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William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891), born Tecumseh Sherman, was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general". Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee. In 1864, Sherman succeeded Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed decisively to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent march through Georgia and the Carolinas further undermined the Confederacy's ability to continue fighting. He accepted the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in April 1865. After the Civil War, Sherman became Commanding General of the Army (1869–83). As such, he was responsible for the conduct of the Indian Wars in the western United States. He steadfastly refused to be drawn into politics and in 1875 published his Memoirs, one of the best-known firsthand accounts of the Civil War.

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Original General William Sherman Autograph, signed on Card Stock. Regular Price - $ 2500.00 / Sale Price - $ 1250.00.

Felix Graf von Luckner (or, Felix, Count Luckner)(born Dresden, Germany, 9 June 1881, died Malmö, Sweden, 13 April 1966) was a German nobleman, navy officer, author and noted sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea-Devil) -- and his crew that of Die Piraten des Kaisers (the Emperor's Pirates) -- for his exploits in command of the sailing commerce raider SMS Seeadler (Sea Eagle) in 1916-1917. It was his habit of successfully waging war without any casualties that made him a hero and a legend on both sides. There was only one accidental death during his voyage. He was the great-grandson of Nicolaus von Luckner, Marshal of France and commander-in-chief of the French Army of the Rhine, who had been elevated to count in the 18th century by the King of Denmark. Original Felix Count Luckner Autograph Signed on Card Stock. Felix wrote: By Joe never say die! Felix Count Luckner April 18. 36 Regular Price - $ 159.99 / Sale Price - $ 125.00.

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox. Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains, tainting his reputation with some historians, who accuse him of racism and genocide. Both as a soldier and private citizen, he was instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone National Park.

Original Philip Henry Sheridan Autograph, Signed on Card Stock. Regular Price - $ 1599.00 / Sale Price - $ 750.00.

John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person, while still alive, to rise to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies—equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington. Pershing led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton.

Original John Pershing Autograph, Signed on Heavy Cut Paper. Regular Price - $ 559.99 / Sale Price - $ 198.00.

William Thomas Sampson (9 February 1840 – 6 May 1902) was a United States Navy admiral known for his victory in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. He was born in Palmyra, New York, and entered the United States Naval Academy on 24 September 1857. After graduating first in his class four years later, he served as an instructor at the Academy. In 1864, he became the executive officer of the monitor Patapsco of the South Atlantic Blockading Station and engaged in sweeping torpedoes off Charleston, South Carolina. He survived the loss of that ironclad on 15 January 1865, when she struck a torpedo, exploded, and sank with a loss of 75 lives. Following duty in the steam frigate Colorado on the European Station, another tour as instructor at the Naval Academy, and in the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, he served in the screw sloop Congress. He then commanded Alert, practice ship Mayflower, and Swatara while on duty at the Naval Academy. During the next years, he was Assistant to the Superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, then Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island. On 9 September 1886, he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy. He was promoted to Captain on 9 April 1889, reported to the Mare Island Navy Yard to fit out San Francisco, and assumed command when that protected cruiser was commissioned on 15 November 1889. He was detached in June 1892 to serve as Inspector of Ordnance in the Washington Navy Yard and was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance on 28 January 1893. He assumed command of the battleship Iowa on 15 June 1897. On 17 February 1898, he was made President of the Board of Inquiry to investigate the destruction of the Maine. On 26 March 1898, he assumed command of the North Atlantic Station, with the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. The United States declared war against Spain on 21 April 1898; and, eight days later, Admiral Cervera's fleet sailed from the Cape Verde Islands for an uncertain destination. Admiral Sampson, in flagship New York, put to sea from Key West in search of the Spanish Fleet and established a close and efficient blockade on that fleet in the harbor of Santiago on 1 June 1898. On the morning of 3 July 1898, Cervera's fleet came out of the harbor. Sampson was ashore and could do nothing. Admiral Winfield Scott Schley was in command of the "Flying Squadron" and met the Spanish fleet, completely destroying every Spanish vessel in a running sea battle lasting five hours. The next day, Rear Admiral Sampson sent his famous message: "The Fleet under my command offers the nation as a Fourth of July present, the whole of Cervera's Fleet". This disingenuous message left out any mention of Schley's leadership in the battle. As Schley's role became known through the press, Sampson attempted to destroy his subordinate via his own press accounts. Schley appealed for a court of inquiry, which he got in 1901. This disgraceful affair, despite some criticism of Schley, exonerated the commander of the Flying Squadron and elevated him to the status of a national hero. For his part, Sampson was publicly discredited. At the court of inquiry, moreover, Schley was supported and exonerated by the testimony of his own men. In the Navy, the procedure was so divisive that the rank-and-file identified themselves as either a "Schley man" or a "Sampson man". Schley clearly had the best of this contest. Accordingly, it was no surprise that Sampson retired in 1902, and died shortly thereafter. After the Battle of Santiago Bay, Sampson was appointed Cuban Commissioner on 20 August 1898 but resumed command of the North Atlantic Fleet in December. He became Commandant of the Boston Navy Yard in October 1899 and transferred to the Retired List on 9 February 1902. Rear Admiral Sampson died in Washington, D.C. a few months later and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Four destroyers of the Navy have been named USS Sampson in his honor. The United States Naval Academy's Sampson Hall, which houses the English and History departments, is named in his honor. The United States Navy also authorized a service medal, known as the Sampson Medal, to recognize those who had served under his command during the Spanish-American War. Original William T. Sampson autograph, signed on a Cut Document. The document has on it: Approved: Commandants Office U.S. Navy Yard, Boston. Feb 15 1901 Rear Admiral U.S.N Commandant. Regular Price - $ 175.00 / Sale Price - $ 98.00.

Máximo Gómez y Báez (18 November 1836 in the Dominican Republic - 17 June 1905 in Havana, Cuba) was a Major General in the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence (1895-1898). Gómez was born in the town of Baní, in the province of Peravia, in the Dominican Republic. When he was a teenager, he joined in the battles against the Haitian invasions of Faustine Soulouque in the 1850's. He was trained as an officer of the Spanish Army at the Zaragoza Military Academy and originally arrived in Cuba as a cavalry officer - a Colonel - in the Spanish Army and fought along side the Spanish forces in the Dominican Annexation War (1861-1865). After the Spanish forces were defeated and fled the Dominican Republic in 1865 by order of Queen Isabel II, many supporters of the Annexionist cause left with them, and Maximo Gomez moved to his family to Cuba in disgrace. He retired from the Spanish Army and took up the rebel cause in 1868, helping transform the Cuban Army's military tactics and strategy from the conventional approach favored by Thomas Jordan and others. He gave the Cuban Mambises their most feared tactic: The "Machete Charge". On October 26, 1868 at Pinos de Baire, Gomez led a Machete Charge on foot, ambushing a Spanish column and obliterating it. The Spanish Army was terrified of these charges because the majority were infantry troops, mainly conscripts, who were fearful of being cut down by the machetes. Because the Cuban Army always lacked sufficient munitions, the usual combat technique was to shoot once and then charge the Spanish Infantry Squares. In 1871 Gómez led a campaign to clear Guantánamo from forces loyal to Spain. The rich coffee growers, mostly of French descent, opposed Cuban independence because their ancestors had fled Haiti after the Haitians ousted the French. Gómez carried out a bloody but successful campaign, and most of his officers went on to become high ranking officers, including Antonio and José Maceo, Adolfo Flor Crombet, Policarpo Pineda "Rustán", and many others. Following the death in combat of Major General Ignacio Agramonte y Loynáz in May 1873, Gómez assumed the command of the military district of the province of Camaguey and its famed Cavalry Corps. Upon first inspecting the corps he concluded they were the best trained and disciplined in the Cuban Army. Gómez rose to the rank of Generalísimo of the Cuban Army - a rank akin to that of Captain General or in modern terms that of General of the Army - due to his superior military leadership. He adapted and formalized the improvised military tactics that had first been used by Spanish Guerrilas against Napoleon Bonaparte's Armies into a cohesive and comprehensive system at both the tactical and strategic level. The concept of insurrection and insurgency, and the asymmetric nature thereof can be traced intellectually to him. He was shot in the neck in 1875, while crossing the fortified line or Trocha from Júcaro in the south to Morón in the North; while leading the failed attempt to invade Western Cuba. After that he always wore a kerchief around his neck. His second and last wound came in 1896 while fighting in the rural areas outside Havana while completing a successful invasion of Western Cuba. He was wounded only twice during 15 years of guerilla warfare against an enemy far superior in manpower and logistics. In contrast, his most trusted officer and second-in-command, Lt. General Antonio Maceo y Grajales, was shot 27 times in the same span of time, with number 26 being the mortal wound. Gómez' son and Maceo's aide-de-camp, Francisco Gómez y Toro - nicknamed "Panchito" - was killed trying to recover Maceo's dead body, in combat December 7, 1896. At the end of the Cuban Independence War in 1898 he retired to a villa outside of Havana. He refused the presidential nomination that was offered to him in 1901, and which he was expected to win unopposed, mainly because he always disliked politics and after 40 years of living in Cuba he still felt that being Dominican-born he should not be the civil leader of Cuba. He died in his villa in 1905 and was interred in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. Maximo Gomez Park, a park in Miami, Florida, United States, – better known as Domino Park – was named in his honor. Gómez's portrait graces Cuban currency on the 10 pesos bill.

Original Maximo Gomez Autograph, hand signed on business card size card stock. Card reads: M. Gomez Habana 9 Mayo 1899. Regular Price - $ 495.00 / Sale Price - $ 299.00.

The volunteer companies which made up the Third three months regiment from Connecticut began their organization almost simultaneously with those which made up the First and Second. The original call of President Lincoln, however, only demanded one regiment from Connecticut, but the eagerness of Connecticut men to enlist induced Governor Buckingham to personally intercede with the President for the acceptance of at least three regiments, and this request being granted, the Third Regiment was very soon filled to the maximum. It went into camp at the Fair Grounds on Albany Avenue, in Hartford, on May 9th, and on May 14th was mustered into the United States service, with John Arnold of New Haven, Colonel, Allen G. Brady of Torrington, Lieut.-Colonel, and Alexander Warner of Woodstock, Major. The regiment left Hartford by rail for New Haven, May 23d, receiving its colors from the hands of Governor Buckingham, in front of the State House, in Hartford, when in line for departure, and sailed from New Haven for Washington on the steamer "Cahawba," via Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac. Arriving at Washington, it immediately went into camp at Glenwood, near the First and Second regiments, and was at once brigaded with them under Brigadier-General Dan. Tyler, who had been promoted from the Colonelcy of the First Regiment to the command of the brigade. Colonel John Arnold soon resigned, and Lieut.-Colonel Chatfield of the First Regiment was commissioned by Governor Buckingham as Colonel of the Third Regiment, and, being promptly mustered as such, assumed command. Colonel Chatfield had the advantage of long experience as a militia officer, was an excellent drill-master and disciplinarian, and knew not how to tolerate insubordination in any form. Lieut.-Colonel Brady considered that the commissioning of Colonel Chatfield over himself in the Third Regiment was a violation by the Governor of the current regulations and usages of the State militia, and refused to recognize Colonel Chatfield as his superior. For this insubordination, Lieut.-Colonel Brady was deprived of his sword during the remainder of the three months' term of service, but was honorably mustered out at its close. Lieut.-Colonel Brady's impetuous indiscretion in this instance was most amply atoned for by his subsequent honorable and extremely efficient service in the Seven-teenth Connecticut Volunteers, and in the Veteran Reserve Corps. Brady fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Campaign was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.

Close up of Allen G. Brady signature on Connecticut Militia Document. Document states the following: The upper left corner has the connecticutensis Sigillum Reipublice symbol. It starts with: Allen G. Brady, Esquire, Colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Second Bridage, of the Militia of the State of Connecticut. To Albert F. Broken Greeting: Whereas, upon the 29th day of May 1858 you was duty chosen to the office of Sergeant in ***** Company, Fourth Regiment, Second Brigade. Connecticut Militia; Reposing special trust and confidence in you fidelity, courage, care and good conduct, I do by virtue of the Laws of the state, constitute and appoint you to be Third Sergeant of the said Company and as such, to be recognized adn obeyed. You are therefore Carefully and Diligently to discharge that office and trust according to the Rules and Discipline of War, ordained and established by the Laws of this State. And you are to observe all such orders and directions as from time to time you shall receive either from me or from any of you superior Officers, pursuant to the trust hereby reposed in you. Given under my Hand, at Wolcottville, this *** day of September A.D. 1858 Allen G. Brady (there is another signature on the left under the statement Given under my hand - that I can not make out) Any where you see ***** I was unable to deterime what is written. Price - $200.00.

The Document Reads as follows: To all whom it may concer: Know, ge, That George W, **** a Private of Captain Richard L. Wilson's Company, 215th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was enrolled on the Eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five to serve one year or during the war, is herby discharged from the service of the United States this Thirty First day of July, 1865, at Fort Delaware by reason of (can not make out what is written) **** **** **** **** *** * *** (No objection to his being re=enlisted is known to exsist.*) Paid George W. **** was born in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, is nineteen years of age, five feet four inches high, light complexion, Blue eyes, Brown hair and by occupation, when enrolled, a Clerk. Giben at Fort Delaware this Thirty-First day of July 1865. Document is signed by R.L. Wilson Captain of the 215th Regiment & Gen. Williams Mustering Offier. This document is worn in condition from many years of being folded. Top quarter of document is no longer attached. Fragile!

Close up view of the 1863 Discharge Paper showing the bottom left signature of R. L. Wilson.

Close up view of the 1863 Discharge Paper showing the bottom right signature of Gen. Williams - Mustering Officer. Regular Price - $ 149.00 / Sale Price - $ 98.00.

Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas) is most well known for his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair. Currently, he is an American conservative political commentator, host of "War Stories with Oliver North" on Fox News Channel. He is a 1968 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and was a career officer in the Marine Corps, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after twenty years of service. During combat service in Vietnam, he was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and two Purple Heart medals. North was at the center of national attention during the Iran-Contra Affair, during which he was a key Reagan administration official involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran. The sale of these weapons served both to encourage the release of US hostages and to generate proceeds to support the Contra rebel group. Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter and his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North secretly diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras millions of dollars in funds received from a secret deal - the sales of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Iran - in spite of Reagan's public pledge not to deal with the nation. Original Oliver North Autographed Photo. Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11 Black & White Photo. Printed on Photo The Oliver North Show Heard daily on the Salem Radio Network. Hand written Terrance - Stay tuned ! Oliver North. Regular Price - $ 75.00 / Sale Price - $ 45.00.