Steven | September 16, 2011
My most recent job for a client was scanning and researching what is possibly the largest collection of Civil War chaplain carte de viste photos ever assembled by one person, and perhaps the largest in existence. Notable inclusions are several veterans of Gettysburg, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor; Henry Trumbull of the 10th Connecticut, who [...]
Steven | February 9, 2011
An interesting item I’ve received is this sheet of uncut Civil War Union Army payroll checks. Printed in dark green on buff paper, there are no folds or tears- this item is in pristine condition. (Click image for full size.) This would look marvelous matted and framed, suitable for numismatists as well as Civil War [...]
Steven | March 11, 2009
National Public Radio reports on a family legend about Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War that turns out to be true! Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon as an old man told his family that he had been employed at a Washington DC jewelry store in 1861, when the recently-elected President sent his favorite pocket [...]
Steven | January 27, 2009
This is the complete transcript to a letter home written by Corporal Erastus Winters of the 50th Ohio Infantry in General Tecumseh Sherman’s army. He talks about the fall of Atlanta and fighting General Hood’s Rebels across Georgia, and his feelings about the Rebel sympathizers back home. This letter is currently up for auction on [...]
Steven | January 19, 2009
May 26, 1900 letter written by BP Haynes, late Second Sergeant of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, to his former brigade commander, General WL “Old Tige” Cabell. In part: “My Dear General and Friend — It is with pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of three copies of your report of the part that Cabell’s Brigade took [...]
Steven | November 26, 2008
Here’s something you don’t run across every day. This is the clipped signature of John S Wise, who was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute during the Civil War, and fought as cadet at the Battle of New Market. Later in the war he became a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army. After the war, [...]
Steven | November 22, 2008
Thought I’d get back into the the habit of really updating the blog, instead of just posting “twitters” in the side column. Today’s look is at Mr. Durbin Ward of Ohio. Self-taught and a voracious reader as a youngster, as an adult he passed the bar and became law partners with fellow Whig Thomas Corwin, [...]
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