General W. T. Sherman’s personal collection heads to market at Fleischer’s May 14

Gen. W. T. Sherman's battle-used sword and trunk, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at Fleischer's.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — For more than 150 years, the descendants of General William Tecumseh Sherman — Union Army hero and scourge of the Confederate States of America — have preserved and protected his personal effects and collection. But the time has come for these family heirlooms to move to new homes. Fleischer’s Auctions will bring nearly 250 lots to market Tuesday, May 14 as part of its Civil War & African American History: Sherman sale. A second day has been added as well, for Wednesday, May 15. The catalog is now available for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

The Sherman family collection has many important and historic items, but two lots are incredible standouts. The first is Sherman’s personal first-edition copy of photographer George N. Barnard’s monumental work documenting Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, the famous ‘March to the Sea,’ and Carolinas Campaign. Published in 1866 and primarily held by institutions, intact copies of Barnard’s work are exceedingly rare. Signed on the front end free paper by General Sherman’s son and custodian of his library, Philemon T. Sherman, this copy is offered at $60,000-$80,000.

The second star lot is General William T. Sherman’s wartime saber and military trunk. Offered directly by General Sherman’s descendants through his daughter, Maria ‘Minnie’ Ewing Sherman Fitch (1851-1913), both the sword and chest were preserved by generations of the Fitch-Sherman family until now. General Sherman’s wartime saber is a seldom-seen variant of a standard cavalry officer model produced by Christopher Roby of West Chelmsford, Massachusetts. This ‘special order’ saber features a 30.5in blade and would have been an ideal weapon. Sherman himself stated he did not wear a sword after he succeeded General Grant in command of the Western Theater of the war in early 1864, dating it to the period of Sherman’s service when he saw action in numerous engagements such as the Battle of Shiloh, in which he was wounded twice and had three horses shot dead underneath him. The sword carries an estimate of $40,000-$60,000.

In 1865, likely after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Sherman had his lieutenant general rank-insignia shoulder straps conveyed to a dark-velvet presentation mount and fitted with an engraved plaque reading W. T. Sherman / 1865 / Minnie Sherman Fitch. Later, his major general straps were added, possibly around 1872. This spectacular relic is estimated at $15,000-$30,000.

A final highlight is Sherman’s first edition copy of the Memoirs of U. S. Grant, in which he made numerous corroborating annotations as he read his friend’s accounts. On the last page of Volume I, Sherman wrote Read at St. Louis Mo. Dec 5 + 6, 1885. / This account of the Civil War is wonderfully accurate and him. W.T.S. The two-volume set with notes is estimated at $7,500-$15,000.

Day 2’s top lot is a remarkably well-documented First National Confederate flag captured in Nashville, Tennessee by Captain Charles Gibbs of the 69th Ohio Infantry. An August 13,1862 article in The Nashville Daily Union describes this flag’s capture: “On last Monday Captain Gibbs of the Sixty-ninth Ohio, on information given them searched the grocery of Mr. Buddeke on Market Sreet, and found a large and elegant rebel flag, which formerly belonged to one of the rebel companies of this place, concealed in the upper story of the building.” The flag is estimated at $15,000-$30,000.

General W. T. Sherman's copy of Barnard's 'Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign,' estimated at $60,000-$80,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's copy of Barnard's 'Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign,' estimated at $60,000-$80,000 at Fleischer's.

Gen. W. T. Sherman's battle-used sword and trunk, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at Fleischer's.

Gen. W. T. Sherman's battle-used sword and trunk, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's rank insignia, estimated at $15,000-$30,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's rank insignia, estimated at $15,000-$30,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's annotated copy of 'Memoirs of U. S. Grant,' estimated at $7,500-$15,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's annotated copy of 'Memoirs of U. S. Grant,' estimated at $7,500-$15,000 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's personal copy of a map detailing his campaigns, printed in 1865 after the close of the war, estimated at $750-$1,500 at Fleischer's.

General W. T. Sherman's personal copy of a map detailing his campaigns, printed in 1865 after the close of the war, estimated at $750-$1,500 at Fleischer's.

Captured First National flag, estimated at $15,000-$30,000 at Fleischer's.

Captured First National flag, estimated at $15,000-$30,000 at Fleischer's.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

Herb Peck collection of Civil War ambrotypes, lost to thieves in 1978, returned to the family and sold at Fleischer’s

Circa-1862 ambrotype of Calvin and James Walker of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry (Cook’s Tennessee Brigade), which sold for $19,500 ($23,985 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Herb Peck (1936-2004) was a passionate collector of firearms and Civil War daguerrotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, keeping his collection all around the Nashville home he shared with his wife Felicity and son Tim. Against his better judgment, Herb brought a known-to-be-shady fellow collector over to view his collection. Shortly thereafter, his home was burglarized in a targeted strike on his gun and daguerrotype collection.

As recounted in a masterful article in Military Images Magazine, the theft left Herb shattered. Felicity recounted, “It broke his soul.” Herb spent the remaining years of his life trying to recover the images, many of which are world-famous and have been featured in books and in Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary. But the trail went cold, and Herb succumbed to a heart attack in 2004.

Amazingly, a single image of Herb’s appeared on eBay in 2006. By now internationally sought by collectors, thanks to Herb’s continual searches and promotion using photocopy flyers, the FBI recovered it. Then, more of Herb’s collection began to appear on eBay, and again, they were all recovered. In the end, 40 of the stolen images have been reunited with the family, who decided to liquidate the collection at Fleischer’s Auctions on March 16. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

The top sellers blew well past their conservative estimates, as seen below:

A circa-1862 ambrotype of a Confederate soldier holding a Colt M1855 revolving rifle, which is something virtually unseen in CSA portraiture. His unusual headgear also drove interest in the lot, which hammered for $26,500 ($32,595 with buyer’s premium).

A circa-1862 ambrotype of Calvin and James Walker of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry (Cook’s Tennessee Brigade). Its remarkable clarity is one reason the image has been reproduced in countless publications despite it having been stolen. It made $19,500 ($23,985 with buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $1,250-$1,750.

An undated ambrotype which, according to Fleischer, is considered one of the premier images in the Herb Peck collection: a school-aged Confederate wielding an enormous Bowie knife as a symbol of Southern defiance. It sold for $16,000 ($19,680 with buyer’s premium), blowing out the $2,250-$2,750 estimate.

Generally considered to be the finest ambrotype portrait in Herb’s collection, this unidentified CSA soldier poses with two Colt Navy revolvers, a Bowie knife, and a model 1842 musket, sending a message loud and clear to any viewer. Some have claimed the subject to be Pvt. John Rulle of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry, who was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. Also reproduced endlessly, its popularity showed with bidders, where it hammered for $12,000 ($14,760 with buyer’s premium).

Circa-1862 ambrotype of a Confederate soldier holding a Colt M1855 revolving rifle, which sold for $26,500 ($32,595 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Circa-1862 ambrotype of a Confederate soldier holding a Colt M1855 revolving rifle, which sold for $26,500 ($32,595 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Circa-1862 ambrotype of Calvin and James Walker of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry (Cook’s Tennessee Brigade), which sold for $19,500 ($23,985 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Circa-1862 ambrotype of Calvin and James Walker of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry (Cook’s Tennessee Brigade), which sold for $19,500 ($23,985 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of school-aged Confederate wielding a Bowie knife, which sold for $16,000 ($19,680 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of school-aged Confederate wielding a Bowie knife, which sold for $16,000 ($19,680 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of a CSA soldier with two Colt Navy revolvers, a Bowie knife, and a model 1842 musket, which sold for $12,000 ($14,760 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of a CSA soldier with two Colt Navy revolvers, a Bowie knife, and a model 1842 musket, which sold for $12,000 ($14,760 with buyer’s premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of a Confederate soldier with two large pistols tucked into his belt, one a rarely seen M1858 Starr revolver, which sold for $9,250 ($11,377 with buyer's premium) at Fleischer's.

Ambrotype of a Confederate soldier with two large pistols tucked into his belt, one a rarely seen M1858 Starr revolver, which sold for $9,250 ($11,377 with buyer's premium) at Fleischer's.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

General Lee’s $33,000 button and a $49,000 butt-naked Union soldier star at Fleischer’s Civil War auction

A button from the uniform of Robert E. Lee sold for $27,000 at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus, Ohio on August 5.

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COLUMBUS, OH — A total of 189 bidders were “watching” it on LiveAuctioneers in the run-up to the sale. And at $33,210, one of them won it.

The headline lot at Fleischer’s Auctions’ Civil War & African American History sale on August 5 was a button from the uniform of General Robert E. Lee. Offered at auction for the very first time in its history, the convex brass Virginia staff frock coat button came with a cast-iron provenance.

In the weeks after Appomattox, Lee had returned to his Franklin Street townhouse in the Confederate capital in Richmond, spending time with his friend and Assistant Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, Judge William Crump (1819-1897). It was to Crump’s 16-year-old daughter Fanny Booth Crump (1849-1937) that he gave the button.

Writing in 1933, her elder sister Emmeline recalled the General’s regular visits to the family home with his own daughters. “We were very anxious to have one of the buttons from the uniform he had worn in the war, and he promised to bring them himself. He did so; one for my sister, my cousin and myself, putting them into my hand with a gallant little speech…”

Lee gifted a number of his uniform buttons in the immediate postwar period before he abruptly stopped after an order was issued requiring all Confederate buttons be covered or removed.

This button had been later mounted in gold as a brooch and engraved R.E. Lee to F. B. Crump, May 1865. Purportedly a lock of Lee’s hair was enclosed inside.  It came for sale for the first time in its history with an estimate of $25,000-$50,000.

Another small but profound relic from the earliest days of the Civil War era was a single .52 caliber Sharps cartridge connected with John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Housed in an old Pride of Virginia tobacco tin, it is accompanied by a note written in August 1889 by Benjamin H. Ticknor, a veteran of the 45th Massachusetts Infantry and 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, documenting its chain of ownership.

It reads: “This bullet was carried on the John Brown raid by Francis Jackson Merriam and was by him given to Dr David Thayer by whom he was secreted after his escape. Given by Dr. T to me today, August 31st, 1889, BHT.”

Francis J. Meriam (1837-65) was an ardent abolitionist who had penned a letter to Brown a year earlier asking to participate in a project he called “the whole present business of my life”.

On Brown’s orders, his role at Harpers Ferry on October 16-18, 1859, was to guard the Kennedy Farm where arms and ammunition for the promised revolt against the institution of slavery had been hidden. When the gambit failed, he fled first to Canada before shouldering a musket as a captain in the Union Army.

According to the consignor, the John Brown bullet had been sold with other relics collected by Ticknor at an estate sale of one of his descendants who lived near Cincinnati in 2006. It was guided at $2,500-$5,000 but sold for $9,000.

Also estimated at $2,500-$5,000, an extraordinary tintype photograph of a Union soldier sold at $49,000.

The subject of the day’s most animated bidding contest was a quarter plate-sized tintype image of a muscular gentleman standing butt-naked in front of a roughly painted camp scene backdrop. It was probably taken by a traveling photographer working in the field circa 1863.

The subject matter is possibly unique. Nudity in Civil War photography is typically accidental or produced in hospitals for medical study. In this shot the sitter, with arms nonchalantly folded across his chest, appears simply to be just showing off. Some 98 potential bidders had “watched” the plate on LiveAuctioneers with the underbidding coming via the platform.
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A button from the uniform of Robert E. Lee sold for $33,210 at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus, Ohio on August 5.
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A button from the uniform of Robert E. Lee sold for $33,210 at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus, Ohio on August 5.
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An apparently unique tintype of a naked Union soldier earned $49,000 at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus, Ohio on August 5.
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A bullet dubbed ‘The John Brown bullet’ brought $9,000 at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus, Ohio on August 5.
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American 19th C. and Civil War history on offer at Fleischer’s Auctions, Aug. 5

Half-plate daguerreotype of the Gould family, with William Gould pictured at the center with his hand resting on his father’s shoulder. Both it and the 1877 letter William Gould received from abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison is part of a lot regarding slavery, estimated at $7,500-$12,500
Half-plate daguerreotype of the Gould family, with William Gould pictured at the center with his hand resting on his father’s shoulder. Both it and the 1877 letter William Gould received from abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison is part of a lot regarding slavery, estimated at $7,500-$12,500

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Fleischer’s Auctions will host its Summer Premier Sale on Saturday, August 5. Boasting more than 400 lots, the auction offers a wide selection of material from the breadth of American history, particularly material from the abolition movement, the Civil War, African American history, Lincolniana and gems of historic photography. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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