Captain Charlton Hunt Morgan Signed & Addressed P.O.W. Cover

The younger brother of General John Hunt Morgan!

Captured during General Morgan's famous raid into Ohio in 1863!

Very rare Civil War Prisoner of War cover sent by Captain C.H. Morgan via a Flag of Truce to Mrs. General John Hunt Morgan!

(1839-1912) He graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1859, and soon after was appointed the United States Consul to Messina, Italy. While serving as a U.S. Government representative, he joined the fight for Italian independence, and was wounded in action. He resigned...  

Autograph, General Thomas Green

Fought in the War for Texas Independence, 1835-36

Killed at the battle of Blair's Landing, Louisiana in 1864

(1814-64) He graduated from the University of Nashville, and studied law under his father who was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Green left Tennessee in 1835 to join the Texas volunteers and fought in the Texan Revolution, 1835–36. At the Battle of San Jacinto, he helped operate the famed "Twin Sisters" cannons, the only artillery present in General Sam Houston's army. A few days after their decisive...  

Autograph, Abraham W. Venable

United States Congressman from North Carolina

Presidential elector on the 1860 Democratic ticket for future Confederate General John C. Breckenridge

Served in the Confederate States Congress, 1861-1864

(1799-1876) Born in Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va., October 17, 1799; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, in Va., in 1816; studied medicine for two years; was graduated from Princeton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821, and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Mecklenburg Counties, Va. He...  

Autograph, Harrison H. Riddleberger

Confederate officer who was captured in 1864 during the War Between The States

United States Senator from Virginia

(1844-90) Born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, he fought with the 10th Virginia Infantry and the 23rd Virginia Cavalry during the War Between The States. He was captured on May 14, 1864, at Edinburg, Va., and subsequently confined in Antheneum Military Prison, in Wheeling, West Virginia, at Camp Chase, Ohio, Point Lookout, Maryland, and Fort McHenry, Maryland prisons. After the war he was editor of the Tenth Legion...  

Autograph, Jacob Thompson

United States Congressman from Mississippi

United States Secretary of the Interior

Inspector General in the Confederate Army

Confederate Secret Agent

(1810-85) Born in Caswell County, North Carolina, he attended Bingham Academy, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1831, and served as a member of their faculty in 1831-32. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1834, and commenced practice in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress, and served from...  

Autograph, Albert Gallatin Brown

U.S. Congressman & Senator from Mississippi

Governor of Mississippi

Confederate Captain

Confederate Senator

(1813-80) Attended Mississippi College, and Jefferson College, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and practiced law in Gallatin, Miss. Served as a member of the Mississippi state house of representatives, 1835-39; U.S. Congressman, 1839-41; Governor of Mississippi, 1844-48; U.S. Congressman, 1847-53; U.S. Senator, 1854-61. During the Civil War he served as captain, in the 18th Mississippi Infantry, and...  

Autograph, Colonel John S. Mosby

The legendary Confederate Partisan Ranger known as "The Gray Ghost"

(1833-1916) A lawyer by occupation, before the War Between the States, John Singleton Mosby enlisted as a private in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, and fought at 1st Manassas in 1861. Commissioned a 1st lieutenant in February 1862, he began scouting for General J.E.B. Stuart shortly afterwards, guiding him on his famous ride around Union General George B. McClellan in June. In January 1863, he organized his "Partisan Rangers" and engaged in guerrilla warfare...  

War Date Cover Endorsed & Addressed by Confederate Capt. Eugene Blackford, 5th Alabama Infantry

One of the famous Blackford brothers of Virginia!

Commander of the 5th Alabama Sharpshooters

Confederate war date envelope endorsed and addressed in the hand of "Capt. Eugene Blackford, 5th Ala. Regt." sent to his father, "Wm. M. Blackford, Esq., Lynchburg, Va." The cover has a partial 1861 Tudor Hall, Va. postmark, and hand stamped Due 5. Staining and wear. The envelope bears the authentication docket on the reverse of one of the country's leading Confederate philatelic...  

Franked Cover From V.M.I. Cadet Legh Wilber Reid

Served as a Confederate officer during the War Between the States being twice wounded, one resulting in the amputation of his leg!

Legh Wilber Reid, was born near Brentsville, Va., on April 15, 1833. He graduated #2 in the Virginia Military Institute class of 1858, thus one of his professors would have been Thomas J. Jackson, soon to be immortalized as "Stonewall" Jackson. A civil engineer by occupation, Reid was General Superintendent of the Great Kanawha Coal & Oil Co. Upon the outbreak of the War Between the States, he was...  

Autograph, General John C. Breckenridge

Vice President of the United States

Ran for president in 1860 against Abraham Lincoln

Confederate Secretary of War

(1821-75) After attending Centre College and Transylvania University, he began practicing law in his home town of Lexington, Ky. in 1845. A member of the Kentucky legislature from 1849-51, he became Vice President of the United States in 1856 in the Buchanan administration. He was defeated by Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election. On November 2, 1861, he accepted a commission as brigadier general in the...  

Autograph, General Samuel W. Ferguson

Card signature as Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Mississippi with place and date

(1834-1917) Born in Charleston, S.C., he graduated from West Point in 1857, and served under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, during the Utah expedition, 1857-58, and at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, 1859-60. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he resigned his U.S. Army commission and returned home to Charleston. In March 1861, he was commissioned captain in the Provisional Confederate Army, and aide-de-camp to General...  

Autograph, General Hiram B. Granbury

Killed in action at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee!

Extremely rare signature!

(1831-64) Born in Copiah County, Mississippi, he was educated at Oakland College, in Rodney, Miss. He moved to Texas in the early 1850's establishing himself at Waco, studied the law, was admitted to the bar, and served as chief justice of McLennan County from 1856-58. He recruited the Waco Guards in 1861, and was elected major of the 7th Texas Infantry in October of that year. He was captured at Fort Donelson, Tenn., and after his exchange he was...