The Token of Love. New York: Leavitt & Allen, ca. 1864. 8vo, 92 pages. Original red boards with gilt floral motifs. Front cover is separated and spine is exposed. Multiple inscriptions to interior front cover and flyleaf, showing transition of ownership. 

SIGNED BY ULYSSES S. GRANT, WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, ABNER DOUBLEDAY, BOSTON CORBETT, DR. MARY E. WALKER, AND MORE. 

Lithograph prints include: Unknown, "Highland Mary"; J. Andrews, "Caselear"; Bendemann & Sartain, "Margaret & Dora"; K. Meadows, engraved by A.H. Ritchie, "The Merry Heart"; Sharpe & Sartain, Untitled. 

An extensive collection of more than 200 Civil War-era signatures, including general Grant, Sherman, Seward, Butler, and Doubleday. This album originally belonging to Quartermaster James W. Cox from Washington, D.C., dated 8 November 1864, it was gifted "from a friend" to Alanson Shepard Douglas (1843-1928) in 1865. 

Note: A complete list of identified signatures is photographed above. 

Some of the more notable signatories include: 

Page 1: Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army

Page 7: Gideon Welles, U.S. Secretary of the Navy

Page 21: Edwin M. Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War; Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock; Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday

Page 27: William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State; Orville H. Browning, U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Page 29: Henry Wilson, Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant; Lazarus W. Powell, Governor of Kentucky

Page 33: Brig. Gen. Francis Fessenden

Page 35: Maj. Gen. John Pope; Maj. Gen. William H. Emory

Page 37: J. Gregory Smith, Governor of Vermont

Page 41: Richard Wallach, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Page 45: Edwin D. Morgan, Governor of New York

Page 47: Rear Admiral Joseph Smith

Page 51: Alvin Saunders, Governor of Nebraska Territory; Green Clay Smith, Territorial Governor of Montana

Page 55: Brig. Gen. William Birney

Page 57: Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana; Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, Governor of Massachusetts

Page 59: Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth

Page 61: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the U.S.; Philip H. Sheridan, Commanding General of the U.S. Army; Wesley Merritt, 1st American Military Governor of the Philippines

Page 67: Maj. Gen. George Crook

Page 69: Dr. Mary E. Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor

Page 73: Rear Admiral Stephen Luce; Jacob D. Cox, Governor of Ohio and U.S. Secretary of the Interior

Page 76: William T. Sherman, Commanding General of the U.S. Army; John W. Geary, Governor of Pennsylvania

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

Front cover separated. Some pages loose from string binding. Ink stains. Toning to edges of pages. 

A list of all the identifiable names is photographed.