EPHEMERA

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2nd MD Light Artillery
Framed Discharge Private Samuel H. Ruley
Battery B 2nd MD Light Artillery ~ Six Month Maryland Artillery.
Enlisted 7/8/1863 ~ Mustered Out 1/16/1864. Professionally framed and matted. Overall size is 13 1/2" x 15 1/2" - ready to hang.
$225.00 - EPH285


12th MD Inf. ; 1st MD PHB; 13th MD Inf.
Documents of Corporal William Phipps
* Discharge 12th MD Inf. * Discharge 13th MD Inf.
* US Citizenship Document
William Phipps was born 3/23/1834 in London, England.
He enlisted on 7/6/1864 as a Private and mustered into "A" Co. MD 12th Infantry - he was Mustered Out on 11/6/1864.
Phipps then enlisted on 2/17/1865 and was mustered into 1st MD PHB Inf. On 4/8/1865 he transferred into "G" Co. MD 13th Inf. He was Mustered Out on 5/29/1865 at Baltimore, MD.
12th MD Discharge signed by: 2nd Lt. Charles Harris Lester 2nd US Cavalry - Graduate USMA 6/11/1863
Enlisted 6/11/1863 ~ Resigned on 5/13/1869 (Subsequent service in US Army from 08/06/1873 until 07/01/1891). Also signed by Theodore M. Bartholomew Capt. Commanding "A" Co. MD 12th Infantry
13th MD Discharge signed by: Capt. Robert H. Offley 1st US Inf. and by Capt. Thomas J. Evans G Co. MD 13th Inf.
US Citizenship / Cert. of Naturalization Baltimore, MD
Witnessed by James Horan, 1st Sgt. 4th MD Infantry.  Signed and stamped with the Court Seal by James D. Lowry Court of Common Pleas Clerk 1861-1867.
EPH280                                                         $350.00
 



Wounded at ANTIETAM

12th Mass Infantry
Letter from George P. Boyce Co. G
Three page letter is dated Oct. 4th, 1861 near Darnstown (MD). Letter details the Regiments movements through the Sharpsburg and Harpers Ferry areas. Boyce describes that they "went by John Brown House. It is a very quere looking house . . . " .  He also tells his friend "(we) took the Canal Boat for Darnestown, MD, since yesterday morning there has been 17 Regiments by here to Poolesville, MD." "within five miles of us there is 10 Regiments, two Mass. 2nd & 12th we can here them firing up to Poolsville today it is 8 miles from here."
George P. Boyce ~ a 19 year old cabinet maker ~ enlisted on 7/10/1861 and mustered into Co. G 13th MA Infantry. He was listed a *Wounded 9/17/1862 Antietam, MD and was discharged for wound on 11/29/1862 at Harrisburg, PA.  On 8/14/1863 he mustered into Co. D 3rd MA Heavy Artillery and resigned on 5/30/1865. He was promoted to Sergt and on 7/27/1864 to 2nd Lieut.
Boyce was born in 1842 in England ~ after the war he lived in Reading, MA. and was a member of GAR Post #75.
$175.00 - EPH266 -
partial records included

Lincoln Presidential Ticket

Union Presidential Ticket
3 1/4" x 7 1/4" Union Presidential Ticket from Miami County Ohio. Election November 8,1864.
$225.00 - EPH201

1846 Bible

1846 Bible - Old & New Testaments
Brown leather cover almost all wore off. Inside front and back cover are covered with writing and name/eagle stamp "S. Allen"
Bible measures approx. 4 1/2" x 6 3/4".
$85.00 - EPH228

Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, WV
Land Document Sale 1853
Document for purchase of land from the US Government.
$275.00 - EPH203

Cavalry Tactics, First Part
ID'd to Junius A. Law, Captain, Alabama 1st Artillery Battalion, Co. D. Inside cover has a note stating "This book must not be taken out of my room." "J.A. Laws  Dec. 14th, 1860"
$325.00 - EPH229
 

Augusta Arsenal Requisition

Augusta Arsenal Requisition
Important 1839 Augusta Arsenal Small Arms Requisition - Hall Rifles, Hall North Carbines, Common Rifles.
$425.00 - EPH208

 

 

FIRST EDITION BOOKS

Cause and Contrast by MacMahon
Cause and Contrast
An Essay on the American Crisis
by T. W. MacMahon
Published by West & Johnson, Richmond, VA 1862
Original Cover missing - Signed by owner twice.
$295.00 - EPH236


Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man
Matthew B. Brady
by Roy Meredith
1st Edition - Published 1946
Full blue Linen cover (first page shown above)
$60.00 - EPH238

 

 


Gunshot Wounds by Conner
Gunshot Wounds
by P.S. Conner, MD
1890's
$125.00 - EPH251

 

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