LARGE LOT 19TH CENTURY EPHEMERA INCLUDING CIVIL WAR LETTER, DISCHARGE, NEWSPAPERS, DOCUMENTS, ETC.

Large miscellaneous lot including, Aug. 1845 issue American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter; 1897 issue “The Indian Helper” from Indian Industrial School, Carlisle; 1918 “Carlisle Arrow and Red Man;” Nov. 1847 issue AA Inquirer reporting death of Capt. Walker in Mexico; Feb 1863 letter from Eugene Bigelow, 51st Mass; 1863 draft notice; comic sheet music of Jeff Davis captured in a woman’s cloak, “Jeff’s Double Quick;” 1865 Civil War discharge of Gustavus Grethman 16th NY Cav; 1868 discharge for Grethman from Permanent Troop Carlisle Barracks; Grethman 1916 pension certificate; 3 1866 RR passes; 1865 purchase receipt for government horse; 1865 pay stoppage for transportation; 1864 cover letter from Capt. HA Crane 2nd FLA Cav. for quarterly return of deceased soldiers; June 1865 letter from Capetown on receipt of news of war’s end and Lincoln assassination; 1872 PA claim certificate for wartime damages to Sallie Breden; 1894 certificate of army discharge in 1865; 1888 Army and Navy Journal; 4 sheets letterhead “V.A.P. Armory Assoc./ holding organization for the United Spanish War Veterans at Manila;” 1898 4-pag descriptive letter from Camp Alger by C.H. Burg, Governor’s Troop, PA. Vol. Cavalry; 1886 Decoration Day poem “The Grand Army;” 1913 invitation from State of PA for Gettysburg commemoration; 1951 dated UCV award to a WWI vet with Confederate ancestor; 1887 PA GAR post thank you card in form of a CW tent; June 1916 resolution Washington Infantry of Pittsburg to raise a regiment; 5 post Civil War US navy documents 1867-71 re: USS Baltimore minstrel troupe, submitting condition of compasses, discharge of sailors not entitled to honorable discharge, theft of watch by sailor at Cadiz; 8 issues Philadelphia Keystone 1887-1888; 7 misc. Pa newspapers 1821, 1847, 1860, 1863, 1865, 1871. CONDITION: Overall very good with some expected small tears, etc.