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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

Original Charleston “Servant” Slave Badge – A Beauty Dated 1851

HAND CARVED SPOON FROM BONE Purchased from Private Johnson’s Island Collection in Tiffin, Ohio

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

Rare Patriotic Stationery Showing “View of Fort McHenry, Baltimore” – Written from there January 24th, 1862 by William Dubos – He Numbers Several Buildings in the Image & Describes them in the letter

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

THE ULTIMATE SOUVENIOR: APRIL 2, 1861 - FORT SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA - AS ROBERT ANDERSON AND HIS 9 OFFICERS AWAIT RESCUE IN THEIR BLOCKADED FORT, THEY SIGN AN AUTOGRAPH PAGE… NO DOUBT KEPT BY ONE OF THEM AS A KEEPSAKE

THE FORT SUMTER MEDAL - AS GIVEN TO ROBERT ANDERSON ONE OF THREE MINTED, THIS ONE DEACCESSED FROM THE N.Y. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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

Perhaps the Most Unusual Prisoner of War "Relics" that We Have Seen! — Seaweed Collected at Point Lookout, Maryland in the Summer of 1864 by Oswald Tilghman!

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

24th Iowa Vol. Silver I.D. Disc – Cyrus McKee, Co. I – Killed on April 2nd, 1864 by Guerillas in Natchitoches, LA.

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

Sixth Plate Ambrotype of a Gold Miner Holding his “Tools” along with a Gold Nugget which is Pinned to the Case & What is Left of an Original I.D.: “Gold Nugget from Leadville, Col.”

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

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!

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

An Amazing Pair of Triple Border Civil War Infantry Colonel’s Straps Plus His Sword Knott

Stonewall’s Man, Sandie Pendleton Writes Home to his Mother During the Valley Campaign, April 1862 – Includes Excellent Postally Used

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

Signed on the Front CDV – James H. Kellogg, 6th Michigan Cavalry – Under Custer in the Gettysburg Campaign, was Wounded and Captured at Falling Waters, Md.

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

Nice Celluloid UCV Augusta, Ga. November 1903 Pin – Has 3 Beautiful Confederate Flags at its Center

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

Stunning Army of Northern Virginia “Reception and Banquet” Program – Louisiana Division, New Orleans, February 1891 – I.D. to E. St. Martin of the 8th Louisiana Regiment – (Check out the menu and the beautiful Confederate flag)

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)

Confederate Railroad Voucher to Transport the Carolina Light Infantry - Charlotte & S.C. Railroad - August 27th, 1861

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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