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47 Letters 2 Journals 129th PA Inf Civil War Lincoln Assassination Booth Autopsy
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Incredible lot of two journals and 47 letters by Henry Washington Landes, a soldier in the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, Co. C, who writes about the Battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam and Second Bull Run in his correspondence. However, more interesting perhaps is Landes' service as U.S. Marine in 1865, where he not only guarded President Abraham Lincoln's body after the assassination, but was one of a select few Marines tasked with guarding the assassination conspirators, and also the body of John Wilkes Booth aboard the USS Montauk. Landes was even one of three eyewitnesses present for Booth's autopsy on 27 April 1865, stating that Booth was beheaded during the autopsy. Heretofore - since the autopsy report was brief, it was not officially recorded that Booth was beheaded and instead has been assumed that his head became detached (as reported during the 1869 inquest) as a result of his gunshot wounds. As reported here, however, it appears that the autopsy doctors removed the head in order to retrieve the bullet lodged in his upper spine. Prior to serving as U.S. Marine, Landes enlisted in the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, mustering into Co. C on 12 August 1862 for nine months of service. Landes keeps dutiful record of his service in the 129th, writing both in his leather journal, and also in letters home to his sister Emma. He writes in a letter home on 18 August 1862 that a Rebel tried to "poison us by putting poison in the water…We belong to C 129 Penn Infantry, Colonel Frick and our Captain is Taylor…" In his journal on 31 August 1862 he mentions a skirmish with the Rebels just before the Second Battle of Bull Run, "…we left at 5 o'clock in the morning, without breakfast, for to guard an ammunition train to Centerville where they were fighting at that time…We went about 4 miles back in some woods. We had the intention to stay overnight. We stacked our arms. It was 9 o'clock in the evening and we were all tired as we had marched 20 miles that day…The Rebels began to shell our train, we thought not safe and left a couple miles back. Went in a field for to stay overnight as we could go no further. It was then about 10 o'clock in the evening. We felt like a drove of cattle, tired and wet…" In a letter home on 1 September 1862, Landes describes the devastation following Second Bull Run, "…We went 18 miles towards Centerville where there is a large force of Rebels…Every once a while a dead horse in the road which does stink awful. Uphill in the mud sometimes, one step ahead and two back. Every once awhile we meet a lot of prisoners of the Rebels, on droves about all together 1,000 which look like travelers. They have no uniforms at all. They are all mixed together and look very tuff and also rough but they are small soldiers…they are Rebels indeed…We were just ready for to lay down when the cannons began to sound and the shells began to fly. The Rebels fired into a train of wagons, We thought not safe, our men, so we went in the dark about 6 miles back into a field where we slept till morning…all the hospitals and all the houses in Centerville were full of wounded men of ours. It was the most awful day I ever seen in my life…"On 11-12 September, he describes burying a fellow soldier, "On the 11 of Sept. one of our men died at Fairfax Seminary. His name was Thomas Engle. On the 12 of Sept. 20 of our men went to bury him, which I was one. We came there at 10 o'clock, then we buried him according to sign arrangements. Rev. P from Bethlehem held the sermon. I helped to fire the 3 loads over his last bed…It was 5 miles from our camp it was 10 o'clock when we came home. We made 10 miles and the rest had everything packed up, ready to move."He next reports on Antietam, where the 129th helped in the last hours of the battle. In a letter dated 22 September 1862 he writes, "…the next day was Sunday and started early at 4 o'clock and marched every day till the 20 of the month. 20 miles a day till we came to Frederick City, Maryland. Where we march all night till we came to the battlefield. Which they had on the 16 and seen that place. It did look awful to look at, but I was not at the place where they had men piled up like wood, it was 12 a mile from us and I did not like to see them, but I seen some lying around, yes we seen hard times. This short time we are in service…" And then in his journal, he writes, "It was about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 17 of Sept. We heard all day firing and they had a great battle at Sharpsburg, Maryland. We were 24 miles off and it was already dark and we did march far through the week. Our colonel came and said if we were willing to do it for our country and we all cheered yes. So we went up and down hill, fast and slow, smooth and rough, dark and rainy. Marched all night…We slept near the enemy on the the morning of the 19 of Sept…I was taken as pioneer, and had to carry an axe besides and to get ahead of the brigade to make road for the cannons if necessary…We went over the whole battlefield and it was awful to see it. We took a short rest at Sharpsburg. So we went around to see the houses were all battered. Horses and men laying at the houses and in the streets, hanging on the fences and so on. We took our night rest in a field and were in line before day but no attack…We went to the woods on the morning of the 20 of Sept. and began to shell them completely but no reply with cannons. Some musketry and a good many men were killed and wounded that had been ahead of us. The report was that the Rebels were all over the Potomac… Shortly after Antietam, Landes reports being visited by President Lincoln, "…On the 3 of October we were taken out the division and were all reviewed by old Honest Abe. The President, and he had a good looking staff with him. He was on horseback and dressed very plain black…" He continues, "On the 4th of Nov…We captured about 20 horses that day. We took them out of the stables along the roadside and then if nearby a horse was in the field, we were to catch him. The Rebel women even out in the fields running after, scolding and crying about their horses. Some came out on the fences like ghosts and preached about what we destroyed. Their homes and property…On the 10 of Nov. we were reviewed by General McClellan, General Burnside and General Siegal… Beginning in late November, Landes reports marching to Fredericksburg, where the regiment would shortly lose over 100 men in killed and wounded. "…We left, it was the 11 of Dec. at 8 o'clock and marched towards Fredericksburg. The firing was heavier. All day we went not over 2 miles. And stopped for the night in an open space of land. On the 12 the firing was as heavy as day before. We did move nearer to the bank of the Rappahannock, and slept for the night in some fine woods. On the 13 of Dec. we did then move yet nearer to the river it was a heavy battle already agoing on and all the time it did roar like thunder. We at last crossed at noon the pontoons to the town about 10 o'clock we went uptown further where we could see the Rebels, also there cannons. We were shifted around a good deal so at least we were tired. Late in the afternoon we were taken out on the field…At once a Rebel officer advanced and had a good view over us. We could see that he is ordering cannons up by his motions. One of our sharpshooters shot at him and hitting his horse. We thought they would not advance. But did advance soon and fired right onto us. We had no shelter, no where and so we were scattered completely. Officers did work to keep us in ranks. But we were our own officers at that time. Our battery in town soon made him go away soon at a double quick. We passed the dead, the wounded, knapsacks and blankets in quick time. It was then a getting dark. We were then yet to make a charge on the Rebel battery. Which we did do. And did advance. But they did mow us down nearly as grass. We could not advance up. We had to pull back. The Colonel had the flag on his horse and the handle was shot off and full of holes. We then went back to the town with as many men as we had and went into the town. In the houses got beds and laid on and slept till 12 o'clock and then we had to go on the battlefield as picket till day. The wounded did make a good deal of noise. We had to keep low and very quiet. They did not take the dead all in during the night. At day light we went to the town. It was then Sunday the 14 of Dec. we were all day at Planters Hotel and baking cakes, making pot pies and so on the day passed without much firing. On the 15 of Dec. we were in the streets looking at the Rebel battery and buying hot cakes off the black woman. In the evening at 8 o'clock we were taken out to the pickets. Then we worked till about 2 o'clock and made entrenchments. We were then taken to the town again and waited there awhile and then we crossed the Rappahanock back again. It did rain and it was very heavy wind. We lost our knapsacks over there. We went back to the place where we were first before we left for Fredericksburg. And came there at daylight of the 16 of Dec. we had no tents and no blankets, no knapsacks and it was raining and cold…"In a letter to his sister Emma dated 20 December 1862, Landes tells her he's safe after the battle: "I was lead safe through the Battle of Fredericksburg. Last I wrote a letter on the 17 to father. I expect you know nearly all about the time you receive this letter. We were on the battlefield and also in the battle, when the fire was the heaviest. At dark we made our charge but could not whip them out of there heavy entrenchments. They were all safe firing out behind it and we to be in the open field, a mark for them. But I came through safe, I think it was Gods will. I thought at home of all of you that you perhaps would sit all around the table eating all them good things and what you would think of me. At this present time, but who is your place for a thought to go to when in battle. Than a man a boy, he will think of the past and think where you go if you get killed. Yes all thoughts will pass your mind in such a day…Our Captain is wounded very hard. Orlando and Ambrose was hit by a ball…Your Brother H.W. Landes"In early 1863, Landes reports on camp politics, including the arrest of the regiment's colonel, Jacob G. Frick who was awarded a Medal of Honor for valor at Fredericksburg. He writes, "On the 12 of Jan. our Colonel was taken under arrest by General Humphrey. Our commander at this time was Capt. Stonebach. At that time they had the rest of our brigade and Alabach's whole brigade out all night under arms. The battery erected onto us, so as if we were to release our Colonel they could keep us down. We wanted no dress coats. On the 13 of Jan. it was yet the same with the Colonel. One of our men in the company died in the hospital, named Oliver Hillman. On the 14 of Jan. we held the funeral. The rest of the Regiment was taken on picket. and as we were under the circumstances. We were held back to keep the funeral and do camp guard…" In letters home, he writes on 9 January 1863, "…At 10 o'clock the pickets fired and the orders came for every man in ranks and to sleep on arms. Which made excitement in camp. Joseph Boyer walked around there. I got an axe and was ready for action but soon the orders came that they might go in their tents, but to be ready at a minutes call, but the night passed…" And then on 2 March, he writes to his sister, "…We went out [on picket duty] for three days it was cold and rain. We left and got on post. We had a shanty made of fine brushes and a fire in the tent and had to relieve 7 on. Relieve 2 hours on and 6 hours off. I had been on first relieve and when the second relieve was on, the first had to be 2 hours awake on as long as the second was on the post and from 4 o'clock in the morning till day we had to be up by own arms and it is dangerous at present. The Rebels are trying to make raids. They did try last week and killed some of our pickets. As we only had a little sleep in them last 2 days. If we went to sleep we have to have our equipment on. Generally when on picket, no blanket along, so it is almost to cold and chilly. Today we were relieved and came to camp this afternoon at half past two…" In one of his last letters before he mustered out of the 129th in May 1863, Landes writes again to his sister, "…Yesterday we had a division review by General Meade, Humphrey, and Tyler. After the review was over, General Tyler said…that he seen us in fire at Fredericksburg and we acted bravely, like men. General Tyler said that he had been at Winchester Port Republic in battle but he did not see Fredericksburg. There it was the greatest battle yet fought since this war begun. He said that it was almost murder. It was very windy and he closed by saying that if we were willing to do our duty if asked upon. Which followed by loud cheers…"The next section of Landes' correspondence is from his service in the U.S. Marines, stationed in Washington DC at the end of the war. Before mentioning guarding the assassination conspirators or John Wilkes Booth, he describes his duties as guard in late March 1865 in his journal: "…He [the prisoner] has liberty as much as he wants, but if he stays five minutes over his pass he will surely be put on restrictive list. Then he will have no liberty till he is off that list. If he stayed out longer he will be put in the cage and double irons. On bread and water. In our squad which came with us from Philadelphia were 13 men, one is now discharged, a few in the cage and nearly all the rest on the restrictive list. We have three nights in the bed, the fourth night on guard. Which is two hours on and four off. I was now three times on post number five. The orders are namely this (take charge of this post and all government property in view. Salute all officers ascending in rank and file. In case of fire, alarm the guard, if necessary discharge your piece. If anyone attempts to scale the wall, halt him twice, if not halted, fire. No whiskey allowed to be smuggled over them walls. Neither hanging the hands and feet out them windows. No smoking on this post. Call the guard every half hour)…"After Lincoln's assassination, on 15 April 1865 he writes, "…Reported death of Abraham and Steward. Sad news. All the men down hearted. The flags all at half mast. Great alarm among us…" In April, Landes writes about being chosen to guard the assassination conspirators, "[April] 17…I was on shore as guard over them prisoners which killed Abraham Lincoln…18 - The same duty all day. More prisoners, dirty, hungry, and sleepy. All day 2 hours on and 8 off. Prisoners are at two o'clock on the night…" He was then sent briefly on 19 April to guard President Lincoln's body at the White House, "19 - We were relieved at seven to go to quarters and make ready to go to the funeral. Left at nine. Went to the White House. Stood from ten to two o'clock in the hot sun without anything to drink. Came to quarters at half past four. At five we had supper. At half past six we left again for the Navy to do guard duty. Two on eight off again. Oh, we were awful tired…20 - I was on guard from 8 to 5 in the morning. I got in conversation with a nice old man who was standing watch on board the Monitor Montauk. We had been talking about the funeral and Rebel eleven o'clock in the night we got two prisoners with chains and balls…23 - Sunday, cold all day. At five I was taken on board the Montauk and was alone in a room guarding prisoners. 2 on 4 off. I was very cold all night and two on four off. 24 - Very cold but clear. Same duty two hours for me. Another prisoner at one o'clock last night. Inspection at nine. Sent a letter to sister Emma. One prisoner was on his knees praying, when I posted over him from 10 to 12. Very warm. Very nice music by the officers on the piano. The prisoners have new capes over their heads. While all evening very good music. My extra two hours were from four to eight this evening. The weather now a little warmer. Slept but three hours during the night. 25 - Very nice morning. On guard with Donely. The first since in the service and I hope the last too. Had inspection at nine by Captain Monroe…The prisoners had their picture taken. A ferry boat across today. Many visitors. Good warm day and a nice night. Another prisoner came during the night. On post them three last mornings from four to six. On deck during the sunrise, and breath the good morning air of the 26th of April…"On 27 April, Landes describes the body of John Wilkes Booth arriving aboard the Montauk and the subsequent autopsy and beheading (he was one of only three eyewitnesses to the beheading), "27 - I was on post from twelve to two. Booth and his partner came on the boat at 1/4 before two [AM], dead. Arrived on the steamboat Burnside. No inspection. Stood guard over him from 6 to 8. Over the partner from 12 to 2. At 2 they took Booth's head off. I seen all the instruments and the head after off. The first man I seen without a head. Full of visitors, officers and citizens. Warm day and full of excitement. Took him away at two o'clock. His partner picture taken in the afternoon…29 - Inspection. Windy. Tide high. News of Johnson surrender. Wrote a letter for Bishop Shower. In the evening clean. At ten on post. At that time the steamboat Key Port came along side the Monitor Sacos and took all our prisoners away at 12 past eleven. All the men left for the barracks except four, and I was one of them…"He again writes of the beheading in a letter to his sister on 28 April aboard the USS Montauk, "…We have at present hard duty, two on post and sometimes four off, day and night. We have six prisoners [Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Dr. Samuel Mudd and Edmund Spangler], everyone alone in a place and two guards over him. Yesterday morning I was on post from twelve to two and at two o'clock they brought Booth and his partner up the river in the boat Burnside. I was guard over him from 6 to 8. I looked him all over. At two o'clock yesterday they cut his head off, it looked a little happy, a man without a head. I can't write very well as I have to hurry so much and the tide is very wild. We had many visitors on board yesterday. He had his leg broken, I seen it. He had paste board around it. No beard and his forehead shaved. You are all aware how they captured him, I suppose it will be of no use to tell you. At least it is a poor satisfaction to have him dead, but he would not surrender. How long we will be kept here, I don't know. But as long as them prisoners are here we won't get off…I must close as we have inspection at two bells, which is nine o'clock and at ten I get on post again till twelve. So after that I write, it would be to late to send it. Today it is awful windy to write as my paper flies all around…The talk is that we are going to New York with the prisoners…"He writes again to Emma on 30 April from the Marine Corps, after the prisoners were transferred to another ship, "…At 1/4 past ten the steamboat Key Port arrived aside the Sacos which laid aside the boat Montauk, where we were still on guard. The prisoners had all heavy capes over their heads ever since they were there they wear these so they could not see anything. Neither who was guard over them and all who in double irons. I did not know what the boat was after but soon I found out. All the prisoners were taken on the arrived boat, by that time it was nearly twelve. The Marines then prepared to go to the garrison yet during the night. Four men were to stay on boat till morning to take charge over some things belonging to us. I was one of them. This morning awoke at about five and gathered all together. Then arrived at the barracks at half past six…We are all happy that they took them men away. I expect they took them to New York. I seen and talked to all of them, but I believe some will never see Washington again. [David] Herold the spy for Booth will surely hang. He is a good looking young man…" In a coda to the collection, Landes writes to his sister on 7 July 1865, the day that the conspirators were executed, "…Today the weather is fine, not so very warm out. I think it will be a little bit warm for them conspirators to hang by the neck till dead. Dead. Two of them I had stood sentry. Many a time talked with them and handed all they wanted. I wonder if they know what I told them when guard over them, that they would swing. The two I know is Herold and [George] Atzerodt… Complete archive includes the two journals, each running approximately 100pp. with the 1862-63 journal measuring 3" x 5" and the 1865-66 journal measuring 4" x 7". Lot of 47 letters during Landes' military service comprise 10 letters from 1862, 14 from 1863, 14 from 1865 and 9 from 1866. Lot also includes a tintype photo of Landes in uniform (though dark), an ambrotype of his wife, two of his pension certificates, and a CDV-sized photo of Landes in Civil War uniform on one side, and a later photo of him on the other side as Editor of the "The Independent", a newspaper in Kansas. With near full transcriptions PAYMENTSWe accept PayPal and Credit cards via Paypal. Please provide a daytime phone number to be used in case of any shipping difficulties. Customers are advised that they are responsible for payment of any international duties and/or taxes. Complete payment is due within 24 hours of purchase. 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ANTIQUE 1861 ORIG 24.5" D-GUARD CONFEDERATE SWORD~inscribed WB WRIGHT MISSISSIP
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PLEASE LOOK AT ALL OF THE PICTURES AND ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING!!! I TRY TO DESCRIBE THE ITEM AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE WITH NO KNOWLEDGEABLE OMISSIONS OR BUT SOMETIMES I MISS SOMETHING OR SIMPLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR. THAT IS WHY THE PICTURES ARE PART OF THE ITEM DESCRIPTION. I AM NOT A COLLECTOR OF ANYTHING NOR DO I CLAIM TO HAVE AN EXPERTISE IN ANY ITEM. IF YOU HAVE CONCERN ABOUT ANY ASPECT OF THE ITEM, ASK BEFORE YOU BID, PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE A PURIST COLLECTOR. NEARLY ALL OF MY ITEMS ARE VINTAGE OR ANTIQUE AND NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR SHOULD BE EXPECTED. IN MOST CASES I HAVE INCLUDED INSURANCE IN MY SHIPPING AND HANDLING COSTS. ANTIQUE 1861 ORIGINAL 24.5" D-GUARD CONFEDERATE SWORD~inscribed (READ ENTIRE DESCRIPTION) THIS IS A 10 DAY AUCTIONFEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT & ALWAYS RECIPROCATED AS IT LETS ME KNOW YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE ITEM IN GOOD CONDITION AND YOU ARE PLEASEDFor sale, fresh from an estate, is this ANTIQUE 1861 ORIGINAL 24.5" D-GUARD CONFEDERATE SWORD. On one side of the blade is inscribed: "MADE BY WHEAT AND VANDALS FAWELLINEST ROAD MISS 1861" all in script. The other side of the blade is inscribed: "W B WRIGHT I am the terror of the yankees" in script. Sword is heavy and solid, grip is relatively tight, and blade only has a few small knicks. The guard is missing one of the two outer bands. Single edged blade measures about 18 3/4" long, 2" wide with 1/4" top thickness. You should look at enlarged pictures and make your own condition decision. Selling as is and as described so look at all of the pictures and ask any questions now before you bid. Please don't wait until near the end of the auction to ask questions as you most likely will not receive a reply CONDITIONS OF SALE.......YOU NEED TO READ THIS!!!!! IT'S VERY SIMPLE. IF YOU ARE THE WINNING BIDDER, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN 24 HOURS OF AUCTION'S END....IF YOU CANNOT DO THIS, EMAIL ME TO LET ME KNOW BEFORE YOU BID!!! YOUR FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT & ONCE RECEIVED IT WILL BE RECIPROCATED I DOUBLE BOX WHEN I FEEL IT IS NECESSARY - I SHIP FED EX GROUND, UPS OR USPS (whichever is the most economical) . Thanks for looking and hopefully bidding. IF YOU WANT THIS PIECE, I SUGGEST THAT YOU BID EARLY AS I MAY END THE AUCTION IF THE COUNTER NEARS 50 AND THERE ARE NO BIDS!!! So don't wait to bid. So often bidders are disappointed when they get "locked out" of an auction before it closed because ebay was sluggish or power went down due to system overload or a virus, especially at peak times, OR they even just got SNIPED! There is a way to prevent this from happening to you! The best prevention is to let the computer do your bidding! When you bid on an item, rather than placing the minimum bid, place a bid that represents the highest amount you're willing to pay for that item. The computer will take over from there and automatically place counterbids in your name, AND ONLY up to the amount you specified in your bid. This is called "proxy bidding" and is a great feature of ebay auctions. It helps prevent bidder's remorse and assures you of being the winning bidder if there is a tie bid since the earliest bid wins. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

Vintage Ambrotype Civil War Soldier Photograph, Sword & Shotgun, Young Man,
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Confederate Civil War Veteran AMAZING IMPORTANT Letter & FOLK ART Archive- 1904
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AMAZING Letter & Folk Art Archive Civil War Confederate Veteran & Doctor from Mississippi Lengthy Letters, Postcards & Art Sent to young girl in North Carolina1904 - 1911 For offer, a rare and unique archival collection! A fresh, unresearched collection that holds important historical value. Vintage, Old, Original, Antique, NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! This collection belongs in a museum, and contains a wealth of information. J.B. (John Bird) Foster (1839-1915) fought in the Civil War, in the 15th Mississippi Regiment, and later worked as a medical doctor in Increase and Enzor, Miss. He was very active in Veteran reunions, and wrote about them elsewhere. The archive presented here is truly amazing, and unique. J.B. Foster wrote these letters and did these incredible folk art drawings, and sent them to Miss Bonnie Eloise Mauney in Kings Mountain, North Carolina between 1904 and 1911. Miss Mauney eventually married later in life, and became Bonnie Eloise (Mauney) Summers (1897-1976). She would go on to write a history of Kings County, N.C. One can only speculate how Foster became acquainted with Bonnie. Perhaps they met at a Confederate Veteran's Reunion, which Foster regularly attended, or another way. What can be said, is that Foster poured his life into writing to this girl, and shared so much important history and AMAZING folk art. His writing style and artwork are unique in every way. He reminisces about fighting in the Civil War, talks about local happenings, gives opinions and detailed descriptions of people and surroundings, goes into detail about the Confederate veteran reunions and picnics (describes the fellow soldiers, and people), and provides these wonderful cartoon-like drawings. Some letters are VERY lengthy, and are like short stories in their own right. There are approx. 20 letters (80 large (most) pages) 15 postcards, 14 envelopes, and 4 small photos of Foster in the collection. I have imagined someone writing a novel or even a non fiction work using this collection. Transcriptions of the letters was begun, but not completed. They are included with the letters. The entire collection is housed in a 3 ring binder, and archivally safe. More work could be done to protect the collection further. There is more than shown - most artwork is shown but there are a few more pieces. Lots of writing not shown. In good to very good condition. Please see photos. If you collect 19th century Americana history, American military, battlefield, etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Important genealogy research importance too. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 2464The United Confederate Veterans (UCV, or simply Confederate Veterans) was an American Civil War veterans' organization headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was organized on June 10, 1889, by ex-soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States as a merger between the Louisiana Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; N. B. Forrest Camp of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Tennessee Division of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association; Tennessee Division of Confederate Soldiers; Benevolent Association of Confederate Veterans of Shreveport, Louisiana; Confederate Association of Iberville Parish, Louisiana; Eighteenth Louisiana; Adams County (Mississippi) Veterans' Association; Louisiana Division of the Army of Tennessee; and Louisiana Division of the Army of Northern Virginia [1][2]The Union equivalent of the UCV was the Grand Army of the Republic HistorySee also: List of commanders in chief of the United Confederate had been numerous local veterans associations in the South, and many of these became part of the UCV. The organization grew rapidly throughout the 1890s culminating with 1,555 camps represented at the 1898 reunion. The next few years marked the zenith of UCV membership, lasting until 1903 or 1904, when veterans were starting to die off and the organization went into a gradual decline [2]PurposeThe UCV felt it had to outline its purposes and structure in a written constitution, based on military lines. Members holding appropriate UCV "ranks" officered and staffed echelons of command from General Headquarters at the top to local camps (companies) at the bottom. Their declared purpose was emphatically nonmilitary – to foster "social, literary, historical, and benevolent" ends.[3]The UCV sponsored Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy (1915) ReunionsCherokee confederates (Thomas' Legion) at the U.C.V reunion in New Orleans, 1903 Confederate veterans reunion May 19111951 Commemorative postage stamp[4]The national organization assembled annually in a general convention and social reunion, presided over by the Commander in Chief These annual reunions served the UCV as an aid in achieving its goals. Convention cities made elaborate preparations and tried to put on bigger events than the previous hosts. The gatherings continued to be held long after the membership peak had passed and despite fewer veterans surviving, they gradually grew in attendance, length and splendor. Numerous veterans brought family and friends along too, further swelling the crowds. Many Southerners considered the conventions major social occasions. Perhaps thirty thousand veterans and another fifty thousand visitors attended each of the mid and late 1890 reunions, and the numbers increased. In 1911 an estimated crowd of 106,000 members and guests crammed into Little Rock, Arkansas—a city of less than one-half that size. Then the passing years began taking a telling toll and the reunions grew smaller. But still the meetings continued until in 1950 at the sixtieth reunion only one member could attend, 98-year-old Commander in Chief James Moore of Selma, Alabama.[3] The following year, 1951, the United Confederate Veterans held its sixty-first and final reunion in Norfolk, Virginia, from May 30 to June 3. Three members attended: William Townsend, John B. Salling, and William Bush. The U.S. Post Office Department issued a 3-cent commemorative stamp in conjunction with that final reunion.[5] The last verified Confederate veteran, Pleasant Crump, died at age 104 on December 31, 1951.The Confederate VeteranIn addition to national meetings, another prominent factor contributed to the growth and popularity of the UCV. This was a monthly magazine which became the official UCV organ, the Confederate Veteran. Founded as an independent publishing venture in January 1893, by Sumner Archibald Cunningham, the UCV adopted it the following year. Cunningham personally edited the magazine for twenty-one years and bequeathed almost his entire estate to insure its continuance. The magazine was of a very high quality and circulation was wide. Many veterans penned recollections or articles for publication in its pages. Readership always greatly exceeded circulation because numerous camps and soldiers' homes received one or two copies for their numerous occupants. An average of 6500 copies were printed per issue during the first year of publication, for example, but Cunningham estimated that fifty thousand people read the twelfth issue.[6] Similar to Grand Army of the Republic / GAR reunions.See also American Civil War portalicon Society portalflag United States Memorial DayList of Confederate monuments and memorialsGrand Army of the Memorial HallConfederate Memorial Hall MuseumSouthern Cross of HonorLost Cause of the Historical in the American Civil WarSons of Confederate Veterans, headquartered in Columbia, TennesseeNotes Minutes U.C.V., I, Constitutional Convention Proceedings, pp. 3–8. Hattaway, 1971, p. 214. Hattaway, 1971, p. 215. "Arago: United Confederate Veterans Final Reunion Issue". arago.si.edu. "61st and final UCV reunion in 1951". Hattaway, 1971, pp. 215–16 ReferencesCimbala Paul A. Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2015). xviii, 189 pp.Dorgan, Howard. "Rhetoric of the United Confederate Veterans: A lost cause mythology in the making." in Oratory in the New South (1979): 143–73 Hattaway Herman. "The United Confederate Veterans in Louisiana." Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 16.1 (1975): 5–37. in JSTORHattaway, Herman (Summer 1971). "Clio's Southern Soldiers: The United Confederate Veterans and History". Louisiana History. Louisiana State University. XII (3): 213–42 Marten James Alan. Sing Not War: The Lives of Union & Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011).Primary sourcesUnited Confederate Veterans (1907). Minutes of the United Confederate Veterans. I. New Orleans, La. Retrieved April 27, 2014.United Confederate Veterans (1907). Minutes of the United Confederate Veterans. II. New Orleans, La. 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List of Organized Camps of the United Confederate Veterans Corrected to August 31, 1921. New Orleans, La.: Rogers Printing Co. Retrieved April 27, 2014.United States. Cong. Senate (1918). Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association, and the Twenty-second Annual Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Washington, D.C.: GPO. Retrieved April 27, 2014.External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to United Confederate Veterans CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS15th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry Regiment, organized at Choctaw, Mississippi, in May, 1861, contained men from Holmes, Choctaw, Quitman, Montgomery, Yalobusha, and Grenada counties. The regiment was active at Fishing Creek, Shiloh, Baton Rouge, and Corinth, then was placed in Rust's, Tilghman's, and J.Adams' Brigade. After serving in the Vicksburg area, it joined the Army of Tennessee and participated in the Atlanta Campaign, Hood's winter operations, and the Battle of Bentonville. This unit had 34 officers and 820 men on January 7, 1862, and lost 44 killed, 153 wounded, and 29 missing at Fishing Creek. Many were disabled at Peach Tree Creek and Franklin, and only a remnant surrendered in April 1865. The field officers were Colonels Michael Farrell and Winfield S. Statham; Lieutenant Colonels James R. Binford, J.W. Hemphill, and Edward C. Walthall; and Majors William F. Brantly, James B. Dennis, Russell G. Prewitt, and Lamkin S. Terry Mississippi was the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States, doing so on January 9, 1861. It joined with six other southern slave-holding states to form the Confederacy on February 4, 1861. Mississippi's location along the lengthy Mississippi River made it strategically important to both the Union and the Confederacy; dozens of battles were fought in the state as armies repeatedly clashed near key towns and transportation nodes Mississippian troops fought in every major theater of the American Civil War, although most were concentrated in the Western Theater. Confederate president Jefferson Davis was a Mississippian politician and operated a large slave cotton plantation there. Prominent Mississippian generals during the war included William Barksdale, Carnot Posey, Wirt Adams, Earl Van Dorn, Robert Lowry, and Benjamin G. Humphreys Secession and Mississippian politicsFor years prior to the American Civil War, slave-holding Mississippi had voted heavily for the Democrats, especially as the Whigs declined in their influence. During the 1860 presidential election, the state supported Southern Democrat candidate John C. Breckinridge, giving him 40,768 votes (59.0% of the total of 69,095 ballots cast). John Bell, the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, came in a distant second with 25,045 votes (36.25% of the total), with Stephen A. Douglas, a northern Democrat, receiving 3,282 votes (4.75%). Abraham Lincoln, who won the national election, was not on the ballot in Mississippi [1][2] According to one Mississippian newspaper in the late 1850s:The slavery controversy in the United States presents a case of the most violent antagonism of interests and opinions. No persuasions, no entreaties or appeals, can allay the fierce contention between the two ...— Mississippi Free Trader, (August 28, 1857).[3]Long a hotbed of secessionist sentiment, support for slavery, and southern states' rights, Mississippi declared its secession from the United States on January 9, 1861, two months after the Republican Party's victory in the U.S. presidential election. The state then joined the Confederacy less than a month later, issuing a declaration of their reasons for seceding, proclaiming that "[o]ur position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--the greatest material interest of the world".[4] Fulton Anderson, a Mississippian lawyer, delivered a speech to the Virginian secession convention in 1861, in which he declared that "grievances of the Southern people on the slavery question" and their opposition to the Republican Party's goal of "the ultimate extinction of slavery" were the primary catalysts of the state in declaring secession.[5] Mississippian judge Alexander Hamilton Handy also shared this view, opining of the "black" Republican Party that:The first act of the black Republican Party will be to exclude slavery from all the territories, from the District of Columbia, the arsenals and the forts, by the action of the general government. That would be a recognition that slavery is a sin, and confine the institution to its present limits. The moment that slavery is pronounced a moral evil, a sin, by the general government, that moment the safety of the rights of the south will be entirely gone.— Judge Alexander Hamilton Handy, (February 1861).[6]Along with South Carolina, Mississippi was one of only two states in the Union in 1860 in which the majority of the state's population were slaves.[7] According to Mississippian Democrat and future Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, Mississippi joined the Confederacy because it "has heard proclaimed the theory that all men are created free and equal", a sentiment perceived as being threatening to slavery, and because the "Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of the equality of the races", a position that Davis was opposed to.[8]William L. Harris, one Mississippian secession commissioner, told a meeting of the Georgian general assembly that the Republicans wanted to implement "equality between the white and negro races" and thus secession was necessary for the slave states to resist their efforts [9]Fulton Anderson, another Mississippian, told the Virginian secession convention that the Republicans were hostile to the slave states themselves, thus accusing the Republican Party of having an "unrelenting and eternal hostility to the institution of slavery [10]EnlistmentAlthough there were small pockets of citizens who remained sympathetic to the Union, most famously in Jones County,[11] the vast majority of white Mississippians embraced slavery and the Confederate cause. Thousands flocked to join the Confederate military. Around 80,000 white men from Mississippi fought in the Confederate army; whereas some 500 white Mississippians remained loyal to the U.S. and fought for the Union. As the war progressed, a considerable number of freed or escaped slaves joined the United States Colored Troops and similar black regiments. More than 17,000 black Mississippian slaves and freedmen fought for the Union.[12] There were regional variations, as Logue shows. almost all soldiers were volunteers. The likelihood of a man volunteering for service increased with a person's amount of personal property owned, including slaves. Poor men were less likely to volunteer. Men living near the Mississippi River, regardless of their wealth or other characteristics were less likely to join the army than were those living in the state's interior. Many military-age men in these western counties had moved elsewhere. Union control of the Mississippi River made its neighbors especially vulnerable, and river-county residents apparently left their communities (and often the Confederacy) rather than face invasion [13]Emancipation of slavesFurther information: History of slavery in of northwestern Mississippi were under Union control on January 1, 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. All of Mississippi had been declared "in rebellion" in the Proclamation, and Union forces accordingly began to free slaves in the U.S.-controlled areas of Mississippi at once.[14] According to one Confederate lieutenant from Mississippi, slavery was the cause for which the state declared secession from the Union, saying that "This country without slave labor would be completely worthless ... We can only live & exist by that species of labor: and hence I am willing to fight to the last [15]Mississippian towns during the warCorinthCorinth s location at the junction of two railroads made it strategically important. Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard retreated there after the Battle of Shiloh, pursued by Union Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck. Beauregard abandoned the town when Halleck approached, letting it fall into Union hands. Since Halleck approached so cautiously, digging entrenchments at every stop for over a month, this action has been known as the Siege of Corinth.Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans moved to Corinth as well and concentrated his force with Halleck later in the year to again attack the city. The Battle of Corinth took place on October 3–4, 1862, when Confederate Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn attempted to retake the city. The Confederate troops won back the city but were quickly forced out when Union reinforcements arrived OxfordOn August 22, 1864 the city of Oxford, MS was burned to the ground by General A.J. Smith. Only the University of Mississippi and two shops were left standing. This action was taken because Nathan Bedford Forrest had taken refuge in Oxford JacksonDespite its small population, Jackson became a strategic center of manufacturing for the Confederacy. In 1863, during the campaign which ended in the capture of Vicksburg, Union forces captured Jackson during two battles—once before the fall of Vicksburg and again soon after its fall.On May 13, 1863, Union forces won the first Battle of Jackson, forcing Confederate forces to flee northward towards Canton. Subsequently, on May 15 Union troops under William Tecumseh Sherman burned and looted key facilities in Jackson. After driving the Confederates out of Jackson, Union forces turned west once again and soon placed Vicksburg under siege. Confederates began to reassemble in Jackson in preparation for an attempt to break through the Union lines now surrounding Vicksburg. Confederates marched out of Jackson to break the siege in early July. However, unknown to them, Vicksburg had already surrendered on July 4. Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant dispatched Sherman to meet the Confederate forces. Upon learning that Vicksburg had already surrendered, the Confederates retreated back into Jackson, thus beginning the Siege of Jackson, which lasted for approximately one week before the town fell NatchezDuring the American Civil War, the Mississippian city of Natchez remained largely undamaged. The city surrendered to Flag-Officer David G. Farragut after the fall of New Orleans in May 1862.[16] One civilian, an elderly man, was killed during the war, when in September 1863, a Union ironclad shelled the town from the river and he promptly died of a heart attack. Union soldiers sent by Ulysses S. Grant from Vicksburg occupied Natchez in 1863. The local commander, General Thomas Ransom, established headquarters at a home called Rosalie [17]Ellen Shields's memoir reveals a Confederate woman's reactions to Union occupation of the city. Shields was a member of the local elite and her memoir points to the upheaval of Confederate society during the war. According to historian Joyce Broussard, Shields's memoir indicates that Confederate men, absent because of the war, were seen to have failed in their homes and in the wider community, forcing the women to use their class-based femininity and their sexuality to deal with the Union Army.[18]The 340 planters who each owned 250 or more slaves in the Natchez region in 1860 were not enthusiastic Confederates. The support these slaveholders had for the Confederacy was problematic because they were fairly recent arrivals to the Confederacy, opposed secession, and held social and economic ties to the Union. These elite planters also lacked a strong emotional attachment to the idea of a Southern nation; however, when the war started, many of their sons and nephews joined the Confederate army.[19] On the other hand, Charles Dahlgren arrived from Philadelphia and made his fortune before the war. He did support the Confederacy and led a brigade, but was sharply criticized for failing to defend the Gulf Coast. When the Union Army came he moved to Georgia for the duration. He returned in 1865 but never recouped his fortune; He went bankrupt and in 1870 he gave up and moved to New York City.[20]Bishop Elder of NatchezA few residents showed their defiance of Union authorities. In 1864, the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Natchez, William Henry Elder, refused to obey a Union order to compel his parishioners to pray for the U.S. president. In response, Union forces arrested Elder, convicted him, and jailed him briefly.The memory of the war remains important for the city, as white Natchez became much more pro-Confederate after the war. The Lost Cause myth arose as a means for coming to terms with the Confederacy's defeat. It quickly became a definitive ideology, strengthened by its celebratory activities, speeches, clubs, and statues. The major organizations dedicated to maintaining the tradition were the United Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. At Natchez, although the local newspapers and veterans played a role in the maintenance of the Lost Cause, elite women particularly were important, especially in establishing memorials such as the Civil War Monument dedicated on Memorial Day 1890. The Lost Cause enabled women noncombatants to lay a claim to the central event in their redefinition of Southern history [21]VicksburgVicksburg was the site of the Battle of Vicksburg, a decisive victory as the Union forces gained control of the entire Mississippi River and cut the western states off. The battle consisted of a long siege, which was necessary because the town was on high ground, well fortified, and difficult to attack directly. The hardships of the civilians were extreme during the siege, with heavy shelling and starvation all around.[22] Some 30,000 Confederates surrendered during the long campaign, but rather than being sent to prison camps, they were paroled and sent home until they could be exchanged for Union prisoners [23]GreenvilleGreenville was a pivotal village for Grant's northern operations in Mississippi during the Vicksburg campaign. The area of the Delta surrounding Greenville was considered the "breadbasket" for providing Vicksburg's military with corn, hogs, beef, mules and horses. Beginning at the end of March 1863, Greenville was the target of General Frederick Steele's Expedition. The design of this expedition was to reconnoiter Deer Creek as a possible route to Vicksburg and to create havoc and cause damage to confederate soldiers, guerrillas, and loyal (Confederate) landowners. Highly successful, Steele's men seized almost 1000 head of livestock (horses, mules, and cattle) and burned 500,000 bushels of corn during their foray.[24] In addition to the damage done, the Union soldiers also acquired several hundred slaves, who, wishing to escape the bonds of slavery left their plantations and followed the troops from Rolling Fork back to Greenville. It was at this time that General Ulysses S. Grant determined that if any of the slaves chose to do so, they could cross the Union lines and become U.S. soldiers. The first black regiments were formed during the Greenville expedition, and by the end of the expedition nearly 500 ex-slaves were learning the "school of the soldier." General Steele's activity in the delta around Greenville pulled the attention of the Confederate leaders away from the Union activities on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River as they moved on Vicksburg. More importantly, it had serious consequences for the people and soldiers of Vicksburg who were now deprived of a most important source of supplies, food, and animals. In early May, as retaliation for Confederate artillery firing on shipping on the Mississippi River, Commander Selfridge of the U.S. Navy ordered ashore 67 marines and 30 sailors, landing near Chicot Island. Their orders were to "put to the torch" all homes and buildings of those citizens guilty of aiding and abetting Confederate forces. By the end of the day of May 9, the large and imposing mansions, barns, stables, cotton gins, overseer dwellings and slave quarters of the Blanton and Roach plantations were in ruins. Additional damage was done to Argyle Landing and Chicot Island and other houses, barns and outbuildings. The destruction of Greenville was completed on May 6 when a number of Union infantrymen slipped ashore from their boats and burned every building in the village but two (a house and a church) [25][26][27]Choctaw CountyDuring the war, Choctaw County Unionists formed a "Loyal League" allied with the U.S. to "break up the war by advising desertion, robbing the families of those who remained in the army, and keeping the Federal authorities advised [28]OthersColumbus was an important hospital town early in the war. Columbus also had an arsenal that produced gunpowder as well as cannons and handguns. Columbus was targeted by the Union on at least two different occasions, but Union commanders failed to attack the town, due to the activities of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men. Many of the casualties from the Battle of Shiloh were brought there, and thousands were buried in the town's Friendship Cemetery. Canton was an important rail and logistics center. Many wounded soldiers were treated in or transported through the city, and, as a consequence, it too has a large Confederate cemetery Meridian s strategic position at a major railroad junction made it the home of a Confederate arsenal, military hospital, and prisoner-of-war stockade, as well as the headquarters for a number of state offices. The disastrous Chunky Creek Train Wreck of 1863 happened 30 miles from Meridian, when the train was en route to the Vicksburg battle. After the Vicksburg campaign, Sherman's Union forces turned eastward. In February 1864, his army reached Meridian, where they destroyed the railroads and burned much of the area to the ground. After completing this task, Sherman is reputed to have said, "Meridian no longer exists."A makeshift shipyard was established on the Yazoo River at Yazoo City after the Confederate loss of New Orleans. The shipyard was destroyed by Union forces in 1863. Then, Yazoo City fell back into Confederate hands. Union forces retook the city the following year and burned most of the buildings in the city.Battles in at AberdeenBattle of Big Black River BridgeBattle of of Brices Cross RoadsBattle of Champion HillBattle of Chickasaw BayouSiege of CorinthBattle of CorinthBattle of Grand GulfBattle of IukaBattle of JacksonBattle of MeridianBattle of OkolonaBattle of OxfordBattle of Port GibsonBattle of RaymondBurning of SeminaryBattle of SenatobiaBattle of Snyder's BluffBattle of TupeloSiege of VicksburgThis is a list of Mississippi Civil War Confederate Units, or military units from the state of Mississippi which fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. The list of Union Mississippi units is shown separately Confederate ArmyInfantryTwo unidentified soldiers in early war Mississippi uniforms with muskets and L. Purnell of Co. I, 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment1st (Johnston's) Infantry1st (Patton's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)1st (Percy's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)2nd Infantry2nd (Davidson's) Infantry (Army of 10,000)2nd Mississippi Infantry (Army of 10,000)3rd Infantry3rd Infantry (Army of 10,000)4th Infantry5th Infantry6th Infantry7th Infantry8th Infantry9th Infantry10th InfantryFlag of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment11th Grays (Company A)12th Infantry13th Infantry14th (Consolidated) Infantry14th Infantry15th (Consolidated) InfantryPrivate Henry Augustus Moore of Co. F, 15th Mississippi Infantry Regiment15th Infantry16th InfantryPrivate Silas A. Shirley of Co. H, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment17th Infantry18th Infantry19th Infantry[1]20th Infantry21st Infantry22nd Infantry23rd Infantry24th Infantry25th Infantry (2nd Infantry27th Infantry29th Infantry30th Infantry31st Infantry32nd Infantry33rd Infantry34th Infantry35th Infantry36th Infantry37th Infantry39th Infantry40th Infantry41st Infantry42nd Infantry[2]43rd Infantry44th Infantry45th Infantry46th Infantry48th Infantry1st Battalion, Infantry (Army of 10,000)2nd Battalion, Infantry3rd Battalion, Infantry5th Battalion, Infantry7th Battalion, Infantry8th Battalion, Infantry37th Battalion, InfantryComfort s Company, InfantryCooper s Company, InfantryLewis' Company, InfantryRed's Company, Infantry (Red Battalion, Sharp Shooters9th Battalion Sharp Shooters15th Battalion, Sharp John E. Barlow of 2nd Co. M, 1st Mississippi Cavalry RegimentJeff Davis Legion1st (Wirt Adams's/Wood's) Cavalry1st (Lindsay s Pinson s) Cavalry2nd Cavalry3rd (McGuirk's) Cavalry[3]4th Cavalry5th Cavalry6th Cavalry7th Cavalry. Organized 3/1/1863 from 1st (Falkner's) Regiment, Partisan Rangers (see below).[4]8th Cavalry9th Cavalry10th Cavalry11th (Ashcraft's) Cavalry11th (Consolidated) Cavalry11th (Perrin's) Cavalry[5]12th Cavalry18th Cavalry28th Cavalry38th CavalryHam's Regiment, CavalryPower's Regiment, CavalryYerger's Regiment, Cavalry1st (Miller's) Battalion, Cavalry3rd (Ashcraft's) Battalion, Cavalry4th Battalion, Cavalry6th Battalion, Cavalry17th Battalion, Cavalry24th Battalion, CavalryGarland s Battalion, CavalryHughes' Battalion, CavalryStockdale s Battalion, CavalryStreet's Battalion, CavalryAbbott's Company, CavalryBowen's Company (Chulahoma Cavalry)Buck's Company, CavalryDuncan's Company (Tishomingo Rangers), CavalryDunn's Company (Mississippi Rangers), CavalryGarley's Company (Yazoo Rangers), CavalryGibson's Company, CavalryHamer's Company (Salem Cavalry)Knox's Company (Stonewall Rangers), CavalryPolk's Independent Company (Polk Rangers), CavalryRussell s Company, CavalrySemple's Company, CavalryShelby's Company (Bolivar Greys), CavalryVivion's Company, CavalryWilliam s Company, CavalryAmerican Indian battalion1st Choctaw Battalion, Cavalry & Light Artillery Regiment14th Battalion, Light ArtilleryBradford s Company (Confederate Guards Artillery)Byrne s Battery, ArtilleryCook's Company, Horse ArtilleryCowan s Battery, Co. G, 1st Miss. Light Artillery RegimentCulbertson s Battery, Light ArtilleryDarden s Battery, Light Artillery (Jefferson Flying Artillery)English s Company, Light ArtilleryGraves Company, Light Artillery (Issaquena Artillery)Hoskins Battery, Light Artillery (Brookhaven Light Artillery)Kittrell s Company (Wesson Artillery), ArtilleryLomax s Company, Light ArtilleryMerrin s Battery, Light ArtilleryPettus Flying Artillery, Light Artillery a/k/a Hudson's Battery and later sometimes Hoole's BatteryRichards Company, Light Artillery (Madison Light Artillery)Roberts Company (Seven Stars Artillery), ArtilleryStanford s Company, Light ArtillerySwett s Company, Light Artillery (Warren Light Artillery)Smith s Turner s Battery, Light ArtilleryYates' Battery, Light Cavalry, MilitiaHinds County MilitiaState Infantry, State Troops, 18641st (Foote's) Infantry (State Troops)1st (King's) Infantry (State Troops)2nd (Quinn's) Infantry (State Troops)2nd Infantry, State Troops, 30 days, 18643rd Infantry (State Troops)4th Infantry (State Troops)5th Infantry (State Troops)1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry, 12 months, 1862–631st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry, 30 days, 18642nd Battalion, Infantry (State Troops)3rd Battalion, Infantry (State State Cavalry1st (McNair's) Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)1st (Montgomery's) Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)2nd (Harris') Battalion, State Cavalry3rd (Cooper's) Battalion, State CavalryDavenport s Battalion, Cavalry (State Troops)Stubb's Battalion, State CavalryGamblin s Company, Cavalry (State Troops)Grace's Company, Cavalry (State Battalion, ReservesInfantryBerry s Company, Infantry Cavalry Reserves2nd Cavalry Reserves3rd Cavalry Reserves2nd Battalion Cavalry Reserves3rd Battalion, Cavalry ReservesButler s Company, Cavalry ReservesMitchell s Company, Cavalry (Falkner's) Regiment, Partisan Rangers. Organized in April 1862; temporarily disbanded 11/15/1862. Reorganized 3/1/1863 as 7th Mississippi Cavalry (see above).[4]2nd (Ballentine's) Regiment, Partisan RangersArmistead s Company, Partisan RangersRhodes' Company, Partisan Rangers, CavalrySmyth's Company, Partisan RangersMiscAdair s Company (Lodi Company)Adam's Company (Holmes County Independent)Applewhite s Company (Vaiden Guards)Barnes' Company of Home GuardsBarr's CompanyBrown's Company (Foster Creek Rangers), CavalryBurt's Independent Company (Dixie Guards)Camp Guard (Camp of Instruction for Conscripts)Clayton s Company (Jasper Defenders)Conscripts MississippiDrane s Company (Choctaw County Reserves), CavalryDrane's Company (Choctaw Silver Greys)Fant's CompanyFoote's Company, Mounted MenGage's CompanyGage's Company (Wigfall Guards)Gordon's Company (Local Guard of Wilkinson County)Grave's Company (Copiah Horse Guards)Griffin s Company (Madison Guards)Hall's CompanyHenley's Company (Henley's Invincibles)Hightower s CompanyHudson's Company (Noxubee Guards)Maxey's Company, Mounted Infantry (State Troops)McCord's Company (Slate Springs Company)McLelland s Company (Noxubee Home Guards)Miscellaneous Mississippi (Mississippi)Montgomery s Company of ScoutsMontgomery s Independent Company (State Troops) (Herndon Rangers)Montgomery s CompanyMoore's Company (Palo Alto Guards)Morgan's Company (Morgan Riflemen)Morphis Independent Company of ScoutsMoseley's RegimentNash's Company (Leake Rangers)Packer s Company (Pope Guards)Page's Company (Lexington Guards)Roach's Company (Tippah Scouts)Roger's CompanyShield's CompanyStandefer s CompanyStewart s Company (Yalobusha Rangers)Taylor s Company (Boomerangs)Terrell s Unattached Company, CavalryTerry's CompanyWalsh's Company (Muckalusha County Minute MenWilliams' Company (Gray Port Greys)William's CompanyWilson's Company (Ponticola Guards)Wilson's Independent Company, Mounted Men (Neshoba Rangers)Withers Company, Reserve CorpsState TroopsBlythe's Battalion (State Troops)Gillenland s Battalion (State Troops)Grace's Company (State Troops)Maxwell s Company (State Troops) (Peach Creek Rangers)Patton s Company (State Troops)Perrin's Battalion, State Cavalry[6]Red's Company (State Troops)Stricklin s Company (State Troops)Yerger's Company (State Troops)See alsoLists of American Civil War Regiments by StateCauseyville Mississippi (also known as Increase) is a small community in southeastern Lauderdale County, Mississippi, about twelve miles southeast of the city of Meridian. The Causeyville Historic District consists of four buildings at the center of the community–two general stores and two exemplify the pivotal contribution that small communities like Causeyville made to the development of Lauderdale County. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.HistorySee also: Lauderdale County, in 1833, Lauderdale County has always been one of the most prosperous counties in Mississippi. Meridian, the county seat, is located at the intersection of several major railroads and thus served as a transportation hub for early Lauderdale County. Locals in the farming and timber industries sent their products to Meridian to be loaded onto the trains and shipped to other cities.[2]With the exception of Meridian, Lauderdale County is mostly rural, remaining largely as it was at the turn of the 20th century and even earlier. Before automobiles and personal transportation became widespread, many of the early settlers of Lauderdale County grouped into small population clusters that relied nearly entirely on local resources, each community isolated from the others. Some communities like Causeyville had a store, and some had post offices and other infrastructural institutions, but many did not have any of these buildings [2]Causeyville named after a local family that settled the area in the 1820s, thrived in the pre-Civil War era. The community was a commercial center in southeastern Lauderdale County, and its inhabitants also produced lumber and agricultural products. Though most of the buildings that fed the local economy have long been demolished, there are pictures of an antebellum store, a cotton gin, and a sawmill used for a local logging company. The four buildings in the Causeyville Historic District were built between 1860 and 1930 and demonstrate the community's growth during that period. All four buildings are located along Causeyville Road; the two general stores are on the northern side of the road, and the two residences face the stores on the southern side. The four buildings in the district are all that remain of this economy [3]Lauderdale County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 80,261.[1] The county seat is Meridian.[2] The county is named for Colonel James Lauderdale, who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 [3]Lauderdale County is included in the Meridian, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area HistoryAndrew Jackson traveled through the county on his way to New Orleans and a town was named Hickory after his nickname "Old Hickory". An early explorer Sam Dale died in the county and is buried in Daleville, and a large monument is placed at his burial site. The largest city in the county is Meridian, which was in important railway intersection during the early 20th century. It was also home to the Soule Steam Feed Works which manufactured steam engines. Logging and rail transport were important early industries in the county. One of the largest waterfalls in Mississippi, Dunns Falls, is located in the county and a water driven mill still exists on the site. Lauderdale county is also home to the headquarters of Peavey Electronics which has manufactured audio and music equipment for half a century.Like much of the post Reconstruction South the county has a checkered racial history with 16 documented lynchings in the period from 1877 to 1950; most occurred around the turn of the 20th century [4]Nearby : CitiesMeridian (county seat and largest municipality)TownsMarionCensus designated art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are normally trained within a popular tradition, rather than in the fine art tradition of the culture. There is often overlap, or contested ground,[1] with naive art, but in traditional societies where ethnographic art is still made, that term is normally used instead of "folk art".The types of object covered by the term varies considerably and in particular "divergent categories of cultural production are comprehended by its usage in Europe, where the term originated, and in the United States, where it developed for the most part along very different lines [2]American sampler, 1831Folk arts are rooted in and reflective of the cultural life of a community. They encompass the body of expressive culture associated with the fields of folklore and cultural heritage. Tangible folk art includes objects which historically are crafted and used within a traditional community. Intangible folk arts include such forms as music, dance and narrative structures. Each of these arts, both tangible and intangible, was originally developed to address a real secret. Once this practical purpose has been lost or forgotten, there is no reason for further transmission unless the object or action has been imbued with meaning beyond its initial practicality. These vital and constantly reinvigorated artistic traditions are shaped by values and standards of excellence that are passed from generation to generation, most often within family and community, through demonstration, conversation, and practice Characteristics of folk art objectsDetail of 17th century calendar stick carved with national coat of arms, a common motif in Norwegian folk art.Main article: Concepts in folk artObjects of folk art are a subset of material culture and include objects which are experienced through the senses, by seeing and touching. As with all material culture, these tangible objects can be handled, repeatedly re-experienced, and sometimes broken. They are considered works of art because of the skillful technical execution of an existing form and design; the skill might be seen in the precision of the form, the surface decoration or in the beauty of the finished product.[3] As a folk art, these objects share several characteristics that distinguish them from other artifacts of material culture.Folk artistsThe object is created by a single artisan or team of artisans. The craftsmen and women work within an established cultural framework. They frequently have a recognizable style and method in crafting their pieces, allowing their products to be recognized and attributed to a single individual or workshop. This was originally articulated by Alois Riegl in his study of Volkskunst, Hausfleiss, und Hausindustrie, published in 1894. "Riegl ... stressed that the individual hand and intentions of the artist were significant, even in folk creativity. To be sure, the artist may have been obliged by group expectations to work within the norms of transmitted forms and conventions, but individual creativity – which implied personal aesthetic choices and technical virtuosity – saved received or inherited traditions from stagnating and permitted them to be renewed in each generation."[4] Individual innovation in the production process plays an important role in the continuance of these traditional forms. Many folk art traditions like quilting, ornamental picture framing, and decoy carving continue to thrive, while new forms constantly emerge Contemporary outsider artists are frequently self-taught as their work is often developed in isolation or in small communities across the country. The Smithsonian American Art Museum houses over 70 such folk and self-taught artists; for example, Elito Circa, a famous and internationally recognized artist of Indigenouism, developed his own styles without professional training or guidance [5]Hand craftedThe taka is a type of paper mache art native to Paete in the Philippines.All folk art objects are produced in a one-off production process. Only one object is made at a time, either by hand or in a combination of hand and machine methods; they are not mass-produced. As a result of this manual production, each individual piece is unique and can be differentiated from other objects of the same type. In his essay on "Folk Objects", folklorist Simon Bronner references preindustrial modes of production, but folk art objects continue to be made as unique crafted pieces by skilled artisans. "The notion of folk objects tends to emphasize the handmade over machine manufactured. Folk objects imply a mode of production common to preindustrial communal society where knowledge and skills were personal and traditional [6] This does not mean that all folk art is old, it continues to be hand-crafted today in many regions around the world.Workshops and apprenticesThe design and production of folk art is learned and taught informally or formally; folk artists are not self taught [citation needed] Folk art does not strive for individual expression. Instead, "the concept of group art implies, indeed requires, that artists acquire their abilities, both manual and intellectual, at least in part from communication with others. The community has something, usually a great deal, to say about what passes for acceptable folk art."[7] Historically the training in a handicraft was done as apprenticeships with local craftsmen, such as the blacksmith or the stonemason. As the equipment and tools needed were no longer readily available in the community, these traditional crafts moved into technical schools or applied arts schools.Owned by the communityThe object is recognizable within its cultural framework as being of a known type. Similar objects can be found in the environment made by other individuals which resemble this object. Without exception, individual pieces of folk art will reference other works in the culture, even as they show exceptional individual execution in form or design. If antecedents cannot be found for this object, it might still be a piece of art but it is not folk art. "While traditional society does not erase ego, it does focus and direct the choices that an individual can acceptably make… the well-socialized person will find the limits are not inhibiting but helpful… Where traditions are healthy the works of different artists are more similar than they are different; they are more uniform than personal [8]Utility of the objectThe known type of the object must be, or have originally been, utilitarian; it was created to serve some function in the daily life of the household or the community. This is the reason the design continues to be made. Since the form itself had function and purpose, it was duplicated over time in various locations by different individuals. A ground-breaking book on the history of art states that "every man-made thing arises from a problem as a purposeful solution."[9] Written by George Kubler and published in 1962, "The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things" goes on to describe an approach to historical change which places the history of objects and images in a larger continuum of time. It maintains that if the purpose of the form were purely decorative, then it would not be duplicated; instead the creator would have designed something new. However since the form itself was a known type with function and purpose, it continued to be copied over time by different individuals Aesthetics of the genre1978 First Indigenous Painting, mixed media with soy sauce, water and Tinting Color and enamel paint on plywood created by Elito "Amangpintor" Circa, Philippines, 1978The object is recognized as being exceptional in the form and decorative motifs. Being part of the community, the craftsman is well aware of the community aesthetics, and how members of the local culture will respond to his work. He strives to create an object which matches their expectations, working within (mostly) unspoken cultural biases to confirm and strengthen them.[10] While the shared form indicates a shared culture, innovation allows the individual artisan to embody his own vision; it is a measure of how well he has been able to tease out the individual elements and manipulate them to form a new permutation within the tradition. "For art to progress, its unity must be dismantled so that certain of its aspects can be freed for exploration, while others shrink from attention."[11] The creative tension between the traditional object and the craftsman becomes visible in these exceptional objects. This in turn allows us to ask new questions about creativity, innovation, and aesthetics [12]Materials forms, and craftsFolk art comes in many different shapes and sizes. It uses the materials which are at hand in the locality and reproduces familiar shapes and forms. In order to gain an overview of the multitude of different folk art objects, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has compiled a page of storied objects that have been part of one of their annual folklife festivals. The list below includes a sampling of different materials, forms, and artisans involved in the production of everyday and folk art objects [13]AlebrijeArmourerBasketryBellmakerBlacksmithBoat carvingDrystone MasonEx votoFarrierFoodwaysFrakturFurnitureGunsmithHarness American RetablosLeather craftingLei or ModelsNakshi art in South carvingRelated below are a wide-ranging assortment of labels for an eclectic group of art works. All of these genres are created outside of the institutional structures of the art world, they are not considered "fine art". There is undoubtedly overlap between these labeled collections, such that an object might be listed under two or more labels.[14] Many of these groupings and individual objects might also resemble "folk art" in one aspect or another, without however meeting the defining characteristics listed above. As our understanding of art expands beyond the confines of the "fine arts", each of these types needs to be included in the discussion AmericanaArt brutFolk artGenre paintingsNaïve artOutlier art[15]Outsider artPrimitive artTramp artTrench artTribal artVanguard artVisionary arta folk art wall in Lincoln Park, on mainstream artFolk artworks, styles and motifs have inspired various artists. For example, Pablo Picasso was inspired by African tribal sculptures and masks, while Natalia Goncharova and others were inspired by traditional Russian popular prints called luboks.[16]In 1951, the artist, writer and curator Barbara Jones organised the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade at the Whitechapel Gallery in London as part of the Festival of Britain. This exhibition, along with her publication The Unsophisticated Arts, exhibited folk and mass-produced consumer objects alongside contemporary art in an early instance of the popularisation of pop art in Britain [17]Supporting United Nations recognizes and supports cultural heritage around the world,[18] in particular UNESCO in partnership with the International Organization of Folk Art (IOV). Their declared mission is to “further folk art, customs and culture around the world through the organization of festivals and other cultural events, … with emphasis on dancing, folk music, folk songs and folk art.”[19] By supporting international exchanges of folk art groups as well as the organization of festivals and other cultural events, their goal is promote international understanding and world peace.In the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts works to promote greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education, and community engagement. As part of this, they identify and support NEA folk art fellows in quilting, ironwork, woodcarving, pottery, embroidery, basketry, weaving, along with other related traditional arts. The NEA guidelines define as criteria for this award a display of “authenticity excellence, and significance within a particular tradition” for the artists selected. (NEA guidelines) .” In 1966, the NEA’s first year of funding, support for national and regional folk festivals was identified as a priority with the first grant made in 1967 to the National Folk Festival Association. Folklife festivals are now celebrated around the world to encourage and support the education and community engagement of diverse ethnic communities Regional folk artsAfrican folk artChinese folk artMingei (Japanese folk art movement)Minhwa (Korean folk art)Mak Yong (Northern Malay Peninsular folk art dance)Mexican handcrafts and folk artJoget (Wider Malay folk art dance)North artWarli painting (India)Folk arts of Karnataka (India)Folk Art and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and ThraceFolk Art Museum of Patras, GreeceNative American Art Society of AmericaIOV International Organization of Folk Art, in partnership with UNESCONational Endowment for the ArtsCIOFF: International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Folklore: Woven Together TV Program on textile artsNational Folk Folk Art American Art MuseumFolk Art Center and Guild, Asheville NCMuseum of International Folk ArtAmerican Folk Art MuseumAbby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art MuseumShelburne Museum (Condition: Pre-Owned)

RARE ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS GAY INTEREST SIGNED FRAMED TINTYPE PHOTOGRAPH
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Antique Civil War 5th NH Drummer Boy Photographs & Gettysburg Battlefield Bible
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Antique Civil War 5th NH Drummer Boy Photographs & Gettysburg Battlefield Bible …… Every once in a while we are able to list something from the Civil War that is more than just an artifact. Tonight, we are listing Joseph Henry Whitehouse’s CDV Drummer Boy Photograph and his personal Bible given to him by his brother on the day he left to join the 5th New Hampshire. The 5th New Hampshire regiment was a battle hardened regiment which participated in 23 major campaigns and battles with the Army of the Potomac. The regiment ended its service in 1865 with the grim distinction as having suffered the greatest number of battlefield losses of any Union regiment during the war of the rebellion: 295 killed and 756 wounded, for a total of 1,051 men. The Drummer Boy Joseph Henry Whitehouse survived every encounter and was mustered out of service June 28, 1865. He retired to Massachusetts, where he worked as a railroad brakeman to support his family. On a September day in 1900, he fell ill aboard a train and died three hours after being removed from the car. He was 56 years old. …The 2 ½” by 3 ¾” by ¾” thick Bible in the auction was published in 1861 and contains many inscriptions and added items attached to the first and last plain pages. On the inside of the cover is an attached lithograph of a Bible surrounded by Civil War American Flags. On the opposing page is “Joseph H. Whitehouse Dover NH” hand written in his hand. Above this is the beginning of the story. It is written in pencil, “Picked up on the Battle Field at Gettysburg by S. Gates Beaver Ctr. Pennsylvania ” The next pages have a 3 cent Washington stamp and another patriotic engraving of an American Eagle & Shield. There are no writings on the pages of the Bible, but at the end are several pages written at different times, which tell the rest of the story. One pages is written in pencil, “Presented to Daniel Rodgers by Michal Shell on the 14th day of November in the year of 1862 while in the Army of the Potomac.” This is confusing as the next page reads, “Original owner of this Bible Joseph H. Whitehouse Dover, NH 5th NH Civil War Given to him by his mother Catherine Whitehouse + Lost on Battlefield, Gettysburg.” I’ll leave the research of this contradiction to the next owner. The last page have an attached folded note which reads, “This Bible Given to Joseph H. Whitehouse of Dover N.H. given to him by his brother when he marched away in the Civil War. Was picked up on the Battlefield a Gettysburg July 5th 1863 by L. Gates Beaver Ctr. Penn. & returned to son of Joseph H. Whithouse, namely Jasper H. Whitehouse some 40 years after the war. Joseph H. Whitehouse was a Drummer-Boy in the 5th NH Regiment and served 3 years, 9 months, enlisting when not 17 years old. Died in 1940. Along with this bible comes a Civil War period 2 3/8" by 4" CDV Photograph of Joseph Whitehouse and his amazing decorated Drum. On the back are two inscriptions. The first reads, “Presented to Clara A. Whitehouse from J. H. Whitehouse 1863.” In another ink inscription is written, Born Oct. 5 1844, 5th NH Civil War Dover BH Owner of the Bible. Father Jasper H. Whitehouse, Geo. E Whitehouse, Wl. Whitehouse, L. Whitehouse, Ethel M. Whitehouse.” … I think at least 5 different people from the family have added their information to this Bible, which can be confusing, but I’m sure the truth is there. The next owner can have the enjoyment of figuring it out. … There also is a second later 5" by 7" photograph of the CDV included in the auction. … Some eBayer will win this rare Civil War Drummer Boy, Joseph Whitehouse photographs and Bible. 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Confederate Columbia SC Cavalry Sword
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Highly Rare Civil War Sundial Signal Canon, Plantations Used To Signal For Meals
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Highly Rare Original Civil War Sundial Signal Canon " NICE - SEE PHOTOS" This Beautiful Sundial Signal Canon Is 100% Original & Solid... - My photos and description are per the eBay Holy Grail description policy in describing this rare Sun Dial Signal Canon to my best ability including high resolution photos. Please do not bid nor buy if you are unsure of the item I am selling. You can buy a copy on the net upward of $1,000USD, or own the real deal here... This is 100% authentic and if you can locate at least 3 to 4 more "EXACTLY" alike as replicas I will truly eat my words. There is a replica on the net that sells from $600 to $1,000USD and does not have the original intricate arms seals / shields surrounding the base of signal canon like mine. They also say they sell upward of 6,000 a year of that copy. If you can read, you will see a large difference. My sundial signal canon still has the wick hole to operate as it was meant to do during the Civil War. The bore size where powder and a wad would be placed is about 10mm. The sound of a 9mm side arm firing is about the sound this makes to let a plantation know it was meal time. This sundial signal cannon has the appropriate operating levels and compass with again a wick hole to operate the signal.Replica sundial signal canons do not have any weight nor a operational wick hole. I purchased several larger signal canons through the years from fake sellers on eBay and the larger signal canon was truly a fake.Please do your home work... History. The earliest sundial cannons were used in Europe in the 1600s. They were also used in European parks during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The cannon-lens combination was mounted on a sundial. A sundial cannon, sundial gun, noon cannon or meridian cannon, also noonday gun is a device consisting of a sundial incorporating a cannon with a fuse that is lit by an overhanging lens, concentrating the rays of the sun, and causing the cannon to fire at noon, when properly oriented along a north–south axis. The cannon sizes ranged from large to small depending on the location of their use. The household variety was used in estates to signal the time for the midday meals. - Measurements and condition are provided in my high resolution photos... - Please view photos closely; all photos are taken with a high resolution studio camera which is also my crystal clear description. - I do keep on all my swords, knives and antiques preserved with a very light natural non build up oil placed in a non humid, non smoking controlled environment. ** Display & Props Not Included, "Only This Civil War Sun Dial Signal Canon" Is For Sale ** Terms of Sale: You must be 18 to bid. You agree to pay on time and we agree to ship on time. No local pickups. International sales are prohibited on all military items from being sold outside The United States. Return Policy: We prefer a no-returns policy because you're going to receive "EXACTLY" what is in the description in these very clear photos. Please think "YARD SALE" or "FLEA MARKET" not "Wal-Mart" or "MACY'S". If we screwed up, that's different, but I promise you that wont happen. You promise that if there is something that is unclear or you're not sure about the information or photos, you will ask before you bid. that will work well for all of us. - I am always happy to have repeat happy customers and will always do my best to take 100% care of your business. My feedback speaks for the quality, secure packing and fast shipping... * USA Bidders Only with eBay Confirmed Addresses, No P.O. Boxes, APO's or United States Embassies unless certified by ITAR * No shipping "International, Puerto Rico, Alaska, or Hawaii (Contact Us) * Once again secured packaging for safe shipping * Handling Time is 10 Business Days After Confirmed Payment. Usually much faster as long as payment is paid on time. * Antiques, collectables and Electronics are AS-IS, please view pictures before bidding, this is a very nice addition to any collector. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

1st Michigan Colored Infantry Civil War Soldiers ID Dog Tag Died Before Battle
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Eagle Head, Ruby Eye CIVIL WAR M1850 Officer's Sword, Collins & Co 1862, Etched
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Cannon with Carriage Civil War?
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1862-65 Civil War Letter Archive 70+ Letters/Photos 124th Illinois Infantry
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****Civil War Archives of William Hawkins Wickersham, Company C 124th Illinois Infantry. William Hawkins Wickersham, Sr., served in Company C, 124th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Mr. Wickersham, for many years a well-known and popular journeyman printer. A collection of 70+ letters from William Hawkins Wickersham to his wife Margeret G. Wickersham "Maggie" while he was in service. The letters date from October 12,1862 to 1865 and contain many interesting elements of daily life in the field. We just scratched the surface on some of the content that we listed by date. There are also about 12 or more letters are from 1870-1885 between relatives of the Wickersham's including Eubanks, Osborn & Rogers & Between William Wickersham and friends from December 9,1862-1885,and a few other fragments of letters without dates or heading too mutilated to read, The regiment was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, and mustered in on September 10, 1862. It later mustered out at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 28, and was discharged in Chicago, Illinois, on August 16, 1865. His first letter home to his Wife Maggie from Jackson Tennessee on October 12, 1862, he tells Maggie " Iam very well and am getting heartier than at Camp Butler. Jim has not written yet, but says he will as soon as he gets time. He is a hard case and I don't like to tent with him at all. Perhaps i will go into another tent soon. Most of the tents have four men in them, but some have only two or three... You can rest assured we have a good floor in out tent. Some of the boys have not. They were afraid to take the boards as the Major had made them carry then back one day. I had a talk with some contrabands yesterday. They are working for Uncle Sam and like it very much. One said his master lived 24 miles from here and was a Union Man,but was afraid to take the oath. When he told his master he was going up with the Yankees the Master said he was a fool and that the Yankees would Kill Him. But he did believe it. It would take 75000 Rebels to take this place and they haven't the 20th part of that number to spare to send up this far. It costs $11 to come down here, twenty-two dollars for the trip here and back to Springfield rather heavy aint it" On October 15,1862 from Jackson, Tennessee he writes his wife " Gen. Williams and John Cook both from Springfield were in Camp yesturday. but i did not get to talk to them. We are circulating a petitioin to have out 1st and 2nd Lieutentants resign. We dont know how it will turn out. They are very incompetant men. October 30th, 1862 Camp Jackson, Tennessee (In the field),"I was so glad to hear from you, but sorry to hear that Franky was sick. Dont let him get too sick before you get the doctor. poor little fellow. I expect him and Cecil will together soon. Kiss Franky again for me and I will kiss you myself before long....... I will now tell you how me and my 3 tent mates are fixed. we started to build a cabin. Built it four logs high (about four feet) and then stretched the tent over it, built a fireplace and chimney and now have a nice, comfortable, cozy little place, and can sit by our fire and laugh at cold weather November 2, 1862, Camp Jackson, Tennessee, We were called in from Pickel-Guard at 8 o'clock under marching orders for Bolivar 25 miles from here. I put a latter in the officve this morning for you and this is the 2nd today. KOn November 8, 1862 at Camp Lagrange Tenn. 3 miles from Mississippi he says" I went down town , bough a pie from a Dutch woman and had to wait in her kitchen til it was made. Her husband is a good Union man , and says he was offered 300 dollars in confederate money for 100 dollars in "green backs" just before we boys got here, but he woudlnt take it, He says that price cant posibly master over 40,000 men if as many, and that if we have 40,000 and he had a hundred thousand that we would whip them. To my knowledge 6000 of ouir men whipped 23,000 rebels right close by here on teh river. The same man says he knows of southern men who have laid in the woods for months and months to avoid the Conscript Law. The rebels heard we were coming here but didnt believe we would dare do it. He knew we were coming but didnt say anything about it. He says that they didnt used to pray for peace but he says they are at it now in all the churches in their prayer. They are getting sick of rebellion. If it wasn't for the of their leaders about the great victories, they (the rebels) achieve they would have no energy or hear to fight at all December 10, 1862 from Oxford Mississippi he writes "this printing operation is not what i alluded to. I write to Ben Richards to see if Capt. Bailhache couldnt get me some position under Gen. Brayman at Bolivar. The General is Bailhaches father in law. I might get something of that kind. Beu Richards it seems had done all the work though. He took it upon himself to write tot eh general and recommended me as competent to fill any position he might have for me..... but to lay that all side i am satisfied to stay where i am at present. March 4th,1863 Lagrange, Tennesse every evening I feel an aching in my left jaw. It is so provoking. I am getting as fat as a buck. We live pretty well, now but not on rich food....Beans we all love, dearly. This evening though we had some doughnuts. We have but one article of queensware on our table and that is out "thundermug" which holds our beans, rice, soup etc.... much nicer than to have one of the black, rooty kettles, which black our fingers in passing".March 15,1863 Lagrange Tennessee, "... I have just been told you can get trasportation from Gov. Yates, and sot you nothing to come and see your sick husband (you can get it that way, and probably without). It can be stated to (mr. Lee) that you deserve the 5 dollars a month from Goot, that you are not drawing it and that your husband is stationed at the Port of Lagrange in the Goot Printing Office. If that is done it wont cost you a cent. Or Capt. Bailache can give you transportation but the Governor can send you all the way through without any outlay. So you can come right along hon. Get transportation from the governor and you can stay down here for several months". May 18, 1863 Lagrange, Tennessee, "Our regiment has been in a fight and only one man was wounded and he was Capt. Potter.... I saw those who were sent out of St. Loius. There were escorted from here to Holly Springs with a "Flag of truce" by a squad of our cavalry. They will find it dry picking down there and wish themselves back in St. Louis before long. They had been rich but were not allowed to take but $200 each with them, the balance of their property was confiscated. They had been detected corresponding with the Rebels. Served 'em right."June 4th 1863 Lagrange Tennessee, " Mit said something about Joe joining cousin buds 10th Cavalry or going to Ohio wher he could get one or two thousand dollars for going as a substitute.... Mit said for you to write Joe and it might be that you could influence him to do it....... I told my Lieut. again the other day that i wanted to go to my regiment and he flatty told me no i couldn't and that i had to stay for three years or during the war. He won't let me go unless he can get as good a printer as me and that hell not be able to do in these parts.June 11,1863 Lagrange Tennessee, " at this Post there has been an entire change of the Commanders and troops. Major General Oglesby is here. So is Acting Brigadier General James M. True, of the 62nd Ills. Infantry. It was thought for a while that our office would be ordered away when Smith left, but it was not, and i guess we will stay now. I do not care much. I would about as leave be with my Regiment. I would there stand some chance of promotion, but dont in this "chebang". June 21st, 1863 Lagrange Tennessee,"... they cleaned everything out effectually and what they could not take away they gave to some of the Brethern. Gowtird (thats the way they pronounce it in the Captains office) gave me that pretty straw hat and i use it for a pis-pot. That was all he gave me. He could have got all my extra pay just as well as not. but he was mad because i was the only one out of the seven chosen to stay. He could hardly shoke hands and wish me success. He told Harriet and Henry a private couldn't draw rations for them and they would soon be on the point of starvation and told them to go to the Correl and not to cook for me". July 1st, 1863 Lagrange Tennessee, " Vicksburg is as good as doomed, and the invasion of Pennsylvania will be a good incentive to make the folks in that region enlist under Uncle Samuel. They can have a few horses, etc. if it will be the means of raising us 50,000 troops....Let them come on Northern soil. The quicker the better for us". July 5,1863 lagrange Tennessee, " General Oglesby has left here and Col. True is in command. My friend Cd. Wiley will still be the A.A.A. General and will be the sub-commander so you see i will all right..... Lees remark that i was only a temporary concern has proven to be a lie thus far. I guess he and the rest of them only hoped so.... I would not be surprised if they would try in teh regiment or division to have me ordered back. Let them.....August 25, 1863 Memphis Tennessee, "Here Iam in Memphis... I have been working in an office here picking out some new type to take out to my office. I have b een getting some work from Memphis from the Commissary of Masters at G H Headquarters, and they talk like they would have me move the office down here and set up a big concern to do all the printing for all the towns between here and """""", but I dont know whether they will or not. I went to see E. W. Wickershaw in the Post Office here. He says the big P.O. building is owned by a Wickershaw. I could get into the Post Office here by the proper amount of care in that particular, but i prefer the printing".March 24,1864 Vicksburg, Mississippi, " I wrote you a letter just after coming from Black River telling you that Jim was somewhere in the city. but i cant find him. I have been uptown three or four times on purpose to see him but he as so far off the last time i went and it was so late in the evening that i did not get to see him. He commands a squad of what are called "skulkers"....I wanted to see him particularly in reference to the Co. Records I am about to print. Whether he wanted a copy and whether he wanted his promotion ... in it or not........ Nearly all the 17th Army Corps will soon be off to some others point, leaving only the 1st Division. If our regiment goes it will not affect one in my present for it so long as any of the Corps remain here". April 21, 1864 from Post Printing Office Vicksburg, Mississippi, " I told you in my last that I was a detailed in a printing office. I am working for a citizen who owns the office. He is allowed to have one soldier printer and for that reason he has to do Head 2, work free. I will get $12 a month extra from the Post fund". May 13, 1864 from Vickburg, Mississippi, " The Steamboat "Mississippi" arrived today and i purchased a late paper.... The Rebels hereway look chopfallen. The Red River affair was a great disaster to me, but no failure elsewhere can compensate the Rebs for their defeat in Virginia if the news we have with northern papers of the 11th be true. Did you see the piece from the Richmond """" stating this is the last year of the war whichever way it ends?".July 12, 1864 from Vicksburg, Mississippi, " I said in my last that our Regi had gone out towards Jackson, Miss. Well they have come back to the city again. There were five or six other Regiments with it. All the rest were badly cut up by the Rebels in superior numbers attacking them while they were on the way back. Our Regiment was extremely lucky. The 16th """" lost about 85 killed and wounded. and the 46th over a hundred. The 124th had one man shot. One of our company Bill """"" whose brother was killed during the seige had his canteen bursted and didnt get hurt by the shell at all. Capt. Field had a narrow escape. All the Regiments went out again but the 8th and ours, and they will probably remain a while". July 31,1864 from Vicksburg, Mississippi, " In consequence of each Trade Regulations and hostile Batheries along the river, boats do not come down as often as usual. Now if we have a boat once a week we feel lucky. Since the """ was sunk, i have been informed several others have been stuck on sand bars and the Olive Branch sunk. Navigation at the present taking all things into consideration is extremely hazardous". August 27 1864, from Vicksburg , Mississippi, " There is some talk of this place being attacked soon. But we are ampily prepared for them. They will not get out as they did at Memphis.... End of letter states, "Since writing the above i have been detailed in the "District Head Quarters Printing Office and there are only two of us and we have two large rooms and an outer kitchen in a nice brick house.... I stand pretty high at the head quarters and that notice of me in the paper is partly the cause of it. I have been placed in charge of it hon, and can do as i please. (Blue paper card mentions The District head quarters printing office).October 4, 1864 at headquarters District Printing Office Vicksburg, Mississippi, " As i marked in my last, i want you to use all your influence in the selection of the OLD ABE as out Next President. You will then be some help towards subduing our enemies. end of letter says " so aunt says you wont come down here. I know the reason it is because Lincoln will be elected and the Rebels will quit fighting and i can go home to you, thats it". March 25, 1865 at Headquarters Department of Mississippi Vicksburg," I received a paper i suppose Mit sent me containing the notice (such a good notice too), of dear little Franks funeral William Wickersham to his father Milton F. Wickersham on December 9, 1862, "Prisoners continue to arrive every day and a good many are taking the oath. the kind i sent in Maggies letter which your humble servant printed for the poor deluded fellows. Our office is getting in working trim and we turn out more work ever day.... Yesterday Grants portable printing office arrived in a state of "py" and one of the boys wanted to drive us and had already received a specimen of our work, was not going to see us "ousted" in that manner notwithstanding the boys claimed authority from Grant to take possession of the establishment over the way".Martha Osborn to her half-sister Margaret G. Wickersham on March 23, 1864, "I think you ought to stay with Sue if she wants you to if you can be any help to her. I suppose that Hawkins will draw his pay pretty soon, but you are so impatient you think you cant have all of your wants and i dont think you ought to complain so much and write all your little trouble to Hawkins for he has trouble enough of his own you ought to help him to hear his in the place adding your to his he knows how hard it is for you to live the way ou do with you continually reminding him of it you ought to try and do the best you can and write as cheerful letters to him as you can he will think a good deal more of you for your patience think how he must feel when he gets a letter from you full of your troubles when perhaps he has been on a long march and is tired and hungry and wants something to cheer him".Stuber a friend in service to William H. Wickersham on January 29, 1865, "Since you left us, we was sometimes pressed very hard with work and i could not get a half a day for my own private business. Applications for my relief has been made to the General by the Command Officer.... I have made up my mind to serve my time out in a printing office. Abe and I were both very much pleased with your kind offer but we could not come off from here just now. I am compelled to have another man detailed in our office for about ten days, to help me to work out about 8 or 10 pages of Court Martial. after this we can spare him again. The mans name is James Thomas, private Company B... if you should be able to send him a detail from Memphis he would state off immediately". Margaret G. Wickersham to her husband William H. Wickersham on April 25,1865, " You know what is good for me and i know you will make it all up when you come. which i hope will not be long, by the time you get this letter April will be gone and the next month you will be home. You had better wait until the last of the month and then get a forty days furlough. Dont be to Buckward to tell them that you have not been home in three years. Send me the Vicksburg paper hone i dont get much news here but i suppose from what i have heard that many are on the way from Washington with Lincolns body, now i would like to be in Springfield to the burring but i cant be in two places at once.... I read out the fight in Spanish Fort and the names of the killed and wounded,and was glad to see that there was none of Company C. but one and his name was Bruce if i am not mistaken Margaret Wickersham to William H Wickersham May 18, 1865, "I hope the next letter will when you will start home, oh hon i dont believe you try hard enough or you certainly could get a furlough you are entitled to one......Your old friends are very anxious to see you and seem disappointed when i tell them that i dont know when you will be home. I cant help but feel uneasy about the long trip you have to take on the steamboats, but you are in gods hands. and i pray for your safe arrival daily...... O i thought i never could feel good again after Franks death but all things are possible with god and with his help i now enjoy good health and peace of mind".William H Wickersham to his wife Margaret Wickersham during his service (unknown date)," I cant get a furlough no way i can fix it. The Colonels cant either. I dont really know where to direct this letter, but i will send it to Pa and he will forward it to you. We have got sick and tired of looking for teh Paymaster. He is reported every day that he is near. I am almost afraid to risk sending money through the uncertain channel we have now. It is particularly unsafe to send it as soon as we are paid and to any Mrs. I will direct it to Maggie Wickersham to drive off suspicion Letter to unknown on written on unknown date," The news of President Lincolns assassination struck the hearts of every loyal person in Memphis like a Thunderbolt in my life has anything affected me so deeply and in common with every soldier and citizen."Letter to unknown unknown date from William Hawkins," I am very glad to be able to get rid of the cold rainy weather to camp life, as it has happened that our boys have been in no fight, but i should Lote it they were in a fight and me safe in the office.....Im for the "inoloted military posts" by that about stant that we are not ready for a fight for we have our guns all ready for Rebel Raids..... I would like to get about a months furlough , but it cant be "did:. There is no chance of rising any higher in this branch of the service". letter to unknown unknown date," I hear that the Banks Expedition has turned up at Newborn, North Carolina. Also that Burside had to fall back from the Rappahannock and that Bragg had been fighting our boys at Jackons Tennessee.The troops are passing through here as i write... The citizens here never have believed that we had so many soldiers". William Hawkins Wickersham was born March 7, 1833 in Versailles, Woodford County Kentucky. Married Margaret Green Wickersham (Eubank) on January 30,1861 in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois and had 9 Children William Passed in his residence at East Adams Street in Springfield, Sangamon County Illinois after a week long illness (paralysis of the stomach)... ............See Images**** (Condition: Pre-Owned)

LEECH & RIGDON CIVIL WAR Confederate M1850 Foot Officer's SWORD c 1862
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Model 1850 Foot Officer's Sword of Major (Colonel) P.P. Bixby - 6th NH Volunteers - POW at Second Bull Run, WIA at Petersburg, with Engraved Flask, CDV and Documentation Binder… 30.5" slightly curved single-edged spear point blade with 18.5" stopped median fuller, blade 1.1" wide at ricasso. Overall length 36.5" with a 6" hilt, a cast brass guard and a grooved wooden covered in leather with fourteen wraps of twisted wire. Blade unmarked as to maker or retailer, with simple etched decorations featuring flowing foliate motifs on both sides with a large US in the center of the reverse and a patriotic panoply of arms on the obverse. The sword is accompanied by its top-seamed leather scabbard with brass mounts. The upper mount is engraved on its face: Presented to/Maj. P.P. Bixby/6th N.H. Vols./Oct. 15, 1862. The sword is accompanied by a leather covered glass flask with pewter top that is engraved with the same presentation as on the scabbard mount and in the same hand. A CDV of Bixby is also included, along with a large binder of research about him and the 6th NH…Phineas P. Bixby (1829-1877) was a New Hampshire wholesale grocer from Concord NH, when he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant and joined the staff & field of the 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as its adjutant, in early 1862… After serving in Burnside's 9th Corp Coastal North Carolina Expedition in mid 1862, the 9th Corp was transferred to Pope's Army of was captured at 2nd Bull Run on August 29, 1862 and confined at Libby Prison in Richmond until he was exchanged in early October, 1862… He returned to his regiment and was almost immediately promoted to major…The regiment ended 1862 fighting at The 6th started 1863 with the infamous Mud March and was then transferred to the Western Theater where they participated in the Siege of Vicksburg and later Jackson, MS…The 6th NH spent the last part of 1863 in operations in and around Cincinnati, OH and Covington, KY, as protectors of the region from Morgan's raiders… In January of 1864 they moved to operations in and around Knoxville, TN, in defense of Longstreet's expedition into eastern TN… The 6th NH then returned to the Army of the Potomac where they fought at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. From there the 6th NH continued in the Overland Campaign, fighting at Cold Harbor and then on to the Siege of Petersburg, where they were engaged during the first assault at The Crater…Bixby was wounded twice before Petersburg. First on June 16 during the initial assault and again on July 15. The second time the wound kept him out of action until he returned to the regiment on November 1, thus allowing him to miss the diaster at The Crater. Shortly after his second wounding, Bixby was promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 28 and on February 21, 1865 was promoted to full colonel. He commanded the regiment during most of 1864 and into 1865 and also served as brigade commander during the last part of the war… Col. Bixby was discharged on July 17, 1865 and returned to NH where he served as a civil servant… The inscription on the scabbard commemorates the date that Bixby was promoted to major… The first image is of Col. Bixby in 1965. The last image is of Lt. Bixby in 1862…It looks as though Lt Bixby "Seen the elephant" and lived to tell about it... (Condition: Pre-Owned)

Civil War US Marine Corp Officer 1st Lieutenant Lyman French Horstmann Sword
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Civil War US Marine Corp Officer 1st Lieutenant Lyman French Horstmann Sword
with Scabbard You are bidding on a(n) Civil War US Marine Corp Officer 1st Lieutenant Lyman French Horstmann Sword. The blade measures 32" with overall length measuring 38". Scabbard in good condition worn well for age. Engraved Lieut Lyman P French. Found name listed on nbsp;Military nbsp;order nbsp;of LoyalLegion 1878-79. (Civil war papers: read before the commandery of the state of Massachusetts Volume2. The sword is beautifully engraved, a few spots along the top and bottom edge near tip. Handle has 1/2" spot near guard that has come off. Please see pictures and ask questions Please look for more swords! Recent 25 sword collection purchased.

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Antique 1863-1865 Civil War 35 Star US American Flag West Virginia Medallion
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I am pleased to offer this old and original, 35 star United States flag, West Virginia statehood, 1863-1865. Guaranteed authentic!! Measures approximately 19 1/2" tall by 28" wide. I believe the flag is printed on glazed cotton. It has a very desirable medallion configuration with a large haloed center star. This flag was found rolled up in a local Epsom, NH estate of George S. Bixby, New Hampshire Fourth Regiment, Company H, Civil War, and later Commander of Post No. 66, GAR. If you google his name you will find the Bixby narrative on Prison Life in the Civil War. The flag is in need of major conservation, and being sold for restoration. The flag has some fabric loss, tears, soiling, staining, spotting, tears, fraying, creasing, color bleeding, water staining and overall wear. Because it was rolled up, it gets better towards the stick or canton end. A very rare flag that needs conservation, or still has nice display potential as is. The photos are an integral part of my description. They will give an accurate representation, and best tell the story. View additional pics following my description. Kindly email any specific questions, comments or need for additional photos. I am happy to combine purchases to save you on shipping. U.S. BIDDERS ONLY!! Please read my Terms and Conditions before placing a bid. USPS Priority mailing. The handling charge is merely to cover insurance and signature confirmation. Thank You.TERMS AND CONDITIONS:1. I do not ship outside of the U.S., with No exceptions. Bidders must be registered in the U.S. I will not sell to an International bidder, with a third party U.S. shipping address, as paypal offers me no protection on a third party transaction. 2. Paypal users must be verified, and have a confirmed USA address. 3. Payment must be received within 5 days, or sale is voided, and item may be relisted. 4. Shipping is done by USPS. If you require a specific carrier, please inform me before I send an invoice. 5. Seller assumes no responsibility with regards to loss, damage of property, or personal injury. 6. Bidder must be 18 years or older to participate in this auction.7. By placing a bid, you are accepting these terms and conditions.On Sep-14-23 at 05:30:10 PDT, seller added the following 9/14 The flag is solid. It is not fragile or brittle, and will roll and frame fine. It really just needs a thorough cleaning by a qualified professional. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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