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Historic Firearms & Militaria 2-Day Live Auction
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European Naval Officer's Dirk
Lot # 26 (Sale Order: 26 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Very good overall. Blade retains most of its original blued finish and much of the gold highlights. There is some surface oxidation and scattered pinpricking on the blade. Guard is slightly loose. Ivory grip with longitudinal age cracks. Brass scabbard retains traces of silver finish. Frog button appears to be repaired.
EST $ 500 - 1000
US Model 1798 Dragoon Saber by Starr
Lot # 27 (Sale Order: 27 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: About very good overall. Blade a mostly dull gray patina with a thick brown patina at the ricasso and mottled discoloration and oxidation scattered along the blade. The iron hilt has a thick, heavily oxidized brown patina that is untouched. Leather wrap is about good, showing wear and loss and is mostly void of wire. The scabbard is about good with expected wear, crazing and finish loss. Drag and lower piece of leather are separated from the majority of the scabbard body. Stitching along the spine is mostly complete and tight. A really wonderful and untouched example of one of the hardest early American swords to find for sale, even more so with the correct scabbard.
EST $ 1500 - 2500
European Small Sword
Lot # 28 (Sale Order: 28 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Engravings are clear. Blade still retains traces of gilt finish. Very good overall.
EST $ 800 - 1200
Early American Swords, Lot of Two
Lot # 29 (Sale Order: 29 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Average to very good overall.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
Very Rare British Military General Service Medal for an Indian Warrior in the War of 1812
Lot # 30 (Sale Order: 30 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Dents in the edge of the rim, else very good.
EST $ 4000 - 6000
Rare British Military General Service Medal for Canadian Service at Fort Detroit in the War of 1812
Lot # 31 (Sale Order: 31 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Some minor tarnishing on the faces and minor dings in the rim.
EST $ 3000 - 5000
Waterloo Genl. Sir Edw. Chas. Whinyates Papers, Incl. Documents Mentioning Wound Received in Battle
Lot # 32 (Sale Order: 32 of 1143)
Following a long tradition of military history in his family, Sir Edward Charles Whinyates joined the Royal Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy at age 16. Enjoying a long career, he experienced action at several historic battles such as the Battle of Bussaco during the Peninsular Wars, and, most notably, the Battle of Waterloo. At Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, who was suspicious of rockets, hesitated to use them against Napoleon. After expressing this concern, other officers told him that it would break Whinyates' heart. In response, Wellesley said, "Damn his heart; let my orders be obeyed" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Wellesley eventually consented to bring the rockets and Whinyates used them for the historic victory. Three horses were shot from underneath him during the battle. Whinyates was wounded in the leg and severely wounded in the left arm. After a brief absence, he continued his military service, earning the rank of colonel commandant by July 1864. He died the next year at Cheltenham on December 25, 1865. He had no heirs and was only married for a year.
The collection features:
A portion of Whinyates' diary written from July 27, 1810 to December 1810, while he served as adjutant to the officer commanding artillery during the Peninsular Wars; period copy of a letter to General Sir Rowland Hill stating his services in the Peninsular War, July 29, 1813; 2 period copies of certificates from Assistant Surgeon Thomas Beard, October 9, 1815; document of the proceedings of a Medical Board held at Amiens concerning a severe wound in Whinyates' arm, which he earned at the Battle of Waterloo, November 7, 1815; copy letter from the Board of Ordinance granting him one year's pay, March 4, 1816; 3 certificates relating to his wound by Assistant Surgeon James O'Beirne from Valenciennes, March 26, 1817 and November 17, 1816; copy of a letter by Whinyates to the secretary of the Board of Ordinance about his wound, June 3, 1817; copy letter from the Board of Ordinance discontinuing his pension, December 28, 1821; copy letter to the Board of Ordinance asking that they restore his pension, September 30, 1822; copy of certificate from Dr. A.P. Philip about Whinyates' health, October 24, 1822; and letter from Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, a fellow officer at Waterloo and the Peninsular Campaign, congratulating him on an appointment, July 13, 1835.
Additional items include a letter from the Deputy Adjutant General's Office appointing Whinyates as Director of General Artillery, November 26, 1851; copy letter from Whinyates, sending 100 dollars to the Royal Artillery Institution, October 24, 1852; letter of thanks from the R.A. for the donation, November 5, 1852; 4 R.A. General Regimental Orders including promotions to lieutenant general (June 25, 1856), colonel commandant, B Brigade (July 22, 1864), and general (January 20, 1865); record of birth, education, services, and more, most likely compiled for the Knights Commander of the Order of Bath, ca 1860; 8 letters of congratulations for his marriage to Elizabeth Compton, ca 1826-1827; letter from his father-in-law, S. Compton, July 22, 1827; 7 pp declaration of trust for his wife's estate after her death in 1828; 5 addressed envelopes from or to Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, his grandfather, a member of parliament and naval officer; part of a letter from C.C. Frankland to Whinyates, 1823; 12 letters addressed to his sisters Amy, Octavia, and Rose, one signed by the Duke of Newcastle; papers relating to the 5th Royal Veterans Battalion including detailed lists of clothing, arms and equipment for officers, men, and horses, signed by Lieutenant Colonel H. Paulett.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Most are in good condition with typical folds and toning of the paper. Whinyates handwriting is small and can be difficult to decipher at times.
EST $ 500 - 700
Sara-Anne-Catherine Whinyates, Descriptive Letters Home from India, Ca 1806-1808
Lot # 33 (Sale Order: 33 of 1143)
Against her family’s wishes, Sara-Anne-Catherine Whinyates (SAC) married Lieutenant James Robertson of the Bengal Engineers in 1803. Her grandmother, Lady Frankland, Aunt Harriet, and two of her fourteen siblings, Amy and Sir Edward-Charles (a general in the British military and veteran of the Battle of Waterloo), were the only family that supported her and wrote her.
SAC and her husband initially resided in a modest home at Fort William. Situated on the eastern banks of the River Hooghly, the major distributary of the River Ganges, Fort William was an important stronghold and the major trading hub for the East India Company. From the time of their marriage until 1805, British and Indian soldiers clashed in the Second Anglo-Maratha War—Britain’s sixth conflict with India since 1766. British forces managed to maintain control of Fort William, but, by 1806, the region still experienced some violence. SAC wrote to her Aunt Harriet: It is shocking to see the numbers of wounded men and officers at present in the Fort some without legs some without arms and one unfortunate young man who had both eyes carried out of their sockets by a cannon ball it makes me melancholy when I see him pass by—the army have generously raised a subscription for him as in addition(?) to his misfortune he is nearly destitute (January 15, 1806).
As unfortunate as the wounded soldier was, SAC was equally fortunate. She managed to keep a vibrant social life within British Society. She explained, Calcutta is wonderfully gay and swarming with beautiful spinsters, Lord Lake gives a grand ball every Wednesday to which all his acquaintances go as they please without invitation (Fort William, November 16, 1806). Being a part of the upper crust, she kept impressive company including Colonel Marriot. [He came] here from Madras in charge of Tippors ten sons who are brought here prisoners in consequence of the horrid massacre at Wellmore in which it is supposed there were concerned, she wrote. [He] must be a man of some talents by his having the charge of twelve hundred women belonging to the Princes he is now returning to Madras to fetch three hundred of them here by land (Fort William, November 16, 1806). Between parties, feasting, sipping rose water, and gossip, not everything was perfect in paradise. A wet nurse who cared for one of the officer’s children smothered the colic child. SAC suffered a similar misfortune when her wet nurse threw down her screaming child and broke his arm. He almost died from the incident, but managed to survive. While he struggled for his life, both SAC's parents died. Her mother suffered from a long illness and still had ill-feelings towards her wayward daughter. Her father, on the other hand, cried for her and granted her forgiveness at his sudden passing. They left behind two of her sisters under the age of twelve and an exorbitant amount of debt with their estate in India. With all her elder siblings either in the military or residing in England, SAC took responsibility over her father’s estate and her orphaned sisters. She wrote her grandmother:
...[T]heir education and manners have been entirely neglected it is grievous really to see it! And how much in many respects they have been ruined by the natives and what horrid mahometan customs and ideas they have….they have been suffered to run in the sun till they are blacker than many half castes and seem to never have been contradicted in their whole lives (Fort William, July 14, 1806). For additional letters and history, please go to www.cowans.com.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: All the letters are in good condition with typical folds. Some have colored pencil and pencil markings from a previous owner.
EST $ 400 - 600
Massachusetts Collector of Customs Manuscript Archive, Ca 1796-1867
Lot # 34 (Sale Order: 34 of 1143)
The earliest document is a circular, July 19, 1796, 7.25 x 9 in., printed, signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. as Secretary of the Treasury, with information about who is a citizen and what is needed to document citizenship, especially as applied to seamen. America had pledged protection of sailors who were citizens. These protections included health and safety of the men as well as protection from forced labor/recruitment. Continued British impressment would be a major factor leading to the “second revolution” in 1812.
A group of letters and circulars from the Treasury Department in Washington to the Collector of Customs in what was the Dighton, MA office, later changed to Fall River. Included is a manuscript copy of An Act to change the name of the Collection District of Dighton in the State of Massachusetts to Fall River…February 14, 1837, [Washington, DC], signed by A(?). O. Dayton.
A number of the items are requests for monthly or quarterly reports, including a manuscript DS, Washington, Department of State, October 17, 1833 to Horatio Pratt, Collector at Dighton, MA, signed by Louis McLane (M'Lane), Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. The letter acknowledges receipt of Pratt's report of "protections granted to American Seamen" for the quarter ending September 30 and goes on to inform him that the Department did not have reports for the previous two quarters.
In a document dated May 29, 1835, Wm. H. Taylor at the Collections Office informs P.W. (Phineas Washington) Leland that the Mediterranean passports signed by Thomas Jefferson were too old to use. (Jefferson had been dead nearly a decade.)
Not surprisingly, whenever there is a conflict, there is a flurry of communication. This is true during the Mexican War, and at least three of these circulars are concerned with Mexican trade. A portion of the documents also relate to the Civil War. They begin in August 1861 with a printed circular, Pursuant to the provisions of the act of August 6, 1861, entitled "An act requiring an oath of Allegiance, and to support the Constitution of the United States, to be administered to certain persons in the civil service of the United States,”… and signed in type by S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. Another in the fall concerned the seizure of merchandise or "vessels of insurrectionary origin" (short story - only seize items that could be "used to further the insurrection;" ignore the rest).
In a rather lengthy and technical circular of July 28, 1866, with the title, An Act further to provide for the safety of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam…, the beginning of the act goes into great detail about the arrangement of boilers, their connections and their heat source. The act also regulated what packets which carried cargo and passengers could carry (especially flammable materials such as cotton and petroleum), the thickness of boiler walls, and specified that the boats have life-jackets, etc. There were further restrictions on inspectors and clerks, as well as pay specifications (presumably to reduce the temptation to take bribes).
Many of these regulations appear to be the result of the disaster involving the steamship Sultana in April 1865. In addition to carrying six times the Sultana's legal limit, including over 2000 just-released Union POWs, one of the steamer's boilers sprung a leak on the morning of April 27, 1865. Although a patch of metal was placed over the bulge in the boiler, it exploded, causing two of the three other boilers to explode. Some 1,700 people died as a result of the explosion and aftermath, making this the worst maritime disaster in US history.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Many have notes on dates received from Washington. Most are disbound from another volume (at least two different ones, judging by the configuration of holes along the left edge). Overall very good, as they were apparently protected in binders or boards for many years.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
James Buchanan, ALS and ANS, March 1829
Lot # 35 (Sale Order: 35 of 1143)
Buchanan, James. ANS while Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 1 p, New York. March 11, 1829, concerning the affidavit of arrest for the incident mentioned above. Underneath, lawyers pen a response.
Addressed to Mollenaux, Esqr. Mssrs. Goodhue & Co. have recd. authority as to Stephenson. I hope you have had him arrested. I beg you will afford the agent Mr. Goodhue sons all the aid in your power. Your Obet Servt. J.M. Buchanan.
The second note: We beg leave to add to the above letter from His Britannic Majesty's Consul, that the gentleman who you are to attend to the agency in question in our behalf as Attornies to the Assigners of Messrs. Rem__ tin Stephenson is Joshua Coit, Esq. Attny at Law of this City whom we beg to recommend to your obliging attention. We are Sir, Yr. Obt. Servt. Goodhue & Co.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Light overall toning. Folds as expected. Surface soil on integral leaf, as expected from postal handling.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
Slave Sale Broadside, Winchester, Virginia, 1857
Lot # 36 (Sale Order: 36 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Horizontal and vertical folds in document, some spotting, with inked note on back that has partially come through along left edge. Ghosting as a result of being folded.
EST $ 800 - 1200
SC Slave Owner Fred. Eustis Journal, Slave Log, & More Related to Eustis Plantation, Ca 1862-1865
Lot # 37 (Sale Order: 37 of 1143)
John Brown, Jr., 1861 ALS to Social Reformer Gerrit Smith, Plus Presentation Knife
Lot # 38 (Sale Order: 38 of 1143)
To you who know how much of toil and difficulty I have had to pass through since I began to raise this company, no apology need be made for not sooner writing...My company as you are 'ere this probably informed(?) constitutes a part of Col. Jennisons Regiment of the Kansas Brigade...The Proclamations of different State Governors forbidding the enlisting of citizens into Regiments not raised in the States to which they belong has been a great difficulty for me to surmount. But, greatest of all is the fact that none but anti-slavery men, and these too of the fighting class of anti-slavery men, would enlist with me. The proportion of these to the whole class of anti slavery men is small indeed--The greater portion are the talking sort, who now in the present "impending crisis" finding their "occupations gone" instinctively take themselves to managers and growl...In spite of all of these, there has been much to encourage--I have a Company of men worthy, "to stand before the Kings and not before the mean men,"-- a Company worth more than a Regiment of ordinary men in doing the work of this war.
Accompanied by a Farrier's folding knife, 4.5 in. folded, 7.5 in. opened, presented to John Brown, Jr. by J.W. Loomis in 1861. Almost every cavalryman carried a similar knife during the Civil War. It was a useful tool with specific folding blades for cavalry. The blades bear markings of L. P. Rhoades / Celebrated. Engraved on the stone hook, on its wide flat surface, is a professional inscription in three lines, Capt. John Brown, Jr. / 1st Kansas Brigade / 1861. On the small matching iron escutcheon plate on the center of the obverse stag grip, an engraving, in the same style as the other, reads, presented by G/J.(?) W. Loomis.
As John Brown, Jr. explained in his letter to Gerrit Smith, male abolitionists were typically pacifists who preferred using words over real weapons. His father, John Brown, on the other hand, was a man of action who was not opposed to violence. Dedicated to the abolition of slavery, John Brown helped finance the publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry Highland's "Call to Rebellion" speech, gave land to fugitive slaves, and raised a black child as his own. He participated in the Underground Railroad and helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that protected escaped slaves from slave catchers. After meeting Brown, Frederick Douglass described him as "in sympathy a black man," who was so moved by the cause that it seemed "his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html). For a time, Brown lived in a black community in New York on property donated by Gerrit Smith. There, he and his family developed a long friendship with Smith. After following his sons to Kansas, Brown assembled a group of antislavery guerillas who attacked the town of Lawrence. John Brown, Jr. fought alongside his father throughout the 1850s, but did not join him at Harper's Ferry. Even though he was not directly involved, local officials arrested and imprisoned him for his father's crimes. Gerrit Smith financially supported Brown as a member of the "secret six," which implicated him in the raid. John Brown, Jr. was released and Smith was pardoned after Brown hanged.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, John Brown, Jr. began recruiting a company of soldiers that would travel to Kansas and enlist with Kansas volunteers, but only 66 men joined him. His association with his father made many Union officers balk and hesitate to grant him a commission. He finally obtained one as captain in the Kansas 7th Volunteer Cavalry, Co. D. His brother, Salmon, had similar issues and was stripped of a position promised to him by Colonel John Fairman of New York. John Brown, Jr.'s term of service was cut short when complications with rheumatoid arthritis forced him to resign. Following his resignation, he purchased ten acres on the south shore of South Bass Island at Put-in-Bay, OH, where he remained until his death in 1895.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Typical folds of the letter and minor toning on the outer margins. As for the knife, the pen knife blade broken is broken and there are white paint markings with the number 7604 on the reverse.
EST $ 3000 - 5000
Charleston Mercury Extra, Rare Broadside Announcing South Carolina Secession, December 1860
Lot # 39 (Sale Order: 39 of 1143)
Passed unanimously at 1.15 o'clock, P.M., December 20, 1860. An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America." The Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States was ratified, and also, All Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of the State, ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
Attached to the bottom portion of the broadside is a signed oath from the Assistant Editor of the Richmond "Enquirer," John Grame, that verifies its authenticity and claims that it was in his possession since 1861.
Secessionism was not a novel idea for slave owning states in the 1860s, but a widely accepted notion. Since the formation of the United States, states dependent on the slave trade fought to protect their interests. By the 1790s, some began entertaining the idea of secession, but various “compromises” abated the divorce. As time passed, tensions built. Other government policies pushed some towards secession. Lincoln’s nomination as president was the final event that convinced slave states to separate.
Not one person in Charleston, SC voted for Lincoln in the 1860 presidential race. Outraged after hearing about his victory, the people of Charleston demanded South Carolina secede. Within a few days, two Senators from South Carolina submitted their resignations, and on December 20, 1860, the South Carolina legislature unanimously voted to enact the "ordinance" posted on the broadside. No doubt enthused by their new freedoms, the people of Charleston felt that the North could no longer interfere with its traditions and institutions. The Charleston Mercury, one of the outspoken venues for States’ Rights activists throughout the South, jubilantly declared South Carolina's independence by printing the broadside almost immediately after the ordinance passed. One of the editors commented that, “as the brief and expressive words of the ordinance were read from our bulletin by the crowd, cheer after cheer went up in honor of the glorious event” (Information obtained from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Website, January 5, 2017).
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Toning of the paper, brittle edges, spotting, some folds, and separation of the first fold.
EST $ 5000 - 10000
Early Civil War Documents Related to South Carolina and Charleston on the Verge of War
Lot # 40 (Sale Order: 40 of 1143)
With Lincoln’s election in November 1860, South Carolina secessionists went into overdrive, and six weeks later a state convention passed an ordinance of secession claiming the dissolution of the Union, and in accordance with that determination state officials decided to open negotiations with Washington for the transfer of Federal facilities within their borders. Major Anderson, in charge of Federal troops at Charleston, moved his men to Fort Sumter in late December, but instead of pulling out, the Federal government sent reinforcements and supplies on the USS Star of the West, which was fired on by state forces on January 9, 1861. Negotiations were then halted and the governor demanded Anderson surrender two days later. Anderson declined, but agreed that envoys would go to Washington to try to straighten things out. South Carolina Governor Pickens then sent Attorney-General Isaac W. Hayne as the envoy to meet with (still) President Buchanan and demand the fort. The lot contains a cover letter dated Senate Chamber, January 10th (or 11th), 1861. Addressed to President Buchanan, it is signed by three senators, Ben. Fitzpatrick, S.R.(Stephen) Mallory, and John Slidell. We have been requested to present to you copies of a correspondence between certain Senators of the United and Col. Isaac W. Hayne now in this city on behalf of the government of South Carolina and to ask that you will take into consideration the subject of said correspondence.
Isaac William Hayne (1809-1880) was the state attorney-general and had been the man who officially read out the ordinance of secession. A member of a prominent South Carolina family, among his relatives was Robert Y. Hayne, senator and governor, who engaged in a famous debate with Daniel Webster in 1830, and was active in the nullification convention in South Carolina in 1832. Isaac Hayne was admitted to the bar in 1831 and after practicing law for a time in Alabama, returned to South Carolina in 1848 and was elected repeatedly to the office of attorney general (an office Robert Y. Hayne had also held), a post he held continuously from 1848 to 1868. For the remaining documents in the lot, please got to www.cowans.com.
Provenance: Property of Another Owner
EST $ 3000 - 5000
Early Confederate, North Carolina Recruitment Broadside, To Arms! Our Fatherland is in Danger!
Lot # 41 (Sale Order: 41 of 1143)
The 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, also known as the Bethel Regiment, organized at Raleigh, NC, in May 1861, and immediately moved to Virginia. Its members were from the counties of Edgecombe, Mecklenburg, Orange, Buncombe, Cumberland, Burke, Guilford, and Lincoln. The unit fought at Big Bethel with about 800 men, then served in the Army of the Peninsula near Yorktown. Two companies from Bertie and Chowan Counties joined the regiment, which increased its strength to more than 1200. On November 12, 1861, the unit disbanded and returned to North Carolina. Many of the men transferred to the 11th North Carolina Regiment. The field officers were Colonels Daniel H. Hill and Charles C. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph B. Starr, and Majors Robert F. Hoke and James H. Lane (Information obtained from the National Park Service Website, January 5, 2017).
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Toning of the paper and some brittle edges and several tears on the right.
EST $ 2000 - 3000
Confederate Recruitment Broadside for Colonel William C. Faulkner's 2nd Mississippi Regiment
Lot # 42 (Sale Order: 42 of 1143)
The 2nd Mississippi Regiment completed its organization at Corinth in April 1861. After fighting at First Manassas, the regiment served with the army from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor. It saw action in the Petersburg siege south of the James River and in numerous conflicts around Appomattox. It reported 25 killed and 82 wounded at First Manassas. It sustained 111 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 97 at Second Manassas, and 154 in the Maryland Campaign. More than 45 percent of its men were disabled at Gettysburg. Only one officer and nineteen men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels William C. Faulkner and John M. Stone, Lieutenant Colonels John A. Blair, Bartley B. Boone, and D.W. Humphreys, and Major John H. Buchanan (Information obtained from the National Park Service Website, January 5, 2017).
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Scattered foxing of the paper and a few uneven edges, a small portion of the left corner is missing.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
Rare Confederate Artillery Recruitment Broadside for Turner Ashby's Virginia Company
Lot # 43 (Sale Order: 43 of 1143)
Turner Ashby (1828-1862) gained prominence as Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander in the Valley Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. Despite his vigorous reconnaissance and screening efforts in this campaign, Ashby was KIA on June 6, 1862 at Cross Keys, VA.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Lighter in tone along perimeter, likely a result of being matted or framed previously. Horizontal and vertical folds, few short tears along perimeter. Few light stains/spots. Few light creases.
EST $ 2000 - 3000
Rare Richmond, Virginia, CSA Broadsides Calling for the Defense of Richmond
Lot # 44 (Sale Order: 44 of 1143)
1 p, 8 x 10 in., NOTICE. Information has been received that Troops are being landed by the Enemy both at Brandon on James River and at the White House on York River, and it is their purpose doubtless to make an Attack upon the City of Richmond, as a diversion, to compel the withdrawal of Troops from Gen. Lee's Army. All persons in the City who are Liable to duty wither in the Regular Militia or in the Second Class Militia, or who may volunteer in any other capacity, are urgently called upon to MEET THIS EVENING, on the Capitol Square, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of Organizing into a body, to aid the regular troops in repelling any attack that may be contemplated against the Capital.... John Letcher. This one not dated, although someone penciled May 15, 1862 at the bottom of the paper affixed to the bottom of the broadside. This likely relates to the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, since General McClellan took White House landing to be used to supply his army during that Campaign. And it would, indeed, have been a distraction for Lee, since White House was a Custis plantation, and Lee's wife, Mary Ann Custis Lee, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and, by the Civil War, wheelchair bound, had moved from Arlington to White House, deeper in the Confederacy and closer to the capital, Richmond. In addition, John Letcher served as Governor of Virginia from January 1, 1860 to January 1, 1864, and would not have been sending out broadsides for the 1864 -1865 advances on Richmond.
1 p, 8.5 x 11.25 in., To the Citizens of Richmond! The President and Governor of Virginia, deeply impressed with the necessity of a speedy organization of all able bodied and patriotic citizens, for local defence, in and around the City of Richmond, and throughout the State, urgently appeal to their fellow-citizens, to come forth in their militia organizations, and to commence and perfect at once, other organizations by companies, battallions [sic] and regiments. An imperious necessity for instant action exists, and they trust that this appeal will be all that is necessary to accomplish the result. No time is to be lost; danger threatens the City. Therefore, with a view to secure the individual attention of all classes of the citizens of Richmond, and to impress upon them the full importance of the crisis, it is hereby ordered that all stores and places of business in this City be closed to-day at three o'clock P.M., and daily thereafter until further order, and the people be invited to meet and form organizations for local defence. They will be armed and equipped as fast as the companies are formed. This one not dated; signed in type by S[amuel]. Cooper for the Secretary of War and John G. Mosby, Jr. by order of the Governor. According to Moore (1864, p. 335), this was issued just prior to the following broadside (posted while the citizens were meeting in response to the above).
1 p, 9.5 x 12 in., My Fellow-Citizens,To Arms! I have just received a message direct from the highest authority in the Confederacy, to call upon the Militia Organizations to come forth, and upon all other Citizens to organize Companies for the defence of this City against immediate attack of the enemy, They are approaching, and you may have to meet them before Monday Morning. I can do no more than give you this warning of their near approach. REMEMBER NEW ORLEANS! Richmond is now in your hands. Let it not fall under the rule of another Butler.... Joseph May, Mayor of Richmond. Saturday Afternon [sic], June 27, 1863.
1 p, 9.5 x 11 in., TO ARMS. / All men now in the city capable of bearing arms, are invited to report to Brig. Gen. Kemper, on the Public Square, for the purpose of being temporarily organized and armed, for the defence of Richmond....When the enemy is menacing the city, it is deemed unnecessary to make appeals to the courage and patriotism of the people. The emergency demands from all a cheerful, hearty and prompt responce [sic]. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War. Richmond, May 11th. 1864.
At the bottom of each of the four is affixed a notarized paper (5 x 8.25 in.), which reads, This printed Document is original and has been preserved by me from the date of its issue. Signed by John Grame, Ass't. Editor of Richmond "Enquirer" and notarized by W.C. Carrington, Mayor of Richmond. Dated February 22, 1877.
Moore, Frank, ed. The Rebellion Record: A Dairy of American Events, with Documents, Narrative, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. Vol. 7. G.P. Putnam, 1864.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: All with moderate toning, a bit of edge scuffing. A few corners folded. All with notarized notes affixed to bottom edge, not affecting any text.
EST $ 6000 - 8000
Confederate Broadside Issued by CSA General Loring, To the People of Western Virginia, 1862
Lot # 45 (Sale Order: 45 of 1143)
The Army of the Confederate States has come among you to expel the enemy, to rescue the people from despotism of the counterfeit State government imposed on you by the Northern bayonets, and to restore the country once more to its natural allegiance to the State. We fight for peace and the possession of our own territory. We do not intend to punish those who remain at home as quiet citizens in obedience to the laws of the land...but those who persist in adhering to the cause of the public enemy, and the pretend State Government he has erected at Wheeling, will be dealt with as their obstinate treachery deserves...
Seeking to pacify and intimidate any Union sentiment in the region, Confederate General W. Loring issued the broadside offered in the lot to declare martial law and discredit the Union in West Virginia. He maintained control of the area until the Battle of Antietam, when General J.D. Fox's forces drove the rebels out of the state for good. Even though they separated from the Union based on ideological differences, Congress approved West Virginia's admission to the Union on June 20, 1863.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Some toning and light soiling of the paper as well as some brittle margins.
EST $ 800 - 1200
Rare Texas Broadside, Texans! Prepare for War!, March 1862
Lot # 46 (Sale Order: 46 of 1143)
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Good overall, with light folds, light wear along perimeter (few short tears, few chips). A bit brittle, with few spots.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
TX Broadside Calling for Troops w/Reference to Fall of Vicksburg, Issued 1863, J. Bankhead Magruder
Lot # 47 (Sale Order: 47 of 1143)
The proclamation states, in part, Fellow-Citizens: Vicksburg has fallen, but our insolent foes have but little cause to rejoice. More than thirty thousand of them found bloody graves in the effort to reduce a city defended by less than twenty-five thousand men, and though the place was surrendered, the army was saved. Our victorious arms are now desolating Pennsylvania, and forty thousand prisoners attest the triumphant march of General Lee. The North will not long exult over the barren victory on the Mississippi...The benefits they expect from the fall of Vicksburg will not be reaped by them...Magruder states that he has called upon the Governor of Texas for ten thousand State troops. He also calls upon the citizens of varying ages and slaveholders to be organized and to do their part. He states, Adopt this plan throughout Texas, so that an army of minute men, who are exempt from forced service, bearing the rifles that once repelled the Mexican invader, may rush at a moment's warning from your prairies, and with their aid the organized forces of Texas will sweep from your borders any army that may come to murder and plunder upon your soil...Our barbarous foes...will yet learn that the spirit of the Alamo is the quick spirit of the land, and that Texas will not suffer...Let him who has been shirking the contest, arm in defense of home, report to those regiments in Texas not yet complete, and taste for once the proud joy of defending the soil that has fed him.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Some light folds, scattered spotting. Few short tears along perimeter.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
Exceptional Confederate Broadsides Concerning Texas Troops, 1862-1864
Lot # 48 (Sale Order: 48 of 1143)
1 p, 5.25 x 10.5 in., which is General Orders, No. 28, concerning the requisition to the Governor of Texas for ten thousand troops to defend the state, issued by the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Austin, June 8, 1863, and signed in type, By order of Governor F.R. Lubbock, J.Y. Dashiell, Adj't. & Inspt'r Genl. Winkler 952. Not listed in Crandall. Parrish & Willingham 4274 variant as a handbill.
1 p, 9 x 13.5 in. One of the most important Texas broadsides ever issued, headed, Proclamation! By the Governor, To the State Troops, and those Liable to Service Under the Late Conscript Law of Congress. Signed and dated in type by Pendleton Murrah, Austin, April 12, 1864. Winkler 1237. Harwell 840. Parrish & Willingham locate one copy at the University of Texas. For more than half of the Civil War, Texas had insisted that she would only allow the men in the State Militia to become Confederate soldiers if they went into the service as State Troops. In this historic act, Murrah commands that all men in State Troops volunteer for service in the Confederate Army before they are forced to do so. However, men between the ages of 18 and 45 can join the State Reserve Corps for the defense of the borders.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Order no. 1, light folds, light toning, staining along margins. Otherwise very fine. Order no. 28, light folds, with light staining at folds, few light spots. Light penciled notes on front and back. Proclamation, light folds, very light wear along margins (few light stains, few light chips. Lightly penciled date of 1864 in top right corner (pink pencil). Some penciled notes on reverse.
EST $ 2000 - 3000
Confederate Broadside Issued to Citizens and Soldiers of Kentucky by W.B. Machen, January 1864
Lot # 49 (Sale Order: 49 of 1143)
A rare Confederate imprint.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Some light aging, some toning along horizontal fold lines. Wide margins. Some light spotting. Light corner wear.
EST $ 1000 - 1500
Rare 1861 Notice Issued to the Baltimore Police Department by Police Marshal George P. Kane
Lot # 50 (Sale Order: 50 of 1143)
A very rare broadside, and possibly the only example known to exist.
Kane (1820-1878) was an imposing figure who commanded the respect of many in Baltimore. In 1860, the local officials elected him "Marshal of Police" to straighten out the crooked city. Barely a year into his position, Detective Allan Pinkerton uncovered a plot to assassinate President Lincoln while he was traveling through Baltimore. Despite the threat of danger, someone overheard Kane say he refused to send police escorts for the new president. Whether or not his claims were serious, Pinkerton did not trust the "rabid rebel" and made alternative travel arrangements.
Four months later, in June of 1861, an unruly mob of Confederate sympathizers and anti-war activists attacked Union troops headed South. Despite his Southern sympathies, Kane guarded the troops. Shortly after the riots, however, General Benjamin Butler arrested Kane on suspicion of protecting the illegal trafficking of arms. He was detained at Fort Warren and Lafayette until 1862. Immediately after his release, he retreated to Virginia until the end of the war. He returned to Baltimore and was elected mayor, but died two years into his term in 1878.
Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.
Condition: Some wrinkling and toning of the paper but is in good condition. There are some missing portions or tears in the paper.
EST $ 1000 - 1500