1862 RECEIPT, 7TH NORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY

7 1/2 x 3 3/4, in ink. Camp Graham, Jan. 31, 1862. Lieut. D.R. Murchison, Confederate States, Dr. 1862, Jan. 9 & 31. For 2 qts. salt, and 23 lbs. salted pork. $3.77. I certify on honor that the above articles were for my own use. D.R. Murchison. Very fine.

David R. Murchison, was a 25 year old mechanic from Cumberland Co., N.C., when he enlisted on May 16, 1861, as a 1st lieutenant, and was commissioned into Co. C, 7th North Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to captain, Jan. 6, 1863; transferred into the field and staff of 54th North Carolina...  

1863 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA $5 NOTE

Raleigh, Jan. 1, 1863. View of harbor and city of Wilmington at center, N.C. Liberty at left, D.W. Courts at right, FIVE in red. Uncirculated condition.

THE DAILY JOURNAL, WILMINGTON, N.C., APRIL 23, 1861

4 pages. Excellent, detailed account of the 1861 Baltimore Riots. Passage of Federal Troops Through Maryland Resisted by the People. Thrilling Account of the Scene. Barricading the Track. Troops Resolve to Brave the Storm. The Hirelings Greeted With a Volley of Stones. Baltimoreans Killed and Wounded. Hirelings Killed and Wounded. The Hirelings Bad Marksmen. Stones Better Than Bullets. Terrific Assault Upon the Hirelings. They Run For Their Lives. A Piteous Appeal For Mercy. Thousands Gathered at the Camden Station. Fearful...  

1863 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA $2 NOTE

Raleigh, Jan. 1, 1863. State Capitol at center. Very fine plus.

CIVIL WAR ATLAS MAP, BENTONVILLE, N.C., BATTLE OF BLACK RIVER, N.C., MARCH OF THE 20TH CORPS FROM SAVANNAH TO N.C.

Plate LXXX. Original atlas map that accompanied the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-65. Multi colored, includes 12 individual maps on the same side of one large sheet that measures 29 x 18 1/2.

1-11). Series of 11 individual campaign maps showing the Line of March of the 20th Army Corps From Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N.C., including plans of the Battlefields of Averysborough, and Bentonville, N.C.

12). Taylor's Store,...  

INVENTORY OF EFFECTS, 2ND NEW YORK CAVALRY

For private who was mortally wounded by gunshot while in action in Louisiana!

7 7/8 x 10 1/4, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

Inventory of the effects of Henry Shortsleeves, late a Private of Captain Gilbert W. Becker's Company I, of the 2nd Regiment of Vet. Cav., New York Volunteers, who was enrolled as a Recruit at Keeseville in the State of New York on the 16th day of February 1864, and mustered into the service of the United States as a Recruit on the 17th day of February 1864, at Plattsburgh, N.Y., assigned in Company I, 2nd...  

117TH NEW YORK INFANTRY LETTER

Written by soldier who died in 1864!

3 pages, in ink, written by Charles Hevener, to his father and mother.

Camp Curtis, Va., 117 Reg., Aug. 20, 1864

Dear Father and Mother,

I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same good health. John Griffiths came here to see Ben this afternoon. He has got his discharge and he feels pretty well. Ben ain't very well at present. I saw a letter that Ben got this morning. His father...  

10TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

8 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Wright, to his wife Abbie. Comes with cover addressed to Mrs. Benjamin Wright, Greenwich, Connecticut, C.D.S., St. Augustine, FLO., Mar. 31, stamp cut off, torn at edges.

Head Quarters U.S. Forces, St. Augustine, Fla., March 28, 1864

My Dear Abbie,

I have written nothing since Friday night. It is now Monday after dinner, and I don't know as I have any thing to write now. News is very scarce at present. Since the boats got away Saturday morning every thing has been quiet. Mr....  

PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON

(1808-75) Congressman, Senator and Governor of Tennessee. He was nominated and elected vice president on the Union Republican ticket in 1864. Upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, he became our 17th president and resolved to follow Lincoln's plans for reconstruction without bitterness or malice. His reconstruction plan clashed drastically with that of the Radical Republicans in congress, and Johnson's term was one humiliation after another, culminating on Feb. 24, 1868 with a resolution of impeachment against him. This failed by one vote to...  

THE NEW YORK HERALD, JUNE 22, 1865

Trial of the President Lincoln Conspirators!

8 pages. RECONSTRUCTION. Proclamation by the President. Appointment of Provisional Governor of Alabama. Lewis E. Parsons Named for the Office. The Regulations the Same as Provided for the States of North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas. News From New Orleans. Arrival of General Weitzel. Movements of Gen. Custer. A March Into Texas. General Granger in Supreme Command. The Ohio Union State Convention. Nomination of General J.D. Cox as Governor. HAVANA. Details of the Escape of the Rebels...  

SHARPS CARBINE BULLETS, TREVILIAN STATION, VA.

Group of three, .52 caliber, Sharps carbine bullets with small cone cavity. Recovered from Trevilian Station, Va.

The cavalry engagement of Trevilian Station, Va. took place June 11-12, 1864, between Generals Wade Hampton's and General Fitzhugh Lee's Confederate forces, and General Philip H. Sheridan's Union forces. The flamboyant Union cavalry General George A. Custer's headquarters wagon was captured by the Confederates during this battle. Union casualties in the 2 day engagement numbered about 735 while the Confederate loss was estimated at...  

1863 ORDER ESTABLISHING THE CAVALRY BUREAU

5 x 7 1/4 imprint.

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, July 28, 1863

General Orders, No. 236

1. A Bureau will be attached to the War Department, to be designated the Cavalry Bureau.

2. This Bureau will have charge of the organization and equipment of the Cavalry force of the Army, and of the provision for the mounts and remounts of the same.

3. The purchases of all horses of the Cavalry will be made by officers of the Quartermaster's Department, under the direction of the Chief of the...