CIVIL WAR GENERAL OO HOWARD DW WHITTLE PHOTOGRAPHS LETTER WR MOODY UNION SOLDIER

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CIVIL WAR GENERAL OO HOWARD DW WHITTLE PHOTOGRAPHS LETTER WR MOODY UNION SOLDIER:
$149.00

MAJOR TROVE OF CIVIL WAR AND MUSIC HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHS, CORRESPONDENCE AND EPHEMERA. Included in the lot are the following items:
A cabinet card photograph of General Oliver O. Howard – in uniform and with the sleeve folded that would have held his lost arm. On the back of the card are the following annotations: “Gen. Howard” “To be returned to Mrs. Whittle” “Major Whittle was Aid de Camp to Gen. O.O. Howard” “Return to Mrs. W.R. Moody.\" According to an onlinebiography, \"Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. As a brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, Howard lost his right arm while leading his men against Confederate forces at Fair Oaks in June 1862, an action which later earned him the Medal of Honor. As a corps commander, he suffered two humiliating defeats at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in May and July 1863, but recovered from the setbacks as a successful corps and later army commander in the Western Theater. Known as the \"Christian general\" because he tried to base his policy decisions on his deep religious piety,[1] he was given charge of the Freedmen\'s Bureau in mid-1865, with the mission of integrating the freed slaves into Southern society and politics during the second phase of the Reconstruction Era.\" Also include are items associated with D.W. Whittle. According to an online source, \"Major Daniel Webster Whittle (born 1840 November 22 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; died 1901 March 4, Northfield, Massachusetts) was a 19th-century American gospel song lyricist, evangelist, and Bible teacher. He was associated with the evangelistic campaigns of Dwight Lyman Moody. Marrying Abbie Hanson in 1861 the night before he deployed with Company B of the 72d Illinois Infantry, he served in the American Civil War. He was wounded at Vicksburg and marched with General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces through Georgia. Whittle was breveted with the rank of major at the end of the war and is still widely known among hymnologists as Major Whittle. Settling in Chicago to work for the Elgin Clock Company, he became closely associated with Moody, who successfully encouraged him to go into evangelistic work. One of Whittle’s war experiences served as the basis for the gospel song \"Hold the Fort\" by Philip Paul Bliss, of whom Whittle edited a biography.\" The lot offered here includes a remarkableletter written by Whittle from “Northfield Mass Mar 27 1894” to his son regarding financial matters “If you see Mr. Modica, tell him that I appeal to him as an Army Comrade not to leave me in the lurch in this matter. He is sensitive to his standing among the old soldiers and will, I think, try and pay me.” In another passage, Whittle asks his son, “Would it not be well for you and Bessie [?] , in view of the experience of the past five years, to make special prayer as to whether God wants you in business at all? It may be His will that you should use the knowledge he has given you of the way of salvation for the good of your fellow man by devoting you life to some direct work for Christ….Your loving father, D.W. Whittle.” Poignantly, the letter is accompanied by a paperbound 61-page volume titled VICTORY and memorializing the life of Charles E. Whittle [1866-1894], the only son of Major D.W. Whittle, the well-known evangelist [who] was killed by a fast passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern tracks near Elmherst at 7 o’clock Thursday evening, May 10 [1894] – only about six weeks after his father wrote the letter to him. The volume, which is signed in pencil on the flyleaf by Mary W. Moody, reprints letters to D.W. Moody, including one by Dwight L. Moody – and ends with Whittle’s hymn “Be Still, My Heart” [attributed to “El Nathan,” a pseudonym used by D.W. Whittle.
Other items include:
- An offprint of a 1963 article by Bernard R. DeRemer titled “The Union Major with the song-filled heart.”
- A vintage Kodak envelope containing one negative and four CDVs:1. “Frank Hanson, brother of Mrs. D.W. Whittle / Lived in Chicago Illinois”2. ”Joseph Hanson of Yankton [Dakota?] brother of Mrs. D.W. Whittle3. “Robert Whittle, youngest brother of D.W. Whittle”4. “Father of D.W. Whittle / [Post Master?] of Chicopee Falls, Mass”
- A picture of an unidentified house
- A large format (7” x 5”) tintype of a family seated in front of a house. D.W. Whittle appears to be the gentleman on the far right- An albumen photograph (6.75” x 4”) of a house. On the back, is the inscription: “Buena Parke Chicago / House in which May Whittle was born”- Mary Whittle Moody’s partially completed application to the Daughters of the American Revolution (two versions: one is handwritten and the other typed), accompanied by a Feb. 18, 1938 letter to Mrs. Mary Moody from a DAR official re: applying.- An envelop postmarked 1924 and addressed to “Mrs. W.R. Moody / East Northfield, Mass.” Inside is November 3, 1924 from Mary E. Pinkham to “My dear cousin” and containing the following photographs:- 1. A tintype marked “Joseph Hanson”- 2. A small oval albumen photograph marked, “Ella Leach’s brother”- 3. A piece of paper with four oval albumen photographs pasted down: two pages of “Daniel Chesley Pinkham / Your great uncle. He went to California in ‘49”; “Sarah Pinkham Ockington” and “Esther Chesley Pinkham / Your great grandmother”- 4. A CDV marked “Daniel Leach / Manchester, Mass. / Married my mother’s sister”- 5. A CDV marked “Ella Leach’s brother”- 6. A miniature tintype in a card marked “Mother’s sister / 2nd wife of Daniel Leach”- A torn envelope marked “Abbie Hanson Whittle family (my mother) containing a carbon copy of a typed manuscript titled “EXPLANATIONS AND NOTES BY RBH” On the reverse is the handwritten note, “Hanson and Pinkham / My mother’s family history.\"
A wonderful collection of Civil War and music history items!