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July 2016 Auction Ends Thursday, July 21st, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 7/21/2016. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #54: Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Twice-Signed From 1863 -- Grant Orders Barges to Be Sent Through Canal at the Height of the Civil War

  

  Min Bid: $2,750

  Final Price: $3,781

• Lot #55: Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and James Garfield Sign This 19th Century Autograph Book -- Likely Signed by Grant as President

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $2,588

• Lot #71: Andrew Johnson Signed Speech

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #161: Abraham Lincoln Letter Signed as President -- Written on Executive Mansion Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $7,000

  Final Price: $8,750

• Lot #162: Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed as President in August 1861

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #163: Penholder Made From Abraham Lincoln's Home in Springfield, Illinois -- With COA Affidavit From State of Illinois

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #165: 1896 Letter Regarding Presidential Succession in the Case of Abraham Lincoln

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #166: Letter Regarding the Pardons for Lincoln Assassination Conspirators Dr. Mudd, Edmund Spangler and Samuel Arnold

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #167: Drafted Chapter of ''A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865'' -- By Louis Weichmann, Prosecution Witness at the Lincoln Assassination Trial

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #168: 1865 Lincoln Assassination Trial Newspaper -- Firsthand Testimony

  

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #217: Alexander Stephens Autograph Letter Signed -- Upon House of Representatives Stamped Stationery

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: $250

• Lot #467: Artist N.C. Wyeth Signed Limited Edition of ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' -- Wyeth Illustrated the Civil War Novel

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #664: Union General Nathaniel Banks CDV -- Mathew Brady Backstamp

  

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #665: Signature of ''Grant's Shadow'' Captain Samuel H. Beckwith -- ''...He carried with fidelity the secrets of the nation...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #666: General Ambrose Burnside CDV -- Mathew Brady Backstamp

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #667: Civil War General Benjamin F. Butler Typed Letter Signed -- ''...I can see you any time after half past three o' clock to-day about the matter...and I want to see you about another matter...''

  

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #668: Four 1864 Confederate War Bond Coupons -- Each for $30 Printed by Archer

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #669: George Custer Lot of 10 Signed Envelopes

  

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #670: George Custer Full Signature Included in a Handwritten Envelope Made Out to His Wife ''Mrs. Genl G A Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #671: George Custer Envelope Made Out in His Hand to His Wife -- ''Mrs. Genl Custer''

  

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #672: Jefferson Davis Signed CDV Photo

  

  Min Bid: $2,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #673: Civil War Photographer Alexander Gardner Signed Check

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #674: Gettysburg Battlefield Album Photograph -- Measures 7'' x 4.5''

  

  Min Bid: $125

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #675: Gettysburg National Park Document From 1898, Signed by 2 Civil War Veterans

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #676: Civil War General Henry Halleck CDV -- No Backmark -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #677: ''A Tribute of Respect: in Memory of Commander Richard Worsam Meade'' -- 1898

  

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #678: General William S. Rosecrans Civil War Document Signed, Dated Christmas Day of 1862 from Nashville

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #679: General William Rosecrans Civil War CDV -- With Anthony Backmark, From Brady Negative -- 2.5'' x 4'' -- Very Good Condition

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #680: General Winfield Scott Document Signed -- Regarding Soldier Abuse in the Seminole Wars

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #681: Civil War Era Sewing Box Likely Used in the War -- With Supplies Inside

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #682: William T. Sherman's Civil War Orders Handwritten by His Assistant Following the Battle of Memphis -- ''...All houses inside the new Fort must be forthwith vacated by families...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #683: Civil War Letter by an Employee at Ft. Leavenworth -- ''...I was home...Had an excellent visit took Mary a circular costing $25. Got her bonnet fixed for her. Got her a black lace veil...''

  

  Min Bid: $80

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #684: Lot of 5 Confederate Letters From KIA Soldier, James W. Anthony of the 11th Alabama -- 1 Civil War Dated Letter -- ''...I volunteered...to fight for the rights of our lovely south...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #685: 3rd Georgia Cavalryman During the Atlanta Campaign -- ''...our gallant boys rose up and gave them a fire and then a yell...they scattered like sheep, leaving all their dead in our possession...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #686: Civil War letter by a Charleston Dragoon, the 4th South Carolina Cavalry -- During the Overland Campaign -- ''...The Fifth Regiment lost five men, killed last night in the fight...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #687: Texas Cavalry Special Orders From 1864 -- For a Private in Gano's Guards of Gano's Brigade

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #688: Civil War Letter by 14th Virginia Infantryman -- ''...been down to Yankeedom...burnt a good deal of valuable lumber & captured five Yankees...They were indeed very much surprised to see our men...''

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #689: Confederate Letter Lot From 1st Virginia Cavalryman -- ''...Lieutenant Zanondson gave him a pass and took one for himself...'' -- Plus a Copy of ''1st Virginia Cavalry''

  

  Min Bid: $1,200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #690: 21st Virginia Infantryman -- ''...considerable activity in the Yankee camp...Let us pray that the almighty so directs the course of events...to be the last of this uncalled for and cruel war...''

  

  Min Bid: $350

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #691: 40th Virginia Infantryman Civil War Letter: ''...a spy had just passed through our camp, having crossed over at Mathias' point, on his way from Washington to report to General Holmes...''

  

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #692: ''A Victorious Union'' by Oliver Optic -- From ''The Blue and the Gray Series'' -- 1893 First Edition

  

  Min Bid: $175

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #693: Civil War Letter on the Historic Battle of Shiloh & Its Gory Aftermath -- ''...heads blown off some with a bowl through the eyes & head others with the lower part of their face blown off...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #694: Civil War Letter, Chronicling Sherman's March -- ''...our brigade...proceeded to give them a few 'pointed instructions' in skirmishing...'' & ''...passed Marietta and Atlanta...partially burned...''

  

  Min Bid: $800

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #695: Lot of 4 Civil War Letters From Soldiers in the 80th Illinois & Mississippi Marine Brigade -- ''...We were after some Rebs...We followed them and took a few prisoners...'' -- Plus 30+ Documents

  

  Min Bid: $400

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #696: Civil War Letter -- ''...One man was shot by the sentinel a few days ago...The ball struck the joint of his shoulder and went through his neck cutting open [his] wind pipe & gullet...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #697: 29th Massachusetts Infantryman, WIA at Petersburg: ''...I was shot through the back of the neck July 30th in the charge when we blowed up the rebel fort...'' -- Also Battle of Bethesda Church

  

  Min Bid: $600

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #698: 3rd Massachusetts Letter -- ''...it was as hot as 2 hells here...I think they are trying to kill our regiment...our party got licked...it will always be so as long as they have such damn fools...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #699: Diary by 43 MA Infantryman -- Siege of Little Washington: ''...places where the fire...had ignited and left burning hundreds of old dead...'' & ''...a negro deck hand had his arms shot off...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #700: ''Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865'' -- Record of the 13th Michigan Infantry

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #701: Civil War Archive by Frederick Meyer, Aboard the U.S.S. Flag -- ''...several men killed then they had to surrender...15 killed, 31 wounded...fire all around as shells bust on top us...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #702: Civil War Letter With Fort Darling Battle Content -- ''...I had one man fall on me...with the back part of his head shove in by a piece of shell...loss is 60 killed wounded & missing...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #703: Civil War Captain Joseph Prime Letter From 1862 Regarding the Death of Colonel Ellsworth

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #704: Civil War Letter at Battle of Darbytown Road -- ''...before the assaulting colum got within sight of the rebs they set up a awful yell and the rebs opened a murderous fire...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #705: ''New Jersey's Ninth Regiment 1861-1905: Report of State Commission for Erection of Monument to Ninth New Jersey Vols.''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #706: Civil War Letter Lot by a 21st New York Cavalryman -- Describing His Capture of Deserters & Disowning His Own Brother for Deserting -- ''...He has lost all claim upon me to call him brother...''

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #707: Civil War Letter Right After Gettysburg -- ''...three hard days fiting at Gettysburgh...we drove them back with a very heavy loss...''

  

  Min Bid: $1,250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #708: ''Bugles and Bells; or, Stories Told Again'' by E.E. Ewing -- Including the Story of the 91st Ohio Infantry -- 1899

  

  Min Bid: $150

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #709: Letter Lot With Battle of Gum Swamp Content -- ''...Standing up [Col. Richter] looked over the breast works and gave some commands, when a bullet entered his breast and he died instantly...''

  

  Min Bid: $100

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #710: Letter Lot by Two Civil War Soldiers -- ''...the rebel cavaliers did brave our pickets...It was about 4,000 men together and it was so still that you can hear a pin fall...''

  

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #711: 81 Letter Lot by Civil War Soldier -- Gettysburg Content -- ''...I saw one man who had been shot through the neck & the blood was running down his coat...a very queer sensation ran through me...''

  

  Min Bid: $12,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #712: 55th PA Infantry Soldier During the Civil War's Siege of Petersburg -- ''...the artillery opened fire when the Rebs made a change and our men shot a volley into them...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #713: 1862 Civil War Letter by 90th Pennsylvania Infantryman -- ''...we got sudden order to march to york town...they said that our troop was geting lick...''

  

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #714: Civil War Letter by William H. Foss of The 1st Independent Sharpshooters -- Battle of Globe Tavern at Weldon Railroad -- ''...I do hate to see human beings shot down like wilde beast...''

  

  Min Bid: $375

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #715: Civil War Letter by 5th Vermont Infantryman KIA at Savage's Station, ''...it is pretay sickley hear and a good many dying...you have perhaps hurd of our los of men...''

  

  Min Bid: $300

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #716: Confederate Vice President, Alexander Hamilton Stephens Free Frank Signature

  

  Min Bid: $200

  Final Price: Pass