(lot of 24) Books, including: (1) "The Authentic Life of Bill, The Kid," Pat. F. Garrett, 1953, 137 pages, (1) "Thrilling Lives of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill," Frank Winch, 1911, 224 pages, (1) "The Day Jesse James Was Killed," Carl W. Breihan, 1961, 235 pages, (1) "The Santa Fe Expedition," Walter F. McCaleb, 1964, 86 pages, (1) "Firewater and Forked Tongues," M.I. McCreight, 1947, first edition, 180 pages, worn dust jacket with detached covers, (1) "Why They Call Him the Buffalo Doctor," Jean Cummings, 1971, 309 pages, personalized inscriptions from the author and Dwain Cummings at first pages, (1) "We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher," E.C. Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, 1989, 247 pages, (1) "My Seventy-five Years Along the Mexican Border," William (Bill) Liggett, Sr., 1964, first edition,139 pages, signed with tipped in photograph of the author, (1) "Pancho Villa and the Columbus Raid," Larry A. Harris, 1949 copyright, forth printing, 100 pages, (1) "Massacres of the Mountains: History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875," J.P. Dunn, Jr., 1965, 669 pages, (1) "Out of the West," Rufus R. Wilson, 1933, 452 pages, (1) "Guns of the Old West," Charles Edward Chapel, 1961, 306 pages, (1) "Wells Fargo: Advancing the American Frontier," Edward Hungerford, 1949, 274 pages, (1) "The Album of Gunfighters," J. Marvin Hunter, Noah H. Rose, 1959, 236 pages, (1) "Long Days and Short Nights: a Century of Texas Ranching on the Yo, 1880-1980," Neal Barrett, Jr., 1980, first edition, 192 pages, personalized inscription at first page, (1) "March to Massacre: History of the First Seven Years of the United States Army," William H. Guthman, 1975, 275 pages, personalized inscription from the author at title page, (1) "Company Property of Wells, Fargo & Co's. Express, 1852-1918," James Lynn Bartz, 1993, first edition, 155 pages, (1) "I am Frank Hamer: the Life of a Texas Peace Officer," John H. Jenkins, H. Gordon Frost, 1968, 305 pages, personalized inscription from Frost at title page, torn dust jacket, (1) "The Custer Myth: a Source Book of Custeriana," Colonel W.A. Graham, 1953, 413 pages, worn dust jacket, (1) "One Man of a Kind," Everett Brisendine, 1984, 32 pages, signed by the author, (1) "Old Cowboys Never Die," Everett Brisendine, 1984, 32 pages, signed by the author, (1) "The Lynching of Elizabeth Taylor," Jean Williams, 40 pages, (1) "Legal Hangings," Peter Hertzog, 1966, 39 pages, (1) "Old Town Albuquerque," Peter Hertzog, 1964, 28 pages; largest book: approx 12.25"h, 9.5"w, 31lbs total **Provenance: From the estate of Dr. James R. Lucie, a well-known knifemaker, retired physician and author. He had a several-year waiting list of people wanting to purchase his hand-forged knives at the time of his death and at one point, had the largest collection of knives and ironwork made by William Scagel. Dr. Lucie is the author of "Scagel Handmade," published in 2010.**
"THE ONLY PAY THE DARKIE DEMANDED WAS FOR ME TO KILL JEFF DAVIS" (CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Beach, Henry A. Archive of 4 letters by a Union soldier. 8 leaves, various sizes; minor marginal fading and tears along folds of second letter, otherwise fine condition. Vp, 1861-63
riveting correspondence from an ardent abolitionist soldier. Before the war, Henry A. Beach (ca. 1836- ) was a Methodist clergyman in Clarkstown, NY. Early in the war, he enlisted in the 48th New York Infantry, which was led by a prominent Methodist named James H. Perry who recruited several clergymen to his regiment. He later arranged a commission as an officer in the 1st South Carolina Regiment, where he led African-American troops.
4 letters addressed to his sister Abby and other family members, dated as follows: Annapolis, MD, 16 October 1861, describing the new regiment''s travels toward the front, and camp life in Maryland. He describes befriending a group of slaves who fed him corn bread and bacon: "The only pay the darkie demanded . . . was for me to kill Jeff Davis. I told him I would if I ever had the opportunity." * Hilton Head, SC, 17 January 1862, describing in detail his part in a minor battle at Port Royal Ferry, with postscripts dated January 21 and 22. * Fort Pulaski, GA, 13 July 1862, describing a visit to the schools for contrabands in Beaufort, SC, and praising the pioneering 1st South Carolina Regiment: "General Hunter''s Negro regiment at Hilton Head is also a complete success, so far as he designed it." Not signed and possibly incomplete. * Ladies Island, 28 July 1863, describing his new assignment as a lieutenant in the 1st South Carolina, the first regiment composed of African-American troops. Describes General David Hunter as "a humane and philanthropic man but . . . too much absorbed in his scheme for benefiting the negroes to be of great service in the fighting line." Describes the role of the 54th Massachusetts (the "Glory" regiment) at the recent nearby Battle of Fort Wagner: "The Massachusetts Colored Regt distinguished itself for bravery and efficiency, and suffered much." Also describes at length the impressive transformation among the recently freed slaves in his vicinity: "All are begining to exhibit too a shrewdness & cunning in money which is one result of their intercourse with Yankees . . . Manhood and womanhood is developed as the soul throws off the old habits of slavery."
Cast iron tombstone form fireback with bust of General James Wolfe surrounded by the inscription "In Memory of Majr. Genl. James Wolfe Killed at Quebec Sept 13. 1759" above flags and cannon balls.
26"h x 23.25"w / approximately 125 lbs
Condition: Dirty, hard to read, wear consistent with age.
ELMER ELLSWORTH DEATH RELICS WITH GIFT LETTER. Dated Washington, June 5, 1861, addressed to Ben Hopkins, Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. From Julius, addressed to "Bro Ben," the letter says, "Enclosed is a piece of the carpet on which Col Ellsworth fell when he was killed by Jackson in the Marshall house in Alexandria...I send also a piece of the secession flag staff." Retains the original envelope from Congressman E.H. Rollins, and accompanies a small scrap of flooring, and three fragments of wood, one of which is supposed to be that which Julius refers to in his letter. Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861) was an ambitious young man whose rise to prominence was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He grew up in Illinois and studied law in Chicago where he also mustered the Cadet Attachment to the 60th Illinois Militia. A Springfield attorney named Abraham Lincoln hired young Ellsworth as a clerk in 1860, and Ellsworth followed Lincoln to Washington in 1861. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and raised the 11th New York Volunteers, modeling their training, and their uniforms, on the Algerian and French troops fighting in North Africa, called the Zouaves. Having recruited firemen for his unit, Ellsworth nicknamed them the Fire Zouaves. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth and his Fire Zouaves began their occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. There they encountered a large Confederate flag hanging over the Marshall House inn. In Ellsworth's determined attempt to take down the flag, he was gunned down by innkeeper James Jackson, who was promptly killed by Zouave Corporal James Brownell. Ellsworth immediately became a martyr for the Union cause, inspiring songs and poetry, and a nation of patriotic souvenir-collectors began seeking out photographs and autographs of the fallen soldier.
HANDWRITTEN LYRICS TO "ELLSWORTH'S AVENGERS" AND A CDV OF ELMER ELLSWORTH. Dated October 12, 1862. Two pages, handwritten lyrics to the song by A.L. Hudson (and originally sung to the tune "Annie Lisle" by H.S. Thompson), on paper with the printed header depicting the Battle of Winchester, and page 2 with the stamp of noted historian Samuel P. Hildreth. 8"h. 5"w. Together with a Gurny & Son CDV of a uniformed Ellsworth with a landscape background. Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861) was an ambitious young man whose rise to prominence was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He grew up in Illinois and studied law in Chicago where he also mustered the Cadet Attachment to the 60th Illinois Militia. A Springfield attorney named Abraham Lincoln hired young Ellsworth as a clerk in 1860, and Ellsworth followed Lincoln to Washington in 1861. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and raised the 11th New York Volunteers, modeling their training, and their uniforms, on the Algerian and French troops fighting in North Africa, called the Zouaves. Having recruited firemen for his unit, Ellsworth nicknamed them the Fire Zouaves. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth and his Fire Zouaves began their occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. There they encountered a large Confederate flag hanging over the Marshall House inn. In Ellsworth's determined attempt to take down the flag, he was gunned down by innkeeper James Jackson, who was promptly killed by Zouave Corporal James Brownell. Ellsworth immediately became a martyr for the Union cause, inspiring songs and poetry, and a nation of patriotic souvenir-collectors began seeking out photographs and autographs of the fallen soldier.
DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE RAISING OF A CADET ATTACHMENT TO THE 60TH ILLINOIS MILITIA REGIMENT BY ELMER ELLSWORTH. Partially printed, dated Chicago, Illinois, May 31, 1859. Two-sided document, one side is addressed to Illinois Governor William H. Bissell that Ellsworth has helped organize the cadet attachment; the other is a bond for the use of necessary arms and equipment. Signed by Ellsworth twice. Matted with an engraved portrait, double-sided, and framed, 14"h. 20"w. Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861) was an ambitious young man whose rise to prominence was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He grew up in Illinois and studied law in Chicago where he also mustered the Cadet Attachment to the 60th Illinois Militia. A Springfield attorney named Abraham Lincoln hired young Ellsworth as a clerk in 1860, and Ellsworth followed Lincoln to Washington in 1861. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and raised the 11th New York Volunteers, modeling their training, and their uniforms, on the Algerian and French troops fighting in North Africa, called the Zouaves. Having recruited firemen for his unit, Ellsworth nicknamed them the Fire Zouaves. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth and his Fire Zouaves began their occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. There they encountered a large Confederate flag hanging over the Marshall House inn. In Ellsworth's determined attempt to take down the flag, he was gunned down by innkeeper James Jackson, who was promptly killed by Zouave Corporal James Brownell. Ellsworth immediately became a martyr for the Union cause, inspiring songs and poetry, and a nation of patriotic souvenir-collectors began seeking out photographs and autographs of the fallen soldier.
John Steele, (20th Century, American) "Ramona Lubo," 1986 Oil on canvas Signed, dated and inscribed lower right: John Steele ©/ RNO; titled on the frame plaque; variant title from an exhibition brochure attached to the frame verso: "Ramona Lubo and Star Basket" 40" H x 30" W Provenance: Collection of the artist The James M. Cole Collection, Visalia, CA, acquired from the above Literature: Christopher L. Moser, "Native American Basketry of Southern California" (Riverside, CA: Riverside Museum Press, 1993), iii. Notes: This painting serves as the frontispiece for Christopher L. Moser's book, "Native American Basketry of Southern California," which was the catalogue for the exhibition "Coils in Time: A Century of Southern California Indian Basketmakers and Their Baskets" at the Riverside Municipal Museum, Riverside, CA, October 12, 1992-May 30, 1993. This lot is accompanied by a collection of signed preparatory sketches for the painting, photographs of the individuals and basket shown in the painting, correspondence between the artist and collector, documents relating to museum loans, and other ephemera. One such item, most likely written in conjunction with the 1992-93 Riverside Municipal Museum exhibition where the star basket was shown, states that the "... large oil by John Steele portrays the famous Cahuilla basket weaver, Ramona Lubo, and significant elements of her life. The brutal killing of her husband, Juan Diego, in 1877, by Sam Temple, is shown here along with her famous funeral basket which she made and prayed to so that she might join Juan. The faces were taken from old photos of the individuals involved, and the circumstances surrounding this killing became a permanent part of California history as told in the book "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson. The book was designed to arouse some compassion in the hearts of the citizens of the U.S.A. for the plight of the American Indian, in the hopes that their exploitation could be reversed." Oil on canvas Dimensions: 40" H x 30" W Provenance: Collection of the artist The James M. Cole Collection, Visalia, CA, acquired from the above
GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK’S CONFEDERATE CALVARY OFFICER’S SABER AND OTHER POLK FAMILY MEMORABILIA. This sword is the only identified Confederate General’s sword we know of to ever come to auction with family lineage. Sword and memorabilia listed here descended in the family of Michael Adamson from his mother, Mary Anthony Polk Adamson, with accompanying affidavit stating the sword has never been out of the family’s hands. This grouping contains several editions of Polk biographies, family pictures, pocket watch, and excavated ten-pound parrot projectile, believed fired from the spot of the Union Artillery position that killed General Polk. A couple letters from General Polk to his wife, one wartime, one prewar. Wartime letter from Confederate General William Hardee to Polk and wartime letter from Confederate General A.P. Stewart to Polk. There is also a letter written by Polk to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. General Polk’s sword is a Thomas, Griswold, New Orleans made cavalry officer’s saber. General Polk’s sword has a large hand engraved inscription between the two top scabbard mounts, which reads "PRESENTED TO GENERAL LEONIDAS POLK BY YOUR FRIEND, BISHOP STEPHEN ELLIOT, JANUARY 9, 1863". General Leonidas Polk was the Episcopal Bishop from Louisiana while Stephen Elliot was the Episcopal Bishop of Georgia. CONDITION: Cavalry saber is excellent overall in as -found condition. Grip is excellent with scuffing and wear to the highs spots. Blade is gray. Marked on ricasso "TG & CO. N.O.". Brass scabbard is excellent, showing scattered staining. Inventory of related family memorabilia is as follows: 1) A.L.S. Leonidas Polk to his wife Francis, dated May 27, 1864, two and one half pages. CONDITION: One quarter of the letter is torn away, not affecting text or signature. 2) A.L.S. Leonidas Polk to Jefferson Davis, dated August 29, 1861 on printed stationary "Headquarters Department No. 2, Memphis, Tenn." The content of the letter is a recommendation for Albert Sidney Johnston to an appointment commanding the entire Western Army. CONDITION: Very good. Two oval engravings of Polk and Johnston have been glued to the letter below Polk’s signature. An early typed copy is included. 3) A.L.S. Major General Alex. P. Stewart to Leonidas Polk, Headquarters Fourth Brigade dated December 7, 1861, one page. Content is a request to retain certain companies in their current location in the field. CONDITION: Letter is mounted to a sheet of cardstock, accompanied by a typewritten copy. 4) A.L.S. Major General W.J. Hardee to Leonidas Polk, Headquarters Third Army Corps. dated May 13, 1862. Content requests Polk to send Dr. R.H. Taylor, surgeon, to join his regiment. CONDITION: Left margin of the letter is mounted to cardstock. Corners are frayed. Typewritten copy is included. 5) A.L.S. Alex. P. Stewart to Dr. J.C. Green, Westchester, PA on stationary printed "Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission" dated July 29, 1893. The content of the letter refers Dr. Green to the son of General Polk, Dr. D.M. Polk, in New York City. CONDITION: Excellent. 6) A.L.S. Leonidas Polk as Bishop of Louisiana to the Secretary of the Navy dated July 13, 1849. The content is a recommendation for the Reverend Jno. Buck to be appointed Chaplain in the US Navy. CONDITION: Very good. 7) Four carte de visite photographs of General Polk, two are early war bust views, one identified in period ink "Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk/C.S.A." both published by E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Another of the same view back marked "Bishop Polk C.S.A" and the fourth, a period engraving printed on the front face "Rt. Rev. Maj. Gen’l Polk. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by M.B. Brady in the ___". This back mark reads "Published by E. Anthony/501 Broadway,/New York./From/Photographic/Negative,/From/Brady’s National/Portrait Gallery". A carte de visite image of President James K. Polk signed "Brady, New York, NY" on the front with an E. Anthony back mark CONDITION: All carte de visites are very good to excellent. 8) A pair of framed portraits, one an oval tinted albumen photograph of Francis Polk measuring 4" wide x 5-1/2" tall and a framed period engraving of General Polk all in period oval mats and gilt and gesso frames. CONDITION: Very good with light fading. Both frames are heavily chipped around the edges. 9) A framed period engraving being an oval portrait of Polk in uniform signed "Etched by Charles B. Hall, N.Y." in a late 19th century velvet frame. CONDITION: Image is very good, frame is heavily worn. 10) The following is a list of books from the Polk family: one two-volume set Leonidas Polk; Bishop and General by William M. Polk, M.D., LL.D. (Longman’s Green & Co., New York, 1893). Leather bound with gold embossing and marble covers. CONDITION: Edges are worn. Light foxing throughout. Edges are dog-eared. A two-volume 1915 edition of the same work by the same publisher with linen covered board wraps, and another set of the 1915 edition that is leather bound and gold embossed. CONDITION: Very good. Leather bound set has loose and separated wraps. Other books include an 1861 Bible, an 1861 Hymn Book, and an 1856 Book of Common Prayer. CONDITION: These three smaller religious books are heavily used with tattered edges and worn wraps. 11) Fine quality officer’s dining utensil set, including an ivory handled folding knife, fork, and corkscrew, a silver-plated folding cup, all mounted in a folding leather case with brass button closure. CONDITION: Excellent. 12) A French, silver-cased pocket watch made by A. Robert Shiffer & Fils/Chaux de Fonde to which is attached a twisted human hair watch fob and key with 14K gold clasp. CONDITION: The watch case is worn from use. It is mechanically excellent. The watch fob is fine. 13) An 1863 dated state of Louisiana fifty-dollar currency note depicting the portrait of General Polk on the face. CONDITION: Very fine. 14) A cased pair of high quality, French made binoculars covered in brown leather. The eyepieces are nickeled silver and the body is covered in brown leather. The case is of soft brown leather with a blue cotton lining. CONDITION: Leather on the binocular body is worn and scuffed. The case lid has been repaired. Overall, very good. 15) Finally, this lot includes a 12-lb parrot shell excavated in the vicinity from which the fatal shell that killed General Polk was launched. CONDITION: The shell has been conserved but remains heavily pitted and oxidized. General Polk was born on April 10, 1806 in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of West Point in the Class of 1827, he resigned his commission several months after receiving it to enter the ministry in the Episcopal Church. Being an excellent preacher and clergyman, he was elected Bishop of Louisiana in 1841 and was ordained by his close friend and colleague the Right Reverend Stephen Elliott, who was the first bishop of Georgia. Elliott (born 1806, died 1916), a graduate of Harvard Law School and the bishop of Georgia, is named as the presenter of this magnificent Confederate sword. Polk, a friend of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was persuaded to join the Confederate army in July of 1861. Commissioned as a Major General, he was assigned to oversee the fortification of the Mississippi River. He later commanded a Corps under General Albert Sidney Johnston. He fought bravely at Shiloh and Corinth and was promoted to command the Army of the Mississippi when Jefferson Davis reorganized his command in the west. Serving under Lieutenant General Braxton Bragg, Polk led his army at Perryville, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Polk proved to be a rather unsuccessful strategist at Chickamauga and General Bragg instituted a Court marshal against him. Politically strong, with friendships in Richmond, Polk successfully avoided prosecution and his Army of the Mississippi moved to North Georgia to help protect Atlanta. On June 14, 1864, during a conference with Confederate Generals Joseph Johnston and William Hardee, he was killed outright by an artillery projectile. 4-55779, 4-56159 CW31 (75,000-175,000)
A Mexican War Presentation Coin Silver Claret Pitcher, c. 1848, hallmarked Wood & Hughes, New York, retailed by Hyde & Goodrich, New Orleans, marked on the bottom "W & H" in an oval and "HYDE & GOODRICH" in a rectangle, cylindrical body with repoussé and chased grapevine above four C scroll cartouches including two lake scenes flanking presentation engraved in script "Presented to/ Captain Frederick H. Masten/ A.D.M. U.S.A./ by the undersigned Clerks and Agents in his / employ at the Depot, Quarter Master's/ office, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 22d July, 1848...", including the names of twelve clerks and agents, applied molded foot and a bifurcated hollowcast serpent handle with Meso-American mask terminal below, height 10 1/2 in., weight 29.05 troy ozs. $5000/7000 Note: The twelve clerks and agents listed on the presentation are as follows: "M. Scott, Jr., Chief Clerk; James L. Freaner Agent; Charles H. Beares, Clerk; Thos. S. King, Clerk; Sam. Carpenter Agent; Cummings Lund, Clerk; Chas. Fagot, Clerk; Geo. Shoemaker, Agt; R.G. Crozier, Clerk; Morgan L. Squires, Agt.; John Cochrane, Clk; Henry Aldrich Agent". Frederick H. Masten, to whom the pitcher is presented, was from New York and served with the First Infantry Regiment. When the Mexican-American war broke out in 1846, the 1st Infantry Regiment was sent across the border with Gen. Zachary Taylor's Army and participated in the storming of Monterrey where the Regiment fought in savage hand to hand combat. From Monterrey the Regiment was transferred to Gen. Winfield Scott's command and participated in the first modern amphibious landing in American history at Vera Cruz in 1847. By Act of Congress, Masten was appointed 2nd Lt. on Sept. 25, 1838. On Feb. 11, 1847, he was promoted from 1st Lt. to Captain at the Vera Cruz Quartermaster Depot. Interestingly, the second presenter listed on the pitcher is James L. Freaner, who was a war correspondent for the New Orleans Delta. The Mexican-American War was the first foreign war to be covered extensively by U.S. correspondents. A contemporary of the best known correspondent of the war, George Wilkins Kendall who co-founded the New Orleans Picayune, Freaner published his dispatches under the pseudonym "Mustang" and became an accomplished writer with a national reputation. He acquired his sobriquet at the Battle of Monterrey where he killed an officer of the lancers and seized his charger. In February 1848, Nicholas P. Trist, President James K. Polk's ambassador, entrusted Freaner to carry the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Washington, D.C., a feat he accomplished in a then record seventeen days. It appears that Freaner was attached to this Quarter Master depot in Vera Cruz before and after his delivery of the Mexican-American War peace treaty. This remains the oldest treaty still in force between the United States and Mexico and as a result of it the U.S. acquired more than 500,000 square miles of valuable territory which helped it to emerge as a world power in the late nineteenth century. It is very likely that Freaner was entrusted with the commission of this pitcher since he moved correspondence back and forth to New Orleans everyday. Also of note about James L. Freaner is that he testified at the trial of Maj. Gen. Gideon Pillow, of Clifton Place plantation in Columbia, Tennessee. The charge against Pillow was "that he wrote or caused to be written, certain communications to the press at home, after the battles before the City of Mexico, arrogating to himself the chief merit, in those brilliant achievements." (Huron Reflector, Norwalk, May 9, 1849). In actuality, the letter was a forgery that had been smuggled into a package from James Freaner, without his knowledge, that was sent to the New Orleans Delta. Of the other eleven men listed as presenters, there are most certainly some biographies of note, but the story of James L. "Mustang" Freaner is so deeply entwined with the Mexican-American War that it is the most compelling to discuss here. Reference: National Archives, Washington, D.C. Kera Productions, Dallas, TX, "The U.S.-Mexican War 1846-48," PBS Documentary, 1998.
CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION AND MUSTER ROLL FOR THE CADET ATTACHMENT TO THE 60TH ILLINOIS MILITIA, SIGNED BY ELMER ELLSWORTH. Dated Chicago, April 29, 1859. Four pages, manuscript on lined paper, including petition and muster roll, signed Maj. E.E. Ellsworth. In custom slipcase. 12.75"h. 8.75"w. Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861) was an ambitious young man whose rise to prominence was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He grew up in Illinois and studied law in Chicago where he also mustered the Cadet Attachment to the 60th Illinois Militia. A Springfield attorney named Abraham Lincoln hired young Ellsworth as a clerk in 1860, and Ellsworth followed Lincoln to Washington in 1861. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and raised the 11th New York Volunteers, modeling their training, and their uniforms, on the Algerian and French troops fighting in North Africa, called the Zouaves. Having recruited firemen for his unit, Ellsworth nicknamed them the Fire Zouaves. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth and his Fire Zouaves began their occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. There they encountered a large Confederate flag hanging over the Marshall House inn. In Ellsworth's determined attempt to take down the flag, he was gunned down by innkeeper James Jackson, who was promptly killed by Zouave Corporal James Brownell. Ellsworth immediately became a martyr for the Union cause, inspiring songs and poetry, and a nation of patriotic souvenir-collectors began seeking out photographs and autographs of the fallen soldier.
THREE ELMER ELLSWORTH FERROTYPE PENDANTS AND TWO PINS. American, 1861-1865. Three double-sided ferrotype pendants in brass fames, each drilled for hanging. Includes Ellsworth-Brownell, Ellsworth-Stryker, and the third with Ellsworth on the obverse and an inscription on the reverse. All 1"d. Together with two stick pins, both stamped brass with red, white, and blue enamel, the smaller with a tiny ferrotype inset above the eagle. 1.5"h. each. Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861) was an ambitious young man whose rise to prominence was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He grew up in Illinois and studied law in Chicago where he also mustered the Cadet Attachment to the 60th Illinois Militia. A Springfield attorney named Abraham Lincoln hired young Ellsworth as a clerk in 1860, and Ellsworth followed Lincoln to Washington in 1861. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York and raised the 11th New York Volunteers, modeling their training, and their uniforms, on the Algerian and French troops fighting in North Africa, called the Zouaves. Having recruited firemen for his unit, Ellsworth nicknamed them the Fire Zouaves. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth and his Fire Zouaves began their occupation of Alexandria, Virginia. There they encountered a large Confederate flag hanging over the Marshall House inn. In Ellsworth's determined attempt to take down the flag, he was gunned down by innkeeper James Jackson, who was promptly killed by Zouave Corporal James Brownell. Ellsworth immediately became a martyr for the Union cause, inspiring songs and poetry, and a nation of patriotic souvenir-collectors began seeking out photographs and autographs of the fallen soldier.
1832 MARTIN VAN BUREN Signed Autographed Full Title as U. S. Minister to Britain: Autographs. 1832 Martin Van Buren Signed Autograph With Full Title While Acting United States Minister to the United Kingdom. MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862). 8th President of the United States (1837-1841), First President of the United States who was born as an actual American Citizen! A founder of the Democratic Party, served as the 9th Governor of NY, the 10th U. S. Secretary of State, and the 8th Vice President of the United States. January 7, 1832-Dated, Signed Autograph Panel With Full Title Signed, "M. Van Buren" while U. S. Minister to the United Kingdom, measuring 2. 5" x 6. 5", 1 page with blank reverse, Very Fine. Easily removable blue paper traces from a prior display on the reverse sides, otherwise clean and boldly written in rich deep brown ink on wove period paper. Titled across the top "Martin Van Buren Esqr -- Minister plenipotentiary & Envoy extraordinary to the Court of St. James' London. " Signed on the bottom left of the panel's conclusion Signed, "M. Van Buren - Jany. 7th, 1832" with his signature measuring a large 2. 5" long. Rarely seen in this form, and the first we have offered as such. Martin Van Buren (born Maarten Van Buren, December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862) was the Eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the ninth governor of New York, the tenth U. S. secretary of state, and the eighth vice president of the United States. . He won the 1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing President Andrew Jackson and the organizational strength of the Democratic Party. He lost his 1840 reelection bid to Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison, due in part to the poor economic conditions of the Panic of 1837. Later in his life, Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and important anti-slavery leader, who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election. . Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York to a family of Dutch Americans; his father was a Patriot during the American Revolution. He was raised speaking Dutch and learned English at school, making him the only U. S. President who spoke English as a second language. . He trained as a lawyer and quickly became involved in politics as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He won election to the New York State Senate and became the leader of the Bucktails, the faction of Democratic-Republicans opposed to Governor DeWitt Clinton. Van Buren established a political machine known as the Albany Regency and in the 1820s emerged as the most influential politician in his home state. . He was elected to the United States Senate in 1821 and supported William H. Crawford in the 1824 presidential election. John Quincy Adams won the 1824 election and Van Buren opposed his proposals for federally funded internal improvements and other measures. Van Buren's major political goal was to re-establish a two-party system with partisan differences based on ideology rather than personalities or sectional differences, and he supported Jackson's candidacy against Adams in the 1828 presidential election with this goal in mind. . To support Jackson's candidacy, Van Buren ran for Governor of New York and resigned a few months after assuming the position to accept appointment as U. S. Secretary of State after Jackson took office in 1829. . Van Buren was a key advisor during Jackson's eight years as President of the United States and he built the organizational structure for the coalescing Democratic Party, particularly in New York. He resigned from his position to help resolve the Petticoat affair, then briefly served as the American ambassador to Britain. At Jackson's behest, the 1832 Democratic National Convention nominated Van Buren for Vice President of theUnited States, and he took office after the Democratic ticket won the 1832 presidential election. . With Jackson's strong support, Van Buren faced little opposition for the presidential nomination at the 1835 Democratic National Convention, and he defeated several Whig opponents in the 1836 presidential election. Van Buren's response to the Panic of 1837 centered on his Independent Treasury system, a plan under which the Federal government of the United States would store its funds in vaults rather than in banks. . He also continued Jackson's policy of Indian removal; he maintained peaceful relations with Britain but denied the application to admit Texas to the Union, seeking to avoid heightened sectional tensions. In the 1840 election, the Whigs rallied around Harrison's military record and ridiculed Van Buren as "Martin Van Ruin", and a surge of new voters helped turn him out of office. . At the opening of the Democratic convention in 1844, Van Buren was the leading candidate for the party's nomination for the presidency. Southern Democrats, however, were angered by his continued opposition to the annexation of Texas, and the party nominated James K. Polk. Van Buren grew increasingly opposed to slavery after he left office, and he agreed to lead a third party ticket in the 1848 presidential election, motivated additionally by intra-party differences at the state and national level. He finished in a distant third nationally, but his presence in the race most likely helped Whig nominee Zachary Taylor defeat Democrat Lewis Cass. . Van Buren returned to the Democratic fold after the 1848 election, but he supported Abraham Lincoln's policies during the American Civil War. His health began to fail in 1861 and he died in July 1862 at age 79. He has been generally ranked as an average or below-average U. S. President by historians and political scientists. . In August 1831 Andrew Jackson gave Van Buren a recess appointment as the ambassador to Britain, and Van Buren arrived in London in September. He was cordially received, but in February 1832 he learned his nomination had been rejected by the Senate. The rejection of Van Buren was essentially the work of Calhoun. . When the vote on Van Buren's nomination was taken, enough pro-Calhoun Jacksonians refrained from voting to produce a tie, thus giving Calhoun, in his role as presiding officer, the ability to cast the deciding vote against Van Buren. Calhoun was elated, convinced that he had ended Van Buren's career. "It will kill him dead, sir, kill him dead. He will never kick, sir, never kick", Calhoun exclaimed to a friend. . Calhoun's move backfired; by making Van Buren appear the victim of petty politics, Calhoun raised Van Buren in both Jackson's regard and the esteem of others in the Democratic Party. Far from ending Van Buren's career, Calhoun's action gave greater impetus to Van Buren's candidacy for vice president. Seeking to ensure that Van Buren would replace Calhoun as his running mate, Jackson had arranged for a national convention of his supporters. . The May 1832 Democratic National Convention subsequently nominated Van Buren to serve as the party's vice presidential nominee. Van Buren won the nomination over Philip Pendleton Barbour (Calhoun's favored candidate) and Richard Mentor Johnson due to the support of Jackson and the strength of the Albany Regency. . Upon Van Buren's return from Europe in July 1832, he became involved in the Bank War, a struggle over the re-charter of the Second Bank of the United States. Van Buren had long been distrustful of banks, and he viewed the Bank as an extension of the Hamiltonian economic program, so he supported Jackson's veto of the Bank's re-charter. Henry Clay, the presidential nominee of the National Republicans, made the struggle over the Bank the key issue of the presidential election of 1832. . The Jackson-Van Buren ticket won the 1832 election by a landslide, and Van Buren took office as Vice President in March 1833. During the Nullification Crisis, Van Buren counseled Jackson to pursue a policy of conciliation with South Carolina leaders. He played little direct role in the passage of the Tariff of 1833, but he quietly hoped that the tariff would help bring an end to the Nullification Crisis, which it did. . During his time in office Van Buren continued to be one of Jackson's primary advisors and confidants, and accompanied Jackson on his tour of the northeastern United States in 1833. Jackson's struggle with the Second Bank of the United States continued, as the president sought to remove federal funds from the Bank. . Though at first apprehensive of the removal due to congressional support for the Bank, Van Buren eventually came to support Jackson's policy. He also helped undermine a fledgling alliance between Jackson and Daniel Webster, a senator from Massachusetts who could have potentially threatened Van Buren's project to create two parties separated by policy differences rather than personalities. . During Jackson's second term, the president's supporters began to refer to themselves as members of the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, those opposed to Jackson, including Clay's National Republicans, followers of Calhoun, and many members of the Anti-Masonic Party, coalesced into the Whig Party. . .
Civil War Stereo Views "Photographic History - War for the Union", series published by E & H.T. Anthony & Co., New York, 1865, after Brady, 32 stereo views on yellow mounts, images include Union officers, living and deceased soldiers, battle sites, forts and other buildings, fortifications and earthworks, southern views in Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, one view of General Grant and family signed verso by his son, Frederick Grant, all with paper labels verso describing scene, each approximately 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 in.; detailed listing: #1994: Aqueduct Bridge above Georgetown, on the Potomac. Government Vessels and Canal boats filled with Stores, escaping the Raiders, July 12, 1864.#2296: Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va.#2330: Hanover Junction, 20 miles from Richmond; a point of note in McClellan’s and Grant’s Campaigns.#2365: Fortifications near Yorktown, Va.#2428: Lieut. Gen. Grant and chief of staff, Gen. Rawlins, at his Head Quarters, at Cold Harbor, Va. Taken June 14th, 1864.#2432: Group of Generals: Hancock, Birney, Gibbon and Barlow, in the field, near Richmond, Va.#2549: Gen. Butlers’ Dutch Gap Canal. In the centre is a dam to keep out the water, and passage way for workmen; on the left is a railroad track for drawing out the dirt; in the foreground a mud scow.#2590: Gen. Grant’s favorite filed horse Cincinnati. Taken at City Point, Va.#2591: Jeff. Davis, one of Gen. Grant’s saddle horses. Taken at City Point, Va.#2610: Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers. Taken after the bank was blown out. On the extreme end a portion of the bank remains, which forms a profile, which the soldiers call Jeff. Davis.#2691: Gun boat Kansas. Officers in the foreground. James River, Va.#3094: Group of Relics in Charleston, SC, Arsenal, showing Rebel torpedoes, shot, shell, and breach of the 600 lb. Blakely Gun.#3103: Broad St., Charleston SC, looking East, with the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral and St. Michael’s church in the distance.#3127: Fort Sumpter, east face, Charleston Harbor, SC showing the Palmetto Works erected to strengthen the fort.#3139: Interior of Fort Sumpter, Charleston Harbor, Sc, April 14th, 1865, pending the ceremony of raising the old Flag.#3175: A Dead Rebel Soldier, as he lay in the Treches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers “Fort Damnation.” The View was taken the Morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3177: C.S. Soldier killed by a shell in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers “Fort Damnation.” This View was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3182: Rebel Soldiers killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers “Fort Damnation.” The view shows the construction of their Bomb Proofs and Covered passages, which branch off in every direction. Taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3183: This Picture is a good view of the Covered Ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers “Fort Damnation.” The Union Soldiers had to charge up and down these obstructions. In the foreground centre is a dead Rebel Soldier sticking out through the debris, and further on lies another Confederate Soldier. This View was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3184: Rebel Soldier killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the Soldiers “Fort Damnation.” This View was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3192: Chevaux de fries, and breast works in the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the Rebels “Fort Hell,” showing two wounded soldiers. This view was made the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.#3198: Rebel Prisoners on their way to the rear, captured by Gen. Sheriden at Five Forks April 3d 1865. This View was taken April 3d, after the storming of Petersburgh, Va.#3243: Ruins in the burnt district, from the Petersburgh railroad Depot, showing a portion of the Arsenal grounds, Richmond, Va.#3285: Park of Captured Guns at Rocketts, Richmond, Va.#3362: “Castle Thunder,” Cary St., the place where so many Union prisoners suffered. Richmond, Va.#3288: Residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Franklin St., Richmond, Va.#3365: Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.#3366: St. John’s Church, Church Hill, Richmond, Va. This church is the place where Patrick Henry made his immortal speech. #3376: Mansion occupied by Jeff. Davis, during the Rebellion, cor. Clay and Twelfth St. Richmond, Va.#3399: Lieut. Gen. Grant, Wife and Son at his Head Quarters, City Point, Va. (signed)#3624: Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman and Horse. This View was taken in the Trenches before Atlanta, Ga.#3652: Lulu Falls, on top of Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. Confederate Civil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906), Petersburg, Virginia, excerpt “…Nothing of importance has transpired…with the exception of that accidental (?) shot fired from one of the batteries on Cummings Point [a battery on the northern tip of Morris Island, south of Charleston, South Carolina]…we consequently accepted their apology & dismissed them with…‘Go & sin no more’…”, signed “Kidder”, letter in brown ink and graphite on cream-colored laid paper, 7-3/4 x 10 in., slight fading to ink, fold lines with slight wear and tiny separations at edges, grime; Letter to a sister, from Yorktown, Virginia, June 14, 1861, excerpt “…Since I have been here, our scouting parties operating between here and Hampton have succeeded in killing two or three of the enemy and taking six or seven firearms, and on last Monday (June 10th) we gained a splendid victory over the Yankees at Bethel Church…. They were evidently marching on this place with the intention of attacking it and did not expect to meet with any resistance between Hampton and Yorktown… the result of which was 1 killed and seven wounded (only) on our side. We buried on the field about 15 or 16 of their dead and took ten or twelve prisoners & wounded…”, “…I wish I could send you some of the many relicts [sic] we are constantly digging up…. Every day a cannon ball fragment…together with the fragments of human bones. Our works are mostly built on the site of the old Revolutionary ones….Yorktown is one of the oldest-looking villages…there is not a house in it but that looks as if it existed at the time of the Revn…”, signed “Kidder”, two-leaf letter in brown ink on cream-colored laid paper, 8 x 10-1/4 in. and 8 x 5-1/8 in., good condition with strong ink color, fold lines with slight wear and minor grime, scattered slight ink smears likely made at time of writing; Letter from Meade to Confederate General J. R. Anderson (Joseph Reid Anderson, 1813-1892), from Fort Fisher, North Carolina, October 19, 1861, discusses possibilities for altering the elevation of the “…Rifled Banded 32-Pdr [pounders]…” at the fort, no signature, copybook letter in brown ink and graphite on pale blue laid paper, 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 in., good condition with strong ink color, fold lines with slight grime; Letter from Fort Fisher, Confederate Point, November 4, 1861, to a sister, excerpt “…We are still looking out for the Yankee fleet but hope it may be delayed for a week longer when we will be better able to give her a warm reception…”, signed “Kidder”, letter in brown ink on pale gray laid paper, 9-1/4 x 14-1/2 in., good ink color, fold lines with minor wear and slight grime, scattered slight ink smears likely made at time of writing, two small stains; Letter, “Head Quarters Engr Dept (in Field) near Richd June 5th 1862”, to his mother, Julia Edmonds Haskins Meade (about 1809-1891), excerpt “…The day I arrived in Richmond the fight [i.e., Seven Days Battles] was going on and after great exertions succeeded in manning a horse & hurried out to the field to join Genl Holmes [Theophilus H. Holmes, 1804-1880]…. The Rifle Comp’y was out in the woods as skirmishers, expecting the advance of the enemy when I came upon them…”, signed “Kidder” (Meade died eight weeks after he penned this letter, on July 31, 1862), letter in brown ink on cream-colored laid paper, 10 x 7-3/4 in., good condition with strong ink color, fold lines with slight grime, slight ink smears likely made at time of writing; With related family papers: Autographed Civil War letter, from Richard’s brother Hugh Everard Meade (1838-1862) to a sister, May 21, 1862, from a camp outside of Petersburg, Virginia; Letter from Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. to a sister, from West Point, December 17, 1854; Carte-de-visite of Meade with eight other officers of Fort Sumter, March 1862, (before the Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12-13, 1861); Book of albumen prints of Richard Kidder Meade, Jr., his parents and siblings; Painting of Richard Kidder Meade, Sr. (1803-1862); Painting of Blandford Church, Petersburg, Virginia (where many members of the Meade family are buried); Newspaper articles, miscellaneous papers, 16 books and three textiles related to the Meade family and descendents; all loose papers in archival sleeves, Detailed Listing: Textiles:Handsewn brown satin-weave silk drawstring bag lined with maroon silk, embroidered with the first national flag of the Confederacy (“Stars and Bars”, 13 stars) and the second national flag of the Confederacy (“the Stainless Banner”) and the motto Pro Aris et Focis (literally, “for our altars and our hearths”), 12 x 8-3/4 in., very good conditionHandsewn silk textile representing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s infantry battle flag, 12-1/2 x 13 in., some deterioration of silk borders at edges, minor substance spatter on red ground, otherwise in fair to good conditionHandsewn linen table cover with self-fringe, embroidered signatures of 12 individuals, very good condition with some staining Here are books and manuscripts: Books:Georgia Society, Colonial Dames of America, 1931 directory.Hogarth, The Works of William Hogarth, vol. 1 (London: 1812), hardcover.Holy Bible (New York: American Bible Society, 1867), copy presented to James Burke, Dec. 18, 1868.John Howard, The Illustrated Scripture History for the Young, 2 vols. (New York: Virtue and Yorston, n.d.), copies belonging to Mary Meade Platt, hardcover.Eliza J. Lines, Marks-Platt Ancestry (Sound Beach, CT: 1902), 2 copies: one in a suede leather cover, one with no covers.Bishop Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1872) hardcover.Henry, J. Peet, ed., Chaumiere Papers Containing Matters of Interest to the Descendants of David Meade (Chicago: Horace O’Donoghue, 1883), hardcover.Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856), copy belonging to W. H. Platt.Horace G. Platt, John Marshall and Other Addresses (San Francisco, Argonaut, n.d.), hardcover.W. H. Platt, Judith Carson; or which Was the Heiress?(Rochester, NY: E. R. Andrews, 1887), softcover.———. The Philosophy of the Supernatural (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1886), hardcover, 2 copies.Robert E. Lee, In Memoriam (Louisville: John P. Morton, 1870), hardcover. Manuscripts:Two diaries of Mazy Platt, 1887 & 1888, together with letters, pressed flowers, miscellaneaEphemera:-framed genealogy of the Latham/Meade family-vellum “Supreme Court of the United States of America” to William H. Platt, February 10, 1846, with wax seal of the Supreme Court-watercolor of Bishop’s Palace in England-two leaves of gravestone rubbings: Hugh/Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Martha/Susan Meade-miscellaneous genealogical papers on the Meade family-letters to William W. Platt from the President of the College of William and Mary, -poem commemorating the death of Richard Kidder Meade from a sister-document from the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia-documents from the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama-papers on Old Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia-carte-de-visite of the William Platt home in San Francisco-William Platt’s survivor’s pension from the Mexican-American War-newspaper articles on Richard Kidder Meade from the 19th and 20th centuries- two stereoscopic cards of church interior, Louisville, Ky.-carte-de-visite of Richard Kidder Meade with eight other officers of Fort Sumter, March 1862, with newspaper clipping from 1862
Confederate Order Book 1st Virginia Regiment Pre-First Bull Run 8 x 10 in. hardbound order copy book with gilt title ADJUTANTS REPORTS. /1ST. REGIMENT. This book is a record of the orders received by the 1st Virginia Volunteer Infantry beginning April 29 1861 through the Battle of First Bull Run and ending August 1 1861.The 1st (Richmond) Regiment a pre-war militia regiment was one of the first groups of infantry to arrive for training at the Hermitage Fairgrounds in Richmond (later Camp Lee) in April 1861. The early orders in this book chronicle the day to day problems of forging various mobs of spirited civilians into an army for the newborn nation. The entire army structure above the regimental level had to be made from scratch and these pages of recorded orders give an unparalleled insight into that evolving process.The first combat orders for the 1st Virginia dated May 29 1861 sent them to Manassas Junction to join Bonham's Brigade Department of Alexandria. June 1 finds the regiment at Camp Pickens Virginia where all forces are ordered to cheerfully join in the necessary labors however hard and unusual for them and immediately begin entrenching fortifications at Manassas Junction. The next day Beauregard is announced as the new commander of the Department of Alexandria.On June 16 Beauregard orders troops be supplied with 40 rounds ammo and held constantly in light marching order ready to advance on short notice with 10 days' rations (3-5 in haversacks the rest in wagons.)June 20 orders are issued forming the Army of the Potomac arranging the various regiments into six brigades and assigning brigade commanders. The 1st Virginia is assigned to the 4th Brigade Colonel G.H. Terret Provisional Army of Virginia commanding.Beauregard's HQ June 23rd: So great is the obstruction of the most important public business by the personal presentations at these HdQrs of applications for leaves of absence (generally on the certificate of a medical officer for the benefit of the applicant's health ) that it is ordered that all applications for leaves of absence hereafter shall be made through the commanding officer of the Regiment Corps or unattached company to which such applicant may belong.4th Brigade HQ Camp Pickens June 27 ...The Colonel also directs that the whooping and yelling in camp be stopped and that the men who insist on continuing this unmilitary habit be punished...July 4 1861: Camp PickensThe colonels of the Regiments comprising the 4th Brigade will at once see that their Regiments are provided with three days provisions in their haversacks and forty rounds of ammunition in their cartridge boxes and be held in readiness ?to march forthwith to the front. The alert was canceled July 5th.On July 7 Longstreet assumes command of the 4th Brigade. The next day orders are issued designating a winged badge for the brigade to be worn yellow side out on the left shoulder". Pickets are told to learn the insignia of surrounding brigades and small parties are not to be fired upon unless it is well ascertained that they are of the enemy and there is no probability of capturing them.Beauregard issues a long order on July 11 haranguing the army for grievous breaches in security. Newspapers as far away as South Carolina have published detailed dispositions of Confederate troops along the Potomac with troop strengths and regiment names and examples are provided in these orders.JULY 16 CONFEDERATE BATTLE PLANS FOR MANASSAS: Beauregard issues detailed seven-part battle plans to his command for the attack on the Federal army which that day has begun its march from Washington DC towards Manassas. In part:Head Quarters Army of the PotomacManassas Junction ?July 16th 1861Special Orders}No. 120 ???????????}The following will be observed and executed by all concerned in the special exigencies indicatedI??? Brig Genl Longstreet will hold his Brigade in readiness to march at a moment's notice and take position at Blackburn's ford one regiment to be placed with two pieces of Walton's battery in position in advance of that ford carefully concealed from the view of the enemy the other two regiments remaining on this side of the ford concealed from sight as far as practicable but ready to be thrown across at any moment and when Genl Longstreet shall hear the enemy engaged on his left at Mitchell's ford he will move and attack him in the flank and rear as already instructed keeping communications open with Bonham's brigade on the left and Jones' brigade on the right.II??? Brig Genl Jones will be prepared to move his Brigade from Camp Walker simultaneously with the 4th Brigade to positions at McLean's ford corresponding to those to be occupied by Longstreet at Blackburn's ford; as already instructed he will advance thence to the attack of the enemy's flank on the Centerville Road about halfway between Centerville and Mitchell's ford maintaining communication with Genl Longstreet on his left and Genl Ewell on his right...??? ???The next day Beauregard announced to his army that the Federal invasion of Virginia had begun:General OrdersNo. 41 ?I.??? The General Commanding the army of the Potomac announces to his command that at length the enemy have advanced to subjugate a sovereign state and impose upon a free people an odious government; notwithstanding their numerical superiority they can be repelled and the general commanding relies confidently on his command to do it...By the 18th Union General Tyler's advance division had reached Centerville. As the enemy approaches General Longstreet addresses his men:Head Quarters 4th BrigadeBull Run July 18th 1861General Orders No. 1Virginians you are now fighting for your own soil your homes and your liberties! Let it not be said that any Virginia Brigade gave way one foot before the vile invaders! We have taken our stand; let us show the enemy that we can and will repel them hence.Beauregard correctly expects McDowell's main attack to be from Centerville towards his right flank. Tyler spoils the Union plans by advancing early on Blackburns Ford and escalating his scouting mission into a battle with Longstreet's brigade. The Confederates repulse his attack prompting McDowell to change his plans and attack the alerted Confederates on the opposite flank once the main body of the Union army arrives. Colonel Patrick T. Moore of the 1st Virginia was severely wounded in the head during this battle an injury that would remove him from field service for most of the war.July 21 1861: BATTLE OF FIRST MANASSASSpecial Order No. 136 the morning of the battle informs the brigade commanders that:Lt Col Richard Snowdon is placed on duty with this army and is authorized to join any brigade engaged and opposed to artillery in which event he will be furnished with a detachment of picked riflemen to shoot fused balls into caissons and ammunition wagons.The next order entered into the book is dated June 22 1861 the day after the battle: Beauregard orders Longstreet to detail Lieut John G Meem 17th Regt Va Volunteers to proceed to the front with a strong escort and abundant means of transportation for the purpose of collecting arms munitions subsistance etc abandoned by the enemy...Also on this day Beauregard's Special Orders No. 146 advances his army into the Centerville area:1st Brigade Brig Genl M.L. Bonham at Centerville. 2nd Brigade Brig Genl Ewell at or about Union Mills in advance. 3rd Brigade Genl D.R. Jones at a position on Union and Centerville Road about half way between Braddock's Road and Union Mills ford. 4th Brigade Brig Genl Longstreet at or about the crossing of the Centerville and Union Mill road and the Braddock road. 5th Brigade Genl Cocke at or about suspension bridge over Cub Run. 6th Brigade Col Early in a position on Bull Run one mile above Stone Bridge. Evans command at or about Stone Bridge except Hunter's Regt Va Vols which will remain at these Hd Qrs for present...On July 24 1861 Beauregard orders Captain E.P. Alexander to choose from the captured Union artillery 1 large rifled gun two 6 pounder rifled guns and two 12 pounder rifled guns with proper caissons mobile forge and battery wagon and send them to Brigadier General T. H. Holmes.On July 29 in order to absorb the huge numbers of new soldiers Beauregard reorganizes the Army of the Potomac into 8 brigades of 4 regiments each plus artillery and cavalry.The last entry is a request for a Court of Inquiry by Captain F.B. Schaeffer Virginia Volunteers to examine into certain imputations and allegations made against his conduct as a soldier on the 21st July 1861..." ?Schaeffer was rumored to have in a panic ordered his men three times to retreat during the battle.1st Regiment Virginia Infantry (Williams Rifles) ??? ????1st Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Richmond Virginia in May 1861. At the outbreak of the war it had ten companies but in April three were detached. Thus the unit contained seven companies from Richmond and in mid-July a company from Washington D.C. was added. It fought at First Manassas under General Longstreet and in August totaled 570 men. During April 1862 when the regiment was reorganized it contained only six companies. The 1st was assigned to A.P. Hill's Kemper's and W.R. Terry's Brigade Army of Northern Virginia. It was active from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was with Longstreet at Suffolk. Later the unit was involved in the capture of Plymouth the conflicts at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor the Petersburg siege south and north of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost twenty-two percent of the 140 engaged at Second Manassas had 9 wounded at Fredericksburg and had more than half of the 209 at Gettysburg disabled. Its casualties were 12 killed and 25 wounded at Drewry's Bluff 1 killed and 77 wounded at Five Forks and 40 captured at Sayler's Creek. Only 17 surrendered on April 9 1865. The field officers were Colonels Patrick T. Moore F.G. Skinner and Lewis B. Williams; Lieutenant Colonels William H. Fry and Frank H. Langley; and Majors John Dooley William P. Mumford George F. Norton and William H. Palmer.?(National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System) Condition: Front cover detached some leaves clipped or loose.
Brevet Brigadier General James M. Ruggles 1st & 3rd Illinois Cavalry Civil War Archive 69 letters and documents; 1 diary; 2 presidential appointments; Veteran's hat; 2 shoulder straps; and coin purse with 19 coins. 1855-1900. An early and well-connected activist in the antebellum Republican Party and a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln James Ruggles was born in Mansfield Ohio in 1818. Seeking a place in life he apprenticed as a printer and moved to Ogle County Illinois at 19 but went on to study law before finally settling into business in Bath Ill. An antislavery man from early on Ruggles was intensely interested in politics. An admirer of Daniel Webster and an ardent anti-Democrat he was elected to the state senate in 1852 and became a friend and supporter of Lincoln in the elections of 1856 through 1860. With the Civil War erupting he volunteered for service in July 1861 and after some wrangling secured a commission as Major in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry. His distinguished service under arduous conditions at Pea Ridge earned him a promotion to Lt. Col. after which he distinguished himself at Haines Bluff Arkansas Post and the siege of Vicksburg. After mustering out of the service at the expiration of his enlistment on Sept. 5 1864 he was brevetted Brig. Gen. for faithful and meritorious services. The Ruggles collection contains both pre-war political letters and war-time documents providing glimpses into Ruggles' world of power and influence the earliest days of the Republican Party and Ruggles??T relationship with Lincoln and Governor Richard Yates of Illinois. On Jan. 9 1860 for example Yates then a potential candidate for governor wrote Ruggles about whether he should run for office: The opinion is entertained by some friends of mine that I would run better in the center & south and as well in the north as any candidate yet named -- I confess that I feel conscious of some strength once before the people and have rather concluded to be a candidate before the convention unless advised differently by some friends... There is a second ALS from Yates dated Sept. 16 1855; and a printed flier issued under Yates??T name To the Voters of Morgan County May 31 1855 clarifying where he stands on temperance legislation (he was soberly in favor). In these early days the Party faithful were filled with optimism. As the election of 1856 approached William Kellogg (soon to be congressman) advised Ruggles on no count [to] connect yourself with the Filmore movement there is death it in to any man who espouses that faction at this juncture... but added: The Democracy are getting up Filmore Meeting as a last hope. We shall rout them all the true old Whigs will come back and the Pro-Slavery men will go to Buchanan. The Republican State Central Committee sounded almost millenarian: The day for the battle of freedom and freemen is close at hand and if the friends of Lincoln work until the night of the day of the election a triumph is sure and certain. An unscrupulous party is attempting by its imported hordes of traveling voting machines ?to subdue? and over-ride the fair expression of the legal voters of this state... Much more on illegal non-resident voters trying to sway the vote in the state (the letter is fragile separated at the folds and worn but a highly important relic of early Republican Party history). Rounding out the political content are two rare election tickets for the Republican slate headed by Gen. John A. Logan. Ruggles' war-time service is represented by eight fine letters that give a sense of then range of conflicting issues and emotions Ruggles was forced to confront. The earliest is a letter written after the first Battle of Bull Run describing the heroism of the famous 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment: C. Hazlett wrote to Col. James Raguet to inform him that Samuel Raguet had been wounded by buckshot and had been operated on. Saml stood it manfully he is doing very well the shot entered the right side of his neck about 3/4 of an inch below the ear passing by the Jaw Bone without injuring it on around until it struck the bone in the back part of the neck. It made a very deep and severe-looking wound.... We have quite a number of patriotic northern Ladies who have come here as nurses. They are very kind... Saml. walked nearly the whole distance from the Battle to this city [Washington]... he was wounded in the second fire of the Traitors bur remained on the field and fought manfully all day. His sword was broken in the first of the fight. He has a sword that he took from a ?Secesh? cavalry man he held his revolver toward the above named Traitor and he fell Saml. having relieved him of the trouble of doing any more damage... I was on the ground during the whole of the Battle on the look out for my friends... Saml wishes you to tell Wm Wolf that Eugene Wilmer was shot through the head dead on the first fire.... It should not be surprising to find that Ruggles remained a political animal while under arms and the collection includes a fascinating letter from July 1 1862 rallying Ruggles??T support to get Illinois soldiers to defeat Democratic-inspired proposed changes to the Illinois constitution. Other war-date items include three superior letters from Henry G. Thomas an ambitious young officer (apparently a Brevet Colonel) looking to use family influence to advance in the army a printed copy of War Dept. General Order 126 Sept. 6 1862 specifying the composition of regiments in each line of service; half a dozen documents; an undated manuscript signed Maj. John Campbell regarding drafting men; a printed letter of transmittal accompanying Ruggles' Brevet to Brig. General Oct. 6 1866; and an interesting a manuscript circular Jan. 3 1862 declaring Pickets are not to go into houses nor tell Secessionists exactly where they are stationed where they are moved &c. and that they are not to be so careless as to allow persons to ride in among them before they know it... and much more to be learned by green recruits. Of special note are two Confederate items and two relating to some spectacularly poor discipline in the 3rd Illinois Cavalry almost amounting to mutiny. The Confederate pieces include a very rare manuscript oath of allegiance issued for a soldier from Nathan Bedford Forrest??Ts cavalry datelined La Grange Tenn. and reading in part I George H. Bennett a citizen of Fayette Co. Tenn. and conscript soldier of Forrest??Ts command having returned to my home where I wish to remain and take no farther part in the Rebellion... (marked duplicate at bottom left of document). Joining this is a particularly handsome and large printed Confederate States Loan certificate for $1 000 (very good condition and finely printed) issued Aug. 20 1862 slated to come due in July 1874. No warranties are made for exchange. The Ruggles' command was no Shangri-la appears in four documents beginning with a manuscript transcript of charges and specifications leveled against officers in the 3rd. The first a 7pp cites Captain Charles Dunbaugh for cowardice among many other things. The incidents detailed include Dunbaugh running away to the rear of the Battalion after a picket was fired upon leaving shamefully abandoning his post as commander of the company to which he did not return until some time after firing commenced); breaking down in tears when separated from his son and cried and bellowed shamefully saying ?My Georgy is lost ? ??" ?we are I an enemy??Ts country? ??" ?it will kill his mother?...; and shameful behavior at the Battle of Pea Ridge where he was so much under the influence of fear from the fire of the enemy that he repeatedly called upon the commander of the Battalion to move the command out of the range of the enemy??Ts guns... The charges go on to include malingering with an allegedly injured foot neglect of duty conspiracy and disrespect against his superiors drunkenness conduct unbecoming (falsely reporting himself wounded visiting a house of ill fame occupied by degraded and abandoned prostitutes repeatedly) and more. As might be expected the list of witnesses to the charges is nearly a page long (and a long page at that). As if that were not enough paired with Dunbaugh??Ts charges are charges against Capt. James Nichols for violating military orders and discipline leaving his command without authority in Nov. 1861 going AWOL insubordination conspiring with Dunbaugh to undercut Ruggles??T authority and conduct unbecoming an officer. Perhaps as evidence the collection also includes a fascinating letter written to send to Gen. Siegel but apparently not sent relating to an expedition under Dunbaugh that tore down a secession flag at a court house near Springfield Mo. that was appropriated by the Major in charge and not returned to the men who took it down. More ill discipline is documented in a letter from Col. L.F. McCrillis Jan. 30 1863 citing Capt. R.H. Carnahan for disrespectful and insolent language used while attempting to tender his resignation for want of confidence in his Colonel and Lt. Colonel and then corruptly and feloniously abstracting the paper from its proper place and requesting his dismissal from the service. Notably the dockets on the verso include signatures of Gen. John A. McClernand and U.S. Grant. Finally among the gems in the collection is a noteworthy closely-written 7pp detailed Historical Memoranda of the 3d Ills. Cav. Vols. possibly written by Capt. A.B. Kirkbride of the regiment in about 1864 describing the regiment's formation and service its battle record but also the controversies over its officers and political machinations. It ends Notwithstanding these efforts to break up and destroy the Regiment by intermeddling and malicious officers the remaining 83 men of the 3d Ill. Cavalry are as brave patriotic and well-disciplined men as are in the service and will again make their marks upon the enemy when opportunity affords. The lot also includes the following: 1860 newspaper clipping outlining delegates that attended the Republican Convention in Illinois making reference to J.M. Ruggles a Secretary at the Convention; two Presidential Appointments for Ruggles both for the rank of Colonel by Brevet one dated 3 July 1866 the other dated 3 August 1866. Each with Andrew Jackson??Ts stamped signature; Society of the Army of the Tennessee certificate recognizing Brvt. Brig. Genl. J.M. Ruggles as a member dated 15 October 1874 signed by President W. T. Sherman; Civil War veteran??Ts hat with braided cord with acorn drop and wreath and star insignia; Colonel??Ts and Lieutenant Colonel??Ts shoulder straps; and small coin purse containing 19 19th and early 20th century coins. With its balance of pre-war politics and wartime dramatics the Ruggles collection offers a marvelous opportunity for research into the personalities and events of a critical period in American history centered on an individual in the inner circles of power. Condition: Good condition throughout with expected signs of wear and age.
LARGE LOT OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ANDPHOTOGRAPHS, RELATING PRIMARILY TO THE CIVIL WAR. 7 BINDERS, WITH MILITARY DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, CDVS, CUT SIGNATURES, LETTERS. TO INCLUDE: ALBUM 1 INCLUDING SIGNATURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUCH FIGURES AS: AMBROSE BURNSIDE (CDV BY I. G. STEIGER, NEW HAVEN, CT), GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER, DARIUS N. COUCH (E & H. T. ANTHONY, NY, FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVES BY MATTHEW BRADY), PETER J. OSTERHAUS ( E & H. T. ANTHONY, NY, FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), FRITZ JOHN PORTER (ANTHONY, NY, FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), JOSEPH HOOKER (C. G. HILL, 94 MARKET ST, LYNN), NATHANIEL BANKS. ALBUM 2 CONTAINS 2 UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER CDV PORTRAITS, SOLDIER’S LETTER HOME FROM CAMP FRANKLIN, TWO CONFEDERATE BANK NOTES ($1 AND $5), UNKNOWN CUT SIGNATURE. ALBUM 3 INCLUDES CUT SIGNATURES FROM DAVID HUNTER, JAMES WILSON, DANIEL SICKLES, HENRY TERRY, GEORGE MCCLELLAN, NELSON MILES, CHARLES SIGSBY, AND OTHERS. ANOTHER ALBUM INCLUDES CUT SIGNATURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAVID STANLEY (ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), IRVIN MCDOWELL, RAPHAEL SEMMES (ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), GEORGE MEADE, WILLIAM ROSENCRANTZ (ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), JAMES B. STEADMAN (ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), A PHOTOGRAPH OF WINFIELD SCOTT, JOHN DIX, DON CARLOS BUELL, GEORGE WEBB MORRELL (ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVES), JOHN BUFORD, THEODORE WINTHROP (CDV BY DAVIS BROS., PORTSMOUTH, NH), DOCUMENT “THE GENERAL ORDERS ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL EDWIN SUMNER", CDV OF EDWIN VOSE SUMNER (C. D. FREDERICKS AND CO., NY, HAVANA, PARIS), 1862 ORDER GIVEN BY GENERAL EDWIN VOSE SUMNER IN FALMOUTH, VA NOV 24, CDV HENRY HALLECK, OTHER SMALL PORTRAIT PRINTS. ALBUM 4 INCLUDES 1861 NAVAL ASYLUM IN PHILADELPHIA RECIPE, UNITED STATES ENLISTMENT OF NELSON WEST AT FORT SMITH, AK OCT 1863 JOINING THE US COLORED TROOP VOLUNTEERS, 1864 PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN REPORT DEVELOPED BY GEORGE MCCLELLAN AND PUBLISHED BY J. G. BARNARD, A 2 PAGE GENERAL ORDERS CONCERNING COURT MARTIALS AND COURT MARTIALS OF SURGEONS 1864, A LETTER FROM BRIGADIER GENERAL SILAS CASEY’S HEADQUARTERS IN VA AFTER THE 7 PINES BATTLE (MENTIONS BRIG. GEN CANDY), A JUNE 8 1863 RECEIPT TO PURCHASE HORSES FOR THE 41ST OHIO VOLUNTEER REGIMENT JUST PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN, 2 LETTERS FROM GENERAL WILLIAM FRANCIS BARTLETT DATED OCT 24, 1863 AND NOV 3, 1863 (DESCRIBE THE FORMATION OF THE 57TH MA INFANTRY, AND THE INFANTRY OFFICER’S COMMISSIONS), A SPECIAL ORDER DATED OCT 27, 1863 ALLOWING ROBERT NORDABY OF NORTH ADAMS TO RECRUIT FOR THE FORMATION OF THE 57TH MA INFANTRY, A CONFEDERATE LETTER FROM JUNE 1862 FROM THE ABERNATHY FAMILY LOCATED IN CALDWELL COUNTY, NC, A 1862 LETTER FROM A UNION SOLDIER TO HIS BROTHER IN WOOLWICH, ME (THE SOLDIER WAS STATION AT CAMP WILLIAMS NEAR FT. MUNROE, VA. WRITTEN BY STEVEN DODGE TO HIS BROTHER GEORGE), A WAR OF 1812 DOCUMENT (SHIP OWNERS INSTRUCTIONS FOR A SHIP SEIZED BY THE BRITISH IN BERMUDA. THE LETTER IS TO CAPTAIN T. T. MORTEN OF THE SHIP SYMMETRY OF NY, DATED AUGUST 12, 1812, SIGNED BY J. WOODHAM. THE SYMMETRY WAS BEING DETAINED BY BRITISH CRUISERS, AND WOODHAM FELT THAT A PRIZE CREW SHOULD BE PUT ONBOARD THE SHIP AND SENT TO ENGLAND.), A LETTER DATED MAY 1772 WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SCAMMELL TO HIS BROTHER SAMUEL WRITTEN IN PORTSMOUTH, NH AND SENT TO HIS BROTHER IN MENDON, MA (ALEXANDER SCAMMEL WAS A BRIGADIER GENERAL IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN IN 1781. COMES WITH A TYPED TRANSCRIPTION). ALBUM 5 CONTAINS CDV PHOTOGRAPHS OF: AUGUST KAUTZ (HOAG AND QUICK’S ART PALACE, CINCINNATI, OH), JOSEPH REYNOLDS (A. S. MORSE, NASHVILLE, TN), NEWTON CURTIS (E. & H. T. ANTHONY, NY FROM MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVE), FRANCIS BARLOW (ANTHONY, AFTER BRADY NEGATIVE), JOHN C. ROBINSON, FREDERICK LANDER (ANTHONY, AFTER MATTHEW BRADY NEGATIVE), EDWARD MCCOOK (ANTHONY, AFTER BRADY), ROBERT C. SCHENCK, OLIVER O. HOWARD (CHARLES H. TABER, NEW BEDFORD), PHILLIP SHERIDAN (H. BALL, WALPOLE, NH). ALBUM 6 INCLUDES SIGNATURES AND LETTERS BY DAVID HUNTER, JAMES WILSON, DANIEL SICKLES, HENRY TERRY, GEORGE MCCLELLAN, NELSON MILES, CHARLES SIGSBY, AND OTHERS. ALBUM 7 INCLUDES TWO CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS BELIEVES TO BE MAINE REGIMENT ENCAMPMENT, ALONG WITH SEVERAL PRINTS OF GENERALS.
Attributed to Samuel H. Dearborn (American, 1786-1852)
Circa 1810
Portraits of Elizabeth Breckinridge Meredith and Mr. James Breckinridge
watercolor on paper
each signed Dearborn delin
Sight of larger 5 3/8 x 4 inches.
Sight of smaller 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches.
Elizabeth Meredith was born in 1766 and died in 1838. Her husband, Major Samuel Meredith III lived from 1765-1825. Both passed away in Fayette County, Kentucky. Elizabeth's brother James (1763-1833) and his wife, Ann Seldon (1770-1843), had seven children including a son, James, who lived from 1801 to 1823. There is no evidence that James lived outside of Virginia and in any case would have been younger than the sitter when this portrait was made. It is likely another member of the Meredith family. Elizabeth and Samuel's daughter, Letitia (1790-1868), and her husband Major William S. Dallam, are the subjects of another pair of portraits by Dearborn in MESDA's collection.
Samuel Dearborn began his career in Boston, but eventually moved west, working in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky as one of the earliest portraitists working west of the Appalachian mountains. He was working in the Lexington and Frankfort area roughly between 1809 and 1811 when he was forced to flee after killing a fellow boarder at his residence.
Property from the Collection of Dr. James Dawson, Manchester, Kentucky
Holy Bible - Alexander Ogstoun, bookbinder
The Holy Bible. Edinburgh: Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1678. Large 8vo [230 x 160mm.], double column; bound with The Psalms of David. Edinburgh: Andrew Anderson, 1676. Contemporary onlaid binding by Alexander Ogstoun with interlacking ribbon/strap work with intricate gilt decoration, spine with 7 raised bands, ornate gilt decorated compartments with lozenge shaped onlays, gilt edges with gauffered pattern on top and bottom edges, fore-edge painting with a floral motif (now dulled) and a central motto "A.C. Many daughters have done well, you excellist them all" (Prov 31:29), the painting signed by the binder "A. Ogstoun" and dated "fecit 1678", inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, black leather presentation label to verso of the front board: "Agnes Campbel 1679", light foxing to outer margin of title, very slight strengthening to extreme tip of lower corner of first few leaves, expertly rebacked retaining original spine, corners neatly repaired
Note:
Alexander Ogstoun [or Ogston], Edinburgh bookbinder and stationer, became a Burgess and Guild Brother on 13 February 1680 'being well commended by H.M. Advocate and many of the College of Justice, and likely also to be useful to the good toun' . In 1683 Alexander Ogstoun and George Mosman were employed in binding books for the newly formed library of the Faculty of Advocates. In the accounts for the 14th of February appears the entry 'By money peyed to Alexr Oigstoun bookbinder for binding ane parcell of the ffaculties books as per accompt order and receipt 0200.16.0' Faculty Records 40, folio A3. The National Library of Scotland has two volumes bound by Ogstoun: The Holy Bible. London: Robert Barker, 1603. (bound with The psalms of David in meeter.
Edinburgh: printed by Andrew Anderson, 1676). [Shelfmark: Bdg.s.108
Ref. 00002665] and The Holy Bible. Edinburgh: heir of Andrew Anderson, 1678. (bound with the Psalms of David in meeter. Edinburgh: printed by Andrew Anderson, 1676) [Shelfmark: F.5.f.13. Ref. 00002662].
In 1688 Ogstoun was threatened for selling anti-popish books, and in the same year Agnes Campbell [Mrs Anderson] seized some octavo Bibles he had imported from London (Fountainhall ii,852,866). He died in 1690, was buried at the North side of Greyfriars Churchyard on 29 March, and was succeeded in the business by his widow. Two of his four children Alexander and James seem also to have been bookbinders. His name also appears in the imprints of seven books between 1685 and 1688.
Aldis 1904; Mirjam M. Foot. 'A binding by Alexander Ogstoun, c.1689' (English and Foreign Bookbindings 31). The Book Collector xxix, 255-7 (1980). H.M. Nixon Broxbourne Library, styles and designs of bookbindings. London, 1956 163-65. John Morris. 'Wheels and Herringbones: some Scottish bindings 1678-1773'. Bookbinder i,39-49 (1987);
Provenance: Agnes Campbel, 1679 [gilt label]; Presentation inscription from Alice Lindesay to Mrs Forbes: "I give this Bible to Mrs Forbes, as a token of her worthy cousines love for Mrs Forbes, Craill, Sept. 17th 1804. Alice Lindesay. It was the Bishop of Aberdeen's Lady's Bible"; Miss Peggy Hallyburton, Wormington, 10 Dec. 1782. An early twentieth-century note states "This Bible, known for generations as "Peggy Halyburton's Bible" really belonged to her mother Agnes Campbell of Keithock, known as the Dowager Lady of Pitcur. She was born in 1626, and was the great grand-daughter of Donald, the last Abbot of Cupar, who was the son of Archibald, 2nd Earl of Argyll, killed at Flodden. She married (1) Halyburton of Pitcur, by whom she had two sons. The elder, the Baron of Pitcur, was killed at the Battle of Killiecrankie. She married (2) Halyburton of Denhead, Bishop of Aberdeen, her first husband's kinsman. At her death the Bible passed to her daughter Margaret, who married Lindsay, the Baron of Wormistoun. It remained in the family of Wormistoun till it was given to Mrs Forbes of Westfied by her cousin in 1804".
Hodges Soileau (B. 1943) "Chief Little Crow": Hodges Soileau (American, B. 1943) "Pontiac" Signed lower middle. Original Mixed Media painting on Paper. . . Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. . This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Fleetwood Little Crow Commemorative Cover Postmarked February 18, 1982. . . Little Crow was chief of the Mdewakanton tribe of Santee Sioux. Early in his career, a drunken brother wounded him severely in both arms, permanently crippling Little Crow's hands. By the mid-1800's Little Crow's leadership was recognized by most of the Sioux who lived in the valleys of the Minnesota and upper Mississippi Rivers. To keep the peace and make room for white settlers eager for Sioux land, he reluctantly joined with other chiefs in signing a treaty with the U. S. on August 5, 1851. The treaty ceded millions of acres for formation of the State of Minnesota, leaving the Santee Sioux with a reservation along both sides of the Minnesota River and a promise from the government to pay them annuities for fifty years. A delay in payment combined with a crop failure in 1862 led to a sudden outbreak of violence by four hungry Sioux. Little Crow warned his people that war would be disastrous, yet the next morning he led the warriors in an attack upon Fort Ridgely, and the bloody Sioux War of 1862 was underway. From the beginning, Little Crow condemned indiscriminate killing of settlers, and after he was wounded he strongly opposed the assault upon New Ulm. As he had earlier predicted, General H. H. Sibley defeated his warriors at Wood Lake on September 23, and the chief and many of his followers fled westward or to Canada. In June 1863, when Little Crow returned with his son to his beloved Minnesota Big Woods, he was killed and his son was captured by two revengeful settlers. . . Image Size: 15. 25 x 13 in. . Overall Size: 19. 5 x 17. 5 in. . Unframed. . (B07233) Condition . - By registering to bid for this auction either in-house or online and/or placing a bid in this auction the BIDDER/BUYER agrees to all the terms and conditions of Helmuth Stone Gallery Auctions. . - All silver, gold and/or jewelry lots or invoices containing said lots MUST be paid for via WIRE TRANSFER, no other forms of payment will be accepted. . - All items are sold as-is where-is and no guarantees are made of any kind. All sales are final; no refunds will be given under any circumstances. . - Helmuth Stone Gallery provides condition reports as a courtesy to our clients and assumes no liability for any error or omission. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Descriptions are our opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, mater. The bidder assumes responsibility for ensuring that the condition of the item(s) meets with their satisfaction prior to bidding. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. . - Online images can sometimes be low quality due to the uploading process, original high-resolution images can be requested via email at HelmuthStone@gmail. com . - We recommend looking into shipping quotes prior to bidding, shipping quotes can take up to a week or more post-sale as we host our auctions through multiple online platforms and shipping can become backlogged, if you would like a list of local shippers please email us directly. . - Our auction catalogs are hosted through multiple online platforms along with phone and in-house bidding. Bids placed on other platforms are not shown through this catalog. Because of this, even if it appears you are the only absentee bid or bidder on a lot, you may already be outbid or may have placed a bid equal to another bidder. Therefore, we always recommend bidding live. . - Unless otherwise stated in the description, all items are sold without additional documentation or COAs. If any supporting documentation is available an image will be available online via the catalog listing.
James Cook CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD MADE IN HM BARK ENDEAVOUR 1893 First Edition Antique Exploration Plates Fold Title: Captain Cook's Journal during His First Voyage round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71: A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. With Notes and IntroductionAuthor: James Cook - Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions.Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which was to influence his successors well into the 20th century and numerous memorials worldwide have been dedicated to him. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia)Publisher: Elliot StockCity: LondonYear: 1893Printing Information: First EditionBinding Style: HardcoverPagination: lvi/400 pagesWidth: 8.5" Height: 11"Book Details: Condition / Notes: This antique volume is bound in green cloth over beveled boards, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine. A facsimile of James Cook's signature is stamped in gold on the front cover. The book shows a black stain to the mid-section of the spine and the lower half of the front cover. The binding is sound. A library card pocket is attached to the front pastedown. The lightly age-toned pages are partially uncut. This work is illustrated with a frontispiece, four plates and three well-preserved fold-out maps. A fourth map, entitled "Modern Chart of the South Ocean," facing page 32, has separated at its mid-section. There are in addition three folding maps in a pocket at the rear of the volume. One of these maps, "East Australian Coast Lane," has three small perforations along one vertical fold. A second has very small tears at the fold junctions, and a small ink spot in the upper right quadrant. All pages are present.For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $7.50
Assorted Signatures, Many Civil War Related: over 50 pieces, Robert Toombs, cut signature; Samuel Cooper, Richmond Adjunct Inspector General, cut signature; Wilson Lumpkin, 1822 Morgan County Georgia land deed with Aaron Formby; Thomas Mifflin, Pennsylvania Governor, land deed; John H. Lumpkin, signed letter; John Brown Gordon, letter on Senate letterhead; Lt. General John Pemberton (lost at Vicksburg), cut signature; Howell Cobb, Athens, Georgia, cut signature; William Rosecrans, cut signature; George McClellan, cut signature; Richard S. Ewell, Carlisle Barracks log, signed; Edmund Ruffin, letter; W. J. Bush, Georgia's last Confederate, signature; Gideon Welles, signature; Albert Pike, letter; Alexander Stephens, cut signature; Major General Arnold Elzey, cut signature; poet Henry Longfellow, 1877 dated signature; Dabney H. Maury, Virginia, signature; Alfred H. Colquitt, Georgia Senator, cut signature; John Tyler Morgan, signed letter; Philip H. Sheridan, Union General, cut signature; Felix Robertson, CSA General, letter; G. W. Custis Lee (son of Robert E. Lee), signature; Capt. John Adams, 1st Dragoons, Tennessee, cut signature; Daniel Sickles, signed check; 1853 dated receipt, W. E. Jones; Lew Wallace, signed notation; Barton, Stanard & Rogers letterhead with note; Robert E. Rodes, cut signature; Texas land grant to railroad company, signed by Governor L. S. Ross; Robert Toombs, letter; James Patton Anderson, signed notation; Thomas Green, Virginia, cut signature; Major W. H. Brawley note on James Simons letterhead; Richard Coke and Samuel Bell Maxey, both Texas, signed on same card; John McCausland, CSA General, signature; Mortimer D. Leggett, letter; Josiah Gorgas, CSA General, signature; Samuel Barron, Naval Commander, Norfolk, signature; David Twiggs, cut letter; Lafayette McLaws, letter to Belmont Perry; W. E. "Grumble" Jones (killed in action, Piedmont, Virginia), cut signature; Wade Hampton, South Carolina, cut signature; Francis M. Cockrell, signature on Senate letterhead; Joseph E. Johnston, signature; Johnson Hagood, signed document; George P. Harrison, letter on Georgia railway letterhead; Milledge Luke Bonham, cut signature; Alexander Welch Reynolds, cut signature, some indecyperable signatures, housed in single binderNote: Many were purchased from reputable dealers in antiquities and some receipts are provided. ˜Provenance: Private Collection, Newnan, Georgia Note: Many were purchased from reputable dealers in antiquities and some receipts are provided. ˜ Condition condition varies for each included object, some foxing, fading, creasing, and additional losses, personal inspection recommended to appreciate scope of collection
CIVIL WAR ERA GROUPING OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND MILITARY MANUALS. CIVIL WAR ERA GROUPING OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND MILITARY MANUALS.Included in this grouping is a nice 1862 dated military manual by D. H. MahanTreatise on Field Fortification, complete with fold-out plates and 172 pages. Another early manual on field fortifications is dated 1801 published by the British War Office,Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces. 104 pages with one folding plate. Rest of this grouping consists of 7 hard images of solider's including one 6th plate of two armed soldiers; one exhibiting 2 pistols and the other a Bowie knife and a pistol, both wearing tall boots. There are 2 copy tintypes of Jefferson Davis in a gem sized case and General Custer in a CDV format. A CDV album with 26 photos of the Tribe Family. Included are 4 brothers: William, Pearson, James and John. A quick search of a Civil War database shows Pierson H. Tribe as enlisting at Owego, NY in the 64th New York in 1861. William Tribe also enlisting in 1861 in the 64th New York, killed at the Battle of Fair Oaks, June 1, 1861. John Tribe, also enlisted at Owego, New York in 1861 in the 5th New York Cavalry. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for action on August 25, 1862 at Waterloo Bridge, VA. William and Pierson are shown in uniform; John and James are in civilian dress. CONDITION: Both manuals are in good condition as far as text and completeness, but both have defects to covers. Spine chipping and loose front board on British. Images are all average "as found". One case is missing top and two cases have loose tops. CDV album is "as found". No images were removed and there are ink inscriptions under all images, identifying them. Interesting album starting with family matriarch, all the way to grandchildren and at least 3 Civil War soldiers. 52222-18
Attributed to Sir William Beechey (British, 1753-1839), “An Important ‘Grand Manner’ Portrait of Louisa Pleydell-Bouverie as a Young Gardener, in the Park of Longford Castle, Wiltshire,” c. 1820, oil on canvas, possibly signed with initial “B” at bottom right edge (?), and bearing late 19th c. inscription at lower left, “Louisa Pleydell-Bouverie / m[arrie]d. Hon. Samuel Hay, R.N. / b. 1811, d. 1898”, 50 in. x 40 in., in a modern frame. $5000/7000 Provenance: A handwritten note by the sitter was attached to the reverse of the frame and read: “Cliffe Hall, Market Lavington [Wiltshire] Dec. 18, 1893, I wish my cousin Henry H. Pleydell-Bouverie of “Brymore [House, Bridgwater] Somerset to have this picture at my death-Louisa Hay.” Note: This captivating and very noble sitter was the granddaughter of Jacob, Baron Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828), as well as daughter of the latter’s younger son Admiral Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, and his wife Louisa May; her cousin Jane became one of Queen Victoria’s bridesmaids. A dozen years after this splendid portrait was painted, the sitter married the equally eminent Hon. Samuel Carr Hay, son of William Carr Hay, 15th Earl of Errol (1772-1819), and the latter’s second wife Alicia, daughter of Samuel Elliot, Esq., of Antigua. Young Samuel (at about the time of this portrait) had entered the Naval profession of his uncle, the Hon. James Carr Hay, R.N., who had drowned while on active duty in 1792 (Samuel’s own eldest brother James, Lord Hay, having himself been killed at the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815). In 1820 Samuel’s second brother, William George (by then 16th Earl of Errol) married one of the natural daughters of King William IV, Elizabeth Fitzclarence. It might possibly have been through such exalted connections with the royal family (since the sitter’s father, the admiral, would probably have known his future son-in law from Samuel’s first days in the Navy) which may have inspired this metropolitan portrait, a work very likely to have been commissioned by Louisa’s grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Radnor, as witnessed by the beautiful landscape view of their ancient seat, Longford Castle, appearing in this portrait’s background, as an understated reminder of the antiquity and illustriousness of Louisa’s lineage. Even without the faint “B” partially visible on the bottom right edge of the image, or the “B, W” inscribed on the reverse of the lower stretcher bar, this painting is clearly a characteristic and representative work by the court painter to King George IV, Sir William Beechey (who appears rarely, as a rule, to have signed even his most important canvases). Its nearly exact counterpart, and earlier prototype, is Beechey’s very similar portrait of “Master William Gosling Playing A Drum”, that the artist presented as no. 536 in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1800 (and which was held until recently in the collection of the artist Carl Marr at the West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, WI).
Guts in the Snow Hopi Kachina "Sikyachantaka", William James: Guts in the Snow, "Sikyachantaka" by William James. Dimensions (overall): 9. 5"h. Provenance: Purchased on Ebay from Ed Mashall Jewelers, Scottsdale, AZ $48. 07/10/12. Ì_ Hand carved, hand painted. Decorated with yarn, leather and string. artist signature and title on underside of base. The name, Sikyachantaka, translates as, "Holding entrails in the mouth. " It refers to the legend of a famine in the Hopi land in which a man killed his cow and fed the hungry Kachinas. Ì_ Processing and shipping within the continental U. S. $29. 99 plus 1. 5% replacement cost insurance. Reduced shipping charges for multiple purchases. Free shipping for invoices over $1000. 00. Please note we do not accept credit cards. Condition Bow repaired. Some wear on head feathers. Ê Witherells strives to provide as much information and photographs as possible but encourages in-person inspection by bidders. Condition statements are only for general guidance and should not be relied upon as complete statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty or assumption of liability by Witherells. All lots are sold "AS IS" under the Terms & Conditions. Ê
A LATE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR ERA MAP, "Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico, Revised Edition, " JOHN DISTURNELL, NEW YORK, 1848-1850, : A LATE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR ERA MAP, "Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico, Revised Edition, " JOHN DISTURNELL, NEW YORK, 1848-1850, hand colored copper plate engraving on paper, the Gulf of Mexico with four inset maps, "Map Showing the Battlegrounds of (Palo Alto) the 8th and 9th, May 1846, by J. H. Eaton, " "Plan of Monterrey and its Environs, " "Chart of the Bay of Veracruz, " and "Tampico and its Environs, " at far right, "Diagram of the Battleground (of Buena Vista) February 22nd and 23rd 1847, " in the lower left, "Table de Distancias. , " "Tabla Estadistica. , " and "Carta de los Caminos & Desde Vera Cruz Y Alvarado a Méjico, " accompanied by two profiles of the routes ". between Mexico and Veracruz, " and ". between Mexico and Acapulco, " the upper right with engraving of Mexican eagle with snake in its beak, perched on cactus with names of Mexican states lettered on pads, above a bow and arrow; the hand coloring ordered as follows: Green-Spanish Boundary 1786, Blue-Boundary Proposed by Mexican Commissioners, Yellow-Boundary Claimed by the United States, " with quotation, "Prior to the Revolution Texas and Coahuila were united to form one of the Federal States of the Mexican Republic, " Red- Route of Gen. Taylor in south Texas and north Mexico, and Gen. Kearny's Route in the north tracking his "March of the 1st Dragoons" from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Pink-Boundary Proposed by Mr. Trist U. S. Commissioner, presented with a gilt embossed green cloth cover board, "Map of the Republic of Mexico, Published by J. Disturnell, New York. " 30" x 42" Note: The particular map noted for numerous editions with notable mistakes; this map is a rare example of a map that both has gross inaccuracies and served as an important tool for the United States and Mexican governments during land disputes and negotiations at the end of the Mexican American War. The present map includes detailed hand-drawn routes and boundaries that formed the face of the modern American landscape. The red route indicated in the Southern Texas/Northern Mexico area tracks future President Zachary Taylor's military expeditions during the Mexican-American War. "In the summer of 1845, Taylor, now sixty years old and stationed again at Fort Jesup, was ordered by the Polk administration to defend the recently annexed Texas republic. Commanding what would now be called the "Army of Occupation, " Taylor moved his troops to Corpus Christi, at the mouth of the Nueces River, where he awaited reinforcements. By March 1846, with an army that now numbered 4, 000, he moved further south, to the Rio Grande. When Mexican troops attacked U. S. forces in late April, President James K. Polk used the attack to ask Congress for a declaration of war. On May 18, though heavily outnumbered, Taylor defeated Mexican forces at Palo Alto; the following day he engaged the Mexican army again at Resaca de la Palma, driving it back to Matamoros. With the United States and Mexico now at war, Taylor established a base of operations at Camargo, on the Rio Grande, while he awaited reinforcements from the War Department, which had issued a call for volunteers. In September 1846, his army now numbering 6, 500, Taylor marched south to lay siege to Monterey, Mexico's largest northern city, which was garrisoned by the 5, 000-man Army of the North, commanded by General Pedro Ampudia. After three days of fighting, Taylor took the city, signing an eight-week armistice with Ampudia, who was allowed to withdraw. The news of the victory was offset in Washington by President Polk's belief that Taylor had missed an opportunity to end the war by allowing Ampudia to evacuate the city. The War Department ordered Taylor to terminate the armistice immediately, and pointedly refrained from congratulating the general on his victory. This brought an immediate chill to relations between Taylor and the Polk administration, which was undoubtedly aggravated by reports that the general was being courted by the Whig Party as a possible candidate for the presidency in 1848. The rift between Polk and Taylor became even wider when Washington decided at year's end to open up a new theater of operations in the south, under the command of Winfield Scott. Ordered to assume a defensive position and place a large portion of his army under Scott's command in anticipation of an amphibious landing at Vera Cruz, Taylor refused to be relegated to a secondary role. In defiance of orders from both Scott and the War Department, Taylor pushed south, encountering the Mexican army at Buena Vista, below Saltillo. Taylor's army repulsed several Mexican assaults on February 22 and 23. Although both sides claimed victory, the battle ended in a stalemate. Nonetheless, Taylor's Army of Occupation remained firmly in control of northern Mexico, and the battle was hailed as a great victory by the American press. The Battle of Buena Vista added further luster to Taylor's political fortunes. Known as 'Old Rough and Ready' for his simple manner and modest appearance, Taylor was now the most celebrated hero of the war. Still bristling at his treatment by the Polk administration, Taylor agreed to accept the nomination of the Whig party, despite the fact that he had not been active in politics, nor did he appear to hold particularly strong political convictions. Indeed, Taylor did not share many of the core Whig beliefs, such as support for a protective tariff, the national bank, and internal improvements. Nonetheless, the war hero easily defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, whose support in the North was undercut by the Free Soil party, headed by long-time Democratic standard-bearer Martin Van Buren. " - an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U. S. Mexico War, and with special thanks. The route of General Stephen W. Kearny in the north indicated, also in red in the north, established for the first time the United State's military control of the lands spanning from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas westward to Los Angeles. "The start of the U. S. -Mexico War found Kearny at Fort Leavenworth, where in May 1846 he gathered troops charged with conquering New Mexico and California. Kearny's forces left Fort Leavenworth in June 1846. Numbering 1, 558 men, the "Army of the West" consisted of a battalion of Missouri Volunteers, two companies of regular infantry, five squadrons of the First Dragoons, Doniphan's Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, an interpreter, about fifty Indian guides, and a small body of Army Topographical Engineers. On July 22, the army reached Bent's Fort. Soon afterward, Kearny sent word to New Mexico Governor Manuel Armijo that the Americans intended to take possession of New Mexico. On August 15 the Americans entered Las Vegas, New Mexico, and three days later entered Santa Fe without opposition, Armijo having fled. Promising to respect New Mexican property and religion, Kearny established a legal code for New Mexico and installed Charles Bent, an American trader, as territorial governor. Kearny now received new orders from Washington, promoting him to the rank of brigadier general and instructing him to aid in the conquest of California. As Kearny headed west, resistance to U. S. rule flared in California. As his small force approached San Diego, where it planned to link up with Commodore Robert F. Stockton's marines, Kearny's weary dragoons encountered a force of 150 Californios. At the Battle of San Pascual on December 6, Kearny was seriously wounded and 18 of his men killed. The force was rescued the following day by the timely arrival of a relief column led by Stockton. While the dragoons rested, Stockton prepared to retake Los Angeles. In late December he and Kearny led a joint Army-Navy force of about 600 men out of San Diego. Defeating Mexican and California troops at the battles of Rio San Gabriel and La Mesa, Stockton and Kearny's troops entered Los Angeles. Signing the Treaty of Cahuenga, which ended Californian resistance to U. S. occupation, Stockton turned over military command to Kearny and appointed John C. Fremont governor. "- an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U. S. Mexico War, and with special thanks. Layering each territory boundary by color gives the viewer an instant look at the intense negotiations that took place between Nicholas Trist in pink and the Mexican government in blue. The University of Texas at Arlington writes, "Nicholas P. Trist, the American diplomat who negotiated the treaty that ended the U. S. -Mexico War. Just as he was beginning to enter into negotiations with the provisional Mexican government that had been hastily organized at the town of Querétaro under a new President, Manuel Peña y Peña, Trist received word from Secretary of State James Buchanan that he (Trist) had been recalled by an impatient President Polk. Buchanan's dispatch stated further that if the Mexicans wanted peace, they would have to send an emissary to the United States. Realizing that to abandon his work and leave Mexico at that crucial juncture would almost certainly have negative consequences for both countries, Trist decided to ignore the recall, which General Scott and all three Mexican negotiators, Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, and Miguel Atristain, encouraged him to do. On February 2, 1848, Trist signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on behalf of the United States while Cuevas, Couto, and Atristain signed for Mexico. The treaty's most far-reaching provisions included recognition by Mexico of the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas, the United States government's assumption of $3 million Mexico owed to private U. S. citizens, and Mexico's agreement to sell Upper California and New Mexico, a vast expanse that makes up the present-day states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and part of Colorado, for $15 million. When the treaty reached Washington, Polk was outraged that Trist, who technically had no authority to make an agreement with Mexico on account of his recall, had ignored the President's order. At first, Polk considered discarding the agreement but realizing that all his principal war goals had been accomplished and that the country was in no mood to prolong the conflict, he sent it to the Senate, which ratified the treaty on March 10, 1848. Both houses of the Mexican Congress ratified it on May 19. " -an excerpt from UT Arlington Library's Special Collections, A Continent Divided: The U. S. Mexico War, and with special thanks. Attributed as an eighth edition or later, with special consideration to the appearance of the inset maps in the Gulf of Mexico. This revision containing the inset maps in the Gulf coinciding with the Presidential term of Zachary Taylor and the end of the Mexican-American War. The inset maps celebrate Zachary Taylor's many military achievements. The present map with special hand coloring notes the fundamentally transformative time for the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War, which effectively established the United States of America from coast to coast, fulfilling Manifest Destiny. No longer would the United States boundary ever change or waver as much as this map with hand color indicates it once did. An invaluable and education addition to any American map collection. Dimension Condition Some stains, losses, creases, joined neat line, tears at edges, float mounted with repairs and indrawing, waving, Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS. " NO REFUNDS will be issued based on condition.
Autographed framed photo of a NASA Gemini-Titan rocket written at the top left "To Patrick Ball with warmest personal regards: signed (1) Edward H. White (1930-1967), aboard the Gemini 4 NASA mission became the first American to walk in space (January 27. 1967), selected as senior pilot for the Apollo 1 mission, when in training on January 27, 1967, Edward H. White, along with Virgil Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire erupted in the space capsule; (1) James A. McDivitt (b.1929), commander 1962 Gemini 4, a four day flight orbiting the earth that included the first space walk by an American; Apollo 9 (1969), a 10 day flight preparing for the Apollo 10 moon orbit flight; frame: approx. 10.75"h, 8.75"w, .65lb
James LONGSTREET.Autograph letter signed to Captain Edmund B. Holloway concerning Holloway's travels and the health of his wife. Fort Bliss, [TX]: 1 April [c. 1855-1858]. 3 pp., (202 x 123 mm). Condition: expected folds, else fine. scarce pre-war letter by longstreet, written while a bvt. maj. fighting indians on the texas frontier.Longstreet, a distinguished veteran of the Mexican War, arrived at Fort Bliss in late July 1854 to assume command of Co. I, 8th U.S. Infantry. In January 1855, Longstreet and Holloway led their companies in an operation against the Mescalero Apaches in the Guadalupe Mountains. At times serving as the fort's commander, Longstreet dispatched the expedition against the Gila Indians in 1856. In 1858, Longstreet was transferred, first to Santa Fe, then to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and then on to Albuquerque, New Mexico before reigning his commission at the outbreak of the Civil War to join the Confederate Army. His correspondent, Edmund Holloway, a member of the West Point class of 1843, went on to become a colonel of the 2nd Missouri Infantry in the Confederate Army and was killed in a skirmish in June 1861. Longstreet writes: "I sincerely hope you as much comfort and good weather as God in his mercy may grant. No matter how short your travels may be I would persevere, were I in your place. Mrs. Holloway will surely improve, after two or three days travel and will be able to begin to lengthen your days trip. But don't hurry at first. Stop at San Elizario the third day if Mrs. H. is fatigued, and make your trips as short as may be necessary all the way. If you get to the Limpia in time for the ambulance to get by the 5th or even the 10th it will be time enough. In short do as may be necessary for your wife's comfort, whether it ever gets back. I would that I cold do something for you more than is in my power. But you must go with h[e]arty good wishes…"
Grp: Modern and Contemporary Art Books: Large group of reference books, monographs, and catalogs on modern and contemporary art, including works on major movements such as Futurism and Synchromism, and artists including Zao Wou-Ki, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, and Anselm Kiefer, among many others. Additionally includes works on Eastern European and Latin American art during the period, along with several auction catalogs. A full list of titles included is as follows: three catalogs from Arthur Tooth and Sons Limited; William C. Seitz, "Hans Hofmann"; George W. Staempfli invitation to "Mary Bauermeister" exhibition; Frank O'Hara "New Spanish Painting and Scupture"; an issue of "In the Art World" catalog; catalog from San Jose State University "Holly Lane"; catalog of the University Art Museum, University of California "Lindner"; Marlborough New London Gallery catalog "Ben Nicholson: Twelve New Works June 1967"; catalog of Galerie des Granges "Andre Planson: Oeuvres Recentes (1970-1975); Graham W. J. Beal "Wayne Thiebaud Painting"; an issue of the Arts Club of Chicago "Germaine Richier, January 21-February 19, 1966"; Eine Sammlung "Werner Gilles"; catalog from Centro Cultural San Angel "Mauricio Cervantes: El Codigo de lo Intangible"; resume/promotional material of John Black; Max Bill promotional material; Museum of Modern Art catalog "Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition"; catalog from Marlborough Gallery "William Baziotes: Late Work 1946-1962"; catalog from the Italian Festival - San Francisco April-May 1959 "Italy: Three Directions in Painting and Sculpture of Younger Italian Artists"; catalog from Aquavella Galleries "XIX & XX Century Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, Gouaches, Collages: October 21-November 24, 1982"; catalog from Richard Gray Gallery "Picasso's Picassos: Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture from the Artist's Estate"; catalog from Howard Wise Gallery "Light Ballet"; catalog from Galeria Arte Actual Mexicano "Ricardo Mazal Pinturas"; catalog from Centro Cultural San Angel "Alberto Castro Lenero: La Fragmentacion"; two copies of Frank Gaard's "Terence la Noue"; 2 copies of a catalog from the Arts Club of Chicago, The University Gallery and the Jewish Museum "Pierre Alechinsky"; catalog from the Weintraub Gallery "Henry Moore: Sculpture, Watercolors & Drawings, Graphics, Portfolios"; catalog from Marlborough Gerson Gallery "Arnaldo Pomodoro"; Deborah Wye "Louis Bourgeois"; Allison C. Meier, Kris Kuksi, and Samuel D. Gliner "Colin Christian: Trypophobia"; Time Magazine, "Covers"; a catalog from Staempfli "Minoru Yamasaki: The Architect and his use of Sculpture as an Integral Part of Design"; catalog from the Arts Club of Chicago "Tom Holland"; Peter Selz "15 Polish Painters"; Werner Schmalenbach "The Known and Unknown of Julius Bissier"; "Adrian Berg: Recent Paintings of Gloucester Gate, Regents's Part"; Atherton Curtis and Paul Proute "Adolphe Appian: son Oeuvre Grave et Lithographie"; catalog from Marisa del re Gallery "Diego Giacometti"; Thalia Gouma-Peterson "Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective, 1953-1980"; Ebria Feinblatt and Bruce Davis "Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980"; catalog from La Sociedad Mexicana de Arte Moderno "Alberto Castro Lenero: Castillo Interior"; catalog from the University of California, Los Angeles/Cleveland Museum of Art/Minneapolis Institute of Arts/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Philips Gallery, Washington D. C. /San Francisco Museum of Art "John Marin Memorial Exhibition"; catalog from Chapellier Gallery "Frank Duveneck 1849-1919"; Edward Kienholz "Volksempfangers Nationalgalerie Berlin"; the Connoisseur, January 1963; publication from Galleria Fiamma Vico Frezzeria San Marco "Gaston Orellana Aldo Bresciani"; Robert Rosenblum "The Sculpture of Picasso"; catalog from the Sidney Janis Gallery "The High-Kitsch of Eilshemius at Janis"; catalog from the Sun Valley Art Auction June 29, 1991; catalog from Galerie van de Loo "Alfred Kremer: Seichnungen"; catalog from the Sidney Janis Gallery "New Paintings Sculpture & Drawings by Jim Dine"; Maurice Tuchman "American Sculpture of the Sixties"; catalog from the Ravinia Festival Art Exhibit 1962; Vittore Frattini "Miklos N. Varga: Frammenti Lirici 2"; Beelden Schilderijen Tekeningen Grafisch Werk "Robert Vander Eycken"; catalog from the Chicago Sculpture International May 10-15 1984"; "Edward Lentsch"; catalog from Minnesota Museum of Art "Kollwitz"; catalog from the Art Institute of Chicago "Anselm Kiefer"; catalog from the Marlborough Gallery "Ettore Colla"; catalog from Manny Silverman Gallery "Edward Dugmore Burning Bright: Paintings 1950-1959"; catalog from Wexner Center of the Arts "Will / Power: New Works by Papo Colo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson"; catalog from Staempfli "Fritz Koenig"; catalog from Robert Miller gallery "Robert S. Zakanitch"; Jennifer Licht "Eight Contemporary Artists"; catalog from Stephen Roman + Private Art Dealer "Darcilio Lima 1944-1991"; catalog from Musee d'Art Americain Giverny and Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago "Roxy Paine"; catalog from Robert Fraser Gallery "Peter Blake"; catalog from Grand Central Art Galleries "August Mosca: A Fifty Year Retrospective"; catalog from Marlborough Gallery "Larry Rivers 1970-1973"; catalog from Marlborough Gallery "Isaac Witkin"; Martin Friedman "Adolph Gottlieb"; catalog from Marisa del re Gallery "Baj Fontana Manzoni"; catalog from Howard Wise Gallery "Otto Piene: Elements"; catalog from Lefebre Gallery "Corneille"; catalog from FineArts Printing Services "Johnmarc Edwards"; "Tongabezi: Victoria Falls, Zambia"; 1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts catalog; catalog from BlumHelman gallery "David True--Recent Paintings"; catalog from Marlborough-Gerson Gallery "R. B. Kitaj"; 5 issues of Art in America magazine; William Firebrace "Things Worth Seeing: A Guide to the City of W"; catalog from Curt Valentin Gallery "Lehmbruck and his Contemporaries"; "Karl Hartung"; Katrina Daschner "Killing the Systems Softly"; 8 Walker catalogs; a catalog from Kunstmuseum Luzern; catalog from Felix Landau Gallery "Harry Kramer: Sculptures, Objects and Films"; Rita Caurio "Artexile No Brasil: Viagem pelo Mundo da Tapecaria"; Francisco Goya and Philip Hofer "The Disparates or, The Proverbios"; a catalog from The Art Gallery at Kennesaw State College "Cameroon Art: Selections from the Collection of William Arnett"; 2 issues of Art in America journal; Albert E. Elsen "Modern European Sculpture 1918-1945: Unknown Beings and Other Realities"; a catalog from the Art Institute of Chicago "A Century of Progress : Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1 to November 1 1933"; an issue of Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Art Institute of Chicago publication; Alan G. Wilkinson "The Drawings of Henry Moore"; a catalog of Marlborough Gallery "Grisha Bruskin"; three publications by the Museum of Modern Art; one issue of Paris/New York Arts Yearbook 3"; five issues of Arts International journal; four issues of Art International: The Lugano Review journal; publication/catalog from the Dr. Martyna Miskinis Collection; four issues of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts; catalog of the National Gallery of Jamaica and the Smithsonian Institution exhibition "Jamaican Art: 1922-1982"; a catalog from the Museu de Art Moderna's VII Bienal "Estados Unidos da America" 1963; Gail Levin "Synchromism and American Color Abstraction 1910-1925"; a catalog from Gebr. Douwes Fine Art "Russian Paintings"; catalog from National Collection of Fine Arts "Sao Paulo 9"; two issues of "Alan D'Arcangelo" from Marlborough Gallery; a catalog from Associated American Artists "Lyonel Feininger: Ships and Seas"; Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths "From Manet Toulouse-Lautrec: French Lithographs 1860-1900, catalog of an Exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 1978"; catalog from Walker Art Center "Tyler Graphics: The Extended Image"; a catalog from Hauswedell & Nolte Auction House; Handzeichnungen, "Documenta III, " two copies; Ken Friedman "Fluxus Virus: 1962-1992"; Ann Temkin "Alice Neel"; catalog from Knoedler Contemporary Art "David Smith"; Andre Maisonneuve "Ger Lataster"; catalog from the Edinburgh Festival 1955 "Paul Gauguin: Paintings, Sculpture and Engravings"; catalog from Richard Gray Gallery "Jennifer Bartlett"; catalog from Felix Landau Gallery "First West Coast Exhibition Kinetic Sculpture and Cinematisations by Pol Bury"; Earl S. Braggs "Hat Dancer Blue"; catalog from Lefebre Gallery "Julius Bissier"; "Italian Art: Monographs on Artists" catalog 115; catalog from Dayton's Gallery 12 "Calder"; Andrew Carnduff Ritchie "The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptures"; Frederick A. Sweet "Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt"; catalog from Pamela Auchincloss Gallery "Charles Arnoldi: Recent Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop"; an issue of The Arts Club of Chicago journal May 6 through June 26, 1985; catalog from Bowdoin College Museum of Art "Leonard Baskin"; catalog from Dayton's Gallery 12 and Dwan Gallery "Charles Ross: Prisms"; Walker Arts Center publication "Nicholas Krushenick"; an issue of Sport Equestri journal "La Vita di Caprilli"; three catalogs from Marlborough Gallery; Jean Leymarie "Zao Wou-Ki"; Janis Conner and Joel Rosenkranz "Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939"; catalog from Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam "Anselm Kiefer: Bilter 1986-1980"; Paul Maenz & Gerd de Vries "Anselm Kiefer"; Henrik Cornell "Carl Milles and the Milles Gardens"; catalog from Comune di Milano "Giorgio de Chirico; Jenny Lion "Magnetic North"; catalog from Wexner Center for the Arts "Maya Lin: Public/Private"; Walker Art Center "6 Artists 6 Exhibitions"; Howard Wise Gallery "Lights of Silver by Mack"; catalog from Stadische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, ARC/Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Israel Museum "Anselm Kiefer"; catalog from Marian Goodman Gallery "Anselm Kiefer"; catalog from Walker Art Center "New Art of Argentina"; Museum of Modern Art "Georgio de Chirico"; Kasmin Limited "John Howlin Recent Paintings"; Marlborough-Gerson "Four London Artists: Gordon House, Colin Lanceley, Richard Lin and Joe Tilson"; Marlborough Prints Price List; catalog from the Arts Club of Chicago and University of Minnesota Gallery "Alan Davie"; Marlborough Gallery "Colin Lanceley"; catalog from the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art "Recent Painting USA: The Figure"; Martin Friedman, Graham W. J. Beal, Lisa Lyons "Drawings by Lesak and Rainer"; promotional material from Borgenicht Gallery; catalog from Katonah Museum of Art "Dorothy Dehner: Sixty Years of Art"; two promotional pamphlets from Staempfli; Elizabeth Armstrong and Sheila McGuire "First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists"; catalog from Hapsburg, Feldman Fine Art Auctioneers "Soviet Contemporary Art: The Property of the Kniga Collection, Paris"; Vavara Rodchenko and Aleksandr Lavrentiev "The Rodchenko Family Workshop"; Walker Art Center catalog "Richard Sussman"; catalog from Charles Cowles Gallery "Tom Holland"; catalog for the VII Bienal in Sao Paulo, Brazil "10 American Sculptors: Agostini, Chryssa, Decker, Kipp, Mallary, Schmidt, Segal, Sugarman, Weinrib, Wines"; Barbara J. Bloemink "The Art of Esteban Lisa"; Marlborough Gallery catalog "Contemporary Spanish Realists"; Robert C. Morgan "All the Lost Souls: Lu Zhang's Mirror of Identity"; promotional material for Lefebre Gallery; Walker Art Center "Michelangelo Pistoletto: A Reflected World"; Pierre Alechinsky "Three Pillories: A Key to an Image"; five catalogs from Dre Devens Dutch Constructivist; catalog from the Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, San Francisco Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Toronto "Les Fauves"; catalog from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts "Modern Illustrated Books from the Collection of Louis E. Stern"; Sylvan Cole, Jr and Robert Doty "Will Barnet: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts, Serigraphs 1932-1972 catalog raisonne"; Edith Hoffmann "Kokoschka Life and Work"; Elac Lyon "Mattiacci, Mochetti, Nannucci"; Wladimiro Settimelli and Filippo Zevi "Gli Alinari: Fotografi a Firenze 1852-1920"; William C. Seitz "Mark Tobey"; Kunstforum International "Zwischenbilanz II Neue Deutsche Malerei"; Henry Geldzahler "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970"; Virginia M. Mecklenburg "The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction 1930-1945"; Gert von Osten "Plastik seit 1800 in Deutschland, Osterrich und der Schweiz"; Steven Heller and Louise Fili "Dutch Moderne: Graphic Design from Destijl to Deco"; one Christie's catalog; Joshua C. Taylor "Futurism"; Sotheby's catalog, "The Eye of a Collector: Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger"; journal from the University of Minnesota "Germany in the Twenties: The Artist as a Social Critic"; Bruckmann Munchen "Marino Marini"; Verlag Torsten Brohan "Hans Moller"; Henri Baruk, Andre Neher and Leon Askenazi "Le Livre de Ruth"; catalog from Istituto di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi "La Pittura Metafisica"; catalog from Galerie van de Loo Munchen "Maurice Wuckaert"; Marlborough Gallery "Avigdor Arikha Ink Drawings 1965-1972"; catalog from Weinstein Gallery "Fifteenth Anniversary"; two copies of Malcolm C. Salaman "Fine Prints of the Year: An Annual Review of Contemporary Etchings and Engraving"; catalog from the Pushkin Museum, Moscow "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U. S. S. R. "; catalog from the Far Gallery "Leonard Baskin: The Graphic Work, 1950-1970"; catalog from Editions Limited Gallery "Jurgen Peters"; Martin Friedman and Graham W. J. Beal "George Segal: Sculptures"; Judith Zilczer "'The Noble Buyer: John Quinn Patron of the Avant-Garde"; Luis R. Cancel, Jacinto Quirarte, Marimar Benitez, Nelly Perazzo, Lowery S. Sims, Eva Cockcroft, Felix Angel, and Carla Stellweg "The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970"; catalog from the United Book Guild "Aubrey Beardsley Drawings"; Peter Selz "Emil Nolde"; Kunsthaus Richterswil "Ardyn Halter"; Jean Dubuffet "Dubuffet: 1962-66"; John Richardson "Georges Braque 1882-1963: An American Tribute"; Walker Art Center catalog "Scale and Environment: 10 Sculptors"; Pace Gallery Publications "Dubuffet"; William H. Wilson "Raoul Dufy: A Retrospective"; Publication from R. S. Johnson International, Chicago "Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Master of Graphic Art"; Martin H. Bush and Kenworth Moffett "Goodnough"; David Eugene Smith "Mathematics and Poetry"; catalog from Galerie van de Loo Munchen "Dimitri Hadzi"; Stephanie Barron "German Expressionist Sculpture"; an issue of "Avant-Garde" magazine; Carl de Keyzer "Homo Sovieticus"; catalog from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art "Yigal Ozeri 1994-1997"; Demetrio Paparoni "Stefano Peroli"; two issues of Design Quarterly journal; Robert P. Metzger "Reuben Nakian: Centennial Retrospective 1897-1986"; Schule von Pistoia "Barni Buscioni Ruffi"; publication from Hundert Tage fur Salzburg "Mimmo Paladino"; Minnesota Museum of Art publication "Clara"; James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf "Augustin Pajou: Royal Sculptor 1730-1809"; Albert Scaglione "Laszlo Dus"; Germano Celant "Mario Merz"; catalog from Tubingen-Hamburg-Zurich "Joseph Beus Olfarben 1949-1967"; two copies of Ronald Paulson "Hogarth's Graphic Works: First Complete Edition"; Pierre Courthion "Rouault"; Leon Bellefleur postcards "12 Dessins - Drawings"; "Byelorussian Glassmaker's Art"; catalog from G. di San Lazzaro. SKU: 04011 Follow us on Instagram: @revereauctions Condition Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions. com with any condition questions.
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (AMERICAN 1859-1953): JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (AMERICAN 1859-1953). A Prehistoric Bowl - Excavated Near the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, ca. 1935 . oil on canvas . 101 x 92 cm (39 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. ) . signed lower right; signed and inscribed in the artist's hand on verso: A Prehistoric Bowl — Excavated Near The Pueblo of Zuni, N. Mex. ($500 prize Pasadena Art Inst. 1935). Chest was property of Gov. Bent, 1st Gov. of New Mexico, killed in the battle of Taos in last war of Indians + Gov't Red drapery I bought from the back of a camel (over howda) in Biskra, Africa. -J. H. Sharp. Taos, N. Mex. . . PROVENANCE. Purchased directly from Sharp by Laura Scudder, at whose house in La Habra Heights, California, Sharp used to stay during the 1930s and 40s Mrs. Scudder bought the painting with the blanket (now lost), and was later given the chest by Sharp. Thence by descent to Mark Scudder (1943-2017), Grandson of Laura Scudder. . EXHIBITED. Pasadena Art Insitute, Pasadena, California, 1935. . LOT NOTES. We are grateful to James D. Balestrieri, for writing the following catalogue essay, about this painting. . . Sold together with the pictured chest, as per Sharp's inscription formerly belonging to Governor Charles Bent of New Mexico, chip-carved with hand-wrought iron hasp, dating to the late 18th century, by a Spanish Colonial furniture maker (attributed to the Valdez family of Velarde, New Mexico); overall dimensions: 76 (h) x 155 (w) x 56 cm (29 7/8 x 61 x 22 in. ). . CONDITION. N. B. The canvas is nailed at the perimeter to a backing board. Observed in frame, the work is in overall very good condition. Overall surface dust and dirt; would benefit from a light cleaning. Very light scuffing in places, such as the upper right corner. Inspection under UV light shows miniscule scattered retouching to the upper center (red striations in the drapery). Otherwise, no significant issues to report. The chest with some age-appropriate wear, no structural issues. . . N. B. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale. Please note that any condition statement regarding works of art is given as a courtesy to our clients in order to assist them in assessing the condition. The report is a genuine opinion held by Shapiro Auctions and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report or a photograph does not preclude the absence of defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Shapiro Auctions, LLC. , including its consultants and agents, shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
[Union Soldier Takes Jefferson Davis' Book Given by John Calhoun], Williams, James. The Plan of the Union, and the Structure of its Government, Explained and Defended, Baltimore, Sherwood & Co., 1848, signed by Davis on first flyleaf, and inscribed "from Mr. Calhoun", the pastedown inscribed "Taken fro m Jefferson Davis's library near Jackson, Miss. in July 1863 by Sergt. John A. Tighe, Co. K, 29th Mass. Vols., 9th Army Corps", brown cloth, 7 in. x 4 1/2 in Note: Union Company "K" mustered into service May 22, 1861. On or around July 9th, 1863 they were stationed near Jefferson Davis' house during the seige of Jackson. Sergeant Tighe was killed in battle near Petersburg, VA on June 17, 1864. Ref.: Osborne, William. The History of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry..., Boston, Albert Wright, 1877, pg. 244, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50687/50687-h/50687-h.htm#CHAPTER_XXII
CIVIL WAR PRESENTATION COLT MODEL 1849 POCKET REVOLVER. Cal. 31. SN 204417. Standard pocket model with 4" oct bbl, 2-line Hartford address, 6-shot cylinder with stagecoach hold up scene, blue & case colored, silver plated brass grip frame and 1-piece walnut grips. The back strap is inscribed in period script engraving, "H.W. Langley to Capt Jas. Wilson / 21st O.V.M. Galipolis July 2d 1864". Preliminary research online discloses that James Wilson enlisted on 4-19-1861 as a Captain in Company A, Ohio 21st Infantry Regiment and was mustered out 8-12-1861 with his regiment at Columbus. It appears that Capt. Wilson may have been from the Findlay, Ohio area as that is where his company was mustered into service. They enlisted for a period of three months and were formally organized at Cleveland. On May 23rd they moved to Galipolis, stopping at Columbus for arms and accoutrements where they remained until July 3rd at which time they were ordered to Ravenswood, WV. They fought at nearby Ripley and then returned to Galipolis by steamer. On July 11th they marched to Red House (apparently in Ohio) to reconnoiter the Confederates and fought at Scarey Creek where they had two men killed, two others mortally wounded and others with lesser wounds. Although Capt. Wilson's career was brief, he did see service and combat in the Civil War. CONDITION: Very fine, all matching except the wedge which is numbered "76548", the bbl retains 70-75% thin original blue and the rammer dark case colors. The frame retains 20-25% faded case colors with the balance a medium patina. The hammer retains about 50% dark case colors. A few of the screws are slightly battered with the frame screws retaining generous amounts of original blue. The trigger guard & back strap retain about 80% original silver and the grips about 90% original varnish. The right toe has a replaced chip with both sides showing light edge wear and a long rub on the right side. The cylinder retains traces of original blue and about 90% cylinder scene. Timing needs adjustment, otherwise mechanics are fine. Strong bore with moderate pitting. Hamilton Collection 4-52143 JR817 (4,000-6,000)
THIRTEEN AMERICAN ARMY SIGNATURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS 1) Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker (killed in career) signed 8 x 7 photograph. 2) T.L.S.: Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short (in charge of Pearl Harbor base when it was attacked) dated Oct. 16, 1944 on plain stationery. 3) T.N.S.: George C. Marshall dated December 23, 1944, O., with some paper clip marks. 4) Douglas MacArthur cut signature. 5) T.N.S.: L.R. Groves, octavo, folded. 6) Colored quarto sheet depicting the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force insignia signed in pen Walter Bedell Smith. 7) T.L.S.: James Gavin (Commander 82nd Airborne when deployed after the D-Day landings). 8) George Marshall signed card. 9) T.N.S.: Omar Bradley dated July 19, 1945, octavo. 10) Omar Bradley 5 x 7 photo. 11) T.L.S.: Maxwell D. Taylor with autographed card. 12 & 13) Two Omar N. Bradley signed 12th Army group cards.Lot #36-53, 55-59, 63, and 66 are part of a collection of signed letters, documents and photographs that belonged to the late George Ingham of Pennsylvania, a Boy Scout leader who spent his free time collecting autographs. He wrote to important people requesting a signed photo as well as a note or letter commenting on the importance of the Boy Scout movement in America. He received many positive responses from high-ranking generals, Presidents, politicians and civil leaders. Many wrote in glowing terms of the Boy Scouts’ importance while some wrote nothing at all, but few said anything of a negative nature. Items are mainly from 1930 to 1950, with a few earlier pieces.
Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, Extensive Historical Naval Collection Archive: Autographs. Extensive Historical Naval Collection Archive Devoted To Civil War Hero Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, USN. (TUNIS CRAVEN. - Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven) (1813-1864). U. S. Naval Hero, Officer in the United States Navy, included service in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War, killed in action at the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. Three Ships in the Navy have been named "USS Craven" for him. Extensive and Important Historical Naval Collection Archive, Devoted To Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, USN, a. k. a. Tunis Carven, not signed, Approx. 60 items, overall Very Fine. This large Commemorative Collection of related items includes Five different scarce Photograph images of Tunis Craven including one rare 9" x 7" Mammoth size Albumen Photograph on Card taken by O'Neil, New York, shown in full USN Uniform, some prior mounting traces to the outer backing card edges, plus (4) additional Civil War Era Carte de Visite Photograph portraits on a sheet for display, taken in New York and Cadiz, Spain. All are Choice Very Fine. A comprehensive typed "Royal Ancestry of Eckford Craven Dekay" by Lewis D. Cook Philadelphia dated September 1931, records the family lineage back to "The Emperor Charlemagne"; "Alfred The Great, King of England"; and "William the Conqueror" among other Kings and Royalty! Various original newspaper reports and the Printed Card Invitations on the Launching of the 3rd "USS CRAVEN" come together with numerous Original Photographs of the actual Launching Event and depicts many dignitaries who were present. Numerous original Typed and Handwritten Letters to the family from various service members and the ship's builder are included. Also, an extensive assortment of Craven family members and associates accompany this archive in tribute to Tunis Craven, USN. (Over 60 items). Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven was born in Portsmouth, N. H. , January 11, 1813. He was the youngest son of Tunis Craven, a Naval Storekeeper, stationed at the Portsmouth Yard, and his wife, Hannah Tingey, daughter of Commodore Thomas Tingey, a longtime commandant of the Washington Navy Yard. His brother, Thomas Tingey Craven would also join the navy, rising to the rank of rear admiral, while another brother, Alfred Wingate Craven (1810-1879), became a noted civil engineer. . In his youth he attended the Columbia College Grammar School in New York, his father having removed his family to Brooklyn, when ordered to duty in the New York Yard. February 2, 1829, Craven was appointed an acting midshipman from New York (warranted November 18, 1831), and was attached to the Boston and St. Louis. . Promoted to Passed Midshipman in September 1835, he was on duty in connection with the Coast Survey almost continually until 1843, nearly two years after his promotion to Lieutenant, in September 1841. In 1838 he married Mary Carter, a member of one of the oldest and most influential families on Long Island, who died in 1843, leaving three children. The same year Lieutenant Craven was ordered to the receiving ship at New York, where he remained until ordered to the Dale in May, 1846. In the meantime he had married again and removed from Brooklyn to Bound Brook, New Jersey. His second wife was Marie L. Stevenson, of Baltimore, Maryland, by whom he had three children. Craven served on the Dale during the Mexican-American War with the Pacific Squadron. He was given command of the chartered schooner Libertad in 1847, patrolling the coast of Baja California Sur to intercept Mexican ships trying to bring men and military material to their army in the territory. In the Bombardment of Punta Sombrero, Craven engaged in a gun duel with a shore battery guarding the anchorage of Mulege. . After his return from duty on the Dale he was employed on Coast Survey duty, with the exception of a year (1850) at the Naval Observatory, till 1859. Most of this time he commanded the steamer Corwin, but in October 1857, went in the Varina in command of the Atrato Expedition, which was for the purpose of surveying a route for a proposed ship canal through Isthmus of Darien (now called Panama) by way of the Atrato River. . In 1859 Lieutenant Craven was ordered to the command of the steamer Mohawk, Home Squadron, in which he captured two slavers; in 1860 he saved the crew of the Bella, a foundering Spanish vessel, for which he was given a gold medal and diploma by Queen Isabella II. About the same time the New York Board of Underwriters presented Mrs. Craven with a handsome silver service for efficient services rendered to merchant vessels at sea by her husband. . In 1861 Lieutenant Craven was ordered to command the Crusader, Home Squadron, but was shortly after promoted to Commander and ordered to command the Tuscarora, special service. The Tuscarora went to England with orders to report to the U. S. Minister, Mr. Adams. While in Southampton the Confederate steamer CSS Nashville came in; but upon her leaving, the Tuscarora was unable to follow until the expiration of 24 hours, when, giving up the chase, Commander Craven went to the Mediterranean, where he succeeded in watching the CSS Sumter so closely that her officers and crew finally deserted the ship at Gibraltar. . The Tuscarora was ordered home in 1863, and Commander Craven was detached and ordered to command the Tecumseh, then building at Secor's yard, Jersey City. In the following spring the Tecumseh left New York and joined the squadron of Admiral Lee in the James River. . Shortly after, the Tecumseh was sent to join Admiral Farragut's fleet in the projected attack on Mobile. The position of Commander Craven in the attack, which took place August 5, was at the head of the column of monitors which was on the starboard hand of the wooden vessels between them and Fort Morgan. Admiral Farragut in his reports states:. . "The attacking fleet steamed steadily up the main ship channel, the Tecumseh firing the first shot at forty-seven minutes past six o'clock. At six minutes past seven the fort opened on us, and was replied to by a gun from the USS Brooklyn, and immediately after the action became general. It was soon apparent that there was some difficulty ahead. . The Brooklyn, for some cause which I did not then clearly understand, but which has since been explained by Captain Alden in his report, arrested the advance of the whole fleet, while at the same time the guns of the fort were playing with great effect upon that vessel and the Hartford. A moment after I saw the Tecumseh, struck by a torpedo, disappear almost instantaneously beneath the waves, carrying with her her gallant commander and nearly all her crew. ". . The captain and the pilot were in the conning tower directly over the turret, whence there was no escape save through a narrow opening. Upon reaching this Commander Craven turned to the pilot and said, "You first, sir. " The pilot, John Collins, escaped, and, as he related, the vessel sank under him, carrying her crew of one hundred and sixteen in all, save himself and the few that were able to escape through the port holes. A buoy in Mobile Bay marks the spot where the Tecumseh lies.
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT H.R.S.A., L.L.D. (SCOTTISH 1811-1890) THE BARGE OF THE FAIRY MAB
Inscribed with title and address and 'Government School of Design' on a contemporary label verso, feigned arched top, oil on canvas
61cm x 51cm (24in x 20in)
Provenance: Careston Castle, Brechin, Angus
Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Annual Exhibition, 1845, no.175
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate-stoneOn the fore-finger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiesAthwart men's noses as they lies asleep;Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs,The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,The traces of the smallest spider's web,The collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beams,Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film…
— Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene IV
William Bell Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1811, the son of the engraver Robert Scott (1777-1841) and younger brother of the painter and poet David Scott (1806-1849). He trained in fine art at the Trustees’ Academy, a forerunner of Edinburgh College of Art. In 1837 he moved to London, where he soon developed a connection with a group of painters known as ‘The Clique’ who met to sketch together. ‘The Clique’ was founded by the renowned fairy painter Richard Dadd in the late 1830s, and co-alesced around a rejection of high art and a belief that their work should not conform to academic ideals. Bell Scott formed a friendship with Dadd, and they collaborated on illustrations for Samuel Carter Hall’s ‘Book of British Ballads’ (1842). The group disbanded in 1843 after Dadd was diagnosed insane and institutionalised at Bethlem for killing his father during a psychotic breakdown.
In 1843 Bell Scott was offered the position of Master of the Government School of Design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he would remain for the following twenty years. He nevertheless maintained a relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites in London, and contributed poetry to their journal ‘The Germ’. He was close to William Holman Hunt and, in particular, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose family championed his work.
Bell Scott is best-known for his history paintings. In 1854 he was commissioned to paint a series of works depicting the history of Northumberland for Wallington Hall, the Morpeth home of his most valued patron Lady Trevelyan. Five years later he met Alice Boyd of Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, while she studied in Newcastle. The relationship became close, and from the 1860s Scott lived with Alice Boyd and his wife Letitia in a ménage à trois between Scotland and London until the end of his life. Following her brother’s death in 1865 Alice became the owner of Penkill, and Bell Scott spent several years in the 1860s painting the staircase with a series of frescos illustrating James I’s poem ‘The Kings Quair’.
‘The Barge of the Fairy Mab’ was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1845, and pre-dates Bell Scott’s Pre-Raphaelite associations. The Fairy Queen Mab is glimpsed through lily petals glowing in the moonlight, being transported on a barge formed from lily pads. Her hair falls in flowing golden tresses and she holds a long red wand, which she directs towards a spider spinning silken threads, as her wide eyes gaze upwards towards the web. The Fairy Queen and several of her attendants are unclothed, with a sensuous allure of form that could not have been freely expressed in a traditional Victorian genre or history painting. The intense jewel-like colour draws the eye towards the heart of the composition, as does the detailed rendering of the elf-like creatures, insects, bugs and leaves. Even the delicate threads of the web are beautifully illuminated. The scene is enclosed within leaves and grasses, through which fairies make their way, with bright star-like torches on their heads, past a swan nestled in the background. There is joy, humour and mischief in the rendering of Fairy Queen Mab and her entourage, and it is a delight to glimpse into this fantasy.
Queen Mab is a mischievous yet benevolent figure. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ she is referred to as the fairies’ midwife, who delivers sleepers their innermost fancies in the form of dreams. In Victorian Britain a great fashion for fairy painting co-incided with a resurgence of interest in Shakespearean plays such as ‘The Tempest’ and ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’, in which fairies feature as characters. The popularity of the fairy genre is seen as a reaction to the societal and environmental changes being wrought by industrialisation and the expansion of the suburbs. Viewers sought escapism from the changing world through mystical, spiritual and fantastical scenes and images of the natural world. The fairy genre is rare in Bell Scott’s oeuvre, yet in ‘The Barge of the Fairy Mab’ he has created a charming example of Victorian fairy painting at its best.
WILLIAM BELL SCOTT H.R.S.A., L.L.D. (SCOTTISH 1811-1890)
THE BARGE OF THE FAIRY MAB Inscribed with title and address and 'Government School of Design' on a contemporary label verso, feigned arched top, oil on canvas61cm x 51cm (24in x 20in)Provenance: Careston Castle, Brechin, AngusExhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Annual Exhibition, 1845, no.175O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate-stoneOn the fore-finger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiesAthwart men's noses as they lies asleep;Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs,The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,The traces of the smallest spider's web,The collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beams,Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film…— Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene IVWilliam Bell Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1811, the son of the engraver Robert Scott (1777-1841) and younger brother of the painter and poet David Scott (1806-1849). He trained in fine art at the Trustees’ Academy, a forerunner of Edinburgh College of Art. In 1837 he moved to London, where he soon developed a connection with a group of painters known as ‘The Clique’ who met to sketch together. ‘The Clique’ was founded by the renowned fairy painter Richard Dadd in the late 1830s, and co-alesced around a rejection of high art and a belief that their work should not conform to academic ideals. Bell Scott formed a friendship with Dadd, and they collaborated on illustrations for Samuel Carter Hall’s ‘Book of British Ballads’ (1842). The group disbanded in 1843 after Dadd was diagnosed insane and institutionalised at Bethlem for killing his father during a psychotic breakdown.In 1843 Bell Scott was offered the position of Master of the Government School of Design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he would remain for the following twenty years. He nevertheless maintained a relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites in London, and contributed poetry to their journal ‘The Germ’. He was close to William Holman Hunt and, in particular, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose family championed his work.Bell Scott is best-known for his history paintings. In 1854 he was commissioned to paint a series of works depicting the history of Northumberland for Wallington Hall, the Morpeth home of his most valued patron Lady Trevelyan. Five years later he met Alice Boyd of Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, while she studied in Newcastle. The relationship became close, and from the 1860s Scott lived with Alice Boyd and his wife Letitia in a ménage à trois between Scotland and London until the end of his life. Following her brother’s death in 1865 Alice became the owner of Penkill, and Bell Scott spent several years in the 1860s painting the staircase with a series of frescos illustrating James I’s poem ‘The Kings Quair’.‘The Barge of the Fairy Mab’ was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1845, and pre-dates Bell Scott’s Pre-Raphaelite associations. The Fairy Queen Mab is glimpsed through lily petals glowing in the moonlight, being transported on a barge formed from lily pads. Her hair falls in flowing golden tresses and she holds a long red wand, which she directs towards a spider spinning silken threads, as her wide eyes gaze upwards towards the web. The Fairy Queen and several of her attendants are unclothed, with a sensuous allure of form that could not have been freely expressed in a traditional Victorian genre or history painting. The intense jewel-like colour draws the eye towards the heart of the composition, as does the detailed rendering of the elf-like creatures, insects, bugs and leaves. Even the delicate threads of the web are beautifully illuminated. The scene is enclosed within leaves and grasses, through which fairies make their way, with bright star-like torches on their heads, past a swan nestled in the background. There is joy, humour and mischief in the rendering of Fairy Queen Mab and her entourage, and it is a delight to glimpse into this fantasy.Queen Mab is a mischievous yet benevolent figure. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ she is referred to as the fairies’ midwife, who delivers sleepers their innermost fancies in the form of dreams. In Victorian Britain a great fashion for fairy painting co-incided with a resurgence of interest in Shakespearean plays such as ‘The Tempest’ and ‘A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream’, in which fairies feature as characters. The popularity of the fairy genre is seen as a reaction to the societal and environmental changes being wrought by industrialisation and the expansion of the suburbs. Viewers sought escapism from the changing world through mystical, spiritual and fantastical scenes and images of the natural world. The fairy genre is rare in Bell Scott’s oeuvre, yet in ‘The Barge of the Fairy Mab’ he has created a charming example of Victorian fairy painting at its best.