Photograph, Jennie Wade of Gettysburg

She was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg!

Wet plate photograph, 5 1/2 x 3 7/8, on thick 7 x 5 card mount. Shows a portrait of Jennie Wade at the upper right, the house where she was killed on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg in the center, and her grave site monument in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa., at left. Jennie Wade was 19 years old when she was killed in the kitchen of her sister's house, while baking bread for the Union soldiers. A stray Confederate sharpshooter's bullet pierced through two wooden doors and...  

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Commemorative Envelope

Honoring the 125th Anniversary of his immortal address at Gettysburg

7 3/8 x 4, commemorative envelope, with vignette of President Lincoln at left, and imprint at center, Commemorating the 125th Anniversary, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863 November 19 1988, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Postmarked, Gettysburg, Pa., 17325, Nov. 19, 1988. There are 2 U.S. postage stamps at the upper right with one of them being the 3 cents commemorative stamp issued to honor the Gettysburg Address, and the second one depicting an American flag with a star...  

CDV, Edward Everett

United States Congressman and Senator

United States Secretary of State

Governor of Massachusetts

He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863

(1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman,...  

Portrait, Edward Everett

United States Congressman and Senator

United States Secretary of State

Governor of Massachusetts

He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863

(1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. During his very distinguished career he served as U.S. Congressman,...  

Autograph, Edward Everett

United States Congressman and Senator

United States Secretary of State

Governor of Massachusetts

He gave the keynote speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863

(1794-1865) Famous orator and statesman. He made many famous speeches for the Union cause, the best known being his 2 hour oration preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Everett later told Mr. Lincoln that he wished he had struck the same chord...  

Photograph, General Winfield S. Hancock

Commanded the 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg where he was seriously wounded repulsing Pickett's Charge!

United States Presidential Candidate in 1880

(1824-1886) Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother, Hilary Baker Hancock, were born in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia. Winfield was named after Winfield Scott, a prominent U.S. general in the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, and who was commander-in-chief of the Union armies at the beginning of the Civil War. He...  

CDV, General George G. Meade

Union commander who defeated General Robert E. Lee at the battle of Gettysburg!

(1815-1872) He was born in Cádiz, Spain, to a wealthy merchant and banking family from Philadelphia. He graduated in the West Point class of 1835, and fought with distinction in the Second Seminole War, and the Mexican War where he earned a brevet for gallantry in the battles at Monterey. He served in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, and led construction of lighthouses in Florida and New Jersey from 1851 to 1856, and the United States Lake...  

CDV, General Gouvenor K. Warren

The Hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863!

He was wounded at Gaines Mills, Va., and at Gettysburg, Pa.

(1830-1882) He was born in Cold Spring, New York, and named for Gouverneur Kemble, a prominent local Congressman, diplomat, industrialist, and owner of the West Point Foundry. "G.K." graduated in the West Point class of 1850, ranking #2, and he was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the prestigious Corps of Topographical Engineers. In the Antebellum South, he worked on the Mississippi River,...  

Autograph, General Jubal A. Early

He fought bravely at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign!

(1816-94) Born in the Red Valley section of Franklin County, Virginia, he graduated in the West Point class of 1837. After fighting against the Seminole Indians, he resigned to study law, and afterwards began practice in Rocky Mount, Va. He became a member of the Virginia house of delegates, and the commonwealth's attorney, and when war broke out with Mexico he was a major of Virginia volunteers. At the start of the War Between the...  

CDV, Children of the Gettysburg Battlefield

This image was found clutched in the hands of Sergeant Amos Humiston, 154th New York Infantry, as he lay dead on the Gettysburg battlefield

Wet plate, albumen carte de visite photograph, mounted to 2 3/8 x 4 card. Group view of the 3 Sergeant Amos Humiston children. Imprint on the front mount identifying the children from left to right as Frank, Frederick and Alice. Back mark: "The Children Of The Battle Field." This is a copy of the Ferrotype found in the hands of Sergeant Amos Humiston, of the 154th N.Y. Volunteers as he lay...  

CDV, General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick

The first Regular U.S. Army officer to be wounded in action during the Civil War, June 1861

He was wounded again in the 1864 Atlanta, Georgia campaign

United States Minister to Chile

(1836-81) Born near Deckertown, New Jersey, he graduated in the West Point class of May 1861, and only a month after graduating from the academy he had the distinction of being the first Regular U.S. Army officer to be wounded in action during the Civil War, this coming at the battle of Big Bethel, Va., which took place on June 10, 1861, on the...  

CDV, General John Bell Hood

Suffered a crippling wound to his arm at Gettysburg, on July 2, 1863

Severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., resulting in the amputation of his leg

(1831-79) Born in Owingsville, Kentucky, he graduated in the West Point class of 1853. His classmates were James B. McPherson, and John M. Schofield, and he received instruction in artillery tactics from George H. Thomas. All 3 of these men became U.S. Army generals who would fight against Hood in battle during the Civil War. The superintendent at the academy when Hood...