had long been dominated by pro-slavery Democrats until the presidential campaign of 1860 when their party split into two factions, one led by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and the other by Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. This schism allowed the..... More

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Item #009829 “Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies...

“Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies from being washed away and our mill from being destroyed.” Letter from the general who went to work for a Colorado mining company to support his family after being scapegoated and cashiered from the Army following the Union defeat at Second Bull Run

Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter, dated June 14th 1864, was written by former Major General Fitz-John Porter to his wife. The original mailing envelope is franked with a 3-cent stamp (Scott #65) and bears a scarce Black Hawk Point, Colorado (Territory) postmark dated June 15, 1864. Both are in..... More

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