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Stonewall Jackson by Chris Collingwood. 3 editions. £40.00 - £500.00

US Army Cavalry Charge of the 5th Regulars, Gains Mill 1862 by Werner (P) One edition. £110.00

US Army Field Batteries, Malvern Hill 1862 by Werner (P) One edition. £110.00

US Army Siege and Barbette Guns, Fort Haskell 1865 by Werner (P) One edition. £110.00

US Army Horse Artillery 1865 by Werner (P) One edition. £110.00

Union Infantryman by Chris Collingwood. 3 editions. £20.00 - £550.00

Running the Gauntlet at Vicksburg by Don Stivers. One edition. £180.00

The Vedette, 3rd N.J. Cavalry, Shenandoah Valley by Keith Rocco. One edition. £110.00

The Vedette, Laurel Brigade Cavalry, Shenandoah Valley by Keith Rocco. One edition. £110.00

Artillery Forward! by Keith Rocco. One edition. £190.00

James Ewell Brown JEB Stuart by William Meijer. One edition. £28.00

Officers on Lookout Mountain by Walker One edition. £10.00

Into the Wilderness by Keith Rocco This single edition is sold out.

The Defence of the Little Round Top by Keith Rocco. This single edition is sold out.

Union Cavalry, 1863 by Chris Collingwood. (P) This single edition is sold out.

The Bivouac by Keith Rocco. This single edition is sold out.

Reynolds & Buford at Gettysburg by Keith Rocco. This single edition is sold out.

Baptism at Manassas by Keith Rocco. This single edition is sold out.

Save the Colors by Keith Rocco. This single edition is sold out.

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Stonewall Jackson by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item

US Army Cavalry Charge of the 5th Regulars, Gains Mill 1862 by Werner (P) No text for this item

US Army Field Batteries, Malvern Hill 1862 by Werner (P) No text for this item

US Army Siege and Barbette Guns, Fort Haskell 1865 by Werner (P) No text for this item

US Army Horse Artillery 1865 by Werner (P) No text for this item

Union Infantryman by Chris Collingwood. No text for this item

Running the Gauntlet at Vicksburg by Don Stivers. What was to be a quick, overland movement of merely 40 miles along the west bank of the Mississippi River, had bogged down in swamps and bayous, rain flooded roads and shallow canals. General U.S. Grants objective was to effect a landing on the east bank of the river, then move inland. But to do that he must first get his army below the fortress city - and building roads and cutting his way through the mire of the west bank was slowing the army to a crawl. His new plan called for a combined operation: part of Grants army would continue to work its way overland while Admiral David Porter would run the gauntlet of batteries at Vicksburg with the other part of the army and supplies. It was a bold but hazardous wager, this combined operation of army and navy. Most of General U.S. Grants subordinates remonstrated: by sending part of his army cross-country and part down the Mississippi on transports, he was cutting himself off from his supplies and communications; he was splitting his army in the face of a foe nearly double his strength; and the batteries at Vicksburg were powerful enough to destroy anything on the river. Even General William Tecumseh Sherman thought the plan rash. But whatever side of the Mississippi you were on, the spectacle after dark on the night of April 16, 1863 was grandly, horrifyingly magnificent. As the great, black hulks of Admiral David Porters gunboats and transports slid silently into range of the Confederate batteries, Southerners in picket boats set fire to buildings on the west bank, illuminating the river in a weirdly spectral glow. Shells flew through the night, hundreds of burning fuses arching towards the ships to explode in a fiery rain of fragments. Smoke clung close to the water. In the words of an observer, It was as if hell itself were loose that night on the Mississippi... Just below Vicksburg, from his flagship the Benton, Porter sees a small craft being rowed out to him. In the flickering light of a burning transport - the only ship he would lose that night - the Admiral recognizes General Sherman who will greet each vessel as it arrives, assuring them that they will soon meet up with the rest of the army. Beacon fires on the river die through the drifting smoke, and silence again rules the river. the link-up will soon be complete. but something had changed with this passage, and with the armys belief in U.S. Grants military prowess. It wouldn't end now until the great river ran unvexed to the sea.

The Vedette, 3rd N.J. Cavalry, Shenandoah Valley by Keith Rocco. Federal trooper stands on picket duty.

The Vedette, Laurel Brigade Cavalry, Shenandoah Valley by Keith Rocco. Study of a trooper on outpost duty.

Artillery Forward! by Keith Rocco. Federal artillery rumbles forward to the support of hard-pressed infantry in the distance.

James Ewell Brown JEB Stuart by William Meijer. Inspired by the heroism of Ulysses S Grant, Robert E Lee, David G Farragut and JEB Stuart the artist William Meijer has created four portraits. Each portrait has been painstakingly researched in order to create an authentic likeness of each sitter and to honor the achievements of these great men.

Officers on Lookout Mountain by Walker No text for this item

Into the Wilderness by Keith Rocco The 140th and 146th New York Reg at Sanders Field.

The Defence of the Little Round Top by Keith Rocco. Defended by the 29th Maine, July 2nd 1863.

Union Cavalry, 1863 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item

The Bivouac by Keith Rocco. Major General George G. Meade reached the Gettysburg battlefield just before midnight on July 1, 1863. Meade had been selected to command the Army of the Potomac just four days earlier, when Major General Joseph Hooker, the man whom Lee had defeated at Chancellorsville two months earlier, resigned over differences with the War Department. Few generals in the war bore a heavier burden of command than did Meade at Gettysburg. The country looked to him to deliver victory over a Confederate army that had not yet known defeat. If the Army of the Potomac was defeated, the consequences to the future of the Union would be grim. Meades headquarters was at Taneytown, Maryland, about thirteen miles south of Gettysburg. Meade stayed at Taneytown to better coordinate the movements of his army corps toward the battlefield. Only when he was certain the entire army was responding to the unexpected clash at Gettysburg did he transfer his headquarters to the battlefield. Meade rode to the gatehouse of the Evergreen Cemetery where he found six or seven generals, including Oliver Howard, Henry Slocum, and Daniel Sickles. All of them agreed that the terrain south of Gettysburg offered advantages. General Sickles was heard to say; It is a good place to fight from, general! To which Meade responded: I am glad to hear you say so, gentlemen, for it is too late to leave it. The Bivouac captures Meade on the northern end of Cemetery Ridge, near the farm of a free black man named Abraham Brian, gazing west toward Seminary Ridge. In front of Meade, the line of stacked muskets and sleeping soldiers belong to Brigadier General John Robinson's 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, which had suffered dreadful casualties in the first day of fighting.

Reynolds & Buford at Gettysburg by Keith Rocco. At Gettysburg, two men, Brigadier General John Buford and Major General John Reynolds, made critical command decisions during the frays opening stages that helped bring about a Northern victory. Their military savvy on the morning of July 1 delayed the Confederates and allowed the Union to gain possessions of the high ground south of Gettysburg. On July 1, the two officers reached the apex of their military careers. Buford deserves accolades for wisely deploying his two brigades of troopers across the ridges west of Gettysburg. The popping carbines and rumbling horse artillery of his command forced the lead elements of the Army of Northern Virginia to deploy off the dusty ribbon of the Chambersburg Pike, and form from a column into battle lines, a ponderous maneuver for nineteenth century infantry, and one that gained vital time for the van of the Federal advance, let by Reynolds, to arrive on the field. While Buford was giving battle, Reynolds was hurrying his foot soldiers toward the contested ground. Upon arriving in Gettysburg he immediately set out to find Buford. After a quick greeting, the generals cantered across pastures and fields of wheat, halting near the Chambersburg Pike to observe the terrain and discuss strategy. Within the hour, Reynolds would ride to his death, shot in the head while shepherding the Norths famous Iron Brigade into action. Bufords end came before the year was out, though he was to be cheated a warriors battle-death. On December 16, 1863, he succumbed to the ravages of typhoid fever, contracted during the Mine Run campaign.

Baptism at Manassas by Keith Rocco. The acrid smell of gunpowder rankled the afternoon air over the plains at Manassas, Virginia. The guns of the Union and Confederate armies were engaged in the first great battle of the American Civil War, July 21, 1861. By early afternoon the hard-pressed Confederates were gathered on the slopes of Henry Hill, awaiting another onslaught, taking advantage of the lull to reorganize and reinforce their lines. On the reverse slope of the hill the brigade of General Thomas Jonathan Jackson posted here among a growth of pine trees to shelter the men from the harassing Federal artillery fire. Jacksons firmness here earlier in the day had already earned him the soon to be immortal name Stonewall, for his cool demeanor under fire. The Virginians had already been blooded with an attack on Captain Charles Griffins Federal battery. The attack of the 14th Brooklyn Zouaves was fierce and the New Yorkers hit Jacksons men hard, driving the 33rd Virginia and disrupting the 2nd Virginia, threatening to dislodge the Confederates from their defensive position on the hill. Jackson rode among his men, excitedly giving orders. Well charge them now and drive them to Washington! exhorted Jackson. Each new Union regiment was driven back by the determined volleys of Stonewalls 4th and 27th Virginia regiments. Confederate General Pierre G.T. Beauregard personally led the 5th Virginia against the 5th Massachusetts Infantry. This charge forced the Bay-State men to abandon their toehold of the Henry House and the tide of the battle now turned in favor of the Southerners. Jacksons charge altered the course of the battle, and gave the Confederacy a stunning victory.

Save the Colors by Keith Rocco. The Duryees Zouaves, 5th New York at Second Manassas.