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Sanitary Commission No. 57: Reports on the Operations of the Inspectors and Relief Agents of the...

Sanitary Commission No. 57: Reports on the Operations of the Inspectors and Relief Agents of the Sanitary Commission after the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862.

J. H. Douglas and C. W. Brink

New York: Wm C. Bryant & Co., 1869. Unbound. Complete with all 31 pages. Never bound. Cleveland Hisotry Center blindstamp. No deaccession markings, but correspondence from the reference superviosrs stes the pamphlet was deaccessioned. Supple with some light toning; vertical crease. Small (1") quarter-circle dampstain in lower left corner. See..... More

Price: $200.00

Civil War prisoner’s mail from Congressman Alfred Ely while held prisoner at Ligon’s Prison...

Civil War prisoner’s mail from Congressman Alfred Ely while held prisoner at Ligon’s Prison in Richmond following his capture while observing the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

Alfred Ely

[Ligon’s Tobacco Warehouse Prison, Richmond}: November 17, 1861. Envelope or Cover. The cover (no content) is free-franked “Alfred Ely”, a Congressman from New York and postmarked with Washington D.C. Nov. 17, 1861 circular date stamp. It is addressed to General Wm E. Lathrop, a Brigadier General in the New York..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding...

Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding “the Jackson case,” which had created a schism between Mississippi Provisional Governor William Sharkey and Henry Slocum, the Commanding General of the Department of the Mississippi, following the arrest of a plantation owner for the murder of a freedman

Edwin M. Stanton

Vicksburg, Mississippi By Telegraph from Washington, D.C. 1865. Unbound. This one-page official copy of a telegram sent by Secretary Stanton to General Stanton is dated “Vicksburg Miss Aug 1st 1865”. It is in nice shape; transcript included. In it, Stanton first clarifies General Slocum’s chain of command; he..... More

Price: $500.00

Letter from a very angry soldier who had reached his limit dealing with his Lieutenant Colonel,...

Letter from a very angry soldier who had reached his limit dealing with his Lieutenant Colonel, whom he described as a “villain” while ominously suggesting that there “will be more officers shot than privates before this war is over.”

William Morrisey

Halls Hill, Virginia: 186? Envelope or Cover. Three-page letter with envelope. The letter is dated “Halls Hill Nov 29th”, and the envelope bears a circular Washington, DC postmark dated Nov 20, 186?. The envelope is endorsed (censored?) along the top edge in a different hand, “J. E. Newgan . M.C.”..... More

Price: $250.00

Two pieces of sheet music—Mirandy and On Patrol in No Man’s Land—as performed by the 360th...

Two pieces of sheet music—Mirandy and On Patrol in No Man’s Land—as performed by the 360th U.S. Infantry Harlem "Hell Fighters” Band

Lieutenants James “Jim” Europe, Noble Sissle, and Eubie Blake

New York: New York: Jos. W. Stern and M. Witmark respectively, 1919. Unbound. Both pieces of sheet music measure 9.25” x 12.25”. Four pages each including the covers. The cover of Mirandy features a large portrait half-tone photo of Jim Europe in uniform and a smaller cameo of Noble Sissel..... More

Price: $1,800.00

Advertisement for an attorney specializing in obtaining military land patent bounties for...

Advertisement for an attorney specializing in obtaining military land patent bounties for veterans and heirs of veterans who had served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, an the Indian Wars between 1775 and 1855

Samuel V. Niles

Washington, DC: 1857. Envelope or Cover. This handbill advertisement measures approximately 8” x 10 and is printed on light blue paper. Its accompanying mailing envelope is addressed “To the Heirs of Mrs. Ruth Bullard.” The envelope is franked with a straddle copy of a one-cent blue Franklin stamp (Scott #24)..... More

Price: $150.00

One year of letters home written by soldier in a three-month volunteer unit that defended...

One year of letters home written by soldier in a three-month volunteer unit that defended Washington, DC at the beginning of the war before it reorganized into a three-year unit that fought a number of battles including Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg

John E. Gillespie

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia: 1861-1862. Envelope or Cover. Ten letters sent by a private in the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, later the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment. They begin with the unit’s creation in June 1861 and continue through May 1862. During this time the unit first mustered at..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Photograph album-scrapbook kept by a pre-World War Two combat engineer-photographic technician...

Photograph album-scrapbook kept by a pre-World War Two combat engineer-photographic technician documenting his training at Fort Belvoir

“Vic” Morphonios.

Primarily Ft Belvoir, Virginia: 1941-1942. Album. This 10” x 7” album is filled with over 90 b/w photographs, most measuring 5” x 4”.. The photographs are attached with corner mounts; almost all are captioned. Some of the ephemera is laid in. Mounts for three of the photos have been lost..... More

Price: $350.00

Letter from an Indiana soldier stationed at Suffolk, Virginia commenting upon an attempt by...

Letter from an Indiana soldier stationed at Suffolk, Virginia commenting upon an attempt by Indiana Democrats to overthrow the state government.

W. Lewis

Suffolk, Virginia: May 31, 1863. Unbound. This four-page letter is written on patriotic stationery that features an illustration of the U. S. Capitol. In it, Lewis—a member of the 13th Indiana Regiment—reports that it has been quiet as “the enemy has retired beyond the black water a distance of 20..... More

Price: $600.00

A letter from a soldier at the 3rd Alabama Hosptial to his cousin informing her of his effort to...

A letter from a soldier at the 3rd Alabama Hosptial to his cousin informing her of his effort to ship home the remains of her husband

J. B. Henderson to “Sarah

Richmond, Virginia: February 12, 1862. Unbound. In this three-page letter, Henderson explains to his cousin that, as she requested, he had disinterred her husband’s remains and another cousin, a Confederate Lieutenant, would be escorting them to her. "A metallic Case would have cost 180 dollars, a zinc Case..... More

Price: $150.00

The only known U.S. postal envelope mailed through the Confederate post office at Salem Virginia;...

The only known U.S. postal envelope mailed through the Confederate post office at Salem Virginia; it was used to carry a letter requesting support for the appointment of the Roanoke College President as a Chaplain in the Confederate Army

James McCauley

Salem, Virginia: May 24, 1861. Envelope or Cover. This letter was mailed using a U.S. 3-cent Nesbitt (Scott #U10) envelope on May 24, 1861, after Virginia had joined the Confederacy. As such it should have been rejected by the Confederate postal authorities. The letter is datelined, Salem May 24, 1861..... More

Price: $750.00

Series of three stampless folded letters from a ship captain to his wife while transporting...

Series of three stampless folded letters from a ship captain to his wife while transporting soldiers and supplies to Vera Cruz and Tampico during the Mexican-American War

J. T. Morrill

Vera Cruz to Massachusetts via Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana: 1847-1848. Envelope or Cover. These two one-page and one two-page folded letters, each measuring 15” x 10”, were written by a civilian ship captain to his wife while transporting soldiers and supplies to Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Two..... More

Price: $450.00

Negroes and the War. Chandler Owen

Negroes and the War

Chandler Owen

[Washington, DC]: United States Office of War Information, [1942]. Pamphlet. This 10” x 13” pamphlet contains 72 unnumbered pages encouraging African-Americans to support the U.S. effort in World War Two. Complete, but as usually found, it is quite worn as it was printed on cheap acidic paper. There is extensive..... More

Price: $225.00

Civil War soldier’s letter from an atrocious speller describing the layout of the massive...

Civil War soldier’s letter from an atrocious speller describing the layout of the massive complex of forts and camps in Norther Virginia where tens of thousands of Union soldiers lived in tent cities, some on top of Union graves from the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

Private Moses B Aldrich

Alexandria, Virginia: 1862. Unbound. This two-page letter is datelined “Near Alexander va Nov 13th 1862.” It is complete with an inch of toning along the top edge. Short .5” splits starting at the ends of one mailing fold. A transcript will be included. Aldrich was a member of the..... More

Price: $300.00

Correspondence from a volunteer serving with an American Field Service in France that supported...

Correspondence from a volunteer serving with an American Field Service in France that supported the 2nd and 10th French Armies

Harold Wiswall

[Dugny, France]: 1917. Unbound. Two letters sent on consecutive days by Wiswall to his family in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The first is to Urswall’s brother and was written on a 5.25” x 7” soldier’s mailing sheet. It is franked with a blue 25-centime Sower stamp (Scott #168) and bears a circular..... More

Price: $400.00

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