1862 Letter by Sergeant Charles S. Cockett, 70th New York, Excelsior Brigade — Battle of Fair Oaks — Battle of Williamsburg — Celebrating the Return of General Daniel Sickles

$400.00

1863 Letter by General Alfred Pleasonton, Directing General John Buford's Cavalry to Communicate with General John Sedgwick's 6th Corps at Second Battle of Rappahannock Station

$395.00

SOLD

1866 Letter by General Edward W. Hinks, Contributing Funds toward G.A.R. Post 95 in Saugus, Massachusetts, Named in His Honor

$70.00

1864 Letter by Brigadier General Innis N. Palmer, Settling Dispute Over Soldier Pay Between Paymaster and His Staff Member

$175.00

1862 Confederate Muster Roll for Captain William A Walker's Company, 1st Battalion South Carolina Cavalry

$600.00

1864 Confederate Conscription Document Listing 13 Men Drafted to Serve from Georgetown District, South Carolina

$175.00

SOLD

1862 Confederate Muster Roll for 1st South Carolina Cavalry Signed by Colonel John L. Black

$400.00

1862 Confederate Company Return Document for Company D "Chester Troop," 1st South Carolina Cavalry, John's Island, South Carolina

$300.00

SOLD

1864 Confederate Conscription Document Listing 19 Men Drafted to Serve from York District, South Carolina

$140.00

1864 Request for Leave by Major Floyd Clarkson, 12th New York Cavalry, Endorsement Signed by Officers Including Brigadier General Innis N. Palmer and Brigadier General Richard H. Jackson

$275.00

SOLD

Lot of Letters Relating to Sergeant Levi T. Bishop, 5th Wisconsin, Discussing Early-War Preparations and Membership in the International Order of Good Templars

$295.00

1863 Letter by Private Julius P. Varney, 42nd Massachusetts — Pontoon Bridge Duty During Bayou Teche Campaign in Louisiana

$275.00

1864 Letter by Private Asa W. Googing, 11th Maine — Opinion of General Butler — "I wish we had some more just like him. Perhaps his is not so good a General as a great many others..."

$160.00

1861 War Department General Orders No. 10 — Secession Crisis — President Lincoln Dismisses Two Officers with Questionable Loyalty — Signed by Adjutant General James B. Fry

$150.00

1864 Letter by Colonel William C. Cooper, 142nd Ohio — Regiment Attached to 10th Corps at Bermuda Hundred — "have been in the front of both Grant’s & Butler’s army without being in any exposed danger"

$295.00

1864 Letter by Hospital Steward Hamilton McClurg, 102nd Ohio — Victory at Nashville — "Hood is now making for the Tennessee River with all haste and Thomas following close in his rear"

$160.00

1852 Letter by New York Asst. Commissary Gen. J. H. Hobart Ward, Discussing the Change from "U.S." Belt Plate to "S.N.Y." Design for State Militia Units — Ward Would Lead a Brigade at Gettysburg

$165.00

Pair of 1865 Confederate Engineer Bureau Orders to Return to Shreveport, Louisiana, After General Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition Failed

$300.00

Prewar Letter by Future Union General Robert C. Buchanan, Regarding Government's Infringement on His Patent for "Portable Canvass Boats"

$110.00

1862 Letter by Private William B. Lundie, 1st New Jersey — "We are going to Yorktown. I believe we go aboard the transports tomorrow or next day."

$140.00

1861 Letter by Private John March, 23rd New York — Skirmish at Falls Church — "the bullets whistled around our heads pretty thick...but we stood it like a man. The rebels ain’t as gritty as we are."

$325.00

1864 Letter by Brig. General John H. Hammond to Senator Henry Wilson — "I hope...you will get my Brevet rank changed into sure enough Brig Genl, as I am doing the work of one in the cavalry service"

$165.00

1865 Letter by Private George W. French, 4th Vermont — Paroled from Andersonville — "I want to get another crack at them sons of Graybacks…. They gave me a lesson that I never shall forget in my life"

$475.00

1862 Letter by Private G. H. Tanner, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves — Northern Virginia Campaign — First Battle of Rappahannock Station — "Washington is in greater danger than Richmond ever was"

$260.00

1862 Letter by Brig. General George M. Robeson, New Jersey State Militia, to Governor Charles S. Olden, Regarding Promotion for His Brother Lieut. William P. Robeson, Jr., 3rd New Jersey Infantry

$170.00

1863 Letter by Brigadier General Henry Shaw Briggs — "Last evening...I was startled by the blast of a band under my window while busily writing—a serenade from the 150th N.Y."

$160.00

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

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

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

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

$35.00

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

$20.00

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

$20.00

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

April 1862 Commissary Voucher Signed by Brigadier General John J. Peck — "The 4th Army Corps was ordered to move at daylight and the rations could not be had elsewhere"

$130.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

1870s Handbill Advertising the National Copying Company of Atlanta, Georgia — Specialists in "Painting Large Portraits from Daguerreotypes, Ambrotype Photographs"

$40.00