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Ultimate Lincoln Collection |
Although the items below are being offered on eBay only as a collection, we do have a some individual Lincoln-related items for sale at prices starting as low as $100. Click here for details.
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Lincoln-Signed Military Commission of James P. Kimball
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Document Signed, as President, appointing James P. Kimball as Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, co-signed by Edward Stanton, Washington D.C., April 18, 1862, 1p.
Kimball served General Patrick, and fought at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He later became Director of the U.S. Mint.
Item #22109, $11,000
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Pardoning a Murderous Mutineer
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Document Signed, as President, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1864. 2 pp. 10¾ x 16¾”.
Lincoln pardons Alfred Ryder, a prisoner in New York’s Sing Sing prison. Ryder promptly enlisted in the Union navy, only to desert a year after the war ended.
Item #13446, $16,000
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In Lincoln’s Name, General Halleck Puts a Troublesome General in His Place
HENRY W. HALLECK. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Autograph Letter with Lincoln’s Secretarial Signature. Washington, D.C., June 16, 1863. 1 p., 8 x 10 in., on War Department letterhead cancelled.
Item #23055, $7,500
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General Meade’s Controversial Gettysburg Victory Message
GEORGE MEADE,
Broadside, General Orders 68. “Head Quarters Army of the Potomac,” [Gettysburg, Pa.], printed on the field, July 4, 1863. 1 p., 7 x 6 in.
One of a handful of surviving battlefield-issued copies of the Gettysburg victory message that infuriated Lincoln.
Item #22363, $27,500
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Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase Insists on Proper Funding for Soldiers
SALMON PORTLAND CHASE,
Autograph [draft] Letter Signed “S.P. Chase” as Secretary of the Treasury, to Sen. William P. Fessenden, no date [ca. January 1864], 7¾ x 9¾ in., 6 pp.
Important letter to the chair of the Senate Finance Committee on how to pay for new conscripts and volunteers following Lincoln’s call for an additional 300,000 troops. Chase’s final version went to Fessenden on 11 January 1864. Fessenden’s “infernal tax bill” was introduced in May. After more than 300 amendments, it passed in June only one vote shy of unanimity.
Item #22307, $6,500
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On the Eve of His March to the Sea, General Sherman Expressed Regret Over a Fellow Officer’s Failed Promotion
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Colonel Isaac F. Shepard. Cincinnati, Ohio, October 29, 1864. 7¾ x 9¾ in. , On “Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi” letterhead, with top of page and last word of letterhead replaced.
Item #22737, $7,500
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General Grant Requests a Chief of Staff
ULYSSES S. GRANT,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Edwin Stanton. City Point, Va., March 3, 1864. 1 p., 7¾ x 10 in.
“I would respectfully recommend John A. Rawlins for the appointment of Brig. Gen. & Chief of Staff under the Bill which has just passed the two Houses of Congress. Will you please do me the favor to endorse this recommendation favorably?”
A day before Lincoln’s second inauguration, Grant requests that Secretary of War Stanton recommend that Lincoln appoint Rawlins his Chief of Staff. Unbeknownst to Grant, Lincoln had already appointed Rawlins “major-general by brevet … for faithful and meritorious service.” Nevertheless, on March 9th, Lincoln did as Grant wished.
Item #55079, PRICE ON REQUEST
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Frederick Douglass’s Tribute to John Brown
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Autograph Quotation Signed, July 6, 1881.
Others saw madness, but Douglass saw the clarity of a martyr’s vision.
Douglass pens a phrase from his “Lecture on John Brown,” delivered at Storer College in Harpers Ferry on Memorial Day, 1881. Among the platform guests was the district attorney who prosecuted Brown.
Item #20742, $20,000
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“Your Plan and Mine”: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1864
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Print. “Your Plan and Mine” New York, N.Y., Currier and Ives, 1864. 16¼ x 11½ in.
“Your unconditional submission to the Government and laws is all that I demand: and the great & magnanimous Nation that I represent have no desire for revenge upon you, but they will never allow you to again enslave those, who have been made free by your rebellion.”
Item #22626, $4,500
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Last Formal Photograph of Lincoln, with Son “Tad”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Albumen Photograph by Bouve, Boston, Mass., February 5, 1865, image 6 ¼ x 8 ½ in., mounted on original board, 8 x 10 in.
In this albumen print, Lincoln’s youngest son Thomas is erroneously called “Thaddeus,” because of nickname “Tad.” An unfinished Washington Monument rises in the background, perhaps referencing the funerary monument motif of a broken column as symbolic of a life cut short.
Item #22350, $3,750
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