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THE CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SALE continued...

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Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

161

Union Collection An interesting and varied group including seven Documents, viz. a US Navy receipt for pay, US Navy Yard, NYC, December 1, 1860, signed by Anson Herrick; a copy of a receipt for transportation on the Erie RR for one soldier from the 101 PA Infantry, NYC, July 8, 1862; a Muster Roll for Capt. William Kincaid of the 93rd NY Infantry (Morgan Rifles), Warrenton, VA, August 24, 1863, mustering him in as a lieutenant after a promotion; a receipt for $30 paid by Kincaid to the US government for hospital care at the Camac's Woods Officer's Hospital, Philadelphia, November 30, 1864; a Muster and Pay Roll for the Union hospital at Mound City, IL, for December 1864 to April 1865; three documents for Aid to Volunteers from Wisconsin, 1863-65. With two issues of Harper's Weekly, January 12, 1861, with Maj. Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter on the first page, and articles on the secession movement; and May 17, 1862, with front page illustration of "Rebels outside their works at Yorktown and interior spread of New Orleans. With a Postal Cover Franked by Adjutant General "L. Thomas," July 17, [1863?], on his official imprinted envelope. With US Christian Commission Identifier Tag, filled out in pencil and no longer quite legible; bears the instruction "Suspend from the neck by a cord, and wear over th shirt - in battle, under." And, finally, an unidentified 1/9 plate tintype Photograph of a Union soldier in a shell coat with vetern's stripe on sleeves and tinted buttons. In brass mat with glass cover, stain affects soldier's face. Overall, items are in VG condition generally. [12] (Image)

Est. $300-400

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

162

US Colored Troops: William Royal Archive A choice archive of 5 letters, 36 documents, and 6 collateral items concerning Capt. William Royal of the 9th US Colored Infantry, beginning in 1863 and running through the regiment's service occupying Richmond upon its evacuation in early April 1865 and on the Mexican border under General Sheridan after the war. Royal's troops were among the first to march into Richmond on April 3 as the Union took possession of the abandoned Confederate capital. Present are two Autograph Documents, lists of supplies used or lost in the public service "in the field" March 31, 1865, and then in Richmond on April 10. Most of the present documents concern returns of equippage for Company F of the 9th Colored Infantry, but also include important personal papers, such as Royal's Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Albany, and his 1893 marriage license. Perhaps most interesting are the letters Royal received during the last month of the Civil War. One from a friend back in New York on April 4, 1865 informs him that "the news reached us here yesterday that Petersburgh was Evacuated, and Richmond taken by our Armies. If this is confirmed and we think it will be and The Rebellion will soon collapse. It is a time of general rejoicing. All the Flags that have the stars and stripes were unfurled to the breeze yesterday and every body seemed happy...The world does move, and the COPPERS [i.e., Copperheads, Northerners who were against the war] give signs of believing it..." On the 12th, after Lee's surrender, a woman writes from Canandaigua, NY: "What glorious news we have from the War Department, now. Monday was celebrated...by every imaginable kind of noise...One would have thought that 'The year of Jubilee' had come." After the 15th, another friend writes, "We were all rejoicing and feeling so happy over our victories when we heard the awful news of the assination [sic]of our much beloved President. to think he should be so fouly murdered it made me sick to think of it. Did you see him when he was in Richmond well he did see the promised land before he died." On the 28th, his sister writes, "Yesterday we had the news of the capture of Booth. Wesley Carlough went to Buffalo Yesterday to see our lamented President" as his body made the long journey from Washington to Springfield. After noting that "Johnson the Colored lawyer gives a lecture tonight in Canandaigua," she asks, "How do your boys feel about the President's death?" A fifth letter tells of a Union survivor of a prisoner-of-war camp whose health has been shattered by his confinement. All items are in at least VG condition. [47] (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500

SOLD for $625.00
Will close during Public Auction

163

US Treasury: J. Milton McGrew Archive Sixth Auditor of the US Treasury (1830-95); the only man to rise from a clerkship to Chief of Bureau; among the earliest leaders of the Republican Party in Ohio and a staunch Lincoln supporter after his nomination over Ohioan Salmon P. Chase. Choice collection of 12 ALS, Washington (10, 4 on official imprinted stationery), and various other places, 1856-84, 9 of them war-date, with two letters he has received. All are to his wife Armilda, expressing an abiding love, but these lengthy letters include much Civil War and political content. On Sept. 21, 1862, he writes that Confederate threats against Cincinnati are hollow. He has been recording changes in postal appointments. "Washington is one vast hospital now. Nearly every church in the city has been fitted up for hospitals by laying a plank floor over the tops of the pews..." Though he likes his accommodations, his boarding hostess Mrs. Crookes "is strongly SECESSION, and I won't encourage a SHE-traitor any more than a male one." He has visited the Philadelphia naval yard, "and saw our new iron-clad ships, the great Iron-Sides among the number. I also went on board the British Steam War vessel, the Bermuda, which our fleet captured attempting to run the blockade with cannon and munitions of War for the Rebels...I went down in the hold and saw the six tremendous cannon which were intended for Rebel use...The Iron-Sides is plated with iron four inches and looks as though she could withstand any kind of ball...Hurrah for McClellan! He is the great man here now." He reiterates his feelings about secessionists in October: "A man who is not true to his Country which has protected him since birth...does not deserve the sympathy of anyone." He laments that he will miss Election Day in Ohio, where he fears his home county of "Clermont I suppose will win a majority for the SECESSIONISTS. The Sun of the last week which I got yesterday, is most villainously mean. Leeds would not be allowed to publish such a paper in this Slave state of Maryland. No such paper IS published in any LOYAL slave state." In November 1862 he visits the Smithsonian Institute, where free lectures are given "on scientific and other subjects, which are attended by EVERYBODY, President Lincoln included." After the arrest of Ohio Copperhead Clement Vallandigham, he notes on July 24, 1863 that Batavia, Ohio's "Court House Clique are...full of treason...You may rest assured that Vallandigham will not get ONE VOTE out of a HUNDRED in the Army. The Copperheads KNOW IT, but the LIE to keep up the spirits of their ignorant followers." Meanwhile the army is filling with new recruits, and at last "the draft is going on PEACEABLY in New York, with the assistance of TEN THOUSAND soldiers from here. There would have been no riots before, if it had not been for the miserable Copperhead papers, which the government was KIND and LENIENT enough to let print their treason. These Copperhead leaders in the North will yet have to be HUNG, before they will quit." By January 1864, McGrew has left yet another boarding house run by a secessionist hostess! All letters are in at least VG condition, and are collected in a binder with full typescripts and background information on McGrew; with six original covers for his letters to his wife. [18] (Image)

Est. $750-1,000

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction

164

Welles, Gideon American public official (1802-78), serving as Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln; led the vital effort to blockade the vast Southern coastline. Very important partly printed Document Signed ""Gideon Welles"" as Secretary of the Navy, 1 page, 4to, "Navy Department," Washington, November 23, 1864. An order to Capt. John A. Winslow in Boston, directing that "You are hereby detached from the command of the Kearsarge, and you will regard yourself as Waiting Orders. Keep the Department advised of your address." With forwarding note at upper left and pencil note in bottom margin. Feathering of ink in body, age-toned, with some offsetting and a thumb print at top, folds reinforced on verso with tape, overall VG. A few months earlier, in June 1864, Capt. Winslow and the Kearsarge would win national renown for sinking the fearsome raider CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Winslow was detached from the command of the Kearsarge because the ship was to be decommissioned for repairs beginning November 26. He would soon be promoted to Commodore for his great victory. (Image)

Est. $500-750

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction

165

[Wheeler, Joseph] American cavalry commander (1836-1906); led mounted troops for the Confederate Army of Tennessee, serving at Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Ringgold Gap, and in the Atlanta Campaign; harassed Union troops during the March to the Sea; after the war, served in the US Congress from Alabama; took commands in Cuba and the Philippines during and after the Spanish-American War. Choice Printed Document, signed in type as major general, 1 page, 12" x 6", no place, August 3, 1863, giving his "General Orders, No. 10," reminding cavalry officers "to insure promotion to the valorous, skillful, and efficient officers and soldiers of their respective commands. This is due to those who by their patriotic devotion to duty, and their valor and skill exhibited in the field, have shown themselves worthy of advancement." He gives an example of the proper form for a recommendation, adding that "the particular acts of valor and skill must be mentioned with the utmost particularity." Light dampstain along right side, with sparse foxing, VG. Matted under glass in a modern wooden frame, overall size ca 18" x 12.7". (Image)

Est. $500-750

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction

166

[Wheeler, Joseph] Choice Printed Letter signed in type to ""My brave Soldiers,"" 2 pages, 8vo (on single sheet), headquarters, Cavalry Corps, December 31, 1864. At the close of a long, hard year, he congratulates them: ""From Dalton to Atlanta...opposed almost continuously by a force of infantry ten times your number, you repulsed every assault, inflicting on the enemy a loss in killed and wounded numerically greater than your entire strength...During the entire campaing, the Army of Tennessee never lost a position by having the flank turned which it was your duty to protect...Having been detached and sent to the rear of the enemy you captured his garrisons, destroyed his stores and broke his communications...During Sherman's march through Georgia you retarded his advance and defeated his cavalry daily, preventing his spreading over and devastating the country...I desire, my brave soldiers, to thank you for your gallantry, devotion and good conduct..." Uneven age-toning, otherwise VG. Despite his glowing report, Wheeler had done little to slow Gen. WT Sherman's March to the Sea, which had already succeeded in the capture of Savannah on December 21. Wheeler would continue to fight doggedly, earning a last victory against his Union opposite number, Judson Kilpatrick. However, he also permitted Columbia, SC, to be burned (some say by his own soldiers' instigation), and was replaced by Wade Hampton. (Image)

Est. $300-400

SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction

167

Wool, John E. Union general (1784-1869); celebrated veteran of the War of 1812; heroic general of the Mexican War; commander, Department of the East when hostilities began, where he helped secure Hampton Roads for the Union; retired in July, 1862. Interesting Manuscript Letter Signed "John E. Wool / Major General," 1 page, 4to, Troy, New York, September 14, 1858. Responding to "Major Gen'l Augustus Morse / Leominster / Worcester, Mass." General Wool generously relates: "I have just returned from celebrating the Anniversary of the battle of Plattsburgh [an important US victory in 1814]when I had the honor to receive your kind invitation to review your Division...at the camp of General Wool, near Springfield, Mass. I regret that other engagements will deprive me of the very great pleasure it would afford me not only to review your Division, but to accompany the Governor in so pleasing a duty. If I had been notified of your invitation three weeks earlier I could have complied with your desires. By invitation I leave this evening for Springfield to attend the National Horse Fair...For giving your Camp the name of General Wool I tender you my grateful acknowledgments..." Lightly age-toned, with file holes in blank left margin. Mounting traces on verso, otherwise in good condition. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Wool in uniform. (Image)

Est. $300-400

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

168

Zouaves: Recruitment Broadside Wonderful display Broadside, 37.8"" x 26.2"", [1862], exhorting the men of Utica, NY to ""RALLY! YOUR COUNTRY CALLS! / $225 BOUNTY!! / 100 Hand Picked Men Wanted! For a Company to be attached to the Fifth ONEIDA REGIMENT / The Company will be commanded by Captain Geo. W. Cone, an Experienced Officer...YOUNG MEN COME FORWARD...DON'T WAIT TO BE DRAFTED..." They are told to go to 79 Genesee St. or to a tent on Baggs Square to enlist. Printed by Thomas J. Griffiths. Foxed, with fold and edge wear including separations and many small holes, but about VG and displays well. Contained under glass in a wooden frame, overall size 41.25" x 29.75". This company would be known officially as Company A of the 146 NY Volunteer Infantry, and wore colorful Zouave uniforms. Many members of the company were captured at Chancellorsville when they failed to hear a bugle signal for a retreat. The 146th's finest hour was its part in the capture of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, which it helped hold for the rest of the battle; it was later virtually annihilated in the bloody Battle of the Wilderness. (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500

SOLD for $2,800.00
Will close during Public Auction

OBSOLETE CURRENCY

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

169

AL. Princeton. A.S.Sydney. 50 Cents. (Rosene 282-15). Various Arms and supplies top center. Typeset in black ink. Fine, paper separations beginning along horitzontal fold at center. ex Smythe, Sale 272 Lot 1639

Est. $150-200

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

170

AL. Selma. Charles Lewis & Co., Bankers. $5. July 12, 1862. (Rosene 298-6). No. 12124, Plate B. Justice at left. Cotton plant at center. Imprint of M.J. Williams, Selma. Red overprints of city and state, ""5"" at upper left and right, and right, and "FIVE" across center. Fine, (Image)

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $220.00
Will close during Public Auction

171

AL. Tuscaloosa. City of Tuscaloosa. 5 Cents. Jan. 27, 1862. (Rosene 323-1). No. 271. Decorative end panels with ""FIVE CENTS"" at each end. Ship, Cannons and Flags at top center. Printed on back of Sons of Temperance document. VG/F.

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction

172

AR. Arkadelphia. Arkadelphia Exchange. 50¢. Jun 12, 1862. (Rothert-11 Unlisted). A reversed Seated Liberty Half Dollar, center; oval lathework end panels, left and right. VG (Image)

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction

173

AR. Camden. D. W. Fellows. 10 Cents. March 28, 1862. (Rothert 95-1). No. 3034. Decorative End Panels with denominations at each end. Blue Ink. Green overprint of ""TEN CENTS"" at center. Tissue-thin paper. F/VF, small tear and stain at top. ex Schingoethe, Sale 272 Lot 3532; ex Amon Carter Jr. Collection. (Image)

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

174

AR. DeWitt. J. N. Inman. 50c. April 13th 1862. No. 99 (Rothert 150-1 Plate Note). Small format on blue lined paper. EF. (Image)

Est. $300-400

SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

175

AR. El Dorado. A Collection of W.E. Morgan Scrip Notes. Morgan was an elected official of Union County. All are About Fine, with irregular edges. 1) 10c. (R-165-1). 2) 25c.
(R-162-2). 3) 50c. (R-162-3). 4) $1. (R-162-4). 5) $2. (R-162-5

AR. El Dorado. A Collection of W.E. Morgan Scrip Notes. Morgan was an elected official of Union County. All are About Fine (Image)

Est. $600-800

SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction

176

AR. Fayetteville. Holcomb & Barnard. 75 Cents. Jan. 17, 1862. (Rothert 198-9). No. 148, Plate A. End panel at left with ""75 Cents"". Typeset form on tissue-thin paper. Fine, pinholes. ex Schingoethe, Sale 272 Lot 3545

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction

177

AR. Fort Smith City. W. Mayers. 50 Cents. Jan. 5, 1862. (Rothert-234-12). No. 849, Plate B. Decorative end panel at left with Redeemable by Stirman & Dickson, Fayetteville.
Typeset in black ink on thin tissue-like brown paper. Signe

AR. Fort Smith City. W. Mayers. 50 Cents. Jan. 5, 1862. (Rothert-234-12). No. 849, Plate B. (Image)

Est. $300-400

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

178

AR. Fort Smith. E.S. Mitchell, Choctaw Territory. $2. May 1, 1862. (Rothert-236-10). Typeset form. To be redeemed at Doaksville and Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation by Kingsbury &
Co. Foster, Printer, Fort Smith. Listed as an R-7 (1 to 5 kno

AR. Fort Smith. E.S. Mitchell, Choctaw Territory. $2. May 1, 1862. (Rothert-236-10). (Image)

Est. $1,500-2,000

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

179

AR. Monticello. Corporation of Monticello. 50 Cents. June 2, 1862. (Rothert 495-1). No. 3929, Plate A. Rothert Plate Note. Typeset. VG/F, with paper separations along folds, and tear from left edge. ex Schingoethe, Sale 272 Lot 3567 (Image)

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction

180

AR. Murfreesboro. Roberson & Hancock, Murfreesboro Exchange. 10 Cents. Aug. 1, 1862. (Rothert 515-1) Rothert Plate Note. Type set. VG, thins, and some repair work has been done. Ex. Amon Carter, Jr. Collection; Schingoethe, Sale 272, Lot 3569 (Image)

Est. $300-400

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction