Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

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...

Letter of Union soldier "Daniel," in a hospital in Chestnut Hill 'Mass.?], Dec. 9, 1864, 4 1/2 x 8, 4 full pp. In rich brown ink on un...

Lengthy letter of civilian farmer Alfred Rice, Dement (Ill.), July 5, 1862, 5 x 7 3/4, 1 1/2 pp. Red and blue woodcut of seated Miss Columbia leaning

Two items relating to the fascinating Col. (and later Maj. Gen.) H(albert) E. Paine, 4th Wis. Vols.: Signed, large partly printed envelope, "Fo...

Letter of Union sailor Byron P. Drown, U.S. Bark Midnight, Daboy Sound, Ga., Mar. 17, 1864, 5 x 9, 4 full pp. To his father in Plattsburgh, N.Y. With

Letter of Union soldier Benjamin Hurd, "Co. G, 1st O(hio) V(ol.) A(rtillery?), Army of the Cumberland," Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 5, 1863, ...

Letter of ill-fated Union soldier L(awson) H. Rogers, Co. G, 122nd Ohio Vols.,"Camp Zanesville, Ohio," Oct. 11, (18)62, 4 3/4 x 7 3/4, 3 p...

Of Miss. Confederate Brig. Gen., captured in Ark., 1862. A fascinating and tragic figure, Reconstruction Sen. and Gov. of Miss., leader of Scalawags,

Of Maine. Union Maj. Gen. Medal of Honor for Manassas, badly wounded but refusing to leave his guns; hero of Ft. Fisher, fought at Gaines' Mill,...

Of Ga. Confederate Brig. Gen. Wounded at Gettysburg; distinguished at The Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Seven Days, 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg,

Of S.C. Confederate Lt. Gen. Signed with Confederate nomenclature "Prov(isiona)l Army...," very rarely encountered in context of a general...