Steven | January 22, 2011
I’ve been transcribing a wonderful letter from 1834 that I wanted to share. Dr. William Grimes of Maryland is writing his childhood friend Adam Glossbrenner, a newspaper editor in York, Pa. who is writing a history of the area at the time of the letter. Grimes wants Glossbrenner to move with him to the “frontier [...]
Steven | March 20, 2009
Just a quick update, as I had large shipment of clipped autographs and letters come in late today, and I’m still sorting them. I had to take time out to get this listed right away, however. This is a beautiful John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Program, still in its original mailer! Absolutely wonderful condition. ___________________________________ [...]
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 25, 2009
Here is a bit of history you don’t see every day. This is the annual “return” (report) of the 2nd Brigade of the 7th Division, Georgia State Militia. At this time in our nation’s history, most of the armed forces were state militias, and in Georgia’s case, their troops were for anything but show. Tensions [...]
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 | January 17, 2009
Just listed tonight is a delightful 1910 color with embossed gilt holiday postcard featuring Santa Claus flying what appears to be a very early Glenn Curtiss “aeroplane” over a town, and using a signal lantern to beam “A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL” into the sky: eBay listing for 1910 Holiday Postcard – Santa in [...]
Steven | January 15, 2009
(This item ends Jan-17-09 18:02:16 PST) Description: ALS 2pp. 4to, Natchitoches, Louisiana, March 21, 1836. Sutler and former explorer and Indian scout George Kennerly writes home to St. Louis as US troops on the border of the US and Mexico at the Sabine River await the arrival of General Gaines. Gaines, commander of the Southwest [...]
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, [...]
Steven | September 15, 2008
Folks of a “certain age” can immediately finish the saying in the title of this post, and probably remember getting the comic book in school that told the story of the real-life Smokey Bear, a black bear cub found up a burned tree after a forest fire, his paws and hindquarters severely burned. This original [...]
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