[CIVIL WAR]
Collection of ten autographs of Civil War Union Generals and one U. S. Senator, each signed on a card, the largest 2 1/4 x 4 inches, housed in two frames. Includes Joseph Hooker, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Butler, John Sherman (Ohio Senator), Philip Sheridan, William Rosecrans, Nathaniel Banks, David Dixon Porter, George McClellan, Winfield Scott Hancock and Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. The Burnside with a few stains, other ink smudges, overall very good, unexamined out of frames; Together with an autograph document General Orders No. 8. Fort Monroe, VA: 31 August 1861. One page document in pencil signed secretarially on behalf of General Wool, the orders celebrating the actions of the Army and Navy in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet. 9 1/2 x 7 inches; framed. Unexamined out of frame but with a few short splits to folds; An 1864 manuscript document relating to the The Chicago Platform. Washington: 13 September 1864. Signed in an unknown hand, regarding the plan to build a new jail, framed; A manuscript quotation by Benjamin Perley Moore, dated 1885, 3 x 5 inches, framed with a portrait. Good condition overall; And a framed portrait of General Philip Kearny.