Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Stampless pumpkin-orange cover, endorsed "Soldiers Letter, P.W. Smith, Col. 169 Regt., P.Q.M.'?]," to "Miss Julia A. Waitz'?]...

Dark blue flag on orange cover, "1776" within round field of 13 stars, fancy tassels on staff. Scott #26, Type II, judged dull red, very n...

"State of Maine" design in palest moss, with oversize, detailed Seal and ornate typography. In frame below, "Adj't.-General's...

Attractive military reply cover, with partly printed destination, completed by sender in ink: "Mr. Charles H. Shattuck, Co. A 2d Reg., Col. Car...

Red Maltese cross of (5th Corps, 1st Division, Army of Potomac) on unusually high quality, pale ivory laid cover. Scott #65, judged rose pink, with fo

--Boatner. Large red and blue St. Andrew's cross insignia of "6th Corps, 1st Division." Imprint of Magee, Philadelphia, 1864. Horizont...

Intriguing midnight blue stylized Maltese cross, in solid circle, with hub, perhaps a printers' variant for 5th Corps, 1st Division, on yellow c...

Excessively rare commercial-propaganda cover, larger 3 3/4 x 6 1/2 size, with runaround text both sides, in Christmas red. Printed 1866 or '67 b...

Black-bordered mourning envelope in hand of the Viceroy of Ireland, Earl of "Carlisle" (George W.F. Howard), to "Mrs. Powell, 14 Uppe...

Envelope in hand of Union Gen. Rufus King, while postwar Minister to the Vatican. To "J.F. Howe, Esq., 284 Pearl St., New-York, Un. States.&quo...

Bright yellow cover with locally printed "school postage stamp" attributed to Jamestown Union School and Collegiate Institute, Chautauqua ...

Portion of printed Mexican "causas criminales" form fashioned into an (incomplete) envelope, postally used, 1850. Attributed to Camargo, (...

Splendid collection of 99 varied covers and 5 postcards, all sent through U.S. Mail via local posts, 1956-90, majority 1970s-80s. Almost all with both

Dramatic L.S. of Union Capt. Edward F. O'Connor, Comdg. Co. I, 69th N.Y. Vol. Infantry, "Late 2d Lt. Comdg. Co. B, 69th N.Y...," "...

Manuscript pass issued by Capt. M. Cassleman, signed for him by Col. Comdg. William H. Christian, 2nd Regt., '26th N.Y. Infantry], Barracks No. ...

Significant A.L.S. of Union Gen. F(itz-)J(ohn) Porter, on letterhead of Central Rail Road Co. of N.J., Office of the Receiver, N.Y., June 22, 1880, 5

Variant printing of small song sheet, "Army Hymn - As sung by the 2d Regt., N.H. V.M., June 20, 1861," readying for their march to 1st Bul...

A.D.S. of Col. (later Brig. Gen.) Gilman Marston, the "Fighting Congressman." From "Head Quarters, 2d Reg. N.H. Volunteers," Cam...

A.L.S. of Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, "Headquarters Div. of the Atlantic," Governor's Island, N.Y., "5th 1889" (no month but befo...

Superior letter of Union officer "Robert," "Head Quarters 69th P(enna.) V(ols.), near Stevensburg, Pa.," Apr. 8, 1864, 7 1/2 x 9...

Printed Union General Orders, War Dept., Washington, June 25, 1863, 4 1/2 x 7. "For Recruiting the Regular Army," following Lincoln's ...

Manuscript Union pass, Washington, D.C., May 22, 1865, 5 x 6 1/4, with seldom-seen black circular handstamp, "Provost Marshal General's Off...

Union soldiers letter from Jarvis General Hospital, Baltimore, Oct. 5, (18)63, 5 x 8, 3 pp. From "L.H.C.," to his "Coz 'Cousin] E...

Dramatic letter of Union soldier Augustus Chapman of 27th Mass. Volunteers, taken P.O.W. at Drewry's Bluff, Va., 1864, dying in Andersonville. F...

Superior letter of Union soldier Oscar Sheldon, 37th Ill. Vols., Co. A, Newtonia, Missouri, Oct. 6, 1862, 5 x 8, 4 pp. On patriotic lettersheet edged

Romantic letter of Civil War era civilian "Theodore," evidently an innkeeper in Bedford, Pa., June 7, 1861, 4 1/2 x 7 1/4, 4 full pp. On e...

Letter of Union '1st Lt. Benjamin F.] Cook, "Camp of 12th Regt., Mass. Vol., near Seneca Mills," Nov. 3, (1861), 4 3/4 x 7 1/2, 3 pp. ...

Letter of Chas. R. Carmer, N.Y. (City), previously a 90-day Sergeant in the 71st N.Y. Infantry. July 20, 1863, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2, 1 full p. To his sister.

Civil War-date theatrical broadside, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Apr. 8-9, (18)63, for a program of Irish drama, "fairy spectacle," and &qu...

Prescient telegram during the Vicksburg Campaign, in clerical hand, from Confederate Lt. Gen. Comdg. J.C. Pemberton, who had the ignominious fate of l

Letter of Union soldier W.J. Green, Fort Halleck, Columbus, Ky., Oct. 8, (18)62, 4 3/4 x 7 3/4, 2 1/2 pp. To his brothers in Big Prairie, Logan County

Two letters of brothers Jacob W. and Henry H. Otto, privates in Co. C, 205th Pa. Infantry, penned by the more literate sibling on behalf of both. Camp

Letter of Union (Maj. and future Bvt. Brig. Genl.) James A. Hall, (1st Maine Light Artillery, 2nd Mounted Battery), Camp Barry, D.C., Feb. 1, 1864, 7

Letter of Union sailor Jas. L. Dawson, "Gun Boat Hastings, Mouth of White River, Ark. / Miss. Squadron, Via Cairo, Ill.," July 8, (18)64, ...

Letter of civilian physician M.B. Peters, Kingston (N.Y.), May 24, 1864, 5 x 8, 3 1/2 pp. To brother on Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn. Mentioning his black

Vividly descriptive, lengthy letter of Philadelphia soldier Robert Stewart, including two mentions of sharpshooters, and much more. "3/4 of a m...

Letter of Union Lt. 'Thomas R.] Mead, Co. I, 10th Regt. Connecticut Vols. Scion of the prominent eponymous Connecticut family, Mead was promoted...

Letter of Union soldier Charles Wilkins 'believed in 2nd N.H. Infantry], Camp Constitution, Portsmouth (N.H.), June 3, (18)61, 5 x 8 1/2, 2 pp. ...

Scarce and charming letter of a Civil War-era schoolboy, James Bowe, Dale Township, McLean County, Ill., Feb. 23, 1865, 5 x 8, 3 pp., penned in bright

Poignant homefront letter on patriotic stationery, with large eagle and shield in red, blue, and simulated brown. From Lucretia Kass, West Almond (All

Letter of Union soldier J.Q. Lovrien, Co. F, 15th N.H. Vols., "N.P. Banks' division," dated Brooklin 'sic], (N.Y.), Dec. 9, 1862 -...

Letter of gourmand Union soldier Allen M. Munro, '2nd Rhode Island Infantry], Camp Brightwood, Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 1862, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 2...

Early letter of Union soldier "R.D.C.," evidently a 90-day soldier, at the soon-to-be-dreaded Fort Delaware, May 25, 1861, 1 A.M., 5 1/4 x...

Letter of Union Pvt. W.B. Durie (30th and 39th N.J. Infantries), "Camp near Fort...front of Petersburg, Va.," Dec. 27, (18)64, 5 x 8, 4 fu...

Letter attributed to ill-fated Union soldier Lawson H. Rogers, (Co. H, 122nd Ohio Infantry), "Army of the Potomac, Sabbath Morning," Apr. ...

Letter of Union soldier Cpl. Philip Crewell, (Co. F, 34th N.Y. Infantry), Camp Falmouth, Va., Dec. 7, 1862, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, 2 1/2 pp. To his brother, p

Letter of Union soldier P.H.(?) McClain on handsome patriotic lettersheet with large terracotta-red woodcut "Our Union Defenders," depicti...

Pair of letters of Connecticut officer and future P.O.W. A(ndrew) Upson, (20th Conn. Infantry). His men among the last to retreat at the disaster at C

Ornate signature in pencil of (Rev. and Capt.) Samuel Fisk, clergyman, author, and soldier. A Pastor in Madison, Conn. at war's outbreak, Fisk e...

Letter of Union soldier Henry Blears, Camp near Patrick) Station 'south of Petersburg], Jan. 27, (18)65, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, 1 1/2 pp. To sister. &qu...