Lot #155

Civil War Era Album

Description

An instant Civil War collection: Calhoun, Fremont, Hancock, Pope, and many more

Civil War-era hardcover autograph album, 8.75 x 10, with 100+ ink signatures of politicians and military officers on individual clipped slips and cards affixed to inside pages above a collector’s short manuscript biography, two to a page. Signers are:

John Armstrong (soldier and diplomat)
T. P. Andrews (paymaster general)
Christy C. Augur (brigadier general)
Robert Armstrong (brigadier general)
Benjamin Alvord (brigadier general)
John Armstrong (brigadier general)
Robert Anderson (brevet major general)
D. C. Buell (major general)
George Bomford (colonel of ordnance)
Joshua Barney (naval officer)
[?] Boyce (congressman),John P. Boyd (brigadier general)
Edward D. Baker (the only sitting senator to be killed in the Civil War)
William H. C. Bartlett (West Point professor)
Jacob Brown (US commanding general)
Dr. Willard Bliss (brigade surgeon)
William O. Butler (major general and politician)
William F. Barry (brigadier general)
Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri senator)
William G. Brownlow (Tennessee senator and governor)
James Barbour (secretary of war, Virginian governor and senator)
Lewis Cass (secretary of war)
George Cadwalader (brevet major general)
D. L. Clinch (brigadier general)
Philip St. George Cooke (brevet major general)
Silas Casey (brigadier general)
Samuel Spriggs Carroll (brigadier general)
John C. Calhoun (secretary of war)
Simon Cameron (secretary of war)
Edward R. S. Canby (major general)
Thomas Corwin (secretary of treasury)
Darius N. Couch (major general)
Caleb Cushing (attorney general)
Thomas Claiborne (politician)
John A. Dix (secretary of treasury and governor of NY)
Alexander J. Dallas (secretary of treasury)
Nelson A. Dingley, Jr., (journalist and politician)
Henry Dearborn (secretary of war)
Frederick T. Dent (brother in-law to U.S. Grant and brigadier general)
William Duane (adjutant genera)
William H. Emory (brevet brigadier general)
William Eustis (governor of MA, secretary of war)
John C. Fremont (major general, explorer, and politician)
William B. Franklin (major general)
James B. Fry (the last provost marshal general of the United States)
John G. Foster (major general)
Thomas L. Fauntleroy (brigadier general)
A. W. Greely (major general, arctic explorer, medal of honor recipient)
William B. Greene (minister, son of Nathaniel Greene)
Gordon Granger (major general)
Edmund P. Gaines (major general)
Benjamin H. Grierson (brigadier general)
Peter Gansevoort (Revolutionary War colonel)
George W. Getty (division commander in the Army of the Potomac)
Cuvier Grover (brigadier general)
Chas. Griffin (major general) Alvan C. Gillem (brigadier general)
David Hunter (major general)
Wade Hampton (congressman, Revolutionary War colonel)
Ethan Allen Hitchcock (major general)
Joseph Hooker (major general)
A. A. Humphreys (major general)
William S. Harney (brigadier general)
Joseph Holt (postmaster general)
Edward Hatch (brevet major general)
Samuel P. Heintzelman (major general)
Hannibal Hamlin (15th vice president)
William J. Hardee (Lieutenant Colonel)
William B. Hazen (major general)
Winfield S. Hancock (major general)
Rufus Ingalls (brevet major general)
Richard M. Johnson (9th vice president)
Erasmus D. Keyes (major general)
Tobias Lear (personal secretary to George Washington)
Richard Henry Lee (declaration signer)
John A. Logan (major general)
Morgan Lewis (3rd governor of NY)
John Letcher (governor of Virginia)
Marcus Morton (governor of MA)
William L. Marcy (secretary of war and state)
John. Y. Mason (secretary of navy)
Irwin McDowell (major general)
Alexander Macomb (US commanding general)
Return J. Meigs, Sr., (Revolutionary War colonel)
Montgomery C. Meigs (quartermaster general)
Alexander McDowell McCook (major general)
John Alexander McClernand (commander of the Army of the Mississippi)
[?] Miles (Lt. Colonel 3rd Infantry)
Albert J. Myer (first chief signal officer)
Horace Maynard (postmaster general)
John G. Nicolay (Lincoln’s private secretary and marshal of the U. S. supreme court)
Edward O. C. Ord (Union major general instrumental in forcing the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee)
John M. Palmer (governor of Illinois, major general)
Joel Roberts Poinsett (Van Buren’s secretary of war)
Thomas Posey (Revolutionary War officer, politician)
John Pope (brevet major general)
Thomas Pinckney (early statesman, diplomat and Revolutionary War soldier)
Alfred Pleasonton (brevet major general)
John Pegram (Confederate brigadier general)
John G. Parker (brigadier general)
John A. Quitman (governor of Mississippi, major general Mexican-American War)

In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling to some signatures, some partial pages from other removed signatures, as well as light show-through from writing on reverse of some of the slips. Covers of album are worn and frayed with loose hinges. RRAuction COA.

Auction Info

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• Dates: #351 - Ended November 11, 2009