July 12-14, 2022 Collectible Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/12/2022
Lot consists of 3 pieces of Civil War ephemera: (A) Muster out roll of 2nd Lt. Atwood Fitch, 16th Maine, to enable him to accept promotion to 1st Lieutenant. Fitch enlisted at age 19 and mustered into Co. K 16th Maine as a sergeant 8/14/62. He was promoted 2nd Lt. 12/1/63, and to 1st Lt. 11/9/64. The regiment was a hard fighting unit in the 1st and 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, losing 181 officers and men either killed or mortally wounded in battles such as Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Fitch was captured at the Weldon Railroad 8/19/64, but was exchanged and returned to the regiment to serve until muster out in June, 1865. Framed with modern copy images of Fitch and other offices of the unit. CONDITION: Good. Legible ink. Folds and stains evident. Not examined out of frame. (B) Framed envelope addressed to “Mrs. Fanny C. Chamberlain / Brunswick / M[aine]” with Washington, DC postmark, purportedly in the hand of her husband, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine. Framed with modern copy photos of both, Chamberlain in his uniform as Major General. Chamberlain was a highly regarded combat officer most famous now for his defense of Little Round Top in the fighting of July 2. Some Chamberlain material came out of the family several years ago, but anything related to him is hard to find. CONDITION: Excellent, nicely presented. Not examined out of frame. (C) “The Barbarism of Slavery,” Charles Sumner’s 1860 speech in support of the admission of Kansas as a free state printed with the response of Senator James Chestnut of South Carolina and a note by Josiah Quincy. Delivered June 1860 and republished by the Congressional Republican Committee. CONDITION: Good, folds, water stains, foxing spots.
Item Dimensions: 17" X 13"