Civil War Antique Categories
Browse letters, photographs, documents, buttons, textiles, flags, currency, veterans’ material, home-front objects, and cautious educational arms pages.
Letters and Correspondence
Wartime letters, envelopes, patriotic covers, censored mail, home-front correspondence, and identified family groups.
Diaries and Journals
Daily service, camp life, marches, hospitals, prisons, politics, and family experience recorded in bound or improvised books.
Military Documents
Discharges, enlistments, commissions, orders, passes, payroll records, hospital papers, and administrative forms.
Civil War Photographs
Ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, albumen prints, stereographs, cases, mounts, photographer imprints, and identifications.
Uniform Buttons
Federal, state, staff, militia, local, and postwar buttons studied through faces, backmarks, shanks, manufacture, and archaeological context.
Belt Plates and Buckles
Waist-belt plates, cartridge-box plates, shoulder-belt plates, state patterns, militia pieces, hooks, lead fill, and excavated relics.
Insignia, Medals, Pins, and Ribbons
Hat devices, corps badges, service medals, reunion badges, ribbons, unit pins, and veterans’ organization material.
Uniforms and Military Textiles
Coats, trousers, shirts, sashes, straps, chevrons, blankets, sewing, linings, labels, repairs, and family preservation.
Flags, Guidons, and Colors
National colors, regimental flags, company flags, guidons, presentation flags, fragments, inscriptions, staffs, and postwar copies.
Maps, Atlases, and Battlefield Plans
Campaign maps, field sketches, newspaper maps, pocket maps, engineer material, printed atlases, annotations, and provenance.
Newspapers and Broadsides
Battle news, casualty lists, proclamations, recruiting notices, election material, local war news, and commemorative printing.
Posters, Prints, and Engravings
Recruiting posters, lithographs, portraits, battle prints, memorial images, political cartoons, and popular visual culture.
Currency, Scrip, and Fiscal Paper
Confederate notes, obsolete banknotes, state and local scrip, military checks, coupons, bonds, and related financial documents.
Civil War Tokens
Patriotic and store-card tokens, dies, metals, merchants, slogans, varieties, restrikes, and third-party certification.
Sutler and Camp Trade Material
Sutler tokens, invoices, tent signs, checks, store cards, containers, personal purchases, and soldier commerce.
Medical and Hospital Material
Hospital papers, medical kits, nursing objects, sanitary commission material, medicine containers, surgeon records, and patient history.
Camp and Field Equipment
Canteens, haversacks, knapsacks, mess gear, tents, blankets, tools, writing sets, and personal camp objects.
Soldiers’ Personal Effects
Wallets, sewing kits, shaving gear, pipes, devotional objects, photographs, keepsakes, rings, and identified pocket contents.
Books, Pamphlets, and Imprints
Military manuals, sermons, political pamphlets, regimental histories, memoirs, songsters, tracts, and soldiers’ owned books.
Sheet Music and Songsters
Patriotic songs, campaign music, minstrel material, soldiers’ songbooks, publishers, illustrated covers, and home-front performance.
Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom Documents
Manumission papers, abolition material, contraband-camp records, USCT recruitment, freedpeople’s records, and emancipation-era print culture.
United States Colored Troops Material
USCT photographs, documents, recruiting material, unit records, badges, letters, and family history.
Naval and Maritime Material
Navy photographs, documents, shipboard objects, blockade material, sailor effects, charts, and river-war history.
Prisoner-of-War Material
Prison letters, parole papers, diaries, camp-made objects, exchange records, Andersonville and Union prison history.
Home-Front Material
Aid societies, fundraising fairs, mourning, rationing, political organizing, women’s work, businesses, schools, and local community records.
GAR and Union Veterans’ Material
Grand Army of the Republic badges, ribbons, post records, encampments, uniforms, photographs, memorial objects, and reunions.
Confederate Veterans and Reunion Material
United Confederate Veterans badges, reunion ribbons, camp records, memorial material, and postwar Lost Cause imagery.
Autographs and Signed Material
Soldier, officer, politician, nurse, abolitionist, and civilian signatures studied with document context and handwriting comparison.
Firearms and Long Arms
Historical identification of muskets, rifles, carbines, conversions, markings, stocks, repairs, and provenance.
Swords, Sabers, and Bayonets
Historical identification of blades, hilts, scabbards, maker marks, inspector marks, unit associations, repairs, and postwar presentation pieces.
Ammunition and Projectiles
Educational identification of bullets, cartridges, shells, fuzes, and artillery fragments with strict safety and legal controls.