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| ![<b>75th Anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg</b>
9 1/2 x 4 1/8, imprinted, multi-colored envelope. Gettysburg, Blue And Gray Reunion, 75th Anniversary, Battle of Gettysburg, 1938, with illustrations of the United States and Confederate flags, and more. Includes an illustration of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial to be dedicated by President [F.D.] Roosevelt, Sunday, July 3, 1938. Pennsylvania State Commission, John S. Rice, Chairman, Gettysburg, Pa. Excellent condition. Very desirable Gettysburg Blue & Gray Reunion collectible.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9463a.jpg) |
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important! THE VIRGINIA COMPANY – harne $175.00 |
| Blue & Gray Reunion Cover, Gettysburg 19 $15.00 |
| Pair of United States Navy Shoulder Knot |
| Gettysburg Patriotic Cover, Civil War Ce $8.00 |
![<b>The younger brother of General John Hunt Morgan!
Captured during General Morgan's famous raid into Ohio in 1863!
Very rare Civil War Prisoner of War cover sent by Captain C.H. Morgan via a Flag of Truce to Mrs. General John Hunt Morgan!</b>
(1839-1912) He graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1859, and soon after was appointed the United States Consul to Messina, Italy. While serving as a U.S. Government representative, he joined the fight for Italian independence, and was wounded in action. He resigned his post in 1861 to serve in London as the Secretary of the Southern Committee. When the War Between the States broke out he returned home to Kentucky and joined the Confederate Army. He was wounded and captured at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862. After his exchange, he was commissioned captain, and served in his brother General John Hunt Morgan's Kentucky command as his aide-de-camp. He was captured along with his brother John, and his brother-in-law General Basil Duke, in July 1863 during General Morgan's celebrated Ohio Raid. Initially confined at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, he was later transferred to Fort Delaware in February 1864. He was eventually released from captivity in 1865 just prior to the cessation of hostilities. After the war he spent 15 years as a steward at the East Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. He married Ellen Key Howard, the niece of Francis Scott Key the author of The Star Spangled Banner. He was the father of Thomas Hunt Morgan, whose work in chromosomal heredity earned him the Nobel Prize in 1933. Charlton Hunt Morgan died on October 10, 1912, and is buried in Lexington Cemetery, Fayette County, Kentucky.
<u>Civil War Prisoner of War Cover Sent via Flag of Truce</u>: 4 1/2 x 2 5/8, endorsed and addressed in ink in the hand of Captain Charlton Hunt Morgan as follows: "Via Flag of truce, From C.H. Morgan, Prisoner of War. Mrs. Genl. Jno. H. Morgan, Care Col. Thos. Fleming, Augusta, Ga." Light wear and a few small stains at the edges. Very neat and bold handwriting. Very rare and desirable!!
<b>Please note that the illustrations of General John Hunt Morgan and his wife Mattie, and of Captain Charlton H. Morgan [taken in 1864 by John L. Gilhon while Morgan was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware] are for display purposes only. They are not part of the lot you are buying. However, I will include Xerox copies of them with your purchase.</b>
WBTS Trivia: The recipient of Captain C.H. Morgan's letter was Martha "Mattie" Ready Morgan, the wife of his brother General John Hunt Morgan. She was the daughter of United States Congressman Charles Ready of Tennessee. Mattie travelled with her aunt, Mrs. C.S.W. Fleming, and her husband, Colonel Thomas W. Fleming, to Augusta, Georgia, at different periods of the war.
On the night of September 3, 1864, while en-route to attack Union forces near Knoxville, General John Hunt Morgan camped near Greenville, Tennessee. Early the next morning he was surprised by a detachment of Union cavalry and was killed in the garden of the house where he had been sleeping, shot in the back while attempting to retreat and rally his men. General J.H. Morgan is also buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5000a.jpg) |
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Captain Charlton Hunt Morgan Signed & Ad |
| Mercer Brigade, New Jersey State Militia $35.00 |
| Autograph, General Charles Devens $95.00 |
| CDV, General Edmund Kirby Smith |
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Autograph, General Joseph Hooker |
| General Joseph Hooker $15.00 |
| CDV, Confederate Civil War Soldier $125.00 |
| 19th century - brier & hard rubber TOBAC $55.00 |
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Gettysburg First Day Cover $10.00 |
| Gettysburg Merchant, H. S. Benner, Signed |
| 1863 Twenty Cents, George Washington, Co $115.00 |
| President Abraham Lincoln First Day Cove $10.00 |
![<b>Signature With Rank as Commander of the Mississippi Marine Brigade</b>
(1820-95) Brother of the celebrated engineer Charles Ellet. In 1861, he served as a captain in the 59th Illinois Infantry. The following spring when his brother was ordered by the War Department to purchase vessels and convert them into rams, Alfred was commissioned lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp to his brother Charles. They completed their fleet at Cincinnati, Ohio, and steamed down the river to Memphis, defeating the Confederate fleet there on June 6, 1862, and sinking or disabling eight of the nine enemy ironclads. Charles received a mortal wound here and Alfred took over the command. With the Monarch and the Lancaster he steamed up the Yazoo River and discovered and reported the presence of the Confederate ram Arkansas. Promoted to brigadier general to rank from November 1, 1862, he was assigned to the Department of the Mississippi and placed in command of the Marine Brigade in 1863. After running the Vicksburg batteries in March 1863, Ellet was engaged for some time in moving General Ulysses S. Grant's troops to the east bank of the Mississippi. In retaliation for information furnished to the troops of Confederate General Chalmer's command, he burned Austin, Mississippi.
<u>War Period Signature With Rank</u>: 3 3/4 x 1, in ink, Alfred W. Ellet, Brig. Genl., Comdg. M.[ississippi] M.[arine] Brigade. Light wear.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5030a.jpg) |
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Autograph, General Alfred W. Ellet $125.00 |
| Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg First Day Cov $10.00 |
| 19th century Salesman Sample PADDED HORS $45.00 |
| Autograph, General Quincy A. Gillmore |
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CDV, General John A. Logan |
| earlier to mid-1800s BALANCE SCALES $65.00 |
| Lord collection – Civil War Staff – HAT $175.00 |
| late 1800s early 1900s British Bobby Hel $235.00 |
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| ![Stamped brass hat wreath insignia with G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] in silver colored letters attached to the center of the wreath. These were worn by Civil War veterans on their slouch hats or kepis. Measures 2 1/2 inches in width. Complete with straight pin fastener on the reverse. Comes beautifully displayed in a 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 glass faced display case with blue velvet liner. Excellent piece of G.A.R. memorabilia.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/gar350a.jpg) |
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Autograph, General David S. Stanley $95.00 |
| G. A. R. Hat Wreath Insignia |
| 1864 U. S. Army Safeguard Pass $15.00 |
| early primitive BIRCH BARK TOBACCO BOX $135.00 |
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United Daughters of the Confederacy Memo $10.00 |
| Gettysburg Advertisement Lot $15.00 |
| Change of Stations for Quartermasters, C $5.00 |
| CDV, General George B. McClellan & Wife $75.00 |
![<b>Delegate to the 1861 Virginia Secession Convention
Colonel of the 27th Virginia Infantry of the "Stonewall Brigade"
Severely wounded at the 1st Battle of Kernstown, Virginia in 1862</b>
(1823-96) Born at Lynchburg, Va., he graduated from Washington College, [later named Washington & Lee] Lexington, Va., studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He served as attorney to the Commonwealth of Virginia, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, and a delegate to the Virginia secession convention in 1861. A tall imposing man, standing 6 feet, 4 inches tall, Echols quickly became a leader among his peers. At the 1st battle of Manassas, Echols commanded the 27th Virginia Infantry, of the Stonewall Brigade, and he was seriously wounded at Kernstown during General Jackson's famous 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign. Promoted to brigadier general to rank from April 16, 1862, he served in western Virginia until 1864, as commander of the Department of Southwestern Virginia, and later as a brigade commander under General John C. Breckenridge. He took part in the Confederate victory at the battle of New Market, Va., in May 1864, where the gallant actions of the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute forever recorded their name in the highest annals of American military history. General Echols also saw action with General R.E. Lee's army at Cold Harbor, Va., during the Petersburg campaign. On April 2, Echols, with nearly 7,000 men, began a hasty march to unite with General Lee. He reached Christiansburg, Virginia, on April 10, where he received a telegram announcing General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. At a solemn council of war, General Echols decided to march to unite with General Joseph E. Johnston's army, and he led two brigades southward towards North Carolina. Subsequently, he accompanied President Jefferson Davis to Augusta, Georgia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1878–1881.
<u>Signature</u>: 3 1/4 x 1 1/2, bold pencil autograph, Jno. Echols.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5016a.jpg) |
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Autograph, General John Echols |
| CDV, General Jacob G. Lauman $150.00 |
| President Abraham Lincoln Monument, Spri $15.00 |
| rarely surviving Civil War vintage - RAT $125.00 |
![<b>United States Congressman from North Carolina
Presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket for John C. Breckenridge
Served in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1864</b>
(1799-1876) Born in Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, in Va., in 1816; studied medicine for two years; was graduated from Princeton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Mecklenburg Counties, Va. He moved to North Carolina in 1829; served as a presidential elector in 1832, 1836 and 1844. Served as United States Congressman, 1847-1853, and was a presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket of John C. Breckinridge, and Joseph Lane. Served as a delegate from the State of North Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861; and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States Congress, 1862-1864; died in Oxford, N.C., on February 24, 1876; interment in the Shiloh Presbyterian Churchyard, Granville County, N.C.
<u>Signature with place</u>: 5 3/4 x 2, in ink, A.W. Venable, Brownsville, Granville, [County], N. Carolina.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5014a.jpg) |
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| ![<b>United States Congressman from Ohio</b>
(1829-1896) Born in Lancaster, Ohio, he was the brother of Generals' Charles Ewing, and Hugh B. Ewing, and foster brother of the famous Union Civil War General William T. Sherman, who later became his brother-in-law when General Sherman married Ewing's sister, Eleanor. At the age of 19, while his father was U.S. Secretary of the Interior, he became the private secretary of President Zachary Taylor, from 1849-1850. He then studied law, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and commenced a practice in Cincinnati. In 1856, Ewing moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was an antislavery advocate and had much to do with preventing the admission of Kansas to the Union as a slave state. He served as a member of the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention of 1858, and was a delegate from Kansas at the Peace Conference of 1861 in Washington, D.C., which attempted to prevent the Civil War. Ewing was the first Chief Justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. In 1862, he recruited and became colonel of the 11th Kansas Cavalry seeing action at Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, Arkansas. On March 13, 1863, he was promoted to rank of brigadier general, and soon took command of the District of the Border, comprising Kansas and western Missouri. In an effort to suppress the bushwhackers who roamed that area, General Ewing issued his notorious Order #11, which decreed expulsion of the inhabitants, loyal or disloyal, from the Missouri counties of Jackson, Cass, Vernon, and Bates. It was issued in retaliation for Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, where 450 raiders shot and killed 150 civilians. During Confederate General Sterling Price's famous Missouri Raid in 1864, General Ewing distinguished himself at the battle of Pilot Knob. On February 23, 1865, Ewing resigned his army commission to return to his law practice, tendering his resignation directly to his good friend, and confidant, President Abraham Lincoln, a little over a month before President Lincoln's assassination. Ewing was founder and first president of the Ohio Society of New York, a trustee of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. He served as U.S. Congressman from Ohio, 1877-1881.
<u>Signature with place</u>: 4 1/8 x 2, in ink, Thomas Ewing, Lancaster, O.[hio].](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5013a.jpg) |
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Autograph, Abraham W. Venable $45.00 |
| CDV, General James A. Mulligan $125.00 |
| Autograph, General Thomas Ewing |
| Civil War Dated Check from Cooperstown, |
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Autograph, General Lucius Fairchild |
| Advertisement, W. H. Tipton, Gettysburg B |
| turn of the century – Byfield Snuff Co. $15.00 |
| CDV General Henry M. Naglee |
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| ![6 x 2 1/2, imprinted form, filled out in ink. WAR TAX RECEIPT. $55.30. Received of Est.[ate] E.D. Divine [?] the sum of Fifty Five 30/100 dollars, being the full amount due by him for the year 1861. R.U. Gould, Collector of War Tax for District No. 29. Dated May 14/61. There are 2 small punch hole cancellations near the top of the document, one of which goes through part of the last name, Divine. [?]. Docket on the reverse, "Voucher No. 1." Minor wear. Fine condition. Printed on what is known as brown necessity paper, a type commonly used in the Confederacy during the war years. Nice early Civil War dated, "War Tax Receipt."](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9438a.jpg) |
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Letter, George G. Meade G. A. R. Post, Phi |
| 1861 Civil War Tax Receipt $15.00 |
| Autograph, General Howell Cobb |
| Photograph, General Henry Gray $10.00 |
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124th New York Infantry at Gettysburg $15.00 |
| 1863 Pittston, Pennsylvania Bank Check $5.00 |
| antique PEWTER CREAMER $85.00 |
| CDV, General John H. Martindale $125.00 |
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1862 Imprint, Mayor's Office, City of Bo $10.00 |
| rarely encountered! original & individua $30.00 |
| Civil War Relics From the Battle of Sece |
| Civil War Flag Fragments |
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1863 Twenty Cents, George Washington, Co |
| antique - carved Knife, Fork & Spoon WHI $40.00 |
| Civil War era - SHOULDER SCALES $275.00 |
| rarely surviving! 18th early 19th centur $225.00 |
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