A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

SAMUEL JONES: (1820 - 1887) Confederate major general who served as Beauregard's Chief of Artillery at Bull Run, later he succeeded Beauregard t...

PHILIP KEARNY: (1815 - 1862) Union major general who served in Napoleon III's guard, lost an arm during the Mexican War, and led with distinctio...

(A LOCK OF ROBERT E. LEE`S HAIR): An extraordinary relic, a lock of 10-15 strands of Robert E. Lee's hair. The lock was removed by us from a lar...

STEPHEN DILL LEE: (1833 - 1908) Confederate Lieutenant General who directed artillery at Second Bull Run and Antietam, later led a corps at Atlanta an

(VIRGINIA "JENNIE" WADE): (d. 1863) Civilian resident of Gettysburg, the only civilian killed in the battle when she was struck in her hom...

NATHANIEL LYON: (1818 - 1861) Union brigadier general who met with Confederate representatives and declared "This means war", he later put...

GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: (1826 - 1885) Union major general and general-in-chief of the army whose hesitation in attacking Confederate forces caused him to

WILLIAM N. PENDLETON: (1809 - 1883) Confederate brigadier general and Episcopal minister, Lee's Chief of Artillery who named four of his field p...

GEORGE E. PICKETT: (1825 - 1875) Confederate major general who formed the brigades for the ill-fated charge on the final day at Gettysburg. Pickett ne

JAMES A. SEDDON: War-date partly-printed D.S. 1p. legal folio, Richmond, Aug. 2, 1964, a Confederate War Department Warrant issued to the Treasury Dep