American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Buttons, shield-breasted eagles, 13 large (3/4” diam.) and 12 small (cuff) (5/8”) on verso: “Horstmann / Philadelphia.” Plus part of a pin with two bugles (infantry) with “1” in center. 

Corps badge with “+” (6th corps). Plus a cross patee with circle in center with “Champion Hancock Co.” A man stands in what may be a marshy area shooting a long gun. 

Pen and ink drawing of General Geo. Custer on 4 x 5-1/4” card.

“By a Citizen of Alexandria.” Life of Luther C. Ladd, the First Martyr that Fell a Sacrifice to His Country, in the City of Baltimore, on the 19th of April, 1861, While Bravely Defending the Flag of the Nation, Exclaiming with His Dying Breath, “All Hail to the Stars and Stripes.” Accompanied with a Likeness Taken from Life: Together with an account of his Parentage, and a Description of his Home in Alexandria, N.H. Also, an Account of the Brilliant Naval Engagement at Port Royal. Concord: P.B. Cogswell, 1862. 8vo, printed paper wraps, 40pp.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Houghton, Miflin and Company, 1884. 12mo, green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 607pp.

HORTON, R.G. A Youth’s History of the Great Civil war in the United States, From 1861 to 1866. New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1867. 16mo, embossed green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 384pp plus 8pp publ. ads. (wear to spine and corners, separation of front pastedown, previous owner’s identification on ffep.)

Calling card, 2-3/8 x 3-5/8” with “Gleason & Kies, Recruiting Agents / Recruits Mustered and Accredited to any Town in the State./ Substitutes Furnished at Reasonable Rates. / Headquarters at Danielsonville, Conn.”

General Orders No. 64, Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, August 29, 1863. Regarding recruitment and training of African American soldiers for Union service. The Louisiana regiments were “Corps D’Afrique,” later merged with United States Colored Troops (USCT). This order is for three ranking US officers to be part of a commission “…to regulate the enrollment, Recruiting, Employment and Education of persons of color…. II. No enlistments for the Corps d’Afrique will be authorized or permitted except under regulations approved by this Commission…. IV. Soldiers of the Corps d’Afrique will not be allowed to leave their camps, or to wander through the parishes, except upon written permission, or in the company of their officers…” Issued by command of Major General Banks.

Hand-drawn escutcheon for Co. E, 40th Regiment (“Mozart”) New York Volunteers. Approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4” (sight). It has blanks to be filled in by officers. This one has the soldier’s name penciled in (Corp. J.B. Laughton), but not the Capt. of Co. E or the Colonel of the 40th NYV. (This soldier does not appear on the personnel rolls of 40th NYV, although there was a Joseph B. Laughton who served in the 38th NYV.