Special Collections: American History, Nov. 11th, 2010

 
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    Lot #24
    Record of the Service of the Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863. Boston: University Press, 1887. Quarto, black cloth with gilt-lettered spin ...
    Price Realized: $29.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #25
    Lot of 4, including General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers published by Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia, 1863, 8pp, 8vo, PLUS About the War: Plain Words to Plain Peo ...
    Price Realized: $146.88 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #26
    4pp, 8vo, fully titled Programme of the Order of Exercises at the Re-Raising of the United States Flag on Fort Sumter Charleston, S.C., April 14th, 1865, Upon the Fourth Anniversary of the fall of ...
    Price Realized: $499.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #27
    Lot of 12. Six five dollar denominations, dated September 2, 1861 (3), December 2, 1862 (2), and April 6, 1863 (1), and six ten dollar denominations, dated September 2, 1861 (2), December 2, 1862 (2) ...
    Price Realized: $146.88 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #28
    Document relays information about the wartime Provisional Government of Kentucky and an upcoming election for twelve seats in the Congress of the Confederate States, to be held on February 10th of the ...
    Price Realized: $293.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #29
    108pp, 8vo, string-bound. Addressed to the Senate by President Andrew Johnson, dated Washington, D.C ., December 18, 1865, beginning with the line, In reply to the resolution adopted by the ...
    Price Realized: $29.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #30
    lot of 120 plus. Includes 12 GAR medals and pinbacks, a variety of political cellos including: Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryant, McKinley-Hobart, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Lowden, N ...
    Price Realized: $146.88 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #31
    Cabinet card imprinted Geo. & Wm. H. Rau, 922 Girard Avenue below image and with Rau's ornate logo on verso. Photo shows 16 oval portraits of men wearing G.A.R. medals positioned around an ova ...
    Price Realized: $29.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #32
    3" diameter ceramic flask, 0.75" deep, with image of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, by Filson and Helms on obverse, and 25th Annual Encampment, Steubenville surroun ...
    Price Realized: $58.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #33
    5" x 7" photograph under glass in 6.75" x 8.75" hand painted wood frame, ink inscribed on reverse(sic all):

    James & Jenney Dohlman - Jim Davis' Aunt & Uncle. James born in Lynchburg, Virgini ...
    Price Realized: $29.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #34
    Lot of eight, including Vicksburg, November 1907; 16th Annual Encampment Dept. Ind., Muncie 1895; Gettysburg 1913; Lawler National Staff G.A.R., Louisville, Ky; 21st Nat'l Enca ...
    Price Realized: $293.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #35
    with imprint of W.W. Washburn, New Orleans, fine oval uniformed portrait of this important Confederate General. A post-war print from a War-date negative.
    Price Realized: $176.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #36
    A cabinet card of Major General William B. Taliaferro (1822-1898). After fighting in the Mexican war, Taliaferro returned home and took an interest in politics. From 1850 to 1853, he represented Glouc ...
    Price Realized: $58.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #37
    24pp, 5" x 6.25" album, including 21 popular wartime album fillers including Generals McClellan, Lee, Burnside, Butler, Burnside, and Scott, Commodore Perry, Salmon P. Chase, John C. Breckenridge, Dan ...
    Price Realized: $528.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #38
    framed, 9.75" x 11.75" overall, alongside typed description reading in full:

    Woodbury, shown in this Carte-de-visite as a Lieutenant of the 1st Vermont Cavalry, won his Medal of Honor at the bat ...

    Price Realized: $493.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #39
    5.25" x 7.5" oval on original printed card stock mount (8" x 10") and in Victorian grain painted frame (12.4" x 14.4"), showing man at left in shell jacket with M1860 Cavalry saber and revolver holste ...
    Price Realized: $117.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #40
    6.5" x 9.5" albumen photograph showing the 93rd NY Infantry Regiment at camp just days before the Battle of Antietam, September 1862, probably taken by Alexander Gardner. Matted under glass in wood f ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #41
    Dated Department of the South, Hilton Head, S.C. July 1863 and id'd as Major Moses R Morgan, Chief Commissary, Major Genl Quincy A. Gilmore, Major Dwight Bannister, Chief Paymaster, Lt. Colo ...
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    Lot #42
    Three albumen photographs mounted on lined paper with inked identifications and applied paper clippings, housed in a double-sided glass frame, 7.75" x 9.5" sight, 13" x 15" overall.
    Price Realized: $246.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #43
    Lot of 21 CDVs. Eight are popular wartime engravings including President Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln with New York Photographic Co backmarks and a 2 cent revenue stamp on Mary Todd's, and an ...
    Price Realized: $176.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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