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My Dealer/Collector Friends,

After leaving the Marietta Civil War Show on Sunday, August 13th, 2017 while parked in a parking lot off of Cobb Parkway, my car was broken into. Here is a list of the items stolen: FOR LIST CLICK HERE. Any assistance you can give in keeping an eye out for these items, I sure would appreciate it and please pass this along to your friends.

God bless and thank you,

Cal Packard
Cal@MQAmericana.com

Postally Used Confederate Patriotic Cover – Cannon & 11 Star Flag – Bonitz, N.C.

Confederate Secessionist (Baltimore Issued) “Don’t Tread on Me” & “We Know Our Rights” Patriotic Card

Petersburg Battle Letter - 6th N.Y. Heavy Artillery - Great Paragraph on Exchanging with the Johnnies!

Gettysburg Battle Letter from the Famed Confederate 1st Maryland Infantry Battalion – Culp’s Hill, 47% Casualties

Nice Example of "The Daily Citizen" Vicksburg, Mississippi - Wallpaper Edition

Rare War Date Document Signed Twice by Confederate Guerrilla Leader Harry Gilmor

Wonderful Piece of Revolutionary War History: A Bounty Note from the State of Massachusetts Bay, January 1, 1780

Killed at Gettysburg July 1st, 1863 – Captain Stephen C. Whitehouse, Co. K 16th Maine Infantry Endorses the Front Cover of an Envelope - YOU MUST READ HIS THRILLING STORY!

3 WWII Relics Brought Home by an Ashland, Ohio GI

Soldier’s Letter – Headquarters 76th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Hilton Head, S.C., October 2, 1862 – Endorsed by Col. N. W. Brown, Commanding the Post at Hilton Head & by Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel (Signed 28 days before he died!)

2nd U.S. Cav. - M.O.H. Recipient Capt. Theophilus Francis Rodenbough Writes of his Capture at Centerville - “The bullets flew around our heads thick as hail”! - New Price!

Nice Johnson’s Island POW Prison Item – Receipt for Money Sent to Captain William Dickerson Ervin, 62nd Virginia Infantry while a Prisoner there – He was Captured During the Gettysburg Campaign in McConnellsburg, Pa. 6/29/63

“Headquarters U.S. Forces, Johnson’s Island and Sandusky” – Document Furnishing Transportation Home

Pristine CDV of Col. Abel D. Streight – Led His 51st Indiana Infantry, Mounted on Mules into Battle & was Captured by Forrest – Sent to Libby Prison where He Escaped!

Colorful Patriotic Cover “The Destruction of the Snake of South Carolina, Nullification & Secession”

CDV of Union General James Ricketts

State of Georgia Commission for 1st Lieut. Henry D. Beman of the “Beman Mounted Infantry” – A Local Defense Unit Raised to Repel Sherman’s March to the Sea!

Pristine CDV of Irish Colonel Michael Corcoran, 69th New York Infantry

3 Cute CDV’s – Child with Dog, Doll & Great Old “Express” Wagon

Captain Henry W. Sawyer Presentation Libby Prison Photo

An Amazing Civil War Story

Leech & Rigdon Field & Staff Officer’s Sword with Floating “CS” – Pictured in Collecting the Confederacy

Virginia Officer’s Belt & Two-Piece Plate Beautiful Uncleaned Patina

Letter from Surgeon at Ohio Penitentiary Describes in Detail the Escape of John Hunt Morgan!

Postally Used Confederate Patriotic Cover - Showing Cannon Firing with 11 Star Confederate Flag - Printed by W. & J. Bonitz, Goldsboro, N.C. with "BURNSVILLE, N.C." Postmark

An Amazing Excavated Pair of Abraham Lincoln Campaign Tokens – One from the 1860 Campaign Excavated at Manassas & the other 1864 Campaign Excavated near Cedar Creek

An Amazing Document from Charleston, South Carolina’s Slave History – Slave Dealer John S. Ryan Sells An Old Negro Named “Plenty” for $10

Sheet Music – “Stonewall Jackson’s Way” – Pictured on the front a large engraving of Stonewall Jackson with Confederate Flags – Published by A. E. Blackmar, New Orleans 1865

Confederate Pass – Macon, Ga. January 13th, 1865 – Lt. Clarence C. Malone, 10th Tennessee Infantry – By Command of Brig. Gen. W. W. MacKall

Chasing Morgan’s Raiders – Actual Order from Col. Thomas Pattison from Aurora, Indiana Dated July 13th, 1863 – Writing to Gen. Mahlon D. Manson Giving Him the Location of Morgan’s Raiders!

Oath of Allegiance from Campbellton, Ga.

12th Ga. Confederate Officers Pay Voucher – Captain Mark Harden from Blandford, Ga. – Went on to Serve in 2nd Confederate Congress & a Justice in the Supreme Court of Georgia

Charleston, S.C. Advertising Broadside: Terpsichore Hall – Madame Feugas’ Dancing & Waltzing Academy – Lists Rules for Gentleman!

Palmetto Guard P. P. Gaillard Seeks Permission to Join the Palmetto Guard in Kershaw's Regiment in Virginia

Appointment of Chief Surgeon in Confederate General Cheathams Division, Army of Tennessee – On Beautiful “Head Quarters, Army of Tennessee” stationery

Excavated Confederate Local Staff Button – Large Eagle with “CS” in the Shield – Beautiful Example

Excavated Confederate I Button with “C” on One Side & “S” on the Other… A Rare, Rare Button

Excavated Confederate Local Staff Button – Albert’s CS26B – With 40% Gold & Perfect Loop

War Date Pass from the Confederate War Department – Richmond October 8th, 1861 – A Solider in the 15th Georgia Infantry is Sent Home – Signed by FAMOUS REBEL WAR CLERK J. B. JONES

Important War Date ALS of Union General George H. Gordon Regarding THE SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE FIGHT FOR CHARLESTON'S FORT SUMTER AND THE USE OF COLORED TROOPS! - Folly Island, S.C. May 26th, 1864

17th South Carolina Volunteers - Starting the Cadet Riflemen Company by Capt. William S. Elliott, June 18th, 1860 Charleston, S.C.

Civil War Excavated Stencil from One of the War’s Most Famous Regiments… The 20th Mass.

The Most Desired Civil War Document: The Appomattox Court House Parole – This One from a Soldier in the Famed Richmond Howitzers

WWII B26 Bomber “Mission” Diary – Capt. Wilson M. Buford, Ranger, Texas – Lists 64 Bombing Runs from Jan. 1st, 1944 to Sept. 5th, 1944… Including NORMANDY

Great Confederate Medical Item: The Surgeon General of South Carolina, Robert Wilson Gibbes Tells off the Editor of Leslie’s Illustrated!

Douglas Hospital Washington D.C. – A Soldier from the 108th New York, Wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg 12/13/62 is Amputated & Dies

Our Collection of 8 Silver Spoons Showing the Different Silversmiths in Charleston, S.C. – Each Stamped with the Silversmiths Name

Folk Art Carved Pipe Done In Libby Prison By George W. Heath, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves — Captured at Gaines' Mill, Va.

Confederate Soldier’s Letter – 62nd Tennessee Infantry – President Davis, Senator Cobb, Governor Harris and General Hood all made speeches to us

Thomas B. Fargason, Co. D, 14th Alabama Infantry, Captured at Gettysburg, Writes a Touching Letter from where he is held prisoner on Johnson’s Island – He is thanking a Union soldier for a Bible that was sent him… “I shall endeavor to preserve it and study its sacred pages and make it my guide and counselor”

Confederate General Killed at Gettysburg – William Dorsey Pender – One of the Rarest Civil War Autographs, & SIGNED TWICE, as Colonel of the “Bloody Sixth” North Carolina

Original CDV of Confederate General William Dorsey Pender – Mortally Wounded at Gettysburg – Richmond, Vannerson & Jones Backmark

Inexpensive Grouping of Five Confederate State of Georgia Tax Receipts

Discharge from the Famous 1st Maine Cavalry – Signed by Medal of Honor Recipient Col. Charles H. Smith

Georgia Civil War Commission Signed by Governor Joseph E. Brown – July 7th, 1862

Stereoview of Libby Prison… But Not in Richmond, Virginia… in Chicago!

Rare, Rare, Rare – The Last Edition of The Charleston Mercury Before Union Troops Enter Charleston

Civil War Confederate Blockade Runner Bond – This one from the Charleston Importing and Exporting Company – Signed by the President of the Company Henry Cobia

An Amazing Pair of Smith’s Patent Shoulder Straps – Colonel of Infantry!

An Interesting Note Written by the First Cousin of Nurse Clara Barton -Edmund “Ned” Barton -He writes on a “Captured” Confederate Form

Important 8 Page Letter Written from Fancy Hill Plantation - Sallie C. Conrad Describes Atrocities Committed by Yankees Including “Savage looking Negroes, most of them rode white horses” – Sallie Had Two of Her Boys Taken From Her!

Nice Example of a “Nebraska Territory” 3 Dollar Note – The City of Omaha

Johnson’s Island Related Pair: Confederate POW Surgeon Col. I. G. W. Steedman MD, 1st Alabama Vol. – His Autograph from POW Album AND Letter By CS Capt. A. W. Wash, who Wrote a Book about his Experiences on Johnson’s Island

Highly Desirable Civil War Cavalry Captain’s Shoulder Straps

1st Mass. Vols. – Edwin Y. Brown Describes Head being Blown off at Bull Run

Johnson’s Island, Ohio POW Camp – War Dated November 18, 1864 – Ladies Invitation to Join 1st Lieut. H. C. Strong of the 128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for an Officer’s Ball

Interesting Excavated Relic – Box of Percussion Caps Dug at Cumberland Landing, Va. – Still full of all the caps!

Pair of Nice Sixth Plate Daguerreotype – Husband & Wife Found in Middleburg, Virginia

Civil War Cover Advertising the “Soldiers’ Portable Camp Writing Case

Civil War Excavated Stencil from One of the War’s Most Famous Regiments… The 20th Mass.

Soldier in S.C. Militia Gives a Great Summary of Deteriorating Conditions in Charleston, S.C. – “I have but 2 shirts to my name at present, & they are on the eve of dissolution or secession to use the term applicable to the order of the day”

Special Limited First Edition of the Famous Reference Book, Autographs of the Confederacy

Following the Disastrous Union Defeat at Bull Run a “High Society” Lady Writes Her Brother in New York from Willard’s Hotel in Washington D.C., July 26th, 1861 – Great, Great Content!

Confederate General Thomas Jordan Writes from “Head Quarters, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, Fairfax Court-House October 14th, 1861”

Pair of Civil War Infantry Major Shoulder Straps - Excellent!

Photograph of the Charleston Waterfront House where High Ranking Union Officers were held to Deter Shelling the City by Union Vessels

35th Pa. Infantry Battle Letter Written by William D. Dixon Future Colonel & Brevet Brig-General – GREAT ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF DRANESVILLE, VA.

A Circuit Preacher who Regularly Preaches to the Warren Rifleman Asks General Beauregard for a “Passport” for the Manassas Gap Railroad – BEAUREGARD WRITES A NOTE ON THE REVERSE!

Signed on the Front CDV of Union General Samuel W. Crawford – At Gettysburg Crawford Seized the Colors & Drove the Confederates out of “the Valley of Death” Beside Little Round Top

An Indian War Cavalry Colonel’s Straps, Belt Plate & Buttons – A Beautiful Display

Shipwreck Treasure Coin from the Spanish Vessel “El Cazador” – Best Example from Our Collection

17th South Carolina Volunteers - Starting the Cadet Riflemen Company by Capt. William S. Elliott, June 18th, 1860 Charleston, S.C.

OVM Buckle & Breastplate – As a Pair or Individually

Important War Date ALS of Union General George H. Gordon Regarding THE SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE FIGHT FOR CHARLESTON'S FORT SUMTER AND THE USE OF COLORED TROOPS! - Folly Island, S.C. May 26th, 1864 - New Price!

An Amazing Broadside: 1863 “Johnson’s New Chart of National Emblems” – You’ve Got to See What They Include!

2nd Mass. Infantry – A Grieving Mother Wants to Know Information About her Son Who Died a Prisoner in Richmond, Va. – Two letters tell the sad story & they are sent to the Chaplain of the 2nd Mass, Alonzo H. Quint

Great Example of Ohio’s “Squirrel Hunters Discharge” with the Seldom Seen Letter from Governor Tod that came with it

1st Mass. Cavalry – Calvin Rice, Company G Writes from Edisto Island on May 10th, 1862 – A very interesting letter mentioning treatment of Blacks – Be sure to read!

Letter from 45th Illinois Infantry Soldier Daniel Baker Written on Scarce Patriotic Stationery “Sinking of the Pirate Alabama”

Touching Song Sheet “Dear Mother, I’ve Come Home to Die”

Confederate Naval Department Letter Secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory Sends Authorization to the Commander of the CSS Tallahassee, John Taylor Wood to Extend Credit to James D. Bulloch CSN, Liverpool - WRITTEN JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE SHIPS LAUNCH ON AUGUST 4th… AND THE START OF AN AMAZING ADVENTURE (Be sure to read the story

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