Auction Date:2010 Jan 13 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
Fantastic hardcover autograph album, 5.5 x 7.5, signed inside by 215 notables, including three presidents, Union and Confederate officers, authors, politicians, and other notables. Signatures were acquired by the wife of a Civil War Major General as they traveled amongst the finest company of their era. Most pages bear several signatures each, some on affixed cards or slips, with all also back-to-back. Signers include: U. S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, James A. Garfield, Joshua Chamberlain, John C. Fremont, Winfield Scott Hancock, Oliver O. Howard, John A. Logan, Nelson A. Miles, William S. Rosencrans, Carl Schurz, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, Daniel E. Sickles, Henry W. Slocum, George Henry Thomas, Lew Wallace, P. G. T. Beauregard, Jospeh E. Johnston, Fitzhugh Lee, William Mahone, Albert Pike, Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry Ward Beecher, Salmon P. Chase, Schuyler Colfax, Horace Greeley, John K. Porter, William H. Seward, Edward Stanton, Alexander Stephens, W. A. “Billy” Sunday, Gideon Welles, John S. Worden, Thaddeus Stevens, and Fitz John Porter. A more comprehensive list is available online at rrauction.com. Affixed to the last page is a war-dated pass issued by the Provost Marshal General’s Office in City Point, Virginia, to Mr. Shelly, granting him “permission to pass from these Headquarters within the lines and to Washington.” Affixed above that is a one week pass issued to Shelly to allow him “inside the fort and return.” Inside of album rates fine condition, with detached covers, missing portions of spine, and scattered light surface wear to covers as well.
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5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
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