This collection consists of manuscript and other paper items collected by Rosanna A. Blake. Included are letters, diaries, correspondence, unit rosters, Confederate imprint forms and currency, 1860-1865. Also included are 3D items including firearms, edged weapons, tin soldiers, original Civil War art work, the Volck shield, and Southern periodicals relating to the Civil War. Notably, the collection includes 3 original Robert E. Lee letters, 1 Jefferson Davis letter, and 2 general orders dictated by Lee. The O'Brien sub-collection contains Civil War pamphlets and booklets, over 300 monographs and books, photos, CDV's, original Civil War art work, the Volck shield, ambrotypes and tintypes, one original Robert E. Lee letter, original Civil War sketches and etchings, and other 3D items. Most materials are Confederate related.
The digitized items here do not represent the entirety of the Rosanna Blake Collection, 1818-2000. To view what other materials are in this collection but not yet digitized and available online, search the guide to the Rosanna Blake Collection, 1818-2000.
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Carte de visite of 7 Confederate Generals
Carte de visite of Confederate Generals: John B. Hood, Sterling Price, Nathan Forrest, Joseph Johnston, Kirby Smith, Braxton Bragg, Franklin Gardner. No backplate. Small balloons on front read:"Rebel Army" and "of Southwest" Filed in CDV folder with Forrest, Nathan Bedford.
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Carte de visite of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and wife Carlotta
Carte de visite of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and wife Carlotta, ca. 1864-1867, b&w Maximilian I of Mexico (6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867; born Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria) was a member of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine. After a distinguished career in the Austrian Navy he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico, during the Second Mexican Empire, with the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists on 10 April 1864. Maximillian tried earnestly to solve Mexico's problems but could not: he was caught by liberal forces in 1867 and executed. Carlotta was Daughter of Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, king of Belgium, a Protestant, and Louise of France, a Catholic, the Princess Charlotte married Maximilian, archduke of Austria, younger brother of the Hapsburg Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I, on July 27, 1856.
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Chabard or Chaburt Carte de visite
Carte de visite marked "Chabard" Could be Julius Chaburt, Confederate Naval Officer aboard the CSS Shenandoah.
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Charles H. Neuman
Charles H. Neuman of Woodstock, Va. Carte de visite. Inside cover of small album reads "Charles H. Newman, Lexington, Virginia March 20th/66"
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Circular Order from the Office of orders and Detail of the C.S. Navy, dated 1864, giving allowance for mileage for officers.
Circular Order from the Office of orders and Detail of the C.S. Navy, dated 1864, giving allowance for mileage for officers. Was written by command of the Confederate Secretary of the Navy. Signature may be Keel or Kee?
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George N. Hollins Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate Naval Commander George N. Hollins. No backplate.
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Handwritten letter from Madora Mums(?) to her friend Emma ---, dated Charleston (S.C.?) Dec. 15, 1864, discusses Yankeys coming.
Handwritten letter from Madora Mums(?) to her friend Emma ---, dated Charleston (S.C.?) Dec. 15, 1864,discusses Yankeys coming. Letter is about the "Yankeys" coming to Columbia and other places. She wrote: "Father of mercies hear our prayer and shed the light of thy countenance on us."
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Henry Cornelius Burnett Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate Congressman Henry Cornelius Burnett. Anthony studio of New York. From a Matthew Brady Negative. Backplate reads "Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York, from a photographic Negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery."
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Herschel Vespasian Johnson Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Herschel Vespasian Johnson, member Confederate Senate, and Governor of Georgia. Print is from a negative by Matthew Brady.
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James Murray Mason Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate diplomat to Great Britain, James Murray Mason.
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Jefferson Davis Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. No backplate.
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John N. Maffit Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate Capt. John Newland Maffit. Captain of the CSS Florida. No backplate.
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Possibly taken in England. Taken early in the Civil War. Backplate shows interesting CSA flag, and "published by S. C. McIntyre, Pensacola, Florida, copyright secured."
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Judah P. Benjamin
Carte de visite of Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. No backplate. Benjamin was also the Confederate Attorney general and Secretary of War.
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Lawrence O. Branch Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate General Lawrence O'Bryan Branch. No backplate. No photo of Branch in his Confederate uniform is known to exist. Killed in action at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862. The attached image is of Branch, but mis-captioned. It is a pre-Civil War image of him in a U.S. Army uniform as he would have appeared during the Seminole Wars.
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Leonidas Polk Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate General Leonidas Polk. No backplate. Polk was killed in action at Pine Mountain, Ga., on June 14, 1864.
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Leroy Pope Walker Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker. Appears to be from a photo in the National Archives.
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List of guards assigned from 19th Regiment Virginia Militia to guard a CSA military prison and hospital, 22 July 1864. Lieut. James A. Scott, Co E commanding.
List of guards assigned from 19th Regiment Virginia Militia to guard a CSA military prison and hospital, 22 July 1864. Lieut. James A. Scott, Co E commanding. All the guards listed were from the 19th Regiment Virginia Militia. Notation on back says it was CS hospital No. 1.
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Louis T. Wigfall Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Confederate General and Senator Louis Trezevant Wigfall. Wigfall served in the U.S. Senate, pre-war, and the Confederate Senate.
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Lucius Q. C. Lamar Carte de visite
Carte de visite of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar. U.S. Congressman pre-Civil War, Confederate colonel and special commissioner to Russia for the Confederate Govt., and Secretary of the Interior in 1885.
