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],
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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

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],
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