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H 20in. x W 7in. x D 4in.  H 13in. x W 5in. x D 9in.  H 17in. x W 12in. x D 7in.  H 12in. x W 6in. x D 11in.

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H 20in. x W 7in. x D 4in. $2000.00

 

H 13in. x W 5in. x D 9in. $550.00

 

H 17in. x W 12in. x D 7in. $950.00

 

H 12in. x W 6in. x D 11in.
Priced per $850.00

H 15in. x W 14in. x D 15in.

Priced per pair.  H 10in. x W 5in. x D 9in.

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Priced per pair.  H 13in. x W 4in. x D 7in.

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H 15in. x W 14in. x D 15in.
Priced pe $1500.00

 

H 10in. x W 5in. x D 9in.
Priced per $650.00

 

H 13in. x W 5in. x D 8in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 13in. x W 4in. x D 7in.
Priced per $625.00

H 10in. x W 8in. x D 5in.

Priced per pair.  H 12in. x W 5in. x D 9in.

Priced per pair.  H 10in. x W 6in. x D 8in.

Priced per pair.  H 7in. x W 5in. x D 9in.

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H 10in. x W 8in. x D 5in.
Priced per $550.00

 

H 12in. x W 5in. x D 9in.
Priced per $800.00

 

H 10in. x W 6in. x D 8in.
Priced per $800.00

 

H 7in. x W 5in. x D 9in.
Priced per p $350.00

H 10in. x W 8in. x D 3in.

Priced per pair.  H 11in. x W 4in. x D 7in.

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H 10in. x W 8in. x D 3in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 11in. x W 4in. x D 7in.
Priced per $350.00

 

H 13in. x W 6in. x D 11in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 8in. x W 10in. x D 6in.
Priced per $800.00

H 10in. x W 8in. x D 3in.

Priced per item.  H 11in. x W 6in. x D 9in.

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 H 9in. x W 8in. x D 9in.

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H 10in. x W 8in. x D 3in.
Priced per $350.00

 

H 11in. x W 6in. x D 9in.
Priced per $2600.00

 

H 8in. x W 8in. x D 5in.
Priced per i $550.00

 

H 9in. x W 8in. x D 9in.
Priced per p $850.00

H 10in. x W 5in. x D 4in.

Sold as set of 3.  H 11in. x W 10in. x D 5in.

Priced per item.  H 11in. x W 4in. x D 6in.

Priced per item.  H 11in. x W 7in. x D 14in.

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H 10in. x W 5in. x D 4in.
Sold as set $950.00

 

H 11in. x W 10in. x D 5in.
Priced per $550.00

 

H 11in. x W 4in. x D 6in.
Priced per $550.00

 

H 11in. x W 7in. x D 14in.
Priced per $950.00

H 13in. x W 5in. x D 13in.

Priced per pair.  H 11in. x W 5in. x D 7in.  H 11in. x W 5in. x D 9in.

Priced per pair.  H 4in. x W 4in. x D 9in.

H 13in. x W 5in. x D 13in.
Priced per $1100.00

 

H 11in. x W 5in. x D 7in. $700.00

 

H 11in. x W 5in. x D 9in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 4in. x W 4in. x D 9in. $600.00

H 11in. x W 5in. x D 5in.

Priced per pair.  H 6in. x W 14in. x D 7in.  H 12in. x W 6in. x D 3in.

Priced per pair.  H 9in. x W 8in. x D 4in.

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H 11in. x W 5in. x D 5in.
Priced per $850.00

 

H 6in. x W 14in. x D 7in. $350.00

 

H 12in. x W 6in. x D 3in.
Priced per $1200.00

 

H 9in. x W 8in. x D 4in.
Priced per p $950.00

H 9in. x W 8in. x D 14in.

Priced per item.  H 11in. x W 10in. x D 5in.

Priced per pair.  H 9in. x W 10in. x D 7in.

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H 9in. x W 8in. x D 14in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 11in. x W 10in. x D 5in.
Priced per $550.00

 

H 9in. x W 10in. x D 7in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 8in. x W 5in. x D 6in.
Priced per i $350.00

H 12in. x W 6in. x D 5in.

Priced per item.  old flush lights ca 1920    often found in dining room ceilings at 4 corners to compliment the main center fixture. Priced per item.

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H 1 1/2in. x D 8in.  H 8in. x W 8in. x D 10in.

Priced per pair.  H 16in. x W 10in. x D 2in.

H 12in. x W 6in. x D 5in.
Priced per $375.00

 

VINTAGE FLUSH MOUNT BULB HOLDERS X4 $350.00

 

H 8in. x W 8in. x D 10in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 16in. x W 10in. x D 2in. $350.00

H 18in. x W 10in. x D 14in.  H 12in. x W 4in. x D 14in.

Priced per pair.  H 13in. x W 10in x D 5in.

Priced per pair.  H 12in. x W 8in. x D 3in.

Priced per pair.

H 18in. x W 10in. x D 14in. $350.00

 

H 12in. x W 4in. x D 14in.
Priced per $750.00

 

H 13in. x W 10in x D 5in.
Priced per $700.00

 

H 12in. x W 8in. x D 3in.
Priced per $600.00

H 12in. x W 8in. x D 10in.  H 15in. x W 11in. x D 5in.  H 12in. x W 5in. x D 6in.

Priced per item.  H 18in. x W 15in. x D 5in.

H 12in. x W 8in. x D 10in. $650.00

 

H 15in. x W 11in. x D 5in. $550.00

 

H 12in. x W 5in. x D 6in.
Priced per $300.00

 

H 18in. x W 15in. x D 5in. $550.00

H 22in. x W 15in. x D 9in.

Priced per pair.  H 20in. x W 4in. x D 9in.

Priced per pair.  H 10in. x W 16in. x D 10in.  

Vintage Lighting Arts and Crafts style pendant light


H 24in. x D 16in

H 22in. x W 15in. x D 9in.
Priced per $1500.00

 

H 20in. x W 4in. x D 9in.
Priced per $3000.00

 

H 10in. x W 16in. x D 10in. $850.00

 

VINTAGE ECCLESIASTICAL PENDANT LIGHT $1250.00




<b>Medal of Honor Recipient for gallantry at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia


He was wounded 4 times during the Civil War


Captured the notorious Indian Chief Geronimo


RETAIL PRICE $225.00</b>


(1839-1925) Born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm, he  intensely read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Working in Boston at the commencement of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army on September 9, 1861, and was commissioned 1st lieutenant, in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. He was discharged for promotion on May 31, 1862, and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 61st New York Infantry, and thereafter was inscribed on the annals of American military history creating a record seldom if ever equaled by a volunteer soldier. He was wounded 4 times during the Civil War; these coming at the battles of Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Petersburg. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry at Chancellorsville. He also fought in the battles of Antietam, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and in the Appomattox campaign. In 1866, he served as the Commandant at Fort Monroe, and ultimately became the jailor of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, putting him in irons. Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains, and he later gained fame as the captor of the notorious chief of the Apaches, Geronimo. In 1895, Miles became General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, a post he held during the Spanish–American War. Miles commanded forces at Cuban sites such as Siboney, and after the surrender of Santiago de Cuba by the Spanish, he led the invasion of Puerto Rico. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, the 77-year-old General Nelson Miles offered to serve, but President Woodrow Wilson turned him down. Miles died in 1925 at the age of 85 from a heart attack while attending the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, D.C. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Miles Mausoleum. It is one of only two mausoleums within the confines of the cemetery.


<u>Typed Letter Signed</u>: 5 x 8, typed letter signed, on imprinted letter head.


Headquarters Of The Army

Washington, D.C.

June 27, 1901


Ralph B. Prime, Esq.,

President, American Flag Association,

Yonkers, N.Y.


Dear Sir:


I have received your favor of the 24th instant, informing me of my election as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Flag Association, and it will give me pleasure to serve as such.


I am unable to say definitely whether I can attend the meeting of the Committee, to be held at the residence of Mr. Edward Hagaman Hall, 283 Lexington Avenue, New York, on July 11th next, but I will do so if possible.


Very truly yours,

Nelson A. Miles


Beautifully tipped to an album page with black lined borders. Excellent signature and letter. Extremely desirable Medal of Honor recipient.     


 


<b>Union Army Commander


United States Congressman from California 


War period signature with rank


RETAIL PRICE $125.00</b>


(1819-98) Born on a farm near Little Taylor Run, in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio, he graduated #5 in the West Point class of 1842, and was known as "Old Rosy." Just days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Rosecrans offered his services to Ohio Governor William Dennison, and he was given command of the 23rd Ohio Infantry, whose members included Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley, both future presidents of the U.S. His plans and decisions proved extremely effective in the 1861 Western Virginia Campaign while serving under General George B. McClellan. His victories at Rich Mountain, and Corrick's Ford, in July 1861, were among the first Union victories of the war, and he was assigned to command what was to become the Department of Western Virginia. He was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army, ranking from May 16, 1861, and major general to rank from March 21, 1862. In May 1862, he directed the left wing of General John Pope's Army of the Mississippi in the advance on Corinth. When Pope was ordered east, General Rosecrans took over command of the army and fought and won the battles of Iuka and Corinth while under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant. Given command of the Army of the Cumberland, he fought against Confederate General Braxton Bragg, at the Battle of Stones River, and later outmaneuvered him in the brilliant Tullahoma Campaign, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee.  He later fought at the bloody Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, where he was defeated, with a third of his army being swept from the field, and his troops ended up being trapped in the besieged city of Chattanooga. Following his humiliating defeat, General Rosecrans was reassigned to command the Department of Missouri, where he opposed General Sterling Price's Missouri Raid. General Rosecrans was mustered out of the U.S. volunteer service on January 15, 1866. After the war, he became a companion of the District of Columbia Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society of officers who had served in the Union armed forces. In 1868-69, Rosecrans served as U.S. Minister to Mexico. Rosecrans was elected as a U.S. Congressman from California, serving 1881-85, including being the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. He spoke at a grand reunion of Union and Confederate veterans at the Chickamauga battlefield, on September 19, 1889, delivering a moving address praising national reconciliation. This gathering led to Congress establishing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park the following year, the nation's first national battlefield park. General William S. Rosecrans died on March 11, 1898, at Redondo Beach, California, at the age of 78. His casket lay in state in the Los Angeles City Hall, covered by the headquarters flag that flew over Stones River, and Chickamauga. In 1908, his remains were interred in Arlington National Cemetery.    


<u>Signature With Rank</u>: 4 1/4 x 2 1/2, in ink, W.S. Rosecrans, Bvt. Major Genl., U.S.A. Excellent and bold Civil War era autograph.


 


<b>He accompanied President-Elect Lincoln on his train ride into Washington, D.C. in 1861


Wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, July 1861


He emancipated slaves in some of the southern states in 1862 without orders which caused quite a controversy!


Presided over the trial of the Lincoln conspirators and was chosen to accompany the body of Mr. Lincoln to Springfield, Illinois for burial in 1865</b>


(1802-86) His maternal grandfather was Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated in the West Point class of 1822, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Hunter was invited by President Elect Abraham Lincoln to travel with him on the inaugural train to Washington, D.C. in February 1861. Selected for high command by President Lincoln himself, Hunter became the 4th highest ranking officer in the volunteer army. He fought in the 1st battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was wounded in the neck and cheek while commanding a division under General Irvin McDowell. In August 1861, he was promoted to major general of volunteers and served as a division commander in the Western Army under General John C. Fremont. He was appointed commander of the Western Department on November 2, 1861. He achieved notability for his unauthorized, and controversial 1862 order which emancipated slaves in some of the southern states, but President Abraham Lincoln quickly rescinded this order, because he was concerned about its political effects in the border states, which he was desperately trying to keep neutral. Their leaders advocated instead a gradual emancipation with compensation for the slave holders. Despite Lincoln's concerns that immediate emancipation in the South might drive some slave-holding Unionists to support the Confederacy, the national mood was quickly moving against slavery, especially within the Federal Army. General Hunter was a strong advocate of arming black men as soldiers for the Union cause. Undeterred by the president's reluctance and intent on extending freedom to potential black soldiers, Hunter again flouted orders from the federal government, and enlisted ex-slaves as soldiers in South Carolina without permission from the War Department. This action incensed border state slaveholders. After the Battle of Fort Pulaski, Ga., where black Union soldiers from the North proved their bravery, Hunter began enlisting blacks as soldiers from the occupied districts of South Carolina. He formed the first such Union Army regiment, known as the 1st South Carolina African Regiment. He was initially ordered to disband it, but eventually got approval from Congress for his action. The Confederates reacted strongly to the Union efforts to emancipate Southern slaves, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued strict orders to the army that General Hunter was to be considered a "felon and to be executed if captured." Hunter took over command of the Army of the Shenandoah, and the Department of West Virginia on May 21, 1864. General Ulysses S. Grant ordered Hunter to employ scorched earth tactics similar to those that would be used later in the year during General William T. Sherman's infamous March to the Sea. General Hunter's troops moved from Staunton to Charlottesville to Lynchburg, "living off the country" and destroying the Virginia Central Railroad "beyond any possibility of repair for weeks." General Robert E. Lee was concerned enough about Hunter that he dispatched a corps under General Jubal A. Early to deal with him. On June 5, 1864, Hunter defeated General William E. "Grumble" Jones at the Battle of Piedmont. Following orders, Hunter moved up the Valley destroying military targets and other industries such as blacksmith shops and stables that could be used to support the Confederacy. After reaching Lexington, his troops burned down the celebrated Virginia Military Institute, on June 11, 1864, where General Stonewall Jackson had been a professor, and artillery instructor before the war.  This was done in retaliation for the V.M.I. cadets fighting heroically in the battle of New Market, Va. Hunter also ordered the home of Governor John Letcher burned down to retaliate for its absent owner's having issued "a violent and inflammatory proclamation that incited the citizens of the country to rise up and wage guerrilla warfare on his troops." Hunter also wreaked havoc on Washington College, in Lexington, later named Washington and Lee University, in which General Robert E. Lee became its president after the war. According to General Fitzhugh Lee's biography of his uncle, Robert E. Lee, "Hunter had no respect for colleges, or the peaceful pursuits of professors and students, or the private dwellings of citizens, though occupied by women and children only, and during his three days occupancy of Lexington in June, 1864, the college buildings were dismantled, apparatus destroyed, and the books mutilated." General Hunter was thus given the name of "Black Dave." Hunter served in the honor guard at the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln, and accompanied his body back to Springfield, Illinois for burial. Thus Hunter had the unique distinction of accompanying Lincoln on his inaugural train trip from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., in February 1861, and his last one out of the Capitol city as he took Lincoln home to lie at rest in Springfield! He was the president of the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators after the president's assassination, the trial taking place in Washington, D.C.,  from May 8, 1865, to July 15, 1865. He retired from the U.S. Army in July 1866. General David Hunter died in Washington, D.C., on February 2, 1886, and is buried at the Princeton Cemetery, in Princeton, New Jersey.

 

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Large bust view in uniform with rank of brigadier general, wearing epaulets, Hardee hat with crossed sabers cavalry insignia, and the regimental numeral "1" clearly visible at the front of his hat, and the hilt of his sword is visible resting on his arm. No back mark. Excellent condition.  


Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 3 7/8 card. Full seated view of a young man holding his accordion on his lap. Backmark: Miller's & Sprague's Photographic Studio, Walton, N.Y. Light age toning and wear. Bottom of the mount is very slightly trimmed. This photograph was taken in the early post war period. Fine occupational image.

Autograph, General Nelson A. Miles $195.00

 

Autograph, General William S. Rosecrans $100.00

 

CDV, General David Hunter $50.00

 

CDV, Accordion Player Photographed in Wa $35.00




<b>Slaves loading cotton onto a wagon</b>


T-13. Richmond, Va., September 2d, 1861. Vignette of slaves loading cotton on a wagon at center, and a sailor standing next to a bale of cotton at left. Very fine plus condition. A very desirable early war Confederate States of America note.  


<b>RETAIL PRICE $35.00</b>


By Champ Clark, and The Editors of Time Life Books. Published by Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va., 1987. Hardcover with embossed gray leatherette cover with illustration of a war worn President Abraham Lincoln photographed in 1864. Also has a U.S. and C.S. belt plate, stars, crossed cannons, swords and cannon balls with the title of the book printed in blue. The title is also printed in blue on the spine. Large 9 x 11 size, 176 pages, index, maps, profusely illustrated. Excellent book on the assassination of our 16th President of the United States. Very desirable Lincoln book.  


<b>Wounded at Salem Church, Virginia in the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign


Commanded the 1st Corps at Gettysburg after the death of General John F. Reynolds</b>


(1822-95) Born in Norfolk, Virginia, the city that his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1842, and was commissioned lieutenant in the elite Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the United States Military Academy, from 1843–46, and constructed numerous fortifications along the Atlantic coast, and the Great Lakes from 1846–52. He was a member of a special Gulf Coast defense board in 1856, and was appointed Chief Engineer, of the Utah Expedition in 1858. Newton, the native Virginian, remained loyal to the Union when the Civil War broke out in April 1861, and he was commissioned a brigadier general on September 23, 1861, and during the ensuing winter he employed his engineering skills to good use and strengthened the defenses around, Washington, D.C. During General McClellan's 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, Newton commanded a brigade in the ensuing battles. During the 1862 Maryland Campaign, he led a bayonet charge at South Mountain that resulted in taking the enemy position, and he also fought at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history, on September 17, 1862. Newton commanded a division in the 6th Corps, in the disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on December 13, 1862. He was conspicuous in storming Marye's Heights during the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign, and he was wounded at Salem Church, Va. At the battle of Gettysburg, he was appointed to take over the command of the 1st Corps after the death of General John F. Reynolds, during the first day's battle, on July 1, 1863, by the Commander of the Army of the Potomac George G. Meade. After Gettysburg, General Newton was sent west to join the Army of General William T. Sherman, who regarded him to be a skilled commander. Newton fought gallantly in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign, commanding the 2nd Division, 4th Corps, under command of General George H. Thomas. At the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga., he prevented a dangerous Confederate movement against Sherman and his rapidly constructed works allowed him to turn back the Confederate thrust, a victory that gained him accolades for his Civil War military career. After the capture of Atlanta, Newton commanded the District of Key West and the Tortugas, Florida, of the Department of the Gulf, from 1864 to 1866. After the war, Newton returned to the Corps of Engineers, where he oversaw improvements to the waterways around New York City, and to the Hudson River. He also had charge of New York Harbor defenses until he was appointed Chief of Engineers in 1884. He was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, and retired from the U.S. Army in 1886, after forty-four years of meritorious service. He served as Commissioner of Public Works, in New York City, from 1886–88, and as President of the Panama Railroad Company from 1888–95. General Newton died in New York City on May 1, 1895, of complications from a heart disease and was originally buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens on May 4, 1895. He was then re-interred at his beloved United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on June 14, 1895.


Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view in uniform with rank of brigadier general. Back mark: Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, with a 2 cents blue, George Washington, Internal Revenue Playing Cards tax stamp, with stamped date, Sep. 19, 1864. Very fine. Extremely desirable Gettysburg general. Scarce.  


<b>Confederate Cavalry Leader, Army of Northern Virginia


General Fitz Lee, was "one of the finest cavalry leaders on the continent." Quote from General J.E.B. Stuart


Severely wounded at the battle of Winchester, Virginia


Governor of Virginia</b>


(1835-1905) Born at Clermont, in Fairfax County, Virginia, he was the nephew of General Robert E. Lee, the son of Captain Sydney S. Lee, [R.E. Lee's brother] C.S.N., and his first cousins were George Washington "Custis" Lee, W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr. He graduated in the West Point class of 1856, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, (later re-designated the 5th Cavalry Regiment), which was commanded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and in which his uncle, Robert E. Lee, was lieutenant colonel. As a cavalry subaltern, he distinguished himself by his gallant conduct in actions against the Comanches in Texas and was severely wounded in a fight in Nescutunga, Texas, in May 1859. In May 1860, he was appointed instructor of cavalry tactics at the United States Military Academy, but he resigned his commission upon the declared secession of his native Virginia. A favorite of General J.E.B. Stuart, Fitz Lee played a gallant role in all of the operations of the Cavalry Corps, of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the Confederate raid on Catlett's Station, Va., he captured the headquarters tent, and dress uniform of  General John Pope, and presented Pope's coat to General Stuart as a gift. Fitz Lee performed very well in the Maryland Campaign of 1862, covering the Confederate infantry's withdrawal from South Mountain, delaying the U.S. Army advance to Sharpsburg, Maryland, before the Battle of Sharpsburg around Antietam Creek, and covering his army's recrossing of the Potomac River into Virginia. Stuart's cavalry made its second ride around the Union Army in the Chambersburg Raid before returning in time to screen General Robert E. Lee's movement towards Fredericksburg, where the cavalry defended the extreme right of the Confederate line. Fitz Lee conducted the cavalry action of Kelly's Ford, on March 17, 1863 with great skill and success, where his 400 troopers captured 150 men and horses with a loss of only 14 men. In the Battle of Chancellorsville, fought May 1,2 & 3, 1863, Fitz Lee's reconnaissance found that the Union Army's right flank was "in the air" which allowed the successful flanking attack by General "Stonewall" Jackson, a movement led by Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, who routed General O.O. Howard's 11th Corps. In the Gettysburg Campaign, his most significant contribution was at the Battle of Carlisle. He did not fare as well on East Cavalry battlefield, on July 3, 1863, where Stuart's troopers tangled viciously with the Union cavalry led by General David M. Gregg who saved General Meade's rear. General J.E.B. Stuart wrote in his after battle report that no officer in his command deserved more praise than Fitz Lee, who he said was "one of the finest cavalry leaders on the continent, and richly [entitled] to promotion." During the withdrawal from Gettysburg, General Fitz Lee's cavalry brigade held the fords at Shepherdstown, Va., to prevent the Federal Army from following across the Potomac River. Lee was promoted to major general on August 3, 1863, and continued to serve under General Stuart's command. While his uncle maneuvered the Army of Northern Virginia back into central Virginia, Lee's division launched a successful ambush on the Union cavalry at the Battle of Buckland Mills, Va., that fall. In the Overland Campaign of spring 1864, Fitz Lee was constantly employed as a divisional commander under Stuart. Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lee's cavalry division played a pivotal role in impeding the Union Army in its race to ultimately get to  Spotsylvania Court House first. Lee particularly distinguished himself at Spotsylvania, where the stand of his division made it possible for the 1st Corps, A.N.V., to secure the strategic crossroads in advance of Grant's arrival with the main Federal column. While fighting at Spotsylvania, J.E.B. Stuart was detached from the army to thwart Union cavalry General Phillip H. Sheridan's raid on Richmond. The mission ultimately ended in the mortal wounding of General Stuart at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, Va. After Stuart's death, Lee served under General Wade Hampton, who had been Fitz Lee's peer for much of the war, and was promoted to replace Stuart due to his seniority, and more significant experience; some observers at the time had expected General Robert E. Lee's nephew to receive the command. At the Battle of Trevillian Station, Va., Hampton's cavalry prevented General Sheridan's cavalry from aiding General David Hunter's force in western Virginia, where it was sure to have inflicted significant damage on General Robert E. Lee's supply, and communication lines. The battle also served to screen General Jubal A. Early's move from Richmond to aid Lynchburg, which General Hunter was set to besiege. At the Third Battle of Winchester, on September 19, 1864, three horses were shot out from under Fitz Lee, and he was severely wounded. When General Hampton was sent to assist General Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina, the command of the whole of General Robert E. Lee's cavalry force devolved upon his nephew, General Fitzhugh Lee, but the surrender at Appomattox Court House was soon to follow as General U.S. Grant had surrounded General Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia, making further battle fruitless, and only leading to many more deaths. Fitzhugh Lee himself led the last charge of the Confederates on April 9, 1865, at Farmville, Virginia. He was elected the 40th  Governor of Virginia in 1885, serving until 1890, and was later appointed Consul General at Havana. At the outbreak of the Spanish American War, he was commissioned Major General, U.S. Volunteers, and once again donned the old blue United States Army uniform that he had taken off in 1861 when he joined the Confederacy! He died on April 28, 1905, at Washington, D.C., at the age of 69, and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.


Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Bust view in Confederate uniform. "Genl. Fitz Hugh Lee" is written in period ink on the front of the card. Back mark: E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. Very fine. Extremely popular Confederate cavalry general, and a prominent member of the famous Lee family of Virginia.

1861 Confederate $100 Note

 

The Assassination; Death of the Presiden $20.00

 

CDV, General John Newton $250.00

 

CDV, General Fitzhugh Lee $250.00




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