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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Charleston S.C. Regiments. Group of 3 covers comprising Vancey's Ferry S.C. "Paid 10" use to Liet. in Matthews Rifles,
Eutaw Regiment, S.C.V. at James Island S.C.; Charleston S.C. Dec. 9, 1861 "Paid 5" use to Palmetto Guard, Genl. Gonzalles Command at Coosahotchie S.C.; and Charleston Nov. 29, 1861 due "5" use from Corpl. Rutlidge Mounted Rifles,
Gonzales Command to Black Oak S.C., Very Fine trio.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Col. John A. Washington, Care of Gen Robert E. Lee, Richmond Va. Small cover from his wife with partial "Salem Fauquier, Va. Jun
21" cds with day updated to "24", matching "Paid" handstamp (CSA A) with ms. "5" cent rating, docketed "Mrs J.B. Alexander, June 21, 1861" at left, Very Fine cover mailed only two month prior to his
death.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
John Augustine Washington III was the great-grand nephew of George Washington and the last private owner of Mount Vernon. John Augustine and his family vacated Mount Vernon for their new home
Waveland plantation in February 1860. About a year later, John Augustine joined the Confederate Army as a lieutenant colonel, and he served as aide-de-camp to his relative by marriage, General Robert E. Lee. In September 1861, John Augustine was
killed during a reconnaissance mission at the Battle of Cheat Mountain by a Union bushwhacker. In a letter to John's teenage daughter Louisa, Lee painfully informed her that her father "fell in the cause to which he had devoted all his
energies, and which his noble heart was earnestly enlisted." The two men had shared many conversations and moments together as tent mates, and Lee admired his unflinching "devotion to Almighty God," assuring Louisa that "He is now
safely in Heaven." John Augustine was buried in the Zion Episcopal Churchyard in Charles Town, West Virginia, one of several Washington family members who fought and died for Southern independence. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Corpl. Edward J. Dean, "Spartan Rifles", 5th Palmetto Regt. So. Car. Vols., Col. M. Jenkins Commander". Cover sent
the day before the battle of Manassas with "Spartanburg S.C. Jul 20, 1861" cds and matching "Paid" and "5" in circle rating handstamps on cover to Tudor Hall Va. near Manassas Junction, endorsed "Care Capt. Jos.
Walker, "Spartan Rifles"" at bottom left; some edge wear and soiling, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
Micah Jenkins graduated from the S.C. Military Academy at the head of the 1854 class, and helped to organize
King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville S.C. that he was connected with until 1861. He was elected Colonel of the 5th South Carolina in that year and fought conspicuously at First Manassas. He subsequently formed the Palmetto Sharp-shooters,
a regiment made up of transfers from the 2nd, 5th and 9th S.C. Infantry, which he led during the Seven Days. He was promoted to Brig. General on July 22, 1862. He was wounded at second Manassas and served in several campaigns until being struck down
by friendly fire on May 6, 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "D. B. Edwards, Captain Co. A, 44th Ala Regt. Vols, Laws Brig., Fields Division, Longstreets Corps, A. N. Va.". Elaborate
endorsement along top of brown cover with perfect strike of Army of Northern Virginia "10" in Double-Line Circle rating handstamp to Benton Ala., Extremely Fine and unusual form of docketing, ex-Myerson.
Estimate;
$300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 2345 |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Duncan G. Campbell, Care of Major W.L. Cabell, Quarter Master Gen'l A.P., Manassas Va.". Address on cover bearing
5¢ green, stone A/B (1), four large margins with bright color, tied by "Warrington Va. Oct 26" cds; top edge mend and tears, Very Fine appearance.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
William Lewis Cabel,
"Old Tige" graduated from West Point in 1850. His U.S. service was primarily in the Quartermaster General's Office and upon his resignation in 1861, was promptly assigned by the C.S.A. as Major and Chief Quartermaster to General
Beauregard at Manassas. He later served on the staff of General J. E. Johnston, at which time he assisted these two officers in designing the Confederate battle flag. Transferred to the Trans-Mississippi under General Van Dorn, Cabell was of great
service after the Battle of Elkhorn, when he ferried the latter's entire command to the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Later, he was appointed brigadier general to rank from January 20, 1863. While in command of a brigade of cavalry under
General Sterling Price, he was captured on a raid into Missouri in October 1864, not being released until August 1865. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "E.D. Tracy, Lieut. Col. 19th Reg. Ala.". Soldier endorsement on orange cover with "Mobile, Ala. Dec 10, 1861"
double-circle datestamp and matching "5" in circle rating handstamp to Huntsville Ala., additional blue "Due/5" handstamp; reduced at left and edge wear, Very Fine and scarce signature.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
Edward D. Tracy (1833-1863) entered service at the start of the Civil War as a Captain in the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment. The regiment fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. On October 12, 1861, Tracy was appointed Lieutenant
Colonel of the 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment and was transferred to the Western Theater. He had a horse killed under him at the Battle of Shiloh. He was commissioned as a brigadier general on August 16, 1862. Tracy was killed at the Battle of Port
Gibson, Mississippi on May 1, 1863. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Edward Stuart, Maj Gen JEB Stuart's Signal Corps". Manuscript endorsement on cover with greenish blue "Lynchburg Va.,
Mar 3" cds and matching "DUE 10" rating handstamp (CSA I) to Col. Oscar C. E. Stuart, Loundes Co. Ala., Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Fort Ripley, Lt. W. W. Gimball, 1 S.C. Arty". Endorsement on blue cover with "Charleston S.C., Sep 14, 186" to
Spartanburg S.c., origin letter datelined "Fort Ripley, Sept. 13. 1863" to his mother with some excellent content, "…Everything is still and looks as if we were enjoying peace, but about two miles from us, you see our old
Battery at Cumming's Point being rapidly transformed into a powerful work with heavy guns already mounted there, and on the upper end of Morris lsland, an immense number of tents covering the sandhills. Still one likes to catch each moment of
quiet and revel in it without brooding on what is to happen. I am now stationed at Fort Ripley, a little fort in the harbor which mounts two guns. The place is so small that the garrison are compelled to be provided for outside, so they tied to the
fort one of our old gunboats built in the early part of the war for quarters for the men. You may imagine there is not much exercise, and we are living on a ship, two rather unpleasant items. When I left Sumter, I hoped to be stationed at some sand
battery, but my good or evil luck placed me here, and not having the desirable apathy to accept what is for fate, I have made a good many endeavors to be relieved but thus far without success. Would that I could root out all feeling, for as I am a
mere machine and obliged to obey orders, I would prefer its wooden nature. My company has been very much exposed and cut up in action and should therefore, I think, be allowed some nice battery to recruit at. Other companies of the Regiment have
endured very little and yet enjoy nice positions in Charleston & elsewhere. These however are some of the injustices of military life. The big gun on which so much reliance was placed has burst at the first discharge, the Yankee prisoners say. It was
offered to the U. S. Government and refused on the inspection of their Ordnance officer who reported it to be a humbug. lt was then sold to us who seem to take anything wildly on mere probabilities. Things look very blue for us now, but a just God
will not allow us to be subdued and trampled upon by our enemies, we who ask but to govern ourselves…"; docketing from his mother on face of cover, Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "James Conner, Major, Hampton Legion". Manuscript endorsement on yellow cover with "Tudor Hall, Va. Aug 31, 1861" cds
with manuscript "5" rating to Charleston S.C.; right edge stain, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $150 - 200.
James Conner (1829-1883) was a Confederate States Army during the American Civil War rising to the rank
brigadier-general in 1864. He participated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter as Captain of the Montgomery Guards, a S.C. militia unit. He became a captain in the Hampton Legion and fought at the Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas),
taking temporary command of the legion after Colonel Wade Hampton was wounded. On July 21, 1861, Conner was appointed major of Hampton's Legion. He resigned his command on August 13, 1863, and became a member of the military court of the 2nd
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Returning to field command in 1864, Conner was promoted to brigadier-general on June 1, 1864. Conner was severely wounded during a skirmish at Cedar Creek (Fisher's Hill) and he lost a leg to amputation,
effectively ending his field service.
He was a lawyer in South Carolina both before and after the war and was elected Attorney General of South Carolina in 1876. (Image1)
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Est. $150-200
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Maj. A. M. Davis, 45th Regt., 2nd Brigade, Army of South West Virginia at Dublin Va. Address on cover bearing 5¢ blue, stone 2
(4) horizontal pair, large margins to barely touched at right, tied by blue "Emory Va. May 16" cds; no backflap, pair has tiny crease and light gum soaks, Very Fine, ex-Knapp.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
Alexander Mathers Davis enlisted on May 29th 1861 at Wytheville Va. as Captain and commissioned into Company C of the Virginia 45th Infantry. He was listed as a POW Jun. 5th 1864 at Piedmont Va., confined Jun. 7th 1864 at Johnson's
Island Oh. and taking oath of allegiance on Jul. 25th 1865. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Major E.G. Lee, Care Col. A.C. Cummings, 33d Regt. Va. Vol., Mannassas Junction, Va. Address on cover with blue "Lexington Va. Aug
31" cds and matching "Paid" and "10" rating handstamps; some wear; reduced slightly at left, Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
The 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised
in the Commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed "Stonewall Brigade," named for General Stonewall Jackson. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Private Wm Jas Faires, Co. I, 12 Reg Ala Volunteers, Rhode's Brigade, Virginia". Sender's endorsement on cover with
"Tudor Hall Va., Jan 5, 1862" cds and matching "Due 10" and additional "10" rating handstamp to Mobile Ala.; light soiling, Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
Robert Emmett Rodes (1829-1864)
was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the first of Robert E. Lee's divisional commanders not trained at West Point. His division led Stonewall Jackson's devastating surprise attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville;
Jackson, on his deathbed, promoted Rodes to major general. Rodes then served in the corps of Richard S. Ewell at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the Overland Campaign, before that corps was sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early, where Rodes
was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Signal Corps, Bathing House, Charleston S.C.". Address on cover bearing 5¢ light blue (6) pair, four
margins with preprint paper fold at left, slight gum toning at top, tied by "Charleston S.C., Jan 12, 186" cds to William J. Barker, cover turned to Mulberry; some wear; accompanied by stereo card showing the bathing house, Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "William C.Wickham, Lt. Col. 4th Va. Cavalry". Signed endorsement by future CSA General on buff cover with "Tudor Hall,
Va. Mar 1, 1862" cds and matching "Due 5" rating handstamp to Hanover C.H., Va.; stain at top and edge wear, Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
Following the secession of Virginia, Wickham took his company, the Hanover
Dragoons, into the service of the Confederate States Army. After participating in the First Battle of Manassas, Wickham was commissioned by Governor John Letcher as lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry in September 1861. On May 4, 1862,
he incurred a severe saber wound during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Williamsburg. In this state of injury, he was captured, but quickly paroled. In August 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry. At the Battle of
Sharpsburg, he was wounded again, this time in the neck by a shell fragment. Recovering, he participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Brandy Station and Gettysburg.
Wickham was commissioned brigadier general on September 9, 1863, and
put in command of Wickham's brigade of Fitzhugh Lee's division. On May 11, 1864, he fought at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded during this engagement, with his final order being: "Order Wickham to
dismount his brigade and attack." In September 1864, after the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, Wickham blocked at Milford an attempt by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan to encircle and destroy the Confederate forces of Maj. Gen.
Jubal Early. He then attacked the Federal cavalry at Waynesboro and forced them to retreat to Bridgewater. Wickham resigned his commission on October 5, 1864, and took his seat in the Second Confederate Congress, to which he had been elected while in
the field. Recognizing that the days of the Confederacy were over, he participated in the Hampton Roads Conference in an attempt to bring an early end to the war. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $220.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (Naval) C.S. Steamer Stono. Orange buff cover bearing 5¢ blue (7) pair, large margins, tied by "Richmond Va., Apr, 1862" cds
addressed to "Asst. Surgeon C. H. Morfit, C.S. Steamer Stono, C.S.N., Charleston S.C.", docketed "Recd Apl 21st 1863, E. Am" on reverse, Very Fine and rare Confederate naval cover.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
The
Steamer "Stono", formerly the USS "Isaac Smith" was part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Fall of 1862. She was then assigned to operate in the Stono River, South Carolina. While making a reconnaissance in that river
on 30 January 1863, she was caught by enemy shore batteries lead by Pierre G.T. Beauregard and badly battered. With eight of her crew killed and many more wounded, USS Isaac Smith was forced to surrender. Taken into Confederate Navy service under the
name Stono, she was wrecked near Fort Moultrie, S.C., while attempting to run the blockade of Charleston on 5 June 1863. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, (War Content) "Fort Johnson, James Island, September 2nd 1863". Datelined on letter from Samuel N. Kennerly describing effort to reinforce Fort
Sumter, accompanied by orange cover endorsed "S.N. Kennerly Lt. Edisto Rifles, 25th Reg. S.C. Vol." at top left and entered mails with "Charleston S.C., Sep 4, 1863" cds and large "10" cents due handstamp to Orangeburg C.H.
S.C.; some soiling, staining, interesting letter content includes "We started yesterday evening and succeeded in getting near Fort Sumter in a boat, but the enemy had advanced with their boats and commenced firing on Sumter and we could not
pass and consequently had to turn back. We came back as far as Fort Johnson where we are at present, waiting for tonight to go over. Boats cannot go over only at night owing to the Yankees firing into every boat that they see passing. They kept up a
very heavy fire on Fort Sumter all night last night, and the moon was shining brightly and consequently it was impossible for us to pass…Things have been very quiet today. There has not been much shooting. I think we will take the trip
tonight. We will start early in order to get over before the moon gets up. We will go in a steam boat until we get near Fort Sumter, where use will take small boats and row over from there…", F.-V.F. with excellent war content.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction |
Independent State & U.S. Used in the C.S.A.
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 Confederacy, Charleston S.C., Paid, Jan 22, 1861. Cds on blind embossed "Dunham, Taft & Co., Boots & Shoes" corner card cover bearing U.S. 3¢ dull red
(26), right guide line s.e., tied by matching grid to Shelton Depot S.C.; stain spot, F.-V.F. and scarce Independent State advertising use.
Scott $300; Estimate $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Scott $300
Est. $200-300
SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Charleston S.C., Apr 26, 1861. Cds ties U.S. 3¢ dull red (26) on yellow cover with blue "Williams, Birnie & Co., General Commission
Merchants., Charleston S.C." cameo corner card to Columbia S.C.; reduced at right, F.-V.F. and scarce cameo.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
(Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Charleston S.C., Apr. 3, 1861. Sharp cds on all-over Eberhard Faber "A.W. Faber's Lead Pencils." front and back ad cover bearing U.S. 3¢ dull
red (26) tied by circular grid cancel to Columbia S.C.; small edge tear and reduced slightly at right, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
A REMARKABLE ADVERTISING COVER MAILED ON THE DAY SOUTH CAROLINA WAS ADMITTED
TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. (Image1)
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Get Market Data for [United States (Confederate States) US 26] |
Est. $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Confederacy, Galveston, Texas, 1861. Two covers from correspondence, with with original letter datelined at "Lynchburg, Harris Co., Texas" entering mails with partial
"Galveston Tex." cds tying U.S. 3¢ dull red (26) to South Framingham Mass., Fine and scarce pair of Confederate Texas covers.
Scott $700; Estimate $200 - 300.
Complete Images. (Image1)
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Scott $700
Est. $200-300
SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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