Autograph Clara Barton

Civil War Nurse

Founder of the American Red Cross

Card Signature With Sentiment, Place & Date

(1821-1912) A native of Massachusetts, she was a teacher, U.S. patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. Barton moved to Washington, D.C. in 1854, and began work as a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. This was the first time a woman had received a substantial clerkship in the Federal government, and at a salary equal to a man's salary. Subsequently, under political opposition to women working in government offices, her position was reduced...  

Autograph, General William Hawley

1865 Document Signed

(1824-73) Born in Porter, Niagra County, N.Y. He served with the 3rd U.S. Artillery during the Mexican War. Commissioned Captain, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, April 24, 1861. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, November 14, 1862; Colonel, June 29, 1864; Brevet Brigadier General, March 16, 1865 for gallantry in the Georgia and Carolina's campaigns. Mustered out of service July 18, 1865.

1865 Document Signed: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4, in ink.

Hd. Qrs. Batl., 31st Wis. Vol. Infty.
Near Louisville, Ky.
June 21st,...  

Autograph General Joshua L. Chamberlain

Medal of Honor recipient for conspicious gallantry in the battle of Gettysburg!

(1828-1914) He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry, on Aug. 8, 1862. Chamberlain's qualities were tested in the sharp engagement at Shepherdstown Ford immediately after the battle of Antietam in September, and in the terrible experiences of his command in the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg in December where he certainly won his master's degree in military education. In May, 1863, he was made colonel of his regiment, having already...  

Autograph General Silas Casey

Autograph letter signed with content regarding his Mexican War career

(1807-82) Graduated in the West Point class of 1826. Distinguished himself during the Mexican War battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molina del Rey, and Chapultepec, earning the brevets of major and lieutenant colonel for gallantry. Appointed a brigadier general of volunteers on Aug. 31, 1861. At the battle of Seven Pines, Va., in 1862, his division of the 4th Corps, bore the brunt of the Confederate attack by Gen. A.P. Hill's troops, and "Casey's Redoubt" was...  

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 George G. Meade

Signature With Rank

(1815-1872) Graduated in the West Point class of 1835. Won a brevet in the Mexican War. Meade fought in the Peninsular campaign and the Seven Days battles being very severely wounded at Glendale. He recovered in time to see action at 2nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Elevated to command of the Army of the Potomac, he defeated General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and went on to fight in all of their battles culminating in the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Signature...  

Autograph General George B. McClellan

(1826-85) Graduated in the West Point class of 1846 and fought in the Mexican War. Hailed at the beginning of the Civil War as the "Young Napoleon," he proved to be a brilliant military organizer, administrator, and trainer of men, but an officer totally lacking in the essential qualities of successful command of large forces in battle. He saw action at Rich Mountain, W.V., in the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign and at the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history. He was defeated for the presidency in 1864 by Abraham...  

Autograph General Ulysses S. Grant

(1822-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843. Fought in the Mexican War. Commander-in-Chief of all Union armies 1863-65. He fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and the Appomattox campaign. Served as 18th President of the United States 1869-77.

Card Signature: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4, in ink, U.S. Grant. Light age toning and some mounting remnants on the reverse. Very nice, large and bold ink autograph.  

Autograph General William T. Sherman

Card Signature With Rank

(1820-1891) Graduated #6 in the West Point class of 1840. Rising to be one of the Union's most renowned military leaders, Sherman saw action at 1st Bull Run, Shiloh, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, the infamous March to the Sea, and the 1865 Carolina's campaign. He received the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army at Greensboro, N.C., on April 26, 1865.

Card Signature With Rank: 3 1/2 x 2, in ink, W.T. Sherman, General. Some mounting remnants...  

Autograph General James A. Garfield

Assassinated while serving as 20th President of the United States

Free Frank Signature as Member of U.S. Congress

(1831-81) Elected to the Ohio Senate as a Republican in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he helped recruit the 42nd Ohio Infantry, and became their lieutenant colonel and later colonel in December 1861. He won an engagement at Big Sandy Valley in January 1862, and was promoted to brigadier general. He also fought at Shiloh, Corinth, and Chickamauga and earned promotion to major general. Garfield served 9 terms in...  

Autograph General Philip H. Sheridan

Signature as Major General

(1831-88) A prominent Civil War commander, he graduated in the West Point class of 1853. Appointed brigadier general of volunteers September 13, 1862, and major general, March 16, 1863. Fought in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the Shenandoah Valley and Appomattox campaigns, to name but a few. Sheridan also saw action against the Plains Indians in the 1870's.

Signature With Rank: 4 1/8 x 1 1/4, in ink, Phil. H. Sheridan, Maj. Genl. Very fine.  

Autograph General John J. Peck

War Date Document Signed

(1821-78) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843 and served with great distinction in the Mexican War earning the brevets of captain and major. On Aug. 9, 1861, President Lincoln appointed him a brigadier general of volunteers and in the course of the Peninsular campaign he commanded the 2nd Division of Keyes's 4th Corps. On July 25, 1862, he was promoted to major general and commanded all the Union troops in Virginia south of the James River. The following spring, while commanding at Suffolk, Peck rendered his...