American History Auction / June 24, 2009

 
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    Lot #191
    4pp, 7.75" x 9.75". On letterhead Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field and dated Mch 15, 1865, 12 miles from Fayetteville, NC, Raleigh Road.

    Price Realized: $9,987.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #192
    lot of two ALsS. Both are on Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri letterhead, preprinted for 1868. Addressed to an unknown General [possibly Thomas H. Ruger, provisional governor of G ...
    Price Realized: $6,462.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #193
    ALS, 1 1/2pp on ruled Headquarters Army of the United States, Washington, D.C. Feb. 27, 1868. Written to Major General George Gordon Meade as Head of the Department of the South.

    In t ...
    Price Realized: $2,467.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #194
    1862-1865; 104 letters.

    An 18-year-old shoemaker from Abington, Mass., William Foster enlisted as a new recruit in the 12th Massachusetts Infantry on August 11, 1862. His regiment was already ...
    Price Realized: $3,240.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #195
    1861-1919; 130 items, including 85 war-date letters (including 56 soldiers letters):
    James H. Dunn, 1861-1863. 51st and 80th Indiana Infantry. 23 letters
    Richard M. Dunn, 1861-1864. 33rd In ...
    Price Realized: $1,645.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #196
    1862-1865. 29 items, all soldiers' letters, all war date, including:
    Orlistes Catey, 1862-1863. 69th Indiana Infantry. 6 letters
    Charles Catey, 1862-1865. 99th Indiana Infantry. 12 letters
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    Price Realized: $1,292.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #197
    lot of 4, includes a post war cabinet card of Commodore P. Eppert with imprint of Martin, Bloomington, Ill.; a 21pp typed carbon copy manuscript entitled A Lecture Delivered By C.P. Eppert Late Se ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #198
    24 ALsS, 6 documents.

    A 100 day regiment raised in Hamilton County, the 137th Ohio Infantry served its brief time in the service (May-August, 1864) in and near Baltimore, standing guard at For ...
    Price Realized: $1,292.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #199
    includes 2 Civil War diaries, 17 war-date letters, 3 photographs, including an early, Civil War era portrait of Dickson plus a cabinet card and silver gelatin photograph of him in his later years, 1 c ...
    Price Realized: $6,168.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #200
    1861-1866, 32 items (all but two war date).

    The roster of Civil War engagements involving the 1st Ohio Cavalry reads like a novel, including some of the great battles of the western theatre. ...
    Price Realized: $1,762.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #201
    1863-1897. 83rd Ohio Infantry. 85 items (22 war-date letters -- some incomplete, 57 post-war letters, 4 reunion items, newspaper, carte de visite of Susan Brown McGregor, and two large format photog ...
    Price Realized: $2,232.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #202
    1862-1863; 15 war-date letters.

    There may have been more famous John Browns in the 19th century, but John Brown of Maine is worth noting. A volunteer with the 12th Maine Infantry during the C ...
    Price Realized: $587.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #203
    21 documents and letters, 6 photographs.

    At the age of 18, Stephen Barker, a young printer from Buffalo, N.Y., enlisted for service as a replacement in the 21st New York Infantry, but at the e ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #204
    also known as the Harris light Cavalry. This lot includes a small 12mo leather bound diary printed for the year 1864, carte de visite; 15 documents. The diary is inscribed on front page Juston Rust ...
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    Lot #205
    a small group consisting of 4 wartime letters written in ink by Skinner to his future wife Libby (Elizabeth) along with a whimsical fold-open pencil drawing of his camp tent keyed to descriptiv ...
    Price Realized: $411.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #206
    1861-1864, 7 pocket diaries.

    A recruit from Green Co., Henry Backus (or Bachus) was 24 when he enlisted for Civil War service in June 1861. In those uncertain days, the 14th was rushed direct ...
    Price Realized: $1,762.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #207
    30 items.

    A dentist prior to the Civil War, though still in his mid-20s, Erastus Mack enlisted as a private with the 21st Illinois Infantry and served in the hard-won rank of Sergeant Major, t ...
    Price Realized: $360.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #208
    lot of 49 clipped signatures. Includes Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; James Buchanan as Secretary of State; Andrew Johnson, as Congressman from TN (n.d., not clear whether as ...
    Price Realized: $1,057.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #209
    6" x 7.5" copybook, marbles paper boards and leather spine. Written by 16-year-old Isadore Dooley (later Jones), the book contains approx. 120 pages filled with beautifully written poetry, most well-k ...
    Price Realized: $323.13 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #210
    a 5" x 8" leather bound autograph book descended in the family of its original owner Jacob M. Wood, Company L., Maynard Rifles, 154th Tennessee (Senior) with annotated 1930s Memphis Commerci ...
    Price Realized: $1,410.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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