RR Auction: Military and the Cold War

ALS signed "O. B. Clark," three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8, April 13, 1865. Handwritten letter to his son, Lt. D. W. Clark, w...

Civil War-dated handwritten telegram, two pages, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 10, April 10, 1865. Transcription in an unknown hand of a telegram sent by the

Complete issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from May 13, 1865, 16 pages, 11.5 x 16.5, featuring a front-page engraving of "The K...

ALS signed "Henry Perkins," one page, 6.5 x 8, United States Sanitary Commission letterhead, May 1, 1865. Handwritten letter to his cousin...

Uncommon 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photograph of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth standing in a three-quarter-length pose, wearing a heavy winter coat

American actress and Confederate sympathizer (1832-1918) remembered as close friend and reputed lover of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Desirable

Uncommon grouping of photographs of Captain George Weest of the 95th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, highlighted by a fine, half-cased sixt

Splinter of wood attributed to the execution stand scaffold used to carry out the death sentences of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt,

Union Army captain (1837-1908) who was an eyewitness to the Lincoln assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. He reportedly saw Booth l...

Printed playbill, 6 x 17.5, contemporary after April 14, 1865, reading, in part, "FORD’S THEATRE…Season 11...

Souvenir typescript entitled "The Assassination of President Lincoln by Joseph H. Hazleton (An eye witness)," one page, 8.5 x 11, signed a...

Typescript of Keach's dramatic eyewitness account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, two pages, 6.5 x 9, signed at the conclusio...

ALS signed "Calvin E. Keach," one page, 6.5 x 9, February 25, 1915. Handwritten letter to John Boos, in full: "I am glad to give you ...

Stage actress and manager (1826-1873) whose company was playing Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre on the night of Lincoln's assassinatio...

Police officer (1830-1890) in Washington's Metropolitan Police Department who was supposed to guard President Lincoln's box at Ford's Th...

Several strands of Surratt's hair, encapsulated in clear plastic and affixed to an 8.5 x 11 certificate, headed: "The hair of Lincoln consp...

ALS in pencil, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, U. S. Sanitary Commission letterhead, April 15, 1865. Handwritten letter home from "...

Red-and-white silk flag fragment, 7.25" x 1", removed from a 36-star flag that adorned one of the cars in the Lincoln funeral train while ...

Civil War-dated ALS by Surgeon Aaron S. Oberly, signed "A—," four pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 9.75, April 20, 18...

Small gold-tone Abraham Lincoln mourning button, measuring 13 mm in diameter, featuring a portrait of the fallen president in profile. In fine conditi