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CIVIL WAR GENERAL ORDERS

• [Civil War - Manuscripts] Civil War
  [Civil War - Manuscripts] Civil War General Orders Referencing the Firing Squad for Union Deserters & a Confederate Spy  Lot of 2 including: General Orders No. 114 dated May 4 1863 ordering William F. Corbin and T.G. McGraw of the so-called Confederate Army to be shot unto death at Johnson's Island Ohio for the crimes of recruiting men within the United States to take up arms against the government and carrying mail intended for those in arms against the government. Issued by Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and approved by the President. and General Court Martial Orders No. 39 dated October 18 1864 at Army of the Potomac headquarters issued by command of Major General Meade listing cases of nine men charged with desertion or drunkenness on duty. All four men found guilty of desertion were sentenced to be shot to death with musketry but three had their sentence commuted to hard labor at Dry Tortugas. The fourth Private John Velon Co. G 5th New Hampshire who deserted while on picket duty and attempted to reach the enemy's lines had his sentence upheld. He was executed October 24 1864 near Petersburg Virginia. Condition: Very good.
• CIVIL WAR GENERAL ORDERSCivil War
  CIVIL WAR GENERAL ORDERSCivil War General Orders No. 24 from Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General's Office, dated July 6th, 1864, on making various reports and the requirements of the reports. Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot. Condition: Some crease separations.
• [Civil War] Early handwritten
  [Civil War] Early handwritten facsimile of Abraham Lincoln's order to Gen. Grant to force Lee's surrender April 7 1865 dated at City Point VA: ''Gen. Sheridan says 'If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender' Let the THING be pressed'' Endorsed ''The original dispatch sent by Mr. Lincoln to me. Apl. 7th 1865. U. S. Grant'' Ink pen on engineer's glazed linen 7 X 9 in. framed Estimate $ 400-600 The linen has stuck to the straw board backing and stained at upper left and to a lesser extent at the lower left.
• Civil War Confederate Archive
  Civil War Confederate Archive mostly dated January-February, 1862, partially printed and manuscript documents, War Department General Orders imprint, forms for requisitions, discharg
• [Civil War - Manuscripts] Brig.
  [Civil War - Manuscripts] Brig. General D.B. Birney 1st Division 3d Corps Manuscript General Orders Plus  Lot of 2 including manuscript and printed versions of General Orders No. 48 dated May 16 1863 at Headquarters 1st Division 3d Corps. Orders name and congratulate those awarded the division's Kearney Cross for actions at Chancellorsville May 2-3. Manuscript orders are inked on the fronts of 2pp bound together in the upper margin with a pink ribbon. Printed orders are 12pp due to listing of award recipients. Condition: Manuscript orders very good with scattered minor stains. Printed orders with stains in upper margin of first page and some separation at fold lines.
• [Civil War Document] One item order
  [Civil War Document] One item order on letterhead of 17th Regt. Connecticut Volunteers Camp Siegel near Baltimore October 9 1862 ordering all guards to have their weapons properly discharged after duty if unfired. Estimate $ 50-80
• Book ''Battles & Commanders of
  Book ''Battles & Commanders of the Civil War'' published in 1907 edited by General Marcus Wright of War Department great illustrations.
• HAND WRITTEN US ARMY GENERAL ORDERS
  HAND WRITTEN US ARMY GENERAL ORDERS 1832: Clipped from a book hand written General Orders No. 22 dated May 27 1832 regarding rations for horses clothing for Mounted Riflemen to be the same as Dragoons clerks for commanding officers to be paid .15 cents a day. By order of Major General (Winfield) Scott R. Jones Adjutant General. Sold with 1851 hand written 5 page Rules and Regulations for the ''general and internal direction'' of the Military Asylum orders by Brvt. Lt. Col. Scott approved by Charles M. Conrad Secretary of War Capt. Schuyler Hamilton official.CONDITION: Note all pages clipped from book minor loss of writing on edges fold lines present.
• Georgia Civil War letter, hand
  Georgia Civil War letter, hand written on lined paper by J.M. Crawford, addressed to L.B. Fisher, dated April 23, 1861, "Look Out, Look Out, For War, For War", discusses the general atmosphere at school (probably Emory College) and in the towns of Oxford and Covington, Georgia, "I want to go with the boys and be among them when they touch the torches to the walls of the captured capitol, and shout the loud and long cheers to the flames as they consume its verry [sic] last remains", 12 x 7-3/4 in. Light toning, stains, creases, fading, minor tears and losses.
• ROBERT E. LEE LETTEROld facsimile
  ROBERT E. LEE LETTEROld facsimile letter, General Orders #9 signed by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General W.H. Stevens, Chief Engineer of the Army of No. Virginia. It is on watermarked paper dated 10th of April 1865 from the Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia. Size: 12.5 x 8 inches and in very good condition. The letter was written a day after Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appamatox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. Stamped verso by Lakeside Press, RR Donnelly & Sons.
• Christopher Columbus Augur Civil
  Christopher Columbus Augur Civil War General Post-War ALS Christopher Columbus Augur (1821-1898).? Major General in the Civil War.? ALS 1.25pp Headquarters Department of the Platte letterhead July 19 1869 at Omaha Nebraska addressed to William A. Baker Auburn New York responding to an apparent question regarding his war record writing: My first service as Brigadier General was commanding a Brigade in McDowell's Division from Dec/61 to Jan/62 when I was assigned to command a Division in Banks' Corps in Upper Virginia....? Signed C.C. Augur in black ink. Condition: SLight smudging of ink.
• CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR QUARTERMASTER
  CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR QUARTERMASTER DOCUMENT ANDBOOK. THE DOCUMENT IS GENERAL ORDER, #100, DATED DECEMBER 8, 1862, WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY THE SAMUEL COOPER, INSPECTOR GENERAL, ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY MAJOR HENRY HAMMOND, AND BRIGADIER GENERAL MCGOWAN, REGARDING CLOTHING THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. GOOD CONDITION, CREASING, LIGHT DISCOLORATION. ALONG WITH A RARE REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND FOR THE QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT AND PAY DEPARTMENT, PRINTED 1861 IN RICHMOND BY RITCHIE & DUNNAVANT, 135 PRINTED PAGES, OCTAVO, PAPER AND CLOTH BOUND. DISCOLORATION, FOXING.
• (8) CIVIL WAR LETTERS AND
  (8) CIVIL WAR LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, TO INCLUDE:1) a letter dated November 12, 1863 from a Union soldier stationed at Fort Mifflin, PA, to his sisters. He talks about his rations and money problems, as well as recounting how 2 of the Rebel prisoners working in the kitchens attempted an escape. One escaped by swimming in the canal. Good condition. 2) Letter dated Nov. 1862 from E. W. Whitney to his wife, good condition. 3) Letter from Corporal Joseph Samuels. One sentence states "There were three white men there, dressed in soldier's clothes who I think are in charge of the negroes and I don't know where they got the potatoes and cabbage." Good condition. 4) Letter from George W. Long talking about soldiers stealing potatoes. Good condition. 5) Letter from private John J. Phifer, Grand Guard of Frilles Brigade, good condition. 6) Statement of Private Calvin D. French, acting corporal of the Grand Guard of Frilles Brigade, discussing acquiring peaches from an abandoned orchard. Good condition. 7) A letter from a soldier to his father stationed near Petersburg, dated Jan 18, 1864. In the letter he mentions President Lincoln, General Grant, and his battle plan for the coming spring to concentrate nearly all of the Yankee Army on Richmond. The letter is in a 2 sided shadow box frame and split into 6 pieces where it was once folded. 8) a statement by Corporal Francis M. Eder, corporal Grand Guard Friller Brigade, also talking about potatoes. Good condition. Along with 6 Confederate banknotes that appear to have been in a fire.
• [Civil War - Manuscripts] Capt.
  [Civil War - Manuscripts] Capt. Henry G. Thomas 11th US Infantry Civil War Letters  Lot of 2 letters written by Captain Henry G. Thomas 11th U.S. Infantry 2nd Division V Corps Army of the Potomac. First is 4pp dated October 3 1863 near Culpeper VA addressed to his father who seems to be a military man himself. In addition to updating his father on the current commands held by certain officers the younger Thomas explains that he serving on a general court martial that he expects to last the next two weeks is expecting an appointment to the command of a black regiment at some point in the near future and closes with the appeal ...If you can get me a Colonelcy by talking with Fessenden for goodness sake do. The second letter is 4pp dated May 28 1865 at City Point Virginia addressed to his mother a scathing reprimand to her for opening and reading his mail despite his previous disapproval of this unwarrantable practice ungenerous towards me & unjust towards my correspondents & practiced I will venture to say in no other respectable family in New England.. Condition: Very good.
• (10) U.S. CIVIL WAR UNION GENERALS,
  (10) U.S. CIVIL WAR UNION GENERALS, LETTERS, NOTES(lot of 10 on 8 pages) U.S. Civil War Generals autographs, including: (2) typed letters signed W. Rosecrans (William Starke Rosecrans, Ohio, 1819-1898), Union Major General, West Point Class of 1842, U.S. Congress, House, 1880-1884; (1) autograph album page with sentiment signed J. Kilpatrick (Hugh Judson (Kill-Cavalry) Kilpatrick, New Jersey, 1836-1881), Union Brevet Major General, West Point, Class of 1861, listed as the first U.S. Army officer to be wounded in the Civil War, U.S. Ambassador to Chile; (1) autograph album page signed by Neal Dow (Maine, 1804-1897) Union Brigadier General, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division of the XIX Corps, captured and exchanged for CSA General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, son of General Robert E. Lee, in 1880 Dow was the Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. President; (1) hand-written note signed W.B. Hazen (William Babcock Hazen, Vermont, 1830-1887), Union Major General, West Point, Class of 1855, later Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army; (1) letter to President Grand, July, 1870, signatures include C.C. Washburn (Maine, 1818-1882), Union Major General, U.S. congress, 1855-1861, 1867-1871, Governor of Wisconsin, 1872-1874, founded what later became General Mills, also signed H.E. Paine (Halbert Elezar Paine, 1826-1905), Union Brigadier General, later Brevet Major General, U.S. Congress, 1865-1871, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, also signed by Amasa Cobb (Illinois,1823-1905), Union Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General, U.S. Congress 1863-1871, at the same time serving in the Army; (1) hand-written note, signed Joseph R. Hawley (Joseph Roswell Hawley, North Carolina,1826-1905), Union, Brigadier General, Brevet Major General, Governor of Connecticut, 1866-1867, U.S. Congress, 1872-1875, 1873-1876, U.S. Senate, 1881-1905
• George Henry Thomas Mexican War &
  George Henry Thomas Mexican War & Civil War General ANS 1p 4.75 x 7.75 in. 30 June 1863 Head Quarters 14th Army Corps. To Brig. Gen. Garfield Chief of Staff. Thomas acknowledges receipt of 9:30 dispatch the order was received to [sic] late to organize parties and accomplish any thing besides we have no axes. I will order parties to work tomorrow morning. Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas (1816-1870) was born in Virginia but remained loyal to the Union at the start of the Civil War. He started in a career in the law when friends secured him an appointment to USMA. He graduated in 1840 12/42 with many notables such as Sherman and Ewell. Thomas fought in the Seminole Wars served in the military occupation of Texas and the Mexican War and remained with the Union during the Civil War earning a commission as Maj. General. From its formation he had a command in the 14th Corps. For his actions in Sept. 1863 he earned the nickname ''Rock of Chickamauga.'' After the war he served in some of the most difficult settings. He died suddenly apparently still in U.S. service in San Francisco (of ''apoplexy'' - likely a stroke or cardiac event) in 1870. Condition: Light soiling.
• CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & BUTTONS:
  CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & BUTTONS: Special Orders for safe passage for a freed slave allowing him go North unimpeded. Signed by Lieut. A. Hodge Helena Ark. July 31 1862. Sold with 5 assorted era buttons including GAR naval Fire Dept. and infantry.
• [Civil War Ephemera] Assortment
  [Civil War Ephemera] Assortment of hand written and part-printed documents mostly passes orders for transportation in Maryland Estimate $ 200-300
• Confederate 1862 telegram,
  Confederate 1862 telegram, partially printed, "The Southern Telegraph Company", to General G. T. Beauregard, Savannah, Georgia, October 25, 1862, from Colonel W. S. Walker (signed), Pocataglio, "General: Can you not spare me some infantry Is the long range gun to remain Names of killed and wounded sent to Charleston", response from Beauregard penciled at bottom, 4-1/2 x 8 in. Folds, stains, slight reduction at top. Brunk Auctions, April 12-13, 2003, Lot 714; Collection of H. Donald Nelson, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• [Civil War Ephemera] Original
  [Civil War Ephemera] Original printed hand bill ''Gen. Dix's Proclamation'' a parody of the order not to display Confederate colors in Baltimore; together with a telegraph of Major General John A. Dix to Colonel Coulter of the 11th Pennsylvania volunteers April 10 1862 informing him that his regiment will be sent to Washington as soon as they can be relieved Estimate $ 80-125
• ALS CIVIL WAR FIELD REPORT FROM
  ALS CIVIL WAR FIELD REPORT FROM BRIG. GEN. SAMUEL W. CRAWFORD Report of engagement on Feb. 3rd. He refers to his men as the Bucktails, that fought "one brigade of Confederate Gen. Hood's division," in thick woodland, captured 80-90 prisoners, along with a Napoleon cannon and two caissons, colors of the 15th Georgia and 1,000 stands of small arms. Graphic. Entirely in his hand. Framed.
• 3 MISC. CIVIL WAR PERIOD
  3 MISC. CIVIL WAR PERIOD DOCUMENTS 3 MISC. CIVIL WAR PERIOD DOCUMENTS; TWO TITLED "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN", A DISCHARGE LETTER DATED AUGUST 4, 1865 UNDER COMMANDER OF REGIMENT ARMY OF SHANANDOAH; THE OTHER 8/27-1864; ALONG WITH DOCUMENT OF APPOINTMENT, AS 1ST SERGEANT 193RD REGIMENT 5/27/1865
• Civil War Confederate Imprint
  Civil War Confederate Imprint Regulations for the Army of the Confederate Stat
• GROUP OF CIVIL WAR UNION
  GROUP OF CIVIL WAR UNION GENERALS, SIGNED PAPERSLot of Union signatures including H. C. Corbin, N. P. Banks, Waltham, Massachusetts Division Commander Union Army, S. U. Heintzelman, William W. Belknap, Secretary of War under Grant, Benjamin F. Butler, Don Carlos Buell, William Rosecrans, WilliamH. Emory, Daniel Butterfield, Oliver Otis Howard, United States Army officer and Union General in the Civil War, John C. Fremont, John A. Logan and Henry Ware Lawton. Most on cards measuring approximately 3 "x 5". Some yellowing and staining consisent with age. See images for more details on condition. This item can be shipped in-house.
• CIVIL WAR PERSONAL LETTER AND SEVEN
  CIVIL WAR PERSONAL LETTER AND SEVEN MILITARY DOCUMENTS To include: ALS, "Picket Reserve", June 7th, 1863, to "Hattie," mostly home news, but the officer writes about a Confederate officer withdrawing a picket post and a drummer losing his soldier father in a military hospital (consignor IDs this letter to 121st PA Infantry); sheet of three Federal quartermaster transportation forms, Atlanta, GA; ordnance and ammunition report, 4 pp.; two 3rd Army Corps circulars from Major General French, 1863 and 1864; a Connecticut enlistment form for George C. Abbey, 1862; a discharge certificate naming one Samuel G. Baker, but otherwise blank; a discharge certificate for John L. Kite, a hospital steward.
• 2 pieces. American Civil War Era
  2 pieces. American Civil War Era Manuscript Material: Document Signed. Sheridan, P(hilip) H., Major General. New Orleans, Dec. 28th, 1865. 1 p., 4to on Headquarters, Military Division of The Gulf letterhead; light creases along folds. Pass permitting ex-Confederate General Simon B. Buckner to travel to St. Louis and then back to New Orleans. * Manuscript Document. Receipt for medical supplies delivered to Camp Garrison, Virginia, July 2, 1862. Small folio on blue lined paper. Both framed.
• [Civil War - CDV] Civil War CDVs of
  [Civil War - CDV] Civil War CDVs of Confederate & Union Generals  Lot of 10 CDVs including five cropped albumen portraits placed on oval border cartes of Generals McClellan John Pope Henry Halleck Benjamin Butler and Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker and five standard size albumen vignette cartes of Generals Winfield Scott Stonewall Jackson Philip Kearny Nathaniel P. Banks and Joseph Hooker. All by anonymous publishers except for Scott's and Jackson's which bear the backmark of Hall of New York. Condition: All with light general soiling and wear. General Banks with several flyspeck stains on his uniform.
• 1863 CIVIL WAR REQUISITION
  1863 CIVIL WAR REQUISITION FORMSigned by General Gershom Mott. Measures 13-1/2" x 8". shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
• CIVIL WAR OFFICER'S COMMISSION,
  CIVIL WAR OFFICER'S COMMISSION, SIGNED LINCOLN Original part-printed certificate signed in full by the President and co-signed by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, issued on May 6, 1861, naming Robert L. Eastman a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Regiment of Infantry; vellum, 17 3/4 X 14 3/4 in., by sight, framed. Eastman graduate West Point in 1861. He was cited for gallant and meritorious service at Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill in June and July, 1862, and reached rank of Brevet Major. Shortly after he was assigned to West Point as a drawing and geography instructor, and died on Nov. 7, 1865.
• Civil War photograph of Union
  Civil War photograph of Union General Philip Heermans and others; field commissioned Heerman is flanked by two officers (one a Burnside devotee) in this cabinet card, all in full regalia, ornate gessoed frame. Image 6 1/2" x 4 3/4".
• CIVIL WAR UNION OFFICER INSIGNIA
  CIVIL WAR UNION OFFICER INSIGNIA GROUP To include: a pair of shoulder straps for a cavalry major; one shoulder strap for an infantry second lieutenant; an officer's braided cloth and bullion hat cord terminating in bullion acorn finials.
• [Civil War - Art] Civil War
  [Civil War - Art] Civil War Lithographs Including Our Generals in the Field Plus  Lot of 7 including: a hand-colored lithograph titled Our Generals in the Field copyright to W. Lyons circa 1861 framed 12.75'' x 15.75'' sight 19.5'' x 22.5'' overall; hand-colored lithograph titled Camp White / Col. D. Donnelly 28th N.Y.Z. copyright to L.N. Rosenthal framed 6.5'' x 11'' sight 13.5'' x 16.5'' overall; an early Nathaniel Currier lithograph titled Washington From the President's House after the William Henry Bartlett painting 11.75'' x 16''; and four Confederate bills including $5 $10 $20 and $100 note.
• [Civil War - Autographs] Civil
  [Civil War - Autographs] Civil War Letter Addressed to Brigadier General L.W. Thomas  1p dated October 21 1863 at New York to Brigadier General L.W. Thomas Adjutant General U.S. Army stationed in Vicksburg from Henry G. Crichmore writing from his office at the American Bank Note Company in New York requesting an official confirmation of his recent appointment as a Captain in the Corps d'Afrique. Crickmore had already served his three months as a Sergeant in Co. B 8th New York Infantry in the summer of 1862 and does appear on the rolls of the 4th U.S. Cavalry Colored Troops which was organized from the 1st Corps d'Afrique Cavalry at New Orleans in 1864. Condition: Soiling and scattered stains with minor separation along fold lines.
• GENERAL JOHN GIBBON SIGNED
  GENERAL JOHN GIBBON SIGNED LETTER, CIVIL WARLetter dated October 22, 1888 to Henry M Cist from General John Gibbon. General John Gibbon, as senior ranking officer, was appointed by General U. S. Grant, April 9, 1865 to carry out the surrender of General Lee and his confederate army, April 10,1865. Paper measures 10 3/8" x 7 7/8" Minor staining upper left corner, see images for more details on condition. This item can be shipped in-house.
• Civil War 15th Army Corps Forty
  Civil War 15th Army Corps Forty Rounds Headquarters Guidon Worsted wool 49 x 60 in. overall 36 in. forked end. Red field stenciled with ''Forty Rounds'' and a U.S. cartridge box. Blue border machine stitched to red field with reinforced hand-stitching along area near forked end. Gold cotton fringe hand-stitched to blue border. Canvas hoist machine-stitched to field with inked in block letters 2d Brigd 15th.General Orders 10 Fifteenth Army Corps of February 14 1865 established a color coded system for the Corps' divisional and brigade flags. This was modified on April 9 1865 with General Orders No. 21 which specified the corps and four division flags to be ''silk or bunting five feet six inches fly five feet hoist.'' The brigade flags were specified to be ''swallowtailed five feet from the peak to end of the swallowtail and three feet to the fork four feet five inches on pike. The field of the flag shall be the division color and besides fringe it will have a border of one of the Corps colors other than the particular Division color.'' This swallowtail guidon generally conforms to the specifications of General Orders No. 21 including the yellow fringe prescribed for the divisional flags. The headquarters flag of the First Division in conformance with the orders was red. This guidon with red field and blue border is that of the First Division Second Brigade Fifteenth Corps which was specified in the General Orders to be ''field div. color border blue.'' Indeed the flag is marked on the hoist edge ''2nd Brigd 15th A...'' Color images of all Union headquarters flags including for this guidon can be found in the book Civil War Battle Flags of the Union Army and Order of Battle compiled by Gen. C. McKeever Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army. At the time of issue of this guidon the First Division was commanded by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Charles R. Woods and the Second Brigade by Col. Robert Catterson. His brigade consisted of the 26th 40th 103rd Illinois; 97th and 100th Indiana; 6th Iowa and the 46th Ohio Infantry. The Fifteenth Corps and this division were heavily engaged in the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina on March 21 1865 before these flags were issued. The story of how the Fifteenth Corps adopted their corps badge may be as much apocryphal as real. The story goes however that one day an enlisted man in the corps of Major General John A. ''Blackjack'' Logan was asked where his corps patch was. Clapping his hand on his cartridge box he said ''Forty Rounds. Can you show me a better one?'' Shortly thereafter Logan issued General Order No. 10 prescribing that the badge for the Fifteenth Corps should be a miniature cartridge box and above the box will be inscribed the words 'Forty Rounds.' The Fifteenth Corps was a favorite of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman probably because he was its first commander after its creation on December 18 1862. Sherman commanded the corps into the siege of Chattanooga in November 1863 where he took over command of the Army of the Tennessee. Maj. Gen. Frank Blair took over for a short time before being replaced by Maj. Gen. John A. Logan who led the corps through the Atlanta Campaign. In September 1864 Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus commanded the corps on the March to the Sea. Logan returned to command in January 1865 for the campaign into South and North Carolina. Maj. Gen. William B. Hazen commanded the corps from May 1865 though its disbandment in August. Union designating or headquarters flags are quite rare with not that many to be found in museums and even fewer in private hands. These are dominated by the flags of the eastern Army of the Potomac with very few western Union Army headquarters flags surviving certainly fewer than those of its eastern counterparts. To our knowledge no other such flag has appeared on the market in the last two decades. An exceptionally rare flag from the end of the Civil War. Greg Biggs Clarksville Tennessee. March 2012 Provenance: Found in North Carolina and descended in the family of Reverend John K. Mason of Richmond Virginia. Condition: Very Good Mothing fraying the fly edge is distressed. Canvas hoist split.
• [Civil War Soldiers' Letters] Eight
  [Civil War Soldiers' Letters] Eight items four letters and a part printed general order written on letterhead of Fort McHenry another patriotic letter sheet addressed from ''Fort Lion '' October 1861 and two from Fort Marshall Estimate $ 100-200