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ASSEMBLED TO BE SOLD IN 1864 AT NY METROPOLITAN
FAIR TO BENEFIT WOUNDED SOLDIERS
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(CIVIL WAR—ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 150 items Signed, or
Signed and Inscribed, by prominent mostly Civil War-period politicians, generals, writers,
artists, and others, including Autograph Letters, Autograph Quotations, Autograph Notes, and
drawings. The letters and notes, mostly to the first wife of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele,
dated 1861-64. Also included are two small fragments from the confederate flag which flew
over Fort Pulaski and which was torn down in April, 1862, by Union soldiers under the com-
mand of General E.L. Viele; each mounted to album page. Assembled by Mrs. Viele in order
that it might be sold at the New York Metropolitan Fair to benefit the U.S. Sanitary
Commission. Most mounted one to a page on recto and verso, most with calligraphic identifi-
cation and painted decorative border. With calligraphic title-page. 4to, disbound with original
morocco boards present.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, mostly 1864
[80,000/120,000]