Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Artwork from the George D. Lacy & Louis A. Irmo Collections, 1243, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 564 items in 23 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102

[CIVIL WAR]. [HOOD'S BRIGADE]. Pair of First Editions...

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
103 HOWARD, McHenry (1838-1923)

[CIVIL WAR]. Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under Johnson, Jackson and Lee

Baltimore, MD 1914 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 156.25
104 HUNTER, Alexander (1843-1914)

[CIVIL WAR]. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

New York 1905 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 468.75
105 HOOD, J. B. (1831-1879)

[CIVIL WAR]. Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies

New Orleans, LA 1880 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
106 HOWARD, Major General Oliver Otis (1830-1909)

[CIVIL WAR]. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard Major General United States Army

New York 1907 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 156.25
107 HOUGHTON, W. R. and HOUGHTON, M. B.

[CIVIL WAR]. Two Boys in the Civil War and After

Montgomery, AL 1912 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
108 Lt. Col. JONES, Jr., Charles C. (d. 1870)

[CIVIL WAR]. Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery During The Confederate Struggle for Independence

Albany, NY 1867 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 218.75
109 [NEWLIN, William H., et al.]

[CIVIL WAR]. [ILLINOIS INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS]. A History of the Seventy-Third Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers: Its Services and Experiences in Camp, on the March on the Picket and Skirmish Lines, and in Many Battles of the War, 1861-65...

[N.p.] [1890] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
110 COOKE, John Esten (1830-1886)

[CIVIL WAR]. [JACKSON, Thomas "Stonewall" (1824-1863), subject]. Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography

New York 1876 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 593.75
111 JERVEY, Susan B. (1840-1926) and ST. J. RAVENEL, Charlotte (d. 1875)

[CIVIL WAR]. Two Diaries

[St. John's] 1921 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
112 JOHNSON, General Adam R. ("Stovepipe Johnson," 1834-1922)

[CIVIL WAR]. The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army

Louisville, KY 1904 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
113 JOHNSON, Major John (1829-1907)

[CIVIL WAR]. The Defense of Charleston Harbor, Including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands

1863-1865 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
114 JONES, J. B. (1810-1866)

[CIVIL WAR]. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Philadelphia 1866 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 406.25
115 DICKERT, D. Augustus (1844-1917)

[CIVIL WAR]. [KERSHAW, General Joseph Brevard (1822-1894), subject]. History of Kershaw's Brigade, with Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, Etc.

Newberry, SC 1899 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
116 JENKINS, John H. (1940-1989)

[CIVIL WAR]. [LEAF BOOK]. [HEARTSILL, W. W. (1839-1916), association]. The Most Remarkable Texas Book. An Essay on W. W. Heartsill's Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army

Austin, TX 1980 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
117 [LEE, Robert E. (1807-1870), DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889), BUCHANAN, Admiral Franklin (1800-1874), contributors]

[CIVIL WAR]. The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War 1861 -- 1895...

Louisville, KY 1895 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
118 [LINDSLEY, John Berrien (1822-1897), editor]

[CIVIL WAR]. The Military Annals of Tennessee

Nashville, TN 1886 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
119 LOGAN, Mrs.

[CIVIL WAR]. India W. P. Kelion Franklin Peddicord of Quirk's Scouts Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A. Biographical and Autobiographical

New York and Washington 1908 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
120 LONGSTREET, Lt. General James (1821-1904)

[CIVIL WAR]. From Manassas to Appomattox

Philadelphia 1896 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 2,750.00
121 LONGSTREET, Lt. General James (1821-1904)

[CIVIL WAR]. From Manassas to Appomattox

Philadelphia 1896 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
122 LONGSTREET, Lt. General James (1821-1904)

[CIVIL WAR]. From Manassas to Appomattox

Philadelphia 1896 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 531.25
123 LONGSTREET, Lt. General James (1821-1904)

[CIVIL WAR]. From Manassas to Appomattox

Philadelphia 1896 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 812.50
124 LONGSTREET, Lt. General James (1821-1904)

[CIVIL WAR]. From Manassas to Appomattox (2 Copies)

Philadelphia 1896 USD 350.00 - 750.00 USD 1,000.00
125 SANGER, Donald Bridgman (1889-1947)

[CIVIL WAR]. [LONGSTREET, General James (1821-1904), subject]. Longstreet. The Story of a Fighter

Chicago 1934 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
126 LONN, Ella (1879-1962)

[CIVIL WAR]. Foreigners in the Confederacy

Chapel Hill, NC 1940 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 875.00
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