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One of the Finest Gettysburg Battle Letters - 1st S.C. Infantry, A. P. Hill's 3rd Army Corps, Pender's Division - "We made the inhabitants feel the horrors of war."

9th Ohio Light Artillery - Letter by Edwin Keeny - Just Arrived in Hilton Head, S.C. After the Battle of Port Royal - "We discovered a great many bodies... we found one pile of them where they had packed them in as you would pack brick."

One of the Only Confederate Paroles you will ever see from the Gettysburg Campaign – As the Confederates entered Pennsylvania the 20th Pa. “Emergency Militia” encountered Major General Jubel Early’s forces, Under Gen. John B. Gordon at Wrightville, Pa., SEVERAL WERE CAPTURED & ISSUED PAROLES: THIS IS ONE OF THEM! - The Militia on Burning the Bridge Over the Susquehanna, Saved the Capitol of Harrisburg from the Confederates!

Relic with Original Ink Tag from Appomattox Court House!

Early Confederate Pass from Manassas Junction – August 13th, 1861 – “Head Quarters Camp Pickens"

Receipt from R. B. Rhett Jr. of the Famous Charleston Mercury Newspaper – His Father was the “Fire- Eater” that was Responsible for Secession!

Written from the U.S.S. John Adams Off of Morris Island, S.C. October 20th, 1864 – By Captain J. F. Green – ENEMY REPORT + BLOCKADE RUNNER SPOTTED

Early Cabinet Card of Libby Prison – Perfect for Display

Confederate Soldiers Letter with Nice Postally Used Stamped Cover – B. E. Scarborough, 31st North Carolina Infantry – “You must not let the Yankees get you if they do make a raid in N.C. for I don’t want villains to get any of the ladies of my acquaintances”

Written from the 1st Capitol of the Confederacy - Montgomery, AL. April 24th, 1861 - Confederate Cavalry Colonel E. K. Smith Receives His "Marching Orders" - Signed by S. Cooper for the Secretary of War

War Date Letter on the Stationery of Larrabee & North, Dealers in Military Goods, No. 174 Lake Street, Chicago – Display Shows Hats, Swords, Saddles and Insignia – THE LETTER CONCERNS THE PRICES OF MILITARY BUTTONS

Letter from the 8th Texas Cavalry, Better Known as THE TEXAS RANGERS! – Camp near Atlanta, July 28th, 1864

Confederate Pass – “Head Quarters Georgia Militia, Atlanta, June 5, 1864” – 11th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery

“Office of Gatling Gun Company, Hartford, Conn.” – Great Imprinted Stationery Showing Gatling Gun + for Display with it a Commemorative Gatling Gun Medal

Great Slavery Related Photograph – Stereoview “A Plantation Scene, in South Carolina” – 1860 – Published by G. N. Barnard, No. 263 King Street, Charleston, S.C.

Slavery Related Stereoview Published by O. J. Ryan in Savannah, Georgia – View of Laborers Picking Cotton with Two Children Working in the Foreground

The Finest Battle of Big Bethel Letter that we know of - 8 Pages in Ink Written by Captain John Frederick Pierson, 1st N.Y. Infantry

12th Vermont Infantry Letter - Great Description of Mosby's Train Raid at Catlett's Station

7th Connecticut Infantry Letter from St. Helena Island, S.C. – Just Got New Spencer Carbines! - “I see some of the blockade runners here occasionally. They are built long, low, and are painted a light lead color.”

Confederate Relic - “Picked up on the Field after the Battle of Bull Run by Ellen Collins” - She was a prominent member of the United States Sanitary Commission!

An Amazing Relic Found in Charleston, S.C. after Hurricane Hugo in September 1989 - Has to do with Surgeon John Drayton “In charge of Negro laborers on James Island”

WWII “Safe Conduct” Leaflet – German Soldiers have Opportunity to Give Up – Signed in Type by Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Aligned Expeditionary Forces

WWI "Thank You" Sent Out by Commander in Chief, John J. Pershing - France February 28th, 1919

A Great WWII Photo of VE Day Somewhere in France - Can you help identify the city?

Song Sheet / Writing Paper - Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864 - By C. A. Savage, Co. K, 8th Indiana

Song Sheet - "Sherman's Campaign, '64-65. Words by G. P. Hardwick" - Multi Color with 6 Different Corps Badges at the Top

Pass Issued by Gen. McClellan & Signed by James A. Hardie - To the "Picnic" at the Battle of Bull Run!

Nice Example of "Captured" Confederate Stationery & A Confederate Envelope - Both with Period Ink I.D. Writing

1st New Jersey Brigade Broadside - Col. A. T. A. Torbet Thanks His Soldiers for their Victory at Crampton's Pass, Md. - September 14th, 1862 - "Your advance in line of battle, under a galling artillery fire and final bayonet charge, was a feet seldom if ever surpassed."

1st New Jersey Graphic Battle of Bull Run Letter Written by Sergt. Albert F. Sharp – Written on Scarce Patriotic Stationery – “The Southerners behaved more like barbarous than civilized men. Beside burning our hospital and bayonetting our wounded on the field.”

A Curious Little “Relic” from Charleston, S.C. – A “Rations” Certificate. Charleston has Fallen & the Citizens are Destitute – Signed by George W. Williams, Charleston Banker & Railroad Executive – His House is Now Called THE CALHOUN MANSION (16 Meeting Street)

13th Mass. Infantry – Letter from Oliver Walker – Harpers Ferry, October 1st, 1861 – Great Description of the Sacking of this Historic Town!

Nice Early Stereoview of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

ALS – Confederate General Henry A. Wise, Charleston, S.C. September 20th, 1863 – Gen. Wise Stays at the Mill’s House Hotel and Meets with Gen. Beauregard!

Important Confederate Telegram Regarding the Famous Confederate Submarines, or “Torpedo Boats”

Significant WWII Document – Battleship Missouri – September 3, 1945 – McArthur Sends Telegram

Rare Confederate Broadside Showing 10 Star Confederate Flag - Printed Just After the Firing on Fort Sumter – Crude Printing, “Southern Yankee Doodle”

79th Regiment New York “Highlanders” Recruiting Document… A Really Cool Item!

From our Black History/Slavery Collection: Two Early 6 Inch Plates Featuring Slaves

Letter from W. J. Wilson of the 1st New York Engineers Writes to the Colt Arms Company -He wants to buy a colt revolving rifle with telescopic site!

From Our Gettysburg Collection, One of Our Prized Relics: A Kearny Cross Found on Private Land Adjacent to the Battle of Gettysburg

Letter by J. B. Witherspoon Phillips, Company A 18th Battalion, South Carolina Artillery – His Beautiful Uniform is Pictured All Over the Internet!

Check From “The Bank of Indian Territory, Guthrie, Okla.” – Nice Indian Vignette

WAGON BOX FIGHT – Document Signed by Capt. James Powell 18th U.S. Infantry

CDV Photograph of Charles A. Adams of the Famous 1st Vermont Cavalry – Wounded at Gettysburg, at Brandy Station Wounded & Taken Prisoner & Escaped from Prison!

War Date Pass All in the Hand of Confederate Gen. G. T. Beauregard

Finest Possible CDV – Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard – You can see the faces of his buttons!

In Early War Charleston, S.C., Col. Lemuel M. Hatch of the South Carolina Militia Writes to Gen. Beauregard Regarding the North’s Preparations for War – Great Content

Nice Little Document – Punishing the Residents of Charleston, S.C. for their “Insurrectionary” Behavior

War Date Letter from South Carolina General Wilmot Gibbes De Saussure - Written on Official State of South Carolina Executive Office Stationery - Docketed on the back by Governor Pickens

Confederate Battle of Williamsburg Letter Written by Captain William Washington Gordon – His Daughter Founded the Girl Scouts of the USA – His House is a National Historic Landmark in Savannah, Georgia & Open to the Public for Tours!

CDV of Gettysburg Lt. Col. John P. Spofford – Captured at Gettysburg, Sent to Libby Prison… and Escaped! – One of Several Prisoners Held Hostage in the Line of Fire by the Confederates in Charleston, S.C.

CDV Lt. Edwin A. Tuthill, Co. A 104th New York Infantry – Captured at Gettysburg

Two Stereoview Cards of the Famous Mill’s House Hotel in Charleston, S.C. – The First Before the Severe Union Shelling & the Second, How it Looked after the Bombardment!

Scarce CDV of Lt. Col. James M. Sanderson Who Wrote the Book “My Record in Rebellion” (About Libby Prison) – He was Commissary of Subsistence, 1st Army Corps

CDV of The Castle Thunder & Libby Prison Guard Dog “Nero” or “Hero”!

Book Written by Abner Doubleday, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter & Moultrie in 1860-61

The Manassas Battle Letter of Surgeon Erwin J. Eldridge 16th Georgia Infantry

Confederate Soldier’s Letter – Drewry’s Bluff Battery April 7th, 1862 – “We have a good many Negros working on the battery… We have two 8 inch Columbiads and the balls weight 64 pounds” – Great Line about their Bread: “When it is a day or two old it is hard enough to knock a male cow off a bridge.”

CDV & Docketed Cover of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham… Known as “The Great Copperhead of Ohio” in the North & “Apostle of Liberty” in the South – Banished from the Union for His Southern Sentiment

Early War Document from the 1st Capitol of the Confederacy – The Post Office Department Appoints a Post-Master in Spartanburg, S.C.

The 10th, 12th & 16th Mississippi Vols. Order Shoes (Brogans) from a Fancy New Orleans Dealer – Great Stationery!

98th Ohio Infantry Battle Letter – Marietta, Ga. July 1st, 1864 – “A truce was had to bury our dead. It was a sad task and a hard one as the smell was sickening.”

“Camp 99th O.V.I. near Atlanta, Ga. July 15th, 1864” – “Sherman is still drawing them on down the railroad until he has got them almost all together out of Atlanta”

Letter from the Famous 6th Wisconsin Vols. – Milo G. Sage Company F – Camp at Fredericksburg, Va. May 18th, 1862 – “Since I wrote you before, we have drawn new hats instead of caps, and we have got a big black feather, and we have got leggings too. It makes us look bold as lions.”

WWII – Lt. Col. J. Selby Edgerton Sends Home Stationery & Envelope from the Captured Office of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda!

WWII – Great Letter, Cover and “Souvenir” Sent Home “Somewhere in Germany”, April 15th, 1945 by Sgt. Brice Hess, 3rd U.S. Army

Confederate Navy Department Stationery – CS Surgeon Daniel B. Conrad, Stationed in Manassas, Va. is to Report to His New Duty – Signed by Franklin Buchanan – Later in the War after both Conrad & Buchanan were Captured at Mobile Bay, Conrad would Save Buchanan’s Leg from Amputation!

Photograph, Ink Drawing & Lincoln Souvenir from the Scrapbook of Lt. Thomas J. Stone, Color Bearer, 13th Ohio Infantry

Lt. Col. John Fred Pierson, 1st New York, Organizes “The Prisoners Club” in Libby Prison + His CDV!

Document of “Property Taken, Destroyed or Injured During the Morgan Raid through Ohio in July 1863”

1862 Envelope - American Tract Society + Grieving Mother's Letter - Famous Chaplain Alonzo H. Quint 2nd Mass.

143rd New York Vol. – Battle of Peach Creek, Georgia, July 21st, 1864

CDV of Confederate Spy Belle Boyd

48th Ohio Infantry Letter – Near Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee, March 23rd, 1862 – “I visited the ground where the Secesh buried their dead… I saw the faces of two & one breast looked very bad… shot in the breast & above the eye… the stench was very bad.”

15th Ohio Infantry – “Camped on Peach Tree River, Ga. July 20th, 1864 – Great Content

43rd New York Infantry – “Flint Hill (1 ½ mile from Fairfax Court House) March 12th, 1862 – Nice Content about Major in 5th Wisconsin Capturing a 7 Star Confederate Flag!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Inexpensive Grouping of Five Confederate State of Georgia Tax Receipts

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

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

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