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Lot 657: 5 CSA 1864 Currency Notes, incl. $500 Stonewall Note, $50 J. Davis Note

January 31, 2023 by

1st item: T-64 $500 five hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, February 17, 1864. Vignette bust portrait of General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, lower right, vignette of the Confederate flag and seal, left. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. Serial number 4379. For Register/For Treasurer signatures. 2nd item: T-66 $50 fifty dollar bill, […]

Lot 655: 375 Different Bound Minstrel & Civil War Songs, 1830-1870, Black Americana

January 31, 2023 by

Handbound book containing a collection of approximately three hundred and seventy-five (375) different printed poetical broadsides of song lyrics, also known as penny sheets or slip ballads, published by various companies, primarily in New York and Philadelphia, circa 1830s-70s. The broadsides are organized roughly alphabetically with one per page with no duplications. Hardbound octavo, approximately […]

Lot 654: 3 Civil War Confederate Items, incl. 1863 Slavery Related Letter, 2 1st Ed. Books, 5 items

January 31, 2023 by

1st item: Civil War era ALS. Four and-one-half page letter written on lined bifolium documents, written by A Daughter of Virginia, Richmond, VA, addressed to Miss Stevens, no location, possibly Baltimore, MD, dated January 22, 1863. The letter, written in response to other letters that the Daughter had found addressed to Miss Stevens' brother, expresses […]

Lot 652: Civil War Union POW Oscar Spelman Letter, Andersonville, 2nd Regt. MA Heavy Artillery, 4 items

January 31, 2023 by

1st-3rd items: Civil War era ALS. One page letter from Union soldier Private Oscar F. Spelman, 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Company G, written as a Prisoner of War at Camp Sumpter, commonly known as Andersonville, located near Andersonville, Georgia, dated May 2, 1864. Written shortly after Spelman's capture during the Battle of Plymouth (fought […]

Lot 653: Mason Family of KY Letter Archive, incl. Civil War Battle of Perryville

January 31, 2023 by

Thirty-seven (37) autographed letters signed (ALS) primarily written by Peter Baynhum Mason (1804-1870) of Danville, Kentucky to his wife Katherine “Kate” Aylett White Miller Shreve Mason (1820/22-1885) of Greensburg, KY, including (7) Civil War era letters that discuss the Battle of Perryville; the hanging of Union Captain H. King; Union and Confederate movements in the […]

Lot 651: 5 TN Civil War Related Political Items, incl. Gov. Harris ALS, Gov. Brownlow ALS

January 31, 2023 by

1st-2nd items: Civil War era ALS. One page handwritten letter signed by Tennessee Governor and Confederate sympathizer Isham Green Harris (1818-1897), 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862 and U.S. senator from 1877 until his death, Nashville, TN, written to an unknown recipient, dated February 26, 1861. The brief letter, written on stationary with […]

Lot 649: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson ALS to His Sister Laura, New Orleans Barracks, 1848

January 31, 2023 by

One page handwritten bifolium signed letter from Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863), written in the New Orleans Barracks, Louisiana, during his career as a Second Lieutenant in Company K of the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment, addressed to his sister Laura Ann Jackson Arnold (1826-1911), Beverly, Randolph County, [now West] Virginia, dated July 19, [no year […]

Lot 650: CSA Gen. J. C. Breckinridge Signed Letter to Brig. Gen. Thomas Gordan, 1862

January 31, 2023 by

Civil War era ALS. One page handwritten letter from Major General John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875), the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861, and Confederate Secretary of War in 1865, no location, to Brigadier General Thomas Jordan (1819-1895), no location, dated May 16, no year but believed to […]

Lot 648: Robert E. Lee Signed $20 CSA Bill & Lee CDVs, incl. Anthony & Brady Marks, 2 items

January 31, 2023 by

Photograph album containing fourteen (14) carte de visite (CDV) depicting Lee, including eight (8) depicting bust portraits of Lee in his Civil War era Confederate uniform, three (3) with studio marks including C.D. Fredericks and Company, NY, Morseâs Gallery of the Cumberland, Nashville, TN, and The Lee Gallery, Richmond, VA; one (1) full-length standing portrait […]

Lot 647: Robert E. Lee Signed CDV, Traveller & Lee CDV by Plecker, 2 items

January 31, 2023 by

1st item: Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) signed carte-de-visite (CDV) depicting a bust portrait of Lee in his Civil War-era Confederate uniform. Signed "R E Lee" to white archival tape affixed to bottom of CDV. No studio marks. 4 1/8" H x 2 1/2" W. 2nd item: CDV depicting Lee standing in profile beside his most […]