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THE HOLY BIBLE,  OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS—ID’D TO SERGEANT MAJOR WARREN F. SHERMAN, 160th NEW YORK INFANTRY

THE HOLY BIBLE, OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS—ID’D TO SERGEANT MAJOR WARREN F. SHERMAN, 160th NEW YORK INFANTRY

Published by His Majesty’s Special Command. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1849.  Owner inscription on title page (in pencil) : “Segt. Maj. Warren F. Sherman / 160th New York Vol. / New Orleans… (825-49). Learn More »

$275.00
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MULTI-COLOR SERVICE ESCUTCHEON OF WILLIAM COOMBS 13th MASS. VOLS.

MULTI-COLOR SERVICE ESCUTCHEON OF WILLIAM COOMBS 13th MASS. VOLS.

A very appealing, full color, veteran’s escutcheon in the form of a shield with an American eagle at top with Union shield on its chest, perched on a wreath with US flags at either side and holding… (1179-1307). Learn More »

CASEY’S INFANTRY TACTICS ID’D TO PRIVATE JOSEPH COLLINS, CO. “A”, 149TH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY [Gettysburg Regiment]

CASEY’S INFANTRY TACTICS ID’D TO PRIVATE JOSEPH COLLINS, CO. “A”, 149TH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY [Gettysburg Regiment]

Published by D. Van Norstrand, New York, 1863. Owner inscription, [upside down} in front eps, in ragged pencil: Joseph Collins / Huntersville/ PA///Jos. Collins / Capt. of Co A / 149th P.B.V.   279… (1256-139). Learn More »

REVISED U.S. ARMY REGULATIONs, 1863. ID’D TO CAPT. SAMUEL J. PEALER, 209th and 74th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

REVISED U.S. ARMY REGULATIONs, 1863. ID’D TO CAPT. SAMUEL J. PEALER, 209th and 74th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS

Washington Printing Office, 1863. Owner signature, front & rear eps: “S.J. Pealer /Asbury / Capt. Com A of 74th PA Vols.” 594 pp., forms. In blue blind-stamped buckram w/gilt spine lettering… (1256-143). Learn More »

HARDEE’S RIFLE & LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS ID’D TO PRIVATE JACOB W. HARRINGTON, CO. “A”, 30th PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY

HARDEE’S RIFLE & LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS ID’D TO PRIVATE JACOB W. HARRINGTON, CO. “A”, 30th PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY

Published by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1861.  Owner inscription, rear eps, faded ink: “Mr. Jacob W. Herrington / Co. A,  1st Infantry  /Regt. of P.R. Vol [30th PA] / Camp Pierpont / Fairfax… (1256-141). Learn More »

SCOTT’S INFANTRY TACTICS, VOLS. 1 & 2—ID’D TO MAJOR FRANCIS ASBURY DAVIES, U.S. ARMY 16TH INFANTRY

SCOTT’S INFANTRY TACTICS, VOLS. 1 & 2—ID’D TO MAJOR FRANCIS ASBURY DAVIES, U.S. ARMY 16TH INFANTRY

New Edition, Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1855. Owner inscription in both volumes, in front eps, in pencil: “Frank Davis / of Harrisburg / June 1856 / military academy / West Point… (1256-140). Learn More »

FRAMED CIVIL WAR DISCHARGE AND SOLDIER’S MEMORIAL BEARING THE PERSONAL RECORD OF GEORGE FOSTER, COMPANY G 152nd NEW YORK, CAPTURED AT THE WELDON RAILROAD AT PETERSBURG

FRAMED CIVIL WAR DISCHARGE AND SOLDIER’S MEMORIAL BEARING THE PERSONAL RECORD OF GEORGE FOSTER, COMPANY G 152nd NEW YORK, CAPTURED AT THE WELDON RAILROAD AT PETERSBURG

This is a nice pair of framed Civil War veteran’s documents with good eye appeal. The first is his original army discharge dated June 27, 1865. The second is a framed soldier’s memorial with… (480-275). Learn More »

REVISED U.S. ARMY REGULATIONS, 1861 IDENTIFIED TO CAPT. JESSE W. HURST, THE UNION COAST GUARD (99TH NEW YORK INFANTRY)

REVISED U.S. ARMY REGULATIONS, 1861 IDENTIFIED TO CAPT. JESSE W. HURST, THE UNION COAST GUARD (99TH NEW YORK INFANTRY)

Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. Inscribed in ink, front eps: “Sept. 29, 1861 / Jesse W. Hursts/ Capt. E Co. 13 / Union Coast Guard.” 559 pp,, tbls, forms. In blue cloth buckram,… (825-55). Learn More »

ID’D COPY OF TWENTIETH REUNION OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND / SEPTEMBER 1889 – WILLIAM MAYBERRY, 15TH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY

ID’D COPY OF TWENTIETH REUNION OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND / SEPTEMBER 1889 – WILLIAM MAYBERRY, 15TH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY

ID’D TO Private William Mayberry, Co. “A”, 15th PA Cavalry.  Owner inscription, front ep—“W. W. Mayberry ____ S.C. /Oct. 1889 / Co C/ 15th PA Cavalry.” Published by Robert Clarke &… (825-57). Learn More »

CIVIL WAR CARVED PIPE WITH CHICKAMAUGA BATTLE HONOR PRESENTED BY CAPT. PETER HAND 24th ILLINOIS TO CAPT. FERDINAND BOLTZ, 88th INDIANA

CIVIL WAR CARVED PIPE WITH CHICKAMAUGA BATTLE HONOR PRESENTED BY CAPT. PETER HAND 24th ILLINOIS TO CAPT. FERDINAND BOLTZ, 88th INDIANA

This is a very well-made carved pipe presented by one Civil War officer to another and is a great example of Civil War camp art, created in moments of leisure or boredom in winter camps, and in this… (766-2028). Learn More »

$3,500.00
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CONFEDERATE SILVER AND GOLD INLAID IDENTIFICATION RING WITH PATRIOTIC AND RELIGIOUS MOTIFS AND CONFEDERATE FLAG, OF AUGUSTUS SEARS CO. E 2nd BATTALION MISSOURI SHARPSHOOTERS

CONFEDERATE SILVER AND GOLD INLAID IDENTIFICATION RING WITH PATRIOTIC AND RELIGIOUS MOTIFS AND CONFEDERATE FLAG, OF AUGUSTUS SEARS CO. E 2nd BATTALION MISSOURI SHARPSHOOTERS

This impressive silver identification ring was worn and most likely also made by Augustus Sears of Howard County, Missouri, who was a silversmith by trade and during Price’s Missouri raid served in… (766-2027). Learn More »

EXCELLENT CONDITION IDENTIFIED SET OF CASEY’S INFANTRY TACTICS

EXCELLENT CONDITION IDENTIFIED SET OF CASEY’S INFANTRY TACTICS

This is the full three-volume set of Casey’s Infantry Tactics, published by Van Nostrand, in New York in 1862. They bear the book seller’s label of Philp and Solomon, Washington, DC, on the inside… (1256-142). Learn More »

$395.00
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127th NEW YORK SOLDIER’S WHISKEY FLASK

127th NEW YORK SOLDIER’S WHISKEY FLASK

This is a pocket-size glass whiskey flask with metal screw top, leather covered upper body and lower body fitted with a metal drinking cup. Both the cap and cup are marked by James Dixon and Sons.… (2024-1733). Learn More »

$695.00
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IDENTIFIED VOL. 2 COOKE’S CAVALRY TACTICS, POSSIBLY LT. EZRA PECK, CO. D, 8th NY CAVALRY

IDENTIFIED VOL. 2 COOKE’S CAVALRY TACTICS, POSSIBLY LT. EZRA PECK, CO. D, 8th NY CAVALRY

This is an 1861 copy of “Cavalry Tactics or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements, of the Cavalry of the Army and Volunteers of the United States” by Phillip St. George Cooke,… (1254-07). Learn More »

BENJAMIN CROWNINSHIELD’S COPY OF MCCLELLAN’S CAVALRY MANUAL

BENJAMIN CROWNINSHIELD’S COPY OF MCCLELLAN’S CAVALRY MANUAL

Crowninshield was an officer the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry and later wrote its regimental history. Member of a socially prominent Boston “brahmin” family and Harvard-educated, he enlisted in the… (1254-06). Learn More »

2nd NEW HAMPHIRE MARKED 1862 COPY OF MCCLELLAN’S BAYONET MANUAL

2nd NEW HAMPHIRE MARKED 1862 COPY OF MCCLELLAN’S BAYONET MANUAL

McClellan authored this training manual on the use of the bayonet while a brevet Captain in the US Corps of Engineers in the early 1850s and copyrighted in 1852. Essentially a translation of a French… (1235-265). Learn More »

$75.00
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CIVIL WAR US NAVY SAILOR’S EMBROIDERED PINCUSHION OF AMHERST SPOFFORD: SERVICE IN THE 3rd MAINE INFANTRY AND US NAVY

CIVIL WAR US NAVY SAILOR’S EMBROIDERED PINCUSHION OF AMHERST SPOFFORD: SERVICE IN THE 3rd MAINE INFANTRY AND US NAVY

Born in Maine in 1821, Amherst Spofford (III) first went to sea at age thirteen and spent the greater part of his life as a sailor according to a 1916 obituary. During the Civil War he served in both… (2024-358). Learn More »

A SOUVENIR FROM STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE

A SOUVENIR FROM STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE

This attractive 11” x 14” unframed display features a 2 3/8” x 1 7/8” piece of coverlet that was owned by Colonel Elijah W. Penny who had service in three Indiana Union regiments and was… (M26440). Learn More »

OFFICER AND SERGEANT’S GROUP OF EFFINGHAM VANDERBURGH, 56th NY – “TENTH LEGION” – AND 1st NEW YORK ENGINEERS

OFFICER AND SERGEANT’S GROUP OF EFFINGHAM VANDERBURGH, 56th NY – “TENTH LEGION” – AND 1st NEW YORK ENGINEERS

This group consists of four pieces belonging to an early-war Lieutenant in the 56th New York Volunteers who re-enlisted later to serve as an enlisted man in the 1st New York Engineers. The group… (2024-354). Learn More »

MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES

MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES

By William Gilham. Published by West & Johnson, Richmond, VA, 1862. Id’d to “V.M. Johnson / Virginia / August 13th, 1863,” inscribed in weak pencil inscription in front EPS. 559 pp., 82… (1202-102). Learn More »


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UNION ARMY AMBULANCE CORPS WAGONS AT BELLE PLAIN LANDING MAY 1864

Scenes of Civil War army camps and depots often give a real chance at seeing army life up close, in detail, and unposed as men go about their tasks unaware of the camera. Sometimes identified as a taken near City Point along the James River, this… (1054-688). Learn More »

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