Autograph, Thomas L. Clingman

Colonel of the 25th North Carolina Infantry

Severely wounded in 1864 at the Battle on the Weldon Railroad, Virginia

U.S. Congressman and Senator from North Carolina

(1812-97) Born at Huntsville, North Carolina. He graduated from N.C. State University in 1832, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He then started a political career, first in the North Carolina State Legislature, and then as a U.S. Congressman, 1843-45, and 1847-58. He was then elected U.S. Senator in 1860. When the Civil War began, he left Washington...  

Autograph, John H. Reagan

Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America

United States Congressman and Senator from Texas

(1818-1905) Born in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he left Tennessee at the age of 19, and traveled to the Republic of Texas, in 1836, the year before it had become independent from Mexico. Reagan worked as a surveyor from 1839 to 1843. A lawyer, judge and Indian fighter, he served as U.S. Congressman from Texas, 1857-61. Voting for secession at the 1861 Texas convention, he was soon elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress, and in...  

Autograph, General Samuel Bell Maxey

Delegate to the Texas State Secession Convention in 1861

Colonel of the 9th Texas Infantry, C.S.A.

United States Senator From Texas

(1825-87) Born at Tompkinsville, Kentucky, he graduated from West Point in the class of 1846, and was assigned to the 7th U.S. Infantry Regiment, which he saw action with in the Mexican War battles at Monterrey, Cerro Gordo and Contreras in the summer of 1847. Maxey was cited for gallantry, and promoted to the rank of brevet first lieutenant for his actions in these battles. He also participated in...  

Autograph, Thomas Stanhope Flournoy

United States Congressman from Virginia

Member of the Confederate secession convention at Richmond in 1861

Colonel 6th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America

(1811-83) Born on December 15, 1811, in Prince Edward County, Va., he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia in 1831. Hampden-Sydney was founded in 1775, and is the oldest privately chartered college in the southern United States. He started his career as a private teacher; then studied law; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in 1834, at...  

Autograph, Emile La Sere

United States Congressman from Louisiana, 1846-1851

Major 10th Louisiana Infantry, Confederate States of America

Chief Quartermaster, Trans-Mississippi Department, Confederate States Army

(1802-82) He was born on the island of Santo Domingo, in 1802, and moved with his parents to New Orleans, La., about 1805. Elected sheriff of the Parish of New Orleans in 1840, he served in this position for several years. He was a U.S. Congressman from 1846 to 1851, serving as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office...  

Autograph, General William E. Jones

Killed at the battle of Piedmont, Virginia in 1864

Colonel 1st & 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiments, Confederate States of America

Confederate cavalry commander during the Gettysburg campaign

Military Document Signed With Rank

(1824-64) Born in Washington County, Virginia, his sobriquet was "Grumble" Jones. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1848, and served on the frontier with the "Mounted Rifles" until 1857, when he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army. When his home state...  

Autograph, General Dabney H. Maury

Chief of Staff of General Earl Van Dorn

Commander of the Confederate Army of the Gulf

War period signature with rank

(1822-1900) Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, his naval officer father died when he was 2 years old, and he was raised up by his uncle, Matthew Fontaine Maury, the famous "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology." He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1842, commenced the study of law, but then changed course by accepting an appointment to West Point, graduating in the class of...  

Autograph, Abraham W. Venable

United States Congressman from North Carolina

Presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket for future Confederate General John C. Breckenridge

Served in the Confederate States Congress, 1861-1864

(1799-1876) Born in Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, in Va., in 1816; studied medicine for two years; was graduated from Princeton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Mecklenburg Counties, Va. He...  

Autograph, Harrison H. Riddleberger

Confederate officer who was captured in 1864 during the War Between The States

United States Senator from Virginia

(1844-90) Born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, he fought with the 10th Virginia Infantry and the 23rd Virginia Cavalry during the War Between The States. He was captured on May 14, 1864, at Edinburg, Va., and subsequently confined in Antheneum Military Prison, in Wheeling, West Virginia, at Camp Chase, Ohio, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Fort McHenry, Maryland prisons. After the war he was editor of the Tenth Legion...  

Autograph, Albert Gallatin Brown

U.S. Congressman & Senator from Mississippi

Governor of Mississippi

Confederate Captain

Confederate Senator

(1813-80) Attended Mississippi College, and Jefferson College, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and practiced law in Gallatin, Miss. Served as a member of the Mississippi state house of representatives, 1835-39; U.S. Congressman, 1839-41; Governor of Mississippi, 1844-48; U.S. Congressman, 1847-53; U.S. Senator, 1854-61. During the Civil War he served as captain, in the 18th Mississippi Infantry, and...  

Franked Cover From V.M.I. Cadet Legh Wilber Reid

Served as a Confederate officer during the War Between the States being twice wounded, one resulting in the amputation of his leg!

Legh Wilber Reid, was born near Brentsville, Va., on April 15, 1833. He graduated #2 in the Virginia Military Institute class of 1858, thus one of his professors would have been Thomas J. Jackson, soon to be immortalized as "Stonewall" Jackson. A civil engineer by occupation, Reid was General Superintendent of the Great Kanawha Coal & Oil Co. Upon the outbreak of the War Between the States, he was...  

Autograph, General Samuel W. Ferguson

Card signature as Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Mississippi with place and date

(1834-1917) Born in Charleston, S.C., he graduated from West Point in 1857, and served under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, during the Utah expedition, 1857-58, and at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, 1859-60. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he resigned his U.S. Army commission and returned home to Charleston. In March 1861, he was commissioned captain in the Provisional Confederate Army, and aide-de-camp to General...