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Thirty-one Civil War-era signatures of Confederate leaders, mostly generals, including President Jefferson Davis. Nearly all have been clipped from larger documents or correspondence (some vertically lined), many dated in another hand, and affixed to larger pages. Signers include: Jefferson Davis, P. G. T. Beauregard (prominent Southern general, signed “G. T. Beauregard”), John C. Breckinridge (14th vice president), James L. Kemper (37th governor of Virginia, signed “J. L. Kemper”), Joseph R. Davis (nephew of Jefferson Davis, signed “Jos. R. Davis”), Jubal Early (veteran of numerous campaigns including First Battle of Bull Run and the Gettysburg Campaign, signed “J. A. Early”), Wade Hampton (77th governor of South Carolina), Bryan Grimes (leader of the final attack by the Army of Northern Virginia), Robert F. Hoke (signed R. F. Hoke), William Hicks Jackson (veteran of the Vicksburg campaign, signed “W. H. Jackson”), William N. Pendleton (Episcopalian priest turned Confederate chief of artillery, he commanded a four-gun battery called the Rockbridge Artillery, naming his guns ‘Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John’ after the Gospel writers, signed “W. N. Pendleton”), Williams Carter Wickham (cavalry general and later president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway company, signed “W. C. Wickham”), R. L. Walker (artillery commander), Francis A. Shoup (signed “F. Shoup”), Louis Hebert (engineer), James H. Trapier (signed J. H. Trapier), Alfred Moore Scales (veteran of Gettysburg, signed “A. M. Scales”), Edward L. Thomas (part of A. P. Hill’s famed Light Division, signed “Ewd. L. Thomas”), James H. Lane (led his brigade in Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg), Johnson Hagoods (signed “Johnson Hagoods, B. G.”), W. H. F. Lee (2: second son of General Robert E. Lee who surrendered along with his father at Appomattox Court House), Beverly Holcombe Robertson (helped cover Lee’s retreat following the Battle of Gettysburg, signed “B. H. Robertson”), Henry Heth (best remembered for precipitating the Battle of Gettysburg, accomplished inadvertently while sending some of his troops of the Army of Northern Virginia to the small Pennsylvania village, according to his memoirs, seeking shoes, signed “H. Heth”), W. H. C. Whiting (wounded in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher and later dying from his wounds), Lafayette McLaws (veteran of Antietam and Harpers Ferry), Archibald C. Godwin (killed at the Third Battle of Winchester, signed “A. C. Godwin”), Rufus Barringer (best known for a brief meeting with Abraham Lincoln following his capture by Union forces, which raised suspicion as to his involvement in the president’s assassination, signed “R. Barringer”), F. C. Armstrong, and two others. Overall fair to good condition with each example irregularly cut, most affixed two or more to a page, and some signatures very light. Accompanied by the front and back boards of the book in which the now-separated pages were once bound. A rare chance to acquire a seldom-seen selection of war-era Confederate generals. RRAuction COA.
