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Offered is a nice CDV of General Milledge L. Bonham, Confederate general and 70th Governor of South Carolina. The image is nice. The carte has clipped corners and the backmark is E.&H.T. Anthony, New York. Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813 – August 27, 1890) was an American politician and Congressman who served as the 70th Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. He was a Confederate General during the American Civil War. Early life and career Milledge L. Bonham was born near Redbank (now Saluda), South Carolina, the son of Virginia native Capt. James Bonham and Sophie Smith Bonham, the niece of Capt. James Butler, who was the head of an illustrious South Carolina family. Milledge was a 1st cousin once removed to Andrew Pickens Butler. He attended private schools in the Edgefield District and at Abbeville. He graduated with honors from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1834. He served as Captain and adjutant general of the South Carolina Brigade in the Seminole War in Florida in 1836. That same year, his older brother James Butler Bonham perished at the Battle of the Alamo. Bonham studied law and was admitted to the bar, in 1837, and commenced practice in Edgefield. During the Mexican-American War, he was lieutenant colonel (from March 1847) and colonel (from August 1847) of the 12th US Infantry Regiment. Two other members of his regiment, Major Maxcy Gregg and Captain Abner Monroe Perrin, would also become generals in the Civil War. After he returned home, Bonham was the major general of the South Carolina Militia. Entering politics, he served in the state house of representatives from 1840–1843. He married Ann Patience Griffin on November 13, 1845. Bonham was solicitor of the southern circuit of South Carolina from 1848–1857. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth United States Congress (succeeding his cousin, Preston Smith Brooks) and the Thirty-sixth United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1857, until his retirement on December 21, 1860. Civil War In early 1861, the Southern states that had seceded from the Union appointed special commissioners to travel to those other slaveholding Southern states that had yet to secede. Bonham served as the Commissioner from South Carolina to the Mississippi Secession Convention, and helped to persuade its members that they should also secede from the Union. Bonham was appointed major general and commander of the Army of South Carolina by Gov. Francis W. Pickens in February 1861. He was appointed brigadier general in the Confederate Army on April 19, 1861, and commanded the First Brigade of the Confederate "Army of the Potomac" under P.G.T. Beauregard. He fought in the First Battle of Manassas, commanding his brigade as well as two artillery batteries and six companies of cavalry in the defense of Mitchell's Ford on Bull Run. He resigned his commission January 27, 1862, to enter the Confederate Congress. On December 17, 1862, the South Carolina General Assembly elected Bonham as governor by secret ballot. He served until December 1864. During his term, the General Assembly enacted a prohibition against distilling in 1863 and also that year, it demanded that more land be used to grow food instead of cotton to increase the supply of food in the state. Bonham rejoined the Confederate Army as brigadier general of cavalry in February 1865, and was actively engaged in recruiting when the war ended. Near Greenville, South Carolina a group of troops positioned there, because of worry of federal invasion from North Carolina, named their emplacement, Camp Bonham, in his honor. Dates of Rank
Postbellum activities Bonham owned an insurance business in Edgefield and in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1865 to 1878. Returning to politics, Bonham was again a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1865–1866 and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868. He was a member of the South Carolina taxpayers’ convention in 1871 and 1874. Retiring from public service, he resumed the practice of law in Edgefield and engaged in planting. He was appointed state railroad commissioner in 1878 and served until his death at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $165.00 USD
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A veteran of the Mexican War, General John Hunt Morgan led the Lexington Rifles and joined General Simon Buckner's command when the Civil War started. From this point until his death three years later his exploits made him one of the legendary figures of the Confederacy. He was promoted colonel of th 2nd Kentucky Cavalry in April 1862 and brigadier general in December, 1862. His series of raids into Tennessee, Kentucky, Indian, and Ohio brought him the thanks of the Confederate congress. On his most famous raid through Ohio in 1863, he was captured. He escaped and was placed in command of the Department of the Southwestern Virginia. He bivouacked in Greeneville, Tennessee on the night of September 3, 1864, while in route to attack Federal forces in Knoxville. He was surprised by Union Cavalry and killed.
The image is a bust up image and has some fadding. The backmark is E.& H.T. Anthony, New York.
Price: $265.00 USD (Sale Pending)
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General Simon Bolivar Buckner was a Kentucky native who graduated West point in 1844. He earned two brevet promitins during the war with Mexico and resigned from the U.S. Regular Army in 1855 to pursue his private interests. At the outbreak of the war he was the adjutant general of the state of Kentucky. He accepted a commision in the Confederate Army in September 1861. He was left by Generals Floyd and Pillow to consumate the surrender of Fort Donelson. He was exchanged and led a division in Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and fought at Perryville. He moved to Mobile, Alabama to fortify it against the Union navy. He directed a corps at the battle of Chickamauga. After that he was promoted to Lieutenant General and he moved to the Trans-Mississippi. He was Kirby Smith's chief of staff.
The image is slightly faded and is attached to the back of the carte. The back of the image has a line around the edges and has "Buckner" written in pencil. General Buckner is seated and he is holding his sword. Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $165.00 USD
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Atintype of a hard to find member of the Palmetto Sharpshooters and the 4th South Carolina Infnatry. The image is of Jonathan R. Cleveland. Cleveland served in COmpany L of the Palmetto Sharpshooters. Cleveland served in the 4th South Carolina Infantry until selected to serve in the Palmetto Sharpshooters. Cleveland is on the list of members of the Palmetto Shrpshooters present at the Appomattox surrender. The image has flaked on the upper right side but does not affect the soldier's image. The tintype is surrounded by a CDV size holded. Written on the back of the image in period pencil is "Jonathan R. Cleveland". Also written in pencil on the back of the image is information I have found about Cleveland.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $385.00 USD
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A nice image of a seated Confederate officer. The officer is wearing a shell jacket with two stripes on the collar. The backmark is "Lee Gallery 1869, 920 Main Street, Richmond, Va.". The image is clearly a post war image made from a ambrotype a few years after the war. A nice Confederate image!
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $265.00 USD
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A nice image of Robert E. Lee's second son William Henry Fitzhugh (Rooney) Lee. He was called Rooney to distinquish him from his first cousin, General Fitzhugh Lee. Upon the secession of Virginia, Rooney Lee immediately entered Confederate service as Colonel of the 9th Virginia Cavalry. With this regiment he followed Geneal J.E.B. Stuart through virtually all the campaigns of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Northern virginia. He was promoted brigadier general in September 1862. Lee was severly wounded at Brandy Station and while recuperating , was captured by the Federals and imprisioned. Not exchanged until March 1864, he was promoted major general in April 1864. He was the youngest major general in Confederate service. He played a very important part in the closing operations of the cavalry, and was second in command at Appomattox. There is no backmark on this image.
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
Major-General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was born at Arlington, Va., May 31, 1837. He was educated at Harvard college, where he was graduated in 1857. In the same year he was appointed second lieutenant of the Sixth infantry, United States army, and in this rank he served in the Utah campaign under Albert Sidney Johnston, and subsequently in California. Early in 1859 he resigned his commission and took charge of his farm, the historic White House, on the Pamunkey river. He was heartily in sympathy with the Confederate cause, and organized a cavalry company early in 1861, becoming one of the leading spirits in the formation of the gallant body of troopers which were subsequently distinguished in the history of the army of Northern Virginia, and contributed so effectively to its successes. In May he received the rank of captain, corps of cavalry, C. S. A., and in the same month was promoted major in the regular army. During the West Virginia campaign he acted as chief of cavalry for General Loring. In the winter of 1861-62 he was ordered to Fredericksburg, Va., and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth Virginia cavalry regiment, promotion to the colonelship following in March. With his regiment he was attached to the cavalry brigade of J. E. B. Stuart, and shared its operations during the retreat from Yorktown toward Richmond. In the famous raid around McClellan's army Stuart's men were led by the three colonels, Fitz Lee, W. H. F. Lee and W. T. Martin; the artillery under Breathed. His troopers defeated the enemy's cavalry at Hawes' Shop, June 13th, during this expedition. Upon the organization of the cavalry division in the following month, his regiment was assigned to the brigade of Fitzhugh Lee, and he participated in the operations of this command in the campaign of Second Manassas. After serving on the advanced line before Washington, during the advance into Maryland he was particularly distinguished in the rear-guard fighting after the action at Turner's pass. Squadron after squadron of his regiment bore the brunt of the attacks of the Federal advance until they were the last to enter Boonsboro. At this point Colonel Lee was unhorsed and run over in crossing a bridge; and severely bruised and at first unconscious, lay by the roadside for some time in full view of the passing enemy. He managed to escape and finally reached the army on the Antietam, where he was welcomed as one from the dead. Subsequently he commanded a detachment of Lee's brigade during the Chambersburg raid, and held the advance during the return movement in the rear of McClellan's army. His intrepid conduct and coolness in demanding the surrender of a largely superior force of the enemy which held White's ford on the Potomac, caused the withdrawal of this obstacle which might have been fatal to the safe return of Stuart's command to Virginia. At the reorganization in November he, having been promoted brigadier-general, was given command of the brigade of cavalry consisting of the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Fifteenth Virginia and Second North Carolina. During the operations preceding and following the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville he was frequently engaged, and during the combats with Pleasanton's cavalry before the Gettysburg campaign he fought at Fleetwood Hill and Brandy Station, where he engaged the enemy in a series of brilliant charges with his regiments, in one of the last of which he received a severe wound through the leg. General Stuart reported "the handsome and highly satisfactory manner" in which he handled his brigade, and the deplorable loss "for a short time only, it is hoped, of his valuable services. " But, in his helpless condition, he was taken prisoner by Federal raiders and carried to Fortress Monroe, where, and at Fort Lafayette, he was held until March, 1864. On his return to the army he was promoted major-general and assigned to the command of a division of the cavalry. He participated in the operations of the cavalry from the Rapidan to the James in 1864; was at Malvern hill when Grant crossed the river; opposed Wilson's raid against the Weldon railroad in June; commanded the cavalry at Globe Tavern, August; at Five Forks held the right of the Confederate line; and during the retreat to Appomattox, aided Gordon in repulsing repeated assaults. After the surrender he retired to his plantation, and resided there until his removal to Burke's Station in 1874. He was president for a time of the State agricultural society, served one term in the State senate, and sat in the Fiftieth, Fifty- first and Fifty-second Congresses as representative of the Eighth Virginia district. He died at Alexandria, October 15, 1891. Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $285.00 USD
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A nice image of a Confederate soldier after the war. He is wearing black cloth over his military buttons. While we all know this was fairly common, we don't find many photographs of this. The backmark is "Guay & Co., No. 75, Camp Street, New Orleans". The image is trimmed and rounded at the top of the carte to fit in a photograph book.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $250.00 USD
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As the Colonel of the 21st Mississippi Infantry, Humphrieys led his regiment in most of the early battles the Army of Northern Virginia participated in. At Gettysburg, he found himself leading Barksdale brigade after Barksdale was killed. He was promoted to Brigadier General on August 12, 1863. His brigade fought under General Longstreet in Georgia and Tennessee and was under General Early in the Shenandoah Valley campaign in 1864. He was wounded at Berryville in Sept. 1864. Humphreys was the first elected Governor of Mississippi after the war. He was inaugurated on October 16, 1865, after receiving a pardon from President Andrew Johnson. He was ejected from office in 1868 after the President's reconstruction plan collapsedunder fire from the Radicals in Congress.
General Humphreys is in civilian attire. There is no backmark on the image but "Jno. J. Hood - Meridian Miss" is written in period ink on the back of the image. John J. Hood was the owner of the photographic album this image came out of. John J. Hood was a Major in the 13th Mississippi Infantry.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $850.00 USD
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A nice photograph of Vendue Range Street in Civil War Charleston, South Carolina. A man and a child stand in the street. The backmark was "Quinby & Co., Artists, Charleston, S.C." but someone scratched the Quinby out but you can still see it.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $450.00 USD
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A nice Civil War period CDV of the Orphan Asylum in Charleston, South Carolina. The backmark was "Quinby & Co., Artists, Charleston, S.C." but someone scratched the Quinby out but you can still see it.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $395.00 USD
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A nice CDV of W.M. Rothery, 18th Louisiana Infantry, Company B and the Crescent Regiment, Company C. The image is a post war image. Written on the back in pencil is "Crescent Regt La Vols - Shiloh April / 62 - W.M. Rothery". Rothery is listed in Civil War Data and in Booth's "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Commands". A nice post war image of a hard to find western unit!
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $165.00 USD
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A hard to find CDV of a Confederate soldier. A defiant look is on the face of this rebel! The image is somewhat faint. There is no backmark on the image.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $235.00 USD
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A wonderful albumen of a naval gun in a fort surrounding Norfolk, Virginia. This photo was taken by a Southern photographer. The backmark says "Photographed by Kimberly Bros., Norfolk, Va.". It is very hard to find large photographs taken by Southern photographers. The card is approximately 10 inches by 8 inches. The actual photgraph is approximately 7 3/8 inches by 5 3/16 inches.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $350.00 USD
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A nice CDV of General Thomas H. Taylor. One of the Confederacy's Western generals. He fought in Kentucky, Vicksburg, Louisiana, and Mobile. The back mark is "Fisher & Denison, Publishers and Stationers, No. 64 Baltimore St. Baltimore". On the front of the CDV is written in period ink " Gen. Dick Taylor". This is misidentified. This photo is clearly of Thomas Taylor not Dick Taylor. It is hard to find Maryland back marks on Confederate general CDVs.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $165.00 USD
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A great CDV of Libbey Prison with military tents outside and civilians with a horse. This photo was taken in 1863 and is one of the few Confederate outdoor photogrphic shots. The CDV has a Chas. H. Schwamb, Annapolis, Md. backmark. On the back is written in ink "Libby Prison - Richmond - For Johney - Keep it clean". A really great CDV with a Maryland backmark.
Shipping Weight: 1 lb Price: $450.00 USD
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