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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

The Greatest Union Officers Cap that we have had the Privilege of Owning – Blown Off 12th Maine Colonel William R. Kimball’s Head by a Piece of Shell!

The Greatest Excavated Artifact in Our Collection: Model 1851 Sword Belt Plate that has been Bullet Struck… the Bullet Excavated with the Plate and Showing Imprint of the Eagle’s Wing

New York Times Correspondent Writes upon Entering Richmond – He uses a Confederate bond to write on!

14th Alabama Confederate Soldiers Letter Written from Johnson’s Island Prison Sending a Ring to a Friend

Featured in the Book, Excavated Artifacts from Battlefields and Campsites of the Civil War 1861-1865 Supplement I, by Stanley S. Phillips – A Piece that has been in our Lifelong Collection: Page 181 No. 6 “Silver Watch. Engraved with Scene of Officer with Pistol and Sword in Hand Leading a Charge. Watch chain has patriotic charm attached to end.”

Bible with Great Ink Inscription – Owned by F. R. Garlock, Co. B 108th N.Y.S. Vols. Wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17th, 1862

Chimborazo Hospital Confederate Document – Largest Hospital in the Confederacy!

Investigating War Crimes Committed by the Confederacy – Letter Describes Case in Fayette County, West Virginia: 2 Union Brothers “When taken prisoners were brought to their own homes and in presences of their wives and children had their hands cut off, suffering to remain all night in this condition and shot next morning.”

Grouping of 3 Excavated “Flower” Buttons – Each with 90% Gold

Patriotic Ribbon from the Philadelphia July 4th, 1863 Celebration at which President Lincoln Attended

Interesting Button Excavated in Fredericksburg – An English Import

Battle of Gettysburg 50th Anniversary, 1913 Decorative Plate – Shows Lee, Meade, & Pa. Memorial

Rare Pair of CDV’s – Full Standing from Life of Col. E. E. Ellsworth & One of the Marshall House Hotel in Alexandria, Va. where he was Killed

1st Michigan Cavalry Letter – New Market April 22nd, 1862 – “Have taken about two hundred prisoners since we left Woodstock” – With Fantastic Patriotic Envelope

4th New Hampshire Infantry Letter – Folly Island May 3rd, 1863 – Trading with the Enemy

Tremendous Broadside Published Just After the Battle of Antietam: “Burnside’s Corps, 2 Miles Beyond Sharpsburg, Md. List of Killed, Wounded and Missing of the 51st Regiment P. V. at the taking of the “Stone Bridge,” on Wednesday, the 17th of September, 1862”

Super Relic for Display – A Model 1855 Musket Lock with Maynard Tape Primer Excavated near Dalton, Georgia with Roll of Caps!

Nice Discharge from the Famous 79th Regiment New York Infantry, the “Highlanders”

The Most Sought After Civil War Document: THE APPOMATTOX PAROLE

Excavated Confederate South Carolina Waist Belt Plate - Circular Featuring Palmetto Tree – Dug in Fredericksburg (Kerksis #406)

2nd Mississippi Cavalry Document – With Fancy “Confederate States of America” Imprint at Top

Excavated Near Harper’s Ferry – An Original Lock from One of the Hall’s Rifles

1861 Colorful Sheet Music: Our Country’s Flag – Song Composed & Dedicated to His Excellency Abraham Lincoln – A Gift from Lt. B. W. Hight, 2nd Vt. Vols.

Offered is an Amazing Listing of all the Charleston Companies that were Formed Following Secession, December 1860

CDV Photograph of Sgt. Major William Ford McKewn 1st Palmetto Sharp Shooters – Pictured in Cadets in Gray – Fired on the Ship Star of the West – Later Killed at Fredericksburg

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

Confederate General G. T. Beauregard Presents the First Confederate Battle Flags to Regiments at Centreville, November 26th, 1861

From Our Johnson’s Island Collection: An Original Broadside for a Concert put on by the “Island Minstrels” to Benefit the Prisoners

Libby Prison Letter & Cover – William E. Endicott, 10th Mass. Light Artillery – Captured at Reams’ Station, Va. 8/25/64

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

The Great Charleston Earthquake of August 31st, 1886 - Phillip Dressel, UCV Member & Business Owner in Charleston, S.C., Writes a Thank You to GAR “Comrades” in Massachusetts for their Financial Help – YOU HAVE GOT TO READ HOW GREAT THIS IS: “Sweet flowers of peace, grow proudly over the grave where civil discord lies buried…peace reigns supreme in this grand old union… we are comrades once more.”

Holmes Y. Conrad – 1st, 17th, 11th Va. Cavalry – July 17th, 1862 – Sneaks in to Winchester, Va. which is Under Union Control to Check on his Home (Great Description of Conditions!) He is Writing his Father, Dr. Daniel B. Conrad

Scarce Gutta-percha Ambro Case – Sixth Plate with New Orleans $10 Facsimile Gold Coin on Both Front & Back

Beautiful Union Gutta-percha Case with Crossed Cannons & Lances + A Sharp Ambro of a Union Corporal Seated with Cap by his Side

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

Artifact from the Famous Ship Housatonic - Sunk by the Confederate Submarine H. L. Hunley - Deaccessed from the S.C. Historical Society

A Great Frameable Pair for the Gettysburg Collector: Rare Stereoview By Tipton of John Burns Home Along with 1863 Harper’s Weekly Showing Burns on Front Page

2nd South Carolina Infantry After the Battle of Manassas – “Glory & Credit on the Heart & Head of Our Brave Col. Kershaw” – Vienna, Va. August 1st, 1861

38th Indiana Infantry Stencil – Excavated Near Stones River, Tenn. Where He Was Killed

1st U.S. Regular Cavalry Silver I.D. Pin – Edgar H. Sampson, Company E

2 Items from the Confederate Veterans’ Reunion in Charleston, S.C., May 1899

Early War Confederate Letter from an Alabama “Cadet” – Thomas Hall of the “Antanga Rifles”, Col. John J. Seidel’s Regiment Writes Home from Camp Beauregard – September 29th, 1861 – Comes with Excellent “Paid 5” Cover with “Tuscaloosa, Al.” Postmark

An Amazing Pair of Triple Border Civil War Infantry Colonel’s Straps – Best We Have Ever Seen!

CDV of The Adam’s Express Company Office – Worcester, Mass. Circa 1860’s

Original Pen & Ink Map of Johnson’s Island Prison Camp near Sandusky, Ohio Drawn by Confederate Topographical Engineer Captain J. T. Hogane

Letter from Lt. Samuel Boyer Davis – Johnson’s Island, February 1st, 1865 – “I am condemned to die.” Also, a book he wrote: Escape of a Confederate Officer from Prison – What he saw at Andersonville – How he was sentenced to death and saved by the interposition of President Abraham Lincoln

Confederate Sheet Music – “Who Will Care for Mother Now?” – Richmond, Va. 1863

Presentation Sword Carried at Gettysburg by Lieut. Edwin McEwen - 95th PA. “Gosline Zouaves” – His Name is on the Monument – This Sword has a Beautiful “Untouched” Patina

116th Penn. Inf. “Irish” – Action at Bristoe Station – Great Escape Story… Chased by Rebels - New Price!

Rare & Colorful - Ellsworth Zouave Membership Certificate – Only a few known, a true museum piece!

Colorful Hawkin’s Zouaves (9th New York Volunteer Infantry) Hand Painted Certificate of Membership Signed by Col. Rush C. Hawkins & Medal of Honor Recipient Adolphe Libaire

Important Berdan Sharpshooter Related Letter Written by Union General J. H. Hobart Ward – Lt. Col. Trepp has been Killed & Needs to be Replaced

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

Scarce CDV of Confederate General Francis S. Bartow, “The Hero of Manassas” – Quinby Backmark

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”

Matching Patriotic Stationery & Letter Sheet – “Stand by the Flag” – From Musician in the 5th New Hampshire Infantry (This regiment had greatest loss of numbers in Civil War)

Civil War Soldiers Valentine with Envelope – Charles H. Lane 127th New York Infantry

58th Pa. – Head Quarters Dept. of Virginia, Seventh Army Corps, Fort Monroe, Va.

Letter from William H. Leslie, Company B 11th Massachusetts Infantry “Camp near Budd’s Ferry, March 21st, 1862” – “We have a lot of Blacks here and we amuse ourselves by setting them to butting their heads together. They butt like two rams”

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

Beautiful Little Rock, Arkansas U. C. V. Patriotic Letter Sheet & Envelope

Written from Confederate Prison in Tyler, Texas! William G. Braznell, a Brooklyn member of the 84th & 5th Veteran New York Infantry Writes Home to his Wife

CDV Captain Horace G. White 94th New York Infantry Wounded & Taken Prisoner July 1st, 1863 at Gettysburg, then sent to Libby Prison – Signed in Ink

Writing From Embattled Winchester, Va. Dec. 29th, 1862, Joseph W. Brownlee Co. C 22nd PA. Cav. writes home on the leaf of an old blank book made in 1786!

Beautiful Little Sharps Four Barrel Pistol with 99% Blue on the Barrel!

California Gold Rush Letter – San Francisco January 14th, 1850 – Living Conditions, Religion, Gambling, Murder, Suicide, and “the spoils I may rob from our mother Earth.” – He also wondered about the whereabouts of a party from New York City, led by Artist John W. Audubon, Traveling Overland to California

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

CHASING THE CSS FLORIDA – She is spotted in Havana, Cuba – Robert W. Shufelt, U. S. Consul General Writes to U. S. N. Commander T. H. Stevens – January 25th, 1863

First Lieut. Edward Charles Parker, Company E 94th New York Infantry – POW Gettysburg (Sent Home Famous Letter from Libby in a Button!) – A Long 16 Page Letter in Ink from “Opposite Fredericksburg, Va. May 18th, 1862” – With Wonderful Descriptions, Suitable for a Magazine Article

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