‎Guerre‎

‎CIVIL WAR. Anon‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed‎

‎text of a telegram on printed form of the American Telegraph Company from Captain William M. McKim to agent George P. Greer of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad Boston ca. 1864. 8vo 1 page with additional Autograph Letter Signed of S.R. Conner on verso for certification. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. paperback books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 500990

‎CIVIL WAR. Anon‎

‎Printed Telegram‎

‎holograph copies of text for 4 telegrams Boston February 15-18 1864. Small 4to sheet 2pp. recto and verso. F. Soft cover. paperback books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 501001

‎CIVIL WAR. CONFEDERATE STATES‎

‎Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States of America‎

‎New Hope Pennsylvania The River House 1952 1861. 1952. Reprint of the 1861 Richmond edition. 4to. 23 illustrations. Original blue cloth stamped in black; blue endpapers. Very good. Bookplate of Charles S. Schwartz on the front pastedown. Ink signature on the front endpapers. #67/400 copies. Hardcover. New Hope, Pennsylvania, The River House, 1952, 1861. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 198635

‎CIVIL WAR. EDGAR A. BURPEE‎

‎A Union Officer Sheds New Light on the Battle of Fredericksburg with Schematic Drawings‎

‎<p>Mainer Edgar Alphonso Burpee describes the Battle of Fredericksburg providing previously-unknown details regarding order of battle Union movement through city streets <i>"unbecoming"</i> ransacking of civilian property and Confederates shelling Union-occupied parts of their city. He also includes drawings of the city's streets.</p> <b>CIVIL WAR. EDGAR A. BURPEE.</b>Autograph Letter Signed to Alexander Burpee. Fredericksburg Va. December 15 1862 12 pp. 5 1/8 x 7¾ in.<p><b>Partial Transcript</b></p><p><i>"Being our orderly I summoned the company at 4 o'clock and gave them my orders.a report of a gun was heard that sounded like thunder. It was a signal gun and to us indicated that something was in process of being done. Then another was heard and immediately after that musketry and some other guns.we stacked arms and lay down waiting the order to move forward.waiting for the pontoon bridges to be laid so we could pass.guns of both forces were constantly being fired and such a roar I never heard before. It seems as if the very heavens were filled with thunder and it was very stirring that our forces were engaged in shelling the city.Then later at double quick we crossed the pontoon bridge and set foot in the doomed city for our first time. We filed into the street that runs along the river bank having the honor of being the first regiment of our brigade in. As we entered marched up the street some 5 or 6 rods in front of us skirmishing and the bullets of the rebels came whistling thickly over our heads and around our ankles.</i></p><p><i>The streets are laid out in regular squares I shall draw you a plan. Because skirmishing was going on in the next street above us we were protected from the rebel shots. the rebel sharpshooters were about six rods away in the houses.their sharpshooters rapidly picked off our men.Our batteries too poured into the rebels showers of shells so that they completely riddled the homes nearby killing a large number of the enemy.By this time 7 o'clock the firing had ceased.our men commenced.ransacking the houses and stores tearing down fences & out buildings.It was alarming to see the scenes of unbecoming behaviors around us.All this time the dead and wounded were being brought down the street. The surgeons were busy attending to those badly wounded.On going up the street we would stumble over the dead of both sides some shot in the heads with shells still there were others killed by bullets. Some wounded would crawl off to some place of shelter.It was indeed a sad scene.</i></p><p><i>Morning came.we formed into line of battle.We were ordered to lie low or march in a stooping position.The ambulance corps were also engaged in carrying off the dead & wounded.In the street where we were two or three rebels lay. One had his whole side and his arms shot off. Another had the top of his head and brains carried away.Towards morning December 13 when it became light enough for the rebels to see our men they began to shell us and the pieces would fly.About 12 o'clock skirmishing commenced on our left.The streets were now filled with moving lines of soldiers.We could see and hear nearly the whole field and our brave men as they advanced under heavy fire from the enemy's batteries and musketry fire.Gen Howard marched often along our line & encouraged us by his words and presence. A balloon was in the rear of the city to observe all movements.About 4 o'clock our brigade was ordered in and down the street with a rush we went.bang went the rebel guns and whiz came their shells at us.Our regiment remained firm.Gen. came along after dark and said 'men of the 19th reg. you have done nobly. Your consistency deserves great praise.' To be continued - Ed."</i></p><p><b>Edgar A. Burpee</b> 1839 – 1919 of Rockland Maine mustered into the 19th Maine Infantry on August 25 1862. He rose to captain's rank was wounded at Gettysburg and was captured at the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road Virginia in June 1864. He returned to Rockland married Annie Farwell and eventually joined his family's funeral business.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Fine. Written in light pencil. With some separation at edge of folds.</p> books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 22500

‎CIVIL WAR. Funk Isaac‎

‎Die Munition des Loyalisten‎

‎Philadelphia: Druck von H. B. Ashmead 1863. . 8vo printed buff wrappers front pictorial small loss to front bottom outer corner; bottom outer corners of text slightly dog-eared A collection of articles on northern sedition against the Union and foreign intervention culled from leading newspapers. There is also a signed declaration by the officers of 150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment scorning northern traitors who were trying to harm the efforts of the army. Funk is credited with the section "Rede eines braven alten Patrioten" and Rousseau with "Die Worte eines patriotischen Soldaten". Includes a quote from Oliver Cromwell and a call by a Democrat for both Republicans and Democrats to join together to defeat traitors to the Northern cause Philadelphia: Druck von H. B. Ashmead, 1863. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1236

‎Civil War. Harlow Louis Kinney‎

‎Army Memoirs‎

‎New York: Koch Sons & Co. 1887. Folio.  480 x 405 mm. 19 x 16 inches.  Printed index of plates followed by 12 chromolithographic images after original drawings by L. K. Harlow.  Each image is mounted to a cardboard mat 11 of which have lithographic vignettes in the lower corner of the mat.  Each image is preceded by a tissue with the title of plate printed; some of the tissues are creased and chipped at the out edges.  Each plate is signed by Harlow in pencil and a few are signed in the plate; the images are clean and bright but the mats show some toning and a few have minor chips to the edges.   The folio plates are housed in a folding portfolio the spine and flaps are worn and probably should be discarded. Deluxe Edition numbered "79".  Sold by Subscription Only. Scarce portfolio of Civil War paintings by the noted Boston artist Louis Kinney Harlow.  Harlow was noted for his water color illustrations that were used to illustrate scores of books and which keep the printer Louis Prang very busy in the 1880's and 1890's.  Fielding writes "In 1880 he opened his studio in Boston.  Since that time he has been much sought after by publishers of fine books his illustrations having color brilliancy." The plates in this portfolio depict aspects of army life and battle scenes including Grant at Vicksburg Sherman on his march and Sheridan at the Battle of Cedar Creek  Each is finely designed and colored and each is signed in pencil in the lower margin. The color plates were printed by Koch and Sons and demonstrate the technical skills of the printer and his attention to detail and color registration.  Copies of this portfolio were scarce in the trade.  NUC lists only the Boston Public Copy and OCLC adds seven others all in American libraries. Mantle Fielding Dictionary of American Painters p. 158. . Koch, Sons, & Co. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 692

‎CIVIL WAR. HORAN James D‎

‎Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History‎

‎New York Crown Publishers Inc. 1954. 1954. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 100 b/w photographs and facsimiles; endpaper maps by Alfred P. Jancovic. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped; slight rubbing. Very Good. 326 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. [1954]. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 302567

‎Civil War. Illinois‎

‎ROCKFORD REGISTER. Extra. Rockford April 3 4 P.M. CAPTURE OF RICHMOND CONFIRMED! PETERSBURG EVACUATED! Caption title in six lines‎

‎Rockford IL 1865. Broadside 22 X 8 cm. with small illustration of an eagle & flag motif under the "Rockford Register" line. A few shallow chips at edges not affecting text. The "extra" announces: "We have just received the following additional despatches confirming the glorious news of the fall of Richmond. Lee is in full flight. The End Cometh." Following with a Buffalo April 3 dateline are further dispatches from the Secretary of War. At the time there was a Rockford Illinois paper called the Register. We did not find any other possibilities. No OCLC. <br/><br/> Rockford, [IL unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64431

‎CIVIL WAR. KING William Fletcher‎

‎Reminiscences‎

‎New York Abingdon Press 1915 1915. First edition. Thick 8vo. Author's preface. Frontispiece portrait photograph. Index. Original gilt stamped maroon cloth. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. Autobiographical reminiscences of the distinguished Ohio-born educator 1830-1921; notable for Chapter 16 which deals with King's Civil War experiences with Sherman's army in the Carolinas: visit to Alaska Chapter 33. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Press, 1915 hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 197672

‎CIVIL WAR. PAKULA Marvin J. William J. Ryan and David K. Rothstein‎

‎Centennial Album of the Civil War‎

‎New York Thomas Yoseloff 1960. 1960. First edition. Small folio. Foreword and acknowledgments by Pakula; introduction by Ryan and Rothstein. 20 color plates; 108 b/w portrait drawings by Pakula. Bibliography. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips nicks. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff [1960]. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 221155

‎Civil War. Scott Major John.‎

‎PARTISAN LIFE WITH COL. JOHN S. MOSBY BY  MAJOR JOHN SCOTT OF FAUQUIER LATE CSA.‎

‎New York: Harper and Brothers 1867. Few faint spots to cloth; scattered foxing to prelims and title page brief unobtrusive numbers in red ink at rear pastedown still a tight attractive copy in the original publisher’s binding Very Good or better. Tall 8vo xix 20-492 pages; three frontispiece plates; folding map; numerous plates and text illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Eicher/ The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography 293. <br/><br/>". an early highly partisan account of life with the cavalry raider who was transformed into legend by this and other works. Endorsed by Mosby himself this authorized biography sets forth the life story of the Confederate partisan ranger through the Civil War ." Harper and Brothers hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0000404

‎CIVIL WAR. WILLSON Beckles‎

‎John Slidell and the Confederates in Paris 1862-65‎

‎New York Minton Balch & Company 1932. 1932. First edition. 8vo. Author's foreword. Frontispiece and 7 b/w illustrations. Original black stamped brick red cloth. Dust jacket unclipped; few small chips. Very good. Bookplate of Edna Spennetta on the front free endpaper. F. Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1932. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 197555

‎Civil War: Bamberger Solomo‎

‎MAP OF BATTLES ON BULL RUN NEAR MANASSAS ON THE LINE OF FAIRFAX & PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTIES IN VIRGINIA FOUGHT BETWEEN THE FORCES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA‎

‎Richmond: West & Johnsto 1861. Sheet map 19 3/4 x 26 inches. Old fold lines. Some separation at two folds on the right edge. Light wear minor toning. Very good. A handsome and historic map depicting the First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run depicting troop positions and movements roads railroads houses and other significant geographical features. First Manassas was the first significant engagement of the Civil War and the place where Thomas J. Jackson became "Stonewall" Jackson when his brigade stood their ground against disorganized Union forces. The Confederate troops won the battle raising hopes in the South and signaling to the North that the war would not be won so easily. The map indicates that it was "made from observation" by Solomon Bamberger and lithographed by the firm of Hoyer & Ludwig in Richmond. <br> <br> It appears that at least two issues of this map exist this being the most vividly pictorial that we have found and thus perhaps the later of the two. Rather than a simple plan of the battle the present map lays out the same information augmenting the background with shading and pictorial scenery. The title is likewise enclosed in a simple border setting it off from the rest of the map and though the title is the same the typeface of some of the title lettering has been changed slightly. Parrish & Willingham do not indicate any differentiation of issues but the details and graphics make this by far the most desirable. <br> <br> A rare and interesting map of this important battle and one of the most dramatic graphics produced in the Confederacy. Without the means to produce suitable paper few pieces on a comparable scale were created. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6148 West & Johnsto unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM48993

‎CIVIL WAR: A WISCONSIN SAILOR ABOARD THE USS ELFIN‎

‎Union Navy Autographed Letter Signed‎

‎1864. unbound. fine. Union Navy A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages August 27th 1864 Aboard the USS Elfin. Just three months before she would be destroyed by bombardment while in service on the Tennessee & Cumberland Rivers. Letter from a sailor who is trying to get his Land Grant application to Wisconsin but he can't raise the $11.00 application fee on his ship. In part: "I received the papers alright and I signed an affidavit before my Commanding Officer - and I signed them and sent them off but could not get $11.00 aboard of the boat. The Captain signed them also. Write to my wife and have her send the eleven dollars down to Menasha before the 20th of September. I was transferred from the 18th Wisconsin Infantry Co. into the United States Navy as I suppose they could get Soldiers easier than they could get Sailors. I think I can serve my country better here than I could in the land service as I have formerly been to sea and I am an able seaman at present." Fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books‎

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‎Civil War: African Americana‎

‎GENERAL ORDERS NO. 296 297 & 300. WAR DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE WASHINGTON DECEMBER 2 3 & 19 1864‎

‎Washington 1864. Three sheets each 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Loose sheets. Two slits at gutter margins for intended binding. A couple of small creases at corners. Very good. Three interesting General Orders from the War Department at the end of 1864 relating to freedman and the organization of black troops in the Union Army. Two of the orders authorize transportation of supplies and books by the United States Army on behalf of the United States Commission for the Relief of the National Freedmen as well as for the American Freedmen's Friends Society and the Executive Committee for the Relief of Freedmen of Iowa. The third order reorganizes black troops in the Union Army from Virginia and North Carolina into the 25th Corps. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54372

‎Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg: Siege of Vicksburg‎

‎NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY JULY 4 1863‎

‎New York 1863. Elephant folio 8pp. Disbound and lightly worn. Each page printed in six columns. Upper blank corners of last page with remnants of old matting. Very Good. <br/><br/> Exciting material on the "Rebel Invasion" and "The Fighting at Gettysburg" is printed with "The Rebels still Desperately Contesting" the Siege at Vicksburg. General Order No. 5 prohibiting Copperhead "Secret Societies" is also printed; as is material on "Colored Enlistments. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 36673

‎Civil War: Confederate Imprint‎

‎AVALANCHE EXTRA. LATER FROM VIRGINIA! ANOTHER GRAND VICTORY FOR THE CONFEDERATES!‎

‎Memphis Tn 1861. Broadside 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Mild toning and edge wear minor expert tape reinforcements on verso. Very good. A very rare broadside extra of the MEMPHIS AVALANCHE containing a telegraph dispatch from Richmond via New Orleans announcing a Confederate victory in the Western Virginia Campaign. The text of the handbill reads: <br> <br> "Important news from the West has been hourly looked for since the departure of Gen. Lee to assume command of the forces opposing Rosencranz. Last night and this morning the city was full of rumors that a battle had taken place. Reliable intelligence reached here to-day that a battle occurred at Leesburg in which 300 of the enemy were killed and the remaining 1500 taken prisoner. Loss on our side insignificant - six killed and nine wounded. All the arms ammunition and baggage of the enemy were captured." <br> <br> The news of the battle at Leesburg was erroneous. False reporting of battles never actually fought was a more common occurrence than one might think during the Civil War. This example stands naturally as one of the earliest examples of this type. <br> <br> We know of only one other copy of this very rare handbill a much inferior copy sold at Swann in 2013 for $375. Unrecorded otherwise with no copies in OCLC and in none of the standard Confederate reference works. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54583

‎Civil War: Cooke James‎

‎MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE OF UNION CAPTAIN JAMES COOKE COMPANY "F" 52nd PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY RELATING TO THE BATTLES OF WILLIAMSBURG AND SEVEN PINES‎

‎Various locations 1881. Manuscript map; three autograph letters signed; and five related documents. All three autograph letters are accompanied by full typed transcriptions. Usual mailing folds. Generally very good. An interesting archive relating to Capt. James Cooke's experiences in the Civil War. Cooke mustered in on Sept. 5 1861 and eventually served as captain in Company "F" 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served in several battles most notably the Battle of Seven Pines in Virginia and resigned on Oct. 21 1863. The individual items included in the archive are as follows: <br> <br> 1 Manuscript map of the Seven Pines Battlefield. 15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches. Some fold separations with minor loss of paper noticeable stain in the middle of the map straddling the vertical fold. A wonderful hand-drawn map by Cooke showing the area around Fair Oaks Station. He has designated the positions of both the 52nd and 104th Pennsylvania infantries marking places such as "Fight commenced here" "Fighting all through here" "52 Pennsylvania in line of Battle" and "the way the Rebs came." He also has marked topographical details such as roads a railroad track woods and the Chickahominy River. He has written a short explanatory note on the verso initialed by him to the same recipient as the following letter. <br> <br> 2 Autograph letter signed to "Dear Friend Joe." Camp Near Bottoms Ridge. June 18 1862. A wonderful sixteen-page letter with details regarding the Battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines. The Union army had laid siege to Yorktown Virginia from April 5 1862 until Confederate forces silently withdrew in the night hours of May 3. Cooke was there as Federal troops entered the town the following morning and describes the scene: "We went through the woods cautiously with our skirmishers in advance but we could see no signs of life in any of the Forts and our men went along without any opposition.we had no idea that it was a general evacuation of the whole place." The rebels however had not left the place totally unguarded: <br> <br> "I was just agoing sic when I heard a stunning report behind me.and the men in my company falling down.I supposed right away that it was a masked battery on the opposite side of the road.I then went to the rear of the company and found.a deep hole in the ground showing it was one of those infernal machines near Williamsburg Virginia the first known use of modern land mines that the Black Hearted Traitors planted all along the roads leading to Williamsburg." <br> <br> The next day May 5 Cooke and his men found themselves held in reserve near the fighting at the Battle of Williamsburg. They advanced and "as we were going up I could hear the roar of the musketry and the yells of the boys when they made the charge." The men of the 52nd never joined the fight since when they reached the field "the fight was over for that day and.as the rebels still occupied a large fort we would go at them in the morning." <br> <br> Two days after arriving at Williamsburg they "struck out for Richmond" and reached the Chickahominy River on May 19 meeting some light resistance along the way: "Our men.drove the pickets of the enemy.and skirmished up to the bank of the river in the face of a severe fire of infantry and artillery by the Rebs." On Saturday May 31 they "took the advance toward Richmond.and uncovered the enemy in force in front of us." <br> <br> The Battle of Seven Pines was about to commence. Cooke writes about it in great detail: <br> <br> "Skirmishers from the 52nd.were sent out and soon drew the fire of the enemy's pickets and.a battery that was hid behind a woods. The 104th Pennsylvania Infantry was sent forward on our left.and we were ordered to advance along the road.the balls went howling over our heads like something mad. This being the first time many of the boys had heard a ball scream.it made a good many look white.but not a man flinched." <br> <br> The men advanced over the hill "the Rebels.gave us the full benefit of three or four guns.We filed off to the right.to get out of range but they followed us with their shots which fell all around us." After assuming line of battle the men "marched directly toward the rebel guns." Help arrived when "One of our batteries.came up and commenced answering the speeches that had been made on the other side. It soon silenced their guns." They experienced very little action after that and two days later June 2 they "took possession of the railroad at Fair Oaks Station." He does add that he "was not with my Regt in the fight nor did I see any of our Brigade in the fight Cooke had been separated and used as a skirmisher as where they were fighting was at the real seven pines and.I was at Fair Oaks a half mile to the right." He concludes by giving an account of the 52nd's action during the battle as he knows it. <br> <br> 3 Autograph letter signed to "Dear Brother." Virginia Fairfax Seminary. Aug. 20 1861. A friendly letter to his brother with some military content. Cooke writes that he is currently "quartered about 2 1/2 miles from Alexandria" near the house where Gen. Kearney is headquartered. The Virginia Seminary where he is staying was abandoned after the Union troops took Alexandria according to Cooke. He then relates information about working the picket lines "about 2 miles from the camp then Rebel Scouts came down some days inside our pickets" a potential court- martial of one of the Union colonels related to Cooke's division and news that Cooke expects "another battle in about two weeks but there can be nothing definite about it there is any quantity of reports about but if they the government are only prepared for it the sooner it comes the better as I would like to see the thing ended and not be kept in suspense." <br> <br> 4 Autograph letter signed to "Dear Sister." Camp Dodge. Dec. 14 1862 Cooke writes that he is well having gotten over a "light touch of Intermitent Fever." He send $10 from a fellow soldier for his sister to give to the soldier's wife. Cooke spends the last portion of the letter writing about army pay. <br> <br> 5 Retained copy of a Return of Ordnance Form for Company "F" 52nd Pennsylvania Regiment for the quarter ending Dec. 31 1862 mismarked 1863. <br> <br> 6 Fair copy of Special Orders No. 149 May 18 1862 regarding the sick and surplus arms and baggage. <br> <br> 7 Military Appointment for Cooke as captain of Co. "F" Nov. 5 1862. Fold separations. <br> <br> 8 Passaic Falls Manufacturing Company Stock Certificate May 30 1866. <br> <br> 9 James Cooke's passport Jan. 10 1881 giving a detailed physical description of Cooke. <br> <br> A wonderful archive relating a Pennsylvania captain's experiences during the Civil War most notable for the manuscript map of the Seven Pines battlefield and an enthralling letter to a friend regarding battle experiences. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM50270

‎Civil War: Harrison Samuel Rev.‎

‎ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OF REV. SAMUEL HARRISON CHAPLAIN OF THE FAMED 54th MASSACHUSETTS COLORED INFANTRY‎

‎N.p. likely Boston 1865. Albumen photograph 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches mounted on card. Moderate fading a bit of spotting in the image. Verso darkened from exposure to wooden backing now removed from backing and period frame backing tape still attached to verso along top edge. Remnants from previous mat at top edge. Good and a worthy candidate for professional conservation. An apparently unrecorded image of Rev. Samuel Harrison a former slave and fierce abolitionist who served as Chaplain of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry the famous Civil War regiment of U.S. Colored Troops. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw led the 54th Mass. Regiment the second unit of colored troops formed by the Union Army but ultimately the most famous all-black infantry unit to fight in the Civil War as seen in the film GLORY. After Shaw was killed at the Battle of Fort Wagner Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew recommended that Rev. Samuel Harrison serve as Chaplain to help the unit's morale. Harrison accepted and was also instrumental in getting equal pay for black soldiers. Harrison's demand that he receive the same pay as white chaplains led Gov. Andrew and United States Attorney General Edward Bates to write letters to President Lincoln to end the discriminatory practice of unequal pay among white and black soldiers in the Union army. In June 1864 legislation requiring equal pay for black units retroactive to January 1864 was passed in the Army appropriations bill. <br> <br> Images of Rev. Samuel Harrison are rare and online exemplars seem to vary widely. The present example appears to be a much younger version of Rev. Harrison compared to the image of him at age eighty-one held by the Samuel Harrison House. Here he also appears to be wearing a chaplain's uniform indicating this is a wartime or near-wartime image of him. The verso of the photograph has a penciled note reading: "Rev Samuel Harrison 54th Mass." unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM55438

‎Civil War: Lincoln Abraham: Cook John Pope‎

‎GENERAL ORDERS No. 139. THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY AND ALL CONCERNED: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. Contained in: A THREE-VOLUME SET OF GENERAL ORDERS TO THE UNION ARMY FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL COVERING 1861 AND 1862 COLLECTED BY BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN POPE COOK‎

‎Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1862. Three volumes with over 300 individual imprints. 12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary three- quarter roan and marbled boards gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges boards somewhat rubbed front hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Light toning in places otherwise internally clean. Very good. A uniformly-bound set of General Orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department in Washington D.C. previously owned by Brig. Gen. John Pope Cook. The orders cover 1861 and 1862 and comprise a nearly complete run of orders for the Union Army during the first two years of the Civil War. Undoubtedly the most significant General Order in this collection is a preliminary printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. <br> <br> A handful of the orders are signed in ink by the various adjutant generals. The Emancipation Proclamation bound in the third volume is as follows: <br> <br> GENERAL ORDERS No. 139. THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY AND ALL CONCERNED: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION caption title. Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office ca. September 24 1862. 3pp. This work is one of the earliest printings of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after President Lincoln's official manuscript version was finished. Here the third paragraph rings out with Lincoln's timeless words: "That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three all persons held as slaves within any State or designated area of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then thenceforward and forever free." <br> <br> Following the Seven Days Battle and Gen. McClellan's retreat from the Peninsula at the end of June 1862 President Lincoln realized that there would be no early end to the war and found himself "as inconsolable as it was possible for a human to be and yet live." Anxious for news from the army and needing to escape the constant interruptions at the White House he frequently visited the telegraph office in the War Department building to await dispatches. It was during one such visit early in July that he asked the chief of the telegraph staff Maj. Thomas Thompson Eckert for some paper to "write something special" and began the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation completing it in a few weeks. <br> <br> Lincoln had long hoped to resolve the slavery issue through a congressional act of emancipation compensating slave owners for their loss of "property" but that approach was roundly rejected by representatives from the border states leaving the President who had decided upon the necessity of emancipation with a presidential proclamation as the only option. The extraordinary document he conceived would announce the liberation on January 1 1863 of all slaves in those states still in rebellion against the Union and promised compensation to slave owners in those states that returned to the fold before that time if they adopted "immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery." This proclamation would be followed by a final proclamation issued on the 1st of January identifying those states still in rebellion and confirming the liberation of all slaves therein. <br> <br> On Tuesday July 22 Lincoln presented his draft to the Cabinet telling them that he had resolved firmly upon the course of action it specified and asking them not for advice but suggestions. The only observation he had not anticipated came from Secretary of State Seward who proposed that it might be best to wait for a military victory before issuing the Proclamation as it could otherwise seem like "the last measure of an exhausted government." Immediately recognizing the wisdom of the suggestion Lincoln held back. On September 17 after an anxious wait of nearly two months he received the victory he needed at the bloody Battle of Antietam. Completing his final draft Lincoln presented it to his cabinet for refinement on September 22. Following the meeting Seward took the amended draft with him to the State Department where a formal manuscript copy was made then signed by Lincoln and Seward. <br> <br> The first edition of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Eberstadt #1 a small three-page circular intended for distribution within the government and to the local press was likely printed on September 22. At the time that Charles Eberstadt published his study of the Proclamation 1950 he was able to locate only one copy which he himself owned and as nearly as we have been able to determine no other copies have come to light since then. <br> <br> Eberstadt #2 is a supposed second edition no copy of which Charles Eberstadt was able to locate whose existence he inferred from the standard State Department practice of printing a folio edition consisting solely of the text of the proclamation followed by another printing consisting of the text of a letter of transmittal from the Secretary of State as well as the text of the proclamation. While there may be a copy of Eberstadt #2 in the National Archives as he speculated it is not recorded in their online catalogue nor have we been able to find a copy in any other online catalogue including OCLC the Library of Congress and the Abraham Lincoln Library. <br> <br> Eberstadt's third printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is without a doubt the earliest obtainable printing. It consists of Secretary of State Seward's one-page letter of transmittal addressed "To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States in foreign countries" and the text of the proclamation. Eberstadt located a total of only five copies in institutions at the Library of Congress the National Archives Yale the Clements Library and Brown. OCLC does not record any additional copies nor is it recorded in Monaghan. This firm sold a copy several years ago. <br> <br> The present copy of GENERAL ORDERS No. 139 is Eberstadt's fourth printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation dated in print on September 24. Charles Eberstadt surmises that this field order printing could have been accomplished as late as September 29 or 30 and produced in as many as 15000 copies. It is however rather uncommon in the market and this is the first copy of this printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered by this firm. <br> <br> "From the first days of the Civil War slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom" - National Archives. "The proclamation has been called by responsible persons one of the three great documents of world history ranking with Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence" - Eberstadt. <br> <br> Besides including about 300 orders on all manner of Union military activity at the outset of the Civil War the present collection also contains the 1861 printing of REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM AND DRESS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. Set out in GENERAL ORDERS No. 6 this twenty-four-page printing of the Army dress regulations was the first to set out uniform requirements for the Union during the conflict. The first sentence of the first section requires officers to "wear a frock coat of dark blue cloth." Thus the Blue and the Gray begins. <br> <br> This set was collected and bound by John Pope Cook who began the Civil War as a colonel in command of the 7th Illinois Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general after his troops played a key role in the Union victory at Fort Donelson early in 1862. After his promotion he was transferred to a command in the Department of Iowa and Dakota Territory where he remained until early 1863 conducting campaigns against the Sioux from his base in Sioux City Iowa. These orders must have been bound near the end of this period since contemporary labels note the binder one William F. Kiter as being from relatively close by Council Bluffs. <br> <br> A very early printing of one of the most important political acts in the Civil War and indeed in American history contained in a set of General Orders contemporaneously assembled by a significant Union Army commander. EBERSTADT LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 4. War Department, Adjutant General's Office hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54585

‎Civil War: Military Press Printing‎

‎SPECIAL ORDER No. 8. U.S. MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON FLAG SHIP "TEMPEST" MOUND CITY ILLS. APRIL 24 1865 caption title‎

‎Mound City Il 1865. 1p. Two older tape stains else clean. Very good. A rare U.S. Mississippi Squadron Special Order from Rear Admiral Samuel Lee on the Flag Ship Tempest passing along a confidential telegraph order from Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Lee conveys the order that "the utmost vigilance should be exercised on the Mississippi River especially the lower portion of it to prevent the carrying across of plunder and property in the hands of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet and also to seize their persons." Davis and other Confederate leaders had fled Richmond and the oncoming Union Army; they had hoped to find sanctuary outside the United States. At one point they hoped to cross the South and reach Mexico. Davis his family and entourage were captured in Georgia on May 10. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54141

‎Civil War: New York‎

‎$14 CASH! IN ADVANCE! HARRIS' LIGHT CAVALRY! caption title‎

‎Plattsburgh N.Y. 1861. Printed broadside 13 3/4 x 20 inches. Matted. Mild offsetting of text from being previously folded minor restoration in left margin light folds and toning. Very good. A rare Civil War recruitment broadside stating that Captain W.B. Weed will pay $14 in advance to all Union recruits accepted after October 23 in the Harris' Light Cavalry. Signed in type by Captain Weed who enlisted with the 2nd New York Cavalry in September 1861 only to be discharged less than a year later on June 24 1862. The broadside includes a large and well-executed engraving of a cavalry horse. <br> <br> Named in honor of Senator Ira Harris of Albany Harris' Light Cavalry the 2nd New York Cavalry was organized at Scarsdale New York during the summer of 1861 and over the course of four years' service earned one of the most illustrious records in the Army of the Potomac. The 2nd Cavalry lost heavily during Pope's Campaign in the late summer of 1862 and again before and after Gettysburg losing almost 50 at Aldie alone with equal losses later in the year at Liberty Mills and Buckland Mills. During the summer of 1864 the regiment took part in Wilson's raid on the South Side and Danville Railroads and it fought in the Shenandoah Campaign when the tide was finally turned against the Confederates. The 2nd New York Cavalry is one of the 300 fighting regiments mentioned by Colonel Fox and ranks eighth in the list of mounted regiments which lost the most men killed and fatally wounded in action during the Civil War. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54022

‎Civil War: Pennsylvania‎

‎ONCE MORE FOR THE COUNTRY!! caption title‎

‎Pottsville Pa 1861. Broadside approximately 24 x 18 inches. Minor separations at crossfolds some edge wear and short closed tears at edges somewhat toned. Good. Framed. A rare Civil War recruitment broadside calling for troops to join the Tower Guards in Pennsylvania during the first year of the conflict. The broadside is illustrated with a large open-winged eagle holding a banner in his beak which reads: "The Union Forever!" The body of the broadside reads in part: <br> <br> "The undersigned desires to have the Company which has been commanded by him for three months past the 'Tower Guards' go again to support the Government and help crush out the great rebellion. He therefore offers A bounty of five hundred and five dollars to one hundred and one picked men." <br> <br> The text explains that the company will be commanded by Henry Pleasants as captain and will be part of a Regiment commanded by Col. James Nagle "Or some other satisfactory Colonel or as an independent company of Rangers." The broadside directs any interested men to call and enroll their names at the Office of Henry Pleasants. Signed in type by "C. Tower Captain." Charlemagne Tower organized a company of Union soldiers from Pottsville in a three-month enlistment during the Civil War. Before the war Tower worked in law specifically moving to Schuylkill County to get involved in claims to large coal and mineral deposits there. Tower was able to build wealth and prominence for himself in the area through his work in land dispute cases most prominently the Munson-Williams case. <br> <br> When the Civil War began at Fort Sumter Tower took notice. Within ten days of that first conflict on April 12 1861 Tower had recruited around 270 men from his county to join the Union Army under a three-month enlistment provision. Tower's unit who became known as the "Tower Guards" entered the Union Army as Company H of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment part of a brigade commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson. Tower commissioned captain of his unit provided uniforms and arms for his men at his own expense. The unit saw action most famously in the engagement at Falling Waters in July of 1861 a Union victory in name but with its own failings that led to the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. It would seem that Tower's efforts were not exhausted on this first unit because the featured broadside is dated just after his unit mustered out of service and asks for more men to take up the cause and fight for the Union. It would seem that Tower himself funded the bounty offered in the broadside but this is not certain because much less is known about this second attempt to recruit men for the Union Army. <br> <br> After his service in the war Tower was later named U.S. Provost Marshal for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District from 1863-64 and continued working at his Pottsville practice until moving to Philadelphia in 1875. A master land negotiator Tower held property in North Dakota and Minnesota that would help develop those states and the United States as a whole. His holdings in North Dakota became Tower City a promising town arranged and planned by George Ellisbury in 1879. Tower's land in the Vermilion Range in Minnesota proved to be rich with iron ore necessitating a mine and a direct railroad line both of which contributed to the local state and inter-state economies. <br> <br> Though Tower died on July 25 1889 his legacy was carried on by the towns across state lines that were named after him his son who became the minister to Austria- Hungary under President William McKinley and the unit of "Tower Guards" who fought for the Union Cause in the Civil War. <br> <br> A visually-striking artifact from the early period of the Civil War with no copies recorded in OCLC. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54027

‎Civil War: Simplot Alexander?‎

‎BATTLE OF CORINTH. OCT. 1862 manuscript caption title‎

‎Corinth Ms 1862. Pencil drawing 13 1/2 x 21 inches. Small tears at right and left edges lower right corner torn away. Small red ink stain on lower edge. Central vertical fold. Light soiling and wear. About very good. An original pencil sketch depicting a crucial moment in the Second Battle of Corinth which took place on October 3-4 1862 probably by war correspondent Alexander Simplot. This drawing was engraved for HARPER'S WEEKLY where its caption puts it in context as depicting the battle's key moment. A single three-cannon Union battery led by Lieut. Henry Robinet had been inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Confederates. Here the Confederates have stormed the battery and are attempting to take it in hand- to-hand combat. The Federals recaptured the battery later that day leading to a Union victory and a Confederate retreat. The engraving from HARPER'S is included which attributes the sketch to Alexander Simplot though the drawing itself is unsigned. Simplot a native of Iowa was a schoolteacher and artist turned war correspondent. Early in 1862 Simplot began traveling with the army of U.S. Grant which in October was stationed in Tennessee near the Mississippi border. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM48438

‎Civil War: Smart Edwin‎

‎REBEL RAID IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. ATTACK UPON PATTERSON. FIGHT BETWEEN 1500 OF THE ENEMY AND 400 FEDERALS. THE LATTER FALL BACK TO BIG CREEK. INTERESTING DISPATCH FROM PILOT KNOB. MAJOR McCONNELL REPORTED MORTALLY WOUNDED AND A PRISONER. THE INCURSION AT AN END caption title‎

‎N.p. but likely St. Louis 1863. Broadside 13 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Remnants of tape at top edge and ink mark in top margin. Slight tanning and spotting old folds. Very good. A rare Civil War broadside recounting Confederate General John S. Marmaduke's second raid into Missouri. It gives detailed news of battles between Union and Confederate troops in southeast Missouri an area that saw bloody battles between Unionists and Bushwhackers throughout the Civil War. <br> <br> Marmaduke aided by other Confederate units led by Joseph O. Shelby and Sterling Price and others attempted to lay claim to Missouri in 1861; they were unsuccessful but did not acknowledge defeat. Marmaduke planned his return for spring of 1863 confident that secessionist-minded Missourians would rally to his banner and he could make a decisive move on Jefferson City and even St. Louis. He needed the help: at the beginning of the raid Marmaduke had about 5000 troops of which 1200 were unarmed and 900 were unmounted and he hoped to resupply at Patterson and Bloomfield. He divided his forces and sent 2000 against Patterson the furthest south in a string of fortified outposts in southeastern Missouri. Marmaduke's troops had the element of surprise initially approaching Patterson and its small garrison of about 400 troops commanded by Col. Edwin Smart. Marmaduke's men captured Smart's pickets but revealed themselves soon after as over-eager artillery troops started firing before the infantry could get into place. Smart sent out a battalion under Major Wood to hold off the Confederates while he prepared his troops and supply trains for retreat. <br> <br> In the text of this broadside Smart reports that Wood "held them in check and skirmished them into town.Before I left the town I destroyed what stores I could not bring away. Nothing fell into the hands of the enemy." Marmaduke pursued them to Big Creek about eight miles west of Patterson and Smart writes that: "The engagement was severe in the extreme often fighting hand to hand. At Big Creek they got in my front and attempted to cut off my retreat but I forced my way and formed on this side of the Creek. The enemy did not renew the engagement." Smart lost about fifty troops including Major McConnell. Marmaduke failed to obtain any military stores at Patterson or during his subsequent raid at Bloomfield and no sympathetic Missourians joined his cause; the raid was a failure and confirmed that while Missouri was no Union stronghold neither was it interested in furthering the Confederate cause. <br> <br> This broadside bears no imprint and the place of printing is unknown but the tone of the text and the fact that the news arrived so quickly indicates that it might have been printed in St. Louis. No copies of this broadside are listed in OCLC. Such broadsides bearing news of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West are rare and shine an important spotlight on an often- neglected aspect of Civil War history. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM55392