Poignant Grouping Pertaining to 1st Va. Artillery Col. Lewis Minor Coleman Mortally WIA

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Poignant Grouping Pertaining to 1^st Va. Artillery Col. Lewis Minor Coleman Mortally WIA – This excellent and poignant grouping is comprised of a gold mourning brooch containing the hair of Lt. Col. Lewis Minor Coleman of the 1st Va. Arty. CSA; Coleman died from wounds he received at the Battle of Fredericksburg, in December of 1862. Col. Coleman, a significant, Virginia educator, owned and taught at Hanover Academy, a pre-war, private school attended by several prominent men of the period, including Confederate General James Dearing. Col. Coleman also taught at the University of Virginia. This fine group also includes the following: a second gold mourning brooch from the Coleman family – this brooch is the unusual, rotating type, as the body of the brooch containing the woven hair, rotates within the gold, decorative “roping”; two cabinet card images – one of Lewis Minor Coleman, prior to the war; the second, a copy of a pre-war daguerreotype depicting Coleman and three female relatives; a Confederate bond, made out to Lewis Minor Coleman, dated October of 1862; a rare copy of the Confederate Spelling Book exhibiting the signed name of Matilda Minor Coleman, Col. Coleman’s daughter – this book,156 pages in length, is bound in blue cloth with yellow hand stitching -the content of the pages include spelling and reading exercises with “Confederate Spelling Book” above each page – the book also contains some steel engraved images, including one titled “Capital at Richmond” with a short description.

CSA bond issued to Louis Minor Coleman for the sum of eight hundred dollars “redeemable after the first day of January 1864 with interest from the 29 day of October 1862…” as part of an act approved by the CSA congress, August 19, 1861. Bond issued in Richmond, VA, and signed by Robert Tyler, Register of the Treasury, dated October 29, 1862, with initialed signatures indicating that it was entered and recorded into the record. Serial number 531. The reverse indicates that the amount was transferred to George Fleming of Hanover County, Virginia by Mary Ambler Coleman, dated January 4, 1864, after the death of Lewis Minor Coleman, her husband, at Fredericksburg, March 24, 1863. Executed in the presence of and signed by William Bagby, Louisa County, Virginia. Later pencil inscription and ink inscription reading “Sale of Sandora”, lower right. 8″ H x 12 1/2″ W. Confederate spelling book, belonging to Matilda Minor Coleman, daughter of Lewis M. Coleman. 156 pages bound in blue cloth with yellow hand stitching. The content of the pages include spelling and reading exercises with “Confederate Spelling Book” above each page. The book also contains some steel engraved images, including one titled “Capital at Richmond”