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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 Half-Plate Ambrotype of Col. Wharton J. Green – Wounded & Captured at Gettysburg + The book he wrote after the war of his exploits…

Rare, Rare, Rare – The Last Edition of The Charleston Mercury Before Union Troops Enter Charleston

Civil War Confederate Blockade Runner Bond – This one from the Charleston Importing and Exporting Company – Signed by the President of the Company Henry Cobia

States Rights Gist Writes Micah Jenkins: “Muster Your Regiment” – (The 5th S.C. Infantry which would become the Palmetto Sharpshooters) – Both Gist & Jenkins would later be killed in the war!

Magnificent Pennsylvania Volunteers Medal Showing the Battles they were in with “Gettysburg July 3, 1863” on the Front

Spanish Gold Doubloon – Found in Charleston, S.C. – 8 Escudos Charles IV, 1798

Confederate Letter with Nice Envelope – “Fort Johnson, James Island, September 2nd, 1863” – Describes Effort to Reinforce Fort Sumter - “Tonight we will start early in order to get over before the moon gets up

Robert B. Rhett, Jr. Editor of the Charleston Mercury Writes to His Father, Robert B. Rhett… “The Father of Secession” - HE TALKS ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE – Includes a CDV of Rhett Jr.

7th Connecticut Infantry – John G. Rowley Describes the Attack on Fort Sumter Giving Great Details on the Defenses of Charleston “I think the notorious guns that fired those polished-steel pointed projectiles were of English manufacture."

An Amazing Pair of Smith’s Patent Shoulder Straps – Colonel of Infantry!

Confederate Prisoner of War Letter from Tyler, Texas – Along with a letter telling about his capture, one from his wife asking about his condition & one notifying his wife of her husband’s death

An Interesting Note Written by the First Cousin of Nurse Clara Barton -Edmund “Ned” Barton -He writes on a “Captured” Confederate Form

Important 8 Page Letter Written from Fancy Hill Plantation - Sallie C. Conrad Describes Atrocities Committed by Yankees Including “Savage looking Negroes, most of them rode white horses” – Sallie Had Two of Her Boys Taken From Her!

Nice Example of a “Nebraska Territory” 3 Dollar Note – The City of Omaha

Wonderful Excavated Example of the CSA Rectangular Belt Plate – The Patina Is To Die For – An Inexpensive Example for the Collector Who Wants Eye Appeal & Zero Possibility of it Being a Reproduction

Excavated Early Militia Artillery Button from South Carolina with 98% Gold!

The Confederate Soldier’s Hymn Book - Published by the South Carolina Track Society, Charleston 1863

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

Johnson’s Island Related Pair: Confederate POW Surgeon Col. I. G. W. Steedman MD, 1st Alabama Vol. – His Autograph from POW Album AND Letter By CS Capt. A. W. Wash, who Wrote a Book about his Experiences on Johnson’s Island

KILLED AT GETTYSBURG – On a Fine CS Envelope, this Address: Lieut. Jesse H. H. Person, 1st Regt. N.C. Cavalry Manassas, Virginia

Cover Addressed to a Prisoner at Johnson’s Island: The Colonel of the 53rd Virginia Infantry, William R. Aylett – He was the Grandson of Patrick Henry! – Has Nice Oval “PRISONER’S LETTER EXAMINED” Stamping on Reverse

Cover from the Famous 26th N.C. Infantry – Thomas J. Cureton of Company B – Wounded at Gettysburg on July 3rd

Highly Desirable Civil War Cavalry Captain’s Shoulder Straps

1st Mass. Vols. – Edwin Y. Brown Describes Head being Blown off at Bull Run

Civil War Postal Cover Signed by Col. (Later Brig-Gen.) Robert Latimer McCook, 9th Ohio Infantry, One of Ohio’s “Fighting McCook’s” – Killed by a Confederate Guerrilla

Johnson’s Island, Ohio POW Camp – War Dated November 18, 1864 – Ladies Invitation to Join 1st Lieut. H. C. Strong of the 128th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for an Officer’s Ball

Interesting Excavated Relic – Box of Percussion Caps Dug at Cumberland Landing, Va. – Still full of all the caps!

Pair of Nice Sixth Plate Daguerreotype – Husband & Wife Found in Middleburg, Virginia

Civil War Cover Advertising the “Soldiers’ Portable Camp Writing Case

Civil War Excavated Stencil from One of the War’s Most Famous Regiments… The 20th Mass.

Soldier’s Letter 2nd Ohio Infantry Huntsville, AL. April 18th, 1863 – Great Description of the Plight of the Slave in Alabama – “The slaves down here are very poorly clothed” – Compares the Alabama Slaves to those in Kentucky!

Soldier in S.C. Militia Gives a Great Summary of Deteriorating Conditions in Charleston, S.C. – “I have but 2 shirts to my name at present, & they are on the eve of dissolution or secession to use the term applicable to the order of the day”

Special Limited First Edition of the Famous Reference Book, Autographs of the Confederacy

Inscribed Union Swords 1861-1865 by David V. Stroud

Following the Disastrous Union Defeat at Bull Run a “High Society” Lady Writes Her Brother in New York from Willard’s Hotel in Washington D.C., July 26th, 1861 – Great, Great Content!

Confederate General Thomas Jordan Writes from “Head Quarters, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, Fairfax Court-House October 14th, 1861”

Pair of Civil War Infantry Major Shoulder Straps - Excellent!

Photograph of the Charleston Waterfront House where High Ranking Union Officers were held to Deter Shelling the City by Union Vessels

35th Pa. Infantry Battle Letter Written by William D. Dixon Future Colonel & Brevet Brig-General – GREAT ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF DRANESVILLE, VA.

A Circuit Preacher who Regularly Preaches to the Warren Rifleman Asks General Beauregard for a “Passport” for the Manassas Gap Railroad – BEAUREGARD WRITES A NOTE ON THE REVERSE!

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

An Indian War Cavalry Colonel’s Straps, Belt Plate & Buttons – A Beautiful Display

Shipwreck Treasure Coin from the Spanish Vessel “El Cazador” – Best Example from Our Collection

17th South Carolina Volunteers - Starting the Cadet Riflemen Company by Capt. William S. Elliott, June 18th, 1860 Charleston, S.C.

OVM Buckle & Breastplate – As a Pair or Individually