January Internet Auction

Confederate States of America, Treasury Department, double-framed semi-official imprint on cover with "Richmond Va. Sep 17, 1861" cds and matching "Paid" with pencil "20" rating to Gov. I.G. Harris, Nashville, Tennessee, docketed "Copy of act to audit account of Confederate States with State of Tenn." at left; upper right corner clipped, Fine.

C.S.A. Catalog No. TD-11   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400.

(Isham Green Harris - Governor of Tennessee).

Confederate States of America, War Department, semi-official imprint on circa 1861 cover with "L.P. Walker" frank as Secretary of War addressed to Hon. Howell Cobb, Spotswood Va., hand carried, Fine and rare imprint, ex-Antrim .

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-03   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400.

Gen. Leory Pope Walker (1817-1884) was the first Confederate States Secretary of War February 25, 1861 to September 16, 1861. Starting in August 1861, Davis encouraged Walker to become a Confederate representative to Europe; Walker did not accept this, but on September 16 he resigned his post. Davis made him a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, and he commanded the army garrisons in Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama, before resigning in March 1862. He returned to the army in April 1864 to serve as a military judge.

Howell Cobb (1815-1868) was an American and later Confederate political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and the Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851-1853) and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857-1860).

Confederate States of America, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Official Business, semi-official imprint on legal-size cover bearing 5¢ olive green (1c) pair , small flaws, tied by "Richmond Va." cds with military address to Col. J.W. Gillespie, Care of Brig. Genl. Carroll, Knoxville, Tenn. , F.-V.F.

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-AG-07   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400.

Brigadier General William H. Carroll was a Colonel with the 37th Tennessee Infantry when promoted to Brig. Gen. October 1861 and assigned to the Army under Albert Sidney Johnston with action in Tennessee and Kentucky.

(Gen. Williiam Henry Carroll, CSA & Col. James Wendell Gillespie, CSA).

Confederate States of America, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, semi-imprint on legal-size lemon cover bearing 5¢ green (1) pair , faults, tied by "Richmond Va. Nov 20, 1861" cds with military address to Col. J.J. Thornton, 7th Miss. Regt., Care Major Genl. Hardee Comdg., Memphis, Tenn. ; edge tears, F.-V.F.

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-AG-09   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400.

(Col. John J. Thornton, CSA).

Confederate States of America, Quartermaster General's Office, Official Business, semi-official imprint on legal-size buff cover bearing 5¢ green (1) tied by "Richmond Va., Feb 22, 1862" cds with military address to Captain C.D. Clark, A.Q.M., Care of Gen. Magruder, Yorktown Va. ; small flaws, reduced at ends, F.-V.F.

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-QM-10 .

(Gen. John Bankhead Magruder, CSA).

Confederate States of America, Head Quarters, Dept. No. 1, Official Business, imprint on legal-size orange cover addressed to Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles, CSA , New Orleans La., Very Fine.

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-ZA-01   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $500.

Head Quarters --- Department of Appomattox, Official Business, semi-official imprint on brown cover front bearing 10¢ rose (5) tied by blue "Petersburg Va. May 19" cds addressed Lt. Col. F.H. Archer, Commanding 1st Brigade, Head Quarters; docketed "Orders" at left, F.-V.F. use, This is the listing example of this CSA semi-official imprint. .

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-ZA-07   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $600.

(Col. Fletcher Harris Archer, CSA).

Head Quarters, 1st Military District, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Official Business, semi-official imprint cover with ms. " Un " in front of "Official" indicating private use, entered mails with "Charleston S.C., Jun 4, 1864" cds with "Paid 10" in Circle rating handstamp addressed to Mrs. Lawrence M. Keith, Bennetsville S.C., included with cover is an unused lettersheet with a variation of the Military Dept. imprint; some staining, Fine.

C.S.A. Catalog No. WD-ZA-25   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $750.

Riswell Sabine Ripley (1823-1887) was an officer in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and, despite being Northern-born, was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. At the lower left in the same hand as the address are the initials " R.S.R. " of Brig-Gen Roswell Sabine Ripley (1823-1887), the commanding general of the department. General Ripley, a West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran, was

a northerner (Ohio) who married into the Charleston Middleton family and fought for the Confederacy. As a Lt Col of SC state forces, he occupied Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter after the US evacuation in April 1861. He was appointed Brig-Gen in Confederate service 8/15/ 1861 and was a competent field commander serving in the Seven Days and was severely wounded at Sharpsburg after which he was relegated to departmental command.

Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) was a South Carolina politician who served as a U.S. Congress who urged secession. Keitt is notable for being the only US elected official to be involved in two separate acts of legislative violence on the floor of the US House of Representatives. He served as a Colonel commanding the 20th SC Volunteer Infantry Regiment and later Kershaw's Brigade. He was mortally wounded at Cold Harbor 6/2/1864 (the day before this letter was posted) and died in Richmond two days later.

"Adjutant General's Office, Official Business", manuscript semi-official endorsement on legal-size orange cover bearing 5¢ green (1), tall margins, in at left, tied by partial "Austin Tex. Mar 6, 1862" double-circle datestamp, second strike at center with military address to Brig. General Robert Bechem, 31st Brigade Texas State Troops, New Braunfels, Texas , Mar. 6th receipt docketing; reduced slightly at right, fresh and Very Fine.

Estimate  ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $200 - 300.

(Gen. Robert Bechem, CSA).

Kaufmann $600.

"Picketts Division, Inspector Genls Office", semi-official endorsement on brown homemade cover entering mails with blue "Petersburg, Va. Aug 27" cds with matching "10" in Circle rating handstamp (CSA type F $300) military address to Col. S. Basett French, A.D.C. Governor of Virginia, Richmond Va.; some light staining, F.-V.F. and excellent semi-official use,

(Col. Samuel Bassett French, CSA - ADC Governor of Virginia).

State Department, Tallahassee, Fla., semi-official imprint on legal-size orange cover bearing 5¢ blue (6) strip of four , margins to in at top, tied by two indistinct cds strikes addressed to Maj. General Patton Anderson, Monticello, Florida , Anderson's docketing at right " Authenticated copies of Mortgage - Williams notes - also notes for him of 2 negroes, all belonging to Mrs. E.A. Beatly and Subject to her order. Mch 1st 1865 - P.A. "; cover faults, file fold affects strip, Fine appearance.

C.S.A. Catalog No. S-FL-04   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $1,000.

Gen. James Patton Anderson (1822-1872) was an American slave owner, physician, lawyer, and politician, most notably serving as a United States Congressman from the Washington Territory, a Mississippi state legislator, and a delegate at the Florida state secession convention to withdraw from the United States. He also served in the American Civil War as a general in the Confederate States Army, serving in the Army of Tennessee.

During the Civil War, Patton accepted a commission as the Colonel of the 1st Florida Infantry on April 1, 1861 and initially served under Braxton Bragg in Pensacola. There he commanded the 2nd Brigade in the Army of Pensacola from October 12 to January 27, 1862. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on Feb. 10, 1862, and was assigned to the Western Theater, commanding a brigade in the Battle of Shiloh in April. He fought with the Army of Tennessee during the battles of Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, before being promoted to Major general on February 17, 1864.

After briefly serving as commander of the Confederate District of Florida, Anderson returned to the field in July 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign. He led a division in Leonidas Polk's Corps in the Army of Tennessee at the battles of Ezra Church, Utoy Creek, and in the early stages of the Battle of Jonesboro before suffering a serious jaw wound on the evening of August 31.[4] Temporarily unfit for duty, he was relieved of his command and sent home to Monticello.

He later returned to duty in April 1865 during the Carolinas Campaign, against his physicians' orders, and served with his men for the remainder of the war until their surrender to federal forces at Greensboro, North Carolina, in the spring of 1865. He was paroled on May 1, and would be pardoned by the U.S. Government on December 2, 1866.

Executive Department, Georgia, Adjutant General's Office, Official Business, fancy imprints on legal-size buff cover bearing 3¢ dull red (25), nibbled, tied by "Milledgeville Ga. Mar 8" cds with military address to Lieutenant E.S. Willis, 1st Regimt. Geo. Army, Savannah Ga.; reduced at right, F.-V.F.

C.S.A. Catalog No. S-GA-10   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $500.

Brig. General Edward Shackleford Willis (1840-1864) was a cadet at West Point when the war began and was almost immediately made a 2nd Lieut. He was on the staff of Stonewall Jackson . He was wounded in the thigh at Wilderness and then mortally wounded at Bethesda Church on May 30, 1864. He was appointed adjutant of the 12th Georgia Infantry in July 1861 and rose through the ranks to Brig. General on June 1, 1864, which came the day after his death. He was buried in Savannah but move dto Hollywood Cemetery in 1870. Lieut. J.A. Walker, of the Twelfth Georgia, writing of Colonel Willis, feelingly says, "He died as he had lived, discharging the highest duty of a patriot with devotion that never faltered and courage that shrank from no danger. His heart never knew one beat not unison with the honor, interest and glory of his country." .

State of Texas, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Official Business, semi-official imprint on amber cover with " Austin, Tex. Dec 4, 1862 " double-circle with manuscript " Paid 10 " rating addressed to Brig. General Robert Bechem, 31st Brigade Texas State Troops, New Braunfels, Texas , Dec. 4th receipt docketing at bottom left; small flaws and staining, Fine.

C.S.A. Catalog No. S-TX-02   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $750.

(Gen. Robert Bechem, CSA).

State of South Carolina, Adj't & Insp. Gen. Office., Official Business, semi-official imprint on legal-size amber cover showing blue "Columbia S.C. Jun 25" cds with matching "Paid" rating addressed to Brig. General Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Comdg. 4th Brigade S.C. Militia, Charleston S.C. , pencil docketing "Theodore S. Marion, Comdg. Srgt. Regt. S.C.M., Pineville" at left; cover staining, Fine.

C.S.A. Catalog No. S-SC-10 var.   ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦  $400 for similar.

General Wilmot Gibbes DeSuassure (1822-1886) was a Brigadier General in the South Carolina Militia, who served along with the Confederate States Army in South Carolina at various times during the American Civil War.[2] As a colonel, he led his regiment in the occupation of Fort Moultrie and the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the war. He was appointed brigadier general as well as adjutant general and inspector general of South Carolina militia in 1862. He commanded part of the Charleston defenses during the Union siege of the city in 1863. He also led his men in opposition to Major General William T. Sherman's march through the Carolinas.