1863 Letter by Lieut. Alonzo A. Vanderford, 21st South Carolina — On the Defense of Fort Wagner After July Battles — "The old place holds out yet, and is still strong enough to keep the yanks back"

$350.00

SOLD

1862 Letter by Private Philip Crewell, 34th New York — Assigning Blame for Antietam Losses — "if General Frencheé had come up on our left as he was ordered, we wouldn’t of been outflanked"

$185.00

SOLD

April 1863 List of Quartermaster Stores Transferred from 3rd Corps to 71st New York, Two Days Before Battle of Chancellorsville

$35.00

SOLD

1863 Order Granting Leave of Absence to Major Crawley P. Dake, 5th Michigan Cavalry — Later was US Marshal for Arizona Territory when Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Occurred

$80.00

SOLD

1860 Letter by Ambassador William Preston, Minister to Spain, Months Before Resigning to Join Confederacy — "There is no longer violence, rage, & fury, but the apathy that precedes death"

$500.00

Christmas 1862 Letter by Sergeant Herbert Merriam, 44th Massachusetts — Foster's Goldsboro Expedition — Accounts of Battles of Kinston and White Hall — Destruction of Railroad

$700.00

1864 Letter by Lt. Mathias E. Richards, Aide to Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett — June 18 Attack at Petersburg — "We have driven him out of several lines of works but he falls back into others ready prepared"

$325.00

1862 Letter by Private Levi Lewis, 35th Alabama Infantry — Second Battle of Corinth — "The General says that the 35th saved him, and that is a great prize, for is though we did not flinch."

$500.00

1863 Letter by General Henry Shaw Briggs — Commanding Draft Rendezvous Camp — Gen. Devens "says that he is mortified and pained 'at the failure of the draft in Mass.'—that it will not yield 3,000 men"

$200.00

1864 Letter by Corporal DeElton F. Joslin, 16th New York Heavy Artillery — Battle of New Market Heights — "My Regt was the nearest Regt in line of battle to Richmond City that has been since the war"

$240.00

1861 Letter by General John G. Barnard, Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac — Transfer of Artillery Between Forts — "You may send down two of the those siege guns (24”) to Fort Lyon from Fort Scott"

$175.00

1864 Military Telegraph — Franklin / Nashville Campaign — Quartermaster at Bridgeport Asked to "put the Employees of this Dept at work on fortifications"

$70.00

SOLD

Archive of Letters by Private DeWitt C. Ormsbee, 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery — Battles of Winchester and Fisher's Hill — Burning of the Shenandoah Valley — Rebels Use Colored Troops at Petersburg

$950.00

1865 Letter by Surgeon Charles N. Dennison, 8th Illinois Infantry, Relating News of the Death of Lieutenant Louis Butler, 46th Illinois

$175.00

1862 Letter by Gen. John J. Peck to New York Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, Re: 62nd New York Officer — "you could have had no knowledge of the gravity of the charges pending when [he was] permitted to resign"

$160.00

Archive of 8 Letters by Private Elisha P. Comstock, 34th New York & 186th New York — Hatcher's Run — Petersburg — Draft dodgers "never had ought to be permitted to come under the flag they deserted"

$750.00

1863 War Department General Orders No. 189 — Interesting Court Martial Cases — 3rd Corps Chancellorsville Cowardice — 15th Massachusetts Sleeping Soldier — 34th New York Private Strikes an Officer

$25.00

SOLD

1865 Advertisements for Cooke & Abercrombie, "Agents for the Speedy Settlement of Officers' Accounts"

$35.00

1891 Letter by Samuel N. Collins, 1st North Carolina, to General George H. Steuart, Requesting Travel Assistance to Attend Unveiling of Stonewall Jackson Monument at Virginia Military Institute

$165.00

1865 General Orders No. 50 — Army of the James — Court Martial of Assistant Surgeon Ernest Sallman, 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry

$20.00

1862 Telegraph Message Signed by Colonel Benjamin F. Smith and then-Captain Wesley Merritt — "Is the 126th Ohio still camped at North Mountain?"

$225.00

Archive of Letters by Lieutenant Miles T. Jones, 85th New York & 160th New York — Manassas, Washington Fire, Losing a Gunboat, & More

$450.00

1864 Letter by 26th Massachusetts Soldier — First Battle of Deep Bottom — "we were within one hundred yards of the breastworks at the front what the rebs call Ben Butler’s Slaughter Pen"

$300.00

1863 Letter by Captain George W. Smith, 6th New York Heavy Artillery, Recommending Officer for Promotion — Endorsement Signed by Brigadier General William H. Morris

$125.00

1863 War Department General Orders No. 182 — Allocation of Officers When Regiment Falls Below Minimum Number

$20.00

SOLD

1863 War Department General Orders No. 224 — Government Case Against Daniel Able Annulled in Memphis, Tennessee

$15.00

February 1863 Letter by Colonel Oliver Hazard Palmer, 108th New York — "I have worked up my courage to the sticking point and this morning presented my papers to the Sec of War asking to be relieved"

$285.00

1863 War Department General Orders No. 12 — Captain George T. Woodson, 16th US Infantry, "is hereby dismissed the service of the United States"

$20.00

March 1865 Letter by Corporal John F. Hutchison, 209th Pennsylvania — Days before Fort Stedman — "there will be something done before long, as the sutler and all the mechanics are ordered to the rear"

$200.00

1864 Letter by Private Charles T. Moody, 5th New Hampshire — Second Battle of Deep Bottom — "the old 2nd Army Corps had once more done its duty in driving the enemy"

$375.00

1840 Annual Militia Return for Medford, Massachusetts — Names of 481 Local Men Enrolled

$85.00

May 1865 General Orders No. 7 — Military Division of the James — Civil Offices Responsible to Military Authorities in Immediate Postwar Richmond

$25.00

1863 ALS by Brigadier General Hector Tyndale — Aftermath of Gettysburg Campaign — Capture of Rebel on "whose person was found a large pocket book and some papers belonging to Major Genl. John Pope"

$475.00

1862 Discharge Certificate for Private Michael McMullen, 10th Massachusetts — Signed by Several Officers Including Brigadier General Innis N. Palmer

$130.00

SOLD

1864 Letter by Lieut. Valentine H. Voorhies, 13th New York Heavy Artillery — Assigned to Gunboat "Reno" on Neuse River — Signed by Generals Innis N. Palmer and Edward Harland

$240.00

1864 Letter by Col. Alfred P. Rockwell, 6th Connecticut — Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads — "the enemy fell back rapidly without further fighting...satisfied that we were too strong for him"

$425.00

[1862] Letter by Captain Claude Gibson, while Organizing Gibson's Louisiana Battery — "only the officers are sufficiently drilled in Battery maneuvers to appear on parade & inspection"

$190.00

Archive of 1862 Letters by First Lieutenant Abraham Young, 101st Pennsylvania Volunteers — Siege of Yorktown

$875.00

1864 Request for Leave by Future Medal of Honor Recipient George E. Albee, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters & 36th Wisconsin — Signed by Colonel Adrian R. Root, 94th New York

$200.00

1862 Discharge Certificate for Private William H. Benedict, 26th Ohio Volunteers — Twice Signed by General John F. Miller as Colonel of 29th Indiana

$90.00

1863 Letter by Captain George W. Hindes, Commanding 96th New York, Requesting Promotion for Sergeant Henry C. Buckman — Signed by Brigadier General Lewis C. Hunt

$125.00

1862 Letter by Private Harlan P. Martin, 7th New York Cavalry — "The troops across the river expect a battle every day…and all the regiments this side of the River are under marching orders"

$225.00

November 1863 Letter by Colonel Charles C. Crews, 2nd Georgia Cavalry, to General Joseph Wheeler's Staff Regarding Courier Line from Guntersville to Army of Tennessee Headquarters

$250.00

1863 Letter by Sergeant Bruce Elmore, 143rd New York — Battle of Wauhatchie — "Our Regt was lightly engaged. Had 6 or 7 men wounded, one mortally"

$240.00

1865 Letter by Pvt J. H. Mandeville, 140th NY — On Meeting Gen Robert Anderson: "I saw the hero of Fort Sumter & had 15 minutes talk with him. He is a very kind and approachable man.”

$200.00

Excellent Small Letter and Document Archive of Lieutenant John Kelt, 2nd Connecticut and 21st Massachusetts Infantry

$475.00

1864 Letters to Retired General William K. Strong Concerning the Dismissal of His Son, Captain Marcellus G. V. Strong, from Rosecran's Department of Missouri

$200.00

Army of the James April 13, 1865, General Order Assigning General Benjamin C. Ludlow to Command District of the Peninsula

$25.00

Early Ohio Militia Document Related to Election and Resignation of Captain Addison Hunt of Geauga County, Signed by General James H. Paine

$95.00

1862 Treasury Department Letter to Marine Corps Paymaster, Major William W. Russell - Regarding Dismissal of Marine Lieutenant George W. Cummins

$80.00

Handbill Advertising 1862 Dance Hosted by Company K, 3rd Massachusetts in West Bridgewater, Mass.

$175.00

Lot of 3 Prewar U.S. Navy Pay Receipts for J. M. LaBarte, 1856-1858

$50.00

1863 Union War Department General Orders No. 182 - Rules for when Regiment Falls Below Minimum Number

$18.00

1863 Order - Drill Schedule for General David B. Birney's Division - Captain J. C. Briscoe

$150.00