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| ![Gold hanger at the top of the badge with straight pin fastener on the reverse. Attached to the hanger is a large 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 celluloid button with color vignette of a mounted cavalryman holding his saber. Blank reverse. Attached to the hanger is a gold ribbon with black imprint, 10th N.Y. Cavalry Veterans 43rd Anniversary And Reunion At Hotel Crandall, Binghamton, N.Y. Sept. 21-22-23, 1904. The overall length of the badge is 7 1/4 inches. The celluloid button is slightly discolored, there is a small 1/4 inch tear near where the ribbon and hanger connect, the ribbon shows a few small red and blue ink spots at the bottom left, some discoloration and wear, and the bottom of the ribbon is frayed. Comes displayed in a 6 x 8 1/4, glass faced case with blue velvet background.
Among the most important engagements of the 10th New York Cavalry were Leesburg, Beverly Ford, Middleburg, Gettysburg, Shepherdstown, Sulphur Springs, Auburn, Bristoe Station, Todd's Tavern, Haw's Shop, Trevilian Station, King and Queen Court House, St. Mary's Church, Deep Bottom, Lee's Mill, Reams' Station, Poplar Spring Church, Boydton Plank Road, Prince George Court House, Stony Creek Station, Hatcher's Run, Dinwiddie Court House, Sailor's Creek, Farmville and at Appomattox Court House. [Source: The Union Army, Vol. 2].](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9456a.jpg) |
| ![<b>From Headquarters Army of the United States</b>
5 1/4 x 3 1/2, with imprint at upper left, Headquarters Army Of The United States. Postmarked, Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 6 A.M., with 2 cents red/brown George Washington postage stamp. (A57-effective date October 1, 1883). Addressed to Mr. Wilmer Moore, No. 20 Cane Street, Atlanta, Ga. Partial circular date stamped on the reverse, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 25, 1885, Recd.,12 P.M., with a docket in pencil, "Sheridan," presumably written by the recipient. The envelope is not addressed by Sheridan himself, but most likely was written by one of his aides. The time period fits as Sheridan was appointed Commanding General of the U.S. Army in 1884, and he was probably in Washington, D.C. on the date this cover was mailed. An interesting footnote about Mr. Moore is that he received an envelope sent to him by General Winfield S. Hancock at about the same time as the Sheridan correspondence. [an item I recently sold]. Although I have not been able to find out any information about Mr. Wilmer Moore, one can fairly speculate that he might have been someone connected to, known by, or of some other importance to have received correspondence from two of the highest ranking Generals in the U.S. Army, General Philip H. Sheridan and General Winfield S. Hancock, within a matter of a few days. Light age toning and wear.
<u>General Philip H. Sheridan</u>: (1831-88) A prominent Civil War commander, he graduated in the West Point class of 1853. Appointed brigadier general of volunteers, on September 13, 1862, and major general, on March 16, 1863. He fought in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, the Chattanooga campaign, Missionary Ridge, Yellow Tavern, Trevilian Station, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign including the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, and in the 1865 Appomattox campaign which resulted in the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by General Robert E. Lee, to name but a few of his battle honors. General Ulysses S. Grant summed up Sheridan's performance in the final days of the Civil War as, "I believe General Sheridan has no superior as a general, either living or dead, and perhaps not an equal." During the Indian Wars General Sheridan saw much action against the Plains Indians in the 1870's. Upon the retirement of General William T. Sherman in 1884, Sheridan became commanding general of the United States Army.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9455a.jpg) |
Autograph, General Abner Doubleday |
| CDV, Confederate Civil War Soldier $125.00 |
| 10th New York Cavalry Reunion Badge |
| Cover Sent by General Philip H. Sheridan $25.00 |
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| ![<b>Signed by Lieutenant of the 66th Illinois Infantry, who was Acting Ordnance Officer, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee</b>
7 x 9 3/4, in ink.
Received in the Field, Ga., this 24th day of June 1864, of Lt. Col. Chas E. Brown, Comdg. 63d O.V.I., the following Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, as per Invoice dated the 24th day of June 1864.
51 Springfield Rifle Muskets Cal. .58
39 Gun Slings
42 Cartridge Boxes
33 Cartridge Box Plates
34 Cartridge Box Belts
11 Cartridge Belt Plates
39 Waist Belts
39 Waist Belt Plates
39 Cap Pouches
41 Bayonet Scabbards
S.J. Smith, Lieut. 66th Ill. Vol. Infy.
and A.[cting] O.[rdnance] O.[fficer], 4th Div., 16th A.[rmy] C.[orps].
Docket on reverse: Abstract No. 1, Voucher No. 15. Receipt for Issues, S.J. Smith, Lieut. and A.O.O. 4th Div., 16 A.C., on the 24th day of June 1864, as per Invoice dated the 24th day of June 1864.
Light age toning and wear.
The recipient of the ordnance stores listed in this invoice, Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Brown, 63rd Ohio Infantry, enlisted as a Captain in the 63rd Ohio Infantry, on September 2, 1861. He was promoted to Major, March 20, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, May 17, 1863; and Brevet Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, for gallantry during the Atlanta campaign. He was severely wounded, July 22, 1864, at Decatur, Ga., resulting in the amputation of his left leg. He was mustered out of service at Louisville, Ky., July 8, 1865.
Lieutenant Samuel J. Smith, who issued these stores, and signed this document was on this date the acting ordnance officer, of the 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, serving in Georgia. A resident of Bridgeport, Illinois, he enlisted on November 22, 1861, as a private, and was mustered into Co. I, 66th Illinois Infantry. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, September 9, 1862; 1st Lieutenant, November 18, 1863; and Captain, December 22, 1864. He was mustered out of the Union Army at Camp Logan, Ky., July 7, 1865.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ud2648a.jpg) |
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earlier through the Civil War era Beaver $495.00 |
| 19th century - brier & hard rubber TOBAC $55.00 |
| Springfield Rifle Muskets Issued to the |
| Autograph, Ephraim K. Smart |
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Gettysburg First Day Cover $5.00 |
| Gettysburg Merchant, H. S. Benner, Signed $35.00 |
| 1863 Twenty Cents, George Washington, Co $125.00 |
| President Abraham Lincoln First Day Cove $5.00 |
![<b>Signature With Rank as Commander of the Mississippi Marine Brigade</b>
(1820-95) Brother of the celebrated engineer Charles Ellet. In 1861, he served as a captain in the 59th Illinois Infantry. The following spring when his brother was ordered by the War Department to purchase vessels and convert them into rams, Alfred was commissioned lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp to his brother Charles. They completed their fleet at Cincinnati, Ohio, and steamed down the river to Memphis, defeating the Confederate fleet there on June 6, 1862, and sinking or disabling eight of the nine enemy ironclads. Charles received a mortal wound here and Alfred took over the command. With the Monarch and the Lancaster he steamed up the Yazoo River and discovered and reported the presence of the Confederate ram Arkansas. Promoted to brigadier general to rank from November 1, 1862, he was assigned to the Department of the Mississippi and placed in command of the Marine Brigade in 1863. After running the Vicksburg batteries in March 1863, Ellet was engaged for some time in moving General Ulysses S. Grant's troops to the east bank of the Mississippi. In retaliation for information furnished to the troops of Confederate General Chalmer's command, he burned Austin, Mississippi.
<u>War Period Signature With Rank</u>: 3 3/4 x 1, in ink, Alfred W. Ellet, Brig. Genl., Comdg. M.[ississippi] M.[arine] Brigade. Light wear.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5030a.jpg) |
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Autograph, General Alfred W. Ellet $125.00 |
| CDV, General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee $250.00 |
| Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg First Day Cov $8.00 |
| Autograph, Samuel S. Phelps |
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unopened - Howe & Stevens Civil War vint $75.00 |
| 19th century Salesman Sample PADDED HORS $45.00 |
| Autograph, General Quincy A. Gillmore $125.00 |
| CDV, General John A. Logan $150.00 |
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Autograph, John A. Rockwell |
| earlier to mid-1800s BALANCE SCALES $65.00 |
| Lord collection – Civil War Staff – HAT $235.00 |
| late 1800s early 1900s British Bobby Hel $235.00 |
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| ![Stamped brass hat wreath insignia with G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] in silver colored letters attached to the center of the wreath. These were worn by Civil War veterans on their slouch hats or kepis. Measures 2 1/2 inches in width. Complete with straight pin fastener on the reverse. Comes beautifully displayed in a 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 glass faced display case with blue velvet liner. Excellent piece of G.A.R. memorabilia.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/gar350a.jpg) |
Autograph, Samuel D. Hubbard |
| Autograph, General David S. Stanley $95.00 |
| Autograph, Daniel S. Dickinson |
| G. A. R. Hat Wreath Insignia $45.00 |
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Autograph, John M. Niles |
| 1864 U. S. Army Safeguard Pass $15.00 |
| Autograph, General John A. Logan $95.00 |
| antique ‘Sparking’ or ‘Night’ LAMP |
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early primitive BIRCH BARK TOBACCO BOX $135.00 |
| Autograph, General Lovell H. Rousseau |
| United Daughters of the Confederacy Memo $12.00 |
| Gettysburg Advertisement Lot $20.00 |
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| ![<b>Delegate to the 1861 Virginia Secession Convention
Colonel of the 27th Virginia Infantry of the "Stonewall Brigade"
Severely wounded at the 1st Battle of Kernstown, Virginia in 1862</b>
(1823-96) Born at Lynchburg, Va., he graduated from Washington College, [later named Washington & Lee] Lexington, Va., studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He served as attorney to the Commonwealth of Virginia, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly, and a delegate to the Virginia secession convention in 1861. A tall imposing man, standing 6 feet, 4 inches tall, Echols quickly became a leader among his peers. At the 1st battle of Manassas, Echols commanded the 27th Virginia Infantry, of the Stonewall Brigade, and he was seriously wounded at Kernstown during General Jackson's famous 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign. Promoted to brigadier general to rank from April 16, 1862, he served in western Virginia until 1864, as commander of the Department of Southwestern Virginia, and later as a brigade commander under General John C. Breckenridge. He took part in the Confederate victory at the battle of New Market, Va., in May 1864, where the gallant actions of the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute forever recorded their name in the highest annals of American military history. General Echols also saw action with General R.E. Lee's army at Cold Harbor, Va., during the Petersburg campaign. On April 2, Echols, with nearly 7,000 men, began a hasty march to unite with General Lee. He reached Christiansburg, Virginia, on April 10, where he received a telegram announcing General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. At a solemn council of war, General Echols decided to march to unite with General Joseph E. Johnston's army, and he led two brigades southward towards North Carolina. Subsequently, he accompanied President Jefferson Davis to Augusta, Georgia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1878–1881.
<u>Signature</u>: 3 1/4 x 1 1/2, bold autograph, Jno. Echols.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5016a.jpg) |
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Change of Stations for Quartermasters, C $5.00 |
| CDV, General George B. McClellan & Wife $75.00 |
| Autograph, General John Echols $75.00 |
| CDV, General Jacob G. Lauman $150.00 |
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President Abraham Lincoln Monument, Spri $15.00 |
| JOHN WILKES BOOTH – Identified PLAY PROM |
| rarely surviving Civil War vintage - RAT $125.00 |
| Museum Deaccession - Samuel Davis Pat. M $225.00 |
![<b>United States Congressman from North Carolina
Presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket for John C. Breckenridge
Served in the Confederate Congress, 1861-1864</b>
(1799-1876) Born in Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, in Va., in 1816; studied medicine for two years; was graduated from Princeton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Mecklenburg Counties, Va. He moved to North Carolina in 1829; served as a presidential elector in 1832, 1836 and 1844. Served as United States Congressman, 1847-1853, and was a presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket of John C. Breckinridge, and Joseph Lane. Served as a delegate from the State of North Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861; and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States Congress, 1862-1864; died in Oxford, N.C., on February 24, 1876; interment in the Shiloh Presbyterian Churchyard, Granville County, N.C.
<u>Signature with place</u>: 5 3/4 x 2, in ink, A.W. Venable, Brownsville, Granville, [County], N. Carolina.](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5014a.jpg) |
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| ![<b>United States Congressman from Ohio</b>
(1829-1896) Born in Lancaster, Ohio, he was the brother of Generals' Charles Ewing, and Hugh B. Ewing, and foster brother of the famous Union Civil War General William T. Sherman, who later became his brother-in-law when General Sherman married Ewing's sister, Eleanor. At the age of 19, while his father was U.S. Secretary of the Interior, he became the private secretary of President Zachary Taylor, from 1849-1850. He then studied law, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and commenced a practice in Cincinnati. In 1856, Ewing moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was an antislavery advocate and had much to do with preventing the admission of Kansas to the Union as a slave state. He served as a member of the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention of 1858, and was a delegate from Kansas at the Peace Conference of 1861 in Washington, D.C., which attempted to prevent the Civil War. Ewing was the first Chief Justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. In 1862, he recruited and became colonel of the 11th Kansas Cavalry seeing action at Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, Arkansas. On March 13, 1863, he was promoted to rank of brigadier general, and soon took command of the District of the Border, comprising Kansas and western Missouri. In an effort to suppress the bushwhackers who roamed that area, General Ewing issued his notorious Order #11, which decreed expulsion of the inhabitants, loyal or disloyal, from the Missouri counties of Jackson, Cass, Vernon, and Bates. It was issued in retaliation for Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, where 450 raiders shot and killed 150 civilians. During Confederate General Sterling Price's famous Missouri Raid in 1864, General Ewing distinguished himself at the battle of Pilot Knob. On February 23, 1865, Ewing resigned his army commission to return to his law practice, tendering his resignation directly to his good friend, and confidant, President Abraham Lincoln, a little over a month before President Lincoln's assassination. Ewing was founder and first president of the Ohio Society of New York, a trustee of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. He served as U.S. Congressman from Ohio, 1877-1881.
<u>Signature with place</u>: 4 1/8 x 2, in ink, Thomas Ewing, Lancaster, O.[hio].](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto5013a.jpg) |
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Autograph, Abraham W. Venable $45.00 |
| CDV, General James A. Mulligan $125.00 |
| Autograph, General Thomas Ewing $50.00 |
| Civil War Veteran G. A. R. uniform of $1895.00 |
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Civil War Dated Check from Cooperstown, $10.00 |
| Autograph, General Lucius Fairchild $95.00 |
| Advertisement, W. H. Tipton, Gettysburg B $10.00 |
| turn of the century – Byfield Snuff Co. $15.00 |
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Civil War era PROTECTIVE GLASSES $95.00 |
| CDV General Henry M. Naglee $125.00 |
| 1863 Extra Pay Voucher, 11th Vermont Vol $20.00 |
| Letter, George G. Meade G. A. R. Post, Phi $35.00 |
![6 x 2 1/2, imprinted form, filled out in ink. WAR TAX RECEIPT. $55.30. Received of Est.[ate] E.D. Divine [?] the sum of Fifty Five 30/100 dollars, being the full amount due by him for the year 1861. R.U. Gould, Collector of War Tax for District No. 29. Dated May 14/61. There are 2 small punch hole cancellations near the top of the document, one of which goes through part of the last name, Divine. [?]. Docket on the reverse, "Voucher No. 1." Minor wear. Fine condition. Printed on what is known as brown necessity paper, a type commonly used in the Confederacy during the war years. Nice early Civil War dated, "War Tax Receipt."](https://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem9438a.jpg) |
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1861 Civil War Tax Receipt $20.00 |
| Autograph, General Howell Cobb $75.00 |
| Photograph, General Henry Gray $10.00 |
| 124th New York Infantry at Gettysburg $15.00 |
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