Image Lot Price Description

2065
$1,265.00

LOT OF CIVIL WAR AND RELATED DOCUMENTS, LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. A mixed lot of interesting items, which include: an 1862 handwritten guardhouse report, an 1863 Confederate letter from Hiram Turner of the Hampton Legion, Camp Wigfall to his cousin, two Civil War covers dated 1863 and 1864, a muster out roll for Company I 34th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, printed general orders, New Orleans, 1865, an Oswego, New York Volunteer enlistment dated 1862, a quarter master report from Brandy Station, December, 1863, a character reference for Warren Ryder, Company B Battalion of US Engineers, a leather bound company order book for Company C, 2nd Regiment, Vermont Infantry with only 3 pages filled in, 2 post war letters from General William Tecumseh Sherman, one to I.H.S. Henessey Esq. regarding a proposed publication of the army register of the United States, dated 1880, the other is a letter to General Burnside regretting an engagement, dated 1887, a druggists bill dated April 1, 1910 to the son of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a 6-pg letter dated March 1797, an old copy photograph of the Thomas Moore home, a cabinet card of John Palmer, Comander of the National GAR in uniform with his GAR badge, and a copy of the book The Demon Of Andersonville or the Trial of Wirz published in Philadelphia around the turn of the century. CONDITION: All of the papers and photographs are in good to very good condition. An interesting group of Civil War and later archival material, including several important post war autographs. 4-56213-122 CW37 (500-700)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2005
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