RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, Featuring Revolutionary and Civil War, 721, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025
Page Size: 690 items in 28 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276 Philip Schuyler

Philip Schuyler Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to George Washington (1779): "I sincerely wish Spain may have acceded to our Independence"

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,545.00
277 John Carlile

George Washington: John Carlile Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed from Washington's Headquarters, Announcing Congress's Order to Disband the Continental Army

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
278 George Washington

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Manuscript Letter, Discharging Troops Due to Lack of Provisions (1780)

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,869.00
279 John W. Wilbur

Civil War: John W. Wilbur Diary and Letter Collection with Vicksburg Battlefield Relic and Allen & Wheelock 'PepperboxaEU Revolver - "Vicksburg is ours"

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
280 Varina Davis

Varina Davis Autograph Letter Signed on Behalf of Jefferson Davis, Correcting the Record on His Relationship with Robert E. Lee: "He was an honest man, a fearless man, and was my friend"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
281

Gettysburg: Soldier's Handwritten Account of John Burns - "An old man that lived at Gettysburg aged 67 1/2 years old took his gun and stood in ranks and helped us fight"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,971.00
282 Thomas J. 'Stonewall'

Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson Signature

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
283 Isaac J. Wistar:

Isaac J. Wistar: Flattened Confederate Bullet That Grazed His Head at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff with Handwritten Attestation (May 16, 1864)

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,470.00
284 Algernon Smith

7th Cavalry: Algernon Smith Autograph Letter Signed to Gen. George Custer, Sending a Pistol, Ammunition, and Advice on Horses

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,361.00
285 Chester Nimitz

Chester Nimitz Signed Photograph of Japanese Surrender - Presented to a Prestigious Rear Admiral

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 596.00
286 George S. Patton

George S. Patton World War I-Dated Autograph Letter Signed: "We can hardly realize there is a war except that now and then one sees a man with a leg or so missing"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
287 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Autograph Letter Signed from West Point on His Future Wife

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
288 Napoleon

Napoleon Scarce Autograph Letter Signed, Referring to the Reign of Terror: "People no longer remember the Terror except as a nightmare that briefly suffocated them"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 24,956.00
305

13 Star American Flag Small Boat Ensign, 19th Century

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,511.00
321 Lord Jeffrey Amherst

Lord Jeffrey Amherst Revolutionary WaraEU"Dated Document Signed, Issuing Arms to the First Hessian Troops Sent to America (1776)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
323 Benedict Arnold:

Benedict Arnold: The Connecticut Courant, and the Weekly Intelligencer (October 3, 1780) - "A most horrid plot was discovered, the Infamous Gen. Arnold at the head of it"

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
324 [Benedict Arnold III]

[Benedict Arnold III] Grand Jury Indictment for Public Drunkenness (1760)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,880.00
325 Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
326 Captured Hessian

Captured Hessian Muster Roll (1778)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
327 Guy Carleton

Guy Carleton Letter Signed (1775), Two Days Before the Outbreak of Hostilities at Lexington and Concord

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,004.00
328

Civil War: Battle of Young's Branch; or, Manassas Plain by T. B. Warder and James Catlett, with Fold-Out Maps of the Battle of Bull Run

Richmond, VA 1862 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
329

Civil War: The New-York Times from March 6, 1865, with Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 309.00
330

Civil War: The Worcester Daily Spy from March 6, 1865, with Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: "With malice toward no one, with charity for all"

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
331

Civil War: The Second Rhode Island Regiment: A Narrative of Military Operations by Augustus Woodbury

Providence 1875 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
336

Civil War: United States Sanitary Commission Report: "Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities"

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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