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www.reddingauction.com To Be Held On-Site at the Gettysburg GAR HALL 52 East Middle St, Gettysburg, PA PH: 717-334-6941 NO RESERVE – NO BUYERS PREMIUM If You Are Interested in Selling Your Items in an Upcoming Auction, Email [email protected] or Call 717-334- 6941 to Speak to Someone Personally. We Are Consistently Bringing Higher Prices Realized Than Other Local Auction Services Due to Not Employing a Buyer’s Premium (Buyer’s Penalty). SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018 at 3:00 PM Doors Open at 1:00 PM PLEASE NOTE: -- THIS IS YOUR ITEMIZED LISTING FOR THIS PARTICULAR AUCTION PLEASE BRING IT WITH YOU WHEN ATTENDING (All Items listed below are from the collection of Public Historian and former Park Ranger, Chuck Teague) 1. Dowdey, War Time Papers of Robert E. Lee; Gallagher, Lee the Soldier; Pryor, Reading the Man; Connelly, The Marble Man; Fellman, The Making of Robert E Lee; plus 5 others. 2. Harrison, Pickett’s Men; Doubleday, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Younger, Inside the Confederate Government; Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War; Kerbey, The Boy Spy; plus 5 others. 3. Fishel, The Secret War for the Union; Eicher, The Longest Night; Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation; Swinton, Decisive Battle of the Civil War; Long, The Civil War Day by Day; plus 3 others. 4. G.K. Warren Map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg (framed) 5. Reproduction HQ dispatch case 6. Etching: Lincoln as a Young Man (framed) 7. Wagner, Generals in Blue; Tagg, The Generals of Gettysburg; Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag; Glatthaar, Forged in Battle; Coco, The Civil War Infantryman; Bonner, The Soldier’s Pen; plus 5 others. 8. 1858 Gettysburg Brick from the Lincoln Train Station 9. Reproduction Civil War bugle 10. Freeman, R.E. Lee (4 volumes). 11. Etching of Ulysses S. Grant (framed) 12. Spittoon from the Union Pacific Railroad 13. Dean, Shook Over Hell; Devine, Learning from the Wounded; Rutkow, Bleeding Blue and Gray; Kernek, Field Surgery at Gettysburg; Bollet, Civil War Medicine; plus 5 others. 14. Lincoln Arrives in Gettysburg, Wendy Allen, limited edition print 3/30 in Witness Tree frame 15. 1898 Gaylord Weeks map of Battlefield of Gettysburg (mounted on foamboard) 16. Weigley, History of the United States Army; Weigley, The American Way of War; Haggerman, The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare; Wills, Certain Trumpets; plus 2 others. 17. Ditterline map of the Field of Gettysburg (undated, mounted on foamboard) 18. Page from Harper’s Weekly, August 22, 1863, Views of the Gettysburg Battlefield (framed) 19. Fuller, Chaplain to the Confederacy; Brinsfield, Faith in the Fight; Messent, The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell; Murray, Legal Cases of the Civil War; plus 3 others. 20. Jed Hotchkiss Route Map of the Gettysburg Campaign, (double-page CXVI from Official Atlas, foam boarded and shrink-wrapped) 21. 12 large sector maps of the Gettysburg Battlefield drawn by Emor Cope (each foam-boarded) 22. Foote, Gettysburg to Draft Riots; Downey, The Guns at Gettysburg; Montgomery, The Shaping of a Battle: Gettysburg; Young, The Third Day at Gettysburg; Griffith, Battle in the Civil War; Hanly, The Battle of Gettysburg; Drake, The Battle of Gettysburg; plus 4 others. 23. The Stars and Stripes Forever poster (framed) 24. Ertl Collectibles painted lead figurines Robert E.Lee George Meade 25. Life and Letters of General George Gordon Meade (2 volumes); Bandy, The Gettysburg Papers (2 volumes); Hood, Advance and Retreat. 26. Original roof shingle (1863) from barn of John Rummel, East Cavalry Field. 27. Panorama reproductions of field watercolors by George Leo Frankenstein, showing field of Pickett’s Charge. 28. Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants; Dowdey, Lee; Gallagher, Lee and His Generals in War and Memory; Thomas, Robert E. Lee; McCaslin, Lee in the Shadow of Napoleon; Lee, Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee; plus 2 others. 29. Record Planting Plan for National Cemetery, Gettysburg National Military Park (1938, foam-boarded). 30. Photograph of locomotive of the train that President Lincoln rode from Hanover Junction to Gettysburg (framed). 31. Anderson, The Generals Grant and Lee; Hattaway and Jones, How the North Won; Beringer, Why the South Lost the Civil War; Hess, The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat; Regulations for the Army of the United States 1861; Confederate States Field Manual. 32. 1872 Gettysburg brick from Rostrum of the Soldiers National Cemetery. 33. Etching from Harper’s Weekly, November 24, 1866, showing Collecting the Remains of Union Soldiers for reinternment (shrink- wrapped). 34. Glatthar, General Lee’s Army; Fuller, Grant and Lee; Meade, With Meade at Gettysburg; Creasy, Decisive Battles of the World; Long, Gettysburg: How the Battle was Fought; Marshal, The Battle Gettysburg; Comte de Paris, The Battle of Gettysburg; plus 2 others. 35. Faded Stars and Bloodied Stripes, original painting by C. Teague (framed). 36. W.F. Goodhue map of the Battlefield of Gettysburg, showing the movements of the 12th Army Corps (foam boarded). 37. Battle and Leaders of the Civil War (8 volumes). 38. Antique chair (restored). 39. Battlefields of the Civil War, National Geographic map 1994 (foam-boarded). 40. Pennsylvanians at Gettysburg (2 volumes); Maine at Gettysburg; Ohio Memorials at Gettysburg; Bennett, Days of Uncertainty and Dread; Weeks, Gettysburg; Desjardin, These Honored Dead. 41. Battle Flags of the Civil War (miniatures, encased in plastic with histories of each) 9th Massachusetts Light Artillery 1st Maine Heavy Artillery 20thTexas Infantry 10th Tennessee Infantry 69th New York Infantry 10th Louisiana Infantry 20th New York Cavalry Confederate States Navy 26th North Carolina Infantry 42. Bachelder’s Maps, Gregg’s and Stuart’s Cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg, 5 maps (foam-boarded and shrink-wrapped). 43. Gettysburg Sources (volumes 2 & 3); Sparks, Inside Lincoln’s Army; Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart; Tower, Lee’s Adjutant Walter Taylor; Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy; Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate; plus 2 others. 44. History of the Union Army, History of the Confederate Army, American Civil War (two large charts, foam-boarded). 45. Gettysburg National Military Park Memorial Field Artillery Positions (2 large maps, laminated) with accompanying files in binder. 46. Union Discharge Certificate, July 28, 1863, Gettysburg, for Private Daniel Howdeshell (framed). 47. Stribling, Gettysburg Campaign; Foote, The Gettysburg Campaign; Storrick, Gettysburg: The Place, The Battle, The Results; Fremantle and Haskell, Two Views of Gettysburg; Borritt, The Gettysburg Nobody Knows; Davis, Three Days; plus 2 others. 48. Enlarged HGAC Gettysburg town map, showing structures at the time of battle, important sites, and modern street grid (laminated). 49. Satchel of several dozen historic Gettysburg maps, a number which are laminated (a bonanza for serious buffs). 50. Guelzo, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion; Palmer, Lee Moves North; Gambone, Lee at Gettysburg; Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run; Herdigen, In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg; Herdigen, Those Damned Black Hats!; Wynstra, The Rashness of That Hour. 51. Set of interpretative maps: Battle Positions Dawn July 3, North Gettysburg Plain July 1, Cavalry Brigades Morning of July 3 (foam- boarded). 52. Map showing the Scene of Longstreet’s Final Assault July 3 (1895- foam boarded and shrink-wrapped). 53. Hoke, The Great Invasion; Nye, Here Come the Rebels!; Kegel, North With Lee and Jackson; Bates, Gettysburg; Prelude to Gettysburg: Hanover. 54. Original paintings, “Old Goggle Eyes” and “Marse Robert,” acrylic on canvas panel by C. Teague. 55. Repro photographs of Webb, Custer, Barlow, Fitz Lee, & Warren (shrink-wrapped). 56. Pfanz, Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill & Cemetery Hill; Norton, The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top; Hessler, Sickles at Gettysburg; Montgomery, Gettysburg: The Shaping of a Battle; Raus, A Generation on the March: Gettysburg; plus 5 others. 57. 3 Maps of the Battlefield of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, & 3. Thomas Desjardin et. al. (foam boarded). 58. 14 old and antique glass bottles. 59. Bowden, Last for Chance for Victory; Palmer, Lee Moves North; Trudeau, Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage; Woodworth, Beneath the Northern Sky; Hassler, Crisis at the Crossroads; Robertson, The Stonewall Brigade; Albright, Gettysburg: Crisis of Command. 60. G.K. Warren Map of the Battle-Field of Gettysburg, PA. from the Official Atlas, Series 1, Vol. XXVII (foam boarded and shrink- wrapped). 61. Map of Pennsylvania with Counties, Colton & Co. (1855, foam boarded and shrink wrapped). 62. LaFantasie, Twilight at Little Round Top; Penny, Struggle for the Round Tops; Wilkinson, A Scythe of Fire; Lash, The Gibraltar Brigade; Shue, Morning at Willoughby Run; Gallagher, The Second Day at Gettysburg; Desjardin, Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine; Urban, Battlefield and Prison Pen. 63. 7 Union Infantry Soldiers, hand-painted metal miniatures by “Tradition” in England. 64. Miniature busts of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. 65. Tucker, Lee and Longstreet at Gettysburg; Coddington, The Gettysburg Campaign; Cole, Command and Communication Frictions in the Gettysburg Campaign; Sears, Gettysburg; Cox, Gettysburg: A History for the People; Scott, The Lost History of Gettysburg; Dowdey, Lee and His Men at Gettysburg. 66. Framed etching of Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard. 67. Framed etching of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick. 68. Luvaas, Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg; Grimsley, Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide; Brown, Fields of Glory; Isenberg, The Boys Fought Like Demons; Bloom, A History of Adams County; 25 laminated half-page maps of the 2nd day. 69. The Gettysburg Campaign map by E. B. Cope (2 large foam boarded panels). 70. The Battlefield of Gettysburg map by Desjardin et. al, showing terrain and homesteads. 71. Bordewich, Bound for Canaan; Horton, In Hope of Liberty; Ripley, Witness for Freedom; Miller, Arguing about Slavery; Blackburn, The American Crucible; Siebert, The Underground Railroad; Smedley, Underground Railroad; plus 5 others. 72. Wedgwood Plate showing Old Dorm, Gettysburg College. 73. Page from Harper’s Weekly depicting The Christian Commission on the Battlefield—May 1865 (clear covered).
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