[CIVIL WAR] Lincoln & Cabinet Stationary: Soldier's Letter

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Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

By Fleischer's Auctions

Oct 10, 2025

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Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  Autograph letter signed by Ernest Leolin "Lee" Lapham, Co. G, 25th Ohio Infantry. Alexandria, Virginia, 23 March 1864. 3 pages, 8vo. On rare lithographed lettersheet featuring jugate portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. 

   

  A letter written by 18-year-old Ernest Leolin "Lee" Lapham (b. 1846), who had enlisted just a month earlier as a private into Company G of the 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The letter here recounts the first few weeks of traveling from Camp Chase to Washington, D.C., where he was stationed to guard supplies near Alexandria, Virginia. 

   

  Of particular note is the very rare lithographed lettersheet Lapham used, featuring portraits of President Lincoln and 8 members of his cabinet. 

   

  [Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

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