Union Autographs

Autograph, General Robert Anderson

(1805-1871) Graduated in the West Point class of 1825. He participated in the Black Hawk, Florida and Mexican Wars and was twice brevetted for gallantry. In November 1860, he was ordered to Charleston Harbor to command the three United States forts there; Castle Pickney, Fort Moultrie, and Fort Sumter, in the face of South Carolina's imminent secession. Anderson refused a formal demand for his surrender and in the early morning hours of April 12, 1861, Fort Sumter was bombarded, and the Civil War began. His small garrison withstood 36 hours under fire...  

Autograph General August V. Kautz

Signed while on duty as a Commissioner in the Lincoln Conspirators Trial!

(1828-95) Born in Baden, Germany, his family emigrated to America soon after his birth. He served in the Mexican War as a private in the 1st Ohio Infantry. He graduated in the West Point class of 1852, then served in the Pacific Northwest, where he was twice wounded in the operations against the Indians. He served under General George B. McClellan in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign, and in Sept. 1862, he was appointed colonel of the 2nd Ohio Cavalry and was sent...  

Autograph General Thomas M. Harris

Signed while on duty as a Commissioner in the Lincoln Conspirators Trial!

(1817-1906) A doctor by profession, he practiced medicine at Harrisville and Glenville, Virginia before the Civil War. He helped recruit the 10th West Virginia Infantry and was commissioned their lieutenant colonel, on Mar. 17, 1862, and was promoted to colonel, May 20, 1862. He saw action with his regiment during the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign against Stonewall Jackson, participated in operations in West Virginia under General William W. Averell, and fought in...  

CDV General Winfield Scott

Rare autographed carte de visite presented to Mrs. General Ambrose E. Burnside in 1863!

(1786-1866) A year older than the Constitution, the venerable Scott, hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, became General in chief of the U. S. Army in 1841, a position he still held at the start of the Civil War. A true professional soldier, he was one of the very few men in the country who saw the need to prepare for a major military effort. His Anacondona Plan proved to be very sound. Succeeded by General George B. McClellan in Nov. 1861, he...  

Autograph General Christopher C. Augur

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Also signed by Brevet Brigadier General Samuel Breck, Assistant Adjutant General Joseph H. Taylor, and Paymaster James W. Nicholls

C.C. Augur: (1821-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843 which furnished ten general officers to the North and three to the South. He was a Mexican War veteran and later became commandant of cadets at West Point. His first active field command during the Civil War was on the line of the Rappahannock during the Peninsular campaign. Augur was one of several professional...  

CDV Brevet Brigadier General Samuel J. Crawford

Autographed carte de visite

Colonel 83rd U.S. Colored Troops

Governor of Kansas

(1835-1913) Born in Lawrence County, Indiana, he graduated from Cincinnati College School of Law in 1858. He moved to Kansas Territory in 1859, and commenced a law practice in Garnett. Instrumental in helping to organize the Republican Party in Kansas, he was elected a member of the first Kansas state legislature in November 1859. When war broke out, he resigned his legislative seat and was commissioned captain in the 2nd Kansas Infantry. He served...  

Autograph General Edward D. Townsend

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Also signed by Paymaster General B.W. Brice

(1817-93) Graduated #16 in the West Point class of 1837. He served in the Florida War and in the Adjutant General's Office, when on Mar. 7, 1861, he was named General Winfield Scott's chief of staff. He later served most of the Civil War as Assistant Adjutant General of the U.S. Army. Townsend was one of a select few who were chosen to accompany the body of the slain President Abraham Lincoln back to Springfield, Illinois for burial. It was General Townsend, and Admiral...  

Autograph Admiral Charles H. Davis

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(1807-77) He entered the navy as midshipman in 1823, and served in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the South Atlantic, and along the New England coast. Promoted to captain in 1861, he was Chief of Staff and Fleet Officer in the Port Royal expedition. He was promoted Flag Officer in May 1862 of the Mississippi flotilla, fighting at Fort Pillow, Memphis, Vicksburg and up the Yazoo River. As commander, July 1862, Davis was made chief of the Bureau of Navigation and promoted Rear Admiral in February 1863. He later was...  

Autograph General Gustavus A. Smith

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(1820-85) Born in Philadelphia, he settled in Decatur, Illinois in 1837. On September 1, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 35th Illinois Infantry. At the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, he had his horse shot out from under him, and subsequently was struck himself, first in the shoulder by a bullet, and then in the head by an artillery shell fragment which fractured his skull. He was taken off the field thought to have been mortally wounded, but miraculously recovered from these serious wounds. In July 1862, he was...  

Autograph General Julius Stahel

Medal of Honor recipient!

Autograph with rank

(1825-1912) Hungarian born, he was forced to leave the country in 1849 when the rebellion for independence was suppressed. He came to America in 1859, and for the two years leading into the Civil War he was employed by a German language weekly in New York City. In 1861, he and Louis Blenker recruited the 8th New York Infantry, with Stahel becoming their lieutenant colonel. At the 1st battle of Bull Run, they aided in covering the Union retreat, and on Aug. 11, 1861, Stahel was promoted to...  

Autograph General Benjamin F. Butler

(1818-1893) A lawyer, he was elected to the Massachusetts house of Representatives in 1853, and to the State Senate in 1859. The following year Butler was a delegate to the Democratic Convention which met in Charleston, where he voted 57 consecutive times to nominate Jefferson Davis for President of the United States. As a Brigadier General of the Massachusetts Militia, Butler entered the war in dramatic fashion; five days after the bombardment of Fort Sumter he lifted the blockade of Washington with the 8th Massachusetts. He was the first volunteer...  

Autograph General William Hays

Signature with rank

(1819-75) Graduated in the West Point class of 1840 with classmates, W.T. Sherman, G.H. Thomas and R.S. Ewell. He fought in the Mexican War at the battles of Contreras, Churubusco and Chapultepec, earning the brevets of captain and major. Hays commanded a brigade of horse artillery in the Peninsular campaign and was an artillery commander with the Army of the Potomac at Antietam and Fredericksburg earning promotion to brigadier general, Dec. 27, 1862. He commanded an infantry brigade of the 2nd Corps at Chancellorsville...