Winter Auction 2013

(1735 - 1786) American soldier, colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania regiment, served in Canada and at Ticonderoga, and after the battle of Long Island wa

(1741 - 1804) Irish born physician who served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and later as a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental C

(1746-1807) Revolutionary War brigadier general and clergyman who served under von Steuben and aided in the assaults on Stony Point and Yorktown. Man

(1746 - 1825) American diplomat and general, an aide to Washington at Brandwine and Germantown, member of the Constitutional Convention and first to

(1754 - 1834) Massachusetts officer, aide-de-camp to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln from 1777 to 1780. Second in command to Alexander Scammell at Yorktown and

(1753 - 1831) Revolutionary War officer, aide to Benedict Arnold and appointed by Washington to be Secretary for Continental Army records. A.L.S. 1p.

Unusual manuscript D.S. "N. Otis Cler " 1p. 4to., , Oct. 21, 1729, an affidavit concerning the case of man who attempted to offer a l

A painstakingly-drawn rebus copied from Benjamin Franklin's "The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket; by Doctor Franklin&q...

Interesting manuscript document, 1p. legal folio, Boston, [n.d.], titled: "New manner of forming a company in order of Battalion as practiced b...

Ornately decorated French-style 18th century military flintlock musket, .69 caliber, 55" long, possibly an 1808 pattern. The musket, still oper...

Powder horn, 13 1/2" long, bearing inscriptions and fanciful drawings by an upstate New Yorker, likely a militiaman, daing back to 1777. The la...

Revolutionary War powder horn, 11", once owned and used by a Pennsylvania Revolutionary War militiaman. The horn bears an image of two rearing ...

Unusual A.L.S. "Isaac Peirce" 2pp. legal folio, Jamestown, [R.I.], July 15, 1771 to Edward Hull, President of the town council of Jamestow...

An excessively rare piece of Confederate headgear, the surgeon's kepi once belonging to Lt. James W. Claiborne of the 12th Virginia and one of o...

(1833 - 1864) Confederate major general of cavalry who circled McClellan's army twice, was late to the battle of Gettysburg, and in 1864 was mo...

(1816 - 1873) Confederate major general who served with distinction in the Valley Campaign of 1862. Johnson led Stonewall Jackson's old division...

(1821 - 1904) Confederate major general who commanded Lee's right wing at Antietam, and the left flank at Chickamauga. Longstreet has been accu...

An excessively rare U.S. Captain of Rifles frock coat, one of only a tiny handful known to be in public or private hands. This dark blue single breast

(1833 - 1916) Confederate officer, "The Grey Ghost" led his Partisan Rangers on numerous troublesome raids against Union forces and suppl...

Excessively rare broadside, 1p., 5 1/2" x 10 1/2"., Austin: [printer unknown], headed: "REPORT. COMMITTEE ROOM, January 31st, 1861&q...

(d. 1887) Confederate military officer, the commandant of the Confederate Marine Corps which was considered one of the best fighting units in the Civ

(1824-1881) Union major general who is known for the disastrous charges made at Fredericksburg in 1862, and the nicknaming of distinctive facial hair.

Surgeon and Medical Director of U.S.V. War-date manuscript D.S. 1p. 4to., Cumberland, Md., Feb. 1, 1865, on official letterhead. Titled "Specia...

(1798 - 1879) Union major general most remembered for his threat to shoot anyone hauling down the American flag, and his suppression of the bloody New

(1798 - 1879) Union major general most remembered for his threat to shoot anyone hauling down the American flag, and his suppression of the bloody New

(1829 - 1896) Union brigadier general who fought with distinction at Pilot Knob and in the subsequent Union retreat. War-date A.L.S. "Thomas E...

(1801 - 1870) Union rear admiral instrumental in the taking of New Orleans and the Union control of the Mississippi. It was at Mobile Bay where he exc

FRANCIS LIEBER (1800-1872) German-American jurist and political philosopher. Most widely known as the author of the Lieber Code during the American Ci

(1803-1888) Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo., Flat Rock, Aug. 4, 1876, to "McGrady", defending a clergyman and disc...

(1813 - 1891) Union admiral who received the surrenders of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and was indispensable in the siege and subsequent Union vict

Virginia Adjutant General, early on signing orders in place of Robert E. Lee. Fine content pre-war A.L.S. as Adjutant General, 1p. 4to., , O

(1809 - 1877) Confederate admiral of the raider Alabama which battled and was eventually destroyed by the Union frigate Kearsarge off Cherbourg in 186

Fine association war-date I.S.P., a carte-de-visite by Chas. D. Fredericks, New York, showing the stout Lt. General in a seated pose with sword at the

(1831 - 1906) Union major general who led a corps at Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and defeated Hood at Franklin. A.L.S. on Dept. of the Potomac letter

(1820-1891) Union major general declared by the press to be "insane", he led his army in their March to the Sea, taking Atlanta, Savannah ...

(1831 - 1868) Union brevet brigadier general, served on the field and staff of the 1st Ohio and the 126th Ohio Vols. After serving in Kentucky with t

(1814 - 1869) Secretary of War in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet whose dismissal by Andrew Johnson led to impeachment hearings for the president. Fin...

(1827-1905) Union major general who saw action at Forts Henry and Donelson and was later criticized by Grant for his costly hesitancy at Shiloh. Wall

A lot of seven signatures executed on vintage album pages or cut individually, includes: JUDAH BENJAMIN, ROBERT TOOMBS, THOMAS BRAGG, ROBERT M. T. HUN

Manuscript L.S. 1p. legal folio, Cantamount, Mar. 15, 1877, a request for a furlough, endorsed on verso by; NELSON A. MILES, GEORGE RUGGLES (son of Ge

A excellent archive of material including 37 A.Ls.S and a diary written and kept by J. B. Coppenhaver of the 93rd Pennsylvania dating between Feb. 23,

A great group of three war-date A.L.S.s written to Emily A. Gates, Peoria, Illinois by her friends and family members. The first is a battle letter, b

A good group of eight (8) Union naval letters, totaling 15 pp. 8vo., written by Sailor Henry S. Gray, USS Cambridge of Bradley, Maine concerning his n

A good correspondence of four letters dating between March 11, 1862 and Jan 31, 1863 written by Junius Sprately of the 13th Virginia Cavalry to his si

Startling historic eyewitness accounts of likely the first meeting of Confederate guerillas William Quantrill and "Bloody" Bill Anderson, ...

Fine content war-date A.L.S. by attorney David A. Buehler 3pp. 8vo., Gettysburg, Pa., Oct. 21, 1863 to Surgeon Henry Janes of Camp Letterman concernin

War-date partly-printed D.S., 1p. 4to., [Gettysburg, Pa.], August 30, 1863, enumerating payment due to "The Gettysburg Gas Company", listi...

A rare Gettysburg related D.S. by Surgeon Henry Janes, as director of Camp Letterman, ., 1p. 4to., "Camp Letterman, Gettysburgh Pa., Oct. 7th, ...

A great war-date Gettysburg hospital-related letter, written by former 5th New York Chaplain Gordon Winslow (1821-1864) as military agent of the Sani

Group of three war-date Gettysburg hospital-related letters, totaling 6pp., concerning a lost pay voucher due Gettysburg contract surgeon James B. Car