Autograph, General John A. Dix

Famous for his 1861 American flag dispatch, "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" This became a very famous clarion call in the Northern states during the American Civil War!

New York Secretary of State

United States Senator from New York

Governor of New York

(1798-1879) Joined the United States Army in 1813. He was the New York Secretary of State, 1833-39, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1845. In January 1861, President James Buchanan appointed him Secretary of the...  

Autograph, General Daniel McCook

Mortally wounded in the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia in 1864

War Date Endorsement Signed as Colonel 52nd Ohio Infantry

(1834-64) Born in Carrollton, Ohio, he was a member of the famous "Fighting McCook" family of Ohio. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1858, studied law, passed the bar exam, moved to Kansas and formed a partnership with William T. Sherman, Hugh B. Ewing and Thomas Ewing, Jr., all four of them becoming Union Generals during the Civil War. He served as a captain in a local militia company...  

Autograph, General John W. Turner

1865 Autograph Endorsement Signed

Recommendation for captain of the 20th N.Y.S.M.

(1833-99) Born in New York, he was appointed to West Point, and graduated in 1855, and assigned to the 1st U.S. Artillery who he fought with in the Third Seminole Indian War. When the Civil War began, Turner was quickly promoted to captain, and he served on the staff of General David Hunter, first in Kansas, then in the Department of the South where he rendered valuable services at the battle of Fort Pulaski, Ga. On June 13, 1863, Turner was appointed...  

Autograph, General Fitz John Porter

War Date Letter Signed With Rank

General Porter writes to Governor Morgan of New York to send him recruits for the 13th, 17th and 25th New York Volunteer Regiments

(1822-1901) Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was the cousin of Union Admiral David D. Porter. He graduated in the West Point class of 1845, and earned the brevets of captain and major for gallantry and bravery in the Mexican War at the Battle of Molino del Rey, and at the Battle of Chapultepec where he was wounded. From 1849 to 1855 he was the assistant instructor of...  

Autograph, General James B. Fry

Letter Signed Regarding the annual Lady Washington Reception

(1827-1894) Born in Carrollton, Illinois, he graduated in the West Point class of 1847 and was assigned to the 3rd U.S. Artillery. He served during the Mexican War under General Winfield Scott, and was later on frontier duty and garrison duty as an assistant to Major George H. Thomas. He was adjutant at the United States Military Academy from 1854 to 1859, under Colonel Robert E. Lee. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commanding a battery of light artillery in the defenses...  

Autograph, General Andrew A. Humphreys

He gallantly commanded a division in Sickles 3rd Corps at Gettysburg

Autograph Letter Signed as Major General

(1810-83) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his grandfather, Joshua, was the "Father of the American Navy," who had served as chief naval constructor from 1794 to 1801, and designed the first U.S. warships, six frigates, the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") and her sister ships. Andrew's father, Samuel, designed and built the USS Pennsylvania, the largest and most heavily armed warship at the time....  

Autograph, General William T. Sherman

He captured the cities of Atlanta, and Savannah, Georgia in 1864 presenting the latter as a Christmas present to President Lincoln

His infamous march from Atlanta to the sea laid waste to much of Georgia

General in Chief of the United States Army

Signature with rank of general

(1820-1891) He was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and graduated #6 in the West Point class of 1840. Sherman roomed with and befriended another important future Civil War general for the Union, George H. Thomas. Fellow cadet William S. Rosecrans...  

Autograph, General John Newton

Wounded at Salem Church, Virginia in the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign

Commanded the 1st Corps at Gettysburg after the death of General John F. Reynolds

Very Desirable War Date First Corps Signature With Rank & Date

(1822-95) Born in Norfolk, Virginia, the city that his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He graduated #2 in the West Point class of 1842, and was commissioned lieutenant in the elite Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the United States Military Academy, from 1843–46,...  

Autograph, General Horace Porter

Medal of Honor Recipient for gallantry in the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia in 1863

Private Secretary of President Ulysses S. Grant

Signed on the back of the business card of former Colonel George H. Starr, 104th New York Infantry, who was captured at Gettysburg! Starr escaped from 3 different Rebel prisons!

(1837-1921) Born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, he was the son of David R. Porter, a Governor of Pennsylvania, and was the first cousin of, Andrew Porter, a Union Civil War general. He graduated #3 in the West Point class of...  

Autograph, Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island

Colonel of the Rhode Island Militia he fought in the Civil War in 1861-62

Civil War Governor of Rhode Island

Civil War Senator from Rhode Island

Member of the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Congress

Son-in-Law of President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase

(1830-1915) Born in the Governor's Mansion in Cranston, Rhode Island, he was from an extremely wealthy and politically influential Rhode Island family. His Uncle William Sprague was the Governor of Rhode Island, and a U.S....  

Autograph, General Nathaniel P. Banks

Rare war date General N.P. Banks letter from the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign to General John P. Hatch regarding the movements of his cavalry

United States Congressman from Massachusetts

Member of the President Andrew Johnson Impeachment Congress

United States Speaker of the House

Governor of Massachusetts

(1816-1894) Born at Waltham, Massachusetts. He was Speaker of the Massachusetts House, presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and the same year was elected to the U.S. Congress, the first of ten...  

Autograph, General Russell A. Alger

Letter Signed

Wounded and captured at the Battle of Booneville, Mississippi

Colonel of the 5th Michigan Cavalry in General Custer's Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg

Severely wounded during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg

United States Senator from Michigan

U.S. Secretary of War under President William McKinley

Governor of Michigan

(1836-1907) Born in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio. He attended Richfield Academy, studied law in Akron, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He...