1861 Mississippi Central Rail Road Company Stock Certificate

6 1/2 x 5, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

Mississippi Central Rail Road Company, Transfer No. 391. Office of the Mississippi Central Rail Road Company, 20 Feby. 1861. For Value Received. J.J.C. Sims of Tenn., do hereby assign and transfer unto J.B. Walker of Ga. Ten (10) Shares of the Capital Stock of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, standing in my name on the Books of said Company, on each of which Fifty (50) Dollars have been paid, being the whole of the stock held by Certificate No. 206, M.C. & Tenn. R.R. J.C. Sims, pr. A.J. Mc...  

1862 Confederate Pass For Surgeon

8 x 4 1/4, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

Military Pass. Head-Quarters First Division, Army of the Mississippi, Tuscumbia, [Alabama], Aug. 29, 1862. Guards and Pickets will pass the bearer, Dr. Abernathy through the lines and return tomorrow. By order of Brig. Gen. E.A. Paine. Wm. H. Conner, Capt. & Ass't Adj't Gen'l. Light age toning and wear. Very fine. Very desirable Confederate printed pass. Scarce.

Doctor R.T. Abernathy, served as a Surgeon in the 5th Alabama Cavalry, during the War Between The States.

Brief History of...  

Confederate Scouting Report Sent to General Joseph Wheeler

Depredations are being committed against Southern citizens in North Georgia by Confederate raiders!

2 pages, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2, in ink, written by Captain J.M. Carden, Commanding Scouts, to General Joseph Wheeler, Commanding Cavalry Corps.

Grahamville, Jany. 8th, 1865

General,

I have the honor to inform you that whilst upon duty collecting stragglers & deserters under orders from Brig. Genl. Reynolds, in North Georgia, I have found twelve men with authority from Gov. Joseph E. Brown to raise Regts., Battalions,...  

1862 Letter to Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia

Extremely rare communication detailing "a plan for making a new kind of [Confederate] gun that we will call a packet cannon!"

2 pages, 7 3/8 x 9 1/2, in ink, written by J. Henry Hammond, (12th Georgia Artillery) to Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, with a diagram of the gun at the center of page 1.

Camp Jackson, Savannah, [Ga.], Feb. 24th, 1862

To his Excellency

Jos. E. Brown

Dear Sir,

Below find a plan for making a new kind of gun that we will call a "Packet Cannon." It...  

Confederate Officer's Pay Account From Fort Henry, Tennessee

4th Regiment Mississippi Infantry Volunteers

Signed by their gallant Colonel Joseph Drake commanding the regiment, who was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, Tennessee in 1862

7 1/4 x 12, imprinted Confederate form on blue paper, filled out and signed in ink.

Form No. 3. Officers' Pay Account. The Confederate States to Lt. A.M. Reasons. For pay as a Lt. from 24th Aug. to 1st Dec., 1861. Co. F, 4th Regt. Miss. Vols. For 3 months and 8 days. Pay Per Month, 80.00. Amount 261.33. Stationed at Fort Henry with the account dated...  

Alexandria Arsenal Supplies Ammuntion to 1st Louisiana State Cavalry Battalion

7 1/2 x 9 3/4, imprinted form, filled out in ink, dispensing ammunition to Major H.D. Ogden, Comdg. 1st La. State Cavalry Battalion, itemized list includes 6000 Enfield rifle cartridges in two different calibers, 840 buck & ball shot, 1800 caps, and six packing crates, signed by Major R.L. Robertson, Major & Ordnance Officer. Dated June 27, 1863. On brown necessity paper. Excellent condition. Rare. Very desirable!


Henry D. Ogden

The First Black Troops in Confederate Service, The Louisiana Native...  

Colonel of 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery Writes a Report About a Deserter in His Command

3 x 5 1/2, boldly written in ink by Colonel Charles A. Fuller, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery, on the front and back of a pink postal cover. It is undated, but the content would indicate that it was probably written in 1862.

Badger's Papers

Badger was a 12 mos. man of La. Regt. Arty., his time expired on or about the 20th April - he refused to reenlist or do duty - was confined in guard house - on evacuation of Fort Macomb returned to duty in commissary dept. - was sent to Manchac with stores -...  

Final Statement, 50th Virginia Infantry, For Private Who Died in 1862

8 1/4 x 13, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

Final Statement of John Bowman, deceased, late a private of Company K, 50th Regiment Va. Inf., born in Patrick County, State of Virginia, was enlisted by Lieut. W.T. Noel at Rocky Gap, Va., on the 1st day of June 1862, to serve for three years. He died at Patrick Co., Va., on the 10th day of Dec. 1862. He was last paid by Capt. J.B. Whited, Quartermaster, to include the 31st day of Oct. 1862, and is entitled to pay therefrom, to the 10th day of Dec. 1862, at...  

Autograph General Gustavus W. Smith

1864 War Date Document Signed

(1821-96) Graduated in the West Point class of 1842. He was brevetted for gallantry 3 times during the Mexican War. He later served as an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned a major general in the Confederate Army. During the Peninsular campaign he commanded a wing of the Army of Northern Virginia. He served briefly in 1862 as Confederate Secretary of War and later organized the Georgia state forces and fought them with marked excellence, particularly on...  

Communication From Confederate Colonel James O. Fuqua

Representative at the Louisiana State Secession Convention

Judge Advocate General and Provost Marshal on the staff of General Daniel Ruggles

Autograph Document Signed

7 3/4 x 5 1/2, manuscript in ink.

General,

With a view to consent between yourself & Genl. Forney, Major Steede would like to obtain a copy of the Instructions to Provost Marshal's as I have no copy- having sent mine to the printer- would it not be as well to give him the one left with you for Genl. Van Dorn & send him a printed copy when recd?...  

An Ordnance To Ratify The Constitution of the C.S.A.

2 1/3 pages, 5 1/2 x 9, imprint.

The State of South Carolina

At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, reassembled by appointment of the President thereof, at Charleston, on the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and thence continued, by diverse adjournments, to the third day of April, in the same year.

AN ORDNANCE

We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and...  

1864 Special Orders Issued at Atlanta, Georgia

7 7/8 x 6 1/2, imprinted sheet, filled out in ink.

Head Quarters Post
Atlanta, Ga., June 16th, 1864

Special Orders
No. 55

The following Post Officers will have their offices open from six A.M. until seven P.M. daily and will require someone authorized to attend to their business to be at their offices at all hours of the day and night.

Maj. H.T. Massengale, Post Q.M.
Maj. F.R. Shackelford, Commissary
Capt. Jno. Frizzell, Transportation Q.M.

By Command of
Brig. Genl. Wright
Laurence L. Baker
Maj. &...