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October 2014 Auction Ends Thursday, October 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 10/30/2014. Final prices include buyers premium.

• Lot #77: Excellent Confederate Letter Lot -- Gettysburg, Spotsylvania & Second Fredericksburg -- ''...the brave man turnd and went back in to the fight and was kild...he was shot through the head...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #78: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #79: Lot of 26 George Custer Envelopes Made Out in His Hand to his Wife -- ''Mrs. Genl Custer''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $10,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #80: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #81: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #82: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #83: 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

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #84: Lot of 11 Civil War Battle Letters -- ''...They mowed us down like sheep. The grunts and groans...that night were enough to make the stoutest man infant...the Devil gave them strength...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #85: Lot of 3 Letters & CDV From the Civil War -- Battle of Deserted House: ''...Wounded and dead men and horses all lying alike uncared for...I saw sights too sickening to relate...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #86: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $1,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #87: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #88: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #89: Large 76 Letter Lot of Three Brothers During the Civil War -- ''... colored troops...kill every single one they have a chance to...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $7,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #90: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #91: Civil War Letter Right After Gettysburg -- ''...three hard days fiting at Gettysburgh...we drove them back with a very heavy loss...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #92: Large 81 Letter Lot by Civil War Soldier -- With Gettysburg & Fredericksburg Content -- ''...I have almost forgotten what it is that has brought me here; to kill and destroy human beings...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $27,500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #93: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $3,750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #94: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #95: 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...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #96: Civil War Letter Archive by KIA Corp. George Crawford of the 5th US Cavalry -- Battle of Brandy Station, Smallpox, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg -- ''...the slaughter was terrible...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $5,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #97: Santa Anna's 1842 Attack on Texas -- ''...Santa Anna has been foiled once in this country and has not come...without being prepared...Should we not be able to repel the invaders Texas is lost...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $2,000

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #102: Ulysses S. Grant Signed Presidential Appointment

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $750

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #144: 1876 Printing of the Declaration of Independence -- Centennial Memorial Print

  

  # Bids: 1

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $313

• Lot #145: Iwo Jima Hero Rene Gagnon Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...one week isn't much to look forward to, but when I might be gone for a year...I guess that one week will mean an awful lot to us...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #146: Rene Gagnon V-Mail & Autograph Letter Signed Three Times -- ''...get one thing straight I'm not on any picnic...These Pacific Island are not what you think...full of dancing hula girls...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $500

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #147: Rene Gagnon Signed Envelope From 1943 While a WWII Marine

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #148: German Nazi Identification Books -- For Two Luftwaffe Pilots

  

  # Bids: 2

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: $344

• Lot #149: 1944 Autograph Letter Signed From a Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Prisoner -- ''...I am very thankful...''

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass

• Lot #150: Albert Speer Typed Letter Signed -- Shortly After His Release From Prison

  

  # Bids: 0

  Min Bid: $250

  Final Price: Pass