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 James B. McPherson

Graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1853

Killed in the Atlanta campaign in July 1864 bringing commanding General William T. Sherman to tears!

Very rare circa 1862 Mobile & Ohio Railroad document signed as Brigadier General

(1828-64) He was born in Clyde, Ohio, and graduated #1 in the West Point class of 1853, a class which included future Civil War generals' Philip H. Sheridan, John M. Schofield and John Bell Hood. After graduation McPherson was commissioned brevet second lieutenant and he was appointed to the Corps of...  

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 Grenville M. Dodge

Colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry

He was severely wounded in the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign in 1864

Served as Chief of Intelligence for the army of General U.S. Grant

He fought against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in 1865

United States Congressman from Iowa

(1831-1916) Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, he graduated from Norwich University with a degree in civil engineering in 1851. He settled in the Missouri River city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and for the next 10...  

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 Irvin McDowell

Orders From General Winfield Scott Signed By McDowell With Rank

General McDowell commanded the Union army at the 1st battle of Bull Run, Virginia in July 1861

(1818-1885) He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated in the West Point class of 1838 where one of his classmates was future Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, his future adversary at the Battle of First Bull Run, Va. After graduation he was commissioned a second lieutenant, and assigned to the 1st U.S. Artillery. From 1841 to 1845 he taught tactics at the United States...