Witness to War by J. Mark Powell, Stackpole Books, 2026
Witness to War allows you to experience the American Civil War firsthand through the witnesses who were there. Union and Confederate, battlefront and home front, soldiers and civilians (men, women, and even a few children) – 432 witnesses in all
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1673 Robert Houghton to John Morris at Sir Robert Clayton's [English-Colonial Banking & Bishop Mark History]
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1773 Henry Guest ALS to Merchants Samuel & William Vernon, NJ to RI, West Indies, Jamaica Trade
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1773-1774 Dirk Vanderheyden to Evert Bancker, London-New York City, Transatlantic Stampless Ship Letter,
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1775 Oliver Ellsworth DS, Revolutionary War Pay Cmte signed Nov 1 (George Washington-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice in 1796)
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1778 William Ellery, Declaration of Independence Signer, Wartime Autograph, Continental Congress Congressional Free Frank to 1st Governor Rhode Island Nicholas Cooke
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1785 Thomas Russell, Boston signed letter to Nicholas Low, Merchant, NYC, Bank of North America, Straightline & Franklin Mark Cancels
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1791 US Congress, Egbert Benson of New York, Stampless Signed & Free Franked Cover, with Franklin Mark, to Samuel Jones, NY
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1801 Hodijah Baylies (Aide-de-Camp to Generals George Washington & Benjamin Lincoln) Signed, American Citizenship Samuel Gilbert Hathaway Document
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Founding & Expansion 1783-1829
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1778 William Ellery, Declaration of Independence Signer, Wartime Autograph, Continental Congress Congressional Free Frank to 1st Governor Rhode Island Nicholas Cooke
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1784 Richard Varick autograph document, Aide de Camp & private secretary to George Washington, New York City Mayor, NY Attorney General
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1790 1st NC US Senator Samuel Johnston signed letter to James Iredell re Supreme Court opening, nominated by Washington 6 days later
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1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke, 3rd edition, 5th impression, 1st year printed
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1791 US Congress, Egbert Benson of New York, Stampless Signed & Free Franked Cover, with Franklin Mark, to Samuel Jones, NY
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1792 Anti-Federalist Rhode Island Governor Arthur Fenner signed letter to US Attorney William Channing
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1792 [Thayer to Benson] Continental Bank (Bank of the United States) disappointment, Barings Bank, Columbia SC to New York City ship letter
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1793 Robert Gilmor & Co to Nicholas Low, Baltimore Straightline stampless cover & autograph letter
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American Banking, Financial & Industrial History
American Banking, Financial and Industrial letters, books and documents
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1673 Robert Houghton to John Morris at Sir Robert Clayton's [English-Colonial Banking & Bishop Mark History]
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1773 Henry Guest ALS to Merchants Samuel & William Vernon, NJ to RI, West Indies, Jamaica Trade
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1785 Thomas Russell, Boston signed letter to Nicholas Low, Merchant, NYC, Bank of North America, Straightline & Franklin Mark Cancels
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1792 [Thayer to Benson] Continental Bank (Bank of the United States) disappointment, Barings Bank, Columbia SC to New York City ship letter
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1793 Robert Gilmor & Co to Nicholas Low, Baltimore Straightline stampless cover & autograph letter
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1795 Thomas Russell autograph letter to Nicholas Low, United States Banking and Financial Founders
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1796 Baltimore Straight Line Stampless cover to Thomas & Jonathan Hancock, Merchants, Boston Postal history 25 rate
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1801 Joseph Winthrop Charleston South Carolina signed letter SHIP CDS to Thomas Cutts, Merchant, Pepperellborough, Massachusetts ALS
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1830 Attorney General John MacPherson Berrien ALS to General John Coffee (Andrew Jackson)
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1830-1840 Women's Shoe Manufacturing Stampless Letters & Checks Archive, Amos Mower Shoe Factory, Lynn, MA
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1832 R. Cruikshank stampless Georgetown Red CDS cover-Philadelphia Booksellers William McCarty & Francis Davis
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1839 ca. Asst Postmaster General Robert Johnston free frank to Collegian Editor Richard B. Gooch, University of Virginia Charlottesville
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1839 ca. US Treasury Secretary John Campbell, autograph free frank to Richard Barnes Gooch, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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1840 Benjamin Tappan, Ohio US Senator ALS Washington DC free frank and letter signed with 1840 Elections content
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1840 US Currency Printer's Ink Mfr Titus Eddy ALS from Litchfield, Hartford, CT on William Henry Harrison engraved letterhead
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1844 Doolitle & Munson Engravers, Engraved ALS to Titus Eddy, (US Currency) Printer's Black Mfr, Cincinnati Post Office
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1880 Republican Party Manual, Campaign for James Garfield & Chester Arthur, Eugene Virgil Smalley, First Edtion
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1884 Why I am a Republican, George Sewall Boutwell, W.J. Work & Co, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1st Edition
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1903 William S. Robinson signed letter to Florence Nightingale Levy, as Secretary, American Watercolor Society
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1908 Horace Dutton Taft, autograph Taft School TLS brother's nomination (27th President William Howard Taft)
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1943 WWII FDR Four Freedoms Cachet, Freedom of Speech and Religion, From Want and Fear, FDC Block of 4 Scott 908
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Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Oil Painting by George Peter Alexander Healy, 11x13.5 Canvas Art Print Reproduction
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Colonel Marinus Willet, Revolutionary War, Ralph Earl oil painting ca. 1791, 17x10 Canvas Art Print Reproduction
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Confederates in Camp, Third Kentucky Infantry, CSA, 1862, Conrad Wise Chapman, 8x10 Canvas Art Print Reproduction
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General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull 1792, 11x16 Canvas Print Art Reproduction
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George & Martha Washington Family, Oil Painting by Edward Savage 1796, 8.5x11 Canvas Art Print Reproduction
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George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, Charles Willson Peale painting, 17x10.5 Canvas Art Print Reproduction
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