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Confederate States of America

Lots 2336-2345 Lots 2346-2355 Lot 2356

Lot 2346    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "E.D. Tracy, Lieut. Col. 19th Reg. Ala.", soldier endorsement on orange cover with "Mobile, Ala. Dec 10, 1861" double-circle datestamp and matching "5" in circle rating handstamp to Huntsville Ala., additional blue "Due/5" handstamp; reduced at left and edge wear, Very Fine and scarce signature.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Edward D. Tracy (1833-1863) entered service at the start of the Civil War as a Captain in the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment. The regiment fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. On October 12, 1861, Tracy was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment and was transferred to the Western Theater. He had a horse killed under him at the Battle of Shiloh. He was commissioned as a brigadier general on August 16, 1862. Tracy was killed at the Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi on May 1, 1863.

Realized: $1,100

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Lot 2347    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Edward Stuart, Maj Gen JEB Stuart's Signal Corps", manuscript endorsement on cover with greenish blue "Lynchburg Va., Mar 3" cds and matching "DUE 10" rating handstamp (CSA I) to Col. Oscar C. E. Stuart, Loundes Co. Ala., Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $300

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Lot 2348    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Fort Ripley, Lt. W. W. Gimball, 1 S.C. Arty", endorsement on blue cover with "Charleston S.C., Sep 14, 186" to Spartanburg S.c., origin letter datelined "Fort Ripley, Sept. 13. 1863" to his mother with some excellent content, "…Everything is still and looks as if we were enjoying peace, but about two miles from us, you see our old Battery at Cumming's Point being rapidly transformed into a powerful work with heavy guns already mounted there, and on the upper end of Morris lsland, an immense number of tents covering the sandhills. Still one likes to catch each moment of quiet and revel in it without brooding on what is to happen. I am now stationed at Fort Ripley, a little fort in the harbor which mounts two guns. The place is so small that the garrison are compelled to be provided for outside, so they tied to the fort one of our old gunboats built in the early part of the war for quarters for the men. You may imagine there is not much exercise, and we are living on a ship, two rather unpleasant items. When I left Sumter, I hoped to be stationed at some sand battery, but my good or evil luck placed me here, and not having the desirable apathy to accept what is for fate, I have made a good many endeavors to be relieved but thus far without success. Would that I could root out all feeling, for as I am a mere machine and obliged to obey orders, I would prefer its wooden nature. My company has been very much exposed and cut up in action and should therefore, I think, be allowed some nice battery to recruit at. Other companies of the Regiment have endured very little and yet enjoy nice positions in Charleston & elsewhere. These however are some of the injustices of military life. The big gun on which so much reliance was placed has burst at the first discharge, the Yankee prisoners say. It was offered to the U. S. Government and refused on the inspection of their Ordnance officer who reported it to be a humbug. lt was then sold to us who seem to take anything wildly on mere probabilities. Things look very blue for us now, but a just God will not allow us to be subdued and trampled upon by our enemies, we who ask but to govern ourselves…"; docketing from his mother on face of cover, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $260

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Lot 2349    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "James Conner, Major, Hampton Legion", manuscript endorsement on yellow cover with "Tudor Hall, Va. Aug 31, 1861" cds with manuscript "5" rating to Charleston S.C.; right edge stain, F.-V.F.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

James Conner (1829-1883) was a Confederate States Army during the American Civil War rising to the rank brigadier-general in 1864. He participated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter as Captain of the Montgomery Guards, a S.C. militia unit. He became a captain in the Hampton Legion and fought at the Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas), taking temporary command of the legion after Colonel Wade Hampton was wounded. On July 21, 1861, Conner was appointed major of Hampton's Legion. He resigned his command on August 13, 1863, and became a member of the military court of the 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Returning to field command in 1864, Conner was promoted to brigadier-general on June 1, 1864. Conner was severely wounded during a skirmish at Cedar Creek (Fisher's Hill) and he lost a leg to amputation, effectively ending his field service.

He was a lawyer in South Carolina both before and after the war and was elected Attorney General of South Carolina in 1876.

Realized: $170

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Lot 2350    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Maj. A. M. Davis, 45th Regt., 2nd Brigade, Army of South West Virginia at Dublin Va, address on cover bearing 5¢ blue, stone 2 (4) horizontal pair, large margins to barely touched at right, tied by blue "Emory Va. May 16" cds; no backflap, pair has tiny crease and light gum soaks, Very Fine, ex-Knapp.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Alexander Mathers Davis enlisted on May 29th 1861 at Wytheville Va. as Captain and commissioned into Company C of the Virginia 45th Infantry. He was listed as a POW Jun. 5th 1864 at Piedmont Va., confined Jun. 7th 1864 at Johnson's Island Oh. and taking oath of allegiance on Jul. 25th 1865.

Realized: $250

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Lot 2351    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) Major E.G. Lee, Care Col. A.C. Cummings, 33d Regt. Va. Vol., Mannassas Junction, Va., address on cover with blue "Lexington Va. Aug 31" cds and matching "Paid" and "10" rating handstamps; some wear; reduced slightly at left, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

The 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in the Commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed "Stonewall Brigade," named for General Stonewall Jackson.

Realized: $400

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Lot 2352    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Private Wm Jas Faires, Co. I, 12 Reg Ala Volunteers, Rhode's Brigade, Virginia", sender's endorsement on cover with "Tudor Hall Va., Jan 5, 1862" cds and matching "Due 10" and additional "10" rating handstamp to Mobile Ala.; light soiling, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Robert Emmett Rodes (1829-1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the first of Robert E. Lee's divisional commanders not trained at West Point. His division led Stonewall Jackson's devastating surprise attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Jackson, on his deathbed, promoted Rodes to major general. Rodes then served in the corps of Richard S. Ewell at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the Overland Campaign, before that corps was sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early, where Rodes was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester.

Realized: $160

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Lot 2353    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "Signal Corps, Bathing House, Charleston S.C.", address on cover bearing 5¢ light blue (6) pair, four margins with preprint paper fold at left, slight gum toning at top, tied by "Charleston S.C., Jan 12, 186" cds to William J. Barker, cover turned to Mulberry; some wear; accompanied by stereo card showing the bathing house, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $210

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Lot 2354    

Confederacy, (Military Addresses) "William C.Wickham, Lt. Col. 4th Va. Cavalry", signed endorsement by future CSA General on buff cover with "Tudor Hall, Va. Mar 1, 1862" cds and matching "Due 5" rating handstamp to Hanover C.H., Va.; stain at top and edge wear, Fine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Following the secession of Virginia, Wickham took his company, the Hanover Dragoons, into the service of the Confederate States Army. After participating in the First Battle of Manassas, Wickham was commissioned by Governor John Letcher as lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry in September 1861. On May 4, 1862, he incurred a severe saber wound during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Williamsburg. In this state of injury, he was captured, but quickly paroled. In August 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry. At the Battle of Sharpsburg, he was wounded again, this time in the neck by a shell fragment. Recovering, he participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Brandy Station and Gettysburg.

Wickham was commissioned brigadier general on September 9, 1863, and put in command of Wickham's brigade of Fitzhugh Lee's division. On May 11, 1864, he fought at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was mortally wounded during this engagement, with his final order being: "Order Wickham to dismount his brigade and attack." In September 1864, after the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, Wickham blocked at Milford an attempt by Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan to encircle and destroy the Confederate forces of Maj. Gen. Jubal Early. He then attacked the Federal cavalry at Waynesboro and forced them to retreat to Bridgewater. Wickham resigned his commission on October 5, 1864, and took his seat in the Second Confederate Congress, to which he had been elected while in the field. Recognizing that the days of the Confederacy were over, he participated in the Hampton Roads Conference in an attempt to bring an early end to the war.

Realized: $220

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Lot 2355    

Confederacy, (Naval) C.S. Steamer Stono, orange buff cover bearing 5¢ blue (7) pair, large margins, tied by "Richmond Va., Apr, 1862" cds addressed to "Asst. Surgeon C. H. Morfit, C.S. Steamer Stono, C.S.N., Charleston S.C.", docketed "Recd Apl 21st 1863, E. Am" on reverse, Very Fine and rare Confederate naval cover.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

The Steamer "Stono", formerly the USS "Isaac Smith" was part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Fall of 1862. She was then assigned to operate in the Stono River, South Carolina. While making a reconnaissance in that river on 30 January 1863, she was caught by enemy shore batteries lead by Pierre G.T. Beauregard and badly battered. With eight of her crew killed and many more wounded, USS Isaac Smith was forced to surrender. Taken into Confederate Navy service under the name Stono, she was wrecked near Fort Moultrie, S.C., while attempting to run the blockade of Charleston on 5 June 1863.

Realized: $700

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