A grouping of 8 pieces of Civil War era / late 19th century clothing, including one shirt labeled in period script with the name of William Henry Tabb (1837-1864), Captain,14th Mississippi Regt., CSA (killed in action). The grouping includes 3 men’s white fine linen or cotton shirts, 2 men’s white cotton waistcoats or vests and 1 men’s brown silk […]
Lot 508: Civil War Era Autograph Album with Broadside, MS, TN, AL related
Autograph Album with pasted in Broadside and other ephemera related to CSA Capt. William H. Tabb, 14th Mississippi Co. G, Agency Rifles (b. 1837, killed in battle outside Atlanta, 1864). The album’s signature collection was begun in 1860 as Tabb’s Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN memory book and includes autographs of about 20 of his classmates […]
Lot 507: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta
An archive of letters and ephemera related to Confederate Captain William Henry Tabb (1837-1864), 14th Mississippi Regiment Co. G, Agency Rifles. Includes a 2 1/2 in x 2 in tintype photo of Tabb in Civilian clothes, his two signed appointments to 1st and 2nd Lieut. of the Agency Rifles Company of the Army of Mississippi signed by […]
Lot 506: Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA
Civil War era canteen belonging to Private Thomas Tabb Jr., CSA, 14th Mississippi (1840-1861), and 3 related letters. Tabb was a native of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, the son of Rev. Thomas Tabb and Mary Jones Tabb. He enlisted in a regiment co-organized by his older and only brother, William Henry Tabb (who would go on to become […]
Lot 505: Civil War Union Field Drum
Civil War painted field drum, the front with banner stenciled “J A Embich, Middletown”, most likely for Jacob A. Embich (Middletown, PA/1840 – 1917), who mustered into the Union Army’s 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, also known as the 35th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in 1861. He mustered out in 1864. The National Guard Veteran’s Card File […]
Lot 504: Civil War Ambrotype of Union Soldier, New York 1861
1861 Civil War Ambrotype photograph depicting a Union soldier standing with his shotgun leaning at his side; his Kepi and frock coat have been highlighted in gilt and light blue. Interior of case reads “HP Dow Plattsburgh NY 1861” in handwritten pencil. Housed under a scalloped, arched decorative gilt mat enclosed in a leather union case. 4 in H […]
Lot 503: 2 Civil War Tintypes of Union Soldiers
Two (2) Sixth-size color-highlighted Tintype photographs of Civil War Union soldiers. 1st Item: Seated Union soldier with Hardee hat pinned on one side, hands crossed, and revolver tucked into his belt. Highlighted in gold are his hat’s infantry bugle and Company C designation, belt buckle, buttons, cuff links, shoulder scales, and breastplate. Housed in wood/gutta percha union case. 2nd Item: […]
Lot 502: Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA
Ledger book with list of names, ages, heights, and some occupations of 152 persons enslaved on the landholdings of Mississippi planter and Southern aristocrat Ayres Phillips Merrill Jr. (Mississippi, 1825-1883). Pages 1-6 include a list of 93 individuals enslaved on Scotland and Genevieve plantations, Concordia Parish, Louisiana (Concordia County): 38 (ages 14-70) men, 31 women (ages 14-60), and 24 children […]
Lot 501: 1787 Mecklenberg Co. VA Court Clerk’s Notebook incl. Slave Related
Note book originally belonging to Edward Lowry Tabb (1769-1834), the clerk of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The cloth bound book appears to contain Tabb’s handwritten copies of approximately a dozen court records beginning in 1787, which provide a glimpse of life in the first few years of Virginia’s independence, just prior to its official statehood. Recorded are disputes between […]
Lot 500: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton ALS authorizing Colonel David Henley “to make advances on account of the pay due to the Troops of the United States in the Territory South West of the Ohio” up to $3,000. Dated September 18, 1794. The 10 in x 8 in double sheet letter is mounted at the top of the second page […]
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