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Lot 631: Army of Tennessee by Stanley Horn, Presentation Copy signed by Margaret Mitchell

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THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE by Stanley Fitzgerald Horn. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 503 pp. Presentation copy from Margaret Mitchell to her brother Stephens. Signed by both Horn and Margaret Mitchell: “Inscribed for / Stephens Mitchell / with best wishes of Stanley F Horn” and “To Stephens / from Margaret / Nov. […]

Lot 629: Civil War CSA Saddlebags & Socks, Bledsoe Co. Family

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Civil War era Crow or Y-Strap leather saddlebags, comprised of double bags and connecting yoke with cow hair on flaps and blue ticking interior. Flaps close with a “Y” shape billet, a characteristic of Confederate construction as illustrated on page 111 of the book CONFEDERATE SADDLES AND HORSE EQUIPMENT by Ken R. Knopp. Similar to […]

Lot 628: 2 Southern Crosses – Coleman Scouts and Beauregard

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2 Southern Crosses of Honor for Confederate Soldiers, William J. Moore and Victor A. Beauregard of New Orleans. Moore (1840-1913) was born in Tennessee and was a member of the Coleman Scouts. He served alongside the legendary Sam Davis of Smyrna, Tennessee. Private V.A. Beauregard served in the Miles Legion Volunteer Infantry Company C (Turner’s, […]

Lot 627: 1860’s Diary & Photo of W. H.H. Gaines, E. TN, Civil War related

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Diary and Photo of William Henry Harrison Gaines (1836-1910), East Tennessee Union Sympathizer & Refugee. Gaines, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, fled East Tennessee in 1862 to avoid conscription into the Confederate army due to his Union and Abolitionist sympathies. Additional item – Cabinet card pictures Gaines and his second wife Amanda Maria (Seneker), likely on […]

Lot 626: Andrew Johnson Presidential Pardon & Signed Seward Document

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1st item: President Andrew Johnson, Warrant of Pardon, “Executive clemency for taking part in the rebellion against the government of the United States” issued to Thomas L. Williams of Greeneville, TN, dated January 21st, 1867, signed by Andrew Johnson and William H Seward, Secretary of State, with the United States Great Seal, 2 pages. 18″ […]

Lot 625: Rare 15th Amendment Illustration, 1872

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Extremely scarce Black voting rights related illustration, “Voting by Ballot in the United States,” from the English magazine “The Graphic,” published Nov. 23, 1872. The image depicts an African American man in suit and hat, casting a ballot at the center of a busy polling place, surrounded entirely by white men wearing clothing suggesting a […]

Lot 624: Abraham Lincoln Embossed Mourning Card & Centennial Ribbon

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1st item: US President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) mourning card embossed with a relief image of a tombstone on a black ground titled “in Memory of Abrahan Lincoln, Requiescat in Pace” with a quote from his second inauguration. 4 5/8″ H x 3 1/2″ W. Circa April 1865. 2nd item: US President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) satin […]

Lot 623: Abraham Lincoln Signed Governmental Document, 1863

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President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) signed U.S. government document appointing Nathan Sargent to the office of the Levy Court of the County of Washington, District of Columbia, for a term beginning on March 12, 1863, and lasting through December 31, 1863. Signed by President Lincoln lower right and countersigned by Secretary of State William […]

Lot 622: Civil War Gens. Stewart, Mitchel, Ewell & Wheeler Ephemera & Book

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ALS and other ephemera bearing the signatures of Civil War Generals A.P. Stewart, Ormsby Mitchel, Richard Ewell, Joseph Wheeler. 1st item: Civil War Confederate Gen. Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908) ALS dated Lebanon, TN, June 16, 1866, to Henry Watterson, part owner of the Republican Banner newspaper, pleading for work. Stewart writes that “the close of […]