Seth Kaller, Inc.

Inspired by History

The Civil War

From John Brown to Jefferson Davis, our catalog brings together exciting letters, documents & artifacts of the Civil War including letters from Lee, Grant & other Generals, a rare Gettysburg map, Lincoln documents and Confederate/Union medical kits.

 

 

 

 

 

 
# Article Title
1 "He Hath Loved Our Nation"
2 $100,000 to Capture Jefferson Davis
3 1862 War Orders Including Preliminary Emancipation
4 1865 Orders for Military Division of West Mississippi, Including Kirby Smith’s Surrender, Colored Troops, Reconstruction
5 21st Georgia Cavalry Soldier Orders his Slave Whipped
6 82nd U.S. Colored Infantry Muster Roll
7 A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
8 A Massive Signed Presentation Photograph of a Union General
9 A Veteran’s Tribute to Sherman’s March to the Sea “We stormed the wild hills of Resaca.”
10 Abraham Lincoln Bust Cast of Metal from the USS Cumberland
11 Abraham Lincoln Clarifies a Rank Misunderstanding
12 Abraham Lincoln Convenes Cabinet to Discuss Compensated Emancipation: First Presidential Proposal for Abolition
13 Abraham Lincoln Signed Military Commission
14 African-American Union Sailor
15 African-American Union Solider Holding Rifle
16 Alexander Gardner’s “A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep”
17 Battle of Gettysburg – 17th CT Regt. Field Report
18 Belle Boyd, Confederate Spy
19 Bishop of MD Instructs Clergy to Pray for the President, & for America: Maryland is admitted and declared by the Legislature and Governor of the State, to be at this time one of the United States of America
20 Charles Sumner Writes to a Fellow Abolitionist
21 Chester Whitman: Confederates “have been repulsed with great slaughter”
22 Chief Justice Salmon Chase Summarizes His Civil War Financial Measures
23 Civil War Bulletproof Vest Advertisement
24 Civil War Field Surgeon’s Kit
25 Civil War Logistics
26 Col. Isaac Shepard Authorizes Recruitment of 1st Mississippi Regt. African Descent (Former Slaves)
27 Commodore Josiah Tattnall Decides to Resign from U.S. Navy to Fight for Georgia
28 Confederate Home Front Journal – Started by a Soldier, Taken up by His Mother after He Dies, and Continued with Her Husband’s Georgia Militia Service During Sherman’s March
29 Confederate Physician’s Medical Saddle Bag
30 Cultures Clash as North meets South
31 D.H. Hill Identifies Roanoke Island as the “weakest point” in North Carolina
32 Dance to the Sound of the Guns! Fort Sumter in Sheet Music
33 Daniel Ruggles, Authorizing Supplies for Virginia State Forces Three Weeks after Secession
34 Daniel Sickles, Denying Calls for a Dictator to Replace Lincoln
35 Defending Philadelphia from Lee’s Invading Army
36 Dr. D.W. Hartshorn, A Surgeon in the Union Army of the Tennessee
37 E. Kirby Smith Reacts to News of the “protracted and desperate fighting” in Virginia
38 Edwin M. Stanton Sees Secession as Inevitable
39 Four Civil War Special Orders Signed by Gen. Edward D. Townsend & Capt. Henry L. Abbott
40 Francis Pickens’ Gratitude for Georgia’s Support During Defense of Charleston Harbor
41 General Charles Hamilton during the Peninsula Campaign
42 General George Meade’s Gettysburg Victory
43 General William J. Hardee’s “Views” on the Need to Evacuate Corinth, Accepted by G.T. Beauregard
44 George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
45 Harper's Weekly and the Civil War
46 Henry Berry Lowrie, the Native American “Robin Hood,” in Civil War North Carolina
47 Instructions to Commander of Commerce Raider C.S.S. Tallahassee
48 Invitation to the Re-Raising of the Union Flag Above Fort Sumter
49 James Clay Rice, a Soon-to-be Hero of Gettysburg, Lobbies for Promotions
50 Jefferson and Varina Davis
51 Jefferson Davis The Difference Between an “expression of an intent, and a promise”
52 Jefferson Davis’ Hope for a Future Union Based on Confederate Principles
53 John A. Andrew - Patriotic Poem
54 John Adams Dix Implores Confederates to Cease Attacking Union-held Insane Asylum in Williamsburg
55 John Dix: "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."
56 John H. Erskine's Recognition of Promotion to Medical Director of Thomas C. Hindman’s Corps in the Army of Tennessee
57 Judah Benjamin Sends Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
58 Last Edition of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen
59 Looking into the Welfare of “the contrabands [slaves] in this district…”
60 Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss and Abolitionist Resentment towards McClellan
61 Maps from Sherman's Army
62 Naval Commander Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1400 Slaves
63 New York Draft Riots: “A Great Fraud”
64 Newspapers from Union-Occupied South Carolina
65 Ordnance Returns for the Atlanta Campaign
66 Patriotic Post – 15 Pages of Union Envelopes with National Motifs
67 Promoting Future Civil War Generals... including upgrades in rank for Grant, Pickett and Beauregard!
68 Rare Gettysburg Battlefield Map Published in 1863
69 Robert E. Lee Holds off Meade’s Advancing Army after Gettysburg
70 Robert E. Lee Warns Governor Pickens: "The Enemy Far Outnumbers Any Force We Can Bring against It in the Field"
71 Robert E. Lee “The Marble Man” in Bronze
72 Senate Debate on Jefferson Davis’s Army Pension
73 Senior Officer on the Seven Days’ Battle
74 South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
75 The Gettysburg Address
76 The Gettysburg Address – Front Page News
77 The Re-Raising of the United States Flag Ceremony at Fort Sumter
78 The U.S. Navy Bombardment of Fort Sumter
79 Ulysses S. Grant Closes in on Vicksburg
80 Union Flag Flown over Richmond on the Day of Union Occupation
81 University of Virginia Diploma of Charles Marshall, Lee’s Aide-De-Camp
82 Warning about a Runaway Slave Girl Who May Create Trouble
83 Willard Saulsbury, Opposing Lincoln from the Senate Floor
84 William Hardee, Future Confederate General, Schemes to Acquire Guns for Georgia While Still a U.S. Army Officer
85 William Seward Writes to Benjamin Franklin’s Great-Grandson on Improving Fortunes of the Union
86 William T. Sherman Attacks the Church, Reflects on Mortality, and Mentions the 1886 Princeton-Yale Football Game
87 William T. Sherman Praises New Jersey Troops for Saving His Life
88 “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
89 “My strongest hope of ultimate success arises from the belief that by this war slavery is to be forever crushed & put away”
90 “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal” in Reconstruction North Carolina
91 “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper Issued in Union-Occupied Fredericksburg