Seth Kaller, Inc.

Inspired by History

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 "Capture of Richmond and Petersburg" Ballad
2 1863 Rare Gettysburg Battlefield Map & Pamphlet (SOLD)
3 1865 North Carolina Colored Convention: “In his speech Galloway said that he did not believe the negro would abuse the ballot box any more than they had the cartridge box”
4 21st Georgia Cavalry Soldier Orders his Slave Whipped
5 A Black Civil War Soldier’s Death is Reported in a Letter Back Home to Friends and Family
6 A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
7 A Massive Signed Presentation Photograph of a Union General
8 A Rare Broadside Song Sheet Promoting the Confederate Cause – Issued From Baltimore
9 A Union Officer’s Commission, and Field Report from the 17th Connecticut Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
10 A Veteran’s Tribute to Sherman’s March to the Sea “We stormed the wild hills of Resaca.”
11 Aboard C.S.S. Virginia, Flag Officer Tattnall Advocates Release of Merchant Seaman
12 Abraham Lincoln Clarifies a Rank Misunderstanding
13 Abraham Lincoln Convenes Cabinet to Discuss Compensated Emancipation: First Presidential Proposal for Abolition
14 African-American Union Soldier Holding Rifle
15 Alexander Gardner’s “A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep”
16 An Eyewitness Describes Maneuvers Between the Monitor and Merrimack
17 Army of the Potomac Surgeon’s Diary: Antietam to Chancellorsville
18 Battle of Gettysburg Prisoner of War Broadside: Confederate Guards Shooting Unarmed Yankees
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 Civil War Bulletproof Vest Advertisement
23 Civil War Field Surgeon’s Kit, 6th N.Y. Infantry
24 Civil War Logistics
25 Col. Isaac Shepard Authorizes Recruitment of 1st Mississippi Regt. African Descent (Former Slaves)
26 Col. James Clay Rice Lobbies for Military Promotions
27 Confederate Circular Issued by Jewish Officer Abraham C. Myers, Quartermaster General
28 Confederate General Gustavus W. Smith War-Date Telegrams in North Carolina
29 Confederate Physician’s Medical Saddle Bag
30 Confederate President Jefferson Davis and His Wife
31 Confederate President Jefferson Davis Distinguishes Between Promises and Intents
32 Confederate Slave Impressments
33 Dance to the Sound of the Guns! Fort Sumter in Sheet Music
34 Daniel Ruggles, Authorizing Supplies for Virginia State Forces Three Weeks after Secession
35 Dr. D.W. Hartshorn, A Surgeon in the Union Army of the Tennessee
36 Draft Resistance in the Confederacy, From an Unlikely Source
37 E. Kirby Smith Reacts to News of the “protracted and desperate fighting” in Virginia
38 First Edition of Sherman's Memoirs with Scathing Inscription by Former Subordinate with an Axe to Grind
39 First Federal Occupation of Winchester Broadside
40 First Printing of Robert E. Lee’s General Orders No. 9
41 Four Civil War Special Orders Signed by Gen. Edward D. Townsend & Capt. Henry L. Abbott
42 G.T. Beauregard to Edward Bok
43 G.T. Beauregard’s Thanks for Donation for “our gallant soldiers now battling manfully for our rights & our Independence…”
44 General Charles Hamilton during the Peninsula Campaign
45 General Cullum Reports to Major General Halleck Two Days Before General Grant Gains National Fame
46 General G.T. Beauregard Sends His Autograph
47 General Gilman Marston’s Informal Casualty Report from Gettysburg
48 General Schofield’s Personal Gettysburg Official Records
49 General William J. Hardee’s “Views” on the Need to Evacuate Corinth, Accepted by G.T. Beauregard
50 General Wool Takes Shot at McClellan
51 George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
52 George McClellan Signed Photograph
53 Georgia Militia Incorporated into Provisional Confederate Army
54 Grant Forwards Telegraph From the Front Lines: “Our advance entered Atlanta two hours since”
55 Grant “announces the occupation of Atlanta by our troops”
56 Harper's Weekly and the Civil War
57 Henry Berry Lowrie, the Native American “Robin Hood,” in Civil War North Carolina
58 Instructions to Commander of Commerce Raider C.S.S. Tallahassee
59 Irish American Union Soldier's Music Book
60 James Longstreet to Edward Bok
61 Jefferson Davis’ Hope for a Future Union Based on Confederate Principles
62 Joe Johnston on his Negotiations with General Sherman: The Surrender that Ended the Civil War
63 Joe Johnston Thanks Edward Bok
64 Joe Johnston to Edward Bok
65 John A. Andrew - Patriotic Poem
66 John Adams Dix Implores Confederates to Cease Attacking Union-held Insane Asylum in Williamsburg
67 John Adams Dix, Autographed Carte De Visite
68 John Dix: "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."
69 John H. Erskine's Recognition of Promotion to Medical Director of Thomas C. Hindman’s Corps in the Army of Tennessee
70 Jubal Early Recalls His Role in the Burning of Chambersburg
71 Jubal Early Tracking Down a Letter
72 Judah Benjamin Sends Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
73 Lincoln Takes Action to Reward Union Supporters in Baltimore
74 Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss and Abolitionist Resentment towards McClellan
75 Naval Commander Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1400 Slaves
76 Naval Commodore Goldsborough Discusses the Capture of the CSS Nashville, Lincoln’s Reelection, and Teaching Former Slaves
77 New York Artillery Officer Captured at the Crater
78 New York Draft Riots: “A Great Fraud”
79 Newspapers from Union-Occupied South Carolina
80 One Day Before the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Jubal Early Spares York, Pennsylvania from Burning out of a “…spirit of humanity…”
81 Ordering “a salute in honor of Sherman’s victory” at Atlanta
82 Ordnance Returns for the Atlanta Campaign
83 Patriotic Post – 15 Pages of Union Envelopes with National Motifs
84 Planning Civil War Slave Patrols
85 Prelude to the March to the Sea: Grant Telegraphs Sherman’s Impatience to Leave Atlanta “to again sally forth in search of the enemy”
86 Print of the N.Y. 7th Regiment on Parade before the Park Avenue Armory
87 Promoting Future Civil War Generals... including upgrades in rank for Grant, Pickett and Beauregard!
88 Rare Broadsheet of Lincoln’s 1862 State of the Union Message
89 Rare Civil War Press Pass
90 Robert E. Lee Holds off Meade’s Advancing Army after Gettysburg
91 Robert E. Lee “The Marble Man” in Bronze
92 Senate Debate on Jefferson Davis’s Army Pension
93 Senior Officer on the Seven Days’ Battle
94 South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
95 South Carolina Militia Recruiting Broadside
96 South Carolina Secession Handbill
97 The Gettysburg Address, Including First Day Printings
98 The Rock of Chickamauga - Signed Photo
99 The Secret History of the Civil War: The Thomas T. Eckert Archive of Civil War Codes and Ciphers (SOLD)
100 The U.S. Navy Bombardment of Fort Sumter
101 The “Constitution of Virginia” Signed by the Man Who Warned South Carolina Governor Pickens about the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter
102 Ulysses S. Grant Captures Fort Donelson, but Confederate General John B. Floyd Escapes
103 Union Color Bearer Kady Brownell, Who Fought at First Bull Run and Displayed Incredible Bravery at the Battle of New Bern
104 Union Flag Flown over Richmond on the Day of Union Occupation
105 Union Operations in Florida
106 University of Virginia Diploma of Charles Marshall, Lee’s Aide-De-Camp
107 Upon Losing Harpers Ferry Yet Again, Stonewall Jackson Sends Engineer Lt. James Boswell in for a “thorough reconnaissance.”
108 USS Monitor Commander Transmits a History of the Ship, with a Carte-de-Visite
109 Wall Paper Edition of The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, Mississippi
110 Willard Saulsbury, Opposing Lincoln from the Senate Floor
111 William Hardee, Future Confederate General, Schemes to Acquire Guns for Georgia While Still a U.S. Army Officer
112 William Sherman Endorses the Publication of Butterfield’s Manual: “it fills a vacuum hitherto in our military manuals…”
113 William T. Sherman Attacks the Church, Reflects on Mortality, and Mentions the 1886 Princeton-Yale Football Game
114 William T. Sherman Praises New Jersey Troops for Saving His Life
115 “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
116 “Defence of the City of Philadelphia” Calling out the Home Guard Eleven Days before Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia Invades Pennsylvania
117 “I thought Cump would advise you as to the movements here…”
118 “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal” in Reconstruction North Carolina
119 “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper Issued in Union-Occupied Fredericksburg