Thought you folks might want to take a look at this while it's up on ebay... someone is selling a scrapbook and photo album that has the original commissioning papers, a ton of signed CDVs, letters and newspaper clippings of a Col R. Rich, 9th Maine Volunteer Militia.  When I saw the listing, it was up to over $1,200.00 with 14 bids.  They show a lot of images from the collection, including the Colonel's initial commissioning papers when he was made a Captain.  It will be up for five more days from this posting, if anyone wants to take a gander at it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Civil-War-Col-R-RICH-9th-Maine-Papers-CDV-Photos_W0QQitemZ280227535155QQihZ018QQcategoryZ156948QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've spent the last hour looking at the pictures of the different items in the collection...  

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Certianly would be nice to own quite a nice collection of CDVs.