[CIVIL WAR]. Union and Confederate ephemera, incl. a sketch, and a ticket to Johnson's impeachment.
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Nov 30, 2023
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[CIVIL WAR]. Union and Confederate ephemera, incl. a sketch, and a ticket to Johnson's impeachment.
Pencil sketch of unidentified Civil War fortification, approx. 8 x 5 1/4 in. (toning, chipping, completely separated at right fold). Verso with very faint pencil notations possibly listing soldiers. -- A group of 5 admittance tickets, including to an 1864 "Soldiers' Fair" at Springfield, Massachusetts and two tickets to 1866 military balls, highlighted by an unused gallery ticket to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, 7 April 1868.
[With:] "[House Bill, No. 214] House of Representatives, Nov. 18, 1864. Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, November 22, 1864. Reported back favorably, and ordered to be printed." Parish and Willingham 719. Stamp 'Record Division War Department, Rebel Archives' on front of sheet. --
"Hints for Patients in Hospitals. By the Rev. Thomas Scott, D.D., Author of A 'Commentary on the Bible,' &c." Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1864. Inscribed in part "This little book was...our Fathers [sic] - War of 65." -- "Original and Selected Songs, Printed for the Use of the New York Commandery of the Military Order, Loyal Legion, United States." [New York, Macgowan & Slipper, printers, 1886]. -- Printed poem, "The Old Gray Jacket. By R.D. Mosely, Co. C, Fifth VA Cavalry." -- "
[Also with:] A large group of approx. 35 war-date and post-war documents representing various soldiers and regiments, including passes, letters, forms, discharges, GAR-related ephemera, and covers.
Conditions vary.
Together, approx. 45 items.
Property from the Estate of Amelia and Aubrey Abramson, Sunnyvale, California
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