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My Dealer/Collector Friends,

After leaving the Marietta Civil War Show on Sunday, August 13th, 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

1806 Charleston Slave Badge – Occupation: “Servant”, No. 169 – By Silversmith C. Prince

A Non-Excavated 1862 Charleston Slave Badge - Rare "War Date" Year in Beautiful Condition

Autograph of Catesby ap Roger Jones - Listed in Autographs of the Confederacy as "An Extremely Rare Signature"

42nd Pa. – Kane’s Rifle Regiment “Bucktails” Great Letter with IMPRINTED STATIONERY – “I have a Springfield rifle musket. Its name is Minie. My leader’s name is Kanie for both of them are not big, so I give both a proper name, and they both are as fine looking objects as you would like to have a chip at. The one (Col.) does smile all the time and the other spits fire if it gets a chance.”

SETTING UP EARLY ARTILLERY DEFENSES - CHARLESTON OCT. 1861

Albumen Photograph of the Famous Stone Wall at Marye’s Height’s – Shows Gruesome Carnage & Scattered Weapons

1863 Albumen Photograph of the Vicksburg, Mississippi State or Court House – Used as a Signal Station in its Cupola

Descriptive Vicksburg Soldier’s Letter – 4th West Virginia Infantry – Corp. Clarkson Fogg writes on March 1st, 1863, “I can see with the aid of a glass, the city and its defenses” – Two Months Later he would be Killed there!

“Abraham Lincoln” Style Dog Tag of William H. Herrington Co. H of the Hard Fought 5th Michigan Vols.

Capt. George D. Putman Co. A 50th Mass. Infantry – Beautiful Silver Engraved 19th Army Corps/I.D. Pin

Head Quarters 1st Mass. Cavalry Hilton Head, S.C. July 7th, 1862 – MANDATORY BATHING ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY 5PM

2nd Tennessee Infantry Soldier’s Letter – Capt. John A. Mackey Writes from Camp Holmes, Va. October 16th, 1861

J.E.B. Stuart's Cavalry - Special Order to "Procure" Horses in place of those killed IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG - Signed by H. B. McClellan & W. H. Taylor

Confederate Presentation Sword + the Greatest “Souvenir” Relic That You Can Imagine! – Confederate Col. John B. G. Kennedy 5th & 21st Louisiana Infantry

CDV of Colonel Francis J. Parker, 32nd Mass. Infantry

CDV of Union Cavalry General Wesley Merritt – Led the Reserve Brigade at Gettysburg under Buford

CDV of Union Cavalry General Alfred Pleasonton – Led the Cavalry Corps at Gettysburg

One of the Rarest Civil War I.D. Badges in Our Collection – Black Soldier Benjamin George Hannan who Enlisted at Port Hudson May 19th, 1863 – WITH BATTLES + THE RAREST PIN HANGER

A Chance to Own the Most Beautiful I.D. Pin/Corps Badge from the Famous 5th New York Duryee Zouaves – David P. Davis with 6 Battles Listed!

Wood POW Carvings from Andersonville Prison – Has Original Tag & From the Famous Flayderman Collection

CDV 6th Michigan Cavalry – Full Signature I.D. – Manning D. Birge – Signed June 28th, 1863 Just Before Gettysburg

Whaling Memorabilia: J. & W. R. Wing Co., New Bedford, Mass. + Sail Maker's Needles + 1853 Issue of Whaling Newspaper: “Whalemen’s Shipping List”

4 Regimentals of Our Favorite Michigan Infantry Regiments – The 1st, 4th, 7th, and 24th

Confederate Captain Elliot Johnston Describes His Amputated Leg in Detail – A Great Letter for the Medical Collector! - Also, the Actual Permission Slip by Command of Union General McClellan for His Brothers to Move Him to a Hospital in Baltimore!

Rare Imprinted Stationary – “Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C.” Sept. 23, 1864 - Capt. Edmund S. Henry 127th New York Vols.

Confederate General Order Giving the Regulations for Confederate Forage Cap… “French Kepi” – Richmond January 24th, 1862

The Wife of Confederate Surgeon Erwin J. Eldridge Writes Her Husband, August 21st, 1861 – Plus a Great Addressed Envelope: “Sumter Flying Artillery Georgia Volunteers Manassas Junction Virginia”

The Finest CDV of Union General Daniel Sickles that we have owned - A must for the Gettysburg Collector!

CDV Col. Ulric Dahlgren - Killed in Cavalry Raid on Richmond

12th North Carolina Soldiers Letter - Camp near Fredericksburg - John Pittman writes home to his Mother

6th N.C. Infantry Soldiers Letter - "The Bloody Sixth" - "Camp Bartow, March 25th, '62" - Lt. Benjamin Franklin White

Set of 4 "Souvenirs" from the Scrapbook of Edward O. Paull, Co. F 1st Mass. Infantry - SPECIAL ATTENTION TO ALL TREE LOVERS!

7th Michigan Cavalry - One of Custer's Wolverines - Awarded for Gallantry at Gettysburg - Wounded, Captured & Escaped! - Capt G. Birney

CDV of Union Cavalry Hero John Buford

Rare Blockade Runner Bond from the Importing and Exporting Company of Georgia - Date June 12th, 1863 & Signed by G. B. Lamar President of the Company

Rare Pose CDV of Union General George Meade by F. Gutekunst of Philadelphia

6th Michigan Cavalry – Graphic Account of Their Work at Gettysburg – Letter written by William G. Whitworth Who Would Later Die as a P.O.W. in Andersonville Prison

Buffalo Soldiers (Black) Come to the Rescue! - Letter from Famed Indian Fighter General George Crook Praising Captain Francis S. Dodge for his Gallant Charge Against the Ute Indians at the Battle of Milk Creek, October 1879 – FOR HIS BRAVERY DODGE RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR!

Letter Written by Col. Henry C. Merwin, just Weeks Before He was Killed, with More than Half of his 27th Conn. Reg., in the Civil War Battle at Gettysburg, Pa

18th Mass. Infantry Letter – Edmund F. Churchill Gives an Account of the Battle of Bristoe Station, Writing from Centreville, Va. October 17th, 1863

18th Mass Infantry – Color Bearer Edmund F. Churchill Writes from Kelly’s Ford, Nov. 9th, 1863 Describing the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station or Beverly Ford

14th New Jersey Silver I.D. Pin Excavated in Frederick, Maryland - Edwin L. Havens Co C.

10th Mass. Vol. I.D. Disc - Washington Style - Frederick Arbuckle Co. D - Wounded at Malvern Hill

1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery Silver I.D. Pin with Crossed Cannons

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Confederate Letter by Colonel Edward Manigault, in Charge of Ordnance in Charleston, S.C. - Enfield Rifles through the Blockade going to the Citadel

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Confederate Letter - 35th Battn. White's Virginia Cavalry - The "Comanches"

Confederate General William L. "Mudwall" Jackson - Two Nice War Date Letters that He Writes Home to His Wife - The first "Hd. Qrs. near Shepherdstown, July 27th, 1864" and the second "Mt. Crawford en-route down the Valley, June 29th, 1864"

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Inscribed Silver Corps Badge & Ambrotype of Capt. William H. Seamans - 3rd Mass. Cavalry

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Confederate Soldier’s Letter – Daniel K. Campbell – Writing on Confederate Patriotic Stationery “Camp Mangum, Raleigh, N.C.”

Rare Style 8th Corps Silver I.D. Pin – Lt. John Thayer Co. H 8th Mass

47th New York Infantry – Hilton Head, S.C. January 19th, 1863 – Charles Ryant would soon fight at Olustee, Fl. & survive, only to be killed at Cold Harbor 4 months later

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Set of Civil War Original “Union Cards” – Playing Cards with National Emblems, Uniforms, etc.

Silver I.D. Pin - 1st Lt. William Stone, Co. E 11th Rhode Island Volunteers

1st New Jersey Soldier’s Letter on Scarce Patriotic Stationery – Early Action Around Alexandria, Va. – Writer would be killed 9 months later at Gaines’ Mill

15th Mass. Soldier’s Letter – Ball’s Bluff Battle – “I threw my cartridge box and belt into the Potomac and took my gun and started across. When I got about half way across, I went down and like to have gone down the second time when I dropped my gun.” “The men was shot all around.” “I saw Col. Baker when he was shot and helped carry him off the field. He was shot by 5 bullets.”

16th Mass. I.D. Disc John H. Clemmons - Washington Style with Scarce Large Lettering

Silver I.D. Pin – Ohio Soldier Leander E. Parsons – Style of Pin with Eagle at Top as seen in the Harper’s Weekly Classified Ads

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Future Confederate Naval Officer John McIntosh Kell Writes from the U.S. Frigate Savannah off Mazatlan, Mexico April 21st, 1846 – GREAT POSTALLY USED FOLDED LETTER WHICH SAILED ON THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION (OLD IRONSIDES) BACK TO BOSTON BEFORE GOING TO HIS WIFE IN DARIEN, GA., HAS SHIP 12 & BOSTON CANCELLATION

Confederate POW William H. Brown, Co. F, 1st Kentucky Cavalry – One of John Hunt Morgan’s Boys, Wounded & Captured at Morrison’s Depot - Writes from CAMP MORTON, INDIANA – INCLUDES INSPECTED POW COVER

Letter - 9th Georgia Infantry – William T. Conn Writes from “Camp near Centreville, Va. Dec. 20th, 1861 – Talks about J. E. B. Stuart & Sees the Results of the Battle of Drainsville - “Trees… were literally torn to pieces by the shot and shell” – Also Mentions Collecting Funds for those Suffering in Charleston, S.C. after their Great Fire!

STOLEN 8/13/17 - War-Dated Letter & Signed Cover by Congressman John Sherman – Mansfield, Ohio November 7th, 1862

Confederate Letter – “Headquarters 2nd Reg. Va. Vols., July 11th, 1861” – Surgeon Joseph B. Amiss

CDV – Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead – 1st Michigan Cavalry – Died of Wounds Received at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Nice Virginia Militia Commission - The Petersburg City Guard - Signed by Governor John Letcher - Charles E. Waddell would eventually become Captain in the Famous 12th Virginia

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Rare Confederate English Ordnance Letter Written by Blakeley, Cannon Manufacturer in England - Mentions Famous Confederate Major Huse

Maine Sharpshooter Letter – Speaking of Rebels: “I can count the buttons on their clothes a mile off.”

The U.S. Marines at the Battle of Manassas, July 20th, 1861 – Charles H. Pierce, Co. D, Marine Battalion

CDV Signed on the Front of Colonel George Henry Pierson of the 5th Massachusetts Infantry

STOLEN 8/13/17 - Postal History & An Historic American Educator – ALS of William H. McGuffey, Author of the Famous McGuffey Readers on beautiful folded Confederate Cover with Sep. 27 (1863) University of Virginia Postmark & CSA-11 Jeff Davis Stamp

Soldiers Letter – 1st Reg. Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Co A Brandywine Rifles, Gen. McCall’s Division – “Camp Pierpont, Dec. 1st, 1861” – Our Cavalry “Took Dr. Day out of bed and brought him along. He is one of the rankest secesh in Virginia.” The Rebels “Shot poison balls at our men… any person that puts poison in their balls ought to be killed.” – A RARE MENTION OF THIS OUTLAWED PRACTICE

STOLEN 8/13/17 - A Sailor on the USS Kearsarge writes home a description of their battle with the CSS Alabama - Written from England July 1864!

44th Alabama Letter Describing the Great Snowball Fight at Fredericksburg, Va. between Hood's Texas Brigade & Georgia/Alabama Troops — Written by David L. Bozeman who would later die of wounds at Spotsylvania Court House