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H 30in. x W 36in.  H 6in. x W 25in.  FAT BURGER Sign H 24in. x W 216in.  H 23in. x W 23in.

WARNING SIGN $200.00

  

H 6in. x W 25in. $50.00

  

OLD FAT BURGER SIGN. . . . . LAS VEGAS $800.00

  

OLD ROADSIDE SIGN $150.00
H 21in. x W 39in.  H 84in. x W 21in.  H 19in. x W 27in.  H 36in. x W 36in.

GAS SIGN $250.00

  

MOLSON BEER SIGN $300.00

  

PEPSI SIGN $100.00

  

OLD ROADSIDE SIGN $250.00
H 36in. x W 56in.  H 16in. x w 28in.  H 11in. x W 13in.  .

MAPLE LEAF FLOUR SIGN $850.00

  

CIGARETTE SIGN $225.00

  

ADVERTSING SIGN $125.00

  

PURINA SIGN $450.00
H 35in. x W 35in.  H 11in. x W 35in.  H 18in. x W 18in.  H 15in. x W 28in.

OLD STOP SIGN $200.00

  

KIK COLA SIGN $200.00

  

NO EXIT SIGN $150.00

  

ROBIN HOOD FLOUR SIGN $275.00
H 12in. x W 18in.  H 8in. x W 24in.  H 18in. x W 24in.  H 19in. x W 29in.

OLD DEALERS ONLY SIGN $130.00

  

HIWAY SIGN $150.00

  

RABITRY SIGN $200.00

  

TIN TV SIGN $200.00
H 24in. x W 24in.  H 14in x W 20in.  H 35in x W 60in.  H 40in. x W 28in.

OLD FARM SIGN $400.00

  

WARNING SIGN $50.00

  

CANADA DRY SIGN $300.00

  

CIGARETTE SIGN $800.00
H 39in. x D 16in.  Artistically finished metal on these vintafe lights H 28in. x D 16in.   <b>Hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War General-in-Chief of the United States Army at the outbreak of the Civil War 1861 Mathew Brady view</b> (1786-1866) Born at Laurel Hill, a plantation near Petersburg, Virginia, his father was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and an officer in the Dinwiddie County militia. A year older than the Constitution, the venerable Winfield Scott, hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, became General in chief of the U.S. Army in 1841, a position he still held at the start of the Civil War. He was known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" for his insistence on proper military etiquette. A true professional soldier, he was one of the very few men in the country who saw the need to prepare for a major military effort as the impending Civil War grew ever closer. His "Anacondona Plan" proved to be very sound and helped to defeat the Confederacy. It called for the capture of the Mississippi River, and a blockade of Southern ports, and by cutting off the eastern states of the Confederacy, Scott hoped to force the surrender of Confederate forces with a minimal loss of life on both sides. Succeeded by General George B. McClellan, as Commander-in-Chief, in November 1861, he retired to write his memoirs, and died at West Point in 1866 where he is buried. A Virginian, he was the only non-West Pointer of Southern origin in the Regular Army to remain loyal to the Union. His service as the "Commanding General of the United States Army," for twenty years, was the longest that any officer held that position. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Standing view in dress uniform with oak leaf trim on the collar, epaulettes, dress belt with oval belt plate, and posing with one hand on a book on top of a table. Back mark: Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, From Photographic Negative, From Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Very sharp image, and in excellent condition. Beautiful image of "Old Fuss and Feathers."   2 piece badge. The top bar has a spread winged eagle with cannon barrels, and an American shield with the year 1899 within. Below is a bar with the imprint, Official Souvenir, 33rd National Encampment. Straight fastenig pin is complete on the reverse. Attached below is the famous "Liberty Bell," with a vignette of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, with an imprint of the dates of the encampment, Sep. 4-9, Philadelphia, with a gold G.A.R. badge with logo, etc. affixed at the center of the bell. Manufacturer's imprint on the reverse, Schaab's & Co., Milwaukee. Choice condition. Would make for a superb display. Very desirable design.

ART GLASS PENDANT $2800.00

  

BRASS CHANDELIER $1200.00

  

CDV, General Winfield Scott $125.00

  

1899 G. A. R. Badge, 33rd National Encampm $75.00
<b>United States Congressman from Tennessee Governor of Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" era as the country was about to plunge into Civil War!</b> (1814-94) Born in Alexandria, Virginia, he was the son of an American Revolutionary War soldier. He graduated from Columbian College, now George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., in 1833, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and practiced in Memphis, Tennessee. He served as a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, 1845-55, and was the Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. He also served on the Committee on the Judiciary. Stanton was the Governor of Kansas Territory, prior to the Civil War, during what was known as the "Bleeding Kansas" years. At the beginning of the Civil War he joined the Republican Party, and in 1861 he opened a law office in Washington, D.C., to practice cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. In his later years Stanton was active in efforts for world peace, and was president of the "International Peace League." He was also president of the "National Arbitration League of America," and opened its inaugural convention in Washington in 1882. He retired to Florida for health reasons where he died on June 4, 1894, and he is buried in South Lake Weir Cemetery, in South Lake Weir, Florida. <u>Signature with Place</u>: 5 x 2, in ink, Fred. P. Stanton, Memphis, Tenn. Very fine. <u>WBTS Trivia</u>: "Bleeding Kansas," or the "Border War," was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1861. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and murders carried out in the Kansas Territory and neighboring Missouri by pro-slavery "border ruffians" and antislavery "free staters."   <b>Signature with rank of Major General Earned the "Thanks of Congress" for his heroic and gallant exploits during the capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina in 1865!</b> (1827-90) Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he attended Yale Law School, became a lawyer, and served as clerk of the Superior Court of New Haven County, Conn. Terry was one of those rare militia officers who rose to eminence in the volunteer ranks during the Civil War and remained in the Regular Army after the war to earn the rank of major general. He fought at the 1st battle of Bull Run, Va., in command of the 2nd Connecticut Infantry, a 90 day unit that he raised. He then recruited the elite 7th Connecticut Infantry, taking part with them in the capture of Port Royal, S.C., and the siege and capture of Fort Pulaski, Ga. Appointed brigadier general, he served in the various operations against Charleston, S.C. until the fall of 1863 when he was transferred to General Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James, taking over command of the 10th Corps. During 1864, he served in the campaigns against Richmond and Petersburg, Va., and in early 1865 he commanded the forces that captured Fort Fisher, N.C., thus sealing off the Confederacy's last port, Wilmington, N.C. For this exploit he received the "Thanks of Congress." His forces were then attached to General John M. Schofield's Army of the Ohio, with which it operated in conjunction with General William T. Sherman until the Confederate surrender. During his post war army career, Terry served mainly in Indian Territory, and he helped to negotiate the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, which ended "Red Cloud's campaign" against United States troops in the territory. He was in charge of the Department of Dakota at the time of the famous battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. Five companies of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry were annihilated with Custer among the 268 men killed. During this battle General Terry was in personal command of the various columns engaged in the field, including that of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Much controversy arose at the time as to whether Custer had exceeded Terry's orders; but Terry refused to comment on the matter. In October 1877, he went to Canada to negotiate with "Sitting Bull," and he was still in command in Montana during the Nez Perce War and he sent reinforcements to intercept "Chief Joseph." As the great Northern Pacific Railway was building their transcontinental line across Montana in 1881, the new town of Terry, Montana was named in General Terry's honor. He was promoted to major general in 1886, and named commander of the Military Division of the Missouri. He retired from the U.S. Army on April 5, 1888, and died in New Haven, Conn., on December 16, 1890. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, which is surrounded by the Yale College campus. <u>Signature with rank of Major General</u>: 3 x 1 1/2, in ink, Alfred H. Terry, Major General. Excellent condition, very desirable autograph.  H 11in. x D 19in.  H 32in. x D 14in.

Autograph, Frederick P. Stanton $45.00

  

Autograph, General Alfred H. Terry $150.00

  

DING ROOM PENDANT $2450.00

  

CRYSTAL BEADED BOWL LIGHT $2200.00
<b>Raised the "Louisville Legion" in 1861 Colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry As a brigade and division commander, Rousseau gallantly led his troops in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, and Stones River! United States Congressman from Kentucky</b> (1818-69) Born near Stanford, Kentucky, he studied law, passed the Indiana bar in 1841, and began practicing law with his brother, Richard H. Rousseau, as junior partners in a firm led by James I. Dozier, in Bloomfield, Indiana. He was elected to the Indiana State Legislature in 1844, and served with distinction during the Mexican War as a captain of the 2nd Indiana Volunteers, which he led at the Battle of Buena Vista, where he helped rally the Indiana troops at a key point in the battle. He was a member of the Indiana State Senate from 1847 to 1849. He then went to Louisville, Kentucky, to practice law, and in 1860 was elected to the Kentucky State Senate. A dedicated opponent of secession, as the Civil War was becoming more and more likely, Rousseau decided in favor of maintaining state government in Kentucky and helped keep it from seceding from the Union. He resigned from his seat in the senate in June 1861, and applied for a commission to raise volunteers. Against the opposition of many prominent figures in Kentucky, he succeeded in raising two regiments composed entirely of Kentuckians at Camp Joe Holt, across the Ohio River from Louisville in Jeffersonville, Indiana. They were known as the "Louisville Legion." With the help of a battalion of the "Louisville Home Guard," the regiments saved Louisville from being captured by Confederate troops. On September 9, 1861, he was mustered in as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry. Promoted to brigadier general on October 1st, and major general on October 22, 1862, he commanded a brigade at the bloody battle of Shiloh, and gallantly led a division at the battle of Perryville, Ky. He also served with distinction as a division commander at Murfreesboro, and in the Tullahoma campaign. He afterwards commanded the districts of Nashville and of Tennessee. On the orders of General William T. Sherman, Rousseau carried out a very successful raid on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad in July 1864. Rousseau was elected as an "Unconditional Unionist" to the United States Congress serving from 1865-1866. As a former military officer, he served on the Committee on Military Affairs. In June 1866, relations between Rousseau and Iowa Congressman Josiah Bushnell Grinnell became very tense. The two had a series of debates over a bill intended to give more power to the Freedman's Bureau. Rousseau opposed it having seen and heard about rebellious and illegal actions by agents working for the bureau, whereas Grinnell strongly supported the bill as a former active abolitionist, and aide to runaway slaves. The debates eventually turned into mudslinging, Grinnell questioning General Rousseau's military record and insulting his performance in battle as well as a few comments on his state of Kentucky. On June 14, 1866, Rousseau approached Grinnell in the east portico of the capitol building after a session of congress. He told Grinnell that he wanted an apology from him for the insults he made about him before the House. Grinnell pretended not to know what Rousseau was talking about, enraging Rousseau who struck him repeatedly with the iron handle of his cane until it broke. He struck him mainly in the face, but a few blows hit Grinnell's hand and shoulder. A committee was organized to investigate the incident which was composed of Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, Rufus P. Spalding, M. Russell Thayer and John Hogan. General Rousseau was reprimanded for his actions and later resigned. He was elected back the same year to fill the vacancy caused by himself and continued to serve until 1867. After leaving the United States Congress, Rousseau was appointed brigadier general in the U.S. Army with the brevet rank of major general, and was assigned to duty in Alaska on March 27, 1867. General Rousseau played a key role in the transfer of Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States on October 18, 1867, today celebrated as Alaska Day. On July 28, 1868, he was placed in command of the Department of Louisiana. He died in this capacity in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 7, 1869. He was interred in Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1892, his wife had his body removed from Cave Hill, and re-interred at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. His monument at Cave Hill remains. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view in uniform with rank of major general. Back mark: Philadelphia Photographic Co. There is a 2 cents orange, George Washington, U.S. Internal Revenue Bank Check stamp on the reverse which partially covers the photographic company's imprint. Very fine.   <b>Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War</b> By Robert Roper, Published by Walker & Co., New York, 2008, hard cover with dust jacket, 421 pages, index, illustrated, notes, and bibliography. Excellent condition. The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family is brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Whitman family. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who led his men in twenty-one major battles- from Antietam to Fredericksburg, Vicksburg to the Wilderness- and almost died in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the vivid letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers wrote to each other during the conflict, this is a powerful narrative of the compelling history of our bravest soldiers. <u>WBTS Trivia</u>: George Washington Whitman, served as a captain in the 51st New York Infantry, 1861-65. He was wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on December 13, 1862, and was captured at Poplar Grove Church, Va., on September 30, 1864.   <b>General-in-Chief of all Union armies during the Civil War Known as "Unconditional Surrender Grant" 18th President of the United States</b> (1822-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843, and fought in the Mexican War where he earned two accomodations for gallantry. During the Civil War, he fought at the battles of Belmont, Missouri; Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh, Tennessee; Vicksburg, Mississippi; Chattanooga, Tennessee; the 1864 Overland campaign; the battle of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, Virginia; and in the 1865 Appomattox campaign in which Grant's army forced the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Commander-in-Chief of all Union armies, from 1863-65. General Grant earned the acclaim of the nation, and the sobriquet, "Unconditional Surrender Grant" after forcing the surrender of Fort Donelson, in February 1862. He served two terms as the 18th President of the United States, 1869-77. After a year-long struggle with throat cancer, surrounded by his family, Ulysses S. Grant died at his Mount McGregor cottage, in New York state, on July 23, 1885, at the age of 63, having just finished his written memoirs less than a month before his death. General Philip H. Sheridan, then Commanding General of the U.S. Army, ordered a day-long tribute to Grant on all military posts, and President Grover Cleveland ordered a thirty-day nationwide period of mourning. After private services, the honor guard placed Grant's body on a special funeral train, which traveled to U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and to New York City. A quarter of a million people viewed it in the two days before the funeral. Tens of thousands of men, many of them Union veterans from the Grand Army of the Republic, marched with Grant's casket drawn by two dozen black stallions to Riverside Park, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. His pallbearers included Union Generals William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and John A. Logan, the head of the GAR, Confederate Generals Simon B. Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, and Union Admiral David D. Porter. Following the casket in the seven-mile-long procession were President Cleveland, two former presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester B. Arthur, all of the president's cabinet, as well as the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Attendance at the New York funeral topped 1.5 million. Ceremonies were held in other major cities around the country, while Grant was eulogized in the press and likened to Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Grant's body was laid to rest in Riverside Park, first in a temporary tomb, and then—twelve years later, on April 17, 1897, in the elaborate General Grant National Memorial, also known as "Grant's Tomb," the largest mausoleum in North America. Wet, plate albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Standing view in uniform as Lieutenant General with mourning ribbon visible on his frock coat sleeve. Imprint on the front mount, "Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant." No back mark. Light age toning and wear. Very fine and desirable view of "Sam" Grant, as he was known to his friends.  Not a big deal but if you have an interest in Civil War Confederate activity in the East, particularly Confederate operations in and around Maine, and you don’t have a copy of Mason Philips Smith’s <I> Confederates Downeast</I> in your library you are missing the boat. An informing read offering seldom appreciated insight into a commonly felt threat among Civil War era Maine citizens, the author offers factual and well research detail not only of the more well-known1863 Confederate attack upon the U. S. revenue cutter Caleb Cushing in Portland harbor (see our: MaineLegacy.com) but an account of key characters and hostile activity in and near the state of Maine. Lots of interesting material that didn’t make the history books. Published in 1985 in soft cover this copy remains in excellent condition and is inscribed by the author. <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>

CDV, General Lovell H. Rousseau $125.00

  

Now The Drum Of War $10.00

  

CDV, General Ulysses S. Grant $125.00

  

author signed Confederates Downeast: Con $30.00
An attractive old preserve jar in a nice size (7" high) and complete with the original old tinned iron screw top with porcelain insert. All in nice condition, this jar is boldly marked MASON’S PATENT, NOV. 30th , 1858. How often have we seen period references of these jars filled with goodies having been shipped to a soldier at the seat of War? (usually in the form of a letter home from an unfortunate troop who’s jar was broken in shipment.) A nice original Civil War personal accessory or country kitchen item. <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>Hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War General-in-Chief of the United States Army at the outbreak of the Civil War 1861 Mathew Brady view taken at the United States Military Academy</b> (1786-1866) Born at Laurel Hill, a plantation near Petersburg, Virginia, his father was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and an officer in the Dinwiddie County militia. A year older than the Constitution, the venerable Winfield Scott, hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, became General in chief of the U.S. Army in 1841, a position he still held at the start of the Civil War. He was known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" for his insistence on proper military etiquette. A true professional soldier, he was one of the very few men in the country who saw the need to prepare for a major military effort as the impending Civil War grew ever closer. His "Anacondona Plan" proved to be very sound and helped to defeat the Confederacy. It called for the capture of the Mississippi River, and a blockade of Southern ports, and by cutting off the eastern states of the Confederacy, Scott hoped to force the surrender of Confederate forces with a minimal loss of life on both sides. Succeeded by General George B. McClellan, as Commander-in-Chief, in November 1861, he retired to write his memoirs, and died at West Point in 1866 where he is buried. A Virginian, he was the only non-West Pointer of Southern origin in the Regular Army to remain loyal to the Union. His service as the "Commanding General of the United States Army," for twenty years, was the longest that any officer held that position. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Full seated view on a wooden porch taken at the U.S. Military Academy. Scott wears his double breasted dress uniform with oak leaf trim on his collar and cuffs, epaulettes, and is posing holding his presentation sword and scabbard. Imprint on the front mount: Lieut. Gen'l Scott. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Back mark: Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, From Photographic Negative, From Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Extremely sharp image, and in choice condition. Beautiful photograph! They don't come much nicer than this one! General Scott considered this to be his favorite photograph of himself.   <b>He died during the Civil War in 1863 near Fairfax Court House, Virginia Commander of the famous "Corcoran Irish Legion"</b> (1827-63) He was born in Carrowkeel, near Ballymote, County Sligo in Ireland, and before he emigrated to America in 1849, he belonged to a Catholic rebel guerrilla group, the Ribbonmen. In 1859, Corcoran became colonel of the famous fighting 69th New York State Militia. On October 11, 1860, Colonel Corcoran refused to march the regiment on parade for the Prince of Wales, who was visiting New York City at the time, to protest against British rule in Ireland. He was a close confidant of President Abraham Lincoln. When serving in the defenses of Washington in the spring of 1861, his men constructed one of the first forts that took on his name, Fort Corcoran. He was a hero at the 1st Battle of Bull Run where he was wounded and captured. Corcoran then became a pawn in a controversial chess game played by the Union and Confederate authorities where he was held hostage for reprisal in the event of the execution of the crews of captured privateers by the U.S. Navy. After being shuttled back and forth between a number of Confederate prison camps, he was exchanged in August 1862 and promoted to brigadier general. After an invitation to dine with President Lincoln, Corcoran was as enthusiastic as ever and continued to rally Irish support for the Union by raising the "Corcoran Irish Legion" which he led in the Suffolk, Va. campaign. In April 1863, Corcoran was involved in an incident that ended with Corcoran shooting and killing Edgar A. Kimball, commander of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Corcoran attempted to pass through the 9th New York's lines without giving the required password after receiving the challenge from a sentry. When Kimball intervened on the side of the sentry, Corcoran shot Kimball. At a court of inquiry, Kimball was faulted for interacting with Corcoran though Kimball was not on duty and was not a sentry, and for using menacing and insulting language. In addition, some witnesses suggested that Kimball was intoxicated when he confronted Corcoran. Corcoran was found at fault for not providing the required password; he was reprimanded by the court, but not subjected to further punishment. In late 1863, Corcoran was appointed commander of a division in the 22nd Corps, and while riding near Fairfax Court House, Virginia, he was thrown from his runaway horse, and suffered a fractured skull. He died at the W.P. Gunnell House on December 22, 1863, at the age of 36. 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. He wears epaulettes on his shoulders, and a sash with an oval medal across his chest. No back mark. Excellent condition. Very desirable Irish/American Civil War general.   Lage globes on these Arts and Crafts fixtures will work well as peir fixtures on low walls or or as a driveway feature on low pedestals of stone or brick. H 23in. x D 18in. VERY LARGE

Pat. 1858 PRESERVE JAR $45.00

  

CDV, General Winfield Scott $150.00

  

CDV, General Michael Corcoran $50.00

  

PR. ARTS AND CRAFTS LIGHTING $3500.00
ELEVATOR LIGHTS in cast bronze with very heavy glass domes of Sheffield glass circa 1920 7in H. x D 15in. Dia Top quality great solution for any low ceiling installation price per item x2   <b>Commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. United States Congressman & Senator from Rhode Island Governor of Rhode Island</b> (1824-1881) Born at Liberty, Union County, Indiana, he was known as "Old Sideburns." He graduated in the West Point class of 1847, and served in the Mexican War. Seeing action on the western frontier, he was wounded in a skirmish with Apache Indians in 1849. He resigned his commission in 1853, he invented a breech loading rifle, was appointed a Major General of the Rhode Island State Militia, was elected to serve as a U.S. Congressman, and he worked with the Illinois Central Railroad under his friend future Union General and presidential candidate George B. McClellan. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized the 1st Rhode Island Infantry, becoming their Colonel. He was in command of a brigade at the Battle of 1st Bull Run. Having become a President Lincoln favorite, he was given command of the expedition forces against the coast of North Carolina, he fought at the Battle of Antietam, and in December of 1862 he commanded the Army of the Potomac during their bitter defeat at Fredericksburg, Va. General Burnside also saw action at Knoxville, Tenn., in the Overland Campaign, and at Petersburg, Va., in the Battle of the Crater. In his post war career he was elected Governor of Rhode Island three times, and later served as a U. S. Senator. Burnside died of heart disease on September 13, 1881, at his home in Bristol, Rhode Island, and his body lay in state at City Hall until his funeral on September 16th. A procession took his casket, in a hearse drawn by four black horses, to the First Congregational Church for services which were attended by many local dignitaries. Following the funeral services, the procession made its way to Swan Point Cemetery for burial. Businesses were closed, and "thousands" of mourners from "all towns of the state and many places in Massachusetts and Connecticut" crowded the streets of Providence for the occasion. Personally, Burnside was always very popular, both in the army and in politics, and made friends very easily. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photographs, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Chest up view in oval format wearing uniform with rank of major general. No back mark. Light age toning. Very fine.  H 32in. x D 24in.  old light is very classic in solid bass wit fine detailing H 30in. x D 25in.

2X elevator lights in cast bronze $2950.00

  

CDV, General Ambrose E. Burnside $100.00

  

BRASS CEILING PENDANT $1800.00

  

BRASS CHANDELER $3400.00
Quality chandelier brass crystal very large H 51in. x D 28in.   <b>The Hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863! He was wounded at Gaines Mills, Va., and at Gettysburg, Pa.</b> (1830-1882) He was born in Cold Spring, New York, and named for Gouverneur Kemble, a prominent local Congressman, diplomat, industrialist, and owner of the West Point Foundry. "G.K." graduated in the West Point class of 1850, ranking #2, and he was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the prestigious Corps of Topographical Engineers. In the Antebellum South, he worked on the Mississippi River, participating in the Pacific Railroad Surveys of possible transcontinental railroad routes, and, in 1857, mapping the Western United States, extensively exploring the vast Nebraska Territory, including Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, part of Montana, and part of Wyoming. He served as the engineer on William S. Harney's Battle of Ash Hollow in the Nebraska Territory in 1855, where he saw his first combat action. The start of the Civil War found Warren as a first lieutenant, and mathematics instructor at the United States Military Academy. He helped raise a local regiment for service in the U.S. Army and was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 5th New York Infantry Regiment, on May 14, 1861. Warren and his regiment saw their first action at the Battle of Big Bethel, Va., on June 10th, the first major land engagement of the war. He was promoted to colonel, and regimental commander on September 10, 1861. Promoted to brigade command, he was wounded at Gaines Mills during the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, and later saw action with his brigade at the second battle of Bull Run, and at the bloody battle of Antietam, Md, on September 17, 1862. Warren was promoted to brigadier general on September 26, 1862, and he and his brigade went to Fredericksburg, Va. in December with the army under General Ambrose E. Burnside. When General Joseph Hooker was named to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac in February 1863, he reorganized it, and named Warren his chief topographical engineer, and then chief engineer. As chief engineer, Warren was highly commended for his service in the Battle of Chancellorsville, in May 1863. At the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, as Confederate General Robert E. Lee began his invasion of Pennsylvania, General Warren advised Hooker on the routes the Army should take in pursuit. On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Warren's keen eye and speedy action helped to save the vital position of Little Round Top and initiated its defense by recognizing the importance of the undefended position on the left flank of the Union Army, and he directed, upon his own initiative, the brigade of Colonel Strong Vincent to occupy it just minutes before it was attacked by the Rebels. Warren suffered a neck wound during the Confederate assault. Promoted to major general after Gettysburg, Warren commanded the 2nd Corps from August 1863, until March 1864, replacing the seriously wounded General Winfield S. Hancock, and distinguished himself at the Battle of Bristoe Station, Va., receiving promotion to brevet major general in the Regular U.S. Army. During the 1864 Mine Run Campaign, Warren's corps was ordered to attack General Lee's army. Perceiving that a trap had been laid, he refused the order from army commander General George G. Meade, and although Meade was initially angry at Warren, he later acknowledged that Warren had been right. Upon General Hancock's return from recovery from his Gettysburg battle wounds, and the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, General Warren was appointed commander of the 5th Corps and led it through the Overland Campaign, the Siege of Petersburg, and during the Appomattox Campaign. After the war, Warren served as an engineer in the U.S. Army for 17 years, building railroads with assignments along the Mississippi River. Warren's last assignment in the Army was as district engineer for Newport, Rhode Island, where he died of complications from diabetes on August 8, 1882. He was buried in the Island Cemetery in Newport and his last words were, "The flag! The flag!" Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view in uniform with rank of major general. Back mark: E. & H.T. Anthony, New York, made from a photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Light age toning. Very fine image. An extremely desirable Gettysburg participant where a statue on Little Round Top commemorates his actions on that fateful summer day of July 2, 1863, when his heroic actions saved the Union Army!   <b>United States Congressman from Massachusetts Member of the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Congress United States Speaker of the House Governor of Massachusetts</b> (1816-1894) Born at Waltham, Massachusetts. He was Speaker of the Massachusetts House, presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and the same year was elected to the U.S. Congress, the first of ten terms. Elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1856, Banks showed moderation in deciding among factions during the bitter slavery debates. In 1858 he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, serving until January 1861, when President Abraham Lincoln appointed him a Major General of Volunteers after Banks offered his services. Many West Point officers could not understand this appointment considering that Banks had substandard military qualifications for the job of a field commander. He did contribute immeasurably in recruits, morale, money and propaganda to the Federal cause however. He was defeated by General Stonewall Jackson in the celebrated 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign with the loss of 30% of his force, and again by Jackson at Cedar Mountain, Va. Banks saw service during the Vicksburg campaign, and commanded the siege and capture of Port Hudson, La., and also commanded the Red River campaign. General Banks undertook a number of steps intended to facilitate the Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln in Louisiana. When Banks arrived in New Orleans, the atmosphere was somewhat hostile to the Union owing to some of General Benjamin F. Butler's actions. Banks moderated some of Butler's policies, freeing civilians that Butler had detained and reopening churches whose ministers refused to support the Union. He recruited large numbers of African Americans for the military, and instituted formal works and education programs to organize the many slaves who had left their plantations. After the war Banks returned to his political career. He died on September 1, 1894, at Waltham, Mass., at the age of 84. Fort Banks in Winthrop, Massachusetts, built in the late 1890s, was named for him. A statue of him stands in Waltham's Central Square, and Banks Street in New Orleans is named after him. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 5/8 card. Full standing view wearing double breasted frock coat with rank of major general, a chapeau hat, epaulettes, with his sword and scabbard hanging from his belt. Back mark: Charles Taber & Co., New Bedford, [Mass.]. Major General N.P. Banks is also imprinted on the reverse and period pencil inscription outlining some of his Civil War military record. Card is trimmed. Mounting traces on the reverse. Displayed in 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 original period cdv album page with gold leaf imprint.   <b>Graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1853 Killed in the Atlanta campaign in July 1864</b> (1828-64) He was born in Clyde, Ohio, and graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1853, a class which included future Civil War generals Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield and John Bell Hood. After graduation McPherson was commissioned brevet second lieutenant and he was appointed to the Corps of Engineers. For a year after his graduation, he was assistant instructor of engineering at West Point, a position never before given to so young an officer. From 1854 to 1857, McPherson was the assistant engineer upon the defenses of New York harbor, and the improvement of the Hudson River. In 1857, he was superintendent of the building of Fort Delaware, and in 1857–61 he was superintending engineer of the construction of the defenses of Alcatraz Island, at San Francisco, California, and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1858. In 1859, while in San Francisco, he met Emily Hoffman, a woman from a prominent merchant family in Baltimore who had come to California to help care for her sister's children. She soon became engaged to McPherson and a wedding was planned, but ultimately was put off by the onset of the Civil War. At the outbreak of the rebellion, he requested a position on the staff of General Henry W. Halleck, one of the senior commanders in the west. Promoted to captain, on August 6, 1861, he was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, serving under General Halleck as his aide-de-camp, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. McPherson's career began rising after this assignment, as he was the Chief Engineer in General Ulysses S. Grant's army during the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, Tenn., February 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general on May 15, 1862, and served as military superintendent of the railroads in western Tennessee. On October 8th, he was promoted to major general and was soon after given command of the 17th Corps in General Grant's Army of the Tennessee. He saw service at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, and on March 26, 1864, he was given command of the Army of the Tennessee which he led in the subsequent campaign in northern Georgia. Eleven years after their graduation, now Confederate General John Bell Hood opposed General McPherson before Atlanta, and Hood's battle order would result in the death of his old friend and classmate. McPherson was killed before Atlanta on July 22, 1864. General William T. Sherman's tears rolled through his beard and down on the floor when he viewed the dead body of his friend laid upon a door torn from its hinges and improvised as a bier. Confederate General John Bell Hood, wrote of his old friend McPherson's death: "I will record the death of my classmate and boyhood friend, General James B. McPherson, the announcement of which caused me sincere sorrow. Since we had graduated in 1853, and had each been ordered off on duty in different directions, it has not been our fortune to meet. Neither the years nor the difference of sentiment that had led us to range ourselves on opposite sides in the war had lessened my friendship; indeed the attachment formed in early youth was strengthened by my admiration and gratitude for his conduct toward our people in the vicinity of Vicksburg. His considerate and kind treatment of them stood in bright contrast to the course pursued by many Federal officers." General William T. Sherman openly wept upon the death of General McPherson, and penned a letter to Emily Hoffman, McPherson fiance in Baltimore, stating: "My Dear Young Lady, A letter from your Mother to General Barry on my Staff reminds me that I owe you heartfelt sympathy and a sacred duty of recording the fame of one of our Country's brightest and most glorious Characters. I yield to none on Earth but yourself the right to excel me in lamentations for our Dead Hero. Why should death's darts reach the young and brilliant instead of older men who could better have been spared?" McPherson was the second-highest-ranking Union officer to be killed in action during the war, the highest being General John Sedgwick. Miss Hoffman never recovered from his death, living a quiet and lonely life until her death in 1891. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 1/2 card. Back mark: J.E. McClees, Artist, 910 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Thin archival mounting strip at the upper edge on the verso from when this image was framed. Card is trimmed. Very sharp, excellent image. Comes displayed in an 4 1/2 x 5 1/2, original period cdv album page trimmed in gold leaf. Very desirable Union general.

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<b>Captured the city of Atlanta, Georgia in 1864 His infamous march from Atlanta to the sea laid waste to much of Georgia!</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 Carolinas, 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. Corners of the mount are slightly trimmed. Bust view of Sherman in uniform. General W.T. Sherman is imprinted on the verso. Very fine.   <b>32nd President of the United States</b> (1882-1945) Born in Hyde Park, New York, he served as a member of the New York State Senate, 1911-13; as the United States Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; Governor of New York, 1929-32; and President of the U.S., 1933-45. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, he declared war on Japan the next day, and a few days later, on Germany and Italy. Roosevelt died during the war on April 12, 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., after his physical health seriously and steadily had declined during World War II. Roosevelt's Springwood estate, in Hyde Park, New York, was his birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place. His wife, First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, is buried alongside him. The Springwood estate was established as a National Historic Site in 1945, and is the home of his Presidential library. Celluloid lapel button, 3/4 inches in diameter, complete with its fastening pin on the verso. The obverse features a bust view of President Roosevelt, with the slogan, "A Gallant Leader," above, and his name, "Franklin D. Roosevelt," below. Manufacturer's imprint on the verso, Bastian Bros. Co., Rochester, N.Y., Home of Ribbon Metal And Celluloid Novelties, Local No. 11, Lithographers of America, Rochester. Very fine.   <b>The first Regular U.S. Army officer to be wounded in action during the Civil War, June 1861 He was wounded again in the 1864 Atlanta, Georgia campaign United States Minister to Chile</b> (1836-81) Born near Deckertown, New Jersey, he graduated in the West Point class of May 1861, and only a month after graduating from the academy he had the distinction of being the first Regular U.S. Army officer to be wounded in action during the Civil War, this coming at the battle of Big Bethel, Va., which took place on June 10, 1861, on the Virginia Peninsula, near Newport News. In September 1861, he became the lieutenant colonel, and in December, colonel of the 2nd New York Cavalry. He successively commanded his regiment, a brigade, and later a division of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac, playing a creditable role in virtually every important cavalry action in the eastern theater of war, including Beverly Ford, Stoneman's raid, and Gettysburg. He was promoted to brigadier general, June 14, 1863. In February 1864, he commanded the celebrated Richmond raid which was to free the Union prisoners there, but instead resulted in a fiasco and the death of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, the son of Admiral John A. Dahlgren. Sent south by General U.S. Grant, he was wounded in the early part of the Atlanta campaign, at Resaca, Ga. He returned to duty in late July 1864 to finish that campaign which included several raids and skirmishes against his old classmate, General Joseph Wheeler. He then took part in Sherman's March to the Sea, and the 1865 Carolina's campaign. General William T. Sherman was quoted as saying, "I want just that sort of man to command my cavalry in this expedition!" Kilpatrick was an early member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society composed of officers who had served in the Union armed forces. He was appointed United States Minister to Chile, by President Andrew Johnson, and served from 1866-70. He became active in politics as a Republican, and in 1880, was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Congress from his home state of New Jersey. In March 1881, in recognition of Kilpatrick's service to the Republican Party, in New Jersey, as well as a consolation prize for his defeat for a House seat, President James A. Garfield appointed Kilpatrick once again to the post of Minister to Chile. Kilpatrick died, on December 4, 1881, shortly after his arrival in the Chilean capital of Santiago. He was only 45 years old. His remains were returned to the United States in 1887, and were interred at the West Point Cemetery, United States Military Academy. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 1/2 x 4 card. Large bust view in uniform. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick is imprinted on the front mount. Back mark: The New York Photographic Co., No. 453 Broadway, New York, with an American shield logo. There is a thin archival mounting strip on the upper edge of the verso from when this image was framed. This does not affect the imprint in any way. Very fine.   <b>Suffered a crippling wound to his arm at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863 Severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., resulting in the amputation of his leg</b> (1831-79) Born in Owingsville, Kentucky, he graduated in the West Point class of 1853. His classmates were James B. McPherson, and John M. Schofield, and he received instruction in artillery tactics from George H. Thomas. All 3 of these men became U.S. Army generals who would fight against Hood in battle during the Civil War. The superintendent at the academy when Hood attended was Colonel Robert E. Lee, who would become Hood's commanding general in the Army of Northern Virginia. He resigned his U.S. Army commission on April 17, 1861, immediately after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and thereafter distinguished himself on many Civil War battlefields as a regimental, brigade, division and army commander. At the end of September 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment. The hard fighting Hood was promoted to brigadier general effective March 3, 1862, and he saw battle action while leading the "Texas Brigade," in the Army of Northern Virginia, during the 1862 peninsular campaign. He earned a respected reputation as an aggressive combat commander, eager to personally lead his troops into battle, and his "Texans" quickly gained notice as one of the army's elite fighting units. At the Battle of Gaines's Mill, Va., on June 27, 1862, General Hood distinguished himself by leading his brigade in a charge that broke through the Union lines, and it was the most successful Confederate performance in the Seven Days Battles. Hood survived unscathed, but over 400 men, and most of the officers in the "Texas Brigade" were killed or wounded. Hood broke down and wept at the sight of his dead and dying men on the battlefield. After inspecting the Yankee entrenchments, General Stonewall Jackson was heard to say, "The men who carried this position were truly soldiers indeed!" At the battle of 2nd Manassas, Va., fought on August 28-30, 1862, Hood spearheaded the assault on the Federal left flank that forced them to retreat from the field. Hood's two brigades lost over 1000 men in the battle. During the Battle of Sharpsburg, Md., on September 17, 1862, Hood's division came to the relief of General Stonewall Jackson's corps on the Confederate left flank, fighting in the infamous cornfield, and turned back an assault by the Union's 1st Corps in the West Woods. Afterward, they became engaged with the 12th Corps. In the evening after the battle, General Lee asked Hood where his division was. He responded, "They are lying on the field where you sent them. My division has been almost wiped out." Of his 2,000 men, almost 1,000 became casualties. Jackson was impressed with Hood's performance and recommended his promotion to major general, which occurred effective October 10, 1862. In the spring of 1863, Hood's division was with General James Longstreet's 1st Corps at Suffolk, Va. When the news of General Stonewall Jackson's death reached him, Hood expressed enormous grief for the man he most deeply admired, both personally and militarily. At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Longstreet's Corps arrived on the field late in the day of July 1, 1863. General Lee planned an assault for July 2nd in which Longstreet's Corps was to attack up the Emmitsburg Road into the Union's left flank. Hood was dissatisfied with his assignment in the assault because his men would face difficult terrain in the boulder strewn area known as Devil's Den. He requested permission from Longstreet to move around the left flank of the Union army, beyond the mountain known as Big Round Top, to strike the Yankee soldiers in the rear. However, Longstreet, refused permission, citing General Lee's orders were set, despite repeated protests from Hood. Yielding to the inevitable, Hood finally gave in, and his division stepped off around 4 p.m. on July 2nd. General Hood's troops would eventually encounter the Union forces at Little Round Top. As the attack started, Hood was the victim of an artillery shell exploding overhead, severely damaging his left arm, which incapacitated him, although the arm was not amputated. His ranking brigade commander, General Evander M. Law, took over command of the division, but they were not able to beat back the Yankees who were heavily fortified on the high ground at Little Round Top, and Hood was sent to Richmond to convalesce from his serious Gettysburg battle wound. Meanwhile, in the Western Theater, the Confederate army under the command of General Braxton Bragg was doing poorly, so General Lee decided to dispatch two divisions of Longstreet's Corps to Tennessee, to aide Bragg's troops. Hood had just rejoined his command and was sent west. At Chickamauga Ga., on September 19, 1863, Hood repulsed an attack by General Jefferson C. Davis's division. On the 20th, Hood led Longstreet's assault that exploited a gap in the Federal lines, leading to the defeat of General William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland. However, Hood was once again wounded severely; his right femur was fractured, and his leg was amputated four inches below the hip. Hood's condition was so grave that the surgeon sent the severed leg with him in the ambulance, assuming they would be buried together. Hood was taken to the home of Colonel Francis Little to recover for several weeks before going back to Richmond to continue his recovery. Because of Hood's bravery at Chickamauga, Longstreet recommended that Hood be promoted to Lieutenant General which the Confederate Senate confirmed. He later fought at Atlanta, and Franklin and Nashville, Tenn. In March 1865, Hood was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Theater to report on the situation and assess the possibility of moving troops across the Mississippi River to reinforce the East. He met with Lieutenant General Richard Taylor in Mississippi in late April, and agreed with Taylor's proposal that his force should surrender. General Lee's Army had already surrendered in Virginia earlier in the month. Hood departed to take this recommendation to the commanders remaining in the field, but before he arrived in Texas, General Edmund Kirby Smith had surrendered his forces, and Hood surrendered himself in Natchez, Mississippi, where he was paroled on May 31, 1865. After the war, Hood moved to Louisiana and became a cotton broker and worked as president of the Life Association of America, an insurance business. In 1868, he married New Orleans native Anna Marie Hennen, with whom he had 11 children over ten years, including three pairs of twins. He also served the community in numerous philanthropic endeavors, assisting in fund-raising for orphans, widows, and wounded soldiers. During the postwar period, he began a memoir, "Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies." Though rough, incomplete, and unpublished until after his death, this work served to justify his actions, particularly in response to what he considered misleading or false accusations made by General Joseph E. Johnston, and to negative portrayals in General William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs. He died of yellow fever at New Orleans, La., together with his wife and his oldest daughter Lydia, in August 1879. John Bell Hood is interred in the Hennen family tomb at Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Chest up view in Confederate uniform with rank of brigadier general. Period pencil ID on the front mount, "Hood ConFed.[erate]" Back mark: E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. John Bell Hood's collar insignia is that of colonel, and his button spacing indicate his rank is brigadier general. Consequently this image was most likely taken in the spring or summer of 1862 just after his promotion to brigadier. 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<b>Wounded 3 times during the Civil War; twice at Malvern Hill, Va., and at Drewry's Bluff, Va. Attorney General of North Carolina United States Senator from North Carolina</b> (1826-1904) Born in Warren County, North Carolina, he was the elder brother of Confederate General Robert Ransom. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1847, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. A Whig Presidential Elector in 1852, he married Martha Anne "Pattie" Exum of Northampton County, N.C., on January 19, 1853, and the couple resided at "Verona," the Exum family's plantation on the banks of the Roanoke River. Matt and Martha had eight children together. A slaveholder, Ransom also had two children with Emma Outland, one his slaves. Those children were Douglas Ransom, born in 1859, and Alice Ransom, who later became the wife of Edward "Ned" Rawles, one of North Carolina's first African-American state legislators! Ransom served as North Carolina Attorney General, 1853-55, and was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1858-61. He was chosen as one of the three commissioners from North Carolina that were sent as representatives to the Confederate government that were meeting at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861. Ransom was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 1st North Carolina Infantry, and then colonel of the 35th North Carolina Infantry. This regiment was part of his brother's brigade, which he later commanded. He was promoted to brigadier general, on June 13, 1863, and fought in the battles of Seven Pines, the Seven Days Battles, Va., Sharpsburg, Md., Fredericksburg, Va., Plymouth and Weldon, N.C., Suffolk, Va., and the siege of Petersburg, Va. He was wounded 3 times during the war, twice at Malvern Hill, Va., during the 7 Days Battles, in 1862, and at Drewry's Bluff, Va., in May 1864. He finally surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va., on April 9, 1865, after previously having led his troops that were shattered at the battles of Five Forks, and Sayler's Creek, Va. After the war, he moved to Weldon, North Carolina, where he was a planter, and resumed his law practice. He served as a Democratic member of the United States Senate, from North Carolina, 1872-95. He also served as U.S. Minister to Mexico, in the President Grover Cleveland administration, 1895-97. Following his term as ambassador, Ransom retired to his Verona estate, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died near Garysburg, North Carolina, on his 78th birthday, October 8, 1904, and was buried on his estate, near Jackson, North Carolina. Verona is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in America. <u>Card Signature with State:</u> 3 1/2 x 2 1/4, large and bold ink autograph, M.W. Ransom, N.C. Minor age toning. Very desirable North Carolina Confederate General's signature.  Period appropriate to any Civil War grouping, this antique Masonic bicorn chapeau is fashioned from beaver with telltale age and construction to include a 2 inch wide oilskin sweat band with the patriotic American eagle label of <I> J. A. MERRILL & CO. - Military and Society Goods - PORTLAND, MAINE</I> on its blue silk lining. (see: <I>Directory of American Military Goods Dealers & Makers</I> by Bazelon & McGuinn and Civil War period Portland Business Directories) Best described here as to condition and eye appeal by our illustrations, this desirable fraternal hat offers good evidence of use and period originality while remaining in a pleasing state with no condition issues. With later examples still commonly found true mid 1800s examples are seldom seen on today’s market and make a nice, affordable, addition to any Civil War vintage headgear or fraternal 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>  <b>Colored Infantry Regiment Fort Wagner, South Carolina, July 18, 1863 The death of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading the assault</b> Full color lithograph that measures 14 1/4 x 10 1/2. Imprint below the battle scene: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St., New York. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. "THE GALLANT CHARGE OF THE FIFTY FOURTH MASSACHUSETTS COLORED REGIMENT, On the Rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th, 1863, and death of Colonel Rob't G. Shaw." The lithograph is complete with 1 inch borders on the left and right sides. There is a 1/2 inch border at the top, and approximately a 2 inch border at the bottom which includes the imprinted legend as listed above. The colors are vibrant and this excellent lithograph features the historic 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment, the first black regiment to fight in battle during the Civil War, charging upon the impregnable Confederate works at Fort Wagner, S.C. The legendary black regiment were led in this heroic charge by their gallant young 25 year old Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who can be seen at the upper center of the print. Gould has just been hit by Confederate bullets and clutches his chest as he is about to fall, his sword raised above his head. Just behind Colonel Shaw is the regimental colors with 54th Mass. emblazoned across the red and white stripes as they are being brought forward by a negro soldier of the regiment's color guard. There is a small, very light stain in the border area at the bottom of the print (below the words, "Morris Island"). It is in a blank area and does not affect the imprint, or content, in any way. If the print were to be framed, you can easily hide this with your mats. Overall in excellent condition. This very desirable lithograph was published in the 1960's for the Civil War Centennial celebration, and was executed from the original 1863 rendering by Currier & Ives. Anything related to the historic 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment is highly prized by Civil War collectors! <u>The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment</u>: On January 26, 1863, Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, a long time abolitionist, secured permission from the government to raise black regiments. The War Department's approval resulted in the recruitment of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, the first black regiment to fight in the Civil War. To lead them, Andrew chose Robert Gould Shaw, one of a small group of Union officers who believed that black troops could be trained to match the fighting quality of white soldiers. Feeling he had an obligation to prove this, Shaw accepted the colonelcy of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry who were organized and drilled under his guidance. Shaw was a veteran officer of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, who was wounded on September 17, 1862, at the battle of Antietam, Maryland. When the 54th Mass. paraded through Boston, bound for South Carolina, the youthful colonel's colored troops made a wonderful impression. After reaching the Carolina coast and doing some routine duty, General Quincy A. Gillmore decided to attack the several Rebel forts that guarded the main ship's channel into Charleston. Shaw's troops saw their first battle action 2 days earlier in an attack on James Island, on July 16, 1863, losing 46 men. On July 18th, Colonel Shaw was given the important assignment of leading the Union assault on the Confederate bastion known as Fort Wagner. At 7:45 p.m. the black volunteers stormed across the beach. The Rebel musketry and artillery fire had a devastating effect on the charging negro soldiers. After being pinned down in a ditch, Colonel Shaw scrambled uphill toward a palmetto log parapet leading the charge. The gallant officer reached the top first, stood, turned, and shouted, "Onward 54th!" He suddenly collapsed, killed instantly by a rifle ball to the chest. Fort Wagner was never captured, and Colonel Shaw was buried in a trench grave along with his brave negro troops. Today, a monument stands in Boston's Public Garden, honoring Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his gallant black soldiers!   <b>During his twenty seasons in the National League Crawford umpired more than 3,100 games He was the home plate umpire during one of the most violent brawls in baseball history!</b> (1916-2007) Born Henry Charles "Shag" Crawford, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, growing up, he played baseball and football, and was involved in boxing, and later played in the minor leagues as a catcher in the Philadelphia Phillies system. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, and was on the destroyer USS Walke (DD-723) when its bridge was struck by a Japanese kamikaze on January 6, 1945, during the invasion of Luzon, in which commanding officer George Fleming Davis was killed. He was a professional umpire in Major League Baseball, and worked in the National League from 1956 to 1975. During his twenty seasons in the National League, Crawford worked more than 3,100 games, and as a home plate umpire he was notable for getting in a low crouch and resting his hands on the back of the catcher. Crawford was the third base umpire for Sandy Koufax's third no-hitter on June 4, 1964. He was the home plate umpire when one of the most violent brawls in baseball history occurred during a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, at Candlestick Park, on August 22, 1965. The incident occurred between Giants pitcher Juan Marichal, and Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the aftermath of the Watts riots near Roseboro's Los Angeles home, and while the Dominican Civil War raged in Marichal's home country, so emotions were raw. During the heat of the game, several players were knocked to the ground by brush back pitches from both teams. When Juan Marichal came up to bat in the 3rd inning, he thought that Roseboro purposely tried to hit him in the head when his return throw back to Sandy Koufax whistled by his ear. Marichal took exception, and confronted Roseboro about the closeness of his throw, and Roseboro came out of his crouch with his fists clenched, and charged towards Marichal who thought John Roseboro was about to attack him. Marichal then raised his bat, striking Roseboro at least twice over the head with his bat, opening a two-inch gash that sent blood flowing down the catcher's face that required 14 stitches. A 14-minute brawl ensued on the field before Koufax, Giants captain Willie Mays, and other peacemakers restored order. Crawford ejected Marichal from the game, and afterwards, National League president Warren Giles suspended Marichal for eight games, and fined him $1,750.00, which at that time was a National League record fine. During Crawford's celebrated career, he officiated three World Series; 1961, 1963, and 1969, ejecting Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver in Game 4 of the 1969 Series for arguing balls and strikes, the first managerial ejection in World Series competition since 1935. He also umpired two National League Championship Series; 1971 and 1974, and umpired in the MLB All-Star Games of 1959, 1961, and 1968; working home plate in the 1968 game. Two of Shag Crawford's sons, Jerry Crawford, and Joey Crawford, also became professional sports officials. Jerry was a National League umpire from 1976 until 2010, and Joey was a National Basketball Association referee from 1977 to 2016. Shag Crawford worked the first game at Philadelphia Phillies Veterans Stadium in 1971, and stood with his son Jerry at home plate when the lineup cards were presented before the final game at the ballpark in 2003. <u>Card Signature</u>: 5 x 3, in ink, nice large bold autograph, Shag Crawford. Excellent. Very desirable MLB signature.

Autograph, General Matthew W. Ransom $125.00

  

Civil War era beaver – Masonic Bicorn Ch $145.00

  

The Gallant Charge of the 54th Massachus $50.00

  

Autograph, Shag Crawford, Major League B $15.00
<b>The gallant Union commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina who withstood a 36 hour bombardment before surrendering the fort!</b> (1805-1871) Born at "Soldier's Retreat," the Anderson family estate near Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated in the West Point class of 1825, and participated in the Black Hawk Indian War, in Florida. In the Mexican War, he fought in the Siege of Vera Cruz, the Battle of Cerro Gordo, the Skirmish of Amazoque, and the Battle of Molino del Rey where he was severely wounded while assaulting the Mexican fortifications, for which he received a brevet promotion to major. In November 1860, he was ordered to Charleston Harbor to take command of the three United States forts there; Castle Pickney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter, and all troops in the area, in the face of South Carolina's imminent secession. Major Anderson refused a formal demand for his surrender and in the early morning hours of April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was bombarded by Rebel cannons, and the Civil War began. His small garrison withstood 36 hours under heavy fire before being compelled to surrender. Robert Anderson became a national hero in the North for his heroic stand. Ironically, the Confederate artillery attack was commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard, who had been Anderson's student at West Point. He was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular U.S. Army, effective May 15, 1861. Anderson took the Fort Sumter's 33 star American flag with him to New York City, where he participated in a huge patriotic rally at Union Square that was the largest public gathering in North America until then. General Anderson then went on a highly successful recruiting tour of the North, with his next assignment placing him in another sensitive political position as commander of the Department of Kentucky, subsequently renamed the Department of the Cumberland, in a border state that had officially declared neutrality between the Union and the Confederacy. Anderson's last military assignment was a brief period as commanding officer of Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, in August 1863. Anderson officially retired from the Army on October 27, 1863 "for disability resulting from long and faithful service, and wounds and disease contracted in the line of duty," but he continued to serve on the staff of the general commanding the Eastern Department, headquartered in New York City, from October 27, 1863, to January 22, 1869. On February 3, 1865, Anderson was brevetted to the rank of major general for "gallantry and meritorious service" in the defense of Fort Sumter. General Robert Anderson personally raised that same United States flag over Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865, exactly four years after he had hauled it down. Hours after the joyous ceremony of April 14, 1865, the country went into deep mourning as John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. General Anderson died in Nice, France, on October 26, 1871, as he had been there seeking a medical cure for his ailments. He was 66 years old at the time of his death, and was buried at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York. Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Seated view in uniform with rank of major general, his overcoat draped over one shoulder, and holding a book, and his reading glasses on his lap. His kepi with U.S. hat wreath insignia sits on the table at his side. Back mark: Bogardus Photographer, 363 Broadway, New York. Very light stain on the verso. Edge of the card mount is very slightly trimmed. Rare pose!   <b>Colonel of the 14th United States Colored Infantry Regiment who he gallantly lead in the Civil War battles of Decatur, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee! Commanded African-American troops, the "Buffalo Soldiers" in the U.S. Army in the 1860's and 1870's Was present as an aide at the death of assassinated President James A. Garfield He was promoted to Lieutenant General, in 1906, making him the senior ranking officer on active duty in the United States Army</b> (1842-1909) He was born in Monroe Township, Clermont County, Ohio, and was educated at the Clermont Academy. Corbin was teaching school, and studying law when the Civil War commenced, and he volunteered to fight as a second lieutenant in the 83rd Ohio Infantry in July 1862. He transferred to the 79th Ohio Infantry the next month, and in November 1863, he was commissioned a major in the 14th United States Colored Infantry. He eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and colonel commanding this negro regiment, that bravely fought under his leadership in the battles of Decatur, Alabama, and Nashville, Tennessee. Corbin was promoted to rank of brevet brigadier general, on March 13, 1865, having been cited by his superiors for gallantry at Decatur and Nashville. He was mustered out of the volunteer service of the U.S. Army in March 1866. In May 1866, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 17th Infantry Regiment of the Regular U.S. Army. He was later promoted to captain in the 38th U.S. Infantry Regiment, a <i>"Buffalo Soldier</i>" regiment (negro troops), in July 1866. The 38th Infantry was later consolidated with the 41st U.S. Infantry Regiment to form the 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment in November 1869, with all of the enlisted soldiers being black. Corbin was appointed to the official staff of President Rutherford B. Hayes, serving at the White House from 1877-81. He was attending Hayes' successor, President James A. Garfield, when Garfield was shot in 1881, and was present at his death in Elberon, New Jersey. He was commissioned a major in the Adjutant General's Department in June 1880, serving in the Department of the South, and the Department of the Missouri. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, in June 1889, serving in the Department of Arizona, the Adjutant General's Office in Washington, and the Department of the East. In May 1896, he returned to the Adjutant General's Department in Washington and was promoted to colonel. He was elevated to Adjutant General of the United States Army with the rank of brigadier general in February 1898, and was promoted to major general in June 1900. He took command of the newly created Division of the Atlantic in January 1904, then was given command of the Division of the Philippines in November 1904. He took command of the Northern Division in February 1906, and was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1906, making him the senior ranking officer on active duty in the entire U.S. Army. He retired from active duty in September 1906, and continued to live in Washington, D.C. Corbin died on September 8, 1909, at Roosevelt Hospital, in New York City, and is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery, in Virginia. <u>Autograph Note Signed With Rank, Place & Date</u>: 6 1/2 x 3 1/4, in ink, "With all good wishes, Very Truly, H.C. Corbin, Maj. Genl., U.S. Army, Governor's Island, May 26, 1904." Very fine item. <u>WBTS Trivia</u>: Governors Island is a 172-acre island in New York Harbor that is located approximately 800 yards south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the 400 yard-wide Buttermilk Channel. The National Park Service administers a small portion of the north end of the island as the Governors Island National Monument, including two former military fortifications named Fort Jay and Castle Williams.   <b>Confederate Commander at Charleston in April 1861 during the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter! Fought at the 1st battle of Manassas, Va. in 1861</b> (1818-93) Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, of Louisiana Creole descent, was born at the "Contreras" sugar-cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, 20 miles from New Orleans. He was the 4th highest ranking officer in the Confederacy, and graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1838. He was brevetted captain and major for gallantry in the Mexican War battles of Contreras, Churubusco and Chapultepec, where he was wounded in the shoulder and thigh. He was noted for his eloquent performance in a meeting with Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott, in which he convinced the assembled general officers to change their plan for attacking the fortress of Chapultepec. He was one of the first U.S. officers to enter Mexico City. He was in command at Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, during the bombardment and capture of Fort Sumter, and he rose to instant fame in the Confederacy. The bombardment of the fort lasted for 34 hours, and after a heavy bombardment from batteries ringing the harbor, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter, to Beauregard on April 14th. He also saw action at 1st Manassas, Shiloh, the 1863-64 Charleston, S.C. campaign, Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg, Va. After 1st Manassas, Beauregard advocated for the use of a standardized battle flag other than the "Stars and Bars" Confederate national flag to avoid visual confusion with the U.S. flag. He worked with others to create what is now known as the Confederate Battle Flag. Throughout his career, Beauregard worked to have the flag adopted, and he helped to make it the most popular symbol of the Confederacy! Beauregard was a railroad executive in the 1860's and early 1870's and later served as Commissioner of public works in New Orleans, and Adjutant General of Louisiana. He died on February 20, 1893, at New Orleans, and is buried in the Tomb of the Army of Tennessee, in the Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. <u>Card Signature With Date</u>: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4, beautifully signed in a large, bold ink hand, G.T. Beauregard, 1889. Two small mounting traces on the corners of the verso. An excellent and extremely desirable Confederate autograph that would frame or display very nicely! Comes with an old glossy, 4 x 5 1/2, black and white photograph of General Beauregard in uniform.   <b>Commander of the USS Pensacola during the bombardment of Forts Jackson & St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862</b> (1806-63) Born in Manhattan, New York City, he was the grandson of Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was appointed as a midshipman on August 21, 1819, and by 1828 was promoted to lieutenant. Over the next decade and a half he served in various sea duty assignments. He was promoted to commander on October 12, 1849, where he was in charge of recruiting at New York from 1851 to 1853. His next sea command was on the sloop "Germantown" of the Brazil Squadron followed by additional sea duty in the Mediterranean Squadron. At the beginning of the Civil War he had served in the U.S. Navy for 41 years. He then was assigned as superintendent of operations at the Washington Navy Yard, and later commanded the sloop of war, "Pensacola," as it sailed south to join the West Gulf Blockading squadron. While passing Forts Jackson and Fort St. Philip, on the Mississippi River, Morris became involved in a cannon exchange with the Confederate batteries who ultimately scored numerous hits on the "Pensacola" killing four men, and wounding thirty three others. On July 16, 1862, he was promoted to commodore and remained in command of the "Pensacola." Commodore Morris's health then took a turn for the worse and he returned to New York City in an attempt to regain his health, however the attempt was futile, and he died on August 14, 1863. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. <u>Document Signed</u>: 8 x 2 1/2, imprinted form on blue paper, filled out in ink. United States Navy Yard, New York, May 1st, 1858. Received, from Charles Murray, Purser United States Navy, Two hundred & twenty nine Dollars, ninety three Cents, on account of my Pay, &c. $229.93. Signed at lower right, Henry W. Morris. Excellent condition with a very nice large, bold signature. Desirable Union naval Civil War officer.

CDV, General Robert Anderson $125.00

  

Autograph, General Henry C. Corbin $95.00

  

Autograph, General P. G. T. Beauregard $350.00

  

Autograph, Commodore Henry W. Morris, U. $75.00


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