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<u>Signature with Rank and Date</u>: 3 x 2, in ink, Report to Capt. [Daniel L.] Braine, S.C. Rowan, Vice Admr., Jany. 30/74. Light staining.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5063a.jpg) |
MCM pendant lights $650.00 |
| TRIPLE HOLOPHANE PENDANT $1500.00 |
| 19th century Chloroform Dripper $65.00 |
| Autograph, Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, U. S $60.00 |
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Autograph, Admiral Silas H. Stringham, U $65.00 |
| 1700s early 1800s Hand forged Whaling Ha $145.00 |
| 2nd Illinois Cavalry issue – Confederate $2350.00 |
| Autograph, Admiral Charles Steedman, U. S $50.00 |
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PEN & INK DRAWING DEPICTING TWO FIGURES $1500.00 |
| STAGE DOOR PAINTING BY AMERICAN ARTIST E $12500.00 |
| AMERICAN ARTIST EVERETT SHINN PASTEL PAI $17500.00 |
| Autograph, William R. W. Cobb $25.00 |
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Autograph, George S. Houston $20.00 |
| 19th century hand wrought ‘Sticking Tom $95.00 |
| Civil War era BINOCULARS $195.00 |
| Patriotic DESK BELL from period repurpos $145.00 |
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Civil War vintage Fancy Knit COTTON SOC $95.00 |
| 18th early 19th century forged iron Sl $695.00 |
| Devil's Den, Gettysburg Battlefield $20.00 |
| Set of 10 Prints of Confederate Generals $15.00 |
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| ![<b>Signed by two very prominent Gettysburg citizens!</b>
6 x 2 1/2, imprinted check on blue paper, filled out in ink. Diamond shaped orange & brown tax stamp imprinted at the center of the check, with a bust view of President George Washington, and United States Internal Revenue, Two Cents printed around the edges. Gettysburg, PA., Dec. 17, 1877. [Check] No. 25. Gettysburg National Bank, Pay to the Order of J.C. Neely. Twenty five Dollars. Signed at lower right by D. Kendlehart. Endorsed on the reverse by J.C. Neely. Typical cut cancellation. Very fine. Desirable Gettysburg document signed by two of its most prominent citizens!
<u>Jacob C. Neely</u>:
The recipient of this check, who signed it on the reverse, J.C. Neely, was born in Adams County, Pa., on February 3, 1838, and graduated from Gettysburg College, in the class of 1856. After studying law, he commenced a practice in 1859, and became a member of the Adams County Bar Association. He married a daughter of Dr. S.S. Schumacher, president of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary. Mr. Neely served for six years as district attorney, and was regarded as one of the best lawyers in Adams County. He served as legal counsel for the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in their famous and controversial case against the Memorial Association over the location of their monument at the "Bloody Angle," the historic area where Pickett's Charge was repulsed, on July 3, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg. Neely also served as a commissioner who helped the John P. Rose Farm settle their claims caused by the damage that occurred to the farm during the battle of Gettysburg. Mr. Neely died on Friday, May 25, 1894, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg. Other Gettysburg notables that are buried there include the citizen hero of the battle of Gettysburg, John L. Burns, and the only civilian killed during the battle, Jennie Wade.
<u>David Kendlehart</u>:
(1813-91) A prosperous businessman in Gettysburg, he was president of the city council on June 26, 1863, when Confederate General Jubal A. Early, entered Gettysburg and demanded goods and money from the town. Kendlehart refused, but offered for the stores to be opened so the town's civilians could supply what they could of the general's demands. He later slipped out of town and maintained a low profile during the battle until the morning of July 4th, when he entered the Union lines and informed Union Commander, General George G. Meade of the Confederate withdrawal from the streets of Gettysburg.
Kendlehart, also the owner of a shoe business on Baltimore Street, met General Early as he rode into town less than a week before the outbreak of battle, and demanded to speak with the borough’s mayor. The Confederate general’s inquiry proved fruitless however, as Burgess Robert Martin’s wife informed General Early that Martin and most of the councilmen had already left the town in advance of the arrival of the Confederates army. The responsibility of representing the borough in negotiations with Early therefore fell to Mr. Kendlehart. Early demanded that Kendlehart furnish the rebel troops with thousands of pounds of provisions, shoes, hats, and U.S. currency. Kendlehart’s refusal to supply the rebels, citing limited authority of the Borough, and the impossibility of securing so much material in a small municipality such as Gettysburg.
His tactful argument may have saved the town from ruin in retribution for his noncompliance. Although he refused to hand over the supplies, Kendlehart removed responsibility from the borough, and did, however, suggest that the Confederates go from household to household asking the citizens of Gettysburg to furnish whatever they could. Kendlehart would leave Gettysburg proper that evening to remain hidden two miles outside of the borough at McAllister’s Mill until the end of the battle, at which point the leaderless citizens exercised their own political agenda with General Early. The money in the town bank was hidden, families hid their food and possessions, residents protected their free black neighbors from capture, and most of the Gettysburg citizens lied about having anything of value when the Confederate soldiers asked. The Rebels gained very little from the town’s unified defiance, marveling at how such a population could possess so little.
David Kendlehart died on April 30, 1891, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9484a.jpg) |
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1948 First $10.00 |
| Soldiers' Monument, Gettysburg National $20.00 |
| Gettysburg National Bank Check $45.00 |
| New York State Uniform Button $15.00 |
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Autograph, Commodore John M. B. Clitz, U. $40.00 |
| Autograph, General Philip H. Sheridan $215.00 |
| CDV, General P. G. T. Beauregard $185.00 |
| Saddle Ring Recovered at Gettysburg $10.00 |
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| ![<b>Killed at the battle of Piedmont, Virginia in 1864!
Military Document Signed With Rank</b>
(1824-64) Born in Washington County, Virginia, his sobriquet was "Grumble" Jones. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1848, and served on the frontier with the "Mounted Rifles" until 1857, when he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army. When his home state seceded from the Union, he organized a company known as the "Washington Mounted Rifles," and was elected their captain. He served under Colonel J.E.B. Stuart at 1st Manassas, and became colonel of the 1st, and 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiments. He continued to serve under now General Stuart and was promoted to brigadier general September 19, 1862. He particularly distinguished himself at the war's biggest cavalry battle, Brandy Station, Va. Jones was considered to be the best outpost officer in the cavalry by his superiors. He protected the army's flank and rear on their march to Gettysburg in 1863. He was then assigned to command the Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee where he rendered superb service. He participated in General James Longstreet's Knoxville campaign, and fought at Cloyd's Mountain in western Virginia, and at the battle of Piedmont, on June 5, 1864, he was struck by a ball and instantly killed while encouraging his men in the front lines. In the subsequent confusion and retreat his body fell into the hands of the Yankees, who returned it to his friends. General William E. "Grumble" Jones was buried in the graveyard of the Old Glade Springs Presbyterian Church, in Virginia.
<u>Document Signed</u>: 15 3/4 x 9 1/2, manuscript in ink.
The United States on Account of Army Subsistence in the Quarter ending the 31st of December 1853, in Account with Lieut. W.E. Jones, Rifles, A.A.C.S., en-route from Fort Ewell, Texas, &c, &c, &c, to Corpus Christi.
I certify on honor that the above account current exhibits an accurate and true Statement of all monies received and expended by me on Account of Subsistence in the Army, and there is now due me from the Commissary Department ($165.92) One Hundred and sixty five Dollars & 92/100.
W.E. Jones,
2d Lieut. R.[egiment] M.[ounted] R.[ifles],
A.A.C.S.
Docket on the reverse: Account Current for the 4th Quarter 1853. Lieut. William E. Jones, Rifles, A.A.C.S.
Written on blue lined paper that shows some fold wear. Very desirable Confederate General K.I.A.
This document was signed by Lieutenant Jones when he was serving in the pre Civil War United States Army.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5055a.jpg) |
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Anson Mills Pat. 1881 - REMINGTON DOG - $65.00 |
| earlier to Civil War era - Fire Starter $145.00 |
| Autograph, General William E. Jones $175.00 |
| mid-19th century Richmond, Va. – TOBACCO $135.00 |
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Victorian era - LADY'S FAN $95.00 |
| Pat. 1861- BOOTH MONOGRAMED coin silver $135.00 |
| Enfield Bayonet Scabbard Throat Recovere $15.00 |
| Autograph, Admiral Charles S. Boggs, U. S $75.00 |
![<b>The oldest private military college in the United States!
Norwich turned out hundreds of officers and soldiers who fought in President Abraham Lincoln's Union armies during the Civil War!</b>
2 piece, convex, non-excavated coat size uniform button. 3/4 inches in diameter. Face of the button has spread winged eagle with shield, and is holding arrows and olive branches in its talons, and retains almost 100% of its gold gilt finish. On the top of the eagle are the raised letters, "Cadet," and below it is "N.U.," for Norwich University. The reverse is complete with a shank and has the manufacturer's imprint of D. Evans & Co., Attleboro, MS. [Massachusetts]. Very nice example.
WBTS Trivia: Norwich University, also known as The Military College of Vermont, is the oldest private military college in the United States. Founded in 1819, at Norwich, by Captain Alden Partridge, a military educator and former superintendent of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y.
In 1825, the academy moved to Middletown, Connecticut, to provide better naval training to the school's growing Corps of Cadets. However, the state of Connecticut declined to grant Captain Partridge a charter, and he moved the school back to Norwich in 1829.
The state of Vermont granted the school a charter in 1834, and recognized the institution thenceforth as Norwich University.
At the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861, Norwich cadets served as instructors of the state militias throughout the northeast, and the entire class of 1862, enlisted for the war upon its graduation. Norwich turned out hundreds of officers and soldiers who fought in President Lincoln's armies during the Civil War, including 4 recipients of the Medal of Honor, 1 who led a corps, 7 who headed divisions, 21 who led brigades, and 38 who commanded regiments.
These Norwich soldiers became eyewitnesses to some of the war's most dramatic events, including the bloodiest single day in American military history at the battle of Antietam, Maryland. They also fought in the attack at Marye's Heights in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and in the historic repulse of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, Pa.
A total of 755 Norwich men served during the Civil War, including an estimated 56 who fought for the Confederacy.
The daring Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont, brought much fear to the neighboring town of Newport thinking it would be a certain target of the Rebel raiders. The Corps of Cadets were quickly ordered into action, boarded an express train that same day, and it was a great relief to the citizens living there when the gallant Norwich Cadets came marching in to save the day.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9480a.jpg) |
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Norwich University Cadet Uniform Button $15.00 |
| Decoying The Yanks, Jackson's Valley Cam $15.00 |
| CDV, General Nathaniel Lyon $95.00 |
| Grand Army of the Republic Uniform Butto $10.00 |
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Confederate . 577 Caliber Enfield Bullet $15.00 |
| Civil War Cannon Friction Primer Excavat |
| CDV, General George B. McClellan $75.00 |
| G. A. R. Lapel Pin $25.00 |
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Autograph, Admiral Christopher R. P. Rodg $50.00 |
| Photograph, General Charles M. Shelley $15.00 |
| Autograph, Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Se $65.00 |
| 1893 New York Day at Gettysburg Medal $150.00 |
![<b>Alexander Gardner View</b>
Wet plate, albumen photograph, 3 x 2 1/4, on 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 card mount. No backmark. Identification on the reverse, "Bridge over the Chickahominy, Virginia." View showing the bridge with the Chickahominy River in the foreground. Light age toning.
Otherwise known by the name of its builder, and marked on the map, "Woodbury's Bridge." The picture is taken at a point where the accumulated waters most presented the character of a stream, the swamp being in some places all of a mile in width, and supporting on its treacherous surface a luxuriant growth. In the depths of this morass, the home of almost every variety of Virginia reptile, the soldiers worked several weeks, constructing the causeway known as New Duane's, Sumner's- Upper and Lower- Bottom's, and Railroad Bridge. The cutting of dams above, and heavy rains, stopped the workmen a number of times, and destroyed their labor, by converting the whole valley into a broad lake, whose waters, pressing through the length of the swamp carried everything irresistibly before them. In this way, during the battle of Fair Oaks, Sumner's troops had barely passed over, when the rapidly accumulated waters of the river carried away the bridge; and it was claimed by the engineers that the weight of the men in crossing kept it in place. If, in that fight, our troops had been defeated, the limited facilities of recrossing the Chickahominy would probably have led to the capture of the greater portion of the corps. The Grape Vine Bridge was so called for its tortuous course through the swamp. Its construction was necessarily rude, as rough, unhewn, and twisted logs formed the material. Down in the woods, the air seemed to be suffocating with stagnation, while beneath the pall of mist, an immense orchestra of double bass bull frogs kept up a continual din, which at night drowned the rumble of the wagons over the corduroys. [Source: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book Of The Civil War].](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ap669a.jpg) |
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Photograph, Military Bridge Across The C $100.00 |
| Recitation Hall, Gettysburg College, Get $15.00 |
| 1700s / very early 1800s hand wrought Wo $95.00 |
| Civil War era and earlier LEATHER WALLET $95.00 |
![<b>Sunk in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, on December 12, 1862</b>
The city-class gunboat, U.S.S. Cairo, was built by James Eads & Co., at Mound City, IL., in 1861. The ironclad was named after the city of Cairo, Illinois. She was commissioned in January 1862, and served in the Union Navy's Western Gunboat Flotilla on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
In 1862, she was active in the occupation of Nashville, Memphis and Clarksville, Tenn., and played a prominent role in the capture of Fort Pillow. On December 12, 1862, as part of the Yazoo Pass Expedition, the U.S.S. Cairo was clearing mines in preparation for an attack on Haines Bluff, Miss., and was sunk by a mine detonated by Confederate soldiers hidden behind a river bank. The Cairo was the first ship ever sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand.
In 1956, the ship was located in the Yazoo River and a salvage operation began. Over the next few years the deteriorating wreck was raised and eventually put on display at the Vicksburg National Military Park. She is one of only four Civil War era ironclads in existence, and is listed on the National Register.
Includes an authentic, small piece of wood that was salvaged from the wreck of the C.S.S. Cairo, in 1965. It is mounted at lower right on a 5 x 7, photo card, titled, "U.S.S. Cairo, Civil War Ironclad Wood Relic," with a photograph of the ship and crew in 1862. It comes with a second, 5 x 7, photo card, with a brief printed history of the Cairo, [click on the enlargement to read the exact description], an image of the original wood relic that this piece came from, and an illustration of the sinking of the Cairo. Both cards could be matted and framed together to make a very nice display item for a Civil War naval collector!](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9474a.jpg) |
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| ![<b>War period signature with rank</b>
(1812-97) Born in Fairfax County, Virginia, he was the son of Francis Lightfoot Lee II, grandson of Richard Henry Lee, brother-in-law of Francis P. Blair, Jr., and Montgomery Blair, and cousin of Robert E. Lee. He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. Navy in 1825, and saw extensive service at sea, including action during the Mexican War. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he was captain of the sloop of war, <i>Vandalia</i>. Lee then commanded the steam sloop, <i>Oneida</i>, in the 1862 New Orleans, Louisiana, campaign, and in operations on the Mississippi River. He became well known among Washington's social elite due much to the influence of his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Francis Preston Blair. Being a native Virginian, he was asked about his loyalty to the United States, and Lee famously replied, "When I find the word Virginia on my commission, I will join the Confederacy." This quote was often referred to because of the actions taken by his famous cousin, General Robert E. Lee, and thus illustrated how the war divided families. In September 1862, Lee was appointed commander of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron with the rank of Acting Rear Admiral. His flagship at this time was the <i>Philadelphia</i>. He led this force for over two years, during which time it was responsible for the blockade of the North Carolina coast and operations on North Carolina and Virginia inland waterways, all areas of very active fighting between Union and Confederate forces. He transferred to the Mississippi River Squadron, October 1864, and commanded it to the end of the war. His flagship during the Mississippi campaign was the <i>Black Hawk</i>.
<u>War period signature with rank</u>: 2 1/2 x 1, in ink, S.P. Lee, A.[cting] R.[ear} A.[dmiral].](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5045a.jpg) |
U. S. S. Cairo, Civil War Ironclad, Wood R $35.00 |
| Autograph, General Alfred H. Terry $250.00 |
| 1862 Confederate Cover Addressed to Pete $125.00 |
| Autograph, Admiral Samuel P. Lee $65.00 |
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1864 Pittston, Pennsylvania Bank Check $8.00 |
| Autograph, Admiral David D. Porter $75.00 |
| Civil War Reconstruction / Indian War er $375.00 |
| vintage bedside or ‘CHAMBER’ LAMP $65.00 |
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