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1. (101 RANCH). Colonel Zack T. Miller Presents the 29th Annual Round-Up and the 10th Annual Terrapin Derby and Buffalo Barbecue at the 101 Ranch.... The three Miller brothers (Joe, George, Zack) owned Oklahoma's largest cattle ranch, the 110,000-acre "101 Ranch," and were pioneers in the Old Wild West show genre, creating the Miller Wild West Show; Joe died in 1927 and George in 1929; with the Depression in the early '30s the 101 Ranch struggled along before going bankrupt under the direction of sole surviving brother Zack (1878-1952). Broadside, 7½" X 22", Ponca City, Oklahoma, n.y. [1933] September 15-16. Very good. A few small edge tears, and along the bottom edge (only) some edge chips, not affecting text. Cheaply, crudely printed on thin newsprint-quality orange stock, this rare survivor heralds and advertises the 101 Ranch's 29th annual round-up. The round-ups began in 1904 and usually featured "headliners" and future cowboy film stars such as Tom mix; the 1905 round-up showed off Geronimo himself. A miscellany of large eclectic typefaces, with smaller text near the bottom noting: "Champion Ropers and Riders / Cowboy Sports and Pastimes / Roping and Riding Wild Steers, Relay Races, / Bronc Riding and Bulldogging...." Similar text on verso gives additional fine-print details on the terrapin derby and an entry blank. Intended for public posting and invariably destroyed, this broadside (which was also issued in a pale purple version) is a scarce memento from the struggling, soon-to-go-bankrupt 101 Ranch.
Price: $195.00

2. (BELL, John) (1797-1869). 1860 Campaign Card. This Tennessee powerhouse (representative 1827-41, speaker 1834-35) and senator (1847-59) was nominated in 1860 for president of the United States on the Constitutional Union party -- the last vestiges of the old Whig and Know-Nothing parties; he and running mate Edward Everett won the electoral votes of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, receiving 588,879 popular votes (39 electoral votes) to Lincoln's 1,866,452 popular votes (180 electoral votes), placing him a distant fourth in popular votes and a weak third in electoral votes; though his party sought compromise and preservation of the Union, after Fort Sumter was fired upon Bell advised his home state to join the seceding states. Printed campaign card, heavy stock 2½" X 2", Boston, MA, n.y. [1860]. Very good. Mild age toning. Carpenter & Allen of 247 Washington Street in Boston, well-known lithographers, produced 5½" X 3¼" campaign envelopes and matching letterhead stationery for both Lincoln and Hamlin and Bell and Everett, each with steel-engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of the candidates in the upper left corner. Offered here is an offprint of the Bell and Everett portraits, printed on an unusual glazed heavy stock -- perhaps a proof of some sort, or perhaps a stand-alone campaign item similar to a trade card. Below the handsome portraits appears the exact same text that appears on the campaign envelope: "BELL EVERETT / Engraved by Carpenter & Allen 247 Wash.n St. Boston / Copyright secured." Along the bottom edge, a contemporary admirer of Bell & Everett has continued the main "BELL EVERETT" printed caption by penciling in "are the boys for us" along the bottom edge. Like other glazed items from this period we've handled, the glazing takes on a faint pinkish hue over the years, but the image itself is strong and bold. Verso is blank, showing only a small mounting stain and 20th century ownership signature. Very scarce and most unusual.
Price: $175.00

3. (BLOSSOM, Dudley Stuart) (1879-1938). In Memoriam: Dudley Stuart Blossom. Cleveland: N.p., 1938 October 30. 8vo. Stiff tan folder. (2pp). Tipped-in illustration. Very good. Program for a memorial concert honoring the reknowned wholesale hardware magnate, the noted Cleveland philanthropist who funded many a Cleveland civic project. Left inner page features a tipped-in portrait of Blossom, who had died on October 7. Right side lists the speaker -- Cleveland mayor Harold H. Burton -- and musical selection that included Wagner and Brahms. Unusual, and in tight clean condition -- an interesting tidbit of Cleveland history. From the collection of noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar ARNOLD F. GATES (1914-93).
Price: $25.00

4. (BOLTON, Chester C., 1881-1939, and BOLTON, Frances P., 1885-1977). Remembrance Booklet. Ohio representative, serving from 1929 to 1937 and again in 1939; upon his death his wife completed his term and became the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio when she served an additional 14 terms. Booklet, "I Remembrance / Chester C. Bolton / September 5, 1881 -- October 29, 1939." Wide 48mo (5½" X 4"). Stiff wrappers, string-tied with black-and-white cord. 4pp. Centerfold page consists simply of a large Kahlil Gibran quotation, while the page preceding and following this consists of a facsimile (NOT authentic) handwritten note from his widow. Reads in part: "He wanted a message to go to you at Christmastime. These few lines so express his life that I am sending them to you with the hope that they may be a bond between us as we respond to their challenge and try to enrich our lives as he did his in selfless service to the Country he so deeply loved. With heartfelt good wishes now as always, Faithfully yours Frances P. Bolton." Fine. An unusual memento from this unusual husband and wife Congressional pair, in superb clean condition. Also present is a printed condolence acknowledgment, 3 3/4" X 5¼", n.p., n.y. [1938]. Fine. Ornate "Your tribute / to the memory of / Chester C. Bolton / has been deeply / appreciated by / Mrs. Bolton and his Sons" set within a black mourning border.
Price: $30.00

5. (BOWEN, Eli -- CARTE-DE-VISITE). Eli Bowen, Wife and Child. Man born with feet and no legs. Famed circus side show freak, often described as "the handsomest man in show business" despite being born without legs and with feet attached to his torso; he toured America and Europe with Barnum and Bailey. Uncommon carte-de-visite photograph, 2½" X 4", n.p., n.y. [ca. 1870]. Very good. Mild age toning and light soiling; small crease at lower right corner, not affecting image. Title cited above on verso, which otherwise bears no backstamp. On the recto, a 2¼" X 3½" albumen full-length portrait shows a seated -- which in Bowen's case was also standing -- Bowen, right hand clutched in front of his chest, with his wife standing to his right and a young son standing on a box at his left. All in all quite handsome and rather uncommon.
Price: $95.00

6. (BRADLEY, Omar N.) (1893-1981). "Omar N. Bradley" Matchbook. "The G.I.s General," beloved American Army general active during World War II and the last five-star general; from 1949-53 served as first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Matchbook with facsimile "Omar N. Bradley" signature embossed in silver below five silver stars on front cover (3" X 1 3/4"), 3" X 4½" (unfolded, with matches removed for safety's sake), n.p., n.y. (pre-1973). Very good. Mild edgewear; small staple holes from removal of matches. Glazed white card stock. This unusual matchbook was produced in a small quantity strictly for Bradley's personal use and distribution in later years. This attractive example was acquired directly from Ralph G. Newman, founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Newman was a friend of Bradley's and served as his literary agent later in life, when the second edition of Bradley's 1951 memoir "A Soldier's Story" was reissued in 1978. Most unusual. Though not dated, it's a "front striker," which dates it prior to 1973 -- post-1973, a federal mandate placed the striker on the rear cover for safety's sake. Matchbook spine ("saddle" to matchbook collectors) and back cover are blank.
Price: $25.00

7. (BROADSIDE -- GRANT, Ulysses S.). JOHNSON, Richard W. Grant Is Dead! Broadside, 5½" X 8½", St. Paul, Minnesota, 1885 July 24. Very good. Minor age toning and bit of soiling; small (¼") paper loss near top of left edge, not affecting text. Within a heavy black mourning border, this brevetted major general (1827-97) who served as division commander in the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland and saw action at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaigns waxes poetic on the death the day before of the great commander in chief: "One sigh of grief heaves all the land, " he begins. The drapery of woe enfolds all our Nation's banners. He who did so much command, at last is summoned to obey." The "GRANT IS DEAD!" headline follows at this point, followed by a single longer paragraph of eulogy. "We can only stand dumb in the awful shadow," he continues. "He was too great to eulogize." -- though Johnson proceeds to try -- "Peace was enthroned in his heart while he waged war, and great as were his battle victories, greater far and grander for himself and country the achievements of his last days of heroic endurance, in which he spoke such words of reconciliation and won heart victories. He lived to realize the full fruition of his own immortal prayer, 'Let us have peace.' And now, although removed from our midst and gathered to repose from the scene of his labors on earth, yet he is not dead, but lives -- Lives in the Nation's grandest history -- Lives in the hearts and in the affections of the American people." This is followed by what is apparently an original 6-line verse stanza by Johnson, which reads: "Live on, then, brave soldier, / In the Nation's proudest annals, / In the people's warmest hearts! / Great in courage, noble in truth, / Pure as the sunlight in soul, / Dead, but imperishable!" Signed in type at the conclusion by Johnson, where the city and date also appear. A striking and scarce piece, somber and funereal. "U.S. Army" appears in small type below Johnson's name, but there's no indication the Army was the publisher of this piece.
Price: $375.00

8. (CENTURY OF PROGRESS -- CHICAGO -- TICKET -- ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). A Century of Progress... Opening Day... The President of the United States.... Chicago: A Century of Progress, 27 May 1933. Heavy stock glazed 5" X 3" card. Near fine. Very slightest bit of edgewear. Ornate ticket, printed in gold, reddish-brown and black with black lettering, for the Opening Day ceremonies touting "The President of the United States" at Soldier Field for the reknowned "A Century of Progress International Exposition." A dramatic skyline of the exposition appears in reddish-brown along the bottom third, running the entire width, and the "sky" above entirely in gold. Facsimile signatures along the black lower margin of Century of Progress general manager L.R. Lohr and Century of Progress president Rufus C. Dawes (ironically, brother of Calvin Coolidge's vice president, Charles G. Dawes). This ticket is for Gate 48 North, Section F, Number 2. A superb example of this great period piece.
Price: $50.00

9. (CIVIL WAR -- CABINET PHOTOGRAPH). Union Commanders. Hartford, CT: The Travelers Life and Accident Insurance Company, 1884. 4¼" X 6½". Good plus to very good. Normal pale pink-orange age toning often sees on wet plate albumen prints; mild edgewear. This handsome cabinet card is titled on the bottom margin "Union Commanders," with "The Notman Photo Co., Limited 3 Park St, Boston" in smaller typeface below. Famous composite photograph: Grouped within an elaborate Victorian parlor-type room, below a grand rounded opening meant to suggest a triumphant arch, is a seated Lincoln, surrounded by (left to right): Admiral David Farragut, General William T. Sherman, General George H. Thomas, General George G. Meade, President Ulysses S. Grant, General Joseph Hooker, General Philip H. Sheridan and General Winfield S. Hancock. Grant stands to Lincoln's left and appears in suit and tie rather than military uniform. Large backstamp set diagonally printed in gold: "With Compliments of / The Travelers / Life and Accident Insurance Company, / Of Hartford, Conn." Despite mild overall wear and aging, a quite attractive example of the famed composite group portrait.
Price: $175.00

10. (CIVIL WAR -- GENERALS). Centennial Union Generals Memorial Coins: Commemorating the five most outstanding Generals of the Union Army. Atlanta: Roy G. Booker Company, n.y. [ca. 1960]. Five (5) 1 1/8" diameter gold finish medallions housed in a 32mo (4¼" X 4") stiff blue presentation folder. Mint (medallions)/good plus (folder). Folder slightly soiled and a tad edgeworn -- a self-mailer, though unaddressed and never used. Stapled inside this folder is a sheet of patterned translucent mylar of some sort to which are affixed the five medallions, which bear superb likenesses of Generals Grant, Meade, Sheridan, Sherman and Thomas. Versos contain text only, the high points of each particular general's career and the major battles in which they participated. Though undated, clearly issued during the Civil War centennial period.
Price: $75.00

11. (CIVIL WAR -- SCRIMSHAW -- WALCOTT, Samuel). Collection of Eight (8) Wooden Scrimshaw. Scrimshaw -- small carved or engraved articles, often associated with whalebone or whale ivory objects produced by American seamen -- was a pastime also practiced by Civil War soldiers, Union and Confederate, to while away time around the campfire. Offered here is a collection of eight (8) small wooden scrimshaw items carved in 1864 by SAMUEL WALCOTT of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Each item is 4½" in length, carved of a medium brown-red wood, and in near fine condition. Simply carved, without decorative details, these pieces consist of: 1) a three-pronged fork, 2) a paddle with handle, 3) an oar, 4) an arrow, 5) a rifle, 6) a long-handled hatchet, 7) and 8) two spears or lances. The fork and paddle perhaps represent Army mess tent cooking utensils used to produce the mass-quantity meals that an army marches on. A small but attractive and well-preserved collection. The 7th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was mustered in on 17 September 1861 and mustered out on 20 July 1865. Their exploits have been written about in such volumes as Stephen Walkley's "History of the Seventh Connecticut volunteer infantry" (1905), Jerome Tourtellotte's "A history of Company K of the Seventh Connecticut volunteer infantry in the Civil war" (1910) and Milton M. Woodford's "Letters from the front" (1948-49).
Price: $125.00

12. (CIVIL WAR TOKEN -- JACKSON, Andrew). For Our Country / A Common Cause. N.p.: N.p., n.y. [1861-65]. 3/4" diameter. Good +. Average wear. Typical copper coin, no denomination stated but certainly one cent. Recto depicts a head-and-shoulders relief bust of a left-facing Andrew Jackson in uniform, with surrounding text as quoted above. Verso simply states "NOW / AND FOR / EVER" in large, plain typeface. As with so many Civil War tokens, no makers marks are evident.
Price: $35.00

13. (CIVIL WAR TOKEN). I.P. Sherwood Dry Goods & Millinery. Cleveland, OH: I.P. Sherwood Dry Goods & Millinery, 1863. 3/4" diameter. Very good. Bright and attractive, with original luster. Typical copper coin, no denomination stated but certainly one cent. Recto depicts a left-facing relief bust of an Indian in headdress surrounded by 13 stars, the year "1863" below. All-text verso reads "I.P. Sherwood / Dry / Goods / & / Millinery / Cleveland, O." Although the Indian recto is one of the more common Civil War token designs, the store specific advertisement on verso makes this rather uncommon. The original sheen still evident makes this an especially attractive example.
Price: $125.00

14. (CONFEDERATE BOND). Six Per Cent Non Taxable Certificate. A superb, very displayable example of an unissued Confederate nontaxable certificate for five hundred dollars. Printed Document, 1p, 12½" X 7", Richmond, VA, 1864 February 17. Very good. Minor, light age toning, but handsomely printed and entirely without edge tears; one small ink "burn" spot at upper left edge, nowhere near text or decorative border. Within an 8 3/4" X 6¼" ornamental border is boilerplate text and a steel-engraved vignette at upper left depicting a rustic wooden bridge spanning a creek in a woodsy setting. Text reads in part: "By Authority of the 14th Section of an Act of Congress approved 17th February 1864 It is hereby certified that there is due from The Confederate States of America and payable Two Years After the Ratification of a Treaty of Peace with the United States.... Fine Hundred Dollars...." None of the blanks (including one at the bottom for the signature of the Register of the Treasury) have been filled in. Likewise, recording column outside the border at the left margin remains blank. Finely printed by Geo. Dunne & Co. of Richmond, these late-war issues understandably sold poorly and many remained unissued. A handsome piece, with a typical 19th century variety of large elaborate typefaces.
Price: $100.00

15. (CONSTRUCTION BOND). Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Provisional Certificate for One Construction Bond of $1000. -- or at 4s. 2d. Sterling, per Dollar, L208.6.8. Sterling. After two decades of false starts and endless stalls, in February 1851 the Illinois legislature at last incorporated the long-anticipated Illinois Central Railroad Company. Staking and surveying began immediately, and the first section -- running between Chicago and Calumet -- opened for traffic on May 24, 1852. Despite the fact that this railroad was the first ever to receive a federal land grant, they had a difficult time finding investors to purchase these bonds. Printed Document, 1p, 12 3/4" X 13¼", New York, NY, 1852 August 16. Very good. Minor edgewear; bit of edgewear on some original folds (not weakened). Printed on pale blue stock, this handsome provisional certificate promises a six percent return. Typical boilerplate text, with a variety of ornamental typefaces, signed at the conclusion by the company president (Robert Schuyler, president and director from 1852 to 1854) at lower right and company secretary (S.A. Lofson) at lower left, both heavily cross-hatched to cancel. Attractive ornamental border, and below this the lower quarter consists of nine small coupons on which the interest payments are recorded, all but one signed and heavily cancelled. Several large "Cancelled" and "Interest Paid" inkstamps cross these coupons, the main boilerplate text and the signatures area. All in all a most attractive piece -- scarce, from the earliest days of this important undertaking.
Price: $100.00

16. (FARRAGUT, David G. 1801-70 -- CARTE-DE-VISITE). Carte-de-Visite. American naval admiral forever remembered for his Civil War sentiment: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Uncommon carte-de-visite photograph, 2 3/8" X 4", New York, NY, 1862. Very good. No backstamp on verso. Within a fine gilt double-rule border on the recto, a 2 1/8" X 3¼" albumen full-length portrait of the admiral in uniform has been affixed, with fine print caption beneath crediting E. Anthony. Farragut stands jauntily, left arm resting on a chair and right hand tucked into his greatcoat. The image is bold and flawless, and the card itself shows only the slightest bit of wear. Immediately below the image and above the caption, the name "Com. Faragut" [sic] is penned neatly in blue fountain pen (NOT a signature, though of 19th century vintage). E. Anthony was of course a famed New York photographer, and the firm name "E. & H.T. Anthony" appears on many well-known Civil War portraits. A handsome example.
Price: $175.00

17. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 96. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1863 April 15. Handbill. 16mo (4½" X 7"). Very good. Jagged binding traces along left edge; bit of age toning. Just the facts, ma'am: "By direction of the President, the following assignments are made of Army Corps Commanders," which list includes new jobs for John F. Reynolds, Daniel Sickles, George G. Meade, O.O. Howard, W.W. Slocum and others. Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive.
Price: $60.00

18. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 97. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1864 March 12. Handbill. 12mo (5" X 7¼"). Very good. Four-punched at left margin, not affecting text; touch of browning at top edge. Announces Major General Lewis Wallace's assignment as commander of the Eighth Army Corps and the Middle Department and that the commander of Fort Delaware will report to the War Department instead of the Geographical Department. Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive. Wallace (1827-1905) is of course better known as the author of "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ."
Price: $50.00

19. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Order, No. 1. Bolivar, TN: Head-Quarters, Com'dr of the Post, 1862 November 3. Handbill. Small 8vo (5" X 7 3/4"). Very good. Clean and nice, though bottom and left margins heavily chipped, not affecting text. Mason Brayman (1813-95) announces his taking command of the Post of Bolivar, per Major General J.B. McPherson's order, and lists the several regiments that will report to this headquarters. Signed in type at the conclusion by M. Brayman as "Brig Gen'l Commanding Post." Given the crude typesetting, likely printed on a field press.
Price: $75.00

20. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 282. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1864 November 14. Handbill. 12mo (5" X 7¼"). Very good. Two-punched at left margin, not affecting text; Slight bit of age toning. Announces without fanfare that "Ordered by the President... the resignation of George B. McClellan, as Major General in the United States Army... be accepted." Also announces with fanfare "That for the personal gallantry, military skill, and just confidence in the courage and patriotism of his troops, displayed by Philip H. Sheridan, on the 19th day of October, at Cedar Run... Philip H. Sheridan is appointed Major General...." Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. McClellan had been yanked from command two years previous, awaiting further orders -- which never came. He ran against Lincoln for the presidency and appeared a favorite, but won only three states -- thus his resignation on this, the election day. Quite handsome.
Price: $100.00

21. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 121. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1863 May 13. Handbill. 16mo (4½" X 6 3/4"). Very good. Slight bit of age toning. Announces that "Major General J.M. Schofield is, by direction of the President, assigned to command the Department of the Missouri" and that "Major General S.R. Curtis [is] being relieved from his command...." Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive.
Price: $75.00

22. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 76. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1864 February 26. Handbill. 12mo (5" X 7¼"). Very good. Several punch holes along left margin, not affecting text; bit of age toning. Announces that "The President directs that the sentences of all deserters, who have been condemned by Court Martial to death, and that have not been otherwise acted upon by him, be mitigated to imprisonment during the war, at the Dry Tortugas, Florida..." Also announces that "The Commanding Generals... are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited." Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and nice.
Price: $75.00

23. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 186. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1862 November 15. Handbill. 2pp. 12mo (5" X 7¼"). Near fine. Bit of age toning. Intriguing General Court Martial case in which Private John Kessler (103rd Regiment of New York Volunteers) is charged with murdering First Lieutenant Fernando Linzy -- that he "did stab with a bayonet... inflicting a wound in the body of the said Lieutenant... which caused his death...." Pleaded "Not Guilty" and found "Guilty," Kessler was sentenced to "be hanged by the neck until he be dead...." In this case, President Lincoln approved the sentence. Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive.
Price: $75.00

24. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 9. Washington, DC: War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 1863 January 9. Handbill. 16mo (4 3/4" X 7"). Very good. Binding traces along left edge; bit of age toning. This briefest of General Orders make major announcements: "By direction of the President, the Army of the Cumberland, under command of Major General Rosecrans, is divided into three Army Corps... Major General G.H. Thomas is assigned to the command of the Fourteenth Corps; Major General A. McD. McCook, to the command of the Twentieth; and Major General T.L. Crittenden, to the command of the Twenty first Corps...." Signed in type at the conclusion by E.D. Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and attractive.
Price: $75.00

25. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). Head Quarters Dept. and Army of the Tenn. Huntsville, AL: Head Quarters Dept. and Army of the Tenn., 1864 January 16. Handbill. 16mo (4 3/4" X 6 3/4"). Near fine. Congressional resolution sent to Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge by order of William T. Sherman: "...bounties heretofore paid... to re-enlist in the Regular or Volunteer service... for three years or during the war, shall continue to be paid from the Fifth day of Jannary [sic], 1864 until the First day of March next...." Signed in type at the conclusion by R.M. Sawyer as Assistant Adjutant General. Clean and nice. Rather crudely printed, possibly on a portable field press. Presumably this late in the war there was some unease among re-enlisting soldiers that they would get paid.
Price: $75.00

26. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 67. Richmond, VA: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 1864 August 16. Handbill. 2pp. Small 8vo (5" X 7 3/4"). Very good. Hodgepodge consisting of no less than nine miscellaneous announcements, in part: current list of soldier rations; disposition of "All horses, mules, wagons, harness and saddles in the hands of officers, soldiers or citizens not authorized to retain them"; "All men enlisted in the forces for local defense will be held responsible in the money value of arms, equipments, & c. belonging to the government." Signed in type at the conclusion by S. Cooper as Adjutant and Inspector General. Clean and nice. Upper left corner of first page bears desireable oval purple inkstamp of "Record Division, / Rebel Archives. / War Department." -- this being the inkstamp placed by the War Department on Confederate archives they seized.
Price: $100.00

27. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). General Orders, No. 68. Richmond, VA: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 1864 August 26. Handbill. Small 8vo (5" X 7½"). Very good. Quite mild age toning. Clean and nice. Three measures: first amendments "to provide for the establishment and payment of claims for a certain description of property taken or informally impressed," second "Requisitions may be made by any Commissioner... for a reasonable supply of stationery to enable him to perform his duties," and third "The allowances to the Commissioners will be paid... from the fund for 'contingent expenses of the army'...." Signed in type at the conclusion by S. Cooper as Adjutant and Inspector General. Upper left corner bears desireable oval purple inkstamp of "Record Division, / Rebel Archives. / War Department." -- this being the inkstamp placed by the War Department on Confederate archives they seized.
Price: $75.00

28. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). HUNTER, David. General Orders, No. 10. Hilton Head, SC: Headquarters, Department of the South, 1863 February 9. Small 8vo. Handbill. Very good. Mild age toning. This seven-section order concerns keeping track of the flow of citizenry in the area: "All persons not in the military or naval service of the United States, residing within any of the military lines or posts of this Department, are hereby notified to appear before the Provost Marshal... to obtain from him a pass, certifying them to be loyal persons of approved character, who have taken the oath of allegiance...." Other sections cover the penalty for traveling without a pass, what information should be on the pass, the enforcement of this measure and the need for it ("many persons are improperly at large within the limits of the Dept, and the nature of our various posts rendering communication with the enemy extremely easy"). Signed in type at the conclusion by Hunter. Unusual, interesting and very displayable.
Price: $100.00

29. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). LINCOLN, Abraham. General Orders, No. 69. Washington: War Department, 1864 February 22. Handbill. 2pp. 12mo. Very good. File holes at left edge, not affecting text -- almost a "Near fine." "A PROCLAMATION" being Lincoln's revoking of the blockade of the port of Brownsville, Texas. Declares "that the blockade of the said port of Brownsville shall so far cease and determine from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port... may... be carried on... until the rebellion shall have been suppressed...." Spells out "prohibited articles, namely: cannon, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, powder, saltpetre, sulphur, balls, bullets, pikes, swords," et cetera, plus other exceptions. Signed in type by Lincoln and also by Secretary of State William H. Seward and Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Not in Monaghan.
Price: $85.00

30. (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). LINCOLN, Abraham. Collection of Six Printed General Orders: A Proclamation. / A Proclamation. / General Orders, No. 340. / General Orders, No. 100. / General Orders, No. 232. / General Orders, No. 302. Washington: War Department, between 1861 April 15 and 1864 December 21. Handbills. Chronologically, first two are small 8vo and last four are 16mo. Overall very good to near fine. All but one have file holes at left edge, not affecting text; second presidential proclamation shows slight edgewear, mild age toning and slight soiling, while remainder are clean and attractive. Fascinating collection of two Proclamations (which are each 2pp and a slightly larger format) and four General Orders -- each signed in type by Lincoln and most are co-signed in type by Secretary of State William H. Seward and/or Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. All call for more troops: chronologically, 75,000 (15 April 1861), 42,034 and 22,714 and 18,000 (3 May 1861), 300,000 (19 October 1863), 200,000 (15 March 1864), 500,000 (19 July 1864) and 300,000 (21 December 1864). An intriguing gathering that would be difficult to duplicate -- and particularly relevant today.
Price: $395.00

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