American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

Journal, obl. 6-3/4 x 8-1/2 in., brown cloth, containing 237 signatures including those of President James Buchanan's cabinet (1857-1861) such as Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Jeremiah S. Black, Aaron Brown, Isaac Toucey, Jacob Thompson, and members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 35th Congress. Previous owner's notations appear next to many significant names, including "not the composer" next to Stephen Foster of Maine. 

Included are: Henry Wilson (Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant); Wm. P. Fessenden; William H. Seward Benjamin Wade (abolitionist, OH); Hannibal Hamlin; James M. Mason (Diplomat, CSA); Judah P. Benjamin (Secretary of State and War, CSA); Sam Houston; Simon Cameron; Robert Toombs (Secretary of State, CSA); J.H. Hammond (Brevet Major General, CSA); Stephen Douglas; John J. Crittenden (Attorney General); Stephen R. Mallory (Secretary of Navy, CSA); Jefferson Davis (President, CSA); Charles Sumner; Andrew Johnson (Vice President); John Slidell (Commissioner to England, CSA); R.M.T. Hunter (Secretary of State, CSA); John Sherman (Secretary of Treasury under President Hayes; Secretary of State under President McKinley; brother of William Tecumseh Sherman); Wm. Smith (Brig. General, CSA, Governor of Virginia); Milledge L. Bonham  (Brigadier General, CSA Governor of South Carolina); Albert G. Jenkins (Brigadier General, CSA); John Reagan (Postmaster General, CSA); John Letcher (Governor of Virginia, 1864); John Cochrane (Brigadier General, USA); Reuben Fenton (1865-1868 Governor of NY); George Pendleton (Vice Presidential candidate with McClellan, 1864); Schuyler Colfax (Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant, Speaker of House); Lucius Gartrell (General, CSA); John B. Clark (General, CSA); and many others.