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COMMEMORATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR WITH

THE FINEST ORIGINAL SOLDIER'S LETTERS AND ARTIFACTS
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Autograph of A. C. M. Pennington Jr. - Commanded Cavalry Brigade Under Custer & During Indian Wars in Charge of Custer's Gatling Gun Battery


Autograph of Scarce Union General Francis E. Patterson Along with General Joseph Hooker - Patterson was killed in November 1862


Magnificent Description of the Battlefield of Antietam Including Dunker Church - Letter by Col. Clark S. Edwards, 5th Maine


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The Colonel of the 5th Maine Infantry Writes his Wife from the Battlefield of Antietam - "I have seen thousands of the dead this morning"


Charleston, S.C. Democratic National Convention of 1860 - Letter from Delegate & Future Union General Edward S. Bragg - Fascinating Letter! - One of the Crucial Events that Lead-up to the Civil War!


Attorney's Appointment to Practice Law in the "Independent" State of South Carolina, May 7th, 1861 - Great Looking Document!


"The First Year of the Independence of the State of South Carolina" - Military Commission Signed by Governor Francis W. Pickens


Confederate Enlistment Document - Battery Pringle, James Island - Lucas Battalion South Carolina Heavy Artillery


"Strawberries for the Great United States Sanitary Fair at Philadelphia" - A Broadside Requesting the Donation of Strawberries for the Troops with Prizes to be Given


Confederate Charleston Letter - Tells of Iron Clad Gunboats Being Fitted and Launched... "It is a funny shaped thing"


4th Pennsylvania Cavalry - Best Description of Hardtack Worms!!


8th Pennsylvania Cavalry "Camp near Petersburg" - October 1864


Fort Sumter Dec. 16th, 1864 - Actual Letter Regarding the Conduct of Confederate General R. S. Ripley at Fort Sumter!


Ordnance Report Signed by CS General R. S. Ripley "Mortar Battery No. 2, Sullivan's Island" - Ordnance Fired Against Fort Sumter!


Nice Example of a Homemade "Necessity" Envelope with Jeff Davis .10 Cent Stamp


The Famous Drummer Boy, Johnny Clem Invites Congressman John Sherman of Mansfield, Ohio to Civil War Reunion in Columbus, Ohio - This is an ALS of John Sherman Responding "Yes" to Clem's Invitation


Important Confederate Slavery Related Broadside, August 30th, 1861 Regarding "Slaves Abducted or Harbored by the Enemy" - Crandall #50


"Compliments of N. B. Forrest Camp No. 3"


War-Date "R. Semmes, Captain C. S. Navy" - Centered on a Full 7 x 9 Autograph Page


Confederate General Richard S. Ewell Writes his Condolences on the Death of One of His Former Personal Scouts who Died Fighting with Mosby!


2nd Bull Run Battle Letter by Capt. Benjamin W. Richards, A. D. C. to Gen. James B. Ricketts - Great Descriptions!


8th Ohio Vol. Inf. Letter - Sgt. John Briggs Calls Gen. McDowell "a d...traitor" - He would be killed at Antietam 6 weeks later!


Battle Flags of the 26th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry - Cabinet Photo


Regimental Flag Photo of the 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry


1st Ohio Vol. Cav. - Sgt. Samuel H. Putnam Misery on the Way to Shiloh - "The wheels sink down to the axel."


Our Finest Confederate Broadside: SUTLER OF EARLY'S DIVISION, W. P. ELIASON - GOODS FOR SALE


8th N.Y. Cav. - Col. "Grimes" B. F. Davis, Endorsement Signed 3 Days before he was killed at Brandy Station!


Stereoview - Fort Sumter "Taken After the Evacuation"


Two Stereoviews of Fort Sumter - Early Yellow Mounts Showing Shelling Devastation


One of Our Most Historic Pieces: The Autograph Album of Miss. Anna C. Lee - Robert E. Lee's Niece - 28 Entries Including FIVE CONFEDERATE GENERALS


"Arrested by Order of W. H. Seward" - An Amazing Autograph Album of Marylanders & Virginians Snatched Up and Sent to Prison in the Fall of 1861


CDV & Pass - Following the Battle of Antietam Rev. Wm. L. Bulle & Eight Other Angels of Mercy Go to the Battlefield to Assist the Wounded - Hagerstown, Sept. 19th, 1862

1745 Rhode Island & Charles Town, S.C. - Privateering in Early America - SHIP CAPTURED WITH 300 CHESTS OF MONEY ONBOARD! - Letter about "Dividing the Spoils" - Rhode Island Privateer Duke of Marlborough in Charles Town, S.C.


Confederate CDV - 1st Sergeant Taken at the Quinby & Co. Studio, Charleston, S.C.


18th Virginia Infantry - Wonderful Description of the Battle of Fredericksburg, WITH COVER - Writer George M. Setzer K.I.A. Gettysburg


11th New Hampshire - 2 Descriptive Letters from Camp Parole, Annapolis, Md. - Was a POW in Andersonville!


Letter from Captain Benjamin W. Richards, A.D.C. to Gen. James B. Ricketts - Great Description of the 2nd Battle of Bull Run


3rd S.C. Infantry - Fascinating Letter January 1861 - Describes Events in Independent S.C. - With Laurens C.H., S.C. Cover!


Rare "South Carolina Society" Membership Token - D C. Levy, was Later in Company D of Manigault's Battalion of Light Artillery


Order Given by General Ripley - Charleston July 23, 1863: General DeSaussures S.C. Militia will Assume Commad of the Troops in this City


Beauregard Calls Out the Citadel Cadets - Letter from Cadet F. C. Furman Writing from the Citadel April 15th, 1864


17th South Carolina Infantry - Writing from Sullivan's Island, Charleston, S.C.


1st S.C. Confederate New Testament - Charles J. C. Hutson, Co. H


Confederate Imprint: "A Few Words to the Soldiers of the Confederate States"


CDV: Henry L. Patten 20th Mass. W.I.A. Gettysburg


18th Virginia Infantry - Most Famous Pickett's Division Letter Describing Graphically the Battle of Bull Run - Written Just Four Days after the Battle! - 8 Full Pages with Full I.D. Cover - Later Killed at Gettysburg!


Lincoln's Famous Eliza Gurney Letter Copied by Unknown (Important?) Person


Fort Sumter Dec. 16th, 1864 - Actual Letter Regarding the Conduct of CS Gen. R. S. Ripley at Fort Sumter!


22nd N.Y. Inf. - July 1861 Letter on Fabulous Full Page Stationary Showing U.S. Capitol - Great Description of Being Shot at in Baltimore & of Lincoln's Review - Also Describes all of George Washington's Uniforms in the Patent Office!


Amazing Set of 102nd O. V. I. Band Photos


8th U.S. Colored Troops - Chapin's Farm, Va. Jan. 1865 - Black Sharp Shooters Shoot Just as Well as White Sharp Shooters!


104th N.Y. Inf. - The Amazing Letters of Captain of George H. Starr - P.O.W. Libby, Macon, & Columbia - Escaped 3 Times! 11 P.O.W. Letters


Colonial Note - "Half A Dollar" February 17th, 1776 - Has the Intertwined 13 States Around "We Are One"


1861 Series Confederate $20 Bill Frigate & Sailor


Want Some Gold? - $10 Gold Certificate Series of 1928


CDV of Confederate General James Simons


Cover Addressed to J. Henry Blakeman 17th Connecticut Vols. in St. Augustine, Florida - Was Wounded at Gettysburg!


Ordnance Report Signed by CS General R. S. Ripley "Mortar Battery No. 2, Sullivan's Island" - Ordnance Fired Against Fort Sumter!


CDV - Slavery "The Bone of Contention"


CDV - Humorous "Bombarding Charleston"


Stereoview - "Remains of the Original Swamp Angel Gun, Morris Island"


Gettysburg 50th Anniversary - 1913 Commemorative Pennant - 2 Old Vets Shaking Hands - A Real Eye Catcher!


Historic Excavated Savage Revolver Off the U.S.S. Housatonic - Removed from the Bottom of Charleston Harbor in 1866


2nd Alabama Militia Surgeon - Early (May 6th, 1861) Gainesville, AL. Letter - Vigilance Committee Active - Black Suspected of Crime


July 12th, 1861 - Great Description of the Hostilities in & Around Baltimore!


28th Georgia - Petersburg/Port Walthall Battle Letter - May 24th, 1864


6th S.C. Inf. - Camp at Germantown, Va. August 14th, 1861