Civil War & WWII Collection Auction Ending 7/16

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CDV of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith 2.5" X 4". Smith served as a general in the Confederate States Army, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department after the fall of Vicksburg to the Union Army.

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CDV of Confederate General Officer Benjamin Huger 2.5" X 4". Huger was noted for his controversial performances while in charge of Norfolk, Virginia, and during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.

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CDV of Confederate cavalry leader Wade Hampton III 2.5" X 4". Near the end of the Reconstruction, he was elected as 77th Governor of South Carolina, serving 1876-1879, and later was elected as a U.S. Senator.

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CDV of Confederate General Roger Hanson 2.5" X 4". Hanson was the commander of the famed "Orphan Brigade," he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro. He was nicknamed "Old Flintlock".

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Two CDV's incl one of Confederate Army Major General Sterling Price 2.5" X 4". Sterling was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War. Also incl CDV appearing to be Confederate General Officer Joseph Eggleston Johnston 2.5" X 4". Johnston's effectiveness in the Civil War was undercut by tensions with Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who often criticized him for a lack of aggressiveness, and victory eluded him in most campaigns he personally commanded. However, he was the senior Confederate commander at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, and his recognition of the important necessary actions, and prompt application of leadership in that victory is usually credited to his subordinate, P. G. T. Beauregard.

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CDV of Confederate army General George T. Anderson 2.5" X 4". Anderson was one of Robert E. Lee's hardest-fighting subordinates.

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CDV of John Wilkes Booth marked on bottom "John Wilkes Booth, the Assassin" 2.5" X 4". Booth was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theatre in Washington D.C., on April 14, 1865.

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CDV's of Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard 2.5" X 4". Beauregard was a Louisianan-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his first name as an adult. He signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard, also incl what appears to be a negative of a man wearing a scarf 2.5" X 4".

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Two CDV's of John Wilkes Booth incl one of the capture or the killing of John Wilkes Booth 25" X 4", the other of him sitting in chair with cane 2.5" X 4".

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CDV of Union General Ulysses S. Grant 2.5" X 4". As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. He implemented Congressional Reconstruction, often at odds with Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president, Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery, protect African-American citizenship, and support economic prosperity nationwide.

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CDV of Union General David Hunter 2.5" X 4". Hunter achieved fame by his unauthorized 1862 order (immediately rescinded) emancipating slaves in three Southern states and as the president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

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Two CDV's of Abraham Lincoln one appearing to be him with family, other of bust, both 2.4" X 4". Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

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Two CDV's incl Union Cavalry Officer George Armstrong Custer 2.5" X 4". Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the Union Army. Also incl Union General Philip Henry Sheridan 2.5" X 4". Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war.

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CDV of Union General Alexander Hays 2.5" X 4". Hays fought in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, and Malvern Hill.

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CDV of Union Officer Hugh Judson Kilpatrick 2.5" X 4". Kilpatrick was known as "Kilcavalry" for using tactics in battle that were considered as a reckless disregard for lives of soldiers under his command, Kilpatrick was both praised for the victories he achieved, and despised by southerners whose homes and towns he devastated.

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Two CDV's incl Union General William Tecumseh Sherman 2.5" X 4". Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Also incl Union General William Farrar Smith 2.5" X 4". Smith was notable for attracting the extremes of glory and blame. He was praised for his gallantry in the Seven Days Battles and Antietam, but was demoted for insubordination after the disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg. As chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland, he acquired legendary fame by restoring a supply-line that saved that army from starvation and surrender.

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Two CDV's incl Union General Daniel Adams Butterfield 2.5" X 4". Butterfield was also the assistant U.S. Treasurer in New York. He received the Medal of Honor for his service during the Civil War; during the war he was credited with composing the bugle call Taps. In later life, he was involved in the Black Friday gold scandal in the Grant administration. Also incl Union Major General Don Carlos Buell 2.5" X 4". Buell led Union armies in two great Civil War battles—Shiloh and Perryville. The nation was angry at his failure to defeat the outnumbered Confederates after Perryville, or to secure East Tennessee. Historians concur that he was brave and industrious, and a master of logistics, but was too cautious and too rigid to meet the great challenges he faced in 1862.

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CDV of Union Major General George Brinton McClellan 2.5" X 4". McClellan organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. Although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, these characteristics may have hampered his ability to challenge aggressive opponents in a fast-moving battlefield environment.

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CDV of Union Army General Ambrose Everett Burnside 2.5" X 4". Ambrose was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a United States Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, as well as countering the raids of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, but suffered disastrous defeats at the terrible Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater.

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CDV of Union General Lew Wallace 2.5" X 4". Wallace's military career included service in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was appointed Indiana's adjutant general and commanded the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Wallace, who attained the rank of major general, participated in the battle of Fort Donnellson, the battle of Shiloh, and the battle of Monocracy. He also served on the military commission for the trials of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, and presided over the military investigation of Henry Wirz, a Confederate commandant of the Andersonville prison camp.