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Vintage Lighting Arts and Crafts style pendant light H 24in. x D 16in   <b>Medal of Honor Recipient for gallantry at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia He was wounded 4 times during the Civil War Captured the notorious Indian Chief Geronimo RETAIL PRICE $225.00</b> (1839-1925) Born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm, he intensely read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Working in Boston at the commencement of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army on September 9, 1861, and was commissioned 1st lieutenant, in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on May 31, 1862, and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 61st New York Infantry, and thereafter was inscribed on the annals of American military history creating a record seldom if ever equaled by a volunteer soldier. He was wounded 4 times during the Civil War; these coming at the battles of Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Petersburg. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry at Chancellorsville. He also fought in the battles of Antietam, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and in the Appomattox campaign. In 1866, he served as the Commandant at Fort Monroe, and ultimately became the jailor of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, putting him in irons. Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains, and he later gained fame as the captor of the notorious chief of the Apaches, Geronimo. In 1895, Miles became General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, a post he held during the Spanish–American War. Miles commanded forces at Cuban sites such as Siboney, and after the surrender of Santiago de Cuba by the Spanish, he led the invasion of Puerto Rico. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, the 77-year-old General Nelson Miles offered to serve, but President Woodrow Wilson turned him down. Miles died in 1925 at the age of 85 from a heart attack while attending the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, D.C. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Miles Mausoleum. It is one of only two mausoleums within the confines of the cemetery. <u>Typed Letter Signed</u>: 5 x 8, typed letter signed, on imprinted letter head. Headquarters Of The Army Washington, D.C. June 27, 1901 Ralph B. Prime, Esq., President, American Flag Association, Yonkers, N.Y. Dear Sir: I have received your favor of the 24th instant, informing me of my election as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Flag Association, and it will give me pleasure to serve as such. I am unable to say definitely whether I can attend the meeting of the Committee, to be held at the residence of Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 283 Lexington Avenue, New York, on July 11th next, but I will do so if possible. Very truly yours, Nelson A. Miles Beautifully tipped to an album page with black lined borders. Excellent signature and letter. Extremely desirable Medal of Honor recipient.   <b>Union Army Commander United States Congressman from California War period signature with rank RETAIL PRICE $125.00</b> (1819-98) Born on a farm near Little Taylor Run, in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio, he graduated #5 in the West Point class of 1842, and was known as "Old Rosy." Just days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Rosecrans offered his services to Ohio Governor William Dennison, and he was given command of the 23rd Ohio Infantry, whose members included Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley, both future presidents of the U.S. His plans and decisions proved extremely effective in the 1861 Western Virginia Campaign while serving under General George B. McClellan. His victories at Rich Mountain, and Corrick's Ford, in July 1861, were among the first Union victories of the war, and he was assigned to command what was to become the Department of Western Virginia. He was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army, ranking from May 16, 1861, and major general to rank from March 21, 1862. In May 1862, he directed the left wing of General John Pope's Army of the Mississippi in the advance on Corinth. When Pope was ordered east, General Rosecrans took over command of the army and fought and won the battles of Iuka and Corinth while under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant. Given command of the Army of the Cumberland, he fought against Confederate General Braxton Bragg, at the Battle of Stones River, and later outmaneuvered him in the brilliant Tullahoma Campaign, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee. He later fought at the bloody Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, where he was defeated, with a third of his army being swept from the field, and his troops ended up being trapped in the besieged city of Chattanooga. Following his humiliating defeat, General Rosecrans was reassigned to command the Department of Missouri, where he opposed General Sterling Price's Missouri Raid. General Rosecrans was mustered out of the U.S. volunteer service on January 15, 1866. After the war, he became a companion of the District of Columbia Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society of officers who had served in the Union armed forces. In 1868-69, Rosecrans served as U.S. Minister to Mexico. Rosecrans was elected as a U.S. Congressman from California, serving 1881-85, including being the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. He spoke at a grand reunion of Union and Confederate veterans at the Chickamauga battlefield, on September 19, 1889, delivering a moving address praising national reconciliation. This gathering led to Congress establishing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park the following year, the nation's first national battlefield park. General William S. Rosecrans died on March 11, 1898, at Redondo Beach, California, at the age of 78. His casket lay in state in the Los Angeles City Hall, covered by the headquarters flag that flew over Stones River, and Chickamauga. In 1908, his remains were interred in Arlington National Cemetery. <u>Signature With Rank</u>: 4 1/4 x 2 1/2, in ink, W.S. Rosecrans, Bvt. Major Genl., U.S.A. Excellent and bold Civil War era autograph.   <b>He accompanied President-Elect Lincoln on his train ride into Washington, D.C. in 1861 Wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, July 1861 He emancipated slaves in some of the southern states in 1862 without orders which caused quite a controversy! Presided over the trial of the Lincoln conspirators and was chosen to accompany the body of Mr. Lincoln to Springfield, Illinois for burial in 1865</b> (1802-86) His maternal grandfather was Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated in the West Point class of 1822, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Hunter was invited by President Elect Abraham Lincoln to travel with him on the inaugural train to Washington, D.C. in February 1861. Selected for high command by President Lincoln himself, Hunter became the 4th highest ranking officer in the volunteer army. He fought in the 1st battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was wounded in the neck and cheek while commanding a division under General Irvin McDowell. In August 1861, he was promoted to major general of volunteers and served as a division commander in the Western Army under General John C. Fremont. He was appointed commander of the Western Department on November 2, 1861. He achieved notability for his unauthorized, and controversial 1862 order which emancipated slaves in some of the southern states, but President Abraham Lincoln quickly rescinded this order, because he was concerned about its political effects in the border states, which he was desperately trying to keep neutral. Their leaders advocated instead a gradual emancipation with compensation for the slave holders. Despite Lincoln's concerns that immediate emancipation in the South might drive some slave-holding Unionists to support the Confederacy, the national mood was quickly moving against slavery, especially within the Federal Army. General Hunter was a strong advocate of arming black men as soldiers for the Union cause. Undeterred by the president's reluctance and intent on extending freedom to potential black soldiers, Hunter again flouted orders from the federal government, and enlisted ex-slaves as soldiers in South Carolina without permission from the War Department. This action incensed border state slaveholders. After the Battle of Fort Pulaski, Ga., where black Union soldiers from the North proved their bravery, Hunter began enlisting blacks as soldiers from the occupied districts of South Carolina. He formed the first such Union Army regiment, known as the 1st South Carolina African Regiment. He was initially ordered to disband it, but eventually got approval from Congress for his action. The Confederates reacted strongly to the Union efforts to emancipate Southern slaves, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued strict orders to the army that General Hunter was to be considered a "felon and to be executed if captured." Hunter took over command of the Army of the Shenandoah, and the Department of West Virginia on May 21, 1864. General Ulysses S. Grant ordered Hunter to employ scorched earth tactics similar to those that would be used later in the year during General William T. Sherman's infamous March to the Sea. General Hunter's troops moved from Staunton to Charlottesville to Lynchburg, "living off the country" and destroying the Virginia Central Railroad "beyond any possibility of repair for weeks." General Robert E. Lee was concerned enough about Hunter that he dispatched a corps under General Jubal A. Early to deal with him. On June 5, 1864, Hunter defeated General William E. "Grumble" Jones at the Battle of Piedmont. Following orders, Hunter moved up the Valley destroying military targets and other industries such as blacksmith shops and stables that could be used to support the Confederacy. After reaching Lexington, his troops burned down the celebrated Virginia Military Institute, on June 11, 1864, where General Stonewall Jackson had been a professor, and artillery instructor before the war. This was done in retaliation for the V.M.I. cadets fighting heroically in the battle of New Market, Va. Hunter also ordered the home of Governor John Letcher burned down to retaliate for its absent owner's having issued "a violent and inflammatory proclamation that incited the citizens of the country to rise up and wage guerrilla warfare on his troops." Hunter also wreaked havoc on Washington College, in Lexington, later named Washington and Lee University, in which General Robert E. Lee became its president after the war. According to General Fitzhugh Lee's biography of his uncle, Robert E. Lee, "Hunter had no respect for colleges, or the peaceful pursuits of professors and students, or the private dwellings of citizens, though occupied by women and children only, and during his three days occupancy of Lexington in June, 1864, the college buildings were dismantled, apparatus destroyed, and the books mutilated." General Hunter was thus given the name of "Black Dave." Hunter served in the honor guard at the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln, and accompanied his body back to Springfield, Illinois for burial. Thus Hunter had the unique distinction of accompanying Lincoln on his inaugural train trip from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., in February 1861, and his last one out of the Capitol city as he took Lincoln home to lie at rest in Springfield! He was the president of the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators after the president's assassination, the trial taking place in Washington, D.C., from May 8, 1865, to July 15, 1865. He retired from the U.S. Army in July 1866. General David Hunter died in Washington, D.C., on February 2, 1886, and is buried at the Princeton Cemetery, in Princeton, New Jersey. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Large bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general, wearing epaulets, Hardee hat with crossed sabers cavalry insignia, and the regimental numeral "1" clearly visible at the front of his hat, and the hilt of his sword is visible resting on his arm. No back mark. Excellent condition.

VINTAGE ECCLESIASTICAL PENDANT LIGHT $1250.00

  

Autograph, General Nelson A. Miles $195.00

  

Autograph, General William S. Rosecrans $100.00

  

CDV, General David Hunter $50.00
Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 7/8 card. Full seated view of a young man holding his accordion on his lap. Backmark: Miller's & Sprague's Photographic Studio, Walton, N.Y. Light age toning and wear. Bottom of the mount is very slightly trimmed. This photograph was taken in the early post war period. Fine occupational image.   <b>Slaves loading cotton onto a wagon</b> T-13. Richmond, Va., September 2d, 1861. Vignette of slaves loading cotton on a wagon at center, and a sailor standing next to a bale of cotton at left. Very fine plus condition. A very desirable early war Confederate States of America note.   <b>RETAIL PRICE $35.00</b> By Champ Clark, and The Editors of Time Life Books. Published by Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va., 1987. Hardcover with embossed gray leatherette cover with illustration of a war worn President Abraham Lincoln photographed in 1864. Also has a U.S. and C.S. belt plate, stars, crossed cannons, swords and cannon balls with the title of the book printed in blue. The title is also printed in blue on the spine. Large 9 x 11 size, 176 pages, index, maps, profusely illustrated. Excellent book on the assassination of our 16th President of the United States. Very desirable Lincoln book.   <b>Wounded at Salem Church, Virginia in the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign Commanded the 1st Corps at Gettysburg after the death of General John F. Reynolds</b> (1822-95) Born in Norfolk, Virginia, the city that his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1842, and was commissioned lieutenant in the elite Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the United States Military Academy, from 1843–46, and constructed numerous fortifications along the Atlantic coast, and the Great Lakes from 1846–52. He was a member of a special Gulf Coast defense board in 1856, and was appointed Chief Engineer, of the Utah Expedition in 1858. Newton, the native Virginian, remained loyal to the Union when the Civil War broke out in April 1861, and he was commissioned a brigadier general on September 23, 1861, and during the ensuing winter he employed his engineering skills to good use and strengthened the defenses around, Washington, D.C. During General McClellan's 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, Newton commanded a brigade in the ensuing battles. During the 1862 Maryland Campaign, he led a bayonet charge at South Mountain that resulted in taking the enemy position, and he also fought at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history, on September 17, 1862. Newton commanded a division in the 6th Corps, in the disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on December 13, 1862. He was conspicuous in storming Marye's Heights during the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign, and he was wounded at Salem Church, Va. At the battle of Gettysburg, he was appointed to take over the command of the 1st Corps after the death of General John F. Reynolds, during the first day's battle, on July 1, 1863, by the Commander of the Army of the Potomac George G. Meade. After Gettysburg, General Newton was sent west to join the Army of General William T. Sherman, who regarded him to be a skilled commander. Newton fought gallantly in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign, commanding the 2nd Division, 4th Corps, under command of General George H. Thomas. At the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga., he prevented a dangerous Confederate movement against Sherman and his rapidly constructed works allowed him to turn back the Confederate thrust, a victory that gained him accolades for his Civil War military career. After the capture of Atlanta, Newton commanded the District of Key West and the Tortugas, Florida, of the Department of the Gulf, from 1864 to 1866. After the war, Newton returned to the Corps of Engineers, where he oversaw improvements to the waterways around New York City, and to the Hudson River. He also had charge of New York Harbor defenses until he was appointed Chief of Engineers in 1884. He was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, and retired from the U.S. Army in 1886, after forty-four years of meritorious service. He served as Commissioner of Public Works, in New York City, from 1886–88, and as President of the Panama Railroad Company from 1888–95. General Newton died in New York City on May 1, 1895, of complications from a heart disease and was originally buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens on May 4, 1895. He was then re-interred at his beloved United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on June 14, 1895. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Back mark: Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, with a 2 cents blue, George Washington, Internal Revenue Playing Cards tax stamp, with stamped date, Sep. 19, 1864. Very fine. Extremely desirable Gettysburg general. Scarce.

CDV, Accordion Player Photographed in Wa $35.00

  

1861 Confederate $100 Note

 

The Assassination; Death of the Presiden $20.00

  

CDV, General John Newton $250.00
<b>Confederate Cavalry Leader, Army of Northern Virginia General Fitz Lee, was "one of the finest cavalry leaders on the continent." Quote from General J.E.B. Stuart Severely wounded at the battle of Winchester, Virginia Governor of Virginia</b> (1835-1905) Born at Clermont, in Fairfax County, Virginia, he was the nephew of General Robert E. Lee, the son of Captain Sydney S. Lee, [R.E. Lee's brother] C.S.N., and his first cousins were George Washington "Custis" Lee, W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr. He graduated in the West Point class of 1856, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, (later re-designated the 5th Cavalry Regiment), which was commanded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and in which his uncle, Robert E. Lee, was lieutenant colonel. As a cavalry subaltern, he distinguished himself by his gallant conduct in actions against the Comanches in Texas and was severely wounded in a fight in Nescutunga, Texas, in May 1859. In May 1860, he was appointed instructor of cavalry tactics at the United States Military Academy, but he resigned his commission upon the declared secession of his native Virginia. A favorite of General J.E.B. Stuart, Fitz Lee played a gallant role in all of the operations of the Cavalry Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the Confederate raid on Catlett's Station, Va., he captured the headquarters tent, and dress uniform of General John Pope, and presented Pope's coat to General Stuart as a gift. Fitz Lee performed very well in the Maryland Campaign of 1862, covering the Confederate infantry's withdrawal from South Mountain, delaying the U.S. Army advance to Sharpsburg, Maryland, before the Battle of Sharpsburg around Antietam Creek, and covering his army's recrossing of the Potomac River into Virginia. Stuart's cavalry made its second ride around the Union Army in the Chambersburg Raid before returning in time to screen General Robert E. Lee's movement towards Fredericksburg, where the cavalry defended the extreme right of the Confederate line. Fitz Lee conducted the cavalry action of Kelly's Ford, on March 17, 1863 with great skill and success, where his 400 troopers captured 150 men and horses with a loss of only 14 men. In the Battle of Chancellorsville, fought May 1,2 & 3, 1863, Fitz Lee's reconnaissance found that the Union Army's right flank was "in the air" which allowed the successful flanking attack by General "Stonewall" Jackson, a movement led by Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, who routed General O.O. Howard's 11th Corps. In the Gettysburg Campaign, his most significant contribution was at the Battle of Carlisle. He did not fare as well on East Cavalry battlefield, on July 3, 1863, where Stuart's troopers tangled viciously with the Union cavalry led by General David M. Gregg who saved General Meade's rear. General J.E.B. Stuart wrote in his after battle report that no officer in his command deserved more praise than Fitz Lee, who he said was "one of the finest cavalry leaders on the continent, and richly [entitled] to promotion." During the withdrawal from Gettysburg, General Fitz Lee's cavalry brigade held the fords at Shepherdstown, Va., to prevent the Federal Army from following across the Potomac River. Lee was promoted to major general on August 3, 1863, and continued to serve under General Stuart's command. While his uncle maneuvered the Army of Northern Virginia back into central Virginia, Lee's division launched a successful ambush on the Union cavalry at the Battle of Buckland Mills, Va., that fall. In the Overland Campaign of spring 1864, Fitz Lee was constantly employed as a divisional commander under Stuart. Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lee's cavalry division played a pivotal role in impeding the Union Army in its race to ultimately get to Spotsylvania Court House first. Lee particularly distinguished himself at Spotsylvania, where the stand of his division made it possible for the 1st Corps, A.N.V., to secure the strategic crossroads in advance of Grant's arrival with the main Federal column. While fighting at Spotsylvania, J.E.B. Stuart was detached from the army to thwart Union cavalry General Phillip H. Sheridan's raid on Richmond. The mission ultimately ended in the mortal wounding of General Stuart at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Va. After Stuart's death, Lee served under General Wade Hampton, who had been Fitz Lee's peer for much of the war, and was promoted to replace Stuart due to his seniority, and more significant experience; some observers at the time had expected General Robert E. Lee's nephew to receive the command. At the Battle of Trevillian Station, Va., Hampton's cavalry prevented General Sheridan's cavalry from aiding General David Hunter's force in western Virginia, where it was sure to have inflicted significant damage on General Robert E. Lee's supply, and communication lines. The battle also served to screen General Jubal A. Early's move from Richmond to aid Lynchburg, which General Hunter was set to besiege. At the Third Battle of Winchester, on September 19, 1864, three horses were shot out from under Fitz Lee, and he was severely wounded. When General Hampton was sent to assist General Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina, the command of the whole of General Robert E. Lee's cavalry force devolved upon his nephew, General Fitzhugh Lee, but the surrender at Appomattox Court House was soon to follow as General U.S. Grant had surrounded General Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia, making further battle fruitless, and only leading to many more deaths. Fitzhugh Lee himself led the last charge of the Confederates on April 9, 1865, at Farmville, Virginia. He was elected the 40th Governor of Virginia in 1885, serving until 1890, and was later appointed Consul General at Havana. At the outbreak of the Spanish American War, he was commissioned Major General, U.S. Volunteers, and once again donned the old blue United States Army uniform that he had taken off in 1861 when he joined the Confederacy! He died on April 28, 1905, at Washington, D.C., at the age of 69, and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view in Confederate uniform. "Genl. Fitz Hugh Lee" is written in period ink on the front of the card. Back mark: E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Very fine. Extremely popular Confederate cavalry general, and a prominent member of the famous Lee family of Virginia.   (1821-96) Born in Georgetown, Kentucky, he graduated in the West Point class of 1842. He was brevetted for gallantry during the Mexican War for his actions at the battles of Cerro Gordo, and Contreras. He was an original member of the Aztec Club. (a military society founded in 1847 by United States Army officers who fought in the Mexican War.) He later served as an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned a major general in the Confederate Army. During the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, he commanded a wing of the Army of Northern Virginia. He served briefly in 1862 as Confederate Secretary of War, and later became an aide to General P. G. T. Beauregard. General Smith served as the superintendent of the important Etowah Iron Works in 1863-64. He then organized the Georgia state forces and fought with them with marked excellence, particularly on the Chattahoochee before the battle of Atlanta, and on the fortified lines at Savannah. He surrendered at Macon, Georgia, on April 20, 1865. G.W. Smith authored several books including; "Confederate War Papers," in 1884, "The Battle of Seven Pines," in 1891, and "Generals J. E. Johnston, and G. T. Beauregard at the Battle of Manassas, July 1861," in 1892. His final work, "Company "A," Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846–48, in the Mexican War," was published in 1896, after his death. General Gustavus Woodson Smith died in New York City, on June 24, 1896, at the age of 74, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, in New London, Connecticut. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Full standing view in civilian attire posing in the "pledge" position. Back mark: Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, From a Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Very fine image.   Unused, Union patriotic envelope, with red, white and blue colors. Vignette of an American flag, spread winged eagle, and Union shield. Complete with back flap. Light age toning and wear. Fine.   Milledgeville, Ga., February 1st, 1863. The State Of Georgia One Hundred Dollars. Georgia State Arms at upper center flanked on both sides by "100." Bust of Georgia's Civil War Governor Joseph E. Brown, cotton plant, and wheat in panel at left. Hundred in panel at right. Signed in ink by the Comptroller General, and Treasurer. Georgia Treasury Seal is stamped in black on the verso. Near uncirculated condition. Very nice war date Georgia note with an orange overprint at the center.

CDV, General Fitzhugh Lee $250.00

  

CDV, General Gustavus W. Smith $125.00

  

Patriotic Cover, Liberty and Union $15.00

  

1863 State of Georgia $100 Note $125.00
<b>With vignette of Slaves picking cotton RETAIL PRICE $150.00</b> June 1, 1860, Savannah, Georgia, with vignettes of slaves picking and carrying cotton at right, and farm animals at left. There is also a railroad train at the bottom center of this attractive black and orange bank note. Two Dollars at center, with "2" at upper left and right. Printed by the American Bank Note Co. Very fine plus condition. WBTS Trivia: The Farmers and Mechanics Bank, of Savannah, Georgia, was formerly known as The Mechanics Savings Bank, and it started business in 1860, and did not survive the Civil War.   <b>"The Rock of Chickamauga" Native born Virginian, and confidant of General Robert E. Lee, Thomas fought for the Union which cost him his family! RETAIL PRICE $15.00</b> (1816-1870) He was born at Newsom's Depot, Southampton County, Virginia, which was five miles from the North Carolina border, and his family led an upper-class plantation lifestyle owning 685 acres and slaves. George Thomas, his sisters, and his widowed mother were forced to flee from their home and hide in the nearby woods during Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion. He taught as many as 15 of his family's slaves to read, violating a Virginia law that prohibited this. He graduated in the West Point class of 1840, and was known to his fellow cadets as "Old Tom," and he became instant friends with his roommates, future Union Civil War generals' William Tecumseh Sherman, and Stewart Van Vliet. He was appointed a cadet officer in his second year, and graduated 12th in a class of 42 and upon his graduation was appointed second lieutenant, Company D, 3rd U.S. Artillery. His first assignment out of the academy began with his artillery regiment serving at the primitive outpost of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during the Seminole Indian Wars, and Thomas was appointed a brevet first lieutenant for gallantry while successfully leading his men. From 1842 until 1845, he served at posts at New Orleans, La., Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor, and Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor where Francis Scott Key wrote our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." His regiment was ordered to Texas in 1845, and in the Mexican War, he led a gun crew with distinction at the battles of Fort Brown, Resaca de la Palma, Monterrey, and Buena Vista, receiving two more brevet promotions to captain and major. At Buena Vista, General Zachary Taylor (future U.S. President) reported that "the services of the light artillery, always conspicuous, were more than unusually distinguished" during the battle. General John E. Wool wrote about Thomas that "without our artillery we would not have maintained our position a single hour." Thomas's battery commander wrote that Thomas's "coolness and firmness contributed not a little to the success of the day. Thomas more than sustained the reputation he had long enjoyed in his regiment as an accurate and scientific artillerist." During the Mexican War, Thomas served very closely with an artillery officer who would become a principal antagonist in the Civil War, Captain Braxton Bragg, a future Confederate General. He returned to West Point as a cavalry and artillery instructor, where he established a close professional, and personal relationship with another Virginia officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee, the Academy superintendent, and future commander of the famous Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. His appointment at the academy was based in part on a positive recommendation from Braxton Bragg. Two of Thomas's students who received his recommendation for assignment to the cavalry, J.E.B. Stuart and Fitzhugh Lee, became prominent Confederate cavalry generals. On May 12, 1855, Thomas was appointed a major of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, later re-designated the 5th U.S. Cavalry, by Jefferson Davis, then U.S. Secretary of War. Once again, Braxton Bragg had provided a recommendation for George H. Thomas's advancement. There was a suspicion as the Civil War drew closer that Jeff Davis had been assembling, and training a combat unit of elite U.S. Army officers who harbored Southern sympathies, and Thomas's appointment to this regiment implied that his colleagues assumed he would support his native state of Virginia in a future conflict. Thomas resumed his close ties with the second-in-command of the regiment, Robert E. Lee, and the two officers traveled extensively together on detached service for court-martial duty. In October 1857, Major Thomas assumed acting command of the cavalry regiment, an assignment he would retain for 2 1/2 years. On August 26, 1860, during a clash with a Comanche warrior, Thomas was wounded by an arrow passing through the flesh near his chin area, and sticking into his chest at Clear Fork, Brazos River, Texas. Thomas pulled the arrow out and, after a surgeon dressed the wound, he continued to lead the expedition. Thomas's antebellum career had been distinguished and productive, and he was one of the rare officers with U.S. Army field experience in all three combat arms of service; the infantry, cavalry, and artillery. On his way home to southern Virginia, he suffered a mishap in Lynchburg, Virginia, falling from a train platform and severely injuring his back. This accident led him to contemplate leaving military service and caused him pain for the rest of his life. Continuing to New York to visit with his wife's family, Thomas stopped in Washington, D.C., and conferred with General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, advising Scott that General David E. Twiggs, the commander of the Department of Texas, harbored secessionist sympathies, and could not be trusted in his post. Twiggs did indeed surrender his entire command to Confederate authorities shortly after Texas seceded, and later served as a general in the Confederate Army. At the outbreak of the Civil War, 19 of the 36 officers in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry resigned, including three of Thomas's superiors; Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, and William J. Hardee. Many Southern-born officers were torn between loyalty to their states, and loyalty to their country. George Thomas struggled mightily with the decision, but decided to remain loyal to the United States. His Northern-born wife probably helped influence his decision. In response, his family turned his picture against the wall, destroyed his letters, and never spoke to him again. During the economic hard times in the South after the war, Thomas sent some money to his sisters, who angrily refused to accept it, declaring they had no brother! Thomas was one of the ablest Union commanders during the Civil War, and he saw action at Mill Springs, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stone's River, and Franklin & Nashville. However, his finest moment came during the battle of Chickamauga. His heroic stand on Horseshoe Ridge earned him the sobriquet of "The Rock of Chickamauga." Thomas had succeeded General William S. Rosecrans, in command of the Army of the Cumberland, shortly before the Battles for Chattanooga, on November 23–25, 1863, a stunning Union victory that was highlighted by General Thomas's troops taking Lookout Mountain, and then storming the Confederate line on Missionary Ridge. During General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through Georgia in the spring of 1864, the Army of the Cumberland numbered over 60,000 men, and Thomas's staff did the logistics, and engineering for General Sherman's entire army group, including developing a novel series of pontoon bridges. At the Battle of Peachtree Creek, on July 20, 1864, Thomas's severely damaged General John Bell Hood's army in its first attempt to break through the siege of Atlanta. When General Hood broke away from Atlanta in the autumn of 1864, and menaced Sherman's long line of communications, and endeavored to force Sherman to follow him, but Sherman cut his communications, and embarked on his infamous "March to the Sea." General Thomas stayed behind to fight Hood in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, and with a smaller force, raced with Hood to reach Nashville. At the Battle of Franklin, on November 30, 1864, a large part of Thomas's force, under command of General John M. Schofield, dealt Hood a strong defeat, and held him in check long enough to cover the concentration of Union forces in Nashville. General Thomas attacked General Hood on December 15, 1864, and the Battle of Nashville effectively destroyed Hood's army in two days of fighting. Thomas, sent the following telegram, "We have whipped the enemy, taken many prisoners and considerable artillery." Thomas was appointed a major general in the regular army, with date of rank of his Nashville victory, and received the Thanks of Congress in the following message: "to Major-General George H. Thomas and the officers and soldiers under his command for their skill and dauntless courage, by which the rebel army under General Hood was signally defeated and driven from the state of Tennessee. General George H. Thomas also received another nickname from his victory, "The Sledge of Nashville." After the end of the Civil War, General Thomas commanded the Department of the Cumberland in Kentucky and Tennessee, and at times also West Virginia and parts of Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, through 1869. During the Reconstruction period, Thomas acted to protect freedmen (ex-slaves) from white abuses. He set up military commissions to enforce labor contracts since the local courts had either ceased to operate or were biased against blacks. Thomas also used troops to protect places threatened by violence from the Ku Klux Klan. In a November 1868 report, General Thomas noted efforts made by former Confederates to paint the Confederacy in a positive light, stating: The greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them. George Henry Thomas, November 1868. President Andrew Johnson offered Thomas the rank of lieutenant general—with the intent to eventually replace Grant, a Republican and future president, with Thomas as general in chief—but the ever-loyal Thomas asked the Senate to withdraw his name for that nomination because he did not want to be party to politics. In 1869, he requested assignment to command the Military Division of the Pacific with headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco. He died there of a stroke on March 28, 1870, while writing an answer to an article criticizing his military career by his wartime rival John M. Schofield. Sherman, by then general-in-chief, personally conveyed the news to President Grant at the White House. None of Thomas's blood relatives attended his funeral as they had never forgiven him for his loyalty to the Union. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, in Troy, New York. Authentic 1800's period portrait engraving of Thomas in an oval format, in uniform, with rank of Major General. Overall size is about 7 x 10. Engraved by H. Wright Smith, From a Photograph. Printed signature of Thomas at the bottom of the piece. There is a small tear in the paper at the upper left corner. It has been repaired on the verso with archival document tape. It is in that little white area at the upper left, and it does not touch upon the dark background area. Very nice Civil War era likeness of General George H. Thomas, "The Rock of Chickamauga."   <b>RETAIL PRICE $5.00</b> The Newsletter Of The Center For Civil War Photography. Volume XI, Issue 2- August 2013. 8 1/2 x 11, with glossy covers and inside pages. 23 pages, with some exquisite and rare Civil War images. Front cover: Unpublished Image Of George Stacy's Field Studio; Dressed For The Camera, George Stacy Photographs The 6th New York Zouaves At Fort Monroe, Virginia in 1861; Southern Exposure: The Life And Times Of C.R. Rees Of Richmond, Virginia; Re-Establishing The Camp Letterman Tyson Camera Location At Gettysburg With Geographic Information's Systems. Excellent condition. If you love Civil War photography this publication would make a nice addition to your collection.   <b>United States Congressman and Senator United States Secretary of State Governor of Massachusetts He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863 RETAIL PRICE $100.00</b> (1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, President of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Seated view pose of Mr. Everett with one arm resting on the top of a table at his side. Studio column visible in the background. Back mark: Cartes De Visite, By Silsbee, Case & Co., Photographic Artist, 299 1/2 Washington Street, Boston. Very fine image of this famous American statesman.

1860 Farmers & Mechanics Bank $2 Note, S $125.00

  

Portrait, General George H. Thomas $10.00

  

Battlefield Photographer $3.50

  

CDV, Edward Everett $75.00
<b>United States Congressman and Senator United States Secretary of State Governor of Massachusetts He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863</b> (1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, President of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator. <u>War Date Portrait Engraving</u>: 8 x 10 3/4, detailed engraved portrait of a full seated Edward Everett with his arm resting on a table at his side. Ornamental background. Printed Edward Everett signature under his excellent likeness. Imprint on the front: From the original painting by Chappel in possession of the publishers. Johnson Fry & Co., Publishers, New York. Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1863, by Johnson Fry & Co., in the district court for the Southern district of N.Y. Very minor age toning, and some light wear in the border area edges. A beautiful portrait to frame. Popular Gettysburg related figure.   <b>United States Congressman and Senator United States Secretary of State Governor of Massachusetts He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863 RETAIL PRICE $125.00</b> (1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Everett later told Mr. Lincoln that he wished he had struck the same chord and central theme of the solemn occasion in his 2 hour speech that Lincoln had done in his 2 minute address. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, President of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Senator. <u>Signature</u>: 3 1/4 x 1 1/2, signed in ink, "Free, Edward Everett." This is a free frank signature that was cut from the top half of an envelope during his time serving in the United States Congress. Politicians working for the government at the time had the privilege of getting free postage by writing "Free" above their signature. Light edge staining. Very fine bold autograph. Popular Gettysburg related autograph.   Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Full standing view of a Union infantry officer who is sporting mutton chop sideburns, and wearing a single breasted frock coat with shoulder straps, an over the shoulder belt, sash, rectangular belt plate, kepi with infantry insignia, and holding his sword in the scabbard at his side. A studio chair sits beside him. Back mark: Jordan & Co., late Bogardus, 229 Greenwich St., [New York City]. Established 1846. Light age toning, and wear, and some staining on the reverse of the card mount. Very fine.   <b>Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America United States Congressman and Senator from Texas RETAIL PRICE $125.00</b> (1818-1905) Born in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he left Tennessee at the age of 19, and traveled to the Republic of Texas, in 1836, the year before it had become independent from Mexico. Reagan worked as a surveyor from 1839 to 1843. A lawyer, judge and Indian fighter, he served as U.S. Congressman from Texas, 1857-61. Voting for secession at the 1861 Texas convention, he was soon elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress, and in March 1861, was appointed Postmaster General of the Confederacy, a post he held for the entire war. Devoted to President Jefferson Davis, he fled with him upon the fall of Richmond and was captured with Jeff Davis in Georgia in May 1865. Reagan was confined at Fort Warren, in Boston, for several months, including 22 weeks in solitary confinement, and was eventually paroled by President Andrew Johnson in December 1865. Afterwards, Reagan resumed his political career and served as U.S. Congressman from Texas, 1875-87, and U.S. Senator, 1887-92. He was appointed by the governor as chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, serving in that position from 1897-1901. He was one of the founders of the Texas State Historical Association. He also attended many Confederate veteran reunions in Texas. He wrote his Memoirs, "With Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War" which was published in 1905. Reagan died of pneumonia at his home in Palestine, Texas, on March 6, 1905, and he was the last surviving member of the Jefferson Davis Confederate cabinet. John H. Reagan was buried in East Hill Cemetery, in Palestine. <u>Card Signature</u>: 5 1/4 x 3, beautiful large ink autograph, John H. Reagan. Excellent. Very desirable! Comes with 2 copy photographs of Reagan, on an 8 1/2 x 11 photographic sheet.

Portrait, Edward Everett $15.00

  

Autograph, Edward Everett $95.00

  

CDV, Armed Union Infantry Officer Photog

 

Autograph, John H. Reagan $100.00
Shreveport, March 10th, 1863. Vignette of Confederate General Leonidas Polk, the "Fighting C.S.A. Bishop," at center. Liberty at right. Fancy green reverse. Fine. WBTS Trivia: General Leonidas Polk was killed in action on June 14, 1864, at Pine Mountain, Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign.   <b>RETAIL PRICE $125.00</b> Composite view in postage stamp like designs that features General Ulysses S. Grant as the central figure in this image. Grant is surrounded by some of his leading commanders; starting at the top center, and going around the card from the right are: General George G. Meade, General Winfield S. Hancock, General Andrew A. Humphreys, General Horatio G. Wright, General Gouvenor K. Warren, and General John G. Parke. Back mark: E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Light age toning and wear. Very fine image with some of the Union Army's most famous leaders.   <b>Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the Army of Tennessee Severely wounded at the battle of Seven Pines, Virginia United States Congressman from Virginia</b> (1807-1891) Johnston was born at Longwood House, in "Cherry Grove," near Farmville, Virginia. He graduated from West Point in the class of 1825. One of his classmates was Robert E. Lee. He served with great distinction in the Seminole and Mexican Wars, in which he was wounded and brevetted repeatedly. He was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in May 1861. The forces he commanded at Harpers Ferry linked up in time to fight with General P.G.T. Beauregard at 1st Manassas, turning the tide of battle in favor of the Confederacy. This performance earned him a full generalcy and the command of the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought against General George B. McClellan in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign and was severely wounded at the battle of 7 Pines, Va., in May 1862. He was later given the command of the Army of Tennessee which he led in the early stages of the Atlanta campaign. He later opposed General William T. Sherman in the 1865 Carolina's campaign, and was forced to surrender his army at Greensboro, N.C., on April 26, 1865. From 1879-81, Johnston served as a U.S. Congressman from his native state of Virginia, and was U.S. Commissioner of Railroads from 1885-91. He died in Washington, on March 21, 1891, supposedly as a result of a cold contracted while marching bareheaded in the rain in the funeral procession of his old Civil War adversary, General William T. Sherman. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view in Confederate uniform. Back mark: E.& H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Very tiny chip at bottom right corner of the card mount. Very fine.  With decoration frequently the product of family members who wished to preserve and display a remnant of Civil War service, this period drinking cup is offered in pleasing as found condition after decades of attic storage. Measuring just 3 1/8 inches in diameter with classic period construction, when found, these cups are frequently suspended from the strap of a veteran’s issue canteen with examples encountered in period Civil War photography . <B>Buy with confidence! </B><I> We are pleased to offer a <B><U>no questions asked</U> three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales!</B> <I>Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly.</I> <FONT COLOR=#0000FF>Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! </FONT COLOR=#0000FF>

1863 State of Louisiana $50 Note $100.00

  

CDV, Union Generals of the Army of the P $100.00

  

CDV, General Joseph E. Johnston $150.00

  

Civil War era - decorated tin Drinking $45.00
Illustrated here with a US quarter for size comparison, our photos will do best to describe this old and well smoked tobacco pipe features a folk art carved Indian Chief (that’s <I>Native American</I> chief for the <I>woke</> word searchers) and is complete with its period reed stem. Neat for the antique smoking enthusiast, this hand carved old pipe will go well in any Civil War era personal item grouping. <B>Buy with confidence! </B><I> We are pleased to offer a <B><U>no questions asked</U> three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales!</B> <I>Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly.</I> <FONT COLOR=#0000FF>Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! </FONT COLOR=#0000FF>  This exceptionally nice condition Civil War veteran, Grand Army of the Republic, anthem was authored by Major David E. Proctor who served in the <B> 13th New Hampshire Infantry</B> then the <B>30th U. S. Colored Troops</B>. The patriotic handbill measures approximately 4 ˝ X 8 5/8 inches and while showing good age as evidence of period originality remains in fine condition. <B>Buy with confidence! </B><I> We are pleased to offer a <B><U>no questions asked</U> three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales!</B> <I>Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly.</I> <FONT COLOR=#0000FF>Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques! </FONT COLOR=#0000FF>   <b>Captured the city of Atlanta, Georgia in 1864 His infamous "March from Atlanta to the Sea" laid waste to much of Georgia and he is still hated in Georgia today!</b> (1820-1891) He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and graduated #6 in the West Point class of 1840. Sherman roomed with and befriended another important future Civil War general for the Union, George H. Thomas. Fellow cadet William S. Rosecrans remembered Sherman as "one of the brightest and most popular fellows" at the academy and as "a bright-eyed, red-headed fellow, who was always prepared for a lark of any kind." Upon his graduation he entered the army as a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery, and saw action in Florida in the Second Seminole War. In 1859, Sherman accepted a job as the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy, in Pineville, Louisiana, a position he sought at the suggestion of future Union General, then Major Don Carlos Buell. He was an effective and popular leader of the institution, which would later become Louisiana State University. William T. Sherman rose to be one of the Union's most renowned military leaders, and saw action at 1st Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, the infamous March to the Sea which took on his name, and the 1865 Carolina's campaign. He received the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army, at Greensboro, N.C., on April 26, 1865. Sherman continued in the Regular Army after the war, and became a Lieutenant General on July 25, 1866, and Full General, on March 4, 1869. In June 1865, two months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Sherman received his first postwar command, originally called the Military Division of the Mississippi, later the Military Division of the Missouri, which came to comprise the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Sherman's efforts in that position were focused on protecting the main wagon roads, such as the Oregon, Bozeman, and Santa Fe Trails. When Ulysses S. Grant became president in 1869, Sherman was appointed Commanding General of the United States Army, and promoted to the rank of full general. After the death of ex-Union General John A. Rawlins, Sherman served for one month as acting Secretary of War. Sherman lived most of the rest of his life in New York City. He was devoted to the theater and to amateur painting and was in demand as a colorful speaker at dinners and banquets, in which he indulged a fondness for quoting Shakespeare. Proposed as a Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1884, Sherman declined as emphatically as possible, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Sherman died of pneumonia in New York City on February 14, 1891, six days after his 71st birthday. President Benjamin Harrison, who had served under General Sherman during the Civil War, sent a telegram to Sherman's family and ordered all national flags to be flown at half staff. Harrison, in a message to the Senate, and the House of Representatives, wrote that: "He was an ideal soldier, and shared to the fullest the esprit de corps of the army, but he cherished the civil institutions organized under the Constitution, and was only a soldier that these might be perpetuated in undiminished usefulness and honor." On February 19th, a funeral service was held at his home, followed by a military procession. Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate general who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the Carolina's, served as a pallbearer in New York City. It was a bitterly cold day and a friend of Johnston, fearing that the general might become ill, asked him to put on his hat. Johnston replied: "If I were in Sherman's place, and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat." Johnston did catch a serious cold and died one month later of pneumonia. Sherman's body was then transported to St. Louis, where another service was conducted at a local Catholic church on February 21, 1891. His son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, who was a Jesuit priest, presided over his father's funeral masses in New York City, and in St. Louis. Former U.S. President, and Civil War General Rutherford B. Hayes, who attended both ceremonies, said at the time that General William T. Sherman had been "the most interesting and original character in the world." He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. Sherman's younger brother John, served as a U.S. Congressman from Ohio, and was a prominent advocate against slavery. Wet plate, albumen carte de viste photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view in uniform with rank of major general. Back mark: G.W. Tomlinson, Publisher, 221 Washington Street, Boston. There is also an advert above the photographer's imprint for the sale of flowers, foreign birds, and pocket cdv albums, including their prices. Minor corner and edge wear, light age toning. Very fine.   <b>The Famous Abolitionist, and Prominent Advocate of Women's Rights! Autograph Quotation Signed RETAIL PRICE $350.00</b> (1805-79) Born in in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he was a newspaper publisher, and editor of the "The Liberator," a Boston newspaper that was a strong and influential voice for abolition which he began in 1831, and continued for 35 years. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society and promoted the immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves in the United States. A price was put on his head, and he was burned in effigy, and gallows were erected in front of his Boston office. However, he did not believe in using force to gain his ends but, rather relied upon the use of moral persuasion. He opposed the war until after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Although he engaged in numerous other reforms, he is most famous for his stand against slavery. He would emerge as a leading advocate of women's rights, and he became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. William Lloyd Garrison died of kidney disease in New York City, on May 24, 1879, surrounded by his children signing hymns. He was 73 years old. Garrison was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, on May 28, 1879. At his public memorial service, eulogies were given by Theodore Dwight Weld, and Wendell Phillips. Eight abolitionist friends, both black and white, served as his pallbearers. Flags were flown at half-staff all across Boston. Frederick Douglass, then employed as a U.S. Marshal, spoke in memory of Garrison at a memorial service in a church in Washington, D.C., saying, "It was the glory of this man that he could stand alone with the truth, and calmly await the result." <u>Signature With Quote</u>: 4 1/4 x 6, letter sheet, beautifully signed in ink at the center of the page, "Yours, for liberty and light, Wm. Lloyd Garrison." Minor age toning at the lower left edge which is well away from the content. Mounting traces on the verso. This would be an excellent item to frame with a photograph of Mr. Garrison. Extremely desirable autograph quote signed by this renowned abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer! Great piece!

vintage Indian Chief folk art carved T $135.00

  

Mjr. D. E. Proctor – 13th N. H. Vols. / $45.00

  

CDV, General William T. Sherman $50.00

  

Autograph, William Lloyd Garrison $250.00
<b>United States Congressman from Massachusetts Member of the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Congress Governor of Massachusetts</b> (1818-1893) Born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, he was a colorful and often controversial figure on the national stage, and on the Massachusetts political scene. He studied law, and passed the Massachusetts bar in 1840, and opened a practice in Lowell. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1853, and to the State Senate in 1859. The following year Butler was a delegate to the Democratic Convention which met in Charleston, where he initially supported John C. Breckinridge for president, but then shifted his support and voted to nominate Jefferson Davis for President of the United States, believing that only a moderate Southerner could keep the Democratic party from dividing. A conversation he had with Davis prior to the convention convinced him that Davis might be such a man, and he gave him his support before the convention split over slavery. As a Brigadier General of the Massachusetts Militia, Butler entered the war in dramatic fashion; five days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, he lifted the blockade of Washington with the 8th Massachusetts. He was the first volunteer general appointed by President Lincoln. He was badly defeated at Big Bethel, Va., the first land battle of the Civil War. Butler was the first to apply the term "contraband of war" to slaves. He commanded the successful attack on Hatteras Inlet, N.C., and he led the forces that captured New Orleans, La., in May 1862. He soon became the vilified military governor of New Orleans where he earned the nickname of "The Beast," by the locals. Many of his acts, were highly unpopular, most notorious among them was Butler's General Order No. 28, of May 15, 1862, stating that if any woman should insult or show contempt for any Union officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded, and shall be held liable to be treated as a "woman of the town plying her avocation," in other words a prostitute. This was in response to various and widespread acts of overt verbal and physical abuse from the women of New Orleans, including cursing at and spitting on Union soldiers and pouring out chamber pots with human waste on their heads from upstairs windows when they passed in the street. Butler also censored New Orleans newspapers, and bank currency. In 1864, he was given command of the Army of the James which he saw action with at Bermuda Hundred, Va., and in the Petersburg campaign. The Army of the James also included several regiments of United States Colored Troops. These troops saw combat in the Bermuda Hundred campaign, at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm where the U.S. Colored Troops performed extremely well. The 38th USCT defeated a more powerful force despite intense fire, heavy casualties, and terrain obstacles. Butler awarded the Medal of Honor to several men of the 38th USCT. He also ordered a special medal designed and struck, which was awarded to 200 African-American soldiers who had served with distinction in the engagement. This was later called the Butler Medal. On November 4, 1864, General Butler arrived in New York City with 3,500 troops as Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton had requested that Grant send troops to New York City to help oversee the presidential election. Stanton's concern arose from the city's perennial political and racial divisions, which had erupted during the 1863 draft riots, and because of the fear of Confederates coming down from Canada to burn the city on Election Day. General Grant selected Butler for the assignment. Butler later saw action at the 1st battle of Fort Fisher, N.C. Elected to Congress in 1866, he served five terms as a United States Congressman from Massachusetts, and he played a prominent role in the President Andrew Johnson impeachment serving as the lead prosecutor among the House-appointed impeachment managers in the trial proceedings. Additionally, as Chairman of the House Committee on Reconstruction, Butler authored the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, and coauthored the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1875. He later became Governor of Massachusetts. He ran for president on the Greenback Party, and the Anti-Monopoly Party tickets in 1884. In his later years Butler reduced his activity level, working on his memoir, "Butler's Book," which was published in 1892. Butler died on January 11, 1893, of complications from a bronchial infection, two days after arguing a case before the United States Supreme Court. He is buried in his wife's family cemetery, behind the main Hildreth Cemetery in Lowell, Mass. The inscription on Butler's monument reads, "The true touchstone of civil liberty is not that all men are equal, but that every man has the right to be the equal of every other man—if he can." Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Seated view in uniform with rank of brigadier general, and holding his kepi with Massachusetts hat wreath insignia. He has a wide stripe running down the side of his trouser leg. Back mark: E. Anthony, New York, 501 Broadway, N.Y., with vignette of their photographic emporium on Broadway. Made from a photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Very sharp image. Extremely desirable early war pose of General Butler!  Very large light fine crystal chandelier of fine quality with brass body and arms H 48in. x D 28in.  Old pendant light is ready to hang Ca 1940 H 40in. x D 22in.  H 18in.

CDV, General Benjamin F. Butler $150.00

  

ANTQUE BALLROOM CHANDELIER $3800.00

  

VINTAGE PENDANT LIGHT $850.00

  

H 18in. $250.00
H 15in.  H 19in.  H 18in.  H 27in.

H 15in. $250.00

  

H 19in. $200.00

  

H 18in. $250.00

  

H 27in. $2400.00
H 28in. x W 40in.  H 12in.  H 9in.  23in.tall in cast brass in excellent condition

H 28in. x W 40in. $1500.00

  

H 12in. $50.00

  

H 9in. $50.00

  

ANTIQUE ANDIRONS FOR FIREPLACE $350.00
H 23in.  H 27in. x W 17in.  antique iron flooor grate H 27in. x W 20in.  H 27in. x W 18in.

H 23in. $450.00

  

H 27in. x W 17in. $250.00

  

antique iron floor grate $250.00

  

H 27in. x W 18in. $350.00
H 23in. x W 18in.  antique iron wall grate 40in H X 16in W X 17in 102.0cm H X 40.6cm W X 43.2cm D  H 9in. x W 9in.  H 8in. x W 8in.

H 23in. x W 18in. $150.00

  

antique iron wall grate $150.00

  

H 9in. x W 9in. $75.00

  

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H 16in. x W 14in. $50.00

  

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H 24in. x W 16in.  iron floor grate decorative H 26in. x W  H 26in. x W 22in.  H 40in. x W 30in.

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antque iron floor grate $350.00

  

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