Autograph, General Joseph E. Johnston

Autographed carte de visite

(1807-1891) Graduated from West Point in the class of 1825. One of his classmates was Robert E. Lee. He served with great distinction in the Seminole and Mexican Wars, in which he was wounded and brevetted repeatedly. He was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in May 1861. The forces he commanded at Harpers Ferry linked up in time to fight with General Beauregard at 1st Manassas, turning the tide of battle in favor of the Confederacy. This performance earned him a full generalcy and the...  

CDV, General William Barksdale

Mortally wounded at Gettysburg

(1821-63) After attending the University of Nashville, and studying law, he became the editor of the Columbus, Miss. Democrat. He served in the Mexican War as an enlisted man and officer, and was elected to Congress from Mississippi in 1852, where he vehemently upheld the cause of states rights until his resignation upon the secession of Mississippi from the Union. Barksdale was at first appointed quartermaster general of Mississippi; then entered the Confederate service as colonel of the 13th Mississippi...  

CDV, Private James W. Price, Washington Artillery of New Orleans

Autographed and presented carte de visite

Rare image taken in New Orleans wearing Washington Artillery badge and Washington Artillery regimental letters on his kepi

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Half view, in uniform, wearing his gold Washington Artillery pin on his breast, and kepi with brass, crossed cannons, artillery insignia, with the regimental letters, "W.A." of the elite Washington Artillery, from New Orleans, La., distinctly visible on the front of his kepi. Back mark: S....  

CDV, Admiral Franklin Buchanan

Extremely rare view taken in his Confederate naval uniform

Commander of the famous Confederate Ironclad Virginia during her duel with the Union Ironclad Monitor

(1800-74) Entered the navy as a midshipman in 1815. He was George Bancroft's chief adviser in planning the Naval Academy and was its first Superintendent serving 1845-47. He fought in the Mexican War and commanded the flagship in Perry's expedition to China and Japan 1852-55. He was named to command the Washington Navy Yard in 1859, and resigned on April 22, 1861 to join the...  

CDV, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, C.S. Navy

Extremely rare view taken in Baltimore

Commander of the famous Confederate Ironclad Virginia during her duel with the Union Ironclad Monitor

(1800-74) Entered the navy as a midshipman in 1815. He was George Bancroft's chief advisor in planning the Naval Academy and was its first Superintendent serving 1845-47. He fought in the Mexican War and commanded the flagship in Perry's expedition to China and Japan 1852-55. He was named to command the Washington Navy Yard in 1859, and resigned on April 22, 1861 to join the Confederacy....  

Autograph, General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson

War Date Autograph Letter Signed

Extremely rare field orders instructing General Richard S. Ewell to move his troops for a military strike during Stonewall Jackson's legendary 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign!

Includes Ewell's handwritten response to Jackson!

7 1/4 x 9 1/2, in ink.

Conrad Store
near Swift Run Gap
2:20 P.M., April 20, 1862

General,

Since writing my dispatch this morning I have received another from you. The position I wish you to encamp at tomorrow evening (Monday) is at the...  

Autographs, Generals Earl Van Dorn, Daniel Ruggles & Thomas Jordan

War Date Endorsements Signed by 3 Confederate Generals

General Van Dorn was killed in 1863!

General Earl Van Dorn: (1820-63) Graduated in the West Point class of 1842 with James Longstreet. He saw service in the Indian campaigns and was brevetted captain and major for gallantry in the Mexican War. He resigned from the U.S. Army on Jan. 31, 1861, in order to join the Confederacy. Commissioned brigadier general on June 5, 1861, he was assigned to Texas where some of the Union forces there surrendered to him. Promoted to major...  

CDV, Colonel Randal W. MacGavock

Colonel 10th Tennessee Infantry

Killed in action in 1863 at the battle of Raymond, Mississippi

(1826-63) Born in Nashville, he graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1846, and the Harvard Law School in 1849. Active in local and national politics, he was elected mayor of Nashville in 1856, and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1860. A strong advocate of states rights, he campaigned for John C. Breckenridge for president. With the threat of war imminent, Mac Gavock raised a company of Irish volunteers...  

CDV, General Stephen D. Lee

Extremely rare view with Tucker & Perkins, Augusta, Georgia back mark

(1833-1908) Born in Charleston, S.C., he graduated in the West Point class of 1854. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on Feb. 20, 1861, and joined the Confederate army with rank of captain, and his early war service was that of aide-de-camp to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. An artilleryman, he served with that branch of service through all the early Virginia campaigns and at Sharpsburg, with rank of colonel. On Nov. 6, 1862, he was appointed brigadier general and was...  

CDV, General James Longstreet

With Vannerson & Jones, Richmond, Va. imprint

(1821-1904) Old Pete and Lee's Old War Horse were two names commonly used when referring to Confederate General James Longstreet. He commanded the 1st Corps, of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, for most of the Civil War. He fought at 1st Manassas, in the Virginia Peninsula campaign, at 2nd Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. He was briefly sent west by General Lee to bolster that army and saw action at Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning east, he fought in the...  

CDV, General James L. Kemper

Wounded and captured during Pickett's charge at Gettysburg!

(1823-95) Born in Madison County, Va., he graduated from Washington College in 1842. He served in the Mexican War as captain of Virginia Volunteers and later practiced law. He served five terms in the Virginia house of delegates, during which time he was speaker of the house, chairman of the committee on military affairs, and president of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute. He was commissioned colonel of the 7th Virginia Infantry, and led his regiment from 1st...  

CDV, General John C. Breckenridge

Autographed carte de visite in Confederate uniform

(1821-75) After attending Centre College and Transylvania University, he began practicing law in his home town of Lexington, Ky. in 1845. A member of the Kentucky legislature from 1849-51, he became Vice President of the United States in 1856 in the Buchanan administration. On Nov. 2, 1861, he accepted a commission as brigadier general in the Confederate army, and was promoted to major general to rank from April 14, 1862. He served at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro where he...