Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) Group of Maryland militia supply letters from two weeks after the Baltimore Riot. 3 items, various sizes, minor to moderate wear. Baltimore and Frederick, MD, 2 May 1861
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Letter Signed by Edward G. Shriver as General of the Maryland Militia, to state armorer Valentine Albaugh, requesting 300 muskets for the Home Guard of Middletown Valley. Frederick, MD, 29 April 1861. With 4 forwarding messages and requests for approval tipped together or written on verso, one signed by Governor Thomas Hicks on 2 May, with the final message dated 3 June: "Please let the bearer have some extra ramrods and the balance of my quota of muskets." Tape repair at one fold.

Letter Signed from Governor Thomas Hicks to General Shriver, ordering him to "deliver to the order of Captain John Douty sixty stand of arms from the arsenal at Frederick," with an appended order from Shriver to the state armorer Albaugh, and Douty's receipt on verso, all dated Frederick, 2 May 1861.

Autograph Letter Signed from Captain Edward W. Palmer of the State Guard to Charles Howard, president of the Baltimore Board of Police. Reports that one of his officers at "the magazine at Green Mount Cemetery . . . has delivered by virtue of an order bearing your name . . . one keg of rifle powder." [Baltimore], 2 May 1861.

With--2 small albumen photographs of Governor Hicks, one unmounted and the other mounted on later paper.

And--a broadside proclamation by Governor Hicks, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, worn, appointing 13 June 1861 for the election of representatives to the United States Congress. Frederick, MD, 2 May 1861.

Provenance: collection of Arthur G. "Gil" Barrett.