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March 2012 Auction Ends Wednesday, March 28th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 3/28/2012. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #9: Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth CDV Photo -- Sepia Image of the Actor in His Pre-Assassin Days Measures 2.5'' x 4''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #467: Ambrotype Civil War Photo of Uniformed Union Soldier -- Powerful, Melancholy Image -- Measures 2'' x 2.5'' -- Gilt on Buttons

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #469: Union General Christopher Columbus Augur CDV -- Commanded XXII Corps -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #470: Nathaniel Banks Mathew Brady Civil War CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #471: Union General Nathaniel Banks CDV -- Also Congressman from Massachusetts -- 2.25'' x 4'' Brady Portrait -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #472: Confederate General G.T. Beauregard Check Signed -- Body of Check Also Filled out by Beauregard

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #473: Signature of ''Grant's Shadow'' Captain Samuel H. Beckwith -- ''...He carried with fidelity the secrets of the nation...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #474: Confederate Statesman Judah Benjamin Document Signed -- ''...It is admitted that at and before and since the sale of the slaves...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #479: Civil War Photo from ''Brady's Incidents of the War'' Series -- 4th N.Y. Artillery at Ft. Corcoran, Va. Measuring 14'' x 10''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #480: Brady CDV of CW Soldier -- New York

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #481: Mathew Brady Civil War Photo Circa 1864 -- Rare Albumen Photo of U.S.S. Pawnee Crew in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #484: General Ambrose Burnside CDV -- Brady Backstamp -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #485: Union General Benjamin Butler CDV -- Later Massachusetts Governor -- With Brady Backstamp -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #486: General Benjamin Butler Document Signed -- 1863 Civil War Dated

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #488: Union General Silas Casey CDV -- Brady Backstamp-- 2.25'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #489: General Adna Chaffee Signature -- Famed Civil War Soldier & U.S. Army Chief of Staff From 1904-1906 -- 3.5'' x 2.5'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #490: 1864 Civilian Letter to Soldier of General Benham's Brigade -- ''...There has been a great excitement...in getting volunteers...on the last call of 500,000...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #496: Two CDVs of Wilhelm von Bechtold, Commander 45th U.S. Colored Troops -- Both Measure 2.5'' x 4'' -- Excellent

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $306

• Lot #497: Captain Will H. Hugo CDV -- 70th New York Infantry at Battle of Wilderness -- Transferred to 28th U.S. Colored Troops -- Very Good With Soldier Inscription on Verso

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #499: Confederate Soldier Who Helped His Enemy -- ''...Yankees...born in VA...a great many of them fighting against their relatives & best friends. They had been badly treated..."

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #500: Four 1864 Confederate War Bond Coupons -- Each for $30 Printed by Archer -- 6'' x 3'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #501: 1864 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery -- ''...Our Co. had a New Years gift of 18 recruits and they are a scared looking set of men. They are sad, tired...and look like the last rose of summer..."

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #502: 1862 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery ALS -- ''...The removal of Gen. Mc Clellan from the army of the Potomac has caused a good deal of...hard feeling in the army...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #503: 1865 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery ALS -- ''...Johnson's Army hasn't surrendered yet but he will soon be forced to do so as...part of the army of the Potomac are in his rear and Sherman in his

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #504: CDV of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artilleryman

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $116

• Lot #505: 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artilleryman Writes From Cold Harbor Battlefield -- ''...the shot & shell fly round quite thick...The enemy a strongly fortified...Our only way to drive them is to lay siege..."

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #506: 7th CT Infantry ALS -- "…the rebels get within about 10 miles of us but do not dare come any nearer, one of our gun boats went down the river today…some of the Darkies are set to…man the boats…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #507: 7th CT Infantry ALS -- ''...the yellow fever at Hilton Head was the reason we left there...Gen. Banks is coming here now...look out...Charleston and Savannah will have to take it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #508: 10th Connecticut Infantry Civil War Letter -- ''...General Foster's boat, the John Farmer, came along side and took...12 Marines and 30 of our company...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $230

• Lot #509: 15th Connecticut Infantry CDV -- Captain Henry B. Peck -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #510: 1864 21st CT Infantry ALS -- ''...I did not enlist to have you go oute to worke for a living not by a dam site and when I want you to I will tell you of it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #529: Civil War General Frederick Fuger Signature -- Medal of Honor Recipient for Defending Pickett's Charge -- 3.75'' x 2.75'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #531: Original Photograph From Alexander Gardner's ''Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War'' -- the Famous Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #537: Gettysburg Battlefield Albumen Photograph -- Measures 7'' x 4.5''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #538: Civil War CDV of General Quincy Adams Gilmore -- Identified in Ink to Verso

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #541: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in Union General Uniform -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.25'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #542: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant in Civil War Uniform -- With Anthony Backmark

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #543: Ulysses S. Grant Carte de Visite -- With Brady Backmark

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #544: Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Carte de Visite

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #545: CDV of Ulysses S. Grant as Commanding General in the Civil War -- With Anthony Backmark

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $425

• Lot #546: Civil War General Henry Halleck CDV -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #547: Union General Henry Halleck CDV -- Brady Backstamp -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #551: General Winfield Hancock CDV -- Gettysburg Hero Who Ran for President in 1880 -- Striking Brady Portrait -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #556: General Oliver O. Howard Typed Letter Signed -- ''...good will...really existed...between the fighting men of the North and South...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #557: ''The Christian General'' Oliver Otis Howard Document Signed -- 1863 Requisition Also Signed by Gen. William LeDuc

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #558: 1865 13th IN Infantry ALS -- ''...There is a great rejoicing today. Shooting musketry, and offal Yelling...over the capture of ft. fisher...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #559: 39th IL Infantry ALS -- "…the 1st Virginia Regt had a little Skirmish this morning with a party of rebels…they lost one man killed and one wounded…we may have a fight here…we are ready for them…"

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #560: 80th IL Infantry ALS -- ''...we have not been pestered by the Guerrillas for some time...We are strong enough to hold our own with all most any force...it makes me feel proud...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #561: 94th IL Infantry 1862 ALS -- ''...we are about 25 thousand strong...and they say that they are 15 hundred Indians coming in here to help us...we will have a chance...to meet the rebels...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $128

• Lot #562: Four Civil War Letters by KIA 97th Illinois Infantry Soldier -- ''...a great many large iron water pipes...were full of men who were desirous of escaping the death that...awaited them outside...'

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $411

• Lot #563: 99th Illinois Infantry Capt., Capturing Texas' Fort Esperanza -- ''...The Rebbels threw a 13 inch shell, which struck about 20 yards in front of my company and bounced over us, where it exploded..."

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $548

• Lot #564: 129th Illinois ALS -- Defense Against Rebel Hood -- ''...our loss 1000 killed and wounded. Rebs loss 600 hundred killed & wounded. We captured...several battle flags...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #565: 1864 139th Illinois Infantry -- "…Today, hearing a great deal…about a Cave…I…found it…The Cave is artificial, 150 feet…white sand stone…"

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #566: 1864 1st IN Heavy Artillery in Baton Rouge -- ''...we have tolerabel heavy guard duty to do but I would rather do that than to be a marching around all the time...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #567: 40th IN Infantry -- ''...hold youre hed hier and keep your Credet good if you have to gow nearley naked...after ones Credit is gone it never Can bee restored...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $155

• Lot #568: 47th Indiana Chaplain 1864 Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Grant was every inch a gentleman of cool judgment...a good specimen of a pure minded true hearted patriotic general...''

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #569: 1863 54th Indiana Infantry ALS -- ''...Enclosed I send you Gen McClearnand's letter to Gov. Yates of Illinois. You can get some little insight into the way Grant has treated our General and his C

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #575: General Robert E. Lee Signature -- With PSA/DNA COA

  

  # Bids: 10

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #576: CDV Photograph of Robert E. Lee Signed Boldly by the General -- Scarce

  

  # Bids: 7

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #577: Robert E. Lee 1866 Carte de Visite

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $566

• Lot #578: Handwritten Obituary Eulogizing General Robert E. Lee's Grandson & Namesake, Colonel Robert Edward Lee -- 1922 -- 7.5'' x 10.25''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #587: 1864 1st Maine Cavalry ALS -- ''...Things now look like a very speedy termination of the war by the capture of Richmond by Butler and annihilation of Lees army which is almost sure to follow..."

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #588: Signed Tintype Civil War Photo -- William H. Cochrane, 6th Maine Infantry -- Regiment Deserter

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #592: Fantastic Lot of 15 Civil War Letters -- ''...We lay in front of Petersburg...we were ordered to fire our guns in the ground & load again & it fooled the Rebs...we killed lots of them & took some

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #593: 1st MA Cavalry Soldier Letter -- ''...You asked me...what kind of rations we have. We have a loaf of flour bread a day...that with salt beef and sometimes potatoes...and dried apple sauce sometim

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $155

• Lot #594: 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery 1863 ALS -- ''...the Colonal told him that he must...be Court Marshalled for deserting for if a man misses more than 3 regular roll calls he is called a deserter

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $172

• Lot #595: 2nd MA Heavy Artillery Letter -- ''...I have no apetite at all for the army ration it is a poor thing for a sick man to live upon...if a fellow is well, it is not so bad to be a soldier...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $172

• Lot #596: Edgar Chandler, 4th Massachusetts Infantry & 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Signed CDV

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #597: CDV of Sumner H. Witherell -- 7th Massachusetts Unattached Infantry

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #598: Massachusetts Infantry CDV -- Frank Johnson, 19th Unattached -- Slight Fading, Otherwise Excellent

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #599: Two 23rd Massachusetts Infantry Letters -- ''...the Orderly...was recently promoted...came into his quarters & drank profusely of ice water. He died in one hour...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $230

• Lot #600: 1865 24th MA Infantry -- ''...You mentioned Frank Smiths wife...was not expected to live. how sad it seems to have one so young taken away and just as they have begun to enjoy life..."

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #601: CDV WIA 24th MA Infantry Officer -- 1st Lt. George W. Nichols -- Shot in Head & Left for Dead at Drewry's Bluff

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #602: Signed CDV of WIA & POW George W. Creasey, 35th Massachusetts Infantry -- WIA at Fredericksburg -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $253

• Lot #603: From Confederate Prison in Texas Writes a 42nd Massachusetts Civil War Soldier -- ''...seems as if we were to be left here to die...'' -- Lot of Six Letters

  

  # Bids: 4

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #604: Rare 1864 Civil War Albumen Photo of Michigan Volunteer Nurses Tending to the Wounded After the Battle of Cold Harbor -- With Well-Known Wartime Nurse Julia Wheelock Depicted

  

  # Bids: 3

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $515

• Lot #606: MoH Awardee Nelson Miles Signature -- Decorated Civil War Soldier Wounded Four Times & Made General at 26 -- 3.5'' x 2.75''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #617: Civil War CDV of Soldier Identified As Conrad Wilhelm Birnbach -- 6th New York Infantry -- Top Corners Trimmed

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $189

• Lot #618: Copies of Two 13th NH Infantry Letters -- 1863 -- ''...the South has suffered terribly. The soldier...never questions ownership...if he wants anything he takes it...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $338

• Lot #619: Two 14th NH Infantry Letters -- ''...hird that Richmond was evacuated...I think this war is nearly over...'' & ''...I have got the Jaundice or bilious complaint...I am as yellow as a safron bug..."

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #620: Signed CDV -- Elisha H. Tobey, 10th New York Heavy Artillery -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Top Corners Trimmed, Slight Foxing, Excellent

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #621: 1864 13th NY Heavy Artillery -- ''...After I finish writing I must go and scour my gun & brasses, so as to be ready for any emergency which may present itself...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #622: Letter From Two 13th NY Infantrymen -- ''...We have pretty good times here in the Sunny South with Nigars and Cotton...''

  

  # Bids: 6

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $288

• Lot #623: 1862 16th New York Infantry ALS -- ''...Hoping this war may soon be over and we may all meet again...a grate many buried on the batelfield...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #624: 28th New York Light Artillery CDV -- James V. Brown -- Very Good Condition

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #625: 1862 35th New York Infantry ALS -- ''...The fort I spoke of is fort Sckedadle pronounced Skidadle with the flat sound on 'a'...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #626: CDV of Henry H. Willis of the 40th New York Infantry -- One of the 100 Fighting Regiments of the War

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #627: Henry H. Willis of the 40th New York Infantry, ''Mozart Regiment,'' CDV -- One of the 100 Fighting Regiments of the War

  

  # Bids: 5

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $306

• Lot #628: CDV of 60th New York Infantry Officer -- Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Rollin C. Gale -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Near Fine

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $209

• Lot #629: Two 1864 Letters -- 63rd NY Infantry -- ''...sending Ammunition and equipments to Baltimore and Washington to receive the invading rebels...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #630: 1861 85th NY Infantry Letter -- ''...We are...all of us anxious for the speedy...close of this...war...Beauregard is...advancing on our lines here with 60,000 troops. there will be music and smok

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #631: 124th New York Infantry CDV -- Soldier Later WIA/DOW at Chancellorsville

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #632: Tintype of Major John B. Houstain -- 132nd New York Infantry -- 3.5'' x 3.25'' -- Very Good

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #633: 143rd NY Infantry ALS -- ''...many Rebs...pass by...as Uncle Sams prisoners...I wish they were all in Hell amongst the damn thats there proper place...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #634: 143rd New York Infantry CDV

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #635: Civil War CDV of Soldier John Tyler of the 13th New York Veteran Reserves Corps, Co. F

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #636: Civil War Letter Referencing Numerous Battles -- ''...rebles tried to slip out, but we caught them...and made them take the Virgina quick step with shells burting around their heads...''

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: $120

• Lot #640: 1864 North Carolina Naval ALS -- ''...We have...five hundred soldiers on the cob dock in Barracks, seamen out of the army it is quite sport here killing Greybacks...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #641: Two 4th OH Cavalry Letters -- ''...we met large droves of fresh, fine horses going to Knoxville...Our boys would...take a very fine horse out...& turn in their old hack...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #643: Three Letters by 13th Ohio Soldier Describing Battles of Gauley Bridge & Cotton Hill -- ''...before we had time to collect ourselves, we were greeted with a round of bullits from the scamps...''

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass