Group of five (5) United Confederate Veterans reunion ribbons, badges, and buttons. 1st item: Richmond, VA UCV Army of Northern Virginia Louisiana Division reunion printed grosgrain and satin ribbon, May 29, 1890. Features a quotation about the Army of Northern Virginia from "Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac" by William Swinton, first published 1866. […]
Lot 543: 2 UCV Reunion Ribbons
Two (2) United Confederate Veterans reunion ribbons. 1st item: Louisville, KY UCV reunion badge, June 14, 1905. Consists of a metal hanger with "Forrest Camp No. 4 Chattanooga, Tenn." with two silk ribbons, one red with a silk covered button with "U. C. V." in a laurel wreath and one off white ribbon. Manufacturer's marks […]
Lot 544: 4 Chattanooga, TN UCV items
Four (4) Chattanooga, TN United Confederate Veterans items. 1st item: Blank N. B. Forrest Camp No. 3 Confederate Veterans, Chattanooga, TN certification document. Lithographed by August Gast Bank Note & Lithography Company, St. Louis and New York. The document is intended to certify that an individual entered the military service of the Confederate States of […]
Lot 542: 3 TN UCV Ribbons
Three (3) Tennessee United Confederate Veterans badges and ribbons. 1st item: Chattanooga, TN, N. B. Forrest Camp No. 4 UCV reunion badge, circa 1898. Consists of a metal hanger embossed "United Confederate Veterans Reunion" with a laurel wreath and two cross rifles with a central image of Nathan Bedford Forrest with a printed silk ribbon […]
Lot 541: 9 UCV Badges and Buttons
Nine (9) United Confederate Veterans (UCV) badges and buttons. 1st item: Birmingham, AL Fourth UCV reunion badge, 1894. Consists of a gold tone metal hanger embossed "Birmingham" and a gold tone metal five pointed star drop embossed "Fourth Reunion 1894" around a Confederate flag with "U C V" and the images of cross swords and […]
Lot 540: 4 South Carolina UCV items, inc. Chickamauga
Four (4) South Carolina United Confederate Veterans items belonging to Colonel Tomlinson Fort. 1st item: Chickamauga Battlefield Monument, South Carolina unveiling reception off white printed silk ribbon, May 27, 1901. Depicts the palmetto of the South Carolina state flag above "Reception Unveiling South Carolina Monument May 27 1901". Stick pin, top of ribbon. 6 1/2" […]
Lot 539: 4 Civil War Related Books, inc. 1st Ed. Cleburne's Command
Four (4) Civil War related books. 1st item: Cleburne and His Command, 1st Edition, by Irving A. Buck, 1908. Published by the Neale Publishing Company, New York and Washington. Octavo, 382 pages including appendices and index, steel engraved frontispiece with six illustrations, hardbound in tooled green cloth covers with gilt lettering to covers and spine, […]
Lot 537: 4 Framed CDVs: CSA Genls, TN Govs
Four (4) framed Cartes de Visite (CDVs) with signatures depicting 19th century Southern political figures; two frames containing two CDVs each. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) framed CDVs depicting Wade Hampton III and Matthew Calbraith Butler, politicians from South Carolina and Confederate generals. Signed by each on the mat below CDVs, dated "Jan'y 2nd 91", below […]
Lot 538: Post Civil War Asst. Quartermaster Copybook, Captain W. J. Colburn, Knoxville
Post Civil War Quartermaster holograph folio letter copybook of Webster J. Colburn, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, United States Volunteers and veteran of the Union Army. The majority of the manifest is comprised of 365 carbon copies of letters from Colburn, writing from the Office of the Assistant Quartermaster, in Knoxville, TN, dated September 21 to […]
Lot 536: Burial of Latane engraving, 19th c.
Burial of Latane engraving, painted by W.H. Washington, engraved by A.G. Campbell, burial scene of white women and slaves burying a soldier of the 9th Virginia Cavalry. Image was originally a large painting by W.H. Washington. It then was mass produced as an engraving and became an iconic image of The Lost Cause in the […]