Large Civil War photograph mounted on card stock titled "Crawfish Springs Chickamauga 1863". Inscriptions lower left margin, "Picket at Crawfish Spring GA. July 1864 C.H.B." and lower right corner, "Sharing a Picket Perk". Pencil inscription verso, upper left corner, "Major Charles H. Boyd" and in crayon "Boyd" and lower left corner, "On the Battlefield of […]

Two (2) Civil War items. 1st item: Civil War charcoal and gouache drawing on cardstock signed L. P/Finger lower right and dated July 1862. Inscribed and titled en verso "Made for C. H. B. by L. F/ Finger, U.S. Blackgards (sic), Washington, 1862". Drawing depicts African American United States troops in a camp setting, 3 […]

Civil War era Annin and Company American hand-sewn 36-star flag , comprised of applied cotton on linen ground with two brass grommets. Maker's stencil "Annin & Co N.Y. 5", top left near grommet. 32 1/2" H x 58" W. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Descended in the family of Charles […]

Large Civil War photograph mounted on card stock depicting Rossville Gap in Missionary Ridge with Union soldier right foreground and the former home of Cherokee Chief John Ross right background, which was used as the headquarters of Major General Gordon Granger, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, at Rossville Gap during the Battle of Chickamauga. […]

Large Civil War photograph mounted on card stock depicting Confederate artillery captured at the Battle of Chattanooga, November 1863. Inscriptions lower left margin, "Captured Guns, Mission Ridge Nov 1863" and lower right corner, "Parked opposite General (?illeg — Thomas?) Headquarters in Chattanooga. Pencil inscription verso, upper left corner, "C. H. Boyd" and in crayon "Boyd". […]

Ten (10) Southern related documents. 1st item: Pre Mexican-American War letter from Governor of Mississippi Albert G. Brown (1813-1880), Executive Chamber, Jackson, MS, to Brigadier General G. M. Brooke, County Military Division, New Orleans, LA, dated September 2, 1845, reading "General, The Battalion recently called for by the President from this States is not yet […]

Civil War-era tooled leather and brass bound album of forty-nine (49) photographic images, including forty-seven (47) cartes-de-viste, fifteen (15) depicting various Union Army and Naval officers and soldiers. Cartes-de-viste subjects include Henry Clay, Martha and George Washington, two depicting Union Army Brigadier General Robert Anderson (1805-1871), one taken when he was a Major, labeled "Taken […]

Civil War era ink on laid paper hand drawn map depicting West Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. The strategical map focuses on towns, cities, and railroad stations and their positions along the railroads, rivers, and roads of the region. Towns, cities, and stations identified include Paris, Hainbolt, Lexington, Henderson, Bolivar, Grand Junction, McNairy, Saltillo, […]

Two (2) Colton Civil War maps, 3 items total. 1st item: J.H. Colton, Civil War era map of the United States showing Military Stations and Forts, prepared for The Rebellion Record, New York: G.P. Putnam, 1861. Civil War era map showing both Federal and Confederate states. Image – 14 5/8" x 15 3/4". Sheet – […]

Three (3) Jefferson Davis items, including Confederate Electoral Ticket. 1st item: Jefferson Davis Confederate Electoral Ticket from the State of Virginia, Wednesday, November 6th, 1861. Includes Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, "for Vice-President", with John R. Edmunds, Halifax, and Allen T. Caperton, Monroe "for the state at large", with sixteen candidates "For the Districts", and […]