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

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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