Location: Archon Exhibition Placards Finding Aid

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Exhibition Placards, 2007-2011 | The Green-Wood Cemetery

By Josh Cepeda, Williamsburg High School of Architecture and Design Intern, and Veronica Benjou, Pratt School of Information Intern

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

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Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: "Enshrined Memories: Brooklyn and the Civil War", Saturday, September 15, 2007-Saturday, January 5, 2008],
[Series 2: "Honoring Their Sacrifice", Saturday, May 28, 2011-Sunday, June 12, 2011],
[Series 3: Second Annual Benefit of Green-Wood, Thursday, September 17, 2009],
[Series 4: Miscellaneous Photographs],
[All]

Series 1: "Enshrined Memories: Brooklyn and the Civil War", Saturday, September 15, 2007-Saturday, January 5, 2008

"Enshrined Memories: Brooklyn and the Civil War" was a collaborative project between the Brooklyn Public Library and The Green-Wood Cemetery. The exhibition ran from Saturday, September 15, 2007 to Saturday, January 5, 2008.  It was funded in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. The exhibition explored Brooklyn’s involvement in the American Civil War, specifically focusing on the stories of soldiers who participated, providing viewers an opportunity to read their words and learn about the sacrifices they made for their country. With nearly 200 historical artifacts on display, the exhibition provided an in-depth view of the traumatic war between the Confederacy and Union. Objects on display included uniforms, letters sent home from battlefields, battle flags, and photographs.

The exhibition coincided with Green-Wood’s Civil War Project. Organizations and individuals loaned items to the exhibition, including: Russ Altman, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Company H, 119th New York Volunteers Association, Ruth Detjen, Green-Wood Historic Fund, Huntington Historical Society, Jeffrey Kraus, Mariners' Museum, New York Historical Society, New York State Military Museum, Jeffrey I. Richman, S. Gregory Seaman, Barbara Thompson, Three Village Historical Society, Barbara Thompson, and the United States Army Military History Institute.

Five boxes are dedicated to this series that group the placards by size. The folders are organized by the contributing individuals and organizations.

Box 1 contains 9 folders of small placards.

Box 2 contains 8 folders of medium-sized placards in a document box.

Box 3 contains 2 folders of medium-sized placards in a document box.

Box 4 contains 1 folder of oversized placards.

Box 5 contains 1 folder of oversized placards.

Box 1

Small placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

GWHF 1-53 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

GWHF 1

Description: Carrie Dayton’s ivory diary containing notations of engagement to Captain Samuel Harris Sims and his death in battle.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 2

Description: “Group of Rioters Marching Down Second Avenue.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 1, 1863.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 3

Description: John B. Woodward: A Biographical Memoir by Elijah R. Kennedy. This book, which was published in 1897, includes many of Woodward’s very humorous letters that he wrote from the front during the Civil War.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 4

Description: “The Draft Resumed at the Provost-Marshall’s Office in the Ninth District, New York.” Pictorial War Record, June 30, 1883. It was this drawing of the names that touched off New York City’s Draft Riots.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 5

Description: Postal cover image of Colonel John Bendix of the 10th New York.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 6

Description: Letter from the New York Adjutant General to Captain John Nicholas Coyne, asking for his assistance in having the 70th New York Infantry’s flag delivered to the governor’s office for preservation in the state’s collections. Coyne won a Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War for his bravery in capturing a Confederate flag.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 7

Description: Carte de visite of General Fitz John Porter.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 8

Description: General Fitz John Porter’s calling card.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 9

Description: Note written and signed by Fitz John Porter: “I give thee all: I can no more though poor the offering be.” The quotation is from a poem by William Wordsworth. It is similar in sentiment to the epitaph on Porter’s gravestone--“He fought the good fight”--a belief that he had done the best any flawed human being could have done.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 10

Description: This marker was put at Clarence McKenzie’s Green-Wood Cemetery grave by his 13th Regiment comrades to commemorate one of their own.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 11

Description: These are pieces original to the zinc soldiers of Green-Wood Cemtery’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument. Those soldiers are on exhibit in the grand lobby of this building.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 12

Description: Cast iron marker placed circa 1900 at the Green-Wood Cemetery grave of C.H. Howe, who served during the Civil War with the 7th New York State Militia. It was paid for by the Alexander Hamilton Post of the Grand Army of the Republic to honor a comrade.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Requires Replacement/Damaged

GWHF 13

Description: “Refugee Negroes Encamped Near Bergen Point N.J., During the Riot in New York.” Pictorial War Record. As murderous rioters killed African-American during the Draft Riots, many blacks fled Manhattan for the safety of Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Westchester [County].

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 14

Description: The profusely-illustrated Pictorial War Record was published between 1881 and 1884 in New York City to keep memories of the Civil War alive.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 15

Description: “The Seventh Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., Leaving New York, April 19th, 1861, For the Defense of Washington.” Early enthusiasm for the Civil War encouraged many volunteers to come forward.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 16

Description: “Battle in Second Avenue and Twenty-second Street, at the Union Steam Works, July 14.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, August 1, 1863. Here veterans, who just weeks before had fired on Confederates, now fired on New York civilians.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 17

Description: Currier and Ives published many Civil War scenes as the war raged. This is a reproduction of one of those scenes.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 18

Description: “Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic in Baltimore-The Duryée Zouaves Heading the Line-Drawn by W.P. Snyder.” The Duryée Zouaves were a New York Regiment, the 5th New York Infantry, with a long and proud history during the Civil War. They were named for Abram Duryée, their first colonel, who is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 19

Description: Print of Major General Henry W. Slocum, by H.W. Smith

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 20

Description: Carte de visite.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 21

Description: Bullet and Shell: War as the Soldier Saw It: Camp, March, and Picket; Battlefield and Bivouac; Prison and Hospital, one of several Civil War books written by journalist and soldier George Forrester Williams. It is a fictionalize[d] account of his war experiences, published in 1883.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 22

Description: Recruiting poster urging enlistment early in the Civil War.

-Country, Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 23

Description: “Recruiting in New York.” The London Illustrated News, December 27, 1862. Note the billboard at the left, emphasizing both the exclusivity of Duryée’s “famous” Zouaves, “Picked Men Taken," and “Large Bounties Paid.”

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 24

Description: Headlines from the July 16, 1863, edition of The New York Times. Note the report that Colonel Edward Jardine had been wounded.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 25

Description: “The New England Kitch Spinners, at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair” (top), and “The Sanitary Fair at Brooklyn--The New England Kitchen.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 12, 1864. Many of the attractions at the Sanitary Fairs, held throughout the North, offered nostalgia for the colonial and Revolutionary War periods of the United States.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 26

Description: A Narrative of the Work of Commission... This booklet was published in 1907 by the 14th Regiment War Veterans’ Association in conjunction with the dedication of the 14th’s monument on the battlefield at Manassas.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 27

Description: Peach pits, likely carved by Samuel Sims as token of his affection for his beloved fiancée, Carrie Dayton.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 28

Description: Program for the dedication of Captain Samuel Harris Sim’s monument at Green-Wood in 1888.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 29

Description: “New Phases of Life.” Pictorial War Record, September 29, 1883. African-Americans are shown in a series of sketches.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 30

Description: “Scene in Thirty-second Street, Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues-Negro Hanged by the Mob and Houses Burned, July 15. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, August 1, 1863.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 31

Description: The Life of Rev. John Inskip was published in 1885. Inskip was the chaplain of the 14th Brooklyn Regiment.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 32

Description: “Class of March 16,1915--The Renouard Training School for Embalmers, New York City.”

-Green-wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 33

Description: Interest in the 14th Brooklyn remains high. It has many active re-enactors. The History of the Fighting Fourteen was first published in 1911; this is a recent reprint.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 34

Description: At its 1876 dedication ceremonies, it was hailed as monument “to perpetuate and every keep green the memories of those noble heroes who fell in the strife of battle while fighting bravely to preserve the government of our fathers.”

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

Condition: Unused

GWHF 35

Description: General George Crockett Strong, in a photograph by Mathew Brady.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 36

Description: During the Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac was divided into corps. Each corps developed its own insignia, and Captain Sims designed this 9th Corps anchor and cannon badge.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 37

Description: Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, “the Great Divine,” by Napoleon Sarony, circa 1870.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 38

Description: Max E. Sand was 15 years old when he wrote this letter to his older brother Henry Augustus Sand, who was already in Washington, D.C., serving with the 7th Regiment, New York State Militia. A display concerning Henry Augustus Sand, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, appears elsewhere in this exhibit.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 39

Description: Professor Thaddeus Lowe brought his balloon to the front of Union lines for use as an elevated platform from which to observe Confederate deployment and movements. Here Lowe observes the Battle of Fair Oaks on May 31, 1862, just a few weeks after General Fitz John Porter’s unintended flight.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 40

Description: As the Civil War dragged on and years went by money had to be paid (“bounties”) to encourage enlistments.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 41

Description: Samuel Harris Sims’s pre-Civil War commission as a second lieutenant in the 14th Brooklyn, dated 1859.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 42

Description: Casualty report of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry, May, 1864. It lists 28 killed, 89 wounded, and 12 missing.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 43

Description: Invitation to the dedication of the Green-Wood Cemetery monument to Captain Samuel Sims.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 44

Description: Signature of John Brooks Henderson, United States Senator from Missouri, who sponsored the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery in America. Henderson, who felt it was important that a border state Senator do this, effectively ended his political career with this act of courage--he was never elected to office again.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 45

Description: The German Regiment, Steuben Volunteers, Colonel John E. Bendix Commanding, Receiving the American and Steuben Flags in Front of the City Hall, New York, Friday, May 24, 1861.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 46

Description: A Currier and Ives lithograph of Major General Henry Wager Halleck, who commanded all armies during the Civil War.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 47

Description: William Swinton was a New York Times reporter who was leading writers on the Civil War. His Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, based on his interviews with the leading generals from both sides, was published in 1866. It was revised and re-issued in 1882.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 48

Description: History of the 13th Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 49

Description: These three gravestones, and more then 1,200 like them, have been obtained from the Veterans Administration by volunteers working in the Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Civil War Project. Each of the markers will be installed at the veteran’s gravesite at Green-Wood Cemetery to mark his previously-unmarked grave.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 50

Description: Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, one of the slave children whose freedom was purchased by the congregants of Brooklyn Heights’ Plymouth Church. She was five years old when she was “bought” in May, 1863.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 51

Description: Photographs of General Thomas William Sweeny.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection, gift of Benjamin Pietrobono.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 52

Description: Stereoptic views, circa 1870, of New York City’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 53

Description: In 1901, the Brooklyn Eagle reported that markers like this one had been put out to mark graves of deceased members of the Grand Army of the Republic U.S. Grant Post 327. According to the report, more than 100 markers had been placed at cemeteries in Brooklyn and as far away as Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 2: Three Village Historical Society Collection

TVHS 1-4 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

TVHS 1

Description: William Wheelers’[sic] letter of November 10, 1862, written at Adie, Virginia.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Unused

TVHS 2

Description: William Wheeler was tremendously bright and well-educated. He graduated from Yale College in 1855, then attended law school at Yale, Harvard, and University of Berlin. This is his license to practice law, 1860.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Unused

TVHS 3

Description: William Wheeler’s diploma from Harvard, where attended law school, 1860.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Unused

TVHS 4

Description: Miss Kate Strong of Setauket, New York, was Captain William Wheeler’s niece. She lived with Wheeler’s Civil War letters (which had been written to Julia Wheeler, William’s sister and Kate’s mother), uniform, and sword, before donating much of her collection to the Three Village Historical Society in the late 1970s.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Unused

Folder 3: Brooklyn Historical Society

BHS 1-21 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

BHS 1

Description: A contemporary description of Bramhall’s efforts to gather and preserve memories of Brooklyn’s role in the Civil War.

-Courtesy of the Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 2

Description: Frank J. Bramhall headed the project, immediately after the Civil War, to preserve the story of Brooklyn’s contributions to that effort. This is his business card.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 3

Description: Pink, the former slave, in her later years.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 4

Description: Sally Maria Diggs (“Pink”), a slave girl whose freedom was purchased by Plymouth Church Congregants.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 5

Description: Flier advertising the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 6

Description: 15th Annual Reunion Banquet menu, Society of the Army of Potomac, June 12, 1884.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 7

Description: These reproductions are of the cover and first three pages from a 1917 tribute book to Patrick Hayes, who commanded the George Picard Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Brooklyn.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 8

Description: Rankin Grand Army of the Republic Post commemorative ribbons.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society and the Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

BHS 9

Description: “Kings County in the War, Brooklyn, Nov. 28.” This newspaper clipping describes Bramhall’s work on behalf of Brooklyn, soon after the Civil War, to preserve memories of its experiences.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 10

Description: This questionnaire was filled out by Civil War veteran Poinsett Cooper in 1866. Note the wounds he lists.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 11

Description: Bill of sale for Pink (Sally Maria Diggs),1860, formalizing her freedom.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

BHS 12

Description: R.D. Tilliman’s account of the service and death of Henry Augustus Sand.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BHS 13

Description: Dinner place cards for General John B. Woodward.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BHS 14

Description: A man as active in veterans affairs as General John B. Woodward would have attended many monument dedications. These invitations were for the dedication of the New York Monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1893, thirty years after that battle.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BHS 15

Description: Photograph of the members of the Harry Lee G.A.R. Post, gathered at the graveside of Harry Lee.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BHS 16

Description: Signature card of John B. Woodward.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BHS 17

“MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS! NOW OR NEVER!” Handbill, circa 1863, urging black men to enlist in the Union Army to fight for freedom. It reads, in part: “If we love our country, if we love our families, our children, our homes, we must strike NOW, while the country calls: must rise up in the dignity of our manhood, and show by our own arms that we are worthy to be freemen.”

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Used

BHS 18

Description: The Grand Marshal badge was worn by General John B. Woodward as he led one of Brooklyn’s post-Civil War parades.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Used

BHS 19

Description: Place card, with menu dinner of the Officers of the Twenty-Third Regiment and Veteran Association in honor of Colonel Rodney C. Ward and Maj. Alfred C. Barnes, January 17, 1880.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Used

BHS 20

Description: Handbill, Jubilee Meeting of the American Freedmen Friend Society, Jan. 4, 1864.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Used

BHS 21

Description: Menu, Union League Club, First Brigade Staff Dinner, November 21, 1878.

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Unused

Folder 4: Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library

BPL 1-11 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

BPL 1

Description: This colorful print is one from a series of four that preserves memories of Brooklyn’s Sanitary Fair, held in 1864 to raise money for the Sanitary Commission’s work helping soldiers and their families.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library

Condition: Unused

BPL 2

Description; “Reading the Emancipation Proclamation.” An 1884 celebration in Brooklyn’s Myrtle Avenue Park of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves held in the areas in rebellion.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 3

Description: Fort-La-Fayette, a collection of 1863 newsletters circulated by Confederate prisoners who were imprisoned at Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor (now the location of the eastern pier of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge). These are reproduced signatures of some of the Confederate prisoners who were held there.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 4

Description: This print, which appeared in a German language newspaper, shows a parade of veterans down Montague Street in Brooklyn in 1884. Note the inscription under the arch, “Welcome Army of the Potomac.” The Army of the Potomac was the largest and most prominent of the Union armies.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 5

Description:“Sally Maria Diggs, known as ‘Pink’ sold for freedom (a slave) from the pulpit of Plymouth Church--Bklyn.” Prepared for the Brooklyn Eagle, February 7, 1910.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 6

Description: Bill of sale for Sally Maria Driggs (“Pink”), February 5, 1860, purchasing her from slavery.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 7

Description: This Brooklyn Sanitary Fair catalogue of “Arts, Relics, and Curiosities,” gave a sense of the sort of things that were on display.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Unused

BPL 8

Description: “New York--Veterans ‘Fighting Their Battles Over Again.’--An Evening Scene at a Grand Army Post Headquarters in Brooklyn.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 8, 1888. Grand Army of the Republic posts offered the veterans an opportunity to socialize with those who had shared their wartime experiences.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Used/Damaged, Requires Replacement

BPL 9

Description: Many Brooklynites came out every year on Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) to decorate the graves of Civil War veterans. In this woodcut people decorate graves at Cypress Hills Cemetery just a few years after the Civil War. Many of them likely knew the men whose graves they were decorating. Similar scenes occurred at other Brooklyn cemeteries, including Green-Wood, where annual ceremonies were held.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BPL 10

Description: "Presentation of medals to the veterans of Brooklyn--October 25, 1866. Sketched by A.R. Waud.” Harper’s Weekly. A year and a half after the Civil War had ended, Brooklyn presented medals to its veterans in gratitude for their service. This print shows the presentation ceremonies.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

BPL 11

Description: History of U.S. Grant Post, No. 327, Brooklyn, N.Y. Including Biographical Sketches of Its Members, by Henry Whittemore. Detroit, Mich., Detroit Free Press Publishing Company, 1885. This is a rare example (only a few are known to have survived) of a very valuable research tool--it features detailed biographies of the Civil War veterans who were members of this post.

-Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 5: Jeffrey Kraus Collection

JFC 1-9 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

JFC 1

Description: “New England Kitchen, Interior View.” Half stereoview by W.E. James, 1864. The Sanitary Fair was big nostalgia for 18th century America.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 2

Description: “Buying the Dead after the Battle of Antietam.” Photographic Incidents of the War, No. 561. Alexander Gardner, photographer. Gardner’s Gallery, Washington, D.C. A burial party at work, late September, 1862. The Battle of Antietam was a bloodbath--in a single day, close to 23,000 men were killed, wounded, captured, or missing.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 3

Description: “Soldiers’ Graves near the General Hospital, City Point, Va.” War Views, No. 2522. Edward and Henry T. Anthony, publishers. These graves are of men who died in General Ulysses S. Grant’s bloody 1864 Overland Campaign. The remains of many of these men would wind up in the nearby national cemeteries that soon were established.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 4

Description: “New England Kitchen: New England Cooks.” Stereoview by W.E. James, 1864. Many Brooklynites had come from New England; many of the displays at the fair harkened back to their heritage.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 5

Description:“A Group of ‘Contrabands.'” Photographic War History, 1861-1865, #383. Half stereoview.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 6

Description: “13th NY Artillery Winter Quarters, Petersburg, Va.” Photographic History, The War for the Union. War Views, No. 2495. Negative by Brady & Co. Published by Edward & Henry T. Anthony. These are members of what had been Wheeler’s battery just a few months after William Wheeler’s death.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 7

Description: “13th NY Artillery Winter Quarters, Petersburg, Va.” Photographic History, The War for the Union. War Views, No. 2495. Negative by Brady & Co. Published by Edward & Henry T. Anthony. These men are members of what had been Wheeler’s Battery just a few months after Captain William Wheeler’s death.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 8

Description: Photograph of Crater, circa 1864. It was near this spot that Captain Samuel Sims was mortally wounded.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 9

Description: Stereoview of Broadway, New York City, 1861. Note the recruiting poster for the 79th New York Infantry, the Highlanders.

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Used

Folder 6: Photographs By Jeffrey I. Richman

JIR 1-7 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

JIR 1

Description: Major General George Crockett Strong’s Green-Wood Cemetery monument.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Unused

JIR 2

Description: Monument to Wheeler’s Battery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Unused

JIR 3

Description: New York City’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument at Green-Wood Cemetery, circa 1998, before its restoration.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 4

Description: These are just a few of the gravestones honoring Civil War veterans at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 5

Description: Henry Augustus Sand’s spectacular marble monument at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 6

Description: Detail of the monument commemorating Lieutenant Henry B. Hidden’s heroic charge. This bronze is by Karl Müller.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 7

Description: General Fitz John Porter’s gravestone at Green-Wood Cemetery. Note his epitaph: “He fought the good fight.” This is apparently a reference to his military service in both Mexican and Civil Wars, as well as his ultimately successful efforts, after he was court martialed and cashiered from the Army, to clear his name.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman, Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 7: Photographs By Brian Rose

PBR 1-2 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

PBR 1

Description: Monitor and Merrimac Monument, by Antonio de Filippo.

-Photograph by Brian Rose.

Condition: Requires Replacement/Damaged

PBR 2

Description: A Rodman Gun with the Verrazano Bridge behind it. Rodman Guns were produced during the Civil War and were the largest artillery pieces used in that conflict, each weighing 80 tons.

-Photograph by Brian Rose.

Condition: Used

Folder 8: Courtesy Of Miscellaneous Lenders

ML 1-12 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

ML 1

Description: John Whitson Seaman was drafted into service in 1863, was wounded in battle, and served in a hospital ward until the end of the Civil War. A display of his uniforms, bedroll, photographs, and letters, appears elsewhere in this exhibit.

-Courtesy of S. Gregory Seaman.

Condition: Unused

ML 2

Description: This bedroll was carried by John Whitson Seaman during his Civil War service.

Courtesy of S. Gregory Seaman.

Condition: Unused

ML 3

Description: Clifton Kennedy Prentiss in his major’s uniform.

-Courtesy of David Jones.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 4

Description: Photographs of George Forrester Williams, taken during the Civil War. Williams served as principal musician of the 146th New York Infantry. Here he is pictured in front of the 146th’s drummers. Donald Wisnoski Collection. At right, he wears a Civil War Zouave uniform.

-Courtesy of Patrick Schroeder.

Condition: Unused

ML 5

Description: “Embalming surgeon at Work.”

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Unused

ML 6

Description: As the Civil War raged, Horace Greeley wrote to President Abraham Lincoln, asking him to specify the causes for which the war was being fought. Lincoln responded to Greeley, telling him that his goal was to save the Union, not to end slavery. But, as the carnage continued, Lincoln used his Emancipation Proclamation and the goal of freeing slaves as a strategy, then a goal, of the war.

-Courtesy of the Wadsworth Athenaeum.

Condition: Unused

ML 7

Description: Clifton Kennedy Prentiss, who came back to Brooklyn in the hope of recovering his strength, but died of his wound.

-Courtesy of the Carroll County, Maryland, Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 8

Description: Edward Jardine, who was so badly wounded during the Draft Riots that, for the rest if his life, one leg was 6 inches shorter than the other.

-Courtesy of the United States Army Military History Institute.

Condition: Unused

ML 9

Description: Colonel Charles S. Wainwright.

-Courtesy of the United States Army Military History Institute.

Condition: Unused

ML 10

Description: Colonel William Everdell, Jr. (1822-1912) joined the 23rd New York National Guard as its colonel on June 18, 1863, and commanded it during the Civil War when it marched to the front in July 1863, arriving at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, just after that battle. After the War, he was president of the Brooklyn Institute (now the Brooklyn Museum) from 1870 to 1878 and resided in Brooklyn until his death in 1912.

-Courtesy of the United States Army Military History Institute.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 11

Description: Detail of the center of the 14th Brooklyn’s Civil War battle flag.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Unused

ML 12

Description: Poinsett Cooper is at the center of this photograph, with the cigar in his mouth.

-Courtesy of the United States Army Military History Institute.

Condition: Used

Folder 9: Miscellaneous Civil War Facts

MCWF 1-10 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

MCWF 1

Description: Newspapers were tremendously important to the soldiers on the front lines--they helped the men keep up on news of the war.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 2               

Watercolor of the Antietam battlefield, painted by Henry Augustus Sand’s sister Emily Sand Rossire, dated 1863. Note the wooden grave marker for a soldier who had been killed in battle. The town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, is in the distance.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 3

Description: By the end of the Civil War, some 179,000 African-Americans had served in the Union Army, and about 18,000 African-American men and several dozen African-American women has served in the Navy.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 4

Description: Weapons of the Civil War are evocative of the life and death struggle that took 620,000 lives in the four long years from 1861 to 1865.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 5

Description: A Dairy of Battle: The Personal Journals Of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865, was published in 1962.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 6

Description: Thomas Sweeny was as daring a Civl War battlefield leader as there was. Throwing caution to the wind, he persisted in personally leading his men forward, rather than watching from a distance as most Union generals did, and was wounded nearly every time he did so. General Ulysses S. Grant, aware of Sweeny’s reputation, saw him unscathed after one battle and could not resist teasing Sweeny: ”How is it, Sweeny, that you have not been hit? There must be some mistake. This fight will hardly count unless you can show another wound.”

Condition: Used

MCWF 7

Description: The Avery family barn where the wounded Henry Augustus Sand was taken after being wounded at the Battle of Antietam. Painting by Emily Sand Rossire.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 8

Description: Gravestone of Major and Dr. Auguste Renouard, who served the Confederacy as a surgeon in a Louisiana regiment.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 9

Description: Henry Wager Halleck was brought to Washington, D.C., by President Abraham Lincoln to lead all Union armies. But Halleck was little more than a very bright clerk; he was no grand strategist or leader of men.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 10

Description: OBITUARY FROM THE COLUMBIAN REGISTER New Haven, Connecticut, July 9, 1864

Wheeler, William (Capt[ain]) at Culps Farm, GA, Chief of Art[illery], 2nd Div[ision], 20th Army Corps, Son of Russell of New York, June 22, Age 28.

Condition: Unused

Box 2

Medium-sized placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

GWHF 54-60 Placard Size: 5.50"x 5.37"

GWHF 54

Description: Not everyone who had a book written about them was famous or even very memorable. This book, Memorial of Thomas S. Thorp Jr., was issued in 1867, “printed for private distribution” by his family. Thomas Thorp served for several weeks in Pennsylvania with the 23rd New York State National Guard during June and July of 1863. His service was unremarkable. But when he committed suicide in 1867, at the age of 25, this book was published in his memory.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 55

Description: Starting in 1883, and working until his death in 1909, Fredrick Phisterer, himself a Civil War veteran, wrote several editions of a five volume set and index, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. His life’s work, it is the definitive history of New York State and the Civil War. It includes the history of each of New York’s Civil War regiments and biographies of all of its officers.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 56

Description: Muster out record of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner John N. Coyne. The 70th Regimental was a part of the Excelsior Brigade, which was commanded by infamous General Dan Sickles. Note the date of enlistment for Coyne here--May 7, 1862, at Williamsburg, Virginia--just two days after, and in the same town, where his actions in capturing a flag would result in his winning a Congressional Medal of Honor.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 57

Description: Brooklyn’s very successful Sanitary Fair drew “immense crowds.” This woodcut, “The Sanitary Fair, Brooklyn," shows some of the attractions offered. Note the signs--you could get weighed for 5 cents and “It is expected that every family who have not a sewing machine will purchase now as the proceeds go to the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, March 12, 1864.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 58

Description: General Fredrick Winthrop fought through the years of the Civil War, only to be killed in one of its last battles. In one of the most memorable scenes of the war, Winthrop, mortally wounded at the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia, on April 1, 1865, was carried from the battlefield on the shoulders of his men, surrounded by thousands of Confederate soldiers whom his men had just captured.

-Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 59

Description: General George Crockett Strong received what was considered a relatively minor wound in the thigh while leading the attack on Fort Wagner [...]

-Photograph by Mathew Brady Studio. Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 60

Description: These markers, and hundreds of others like them, were put out at Green-Wood Cemetery gravesites by veterans, either as members...

-Photograph by Mathew Brady Studio. Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 2: Brooklyn Historical Society

BHS 22 Placard Size: 8.31"x 5.37"

BHS 22

Van Brunt Magaw Bergen (1839-1865) started his Civil War Service with Brooklyn’s 13^th Regiment […]

-Courtesy of Brooklyn Historical Society.

Folder 3: Jeffrey Kraus Collection

JFC 10-11 Placard Size: 5.50"x 5.37"

JFC 10

Description: “Confederate Soldiers laid out for burial. Dead soldiers of the Rebel General Ewell’s Corps killed at Spotsylvania [...]"

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

JFC 11

Description: “Embalming Building near Fredericksburg, Va.” Published by Taylor & Huntington, No. 2529. High casualties during the Civil War offered opportunities [...]

-Jeffrey Kraus Collection.

Condition: Unused

Folder 4: Photographs by Brian Rose

PBR 3-5 Placard Size: 5.50"x 5.37"

PBR 3

Description: In 1883, in the midst of the Civil War, Green-Wood Cemetery put aside land for its Civil War Soldiers’ Lot, allowing free burial [...]

-Photograph by Brian Rose.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

PBR 4

Description: Brooklyn’s Civil War veterans raised money for public monuments. Some were placed on battlefields where the men had fought and many of their comrades had died. Other monuments were put in Brooklyn’s parks [...]

-Photograph by Brian Rose.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

PBR 5

Description: Green-Wood Cemetery gravestones of Major General Henry Wager Halleck, commander of all Union Armies during the Civil War, and his chief of staff [...]

-Photograph by Brian Rose.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 5: Courtesy of Miscellaneous Lenders

ML 13-15 Placard Size: 5.50"x 5.37"

ML 13

Description: Burial in Fredericksburg. Photograph by Timothy Sullivan. A burial party here is about to do its job on the latest casualties of battle in May, 1864. If these graves [...]

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Unused

ML 14

Description: Confederate General Robert Selden Garnett’s wife and child had died before the Civil War and were interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn [...]

-Marker courtesy of the Veterans Administration

ML 15

Description: Robert Young is a re-enactor with the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the Civil War regiment of the African-American soldiers depicted in the movie [...]

-Photographs courtesy of Robert Young.

ML 16 Placard Size: 8.31"x 5.37"

ML 16

Description: “This Ceremonial Sword, purchased after the Civil War to be worn at Veterans events, was owned by Frederick Bachmann (1843-1900) […]”

Placard with quote by Bachmann, to accompany artifact courtesy of Russ Altman.

Condition: Used

Note: Strip of brown packing tape affixed horizontally across center

Folder 6: Miscellaneous Civil War Facts

MCWF 11-20 Placard Size: 5.50"x 5.37"

MCWF 11

Description: The firm of Currier and Ives produced prints of many aspects of 19th-century life in America. Its works, inexpensive and often featuring views of everyday life, were tremendously popular; more of its art hung in American homes than that [...]

Condition: Unused

MCWF 12

Description: John Monroe, an African American born in Beaufort,[?] North Carolina, was a house servant who was 5’ 11’’ with black hair and eyes and a light complexion when he enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 18. He entered the service [...]

Condition: Damaged/Requires Replacement

MCWF 13

Description: Edward Brush Fowler (1832-1896) enlisted in the 14th New York State Militia (known informally as the 14th Brooklyn and officially designated during the Civil War as the 84th New York Volunteer Infantry) on April 18, 1861, as its lieutenant [...]

Condition: Used

MCWF 14

Description: When Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor, in April of 1861, triggering the Civil War, northerners reacted with great enthusiasm to the prospect [...]

Condition: Unused

MCWF 15

Description: When John Seaman’s sister Mary wrote the above letter, she had not yet received his letter of May 13 (below) in which he reported that his best friend, Maden, had been killed [...]

Condition: Unused

MCWF 16

Description: The Civil War, with its great carnage far from home, encouraged experimentation with preservation of bodies to meet the challenge of shipping remains back home. Embalming, the use of chemicals injected into the body to preserve it, was a great [...]

Condition: Unused

MCWF 17

Description: Civil War regiments were raised in New York State locally. So, the 13th and 14th New York State Militias, and the 23rd New York State National Guard, were composed primarily [...]

Condition: Unused

MCWF 18

Description: It appears that R.D. Tilliman was a friend and neighbor of the Sand family; Emily Sand Rossire, Henry’s sister mentions the Tillimans as neighbors. Tillliman apparently was working in the U.S. District [...]

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 19

Description: The General Edward Fowler sculpture is by Henry Baerer and was dedicated in 1902. It shows Fowler with one hand [...]

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 20

Description: The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution Slavery Abolished. Ratified December [...]

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 21-22 Placard Size: 8.31"x 5.37"

MCWF 21

Description: “In January 1865, George Faulkner Hopper was promoted to colonel of the 10th […]”

Condition: Unused

MCWF 22

Description: “Less than two months after he had so proudly marched off to war, Clarence McKenzie, but 12 years old, was dead, Brooklyn’s first casualty of the Civil War.”

Informational Placard on “Little Drummer Boy” monument

Condition: Taped/ Prepared

Folder 7: Miscellaneous Lines, Letters, Reports, and Newspapers

MLLRN 1-14 Placard Size: 8.31" x 5.37"

MLLRN 1

Description: DRUMMER BOY Letter from Drummer Boy Clarence McKenzie 13th Regiment, New York State Militia Annapolis, Maryland, May 10, 1861

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 2

Description: DRUMMER BOY Letter from Drummer Boy Clarence McKenzie 13th Regiment, New York State Militia Annapolis, Maryland, May 26, 1861

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 3

Description: DRUMMER BOY Letter from Drummer Boy Clarence McKenzie 13th Regiment, New York State Militia Annapolis, Maryland, May 28, 1861

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 4

Description: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY AND THE CIVIL WAR

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 5

Description: JOHN B. WOODWIDE: FROM CIVIL WAR LIEUTENANT TO MUSEUM PRESIDENT

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 6

Description: LINES WRITTEN BY A FRIEND AND READ AT THE FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York November 7, 1862

Condition: Used

MLLRN 7

Description: LETTER OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL HARRIS SIMS, 51ST REGIMENT, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEER INFANTRY Camp Burnside, Annapolis, Maryland January 5, 1862

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 8

Description: LETTER OF CAPTAIN HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND, 103RD NEW YORK STATE INFANTRY Otto’s Farm Hospital, Sharpburg, Maryland September 21, 1862

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 9

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Washington, D.C. April 12, 1862

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 9a

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Mount Jackson, Virginia Camp in the Blue Ridge, Page County, Virginia July 23, 1862

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 9b

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Catlett’s Station, Virginia, September 5, 1863

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 9c

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Near Dallas, Georgia, May 30, 1864

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 10

Description: INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPERMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 11

Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF THE CIVIL WAR VETERANS

Condition: Used

MLLRN 12

Description: REPORT OF BRIGADIER GENERAL PHILP KEARNY, UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS Sangester’s Station, Virginia March 2, 1862 (written at Headquarters, First Brigade, 3 miles from Bull Run, March 9, 1862)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 13

Description: REPORT OF COLONEL GEORGE W. TAYLOR, THIRD NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS Sangster’s Station, Virginia

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 14

Description: REPORT OF MAJOR JOHN G. WRIGHT, 51 ST NEW YORK INFANTRY, BATTLE OF THE CRATER July 30, 1864 (written at Headquarters, Fifty-first Regiment, August 8, 1864)

Condition: Unused

Folder 8: Miscellaneous Lines, Letters, Reports, and Newspapers (cont.)

MLLRN 15-22 Placards Size: 5.50" x5.37"

MLLRN 15

Description: BROOKLYN’S SANITARY FAIR

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 16

Description: GENERAL EDWARD FOWERL’S UNFINISHED HISTORY OF THE 14TH BROOKLYN Near Catlett’s Station, Virginia, April 16, 1862 (Written in 1883)

Condition: Used

MLLRN 17

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Camp Observation, near Poolesville, Maryland October 23, 1861

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 17a

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Camp near the Rapidian River, Culpepper Country, Virginia August 17, 1862

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 17b

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER, 13TH NEW YORK LIGHT ARTILLERY Cassville, Georgia, May 22, 1864

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 18

Description: LETTER FROM PRIVATE JOHN WHITSON SEAMAN, 95TH NEW YORK INFANTRY Kellys Ford, New York City, July 14th, 1863

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 18a

Description: LETTER FROM PRIVATE JOHN WHITSON SEAMAN, 95TH NEW YORK INFANTRY Kellys Ford, Virginia, December 22, 1863

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 19

Description: Regimental Histories

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 20

Description: REPORT OF CAPTAIN JOESPH K. STEARNS, FIRST NEW YORK CAVALRY Sangster’s Station,Virginia, March 2, 1862 (Written at Camp Kearny, Virginia, March 15, 1862)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 21

Description: VETERANS AS A POST-WAR POLITICAL FORCE

Condition: Used

MLLRN 22

Description: VETERANS’ PARADES

Condition: Unused

Box 3

Medium-sized placards

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Lines, Letters, Reports, and Newspapers

MLLRN 23-33 Placard Size: 8.43” x 10.87”

MLLRN 23

Description: Captain George Forrester Williams, 5^th and 146^th New York Infantry, Bullet and Shell: the Civil War as the Soldier Saw it. New York City, April, 1861

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 24

Description: Civil War Sodier Life: In Camp & Battle by Captain George Forrester Williams

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Used

MLLRN 25

Description: Draft Riots

Informational Placard

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 26

Description:  Drummer Boy. Writer Unknown, Headquarters 13^th Regiment, New York State Militia, Annapolis, Maryland, June 12, 1961

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: unused glue squares on verso

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 27

Description: Drummer Boy. Letter of Drummer Boy William L. McCormick, Baltimore, Maryland, June 19, 1861

Placard with text from historical letter (re. death of Clarence McKenzie)

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 28

Description: John R. King, in “Sixth Corps at Petersburg. Its Splendid Assault, Which Broke the Main Line of the of the Rebels,” Gave This Account, Which he Entitled “A Pathetic Incident,” of the Mortal Wounding of Clifton Kennedy Prentiss and William Scollay Prentiss.

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 29

Description: Journal of Colonel CharlesWainwright, 1^st New York light Artillery. White Oak Road, near Patersburg, Virginia April 1, 1865

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 30

Description:  Memoir of Private Robert Knox Sneden, 40^th New York Volunteer Infantry. Near Yorktown, Virginia, April 12, 186_ (sic.)

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 31

Description: Letter of Captain’s Clerk Daniel Toffey. Naval Battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (the Merrimack), March, 1862 (written March 10, 1862, aboard the U.S.S. Monitor)

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 32

Description: Letter of Captain George Washington Whitman, 51^st New York Volunteer Infantry. Petersburg, Virginia July 30, 1864 (written August 8, 1864)

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Used

MLLRN 33

Description: Letter of Captain Henry Augustus Sand, 103^rd New York Volunteer Infantry. Otto’s Farm Hospital, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 21, 1862. (To his brother)

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused, tape on verso

Condition: Unused

Folder 2: Miscellaneous Lines, Letters, Reports, and Newspapers (cont.)

MLLRN 34-46 Placard Size: 8.43” x 10.87”

MLLRN 34

Description:  Letter of Captain Henry Augustus Sand, 103^rd New York Volunteer Infantry. Otto’s Farm Hospital, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 24, 1862. (To his sister)

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 35

Description: Letter of Captain Samuel Harris Sims 51^st Regiment, New York State Volunteer Infantry. Camp Before Petersburg, Virginia, July 27, 1864

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 36

Description: Letter from Major Benjamin Ringold, 103^rd New York Volunteer Infantry, to Captain Henry Augustus Sand’s Father. Headquarters of the 103^rd Regiment near Gaskings Mills, Virginia, November 18, 1862.

Placard with text from historical writing

Condition: Unused, tape on verso

MLLRN 37

Description: Letter from max Sand to his brother, Private Henry Augustus Sand, 7th Regiment New York State Militia, At Washington, D.C.

New York City, April 30, 1861

Placard with historical text

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 38

Description:  Letter of Private Frank Lee, 13th New york Light Artillery.

In Field, Camp Near Marietta, Georgia, June 23, 1864

Placard with historical text

Condition: Unused, tape squares on verso

MLLRN 39

Description: Letter from Private John Whitson Seaman, 95th New York Infantry.

New York City, April 26, 1861 (To his mother)

Placard with historical text

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MLLRN 40

Description:

(2nd copy of above)

Letter from Private John Whitson Seaman, 95th New York Infantry.

New York City, April 26,1861 (To his mother)

Placard with historical text

Condition: Used

MLLRN 41

Description: Letter from Private John Whitson Seaman, 95th New York Infantry.

Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 19, 1864 (To his sister)

Placard with historical text

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 42

Description:Report of Brigadier General Fitz John Porter, U.S. Army, as Director of the Siege of Yorktown.

April 7 - May 5, 1862 (written at Division Headquarters, Opposite West Point, Virginia, May 8, 1862)

Placard with historical text

Condition: Used

MLLRN 43

Description: Report of Captain George Faulkner Hopper, 10th New York Infantry.

Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia. Written at Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, December 14, 1862.

Placard with historical text

Condition: Used

MLLRN 44

Description: Statement of Major General Fitz John Porter in his defense at his court martial

December, 1862 - January, 1863

Placard with historical text

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 45

Description: Credit Placard

Thanks to All of the Following, Who Made This Exhibition Possible:

Condition: Unused

MLLRN 46

Description: Stuart J. Mac Pherson, who puts the SIms Collection together writes: During the summer of 1976, I went to Poughkeepsie, New York too begin a month long visit with my grandmother, Ruth (Taggart)...

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Box 4

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Long Boards

MLB 1-4 Placard Size: 20"x 12"

MLB 1

Description: Bramhall Civil War Collection at the Brooklyn Historical Society

Placard with image of Frank J. Bramhall’s Business Card (from BHS)

Condition: Unused, tape on verso

MLB 2

Description: Clarence Mckenzie: “Our Drummer Boy”

Placard with image of “The Little Drummer Boy” (GWHF)

MLB 3

Description Edwin Forbes: Civil War Sketch Artist

Placard with image of Edwin Forbes’ A Rally Round the Flag (GWHF)

plaque card available continuous sarah

MLB 4

Description: African Americans

Placard with image of half-stereoview of newly freed slaves. (GWHF)

MLB 5 Placard Size: 24" x 12"

MLB 5

Description: Memorials of the Civil War in Brooklyn: Photographs by Brian Rose

Placard with image of Brian Rose

MLB 6-14 Placard Size: 30"x 12"

MLB 6

Description: The Ironclad Ship “Monitor”

Placard with illustration of the “Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac” (GWHF)

MLB 7

Description: New York City’s Draft Riots of 1863

Placard

MLB 8

Description: Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and Brooklyn’s Slave Auctions

Placard with image of Henry Ward Beecher, in a post-Civil War uniform og the 13^th Regiment(GWHF) & Image of post-war ceremonies at “Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 14, 1865” (LoC)

MLB 9

Description: Thirteenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Placard with photographic image of Senator John Brooks Henderson, who co-sponsored the 13^th Amendment (GWHF)

MLB 10

Description: Colonel Abraham Vosburgh: An Early Casualty of the Civil War

Placard with hymn sung at his funeral & image of Vosburgh (U.S. Army Military Institute)

MLB 11

Description: Captain Samuel Harris Sims: Hero

Placard with tinted photographic image of Sims (GWHF) and of the 51^st Regiment flank marker (N.Y.S. Military Museum)

Condition: Unused, tape on verso

MLB 12

Description: The Prentiss Brothers: Two Brothers, One South, One North

Placard with photographic image of Clifton Kennedy Prentiss, There is no known image of his brother William. (GWHF)

Condition: Glue remnants at title, crack in back of foam board, some foam tape remnants on front, lower right

MLB 13

Description: Brigadier General Thomas William weeny: The Hero of Shiloh

Placard with photographic image of Sweeny (U.S. Army Military Institute)

Condition: Glue remnants at title, indent at third row of fourth paragraph

MLB 14

Description: Glory: Fort Wagner, South Carolina, July 18, 1863

Placard with just text

Condition: Half Velcro pieces on verso

Box 5

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Enshrined Memories Photographs

EMP 1

EMP 2

These images are reproductions of 2 pages from a 1917 tribute to Civil War Veteran Patrick Hayes

Accompanies BHS 7 Folder 3 (2 out of four images mentioned)

EMP 3

Photograph reproduction of a group of men with Poinsett Cooper in the center of this photograph, with a cigar in his mouth

Accompanies ML 12 Folder 8

EMP 4

Photograph reproduction of men keeping up with news of the war-newspaper were tremendously important to the soldiers on the front line

Accompanies MCWF 1 Folder 9

EMP 5

Photograph reproduction of “Recruiting in New York.” The London Illustrated News, December 27, 1862.

Accompanies GWHF 23 Folder 1

EMP 6

Photograph reproduction of “Embalming surgeon at work.”

Accompanies ML 5 Folder 8

EMP 7

Photograph reproduction of a half stereoview- “A group of contrabands.” Photographic War History, 1861-1865

Accompanies JFC 5 Folder 5

EMP 8

Photograph reproduction of a stereoview of Broadway, New York City, 1861

Accompanies JFC 9 Folder 5

EMP 9

Photographs reproduction of The New York Times headlines from the July 16, 1863 edition.

Accompanies GWHF 24 Folder 1

EMP 10

Photograph reproduction of The Crater, circa 1864. It was the spot that Captain Samuel Sims was mortally wounded.

Accompanies JFC 8 Folder 5

EMP 11

Photograph reproduction of “Buying the Dead after the Battle of Antietam.” Photographic Incidents of the War, No. 561

Accompanies JFC 2 Folder 5

EMP 12

EMP 13

Photograph reproduction of “13th NY Artillery Winter Quarer, Petersburg, Va.”-The men in the photograph are members of what had been Wheeler’s battery just a few months after William Wheeler’s death.

Accompanies JFC 6/7 Folder 5

EMP 14

Photograph reproduction of the Avery family where the wounded Henry Augustus Sand was taken after being wounded at the Battle of Antietam.

Accompanies MCWF 7 Folder 9

EMP 15

Photograph reproduction of a watercolor of Antietam battlefield, painted by Henry Augustus Sand’s sister Emily Sand Rossire, dated 1863

Accompanies MCWF 2 Folder 9

EMP 16

Photograph reproduction of “Refugee Negros Encamped Near Bergen Point, N.J., During the Riot of in New York.” from Pictorial War Record.

Accompanies GWHF 13 Folder 1

EMP 17

Photograph reproduction of “Men of Color, to Arms! Now or Never!” poster, urging black men to enlist in the Union Army to fight for freedom

Accompanies BHS 17 Folder 3

EMP 18

Photograph reproduction of Professor Thaddeus Lowe using his balloon in front of Union line as an elevated platform to observe Confederate deployment and movements

Accompanies GWHF 39 Folder 1

Series 2: "Honoring Their Sacrifice", Saturday, May 28, 2011-Sunday, June 12, 2011

"Honoring Their Sacrifice" began on May 28, 2011 and ended on June 12, 2011. The exhibition was located in the Green-Wood Cemetery’s Historic Chapel. Objects displayed included three Civil War artillery pieces, including a Confederate gun cast in Columbus, Georgia--it is one of five cast, and the only one that survives--a fireman’s badge worn by one of our Civil War veterans, letters by and photographs of our Civil War veterans who lie at Green-Wood, and the casualty list for the 14th Brooklyn Regiment at Gettysburg. A slideshow of faces of Green-Wood’s Civil War veterans was shown. On May 30, 2011, Green-Wood Cemetery staged a Grand Procession in the dark, with Civil War re-enactors standing along the road as honor guards, musicians playing and singing (an eleven-piece brass band, a choir, and two fiddlers plus a dulcimer), luminary candles, and flags on the graves of each of our Civil War veterans.

Organizations and individuals loaned items to this exhibition.

Three boxes are dedicated to this series, each with different size placacards. The folders group placards together based on the contributing individuals and organizations.

Box 6 contains 11 folders of small placards.

Box 7 contains 10 folders of medium-sized placards in a document box.

Box 8 contains 1 folder of oversized placards.

Box 6

Small placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

GWHF 1-63 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

GWHF 1

Description: One of the shoulder boards and a button from Captain Samuel Sim’s uniform.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 2

Description: Samuel Sim’s sketches of a 51st New York Infantry tent and a reproduction of his sketches of contrabands

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 3

Description: In this ivory calendar, Carrie Dayton noted her engagement to Sam and then his death in battle.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 4

Description: Letter written by Captain Samuel Sims to his fiancée, Carrie Dayton, from Jackson, Mississippi, July 4, 1863, with the impression of the flower he enclosed. Sims carried this letter in battle, then wrote a second letter on its back on July 15, 1863.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 5

Description: Carrie Dayton’s best photograph of her fiancé, Captain Samuel Harris Sims, Sims was killed in battle, before they could wed, and she never married. Tortoise shell, ivory, and mother of pearl.

-The Green Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 6

Description: Captain Samuel Sims designed this anchor and cannon emblem as the symbol of the 9th Corps.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 7

Description: The Little Drummer Boy, Clarence D. McKenzie, The Child of the Thirteenth Regiment, N.YS.M., and the Child of the Mission Sunday School. New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church,1861. This book contains transcripts of the letter written by Clarence and his comrades in the 13th Regiment.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 8

Description: Cartes de visite photographs of Samuel Harris Sims, from the Dayton Family photo album

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 9

Description: It was in this trunk, originally the property of Stuart MacPherson’s great grandfather Henry Birdsall Titus, that items kept by Sims’s fiancée, Carrie Dayton (Titus’s sister-in-law),were found.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 10

Description: Major General Henry Slocum, a prominent figure in the Civil War, is memorized with equestrian monuments in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza and on the Gettysburg battlefield.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 11

Description: Civil War veteran George Anthony Stewart (1846-1931) collected these commemorative coins at a post-war reunion. He also attended the 50th anniversary reunion at Gettysburg in 1913. This is the railroad pass and timetable he used to get there.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 12

Description: Lieutenant Henry Hidden died in an heroic cavalry charge. His attack is immortalized in his bronze Green-Wood Cemetery monument by sculptor Karl Miller and this marble carving, also by Miller.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 13

Description: After the Civil War, veteran David Thim (1847-1933) avidly collected Grand Army of the Republic commemorative medals.These are just two of many be collected;they were donated to The Green-Wood Historic Fun Collections by Audrey Penny, a descendant. David Thorn is interred in section 191, lot 23303.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 14

Description: This bible was carried by Medal of Honor winner William Dickey during the Civil War.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 15

Description: “Court-material of Major-General Fitz-John Porter, held December, 1862, at Washington, D.C.” Sketch by Alfred R. Wand. Porter is the man standing at right with the beard.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 16

Description:

From top to bottom: Fitz John Porter’s calling card, April 13, 1882.

This quotation was written by Fitz John Porter.

Major General Fitz John Porter addressed this envelope to his wife during the Civil War.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 17

Description: Electronic stereoviewer, with 3-D images of Civil war scenes. Just look into the viewer and turn the handle to change the view.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 18

Description: This Currier and Ives lithographic print (both Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, the named partners, are interred at Green-Wood) shows Halleck, in 1862, as a great hero.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 19

Description: “Funeral of the Late Colonel Vosburgh of the Seventy-First Regiment, New York State Militia, Passing Through Broadway.” Woodcut published in Harper’s Weekly June 8, 1861. Here the funeral cortege passes in front of the Tiffany store;note the figure of Atlas that has long adorned Tiffany’s Manhattan stores.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 20

Description: This double image of General Ferrero is a stereoscopic view. Stand in front of the image, about 6 inches away from it, and hold the viewer in front of your eyes to see him in 3-D.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 21

Description: Letter, dated July 30, 1861, written by Edward Ferrero to New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan requesting assistance in the raising of a Civil War regiment.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 22

Description: Colonel Cleveland Winslow signed this receipt for the 5th New York Infantry’s regimental colors, received from New York City’s Common Council, on April 25,1863.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 23

Description: General William Gurney’s signature appears on this Charleston tax warrant, issued 1872, in his capacity as treasurer of Charleston County, South Carolina

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 24

Description: Major General Fitz John Porter’s grave at Green-Wood. Note the epitaph: “HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT.”

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 25

Description: Carte de visite photographed of Brevet General William Gurney, who served as colonel of the 127th New York Infantry.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 26

Description: George Volck’s Certificate of Good Standing in Lafayette Post 140, Grand Army of the Republic, dated January 19,1900.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 27

Description: “Attack on Fort Wagner,” tinted engraving from the original painting by Thomas Nast “in possessions of the publishers”: Johnson, Fry&Co., Publishers, New York.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 28

Description: As colonel of the 51st Regiment, New York State Volunteers, Edward Ferrero signed this appointment of Cyrus A. Parson as sergeant, Company I, on October 9,1861

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 29

Description: Enlistment roll for the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry. Samuel Harris Sims is first on this list; his good friend, Augustus J. Dayton, brother of SIms’s fiancée, is listed second.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 30

Description: After the Civil War, Fitz John Porter served New York City as its Commissioner of Public Works, Police Commissioner and Fire Commissioner. Here he writes on the stationery of Police Department. Porter is interred in section 54, lot 5686.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 31

Description: Many considered Thomas Sweeny to be a great hero. This song, “General Sweeny’s March,” was published in his honor in 1863 in New York.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 32

Description: Grand Army of the Republic, Gouverneur Kemble Warren Post No.286, Department of New York, “Descriptive Book: containing occupation, membership dates, and service records of members

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 33

Description: Ferrero’s Art of Dancing and Ball Room Instructor, by Edward Ferrero. Dick&Fitzgerald, New York: 1859. Ferrero rose from dance instructor at West Point to Civil War general.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 34

Description: Grand Army Republic remained active for years after the Civil War, working on behalf of Civil War veterans. This letter, written on the stationery of the Grand Army of the Republic of Kings County’s Memorial and Executive Committee, pertains to George Lightfoot, a soldier from the 79th New York Infantry (the Highlanders) who died in 1864 and whose grave was not marked until 1905.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 35

Description: Photographic portrait of Colonel Edmund Cobb Charles, 42nd New York Infantry (the Tammany Regiment). Severely wounded and captured at White Oak Swamp, Virginia, on June 30,1862, during the Peninsula Campaign, Cobb was imprisoned until discharged for April 25. The remains of Colonel Charles lay in state in the Governor’s Room at New York’s City Hall on the afternoon of April 27,1863, attended by members of several New York regiments and accompanied by the regimental band. Section K, lot 13501.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 36

Description: General Slocum equestrian commemorative pin.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 37

Description: Carte de visite photographs of William Dickey, Medal of Honor winner.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 38

Description: Major General Henry Warner Slocum commanded the defense of Culp’s Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg and fought through Georgia with General William Tecumesh Sherman on his famed March to the Sea. Slocum also represented Brooklyn as a Congressman. The carte de visite shows Slocum during the Civil War; the cabinet card shows him years later.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 39

Description: This New York veteran’s commemorative medal is from the dedication of Major General Slocum’s equestrian statue that now stands in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 40

Description: This paperweight of Major General Solcum’s equestrian statue at Gettysburg in dated September 19, 1902, the date of the dedication ceremony.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 41

Description: Cartes de visite of Major General Edward Ferrero (1831-1899), who rose from dance instructor at West Point to major general general by brevet, and almost got himself courtmartialed along the way.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 42

Description: Reproduction photograph of General Ferrero and staff.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 43

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Lieutenant Henry B. Hidden. A similar image was used by sculptor Karl Müller to model a marble bust of Hidden and the bronze relief that adorns this grave.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 44

Description: Statistics of Class of 1855, Yale College, Collected by William Wheeler, Class Secretary, New Haven, More-house and Taylor, Printers: 1859-showing William Wheeler’s humorous autobiographical sketch.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 45

Description: Samuel Sims’s sketches of 51st New York Infantry tent and of contrabands.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 46

Description: G.A.R. officials often saw to it that their deceased comrades were granted free burial in Green-Wood Soldiers’ Lot.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 47

Description: Cartes de visite photographs of Captain Samuel Harris Sims.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 48

Description: Cartes de visite photograph of Confederate Brigadier General Robert Selden Garnett.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 49

Description: Cartes de visite of Captain Samuel Sims.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 50

Description: State of New York: Fiftieth Anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg, 1913. This photograph of the veterans was taken at this reunion, when most of the old soldiers were in their seventies.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 51

Description: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College, 1864.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 52

Description: Carte de visite photograph of General William Gurney.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 53

Two carte de visite photographs of Major General Henry Halleck.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 54

Description: Carte de visite of Major General Abram Duryée.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 55

Description: Civil War veteran George Anthony Strewart (1846-1931) served as a first class boy in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He collected this scarf at one of the G.A.R. reunions he attended.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 56

Description: Left Samuel Sims was killed at The Crater, after the mine exploded, as he led his regiment, the 52st New York Infantry, in its attack on Confederate fortifications, “Charge of the Second Division Ninth Army into the crater caused by the explosion of the mine in front of Petersburg, July 30,1864.” Engraving of a sketch by A. McCallum in The Civil War in the United States.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 57

Description: This lead bullet was found with other items belonging to Captain Sims. Perhaps it was the bullet that killed.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 58

Description: Captain Sims sent this letter back to his fiancée, Carrie Dayton, in Connecticut. He placed Virginia wildflowers that he had picked for her in the letter.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 59

Description: “Wheeler’s New York Battery Coming Into Action Battle of Gettysburg, U.S.A.” Underwood&Under-wood, Publishers. This is a photograph of a section of the painting, now on display in the Gettysburg Visitors’ Center as a part of the Cyclorama, which was issued as a stereoview.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 60

Description: Photographs of Brigadier General Thomas Sweeny, one taken during the Civil War, the other taken late in life.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection. Gift of Benjamin Pietrobono.

Condition: Used

GWHF 61

Description: Bronze of Brigadier General Thomas Sweeny by James Kelly, dated 1914.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection. Gift of Benjamin Pietrobono.

Condition: Used

GWHF 62

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Colonel Henry Patchen Martin.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 63

Description: These makers were placed by Grand Army of the Republic posts and regimental associations on the Green-Wood graves of their comrades, to honor them.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection. Gift of Benjamin Pietrobono.

Condition: Used

Folder 2: Three Village Historical Society Collection

TVHS 1-8 Placard Size: 5.43”x 2.75”

TVHS 1

Description: William Wheeler’s commission as an officer.

-Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 2

Description: Wheeler graduated from Yale, class of 1855, then studied law at Harvard and University of Berlin (in German).

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 3

Description: Cartes de visite photographs of William Wheeler. From left to right, he is pictured in May 1861, wearing a sergeant’s uniform of the famed 7th New York State Militia; in a photograph taken in Washington, D.C. by the famed Mathew Brady Studio; and October 1861, as a lieutenant in the 13th New York Artillery, just after his re-enlistment, in a photograph by Charles D. Fredericks of 587 Broadway, New York; and in October 1862.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 4

Description: William Wheeler served in the New York State Militia before the Civil War. Here is one of his pre-Civil War commissions.

-Courtesy of Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 5

Description: William Wheeler’s officer’s commission in the 13th Independent Battery, for his October 15, 1861, appointment as first lieutenant, signed by New York State;s Governor Edwin D. Morgan.

-Courtesy of Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 6

Description: William Wheeler was admitted to the practice of law in New York State on May 17, 1860. His career as a lawyer lasted only one year; thereafter he was at war, and was killed in battle by a sharpshooter in 1864.

-Courtesy of Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 7

Description: William Wheeler’s Harvard diploma, dated 1860. He graduated from Yale, class of 1855, then studied law at Harvard and at the University.

-Courtesy of Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

TVHS 8

Description: William Wheelers’ letter of November 10, 1862, written at Adie, Virginia. He writes a to wish his sister Julia a happy 18th birthday.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 3: New York State Military Museum Collection

NYSMM 1-8 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

NYSMM 1

Description: Reproduction of the Battle flag of Captain Wheeler’s Battery.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

NYSMM 2

Description: Print of the flank marker of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry. The original was used during the Civil War to mark the end of this regiment line.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

NYSMM 3

Description: The battle flag of Wheeler’s Battery: “Loyal Till Death.” The names of the battles they fought in have been sewn onto the flag.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

NYSMM 4

Description: Print of the battle flag of 51st New York Volunteer Infantry, in which Captain Samuel Sims served.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Usedcc d

NYSMM 5

Description: Reproduction flag of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (Duryée’s Zouaves).

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Used

NYSMM 6

Description: Print of the flank marker of the 23rd New York State National Guard. Many of this regiment’s veterans are interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

NYSMM 7

Description: Print of the flag of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry (Hawkins Zouaves). Many of this regiment’s men are interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

NYSMM 8

Description: Reproduction flank marker of the 51st New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry, circa 1864.

-Courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 4: Photographs By Jeffrey I. Richman

JIR 1-12 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

JIR 1

Description: This elaborate monument at Green-Wood, featuring cannon,eagles, and swords, honors Major General George Crockett Strong. Two of these eagles were recently recast by Green-Wood’s restoration team.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 2

Description: The Joachim gravestone, just after it was dug out of the ground.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 3

Description: This marble gravestone, scuplted by the firm of Robert Launitz and McAllister, marks the final resting place of Henry Sand at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 4

Description: Monument to Wheeler’s Battery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 5

Description: Photograph of the Civil War Soldier’ Lot, before the ten missing gravestones were dug out of the ground.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

ICC 6

Description: This section of the Gettysburg Cyclorama shows Captain William Wheelers’ battery rushing in to meet Pickett’s Charge.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 7

Description: Photograph of the Garnett Family lot, showing the newly installedVeterans Administration gravestone. Because he was secretly buried in 1865, his grave was not marked until now.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 8

Description: The Joachim family descendants in 2007. They read a report in The New York Times about their ancestors and came to Green-Wood to pay their respects.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 9

Description: In 1882, a veteran who had fought in the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry with Captain Samuel Sims was wandering through Green-Wood Cemetery when he discovered that the beloved Sims in an unmarked grave. Funds were raised to right that wrong and this spectacular monument, listing the battles in which Sims had so bravely fought, was dedicated at Green-Wood Cemetery in 1888.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman

Condition: Used

JIR 10

Description: Confederate Brigadier General Robert Selden Garnett was buried at Green-Wood in August, 1865, joining his wife and child who have already been interred there. But, because his burial occurred just months after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and it was feared that his grave would be desecrated if his burial became public knowledge, he was secretly interred. Our Civil War Project has just obtained a Veterans Administration gravestone to mark his final resting place.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 11

Description: This cast zinc monument, fabricated by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport Connecticut and installed in 1886, marks the grave at Green-Wood Cemetery of “Our Drummer Boy” Clarence Mckenzie.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman. The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

JIR 12

Description: Because the original marble gravestones for the Prentiss brothers, after almost a century and a half of exposure to the elements, have become unreadable, our Civil War Project obtained new gravestones from the Veterans Administration. However, the original gravestones were left in place.

-Photograph by Jeffrey I. Richman. The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 5: Photographs By Jeffrey Kraus

PJK 1 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

PJK 1

Description: “13th NY Artillery Winter Quarters, Petersburg, Va.” Photographic History, The War for the Union. War Views, No.2495. Negative by Brady&Co. Published by Edward&Henry T. Anthony. Jeffrey Kraus Collection. These men are members of what had been Wheeler’s Battery, photographed just a few months after William Wheeler’s death.

-Photograph courtesy by Jeffrey Kraus.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 6: Photographs By Brian Rose

PBR 1-5 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

PBR 1

Description: Elizabeth Schular Hamilton was granddaughter of founding father Alexander Hamilton. She is interred between major General Henry Halleck and Major General George Washington Cullum. She was married to Helleck. When Helleck died, his chief of staff, Cullum, married Halleck’s widow.

-Photograph courtesy of the photographer, Brian Rose.

Condition: Used

PBR 2

Description: New York City’s Civil War Soldiers’ Monument (dated 1868 but not dedicated until 1876) is dedicated to the 148,000 men from there who fought “to preserve the Union.” It stands atop Green-Wood’s Battle Hill (named for the Revolutionary War skirmish that occurred there in 1776).

-Photograph courtesy of the photographer, Brian Rose.

Condition: Used

PBR 3

Description: This cast zinc monument, fabricated by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport Connecticut, and installed in 1886, marks the grave of  the “Little Drummer Boy,” Clarence Mckenzie, at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Photograph of the Drummer Boy monument by Brian Rose.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

PBR 4

Description: This statue of Brigadier General Edward Fowler, who commanded the 14th as its colonel at Gettysburg, stands in Fort Greene. It is by sculptor Henry Baerer. Fowler is interred Green-Wood, section 189, lot 16412.

-Courtesy of the photographer, Brian Rose.

Condition: Used

PBR 5

Description: Photograph Civil War Soldiers’ Lot.

-Courtesy of the photographer, Brian Rose.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 7: Rubbings By Megan Phelan/Art Presson

RMPAP 1-3 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

RMPAP 1

Description: These are rubbings from the monument to “The Gallant Sims” at Green-Wood Cemetery.

-Rubbings by Megan Phelan. The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

RMPAP 2

Description: Gravestone rubbings of the Veterans Administration markers that were obtained for the Prentiss brothers by volunteers working in The Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Civil War Project, an ongoing effort to locate the gravesites of all of the Civil War veterans there and to mark an unmarked graves. In this case, the original gravestones still stand, but are unreadable.

-Rubbings by Megan Phelan. The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

RMPAP 3

Description: Rubbing from “Our Drummer Boy” Monument.

-Rubbings by Art Presson. The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 8: Courtesy of Miscellaneous Lenders

ML 1-13 Placard Size: 5.43"x 2.75"

ML 1

Description: Civil War drum, manufactured by Firth, Son&Co., New York, 1864-1865. Clarence Mackenzie likely carried a drum similar to this one.

-Courtesy of Company H, 119th New York Volunteers Historical Association.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 2

Description: Grand Army of Republic banner, circa 1900.

-Courtesy of Company H. 119th New York Volunteers Historical Association.

Condition: Used

ML 3

Description: The old veterans gathered in 1911 at the grave of Henry Lee, for whom their G.A.R. post had been named, to pay their respects

-Henry R. Lee Post #21, GAR, 1911; Photography Collection, Brooklyn Historical Society.

Condition: Used

ML 4

Description: john Whitson Seaman’s Civil War uniform. He was shot in the elbow at the Battle of The Wilderness. Note that one of the sleeves is missing; it was cut off by a doctor so that he could get access to treat the wound.

-Courtesy of S. Gregory Seaman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 5

Description: John Whitson Seaman in his Civil War uniform. He was about twenty years old when this photograph was taken.

-Photograph and all Seaman letter are courtesy of S. Gregory Seaman.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 6

Description: This artillery piece, a bronze Union Mountain Howitzer, was cast in 1853 and used during the Civil War.

-Courtesy of Denny Pizzini.

Condition: Used

ML 7

Description: This bronze Union Cohorn Mortar, cast in 1862, is similar to the Cohorn Mortars used by the Confederate, after Union forces exploded the Mine at the Crater and Union troops mistakenly swarmed into the Crater (rather than attacking to either side of it), to lob shells, with devastating effects, into the Crater. Brigadier General Edward Ferrrero failed badly at the Carter; Captain Samuel Sims was killed there.

-Courtesy of Denny Pizzini.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 8

Description: This gun, a nine pound bronze Confederate artillery piece, was cast at the Columbus, Georgia foundry in 1863 and was used during the Civil War. It is one of only five that were cast, and is the sole survivor.

-Courtesy of Denny Pizzini.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 9

Description: Fredrick bachman’s sword.

-Courtesy of Russell Altman, a descendant.

Condition: Unused

ML 10

Description: Armory Square Hospital, at 6th and B [Independence) Streets S. W., Washington, D.C., August, 1865. It was in this hospital, now the site of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum., that volunteer nurse Walt Whitman cared for Clifton Kennedy Prentiss and his brother, William Scollay prentiss.

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Used

ML 11

Description: Photographs of the damaged turret of the Monitor. Note the dents in the iron of the turret fro the impact of the Merrimack’s shells, which were fired at point blank range.

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Used

ML 12

Description: Armory Square Hospital, at 6th and B [Independence] Streets S.W., Washington, D.C., August 1865. The Prentiss brothers were treated there before succumbing to their wounds.

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ML 13

Description: Captain William Wheeler’s uniform coat and vest.

-Courtesy of the Long Island Museum Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 9: Miscellaneous Civil War Facts

MCWF 1-21 Placard Size: 5.43" x 2.75"

MCWF 1

Description: JOHN HANSON THOMPSON (1842-1663), a native of Connecticut, enlisted as a sergeant in the 106th New York Volunteer Infantry in September 1862. He died from consumption on March 16, 1863, at North Mountain, West Virginia. Two thirds of the soldiers who died during the Civil War died of disease. His father wrote this book in his memory. John is interred at the Green-Wood in section 41, lot 4571.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 1a

Description: JOHN HANSON THOMPSON (1842-1663), a native of Connecticut, enlisted as a sergeant in the 106th New York Volunteer Infantry in September 1862. He died from consumption on March 16, 1863, at North Mountain, West Virginia. Two thirds of the soldiers who died during the Civil War died of disease. His father wrote this book in his memory. John is interred at the Green-Wood in section 41, lot 4571.

Condition: Unused

MCWF 2

Description: For a photograph and rubbings of Captain Sim’s monument at Green-Wood, please see another section of this exhibition.

Condition: Used

MCWF 3

Description: The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day in American history-23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing.

Condition: Used

MCWF 4

Description: Left to right: Captain Daniel W. Horton Brigadier General John Bendix, Colonel William H. Allen, Brigadier General Thompson Sweeny, Corporal Gilbert S. Lawrence, Second Lieutenant Fredrick Jost, Major General Edward Ferrero, Confederate Brigadier General Robert Selden Garnett, Colonel Julius Walker Adams, Colonel Augustus P. Greene, Captain Frank Godine.

Condition: Used

MCWF 5

Description: The Avery barn, like virtually every building near the Antietam battlefield, became a field hospital for some of the men who had been wounded there. It was there that Henry Augustus Sand, after lying on the field for a day and briefly having been taken prisoner, was taken for treatment on September 18. Watercolor painting by Emily Sand Rossire, Henry’s sister.

Condition: Used

MCWF 6

Description: All of the images in this side show are of Civil War veterans who are interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.

Condition: Used

MCWF 7

Description: Captain Henry Augustus Sand was depicted as a hero by his sister, Emily, in her tribute book to him.

Condition: Used

MCWF 8

Description: The Green-Wood Historic Fund purchased the Samuel H. Sims Collection recently from a descendant of Sims’s fiancée, Carry Dayton. Carrie Dayton. Carrie has saved much of the collection; the descendant purchased other Sims material that had been the property of Sim’s grandson, and was at the last minute rescued from a California dumpster several years ago.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 9

Description: Left to right: Rear Admiral Silas Horton Stringham, General-in-chief Henry Wager Halleck, Major General Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Schuyler Hamilton, Private Jewell, First Lieutenant Franklin Butler Crosby, Captain Edmund R. Green, Brigadier General James Jourdan, Captain James Stanley, Captain Henry C. Cooper, Captain Cyrus Hubbard.

Condition: Used

MCWF 10

Description: Above: Painting of Emily Sand Rossire. Die Familie (von) Sand aus Coburg: Chronik eines Geschlects in acht Jahrhunderten, by Peter H. Sand and Walter Sand, Munich/Bonn, 2005. Emily created an album of text and paintings in memory of her brother, Henry Augustus Sand, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.

Condition: Used

MCWF 11

Description: The Green-Wood Historic Fund has published three edition of our Civil War biographical dictionary on CD: in 2007 (with approximately 3,000 biographies), in 2009 (with about 4,000 biographies), and in 2011 (with 4,600 biographies, many of which have been supplemented by new research).

Condition: Used

MCWF 12

Description: Left to Right: Brigadier General William Kerley Strong, Major General Fitz john Porter, General-in-chief Henry Wager Halleck, First Lieutenant Franklin Butler Crosby, Colonel Marshall Lefferts, Major Henry M. Bragg, Colonel John Lafayette Riker, Captain Isaac S. Walkeer, Captain John Faunce, Major General Abram Duryee, Major General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel.

Condition: Used

MCWF 13

Description: Carte de visite photographs, typically 2 1/2 by 4 inches, the size of calling card, were popular during the Civil War. Many soldiers had their photograph taken, as they left for the front, to distribute among loved ones and friends. Because cartes could be mass-produced, it was common for families to collect images of sons and neighbors in uniform as well as those of President Abraham Lincoln, famous generals, and other celebrities.

Condition: Used

MCWF 14

Description: George Washington Whitman, brother of poet Walt Whitman, served with Captain Samuel Sims in the 51st New York Infantry. This is his first hand account of Sim’s death.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MWCF 15

Description: For more about “The Gallant Sims,” please see another section in this exhibition.

Condition: Used

MCWF 16

Description: Green-Wood Historic Fund volunteers placing flags on Veterans Administration gravestones for Memorial Day 2007.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 17

Description: Left, bottom: Otto’s Farmhouse, where the wounded Henry Sand was taken on September 19. Henry shared a bed there with two other wounded Union officers, and, despite his mother’s efforts to nurse him back to health, died there on October 30. This is a reproduction of a watercolor painted by Max Sand, Henry’s younger  brother.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 18

Description: This New York Times article reported on New York City’s Draft Riots of July, 1863. It headlines the wounding of Colonel Edward Jardine.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 19

Description: Carte de visite of some of the Civil War veterans interred at Green-Wood Cemetery. Our Historic Fund has collected these for serveral years. They are just a small part of our Civil War collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 20

Description: Above: This envelope bears the notation, written by Captain Samuel Sims, “Pieces of the Battle Flag of the 51st Rgt. N.Y. Vols., Petersburg (Virginia) July 16/64.” It was not unusual for veterans officers, as an old regimental flag was being replaced by a new one, to cut the old one up and distribute its pieces as souvenirs. What is remarkable here is that the envelope, marked by Sims, has survived with this piece of the flag. Sims wrote this note just two weeks before he was killed at the Battle of The Crater.

Condition: Used

MCWF 21

Description: In addition to the thousands of killed and wounded during the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, more than 10,000 men were listed as missing-either having been captured or having deserted.

Condition: Used

Folder 10: "Please Do Not Lean on Case" Cards

9 cards that read "Please Do Not Lean on Case"

Folder 11: "Please Do Not Touch" Cards

8 cards that read "Please Do Not Touch"

Box 7

Medium-sized placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

GWHF 64-71 Placard Size: 5.31"x 5.31"

GWHF 64

Description: Brigadier General George Crockett Strong, who according to account in the New York Tribune “ has so frequently since his arrival in this department braved death in its many forms of attack,” was wounded in the thigh in the July attack that he commanded on Fort Wagner, and was sent back to New York City for treatment. Any wound at the time was dangerous; one of every seven soldiers wounded in Civil War combat died from his wounds. Strong contracted tetanus as he traveled home and died on July 30. On the day after his death, the Unites States Senate confirmed his production to major general. This carte de visite photograph  is by Mathew Brady’s Studio.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 65

Description: New York City, which sent 148,000 men off to fight to preserve the Union, began erecting its Civil War Soldiers’ Monument on Green-Wood’s Battle Hill (named for the Revolutionary War skirmish that was fought there) in 1868, very early for such a monument. These are two of the original zincs that adorned the monument. In all here were four zincs, representing the four branches of the Army: infantry, artillery, cavalry, and pioneers/engineers.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 66

Description: This map shows the final resting placed of Green-Wood’s identified Civil War veterans. Each red dot marks a Civil War veteran’s grave. Numbers written in red are the total of Civil War veterans in that public lot. We guessed that there might be an area of concentration in the cemetery; as you can see from this map, the Civil War veterans are buried across the entire grounds. Thanks to Tracy Garrison-Feinberg and our other Civil War Projects volunteers for their work on this map.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Used

GWHF 67

Description: The 10th New York Infantry was heavily engaged at the Battle of Fredrick in December 1862. The story of the 10th Infantry survives because of a variety of sources, from woodcut prints to official reports, from postal covers to impromptu memorials to the men who sacrificed their lives for the cause.

Resolution of Meeting the Commissioned Officer of the 10th Regiment New York State Volunteer, at Falmouth, Virginia, Christmas Day, 1862, deploring the death of Lieutenant James M. Bradley. This impromptu memorial was written on a drumhead.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Unused

GWHF 68

Description: Colonel Edward Jardine marched against the rioters during New York City’s Draft Riots of July 1863. For his trouble, he was shot in the leg with a pipe fired from a musket. Jardine, wounded, was carried by his men to the basement of a nearby building. There the mob found him and told him he was about to die. But Jardine talked his way out of his predicament. The damage to leg was permanent; he spent the rest of his life of crutches, with one leg six inches shorter than the other.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 69

Description: Colonel Henry Martin, who commanded the 71st during the Civil War, later organized the 71st Regimental Association and was it first president. Martin sold pianos and speculated successfully in real estate after the War. He left money to the 71st for annual celebration of his birthday (November 13), and the 71st still carries on this tradition. This is the program for one of the early Martin Dinners.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped Prepared

GWHF 70

Description: According to a sketchbook of the 71st New York State Militia, Colonel Henry Patchen Martin (1827-1906) was venerated by his charged who looked up to him as a father; he, likewise, considered them his sons. Martin organized the 71st Regimental Association and was its first president. He left money to the 71st for annual celebration of his birthday (November 13), and the 71st still carries on this tradition. He lies in section 92, lot 8154.

Programme for one of the Henry Patchen Martin Dinners.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 71

Description: Carrie Dayton, who had been engaged to marry Captain Samuel Harris Sims until he killed in battle, kept these items to preserve his memory. Included are peach pits, ostensibly carved by Sims as tokens of his love for her; her ivory diary with notations concerning their engagement and his death; a Ninth Corps badge designed by Sims; her favorite photograph of him; one of the shoulder boards from his uniform; and a match safe that likely was his.

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

GWHF 72-73 Placard Size: 8.31"x 5.37"

GWHF 72

Description: “The Battle of Antietem…”

Informational Placard

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

Condition: Used

GWHF  73

Description: “Impromptu Memorial created by the Officers of the 10^th New York on a drum head…”

Placard to accompany artifact with partial transcript of inscription by Colonel John E. Bendix

-The Green-Wood Historic Fund Collection

Condition: Unused

Folder 2: Three Village Historical Society Collection

TVHS 9 Placard Size: 4.25”x 5.31”

TVHS 9

Description: Letter of William Wheeler, dated September 2, 1863, at Catlett’s Station, Virginia, Headquarters 13th New York Battery. It was common for 19th century Americans to write, as here, in two different directions, to maximize the text that might be written on scarce and expensive paper.  In this letter, Wheeler wrote: “Almost all the people here are extreme secesh, but yet, by a strange inconsistency, or perhaps, by very habit of their former life, they are very hospitable to Union officers.” He went on to describe a visit to family that had five unmarried daughters and four sons (all of whom had served the Confederacy, two of whom had returned home “disabled by wounds”).

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society.

Condition: Used

TVHS 10 Placard Size: 5.31"x 5.31"

TVHS 10

Description: William Wheeler, educated at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, was an extraordinary writer. His mother published his letter eleven years after his death in this volume, Letter of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855, Y[ale] C[ollege], Printed for Private Distribution by His Mother. Riverside, Cambridge: H.O. Houghton and Company, 1815.

-Courtesy of the Three Village Historical Society.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 3: Photographs By Jeffrey I. Richman

JIR 13 Placard Size: 4.25”x 5.31”

JIR 13

Description: This monument, which stands on the field of the Battle of Second Bull Run, marks the line if the Fifth New York Infantry on August 30, 1862. The Fifth was outnumbered and overrun by a massive force of Confederates under Lieutenant General James Longfellow. The 462 men who stood in the line suffered greatly. The inscription on this monument reads in part: “In holding this position, the regiment suffered the greatest loss during the entire Civil War. The casual were; killed or mortally wounded, 124; wounded, 223. Both color bearers and seven out of eight of the color guard were killed; but the colors were brought with honor, off the field.

-Photograph by Jeffery I. Richman.

Condition: Used

JIR 14 Placard Size: 5.37"x 5.37"

JIR 14

Description: Our historian, Jeff Richman, was surprised several years ago when he went to the Jardine family lot and saw no gravestones there. That seemed strange, particularly for a prominent soldier who was so active in the G.A.R. However, when he learned that a historian had a photographs of gravestones in that lot. And here’s what they found-all if these gravestones were below the surface. They were dug up and placed again where they belong.

-Photograph by Jeffery I. Richman.

Condition: Used

Folder 4: Photographs By Brian Rose

PBR 6 Placard Size: 5.37"x 5.37"

PBR 6

Description: Brooklyn’s Monitor Monument stands in McGolrick Park, Greenpoint. The inscription on it reads:

ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC MARCH 9TH, 1862 AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE MONITOR AND IT’S DESIGN-JOHN ERICSSON

-Photograph courtesy of photographer Brian Rose.

Condition: Used

Folder 5: Courtesy of Miscellaneous Lenders

ML 14 Placard Size: 5.37"x 5.37"

ML 14

Description: ISAAC NEWTON (1837-1884), an engineer who has assisted inventor/designer John Ericsson in the construction of the Monitor, acted as engineer on that ship’s maiden voyage and participated in the historic naval on August 20, 1862, to take the position of Superintendent of Construction of Ironclads in New York City. On September 25, 1884, Newton committed suicide. But his obituary in The New York Times makes no mention of his service on the Monitor; memories had faded quickly.

-Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Condition: Used

ML 15 Placard Size: 5.93”x 5.31”

ML 15

Description: This United States cartridge box plate was recovered by metal detectorist Paul Williams near Falmouth, Virginia in 2002. During the winter of 1862-1863, after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, Falmouth was a sprawling Union encampment, occupied by tens of thousands of Union State troops. The spot where this was found has since he paved over with condominiums, shopping plazas, and roads.

Upon cleaning the box plate, Paul found that crudely scratched into its back is “A. Binks 68 PV.” Subsequent research revealed that Private Alexander Binks (1841-1897) of Philadelphia, born in England and a butcher by trade, served in the 68th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Binks likely discarded his infantryman’s cartridge box at Falmouth in April 1863 when he left the 68th and was attached to the 4th New York Independent Artillery. He served with that unit at Gettysburg, where the battery was overrun by Confederates and lost several of their cannons. After the War, Binks moved as a metal engraver. Alexander Binks is interred in section 135, lot 14964.

-Courtesy of Paul Williams.

Condition: Unused

ML 16-18 Placard Size: 5.37"x 5.37"

ML 16

Description: This revolver is inscribed to Major Edward Brueninghausen (1844-1924). It is an 1860 Moore patent model, manufactured circa 1862. A native of Brooklyn and a merchant by trade, Brueninghausen served in the 119th New York Volunteer Infantry as an ordnance officer, acting commissary of subsistence, acting aide-de-camp, and acting provost marshal. He also served in the 58th New York. On March 13, 1865, he brevetted a major “for gallant and meritorious service during the War.” Brueninghausen lived in Brooklyn after the war. In 1873, he applied for anf was granted an invalid pension because of his rheumatism and cataracts resulting from severe eye infections that he had suffered from the hardship and exposure during the Fredericksburg Campaign of December, 1862. He subsequently lost the blurred that could no longer work as a clerk.

-Courtesy of Company H, 119th New York Volunteers Historical Association.

Condition: Unused

ML 17

Description: Currier and Ives capitalized on the market for Civil War memorials, producing pieces this one is the hope of selling them to the soldiers and their loved ones. This one is remarkable because it has three photographs of this regiment’s officers pasted on to it. The colonel of the 127th New York Infantry, William Gurney, was brevetted general at the end of the Civil War. The 127th was nicknamed “The Monitors.”

-Courtesy of Huntington Historical Society.

Condition: Used

ML 18

Description: At the beginning of the Civil War, George N. Dick (1842-1908) enlisted at Brooklyn as a private in the 13th New York State Militia, Engineer Corps. His company left New York on April 23, 1861, and served as infantry in Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. The flag above, property of a descendant, is accompanied by a note:

“Rebel flag taken from pole in city of Baltimore by George N. Dick and Josh------of “Engineer Corps” 13th Regiment NGSNY.”

George Dick lies in section 75, lot 10097.

-Courtesy of Barbara Thompson.

Condition: Used

Folder 6: Miscellaneous Civil War Facts

MCWF 22-23 Placard Size: 5.37"x 5.37"

MCWF 22

Description: BROOKLYN’S 14TH REGIMENT The City of Brooklyn, the Union’s thirds largest city, cent many questions regiments off to fright the Civil War. None of those regiments was more revered by Brooklynites than the 14th. It’s memory is kept alive by photographic portraits of the men who served, by Civil War letters and reports, its regimental history, its flag, and by public sculpture honoring one of its leaders, Colonel Edward Fowler.

Condition: Used

MCWF 23

Description: GREEN-WOOD’S CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS’ LOT In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Green-Wood Cemetery’s trustees contacted the Governor of New York State and offered land for the free buried of soldiers who died of disease or were killed in battle during the Civil War. The cemetery soon expanded this offer to include veterans of the Civil War. In all, 127 Civil War veterans are interred in that lot. Men who died at the Battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Shiloh are buried in that lot. A soldier from a Maine regiment, brought to Brooklyn for medical care, is there. Recent immigrants are in the Soldiers’ Lot: gravestones in their native language, whether German or French, mark their graves.

Condition: Used

MCWF 24-25 Placard Size: 3.50”x 5.25”

MCWF 24

Description: Soon after the Civil War ended, the veterans began to establish fraternal organizations to keep the memories of the War alive. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion was made up of Union officers who had served. The Grand Army of the Republic, with members who had served. The Grand Army of the Republic, with members who had been officers as well as privates and others, had several chapters in Brooklyn, including the Harry Lee Post and the Ulysses S. Grant Post. These veterans diligently tried to preserve, dinners, biographical sketches, and cemetery markers.

Condition: Used

MCWF 25

Description: Thomas Sweeny was a daring a Civil War battlefield leader as there was. Throwing caution to the wind during battle, Sweeny persisted in personally leading his men forward, rater than watching from a distance as most Union generals did, and was wounded nearly every time he did so. General Ulysses S. Grant, aware of Sweeny’s reputation, saw him unscathed after one battle and could not resist teasing Sweeny: “How is it, Sweeny, that you have not been hit? There must be some mistake. This fight will hardly count unless you can show another wound.”

Condition: Used

MCWF 26-31 Placard Size: 5.37" x 5.37"

MCWF 26

Description: On September 8, 1864, Captain J. McEntee wrote concerning the desertion of John (J.L.) Shuttleworth, a Confederate: “One of the deserters examined this morning is a son of [Union] Lieutenant Colonel Shuttle-Navy Yard. He has been in the rebel army of three years, is because he considers their hopeless.” Both John worth (1810-1871), are interred at Green-Wood in section F, lot 20157.

Condition: Used

MCWF 27

Description: These are three of the more than 2,000 granite gravestones that have been obtained by our Civil War Project from the Veterans Administration. Once a veteran is identified, Terry Svensen, a dedicated volunteer, goes out to the gravesite and checks to see if there is a grave marker. If there is not, or if the marker is unreadable, other volunteer then complete the necessary paperwork. All of these gravestones, and a few bronze plaques mounted on granite bases, are then installed by Green-Wood’s staff, free of charge.

Condition: Used

MCWF 28

Description: Frantic construction of the ironclad U.S.S. Monitor began at a shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in October 1861. A new type of ship, one of iron rather than wood, was needed to defend against the attacks of the Confederate ironclad Merrimac. On March 6, 1862, the Monitor steamed for Virginia as fast as it could go to, take on the Merrimac, which was wrecking havoc with the defenseless Union fleet of wooden ships at Hampton Roads. The legendary Monitor-Merrimac naval battle of March 9 made it clear that the age of massive oak fighting ships was over.

The ironclad Monitor, built in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, revolutionized naval warfare, making wooden ships obsolete. Here, on July 9, 1862, the Monitor’s officers pose on its deck in front of its turret, in a photograph by James F. Gibson. Acting Master Louis Stodder is seated at far left; Isaac Newton is standing at far right. Both are interred at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

Condition: Used

MCWF 29

Description: Volunteers working in The Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Civil War Project have identified 4,600 Civil War veterans interred at Green-Wood. Of that number, 2,000 lay in unmarked graves. Markers-either upright granite gravestones or bronze plaques mounted on granite bases-have been obtained to mark these graves. So far, cemetery workers have installed 1300 of these markers. The rest, it is hoped, will be placed out at the appropriate gravesites soon.

Condition: Used

MCWF 30

Description: Battle flags played a key note in Civil War combat. They were symbols of home, family, country and regiment, often lovingly sewn by mothers and wives of the soldiers. In battle, in an era when there was no radio communication, and the roar of combat often made it impossible to hear an officer’s orders, battle flags served as a rallying place for the men. Battle flags were ardently defended: when a color bearer fell, another man was sure to grab the flag and raise it, attempting to rally the men.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 31

Description: The firm of Currier and Ives (both partners, Nathaniel Currier and James Ives,a re interred at Green-Wood) produced prints of many aspects of 19th-century life in America. Their work, inexpensive and often featuring views of everyday life, was tremendously popular; more of their art hung in American homes than that of any other printer. During the Civil War, they marketed lithographs of heroes of the war, battle scenes, and regimental memorials. All of these were aimed at providing inexpensive and often featuring views of everyday life, was tremendously popular; more of their art hung in American homes than that of any other printer. During the Civil War, they marketed lithographs of heroes of the war, battle scenes, and regimental memorials. All of these aimed at providing inexpensive but colorful art to a national audience.

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 32-33 Placard Size: 8.25”x 5.25”

MCWF 32

Description: “Grand Army of the Republic posts…”

Informational Placard with 3 “Objects” of the Post named for General George Crockett Strong

Condition: Used

MCWF 33

Description: “The New York Times reported on the ceremonial unveiling of the memorial…” [to Col. Abraham S. Vosburgh by the 71^st Reg’t]

Information Placard with contemporary color photographic image of monument

Condition: Used

Folder 7: Miscellaneous Civil War Facts (cont.)

MCWF 34-36 Placard Size: 8.50"x 11.00"

MCWF 34

Description: Walt Whitman, “Army Hospital

Condition: Unused

MCWF 35

Description: John R. King, In “Sixth Corps at Pittsburg. Its splendid assault, which broke the Main Line of Rebels,” gave this account , which he entitled “Pathetic incident,” of mortal wounding of Clinton Kennedy Prentiss and William Scollay Prentiss

Condition: Taped/Prepared

MCWF 36

Description: In 1880, Confederate veterans James F. Steele sent this letter from South Carolina to the New York Herald, giving his first hand account of the death of “The Gallant Sims”

Condition: Used

Folder 8: Articles, Letters, Reports, and Statements

ALLRS 1-14 Placard Size: 8.50"x 11.00"

ALLRS 1

Description: Albert D. Richardson, THE FEILD, THE DUNGEON AND THE ESCAPE, BATTLE OF SHILOH, TENNESSEE April 6, 1862

ARTICLES BY CAPTAIN C.H. FISH, IN THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE

Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer, Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862 (written in 1882)

Condition: Used

ALLRS 2

Description: HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND WROTE HOME FROM THE BATTLEFIELD OF ANTIETAM, MARYLAND, WHERE HE WAS LYING MORTALLY WOUNDED September 1862

Condition: Used

ALLRS 3

Description: LINES WRITTEN BY A FRIEND AND READ AT THE FUNERAL OF LIEUTENANT HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, November 7, 1862

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ALLRS 4

Description: LETTERS OF CAPTAIN HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND 103rd New York State Volunteer Infantry, On board the Steamer State of Maine at the dock, Washington, September 5, 1862

LETTERS OF CAPTAIN HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND 103rd New York State Volunteer Infantry, Otto’s Farm Hospital, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 21, 1862

Condition: Used

ALLRS 5

Description: LETTER FROM MAX SAND TO HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE HENRY AUGUSTUS SAND, 7TH REGIMENT NEW YORK STATE MILITIA, WASHINGTON, D.C.

New York, New York, April, 30, 1861

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ALLRS 6

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Camp Observation, near Poolesville, Maryland, October 23, 1861

LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Camp Observation, near Poolesville, Maryland, November 11, 1861

Condition: Used

ALLRS 7

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Fairfax Court House, Virginia, March 29, 1861

LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Camp Duncan, Washington, D.C., January 26, 1862

LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Camp near the Rapidan River, Culpepper Country, Virginia, August 17, 1861

Condition: Used

ALLRS 8

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Franklin, Virginia, General Fremont’s Headquarters, May 23, 1862

LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Camp near Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia, September 14, 1862

Condition: Used

ALLRS 9

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER Fremont’s Headquarters, Franklin, Virginia, May 23, 1863

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ALLRS 10

Description: LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Aldie, Virginia, November 10, 1862

LETTER OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WHEELER 13th New York Light Artillery, Stafford Court House, Virginia, January 10, 1863

LETTER OF PRIVATE FRANK LEE 13th New York Light Artillery, In Field, Camp Near Marietta, Georgia, June 23, 1864

Condition: Unused

ALLRS 11

Description: LETTERS OF PRIVATE SAMUEL H. SIMS 13th New York State Militia, Camp Morgan, Gallows Hill, Baltimore, Maryland, July 3, 1861

REPORT OF MAJOR JOHN G. WRIGHT Fifty-first New York Infantry, Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864 (written at Headquarters , Fifty-first Regiment, August 8, 1864)

Condition: Used

ALLRS 12

Description: REPORT OF BRIGADIER GENERAL PHILP KEARNY United States Volunteers, Sangster’s Station, Virginia, March 2, 1862 (written at Headquarters, First Brigade, 3 miles from Bull Run, March 9, 1862)

REPORT OF CAPTAIN JOESPH K. STEARNS First New York Cavalry. Sangster’s Station, Virginia March 2, 1862, Written at Camp Kearny, Virginia, March 15, 1862

Condition: Taped/Prepared

ALLRS 13

Description: STATEMENT OF MAJOR GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTER IN HIS DEFENSE AT HIS COURT MARTIAL December, 1862-January,1863

Condition: Used

ALLRS 14

Description: STATEMENT OF DR. G.H. HUMPHREY TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES’ COMMITTEE ON INVALID PENSIONS ON BEHALF OF GENERAL EDWARD JARDINE Washington, D.C., 1888

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Folder 9: Civil War Residents

CWR 1-25 Placard Size: 8.25”x5.37” & 10.00”x 5.37”

CWR 1

Description: Brevet Brigadier General Edward Jardine

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 2

Description: Captain William Wheeler (1836-1864)

Condition: Used

CWR 3

Description: Charles S. Wainwright (1826-1907)

Condition: Used

CWR 4

Description: Colonel Kimball (1821-1863)

Condition: Used

CWR 5

Description: Conrad Joachim (1817-1862)

Condition: Used

CWR 6

Description: Duncan Richmond (1834-1864)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 7

Description: Daniel Toffey (1837-1893)

Condition: Used

CWR 8

Description: Edward Fowler

Condition: Used

CWR 9

Description: Edward Marrenner (1843-1909)

Condition: Used

CWR 10

Description: Frederick Bachman (1844-1900)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 11

Description: George Anthony Stewart (1846-1931)

Condition: Used

CWR 12

Description: George Washington Cullum (1809-1892)

Condition: Used

CWR 13

Description: George William Forrester Williams (1837-1920)

Condition: Used

CWR 14

Description: Henry Augustus Sand (1837-1862)

Condition: Used

CWR 15

Description: Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872)

Condition: Used

CWR 16

Description: Henry Warner Slocum (1827-1894)

Condition: Used

CWR 17

John Blackburne Woodward (1836-1896)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 18

John Munroe (1846-1918)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 19

John Whitson Seaman (1843-1922)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 20

Louis Napoleon Strodder (1837-1911)

Condition: Used

CWR 21

Robert Selden Garnett (1819-1861)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 22

Samuel H. Sims (1826-1864)

Condition: Used

CWR 23

Thure De Thulstrup (1848-1930)

Condition: Used

CWR 24

William Donaldson Dickey (1845-1924)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 25

William Gurney (1821-1879)

Condition: Used

Folder 10: Civil War Residents (cont.)

CWR 26-33 Placard Size: 8.50"x 11.00"

CWR 26

Description: ABRAM DURYÉE

(1815-1890)

Condition: Used

CWR 27

Description: THE REVEREND GORDON WINSLOW’S

(1803-1864)

CLEVELAND WINSLOW

(1836-1864)

Condition: Used

CWR 28

Description: FITZ JOHN PORTER

(1822-1901)

Condition: Used

CWR 29

Description: GILBERT ELLIOT

(1843-1895)

Condition: Used

CWR 30

Description: EDWARD FERRERO

(1831-1899)

Condition: Used

CWR 31

Description: EDWARD JARDINE

(1828-1893)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

CWR 31a

Description: EDWARD JARDINE

(1828-1893)

Condition: Used

CWR 33

Description: THOMAS SWEENY

(1823-1892)

Condition: Taped/Prepared

Box 8

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Honoring Their Sacrifice Photographs

HSP 1

Photograph reproduction of Carte de visite photograph of Colonel Henry Patchen Martin

Accompanies GWHF 62 Folder 1

HSP 2

Photograph reproduction of Dr. Joachim (1816-1862) and Charles Joachim’s(1844-1883) tombstone. The Joachim family descendants in 2007 read a report of their ancestors and came to Green-Wood to pay their respect.

Accompanies JIR 8 Folder 4

HSP 3

HSP 4

Photograph reproduction (HSP 3) of 20 year old John Whitson Seaman in his Civil War uniform.

Photographic reproduction (HSP 4) of John Whitson Seaman in his later years.

Accompanies ML 8 Folder 8

HSP 5

HSP 6

Photograph reproduction of General Ferrero and staff

Accompanies GWHF 42 Folder 1

HSP 7

Photograph reproduction of Army Square Hospital, at 6th and B [Independence) S.W., Washington D.C., August, 1865

Accompanies ML 10 Folder 8

HSP 8

Photograph reproduction of the Garnett Family lot, showing the newly installed Veterans Administration gravestone. Because he was secretly buried in 1865

Accompanies JIR 7/10 Folder 4

HSP 9

Photograph reproduction of Captain Samuel Sims monument

Accompanies JIR 9 Folder 4

HSP 10

HSP 11

Photograph reproduction of cast zinc monument, fabricated by the Monumental Bronze Company Bridgeport Connecticut and installed in 1886

Accompanies JIR 11 Folder 4

HSP 12

Photograph reproduction of deceased comrades buried at Green-Wood (were granted free burial) G.A.R. officials often visited

Accompanies GWHF 46 Folder 1

HSP 13

(Look Here, See The Civil War In Stereviews 3-D!) Sign

Accompanies GWHF 17 Folder 1

HSP 14

HSP 15

Rubbing from “Our Drummer Boy” Monument (HSP 14-1 out 2)

Rubbing from “Our Drummer Boy” Monument (HSP 15-2 out 2)

HSP 16

Photograph reproduction of a Captain Henry Augustus Sand portrait with American flags below him

Accompanies MCWF 9 Folder 9

HSP 17

Photograph reproduction of a damaged turret of the Monitor.

Accompanies ML 11 Folder 8

HSP 18

Photograph reproduction of a water color paint of Otto’s Farm by Max Sand, Henry’s younger brother

Accompanies MCWF 17 Folder 9

HSP 19

Photograph reproduction of Major general Henry Slocum’s monument in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza

Accompanies GWHF 10 Folder 1

HSP 20

Photograph reproduction of the battle flag of 51st New York Volunteer Infantry

Accompanies NYSMM 4 Folder 3

HSP 21

HSP 22

Photograph reproduction of the flag of the 9th New York Volunteer Infantry

Accompanies NYSMM 7 Folder 3

Series 3: Second Annual Benefit of Green-Wood, Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Second Annual Benefit for Green-Wood Historic Fund event lasted from 6:00 to 9:30 on Thursday, September 17, 2009. The event was celebrating the artists of Green-Wood. This event featured a unique exhibition of works from the Historic Fund Collection by Green-Wood artists, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Catlin, William Holbrook Beard, Daniel Huntington, and Eastman Johnson. The proceeds from this benefit directly funded the Green-Wood Fund's mandate for preservation projects such as the Gottschalk Project, educational projects in conjuction with local public schools, and community outreach events.

The event presented the De Witt Clinton Award For Excellence to Nancy & Otis Pearsall for their lifelong advocacy for the preservation of the unique architectural and cultural character of New York City.

The evening started with a Pre-Benefit Trolley Tour at 5:00 p.m. hosted by Green-Wood's historian, Jeffrey Richman. The unique exhibition of select works by Green-Wood artists from the Historic Fund Collection shown in the Historic Chapel started at 6:00 p.m. From 7:00 through 8:15 was a performance from Sunset Hillside and dinner featuring live music by Brooklyn Youth Jazz Collective, led by Brian Worsdale. The event ended with a presentation ceremony by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Green-Wood President Richard J. Moylan.

One box is dedicated to this series. Within this series is a folder containing the placards utilized for the event.

Box 1 contains 1 folder of small placards.

Box 9

Small placards

Folder 1: Artists In Permanent Residence

APR 1

Description:

Selections from Green-Wood Historic Fund Collections. Curator-Richard J. Moylan

‘Special thanks to Patrick Orbe and Patrick Orbe Fine Art for invaluable assistance in compiling the collection and this exhibit.’

Exhibition Design and Installation-Art Presson

Biographic and Historic Research-Jeffrey I. Richman

Artists Project Manager-Theresa LaBianca

Exhibition graphics-Marc Zaref

Planning-Kent Madox

Fabrication- Luis Mendez, Domenick Lanzi, William Rivera and Vincent Joesph

Condition: Used

APR 1a

Description:

Both The Artists And The Subjects Of The Painting In This Section Of The Exhibition Have Chosen Green-Wood As Their Final Resting Place.

Condition: Used

APR 2

Description: Albert Pike Lucas

(1862-1945)

Condition: Used

APR 3

Description: Alfred Henry Maurer

(1868-1932)

Condition: Used

APR 4

Description: Asher Brown Durand

(1796-1886)

Condition: Used

APR 5

Description: Bruce Cane

(1857-1937)

Condition: Used

APR 6

Description: Clinton Loveridge

(1838-1915)

Condition: Used

APR 7

Description: Daniel Huntington

(1816-1906)

Condition: Used

APR 8

Description: Eastman Johnson

(1824-1906)

Condition: Used

APR 9

Description: George Catlin

(1796-1872)

Conditions: Damaged, Requires Replacement

APR 10

Description: George Wesley Bellows

(1882-1925)

Condition: Used

APR 11

Description: George Renouard

(1780-1867)

Condition: Damaged, Requires Replacement

APR 12

Description: James Northcote

(1822-1904)

Condition: Used

APR 13

Description: Jean Michel Basquiat

(1960-1988)

Condition: Used

APR 14

Description: Jesse Leach France

(1862-1935)

Condition: Used

APR 15

Description: John Fredrick Kensett

(1818-1872)

Condition: Used

APR 16

Description: John Gadsby Chapman

(1808-1889)

Condition: Used

APR 17

Description: John George Brown

(1831-1913)

Condition: Used

APR 17a

Description: John George Brown

(1831-1913)

Condition: Used

APR 18

Description: John La Farge

(1835-1910)

Condition: Used

APR 19

Description: John Mackie Falconer

(1820-1903)

Condition: Used

APR 20

Description: Josephine Paddock

(1885-1964)

Conditions: Used

APR 21

Description: Louis Comfort Tiffany

(1848-1933)

Condition: Used

APR 22

Description: Lemuel Everett Wilmarth

(1835-1918)

Condition: Used

APR 23

Description: Louis Michel Eilshemius

(1864-1941)

Condition: Used

APR 24

Description: Milklos Suba

(1980-1944)

Condition: Used

APR 25

Description: Philip Evergood

(1801-1973)

Condition: Used

APR 26

Description: Richard William Hubbard

(1816-1888)

Condition: Used

APR 27

Description: Regis Francois Gignoux

(1816-1882)

Condition: Used

APR 28

Description: Samuel Finley Breese

(1791-1872)

Condition: Used

APR 29

Description: Samuel S. Carr

(1837-1908)

Condition: Used

APR 30

Description: Thomas Doughty

(1793-1856)

Condition: Used

APR 31

Description: Thomas Hicks

(1823-1890)

Condition: Used

APR 32

Description: Thure De Thulsrup

(1848-1930)

Conditions: Used

APR 33

Description: Vestie Davis

(1903-1978)

Condition: Used

APR 34

Description: Violet Oakley

(1874-1961)

Condition: Used

APR 35

Description: William Holbrook Beard

(1825-1900)

Condition: Used

APR 36

Description: Werner Hunzinger

(1816-1862)

Condition: Used

APR 37

Description: Andrew Fisher Bunner

(1841-1897)

Condition: Used

APR 38

Description: David Johnson

(1827-1908)

Condition: Used

APR 39

Description: Evelyn Montague Bicknell

(1840-1921)

Condition: Used

APR 40

Description: George Henry Smillie

(1796-1886)

Condition: Used

APR 40a

Description: George Henry Smillie

(1840-1921)

Condition: Used

APR 41

Description: Harry Clay Edwards

(1868-1922)

Condition: Used

APR 42

Description: Harry Roseland

(1868-1950)

Condition: Used

APR 43

Description: Henry Ives Cobb

(1859-1931)

Condition: Used

APR 44

Description: James David Smillie

(1833-1909)

Conditions: Used

APR 45

Description: James Henry Cafferty

(1882-1869)

Condition: Used

APR 46

Description: James Ryder Van Brunt

(1820-1916)

Condition: Used

APR 47

Description: Jessie Willing Gillespie

(1888-1972)

Condition: Used

APR 48

Description: Parker Newton

(1961-1928)

Condition: Used

APR 49

Description: Percival Deluce

(1847-1914)

Condition: Used

APR 50

Description: Violet Oakley

Condition: Used

APR 51

Description: William Hart

(1823-1894)

Condition: Used

APR 52

Description: William Jennys

(1774-1859)

Condition: Used

APR 53

Description: Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)

APR 54

Description: George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)

APR 55

Description: Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

APR 56

Description: John Frederick Kensett (1818-1872)

Series 4: Miscellaneous Photographs

The Miscellaneous Photographs Series is divided into 3 boxes: Green-Wood Restoration, Green-Wood Miscellaneous Photographs, and Civil War Photographs.

Box 10 contains photographs of restoration projects on oversized placards.

Box 11 contains photographs of Green-Wood's monuments, re-enactments, and community outreach events on oversized placards.

Box 12 contains reproduction photographs of the Civil War on oversized placards.

Box 10

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Restoration

GWR1

GWR2

“Historic Preservation” Informational sign about the recently created “Historic Green-Wood Fund” and its goals of preservation and educating of Green-Wood’s unique history 19^th C. detailing at sides (Mounted on two wooden blocks, extending the depth to approx. 1.75”)

GWR3

“Preservation” Informational Placard - about Green-Wood’s Restoration and Preservation Department and the Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Saved in Time program

GWR4

“Saved in Time” placard with images of the Main Entrance Arch and Valentine angel  statue

GWR5

“Our Civil War soldiers are back!” Placard with image of the wax model used to recast one of the old zinc soldier statues (the Canoneer ) from the Soldiers’ Monument. The statues were replaced with bronze replicas as part of the Saved in Time program

GWR6

Restoration before & after photos  “ The “Orphan Angel” which now resides by Valley Water (Repaired, wings replaced, cleaned)

GWR7

Restoration before & after photos “ The David M. Stone mausoleum (cleaned)

GWR8

Restoration before & after photos “ Elsa monument (re-erected and repaired after damage from a fallen tree, cleaned)

GWR9

Restoration before & after photos “ Whitlock table monument (unearthed, repaired, missing columns replaced with cast replicas)

GWR10

Photograph of base of monument to George Crockett Strong, before restoration

GWR11

Photograph of base of monument to George Crockett Strong, after restoration (broken eagle sculptures repaired or replaced, cleaned)

GWR12

“Cleaning the Valentine Angel” Placard with image of a worker pressure-washing the sculpture from a scaffold

GWP13

Photograph of a worker pressure washing the monument to Douglass Williams Burnham from a scaffold

GWP14

Members of the Restoration team posing by a recently raised stone in the Soldier’s Lot

Box 11

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Green-Wood Miscellaneous Photographs

GWM 1

Description: Double sided plaqucard advertising “Brooklyn Green-Wood Cemetery, New York’s Buried Treasure, Written and Photographed by Jeffrey I. Richman

GWM 2

Description: Englargement of a cover of a guide book “The Green-Wood Cemetery, Walk #1 Battle Hill and Back

GWM 3

Description: Enlargement of a cover of a guide book “The Green-Wood Cemetery, Walk #2 Valley & Sylvan Waters

GWM 4

Description: Orange sign with borders, ‘Abrboratum/ Sculpture Garden/ Historic Landmark’

GWM 5

Description:  Green sign, ‘Green-Wood Cemetery, FREE CONCERTS’

GWM 6

Description:  Green sign, ‘Green-Wood Cemetery is... Arboretum’

GWM 7

Description: Green sign, ‘Green-Wood Cemetery is... listed in National and New York Register of Historic Places. PLACE OF HISTORY ‘

GWM 8

Description: Green sign, ‘Green-Wood Cemetery is... Famous Residents’

GWM 9

Description: ‘Green-Wood Cemetery has its share of the famous (Leonard Bernstie, Samuel...)

GWM 10

Description: Green-Wood Cemetery is... Sculpture Garden

GWM 11

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s individuals or events “Artists”

GWM 12

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s individuals or events “Pioneers”

GWM 13

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “Baseball”

GWM 14

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “Building Brooklyn Bridge”

GWM 15

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “ Civil War”

GWM 16

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “Disaters”

GWM 17

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “Murder Scandal”

GWM 18

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “They Built This City”

GWM 19

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “Their Music Lives”

GWM 20

Description: Decorative gold sign, categorizing Green-Wood’s indivduals or events “ The Great Monuments”

GWM 21

Description: Photograph reproduction of the archs at the main entrance of Green-Wood

GWM 22

Description: Photograph reproduction of Valley Water during the spring

GWM 23

Description: Photograph reproduction of an angel statue raising its right hand up-fall leaves in the background

GWM 24

Description: Phtotograph reproduction of an angel statue raising both of its hands up-fall leaves in the background

GWM 25

Description: Photograph reproduction of an angel statue kneeling and praying (missing two hands)-fall leaves in the background

GWM 26

Description: Photograph reproduction of an angel statue with it’s arms crossed, looking down-red all leaves in the background

GWM 27

Description: Photograph reproduction of Elias Howe’s monument during the fall

GWM 28

Description: Photograph reproduction of Horace Greeley’s monument-headshot , shadowing is shown on the lower section of his face, white cloud in the background

GWM 29

Description: Photograph reproduction of angel statue’s head and face-patina cover the statue

GWM 30

Description: Photograph reproduction of a statue of a woman sitting with her legs cross and her hand on her chin

GWM 31

Description: Photograph reproduction of the Rollwagen’s family monument in the fall

Box 12

Oversized placards

Folder 1: Civil War Photographs

CWP 1-5

8” x 10”

CWP 1

CWP 2

Photograph reproduction of Fitz John Porter’s tombstone (CWP 1-1 out of 2)

Photograph reproduction of the corner of Fitz John Porter’s tombstone “I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT” (CWP 2-2 out of 2)

Accompanies JIR 7 (2008-Enshrined Memories) or GWHF 24 (2011-Honoring Their Sacrifice)

CWP 3

CWP 4

Photograph reproduction of Henry Sand’s monument (CWP 3)

The base of Henry Sand’s monument (CWP 4)

CWP4 Accompanies JIR 5 (2008-Enshrined Memories) or JIR 3 (2011-Honoring Their Sacrifice)

CWP 5

Photograph reproduction of old veterans gathered in 1911 at the grave of Henry Lee

Accompanies BHS 15 Folder 3 (2008-Enshrined Memories) or ML 3 Folder 8 (2011-Honoring Their Sacrifice)

CWP 6

Small photograph reproduction of the Grave of John Munroe, Civil War veteran

Irregular, approx. 4” x 4.5”

CWP 7

Reproduction of photographic portrait of Daniel Toffey, the Captain’s Clerk of the U.S.S. Monitor at the time of the naval battle with the Merrimack

4” x 3”

CWP 8

Photograph reproduction of one of Green-Wood’s Civil war Veterans

5.25” x 3”

CWP 9

Photograph reproduction of a group of Fire Zouaves held as prisoners of war in a Richmond Prison, which they nicknamed “Hotel Zouave” in defiance to their captors

4” x 6”

CWP10

Reproduction print, “Wheeler’s New York Battery Coming into Action” - Battle of Gettysburg

4” x 6”

CWP11

Reproduction of photographic portrait of Rev. Gordon Winslow, Civil War Veteran – Though his body was never recovered, his family, including veteran Cleveland Winslow are interred at Green-Wood

6” x 4”

CWP12

Reproduction of Political Cartoon – “Which is the Patriot? Judge Ye!” Aqttempted Assassination of Liberty by Jeff. Davis and Alex Stephens

5” x 6”

CWP13

Reproduction print of soldiers playing a game at a G.A.R. Post – Sourced from an illustrated newspaper

&’ x 5.25”

CWP 14

Photograph Reproduction of one of Green-Wood’s Civil war Veterans – Taken post-war

7” x 5”

CWP 15

Reproduction image of G.A.R. Document, Henry Lee – Post No. 21, Personal War Sketch of George N. Dick

5.25” x 8”

CWP 16

Reproduction of photographic portrait of General Henry Warner Slocum

7.25” x 6”

CWP 17

Reproduction print of the Draft Riots outside the N.Y. Tribune Office – Source:  Harper’s Weekly Aug. 1, 1863 “Charge of the Police on the Rioters at the ‘Tribune Office.’”

5.375” x 9.5”

CWP 18

2.625” x 4.25”

CWP 19

6.125” x 10”

Photograph reproduction of the reverse of a Civil War Cartridge Plate inscribed by Private Alexander Binks – “A. Binks 68 PV”

CWP 20

Reproduction of photographic portrait of Brigadier General Edward Fowler of Brooklyn’s 14^th Regiment

6” x 9”

CWP21

Reproduction of a stereoview card of Green-Wood’s “Soldiers’ Monument”

5.75” x 11.625”

CWP22

Photograph reproduction of the Memorial to the 5^th Regiment NYSV (Duryee’s Zouaves) in Manassas, VA

8” x 10”

CWP23

Detail of a bronze relief from the base of the equestrian monument to Fitz John Porter, Portsmouth, NH – Depicts Porter’s “unplanned” balloon ride of August 1862 in VA

11” x 8”

CWP24

Photograph of the recently unearthed original monument and newly installed Veteran’s Administration monuments to father and son, Conrad and Charles Joachim – Soldiers’ Lot at Green-Wood

4” x 6”

CWP25

Photograph of the original monument and Veteran’s Administration monuments to father and son, Conrad and Charles Joachim – Soldiers’ Lot at Green-Wood

8” x 10”

CWP26

Photograph of the monument to Eliza Joachim (wife of veteran Conrad Joachim) – located near the Soldiers’ Lot

8” x 10”

CWP27

Photographic portrait of a Civil War Reenactor of the 54^th Regiment, Massachusetts

12” x 8”

CWP28

Photographic image of a Civil War Reenactor of the 54^th Regiment, Massachusetts on the “Battlefield”

12” x 8”

CWP29

6” x 4”

CWP30

11” x 8”

Reproduction of a 19^th Century photograph of Green-Wood’s monument to Abraham Vosburgh

CWP31

Photograph of Green-Wood employees Felipe and Elvis installing a new Veteran’s Administration monument to one of our Civil War veterans

14” x 9”

CWP32

Reproduction of photographic portrait of Walt Whitman (not a G-W Res.) – American writer who volunteered as a Civil War nurse, caring for and writing about patients including the Prentiss brothers

12.5” x 10”

CWP33

Reproduction print of a Civil War Recruiting Station in N.Y.’s City Hall Park – From Frank Leslie’s “The Soldier in our Civil War,” 1893

10.25” x 14”

CWP34

Photograph reproduction of veterans from the North and South revisiting the battlefields after the Civil War

12.25” x 14”

CWP35

Photograph reproduction depicting staff of the New York Herald stationed to report Civil War news

11.25” x 14”

CWP36

Photograph reproduction, burying the dead at Fredericksburg, VA

15” x 14”

CWP37

Reproduction of photograph of Officers of the U.S.S. Monitor taken after the battle with the Merrimack – Includes Green-Wood Residents Louis Napoleon Stodder (far left) and Isaac Newton (standing far right)

12.25” x 16”

CWP38

Photograph reproduction of female children in the courtyard of the Colored Orphan Asylum (Destroyed in the 1863 Draft Riots)

10” x 10”

CWP39

Photograph reproduction of male children in the courtyard of the Colored Orphan Asylum (Destroyed in the 1863 Draft Riots)

9.25” x 10”

CWP40

Black and white photograph reproduction of a classroom at the Colored Orphan Asylum (Destroyed in the 1863 Draft Riots)

10” x 10”

CWP41

Sepia-toned photograph reproduction of a classroom at the Colored Orphan Asylum (Destroyed in the 1863 Draft Riots)

14” x 14”

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: "Enshrined Memories: Brooklyn and the Civil War", Saturday, September 15, 2007-Saturday, January 5, 2008],
[Series 2: "Honoring Their Sacrifice", Saturday, May 28, 2011-Sunday, June 12, 2011],
[Series 3: Second Annual Benefit of Green-Wood, Thursday, September 17, 2009],
[Series 4: Miscellaneous Photographs],
[All]

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