[CIVIL WAR & PRESIDENTS]

A quality miscellany of Civil War-era and Presidential autographs. Includes: Andrew Johnson (President), signature on card dated 1873; Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's first VP), autograph letter signed dated 1885; David Dixon Porter (Admiral, U.S.N), signature on "U.S. Mississippi Squadron" card; Daniel Sickles (Major General), signed check dated 1885; David Dixon Porter (Admiral, U.S.N), signature on card as Rear Admiral; David G. Farragut (Admiral, U.S.N), clipped signature as Flag Officer; James Speed (Lincoln's friend and second term Attorney General), signature dated 1866; Simon Cameron (Secretary of War), signature on card; An extracted portion of an album with the war-date signatures of Hannibal Hamlin, Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles, William H. Seward, and Salmon P. Chase, most dated March 1864; Ulysses S. Grant (Major General/President), pencil signature "U.S. Grant" on a slip; Benjamin Butler (General), large signature; A.P. Banks (General), signature dated 1873; Owen Lovejoy, (U.S. Congressman, Underground Railroad Conductor), small clipped signature; John T. Sherman (U.S. Congressman, 35th. Secretary of State under McKinley, and Brother of General William T. Sherman), signature with "Ohio" added; John Hay (Lincoln's Private Secretary), signature on Department of State card; William H. Seward, autograph letter signed dated 1853; Grover Cleveland (President), typed letter signed dated 1892; William H. Taft (President), typed letter signed dated 1920, stapled to a 1908 pamphlet; Carl Schurz (Senator), clipped signature; and the pamphlet President Wilson's War Address to Congress and Proclamation with a spurious signature and the likely spurious signature of Theodore Roosevelt within volume II only of a Scribner's edition of African Game Trails; Together with some related items including A "Funeral Obsequies of General U.S. Grant at Albany, N.Y. Aug. 4 and 5, 1885" silk ribbon; a Civil War-era/Grand Army of The Republic General hat cord with photograph; and CDV potraits of Generals Ambrose Burnside, Philip Sheridan, and Joseph Hooker (the latter two with Anthony/Brady's stamps). Some wear commensurate with age and handling, the Wilson and Roosevelt signatures spurious as noted, an interesting and quality group of Civil War-era signatures and ephemera, sold as is.