What's New!

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

A Wonderful 8-Page Description of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. by Henry C. Thayer Co. I, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry

War Date Document, "Stevensburg, Virginia Dec. 10th, 1863" Signed by Major William Wells, Commanding the 1st Vermont Cavalry - MEDAL OF HONOR GETTYSBURG

Union Sailor Henry F. Dunnels Writes from the U.S. Frigate Minnesota "Off Hampton Roads", Va. - The Minnesota would later suffer destruction from the CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads

Soldier's Letter: Head Quarters 15th Alabama Regiment Near Centreville, Sept. 11th, 1861, with Fine Cover - Lt. Lock Weems Writes Home to His Wife - He would be killed 9 months later

The Carved Andersonville Prison Cane of J. T. Brown, a Private in Company C of the 70th New York Infantry (1st Regt. Sickles' Excelsior Brigade)

11th Pa. Reserve Infantry Excavated I.D. Disc - Perhaps the Most Historic Dog Tag We Have Ever Offered - James A. Hayden of Company F was Captured in the Wilderness, Sent to Charleston & became one of the "Immortal 50".. Placed in the line of Federal Fire

An Amazing 2^nd Corps (Irish Brigade) St. Patrick’s Broadside and Lettter

War Date ALS from Major James B. White Superintendent of the Citadel in Charleston, S.C.

Great Document for the 95th Pennsylvania, Gosline Zouaves Collector – Actually Signed by Gosline!

Printed Pass "Head Quarters Vermont Brigade" - After the Union Took Over THE LAST CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY: DANVILLE, VA.

War of 1812 Excavated in Virginia 5th Regiment U.S. Infantry - Great Looking Button with "UNITED STATES 5"

Early Stereoview, Yellow Mount & Probably by Quinby, Charleston, S.C. of the Interior of Fort Sumter in 1861 after Andersons Evacuation!

83rd Ohio Infantry - 18-Year Old Charles Smith Writes an Exciting Letter "On bank of 'North Branch Bayou Pierre' About 10 miles easterly from Port Gibson Miss May 5th, 1863" - "...A shell striking the gunboat, passed clean through both sides and then killed six horses."

Letter Written by Charleston S.C. Resident Louisa A. Drayton Just Days Before the Evacuation & Surrender of the City!

Letter from the U.S.S. Frigate Minnesota, Hampton Roads, Virginia Discussing the Attack of the "Infernal Machine"... THE FIRST CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE!

Important Confederate Letter Written on "War Department, Montgomery" Stationary - April 22nd, 1861 by Henry Stokes Figures

5th New Hampshire Infantry - 1st Lt. Daniel K. Cross Writes Home, Sending a Detailed, Large Hand-Drawn Chancellorsville Battle Map - The 5th New Hampshire had the Greatest Casualty Loss in the Union

One of the "Colorful" Units of Charleston, S.C. - The Captain of the GERMAN LIGHT ARTILLERY, William K. Bachman Writes a Receipt on Receiving a Box of Accoutrement

Letter from the Governor of South Carolina, F. W. Pickens to the Director of the Columbia, S.C. Arsenal asking him for numbers of arms & equipment that can be furnished to South Carolina Troops

Irish Brigade - Saint Patrick's Day Horse Race - 2nd Corps Letter

2nd Mass. - The Wife of Charles R. Mudge K.I.A. Gettysburg Presents Col. Cogswell "A COLOR STAFF TO REPLACE THE ONE SHATTERED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE"

Discharge Signed by Col. Edward E. Cross, 5th New Hampshire Vols. - KILLED AT GETTYSBURG

Great West Point Letter from the Son of General George Meade on the Verge of the Civil War! - He would soon join the 6th Pa. Lancers and then go on his father's staff. Many in his class had left to go South: "THERE IS BUT 38 MEN LEFT IN MY CLASS OUT OF 87, THAT IS RATHER A FALLING OFF FOR ONE YEAR

Confederate Blockade Runner Bond - The Famous Chicora Importing & Exporting Company of South Carolina

CDV General Silas Casey - By Anthony/Brady

CDV Col. Ulric Dahlgren Killed in Cavalry Raid on Richmond

CDV of 6th Pa. Rush's Lancers Colonel Charles Ross Smith

FINEST KNOWN SIGNED CDV OF CONFEDERATE CAVALIER JOHN S. MOSBY, "THE GRAY GHOST"

Civil War Cavalry 2nd Lieutenant's Shoulder Straps with Beautiful Golden Yellow Velvet

An Historic Document from Charleston, S.C. - Signed by Mayor Charles MacBeth, who Surrendered Charleston on Feb. 18th, 1865 to Lt. Col. A. G. Bennett of the 21st U.S. Colored Troops

101st Illinois Infantry Soldiers Letter - Savannah, Georgia Has Been Captured - "Our grand reviews have all been held in the streets of this beautiful city" - Praises Discipline of Sherman's 20th Corps, Slocum, Howard.... and Carelessness of Kilpatrick's Cavalry "As if they were looking for chickens!" - Meets Sherman Walking in the City!

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

Recruiting Circular for the Famous "People's Ellsworth Regiment" Along with the Patriotic "Remember Ellsworth" Envelope it was mailed in!

CDV General W. K. Strong - Commanded the Department of the Missouri, Benton Barracks & Investigated the Evacuation of New Madrid, MO.

Union General Thomas Ruger Writes Home to His Wife Describing the Battle of Chancellorsville

Wonderful Full Page Patriotic Stationary Letter Sheet "Death of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth" & at the bottom "Ellsworth's Last Letter" - Letter is from Soldier in the 58th PA. Infantry, George Richter

CDV General William P. Carlin - As Colonel of the 38th Illinois He Led a Brigade at Perrysville, Stone's River & Fought through the Carolina's

8th North Carolina Infantry - Letter by Major Edward G. Yellowley - ONE OF THE FINEST DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHELLING OF FORT SUMTER THAT WE HAVE EVER READ!

Letter - SOUTH CAROLINA ON THE EVE OF SECESSION - Edgefield District, S.C. Nov. 22, 1860 - Written to Future CS General Martin W. Gary

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

Confederate Cover Autographed by Future CS General William C. Wickham - He Signs as "Lt. Col. 4th Va. Cavalry" - Served with J. E. B. Stuart in Raid on Calett's Station & Maryland Invasion

Gettysburg Campaign - Graphic Description of the Rebel Invasion of Mechanicsburg, Pa. - Written by a Terrorized Civilian Lady

I.D. Pin from the Famous 40th New York "Mozart Regiment"

Inexpensive CDV of Union General David B. Birney Wearing his Kearney Medal of Honor - Birney Commanded the 3rd Corps at Gettysburg at Sickles was Wounded

A Total of 8 Union Letters/Documents Concerning the Search for Confederate Gold - Includes Letter from Union General Thomas Jordan at Lexington, N.C. & 6 from Captain Asbury P. Gatch of the 9th Ohio Cavalry

The Governor of Wisconsin Alexander W. Randall Orders Harper's Ferry M 1855 Rifles & Sword Bayonets to be Sent to Madison - Document Signed by D. Murphy of the Harper's Ferry Arsenal

1st Creek Regiment CSA! - Document Signed by Captain of the Confederate Indian Regiment

9th New York Heavy Artillery Soldier Alfred Roe Gives a Graphic Report of his Treatment as a POW at DANVILLE PRISON

Bank of Charleston, S.C. Stock Certificate - March 28th, 1862 - This was the bank that was recently in the news as it was part of Wachovia & it has been discovered that they accepted 500+ slaves as collateral!

Confederate General William Carter Wickham Fairfax Court House - June 24th, 1861

5th Michigan Cavalry - Beautiful Commission for William R. Noble - Fought throughout the War with Custer's Wolverines

Confederate Postal History - Centreville, Va. Due 5 Manuscript with Beautiful I.D.: Capt. R. B. Isbell, 30th Va. Cavalry - He Carried Stonewall Jackson's Battle Flag

Confederate Postal History - Small Green Cover with Two CSA-6 Davis Stamps & Beautiful Blue Greensborough, N.C. Postmark

Confederate Postal History - Fine Example of a CSA 4 Davis with Greenville, S.C. Postmark

4th Maine Light Artillery - Andrew F. Beal Sends Home a Souvenir from the Battle of Antietam - A Rebel Colonel's Undershirt Button!

The Most Colorful Union Patriotic Sheet Music that We Have Ever Seen!

One of the Most Famous Passes from the Army of the Potomac "Head Quarters Military Department of Washington, July 15th, 1861"... With an Enormous Ink Signature of DRAKE DE KAY, Aide de Camp to General Mansfield

The Finest Embroidered Officers Hat Insignia - From a Medical Officer Collection

Beautiful Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of a Cute Little Gal - In Pristine Guetta-Percha Case

Shipwreck Coin - "184 Year Old Shipwreck Coin Genuine Coin from the Shipwreck of the Admiral Gardner which sunk in January of 1809"

Confederate Document & CDV: The Blakely Gun Battery in Charleston, a Rare Pair!

The Rarest Confederate Naval Document that we have ever seen: A Parole Issued by the C.S. Steamer Olustee (Formerly Tallahassee) - Part of Semmes Naval Brigade!

16th Mass. Inf. - Graphic Battle Letter Describing Malvern Hill & 2nd Bull Run Written by Harris D. Clark - Helped Save the Life of Asa D. Smith in Bruce Catton's Book!

A Resident of Charleston, S.C. Comments on False Information Regarding Anderson's Leaving Fort Sumter & Living Conditions & Inflation in Charleston

Rare Confederate Navy Button CS 60, Large Crossed Cannons with "CN" & Marked on Reverse "Courtney & Tennent/Charleston SC/ Manton's Patent"

Four Letters REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF WHITWORTH GUNS & PROJECTILES FROM ENGLAND! – These Letters were written by Abram S. Hewitt & Sent to Asst. Secretary of War P. H. Watson – Great Content: “Mr. Adams, our minister, requested me to purchase a 70 pounder for the war department.”… “The success of this gun of the doom of the Armstrong gun”... “These guns will put shells through the most obstinate material… will pass under water and will put a hole into a vessel below the waterline, even if plated with iron of moderate thickness”

Wonderful Pair of "Ohio Squirrel Hunter's" Discharge & Governor Tod's Letter

Small Book Presented by the U.S. Christian Commission along with an Envelope having the U.S. Christian Commission Logo (Identical to their Pin) on the Front

Vicksburg, Mississippi Parole for Thomas L. Tunnell, 43rd Mississippi Infantry

The Rare Confederate States of America VICKSBURG PAROLE

49th New York Infantry - Two Letters from Medal of Honor Recipient John P. McVean

Postal History: "U. S. Grant" Signed as President on Executive Envelope - Rare as Presidential Franking Privileges were Abolished 6 Months Later!

116th Pa. "Irish Brigade" Letter - William A. Smith Writes from Winter Quarters in December 1863

211th Pa. Inf. - The Most Amazing Letter that We Have Ever Read Regarding Union & Confederate Soldiers Trading Items - Writer James O. Parmlee is given a Confederate Circular Inviting Foreigners "Entrapped" in the Union Army to be aided by the Confederacy!

Silver I.D. Pin: Sergt. Lyman Wolcott 108th N.Y. Infantry - Enlisted on August 6th, 1862 & just a month later his regiment suffered 150 causalities at the Battle of Antietam. Lyman would go on to survive heavy loss at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville & Gettysburg before being wounded at Bristoe Station

Program for Ellsworth Zouave Corps Exhibition Drill, along with Baxter's Regimental Band, September 12th, 1861

One of the Rarest & Most Desirable Confederate Civil War Broadsides that we have offered! - HEAD QUARTERS, TAYLOR HOTEL, WINCHESTER, VA. APRIL 18, 1861 - Confederate forces have just arrived from Harper's Ferry & have set up their Head Quarters!

Rare Stereoview of the Inside of Fort Moultrie by Savannah Photographer D. J. Ryan

32nd Mass. Infantry - 34-year old Daguerreotypist Josiah C. Fuller Writes from Sharpsburg, MD. just after the Battle of Antietam - 7 Long Pages in Ink Giving Wonderful Details about the Regiment, Camp Life, & Discusses Selling his Photography Studio - Much Detail!

A "Pro-South" Lady in Greenwood, MD. Writes Two Letters: 1st DESCRIBES THE SOUTH'S INVASION OF MARYLAND IN JUNE & 2nd THE NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS - GREAT CONTENT!

Document Endorsement Signed by Judson Kilpatrick - Army of the Potomac's Famed Cavalry Leader

13th Alabama Surgeon Henry M. Clarkson Writes from Gettysburg, Pa. on July 4th, 1863 - He Cared for Wounded Confederate Soldiers in the Mc Pherson Barn!

Important Letter from Gabriel E. Manigault to S.C. Gov. F. W. Pickens Re. the Defenses of Charleston in the Importance of Better Securing Morris Island... JUST GREAT CONTENT... HIS HOME OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IS ACROSS FROM THE CHARLESTON VISITOR CENTER! - On the Reverse of the Letter is a Docket all in the hand of Gov. Pickens

"Flag Ship New Ironsides, Charleston Harbor, S.C., April 8th, 1863" - Letter Signed by Rear Admiral S. F. Du Pont + CDV of Him + THE FINEST CDV WE HAVE SEEN OF THE SHIP NEW IRONSIDES! - The Most Powerful Ship in the U.S. Navy!

Soldier in Keystone Battery of the Pennsylvania Indpt. Light Artillery DRAWS A PICTURE OF THEIR BATTERIES MASCOT DOG!

A Great Charleston Display Piece: Major Robert Anderson Postally Used Cover from Fort Sumter March 24th, 1861 - Just Several Months Before He was Fired Upon!

The A.D.C. of General Beauregard, Joseph J. Legare, Writes the General from Charleston, S.C. on June 19th, 1861 - Beauregard is up at Manassas & Legare Sends some FASCINATING Information to him!

A Ticket to Moody & Sankey's Famous Revival in 1876

185th New York Volunteers - The Christian Soldier's League I.D. Disc/Medal - THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE SEEN

2nd Mass. Inf. - Adjt. John A. Fox Writes a Description of the Regimental Colors & Color Staffs - Includes Antietam & Gettysburg Presentations!

Pair of Anthony Stereoviews of the "Ruins of Central Hall, Charleston, S.C., Effects of the Great Fire in 1862" & the Ruins of the Circular Church & Secession Hall with Saint Michael's Church in the Background - Brady Negative

Battle of Fredericksburg Letter - 105th N.Y. Vol. - Capt. Abraham Moore Describes Looking for One of His Missing Men on the Battlefield - "I went so near the enemies pickets that could hear them cough & talk. But on account of so many wounded men that was then calling for help, praying & making all sorts of noise, the enemy did not observe me."

A Future Confederate General Clement H. Stevens Signs a $5 Charleston, S.C. Bank Note

10th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry - Letter by Lt. Benjamin Wright, Morris Island, S.C. July 27th, 1863 - Lt. Col. Leggett Leg Blown Off - Great Descriptions

10th Connecticut - Lt. Benjamin Wright, 8 Legal-Size Pages, Written on Morris Island, July 1863 - Great Descriptions of Mortars & Artillery

Two Reunion Invitations: Washington Light Infantry (Charleston), 1888? & Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, San Francisco 1892

CDV Signed on the Front - John B. Conyngham, Lt. Col. 52nd Pa. Inf. - He led the First Regiment into Charleston in Feb. 1865 and Raised the Fort Sumter Flag!

ALS - 52nd PA. Lt. Col. John Butler Conyngham - Writes about the 52nd being the First Regiment into Charleston & Raising the U.S. Flag!

Confederate Soldier's Letter W. S. Barron, Georgia Regular Battery of Light Artillery, Writes from Savannah, Ga. - April 13th, 1862 JUST HOURS AFTER FORT PULASKI FELL TO THE ENEMY - NOW PROTECTING "OUR LADIES GUN BOAT" - "IF THE CITY IS TAKEN OUR LADIES GUN BOAT WILL BE BURNT"

Postally Used Cover: May 8th, 1871 Custer Writes Elizabeth in Monroe, Michigan (their home) from his Hotel in New York City

ALS - Union General Samuel K. Zook - KILLED AT GETTYSBURG

Large Autograph of Edward D. Tracy, Lt. Col. 19th Alabama on Beautiful Mobile, AL. Dec. 10th, 1861 Cover - Tracy became Brig. Genl. only to be killed in May of 1863

Colorful 5th U.S. Cavalry Patriotic Sheet Music

Confederate Postal History - Pair of 5 Cent Blue London (6), Spartansburg, S.C. - Feb. 17 (1863) Cancellation - Addressed to Dr. C. C. Fleming, SURGEON 22nd S.C. Regt, Evan's Brigade Wilmington, S.C.

Confederate Postal History - Beautiful Greenboro, Ala. Jan. 12 (1863) Cancellation on Pair of 5 Cent Local #7 - ADDRESSED TO GENL. JOHN H. COCKE IN BREMO BLUFF, VA. - Famous Bremo Plantation, National Historic Landmark - Father of CS Gen. Philip St. George Cocke

Rare 1863 Masonic Badge from the 43rd "Tiger" Regt. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - Newbern, N.C.

Confederate Postal History - Lexington, Va. June 8 (1861) with Blue PAID 5 - Addressed to REV. W. N. PENDLETON, CAPT. ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY! - BECAME CONFEDERATE GENERAL

Confederate Postal History - 1st Manassas Campaign with Manuscript "Pd. 5" & "Stony Bridge, July 27th, 1861" - Addressed to the Sister of Lt. W. M. Waller, Amherst Court House, Va. - 19th Va. Infantry

Col. E. E. Ellsworth Training Manual, LIGHT INFANTRY DRILL, Arranged for the U.S. Zouaves

Ellsworth Zouave Corps Broadside Advertising an Exhibition Drill, September 12th, 1861

Rare & Colorful - Ellsworth Zouave Membership Certificate

1st Virginia Cavalry - William W. Blackford - Graphic Manassas Battle Letter

18th S.C. Infantry Letter from Sullivan's Island with Envelope and Nice 5 Cent CSA 1 Green Jeff Davis Stamp & Perfect Charleston Cancellation

For the very best viewing capabilities we recommend using Firefox Internet Browser.