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‎Civil War: Smith Aaron A.‎

‎COLLECTION OF ELEVEN CIVIL WAR LETTERS FROM PVT. AARON A. SMITH TO ADDIE D. JONES DESCRIBING HIS TRAINING IN NEW ENGLAND HIS TIME AT SHIP ISLAND AND THE EARLY DAYS OF THE UNION OCCUPATION OF LOUISIANA‎

‎Manchester N.H. Boston Ma. Ship Island off the coast of Mississippi and locations in Louisiana as detailed below 1862. Eleven autograph letters signed ten with envelopes totaling 36pp. Later transcriptions accompany the letters. Old folds occasional light staining and/or tanning one letter with small tears repaired with archival tape. In very good condition. A small but rich collection of early Civil War letters written by Private Aaron A. Smith of Wilton New Hampshire to his sweetheart Adaline "Addie" D. Jones of West Wilton. The letters describe Smith's training at bases in New Hampshire and Massachusetts time spent at Ship Island off the Mississippi Coast and his service in Louisiana as part of the Union occupying force in the summer and fall of 1862. Smith eventually served as a musician with his company giving an interesting perspective on his brief Civil War service. The letters continue until Smith's death in Louisiana from typhoid fever just over a year into his service. Letters from the western theater of the Civil War especially at such an early point in Union advances are uncommon. <br> <br> Smith's letters are especially informative of the conditions at Ship Island describing the poor health conditions there and the Confederate prisoners and escaped slaves he encountered. He also gives valuable information on Louisiana and New Orleans just after the Union retook the region describing the ongoing resistance efforts of Confederate soldiers and civilians. Smith also transmits his love for his hometown sweetheart and his hopes that they will meet again. <br> <br> Aaron Smith 1837-1862 enlisted on October 28 1861 and mustered into Company "B" of the 8th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry under Col. Hawkes Fearing Jr. The 8th left Camp Currier Manchester N.H. on January 24 1862 en route for Fort Independence in Boston where they trained and drilled until transport south was available. They departed Boston for Ship Island Mississippi on February 15 aboard the E. WILDER FARLEY and finally arrived on March 15. Smith served the entirety of his comparatively brief enlistment in the Department of the Gulf as part of Gen. Benjamin Butler's Expedition. In his letters Smith details his transport to Ship Island and the conditions there and then gives descriptions of New Orleans. Smith remained at Camp Parapet just upriver from New Orleans through September before joining Gen. Godfrey Weitzel's brigade and participating in the Battle at Georgia Landing Labadieville an engagement he describes briefly in his final letter of December 10. Aaron Smith then fell seriously ill and succumbed to typhoid fever on December 22 1862 according to the REGISTERS OF DEATHS OF VOLUNTEERS. The letters are described individually below: <br> <br> Camp Currier: January 22 1862. 2pp. With envelope. Smith writes just days before he leaves for Boston. His tone is light and focuses on the personalities in his and Addie's choir in Wilton. In fact Smith writes that he's just received her letter as "Sargent sic Marshall Abiel Livermore and myself were spending the evening in singing." Smith also asks about which regiment a friend of theirs has joined in hopes that he can locate him later. <br> <br> Fort Independence: February 10 1862. 2pp. Smith is now in Boston waiting to for the ship south and his thoughts have turned more serious. He writes that he hopes his and Addie's feelings for each other will not dim since "when we shall meet again I cannot tell as separations must occur on Earth I must reconcile myself to it." He then veers into a religious vein: "The hand of God can protect us from all harm and guide us safe through many dangers I wish I had more faith in Him and more love for Him. Addie it is my deep desire and has often been my prayer that you may seek and find if not the love of God and I hope live a more consistent christian life than I have." Nevertheless no one seems to know or will tell where they are headed: "where we shall go to I think that no officer under Gen. Butler knows those that put confidence in reports believe we shall go to Ship Isl. but I do not put so much confidence in them as I did by doing so have been obliged to contradict a part of some of my letters." Smith mentions the wreck of a troop ship and marvels that more lives were not lost. Towards the end of the letter perhaps to lighten the tone upon closing Smith seems to allude to a joke between him and Addie and his mother that he was married before he was not: "I am some forgetful perhaps I never was married if I have been and you should see her his mother tell her to be of good cheer.I must close now. I send a kiss for you.As we all are past furloughs I think I shall not try to go home again to see my wife." <br> <br> On Board E. WILDER FARLEY: February 16 1862. 2pp. With envelope. This is a brief letter letting Addie know that they are almost underway to Ship Island: "We are in the greatest state of confusion possible. I am now down on the second deck trying to write a few letters or what I shall have to pass as such. There are scarcely five rays of light that can get to my paper can find a better place in our cellar or in the barn than this to write in." Still Smith is optimistic about this war: "I hope and expect not to stop more than a year as the prospects are that the war will not last long and if spared think will be back within that time." <br> <br> Ship Island: April 22 1862. 4pp. With envelope and three small seashells. Smith has arrived at Ship Island and paints a vivid picture of the pestilent sand the soldiers in camp and the various inhabitants including Confederate prisoners of war: "Our Sothern sic prisoners run about at their leisure appear to enjoy themselves very well.the ladies frequently take their work and sit out on the shady side of a building and talk with the men. Some appear to be quite friendly to the union a lady told a man in our squad.that there are one half in N. Orleans that are union people if they dare to be." But then he heard from a girl who "said she wished she could put out the eyes of the northerners with those guns with bayonets she thought the northerners were not any better than the n__s." Nevertheless illness is already a problem: "Two have died in our Reg. since we have been here it is considerable sickly.last Friday I raised some blood from my stomach but the next day I went on duty feeling as well as usual." Smith attributes this to the sand in the food but Ship Island proved to be a very unhealthy place. By the end of the war 153 Confederate prisoners and 232 Union soldiers had died due to contaminated water and related fevers and infections. Smith closes the letter somberly: "I hope and trust we shall be spared to meet again.I think I realise the danger before me hope I shall be prepar sic to meet it." <br> <br> Ship Island: May 8 1862. 4pp. With envelope. "We are here still on this desert." Things are no better on Ship Island. Smith includes some brief accounts of the Union battles in Mobile and Baton Rouge and continues his descriptions of the heat and the sand. The heat has gotten worse: "It is not very healthy from nine to three o'clock.A great many are having very bad eyes caused by the white sand reflecting to the sun's rays.Some have lost their sight and been discharged." He insists his health is fine but notes that he avoids going outdoors whenever possible. Smith also records some fascinating interactions with escaped slaves. He reports that they "frequently come over here and are quite tickled to get here. I heard one say that their masters represent us to be very cruel and tell them we will cut off an arm starve and whip them if we get them.This one said if they should get him they would hang him for the negroes were planning an insurrection and he was at the head. He said he could not get much to eat and the soldiers do not have much either his master he said was in the army and hoped we will kill him." He closes morosely with a count of the graves in the cemetery 79 as of writing ".brothers husbands sons and fathers killed and buried in such hast sic that no one can tell where they lay this is the result of war and still for one side it is just." <br> <br> Camp Parapet: May 24 1862. 4pp. With envelope. Smith is finally on the move detailing his departure from Ship Island as part of the Union occupation of New Orleans. He notes the defenses in particular the "parapet" built up by the Confederates who anticipated the Union invading from the north rather than coming up river from Fort Jackson. He also describes the efforts of locals to destroy military equipment and foodstuffs that would be of value to Yankee invaders. They even attempt to befoul the waterways by dumping sugar and molasses into the river. Smith writes "When they heard we had taken Ft Jackson and only a few gun boats had got up to N. Orleans the soldiers at this place ran in every direction some even over the parapet into the ditch of water some took off their equipments and burnt them then put on citizens clothes to prevent them being caught with soldiers uniform on.The carriages of the guns were burnt by the women the guns spiked the equipments and every thing that the soldiers left that would fall into our hands were burnt and all done by the women." Smith also includes observations on the poverty he has seen: "The destitution of the people white and black in this state and Miss. is not a fable but a reality there are not but a very few that had money enough to live comfortable.I hardly know where to stop there is so much to write about." Smith closes with some notes for his mother and chaste love for Addie. <br> <br> Camp Parapet: July 9 1862. 4pp. With envelope. This letter is less focused on combat and troop movements and is more conversational with casual thoughts about the civilian world and life in camp. Smith writes that the "4th of July was so rainy here that the Reg.'s could not appear in parade at noon and night while the 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Hail Columbia' was to be played." in which Smith had prepared to perform. Smith is a Musician now so he has been spared the discomfort of guard duty during the heat and the rain though not the boredom of inaction in camp. He reassures Addie about his health reiterating "The blood I spit on the Isl. was caused by the sand that I had eaten and drank. It came from my stomach and was only what I spit out in three or four times. I guess my lungs are well enough now as I have got over the horid colds I caught." Smith mentions election day but does not mention much about politics focusing instead on Addie's "election cake" and how much of it he would eat if he was there. The main problem for Smith in this letter is the numerous untrustworthy peddlers selling junk at exorbitant rates and giving phony currency in change. Perhaps inspired by these experiences Smith also has some strong language about the locals: "The people here are a mixed set from most every nation in the world but those called Creoles are the most numerous ignorant and degraded.The people have not much good principals sic are much inferior to the Northerners in interlectual sic cultivation." <br> <br> Camp Parapet: August 5 1862. 4pp. Folded with envelope. Curiously Smith wrote this letter on stationery featuring an engraved view of the port of New Orleans produced by Louis Schwarz New Orleans publisher and bookseller. Prussian-born Schwarz 1819- 1893 emigrated to New Orleans and by the 1850s had a monopoly on German-language literature. By the time of Smith's letter Schwarz had helped form the mostly-German Hansa Guards Battalion which was absorbed into the 4th Regiment European Brigade of the Louisiana Militia detailed to defend New Orleans. Schwarz was made captain of Co. "B." Upon the Union victory Gen. Butler used the European Brigade briefly as a police force but then dissolved them in May 1862. For some reason in this letter Smith addresses Addie as "Addia" both in the letter and on the envelope. He begins with pleasantries about home but then shifts to discussing the draft apparently in response to Addie: "I do not care if they do have to draft I hope they will and not be so long getting the Reg.'s ready waiting for them to enlist." He continues putting a brave face on things: "I presume there are many young men now in N. Hamp. with long faces fearing they may be drafted. I should like to see them and I guess I would plague them I would laugh at them any way. The worst part is thinking about it soldiers will feel quite at home when they have been in the army six months or a year Smith has been in about ten months. Some get homesick and it wears and worries them most to death some pine away and get discharged on that account but there are not many such." Smith also reports that there have been Confederate guerrilla attacks and that they have located weapons concealed in houses in Carrollton. Units were dispatched from his regiment to assist in securing the area. Once again his role as a Musician proves to be an advantage: ".if I was not a fifer probably I should had to have gone." <br> <br> Camp Parapet: August 15 1862. 2pp. With envelope. This letter is chiefly camp news with Smith in apparently good spirits. Things are quiet however: "We soldiers are getting to be quite lazy. Particularly I am as I am a musician they cannot detail me to do work which is called policing. I have no guard duty to do so I am not up nights and exposed to the rain and heat daytimes. The musicians have to do what the major says but he very seldom has any thing for us to do out of the regular course of duty." Aside from some rambunctious officers the rest of Smith's update is quite peaceful as he and his comrades spend their days catching up on letters to friends and families baking beans and hoping for more music to sing. <br> <br> Camp Parapet: September 8 1862. 4pp. With envelope. Another quiet letter although there are rumblings of potential combat. Even so Smith muses about Addie traveling down to visit him although he's not quite sure how that could be arranged. He returns to the topic of the draft and how those avoiding the draft make it sound worse than it is: "I think folks are apt to be more scart sic than hurt. But this war is an awful occurrence. I sincerely hope it will soon end in order to have it we must have the men. Sisters must be willing to part with their brothers fathers and mothers with their sons and none try to restrain those whose duty it is to go." Smith closes with several unsettling items including news that "there are quite a large force of guerrillas very near us on the south side of the river.A few Regs. have been sent after them. I do not think we shall stop here all winter but by three or four weeks we shall be on the march after the rebels. The government have neglected to furnish the musicians with swords as the 'Army Regulations' require so I bought me a revolver to protect myself by." <br> <br> Thibodaux Camp Stevens La.: December 10 1862. 4pp. With envelope. Smith wrote this letter approximately ten days before he died. He begins by apologizing profusely for the substantial delay since his last letter; it had been over two months. Smith's regiment has relocated to Thibodaux about 70 miles from New Orleans after fighting in the Battle at Georgia Landing. Smith is definitely sick at this point: "The march was very hard for me and camping out I caught a very bad cold. At the time of the battle I was most sick but the excitement kept me along very well." Smith describes how he assisted in the hospital all night attending to Union as well as Confederate soldiers. He is less sanguine about combat now that he has seen it: "War is awful if anyone don't think so let them be in a battle and try it to have shells exploding about you and grape and canister shot and bullets whistleing about your head makes any one feel most indescribable." <br> <br> From Smith's account he seems to have contracted several of the numerous diseases that plagued soldiers on both sides. In fact two out of three deaths during the Civil War were caused by disease. Every soldier had dysentery at some point and many suffered from one or more of any number of other ailments. He writes "I have the fever and ague some so do most all." "Ague" was malaria and afflicted about 20 percent of troops. Smith would have first developed a high fever along with the "shakes" followed by debilitating weakness that would leave him bedridden for days or even weeks. The symptoms would gradually subside and he could return to duty but the fever periodically returned and the process was repeated. Smith writes that he was sick again during their stop in Tigersville and then notes that "There is a good deal of shaking among the soldiers the shakes this season I have been told by the people are very bad among all." He closes the letter hoping "I can write often now.I have several letters to answer perhaps they will think I am very sick or dead. Changes take place in the army so any one cannot be always prompt in writing." A final page of text in a different hand Addie's is added after Smith's letter. The ink is faint and the hand is difficult to read but it is dated December 27 from West Wilton N.H. and starts by explaining that Smith's mother had been by to see how his health was suggesting that his friends and family did not know yet that he had died. <br> <br> A detailed and intimate account from a soldier in the early days of the Civil War with significant content on life at Ship Island and the early days of the Union occupation of Louisiana. Andrea Mehrländer THE GERMANS OF CHARLESTON RICHMOND AND NEW ORLEANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD 1850-1870 Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter 2011. REGISTERS OF DEATHS OF VOLUNTEERS 1861-1865. RECORDS OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE 1780-1917. Record Group 94. ARC ID: 656639. National Archives. Washington D.C. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM55290

‎Civil War: SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS‎

‎THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS‎

‎Richmond: Ayres & Wade 1864. Forty-four issues of 110 most 8pp. each. Folio. Old fold lines and light wear. Separations along gutter vertical folds. Some light tanning and soiling scattered foxing and wear. Some issues lightly dampstained. Many issues trimmed at gutter margin creating loose sheets. Still very good overall. THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS was the Civil War South's answer to northern publications such as HARPER'S WEEKLY. A pictorial paper it printed portraits and biographies of important military leaders political cartoons mocking President Lincoln and other northern figures as well as literary tidbits. The paper ran from Sept. 13 1862 to Feb. 4 1865 and was published weekly. Through 1863 issues were eight pages in length but into 1864 issues were more often four pages or sometimes skipped entirely and only published every other week. <br> <br> The quality of the publication and its illustration were rather crude by comparison with the North's offerings. The publishers advertised several times for expert engravers but never seem to have found any to take up the job. Nevertheless each issue contains cartoons and portraits of famous generals and officers along with literary works a few advertisements theatre and literature critiques and the news of the day though often several days behind. The back page of each issue advertises literary works now available or recently off the press maps of the war and different plays and shows coming up. One cartoon shows a downcast President Lincoln as Julius Caesar with a black Brutus; another shows the pleasant conditions for Union soldiers at Belle Isle Confederate Prison as opposed to the isolation and unhappiness of Confederate soldiers imprisoned in Ohio. Still a further illustration shows a dead man sprawled across a coffin captioned: "The Fate of a Deserter." The NEWS not surprisingly published with a pro-southern bias even to the point of declaring the Battle of Gettysburg to be a great Confederate victory. <br> <br> Publication only became more difficult as the months passed. Legend has it that in 1864 several issues were printed with shoe polish rather than proper printing ink due to shortages not borne out by an examination of existing copies. Paper was also in short supply resulting in shortened or skipped issues. By 1865 with the Union Army occupying major southern cities and marching further into the heart of the Confederacy the paper's circulation plummeted and distribution outside of Richmond became next to impossible. Richmond fell to the Union on April 2 1865 which is when the periodical effectively ceased. <br> <br> This excellent run consists of issues spanning from Sept. 20 1862 No. 1:6 through March 5 1864 No. 3:9. The NEWS published forty-two issues in its first volume Sept. 13 1862 to June 27 1863 twenty-five in its second volume June 27 1863 to Dec. 26 1863 and thirty-eight issues in its third Jan. 2 1864 to Dec. 24 1864. There is some confusion about how many issues appeared in 1865. Some sources record the paper running until September 1865 though that is almost certainly wrong; others say the end of March. The Library of Congress website devoted to historical newspapers "Chronicling America" indicates an end date of Sept. 3 1865 but gives the final issue as Volume 4 issue 5 which was published on Feb. 4 1865. Emory University holds a 4:5 dated Feb. 4 1865 the latest we can find listed anywhere and thus probably the actual end of the publication. Assuming this is correct the present run contains forty-four of one hundred ten issues. <br> <br> Issues are rare and representative runs even more so. A wonderful resource for Civil War history. Ayres & Wade unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54026

‎Civil War: Tennessee‎

‎HEAD-QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND MURFREESBORO TENN. MARCH 8th 1863. CIRCULAR‎

‎Murfreesboro Tn 1863. Small broadsheet 8 x 5 inches. Light tanning and dust soiling a couple of marginal fox marks. About very good. Gen. William Rosencrans commander of the Union Army of the Cumberland in 1863 asks that the multiplicity of orders and the resulting variations thereof be addressed and the attendant confusion in the ranks be resolved and orders various measures be taken to ensure proper communications. Grant replaced Rosencrans with Gen. George H. Thomas near the end of this year after a series of failures in Tennessee. Not in Allen or OCLC. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM53711

‎Civil War: Virginia‎

‎PENCIL SKETCH OF THE FIELD HOSPITAL OF THE 3rd DIVISION 6th CORPS NEAR PETERSBURG VIRGINIA 1864‎

‎Petersburg Va 1864. Pencil sketch 10 x 14 1/4 inches. One vertical and two horizontal folds. Residue from previous mounting and old repair to verso minute separation at two cross- folds. Lightly tanned. Very good. A large and well-executed pencil sketch of a field hospital toward the end of the Civil War. The artist only identified him- or herself as "W.M.C." in the lower left corner along with the caption: "Field Hospital of the 3rd Div. 6th Corps near Petersburg Va. Pencil Sketch made 1864." In the foreground are the well-tended grounds of the hospital including a flagpole flying the hospital "H" flag with the Greek cross insignia of the VI Corps all surrounded by a wooden fence and trimmed hedge. A complex of semi-permanent tents dominates the majority of the image with two men in uniform in conversation to the left of the tents. In the background are two covered ambulance wagons decorated with medical crosses; trees and small houses are visible further in the background. <br> <br> The VI Army Corps was created in 1862 and assigned to the Army of the Potomac although in 1864 it was temporarily assigned to the Army of the Shenandoah under the command of Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts. Although the VI Corps faced heavy fighting throughout the Civil War 1864 was particularly violent - this field hospital was undoubtedly packed throughout the year. In the wake of the Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania during the Overland Campaign to the close fighting near Mule Shoe also known as the "Bloody Angle" the assault at Cold Harbor and the Shenandoah Valley campaigns the VI Corps saw nearly two-thirds of its 24000 soldiers killed or wounded. In December 1864 the VI Corps returned to the Army of the Potomac and in April 1865 played an important role in the final assault on the fortifications of Petersburg. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM56141

‎CIVIL WAR: WISCONSIN‎

‎Autographed Letter Signed‎

‎Springfield 1864. unbound. very good. Interesting Home-Front A.L.S. 4to. 2 pages Springfield Illinois September 7th 1864 concerning happenings in and around Wisconsin. In part: "I am glad to hear of your recovery from your wounds. Where did your father leave you when he went to Nashville after you Mr. Hill says he left you part way home. I was in hopes that you would come down and see me before you went into the Army again but you did not say anything again about it in your letter. Andrew - you sent me your picture before you went to the War and I gave it to Harry's girls when I was out there.and Libby gave me another one when I was at your place. Charley Gilbert's corpse was brought home Saturday I believe from Memphis.he was in the 40th Regiment. His family did not know he was dead until his corpse arrived home. He died with Dysentery. PS - Tell your Mother that butter is 35 to 40 cents here. Condition: Visual folds as expected from the passing of the letter from one relative to another - otherwise in very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 283340

‎Civil War; Thulstrup Thure de‎

‎Battle of Kenesaw sic Mountain‎

‎Boston: American Lithographic Co. 1890. One of the 18 images from Prang’s War Pictures published 1886-1887 reissued by the American Lithographic Co. <br /> <br /> A detailed print of the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain in Georgia on 27 June 1864 the last general engagement made between troops under Sherman and Johnston prior to the battles around Atlanta. <br /> <br /> A print from a striking series of images of the rare and important Civil War series originally issued by Louis Prang between 1886 and 1888 and later reissued later by the American Lithographic Co. In the early 1880s Century Magazine and Kurz & Allison had both issued popular works pictorializing Civil War battles. Prang the foremost lithographer in the United States commissioned watercolors for the prints. Prang got testimonials on their accuracy from prominent veterans focusing on heroes who were still living creating a patriotic nostalgia about the war. <br /> <br /> Copyright Prang & Co Boston 1887 in the center margin American Lithographic Co. on the right. 14 3/4 x 21 5/8" plus margins. Sml. marginal tear in the lower right margin archivally repaired. Very bright copy. American Lithographic Co. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29029

‎Civil War; Photograph‎

‎Carte de Visite of David Foster a Union Lt‎

‎New York: Bogardus 1863. Photography. Good overall. Two identical Bogardus images but with slightly formats - different Bogardus stamps on the verso and one with round corners the other squared. The pencil names on the verso of one card say "David Foster Israel Peopus Miss Logan " The portrait has the lieutenant in uniform holding his hat in left hand his right hand on a chair. <br /> <br /> Two identical images. 2 3/8 x 4" image on card. Photographer was Bogardus at 363 Broadway in New York NY. Faintly foxed. Bogardus unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28070

‎Civil War; Frederick Remington; Matthew Brady; Waud; Davis; Nash; Winslow Homer; Charles Dickens; Benson Lossing‎

‎Harper's Weekly Vol. VIII January 2 1864 to December 31 1864‎

‎New York: Harper's 1864. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. A full year bound volume of Harper's Weekly with woodblock illustrations on every page including artists like Winslow Homer and writers Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson and Benson Lossing. Some images include New Year's Day North & South Thomas Nast Jan. 2; George A. Custer on horseback; Grant receiving commission from President Lincoln; General Robert Edmund Lee July 2; General Custer Presenting Captured Battle Flags at the War Department Nov. 12; and Lincoln cartoon on having won the election Long Abraham Lincoln A Little Longer Nov. 26. Folio iv 848pp. Weekly issues bound up into yearly volume with the leather spine perishing and the covers detached. Internally good condition with a few pages with tears repaired with archival tape. Harper's hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28078

‎Civil War; Western Australia; Tasmania; Japan‎

‎Illustrated London News 1865 January to July volume‎

‎London: Illustrated London News 1865. Hardcover. Very good overall. A half-yearly bound volume of the Illustrated London News with woodblock illustrations on every page including General Lee's surrender to U.S. Grant Map of Wilmington NC Map of Sherman's March and many more Civil War views. Other features include Japan Tibet the Great Eastern ship a print of the last aboriginals in Tasmania and a view of Albany Western Australia. Folio 644 pages engravings on almost every page. Half calf and marble boards rubbed at edges. Illustrated London News hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28082

‎Civil War; Currier & Ives‎

‎ADMIRAL PORTER'S FLEET RUNNING THE REBEL BLOCKADE OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT VICKSBURG APRIL 16th 1863 caption title‎

‎New York: Currier & Ives 1863. Handcolored lithograph 12 x 15 inches. Tiny chip in upper left corner well away from the image. A clean near fine copy. A colorful and dramatic depiction of Admiral David Dixon Porter's Mississippi River Squadron running the Confederate blockade at Vicksburg during the siege of the city by Union forces in 1863 an important strategic victory in taking control of the river. Captions identify Porter's flagship the U.S.S. Benton in the right foreground leading the Lafayette and General Price which are followed by the Louisville Mound City Pittsburg Carondelet Silver Wave Forest Queen Henry Clay and Tuscumbia. A barrage of cannons fire from both the squadron and the Confederate batteries on the embankments overlooking the river. Union cannonballs are hitting both the batteries and the buildings on the bluffs of Vicksburg further in the background. Clouds of smoke billow from the ships the burning buildings and one of the floats of flammable material set out by the Confederates. <br> <br> Initially Grant had asked only for a few gunboats to shield his troops but Porter persuaded him to use more than half of the Squadron. Six nights later April 22 they made a similar run past the batteries to give Grant the transports he needed for crossing the river. Grant first tried to attack the Rebels through Grand Gulf south of Vicksburg and had Porter's gunboats eliminate the two forts there so his troops could cross. Despite intense shelling the upper fort held; Grant called off the assault and moved downstream to Bruinsburg where he crossed unopposed. Afterwards Porter's ships remained in place securing the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers and guaranteeing the success of the siege. Grant was effusive in his praise Porter's actions and for his contribution to the victory Porter's appointment as acting rear admiral was made permanent. <br> <br> The additional printed caption describes the event thusly: "At half past ten P.M. the boats left their moorings & steamed down the river the Benton Admiral Porter taking the lead - as they approached the point opposite the town a terrible concentrated fire of the centre upper and lower batteries both water and bluff was directed upon the channel which here ran within one hundred yards of the shore. At the same moment innumerable floats of turpentine and other combustible materials were set ablaze. In the face of all this fire the boats made their way with but little loss except the transport Henry Clay which was set on fire & sunk." <br> <br> The Union victory at Vicksburg was the second major blow to the Confederacy in the spring and summer of 1863. On July 3 Lee's invasion of the North foundered at Gettysburg and on July 4 the U.S. flag rose over Vicksburg. This print is surprisingly uncommon in the market. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 0058. PETERS CURRIER & IVES 1180. Currier & Ives unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM56146

‎CIVIL WAR; GRANT ULYSSES S.‎

‎Grant's Petersburg Progress‎

‎Petersburg VA: Eden & McCreery 1865. First edition. framed. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF "GRANT'S PETERSBURG PROGRESS" PRINTED BY UNION SOLDIERS ON A CONFEDERATE PRESS THE DAY PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND WERE SEIZED SIX DAYS BEFORE LEE'S SURRENDER. "When on that famous Monday the third of April 1865 the advance line of attack on Petersburg found the city evacuated by the Confederate troops almost the first Federal soldiers to enter her doors took possession of the office of the Express and before the day was over from its presses there issued number one volume one of Grant's Petersburg Progress. It was a single sheet twelve by twenty inches in size printed on one side of the paper. Its cry was 'We are here!' Major Eden 37th Wisconsin Volunteers was editor assisted by Captain Charles H. McCreery 8th Michigan Veteran Volunteers and Chaplain D. Heagle. They proposed 'to publish a live paper as ling as circumstances will permit; that is as long as we can steal the paper and get men detailed to set the type.' Ten cents was the price. 'We are not particular as to the medium of exchange; and will take Hardtack Greenbacks Cigars postage stamps and in fact most any available currency Confederate Bonds and Contrabands always excepted.'" Nellie P. Dunn "General Lee in Grant's Petersburg Progress" South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 12. This first issue from the day of the fall of Petersburg was followed by only four other issues April 5 7 10. <br /> <br /> The paper is full of joy and wit providing a wonderful window into the mood of the soldiers now that the end of the war was near. <br /> <br /> Some highlights from the text:<br /> <br /> "For nearly six months the army of the United States has kept watch and ward over the City of Petersburg. Since last June the roar of shells and the whistle of bullets have disturbed the silence of the woods in the vicinity and today the old flag waves from the Court House. The United States armies and U.S. Grant have foreclosed and entered in possession and Petersburg is ours. And throughout the length and breadth of the land the joyful tidings will spread that another deadly blow has been struck at the fast dying Southern Confederacy. Slowly and miserably it yet drags on a lingering existence but its days are numbered and the end is at hand. The bright rays of the sun and the pleasant fresh breeze of this fair spring morning kiss the folds of the stars and stripes as it waves from the tower and hill the streets wear a lovely and animated appearance thronged with soldiers and citizens the cause of Liberty and truth is triumphant."<br /> <br /> Under the heading "LATEST NEWS":<br /> <br /> "RICHMOND TAKEN. -Just as we are about going to press we are reliably informed that the city of Richmond came into the possession of the Union forces at a quarter past eight o'clock this morning."<br /> <br /> Under "WE US AND CO":<br /> <br /> "We believe in the UNITED STATES one and indivisible; in Abraham Lincoln our adopted Father; in U.S. GRANT Captain of the Host; and ourselves as the principle sojourners in the Army of the Potomac and the Freedom of the Contraband the speedy extinction of the Rebellion and the perdition of Jeff. Davis here and here after."<br /> <br /> Under "FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS":<br /> <br /> "April 3d Gen. Grant and Staff and the Army of the Potomac generally."<br /> <br /> Under "AUCTION SALES":<br /> <br /> "To be sold very cheap if not badly sold already all the singularly ineligible and worthless property known as THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. For particulars apply to Jefferson Davis Richmond Va. N.B. Liberal terms to agents of Maximillian Louis Napoleon or Victoria."<br /> <br /> Petersburg VA: Eden & McCreery April 3 1865. Broadside printed on recto only approx. 12x19.5 inches. Framed to an overall size of 17x24 inches. Some small holes at folds and edges; a few words of bleed-through from hand-written ink on verso. A wonderfully evocative piece of Civil War history. SCARCE. Eden & McCreery unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2285

‎CIVININI Guelfo -‎

‎La guerra nel nostro cielo.‎

‎Milano, 1918, estratto con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 94/100 con ill. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.‎

‎Civinini Guelfo.‎

‎Viaggio intorno alla guerra. Dall'Egeo al Baltico (luglio 1915- marzo 1916)‎

‎RA1.‎

‎CIVRIEUX ( Commandant de ).‎

‎La fin de l ' Empire d' Allemagne. La Bataille du " Champs des Bouleaux " 191..... ( Extrait d'un précis d' histoire édité en 193...) . Avec une préface du Commandant Driant, député de Nancy.‎

‎Paris, " Editions et Librairie " , sans date ( 1914) ;in-8°, broché, couverture blanche imprimée en noir et rouge ; 71pp.,1p.nch.; piqûres à la couverture et au dernier feuillet sinon rares.1 carte à double page.‎

‎Fiction militaro - historique sur la fin de l' Empire allemand des Hohenzollern selon les prédictions de la prophétie de Strasbourg, à rapprocher de la " Guerre de demain " de Danrit , qui signe ici la préface. (GrMG)‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : c3714

‎CIVRIEUX (Commandant de).‎

‎La Bataille du "Champ des Bouleaux" 191... (Extrait d’un précis d’histoire édité en 193...).‎

‎P., Editions et Librairie, s.d. (1912), in-8°, 71 pp, préface du Commandant Driant, député de Nancy (écrivain connu sous le pseudonyme du Capitaine Danrit), une carte double page hors texte, cart. demi-toile noire, bon état‎

‎La Bataille du Champ des Bouleaux est l’un de ces opuscules qui anticipent la guerre de 14-18 et qui décrètent sur le mode de l’incantation la défaite de l’Allemagne. Le commandant de Civrieux s’exerce au passionnant jeu du « kriegspiel », supputant à l’avance comment l’armée du Kaiser pourrait être anéantie. Toutes les procédures des engagements sur le terrain y sont décrites, depuis les alliances française, belge et anglaise jusqu’à la mise en place des "troupeaux" (sic !) d’hommes sur le champ de bataille : "Dans la guerre qui s’ouvrait, munies soit de mitrailleuses perfectionnées, soit de tubes de lancement pour explosifs (récemment inventés et demeurés secrets), montés par les plus hardis pilotes que le monde ait encore vus, les esquifs de l’air devaient jouer un rôle inespéré et magnifique. Et, par-dessus ces préparatifs matériels (…) un souffle passait, le souffle de la confiance. Il soulevait les âmes ; légères, il les portait à la frontière sacrée, vers les chères provinces..." C’est par la Belgique, forcément, qu’attaqueront les Prussiens. Mais cette fois-ci, ils trouveront à qui parler : une masse énorme d’hommes appuyée par un matériel technique du dernier cri. Les différentes phases de l’engagement commencent avec l’attaque d’Apremont (le 17 août 191...) où les Allemands connaissent leur première défaite. Sous le commandement du général Bordeaux qui aligne les armées (de Lorraine, des Ardennes, d’Alsace) avec en ligne plus de 800.000 hommes et 3.000 pièces d’artillerie, se déroulera l’effroyable Bataille de l’Ourthe qui amènera les Français aux portes d’Aix la Chapelle. (...) Le soir du troisième jour, 800.000 cadavres jonchaient les guérets, les pentes des plateaux, les lisières des bois, les creux des ravins." Les Allemands, regroupés autour du Kaiser, se résignent à la confrontation finale sur le sol même de leur mère patrie, au lieu dit "le Champ des Bouleaux". Sur une éminence, au centre de la plaine de Westphalie, Wilhelm surveille les opérations militaires de la dernière chance, pour contrer la "furia francese". Il ne survivra pas à la fatidique journée, mourant écrasé sous les bombes lancées sur son abri alors que croulera son empire..." (Jacques Haesslé, 2013) Désormais les frais d'envoi sont de 6 € seulement pour les livres jusqu'à 1 kg (colissimo suivi), pour la France métropolitaine.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 124457

‎CIVRIEUX (Commandant).-‎

‎La fin de l'empire d'Allemagne. La Bataille du "Champ des Bouleaux" 191... (extrait d'un précis d'histoire édité en 193...). Avec une préface du Commandant Driant. Avec une carte hors-texte.‎

‎P., Editions et Librairie, (1914), in 8° broché, 72 pages.‎

‎"Ainsi en l'an 191...selon les prédictions de la célèbre prophétie de Starsbourg au champ des bouleaux en Wesphalie. Une génération et demie après sa fondation périt avec la troisième et dernier Kaiser. L'Empire allemand des Hohen Zollern"!! PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande ..........................‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46226

‎CIVRIEUX, Commandant de.‎

‎"La fin de l'Empire d'Allemagne. La Bataille du ""Champ des Bouleaux"" (Extrait d'un précis d'histoire édité en 193...). Avec une préface du Commandant Driant. Une carte hors texte."‎

‎Charles-Lavauzelle. 1912. in-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle, 1912, in 12, broché, 85 pp.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

‎1G-033 - Lieu d'édition : Paris Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300265513

‎CJ. Doyle concerning the Third Mahratta War, India, 1817-18: C. J.‎

‎Mahratta War ALS 4pp 4to to Sir William Rumbold Bart.‎

‎3 December 1817 "H Quarters Grand Army Camp near <>". C.J. prob Doyle. Marked "Private". Begins with instructions regarding "the Sum which you have invested for me". This is being handled by an individual named William Palmer. "Our Camp was sometime back afflicted with a dreadful Cholera Morbus which swept off our followers by hundreds & attacked the Europeans both Officers & Men very violently. . I expected every moment to be carried off myself every body even Lord Hastings 1st Marquis of Hastings DNB was more or less indisposed." Had heard that the Rumbolds were not well. "We move tomorrow again towards the Sinde in order to turn some of the Pindaris back upon Marshall or Donkin Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin DNB - Every thing is going on well and I hope the Campaign will close by a brilliant destruction". 3 December 1817, "H Quarters Grand Army Camp near <?>" unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2399

‎Claasen, Hermann‎

‎Gesang im Feuerofen. - Köln - Überreste einer alten deutschen Stadt. - Mit einem Geleitwort von Franz A. Hoyer.‎

‎Düsseldorf, Verlag L. Schwann, 1947. (1. Aufl.) mit 76 ganzseitigen Schwarzweiß-Fotografien von Hermann Claasen. OHLn., farb. ill. OU., XIV; 96 S., 4°, (=29,4 x 23,7 cm) [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎* EA. Erster Druck des berühmten Fotobandes ! Mit dem seltenen SCHUTZUMSCHLAG ! Beiliegend die zweisprachige (deutsch/engl - German/english picture notes) Bildlegende als loses Blatt ! An important german photobook: see Thomas Wiegand / Manfred Heiting, "Deutschland im Fotobuch", Seite/pages 380/381. Hardcover in halfcloth with dustjacket. 237 x 294 mm. 96 pages. 76 photos. Photos (edited by Josef Rick, Hermann Claasen): Text: Franz A. Hoyer. Layout (dustjacket and cloth): Werner Labbé. Text in German. ** leicht bestoßen, Umschlag mit Randeinrissen. ANY QUESTIONS ?? Please don't hesitate to ask for details !! Besuchen Sie uns zur Antiquariatsmesse in Leipzig 27. - 30. März 2025 !‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 14422

‎CLAES, Jeanne.‎

‎Souvenirs d'Agent double. Histoire vécue.‎

‎Baudinière. 1935. in-12. Relié. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. Paris, Baudinière, 1935, in 12, cartonnage éditeur, 223 pp.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

‎1G-034 - Lieu d'édition : Paris Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : R300265515

‎Clagett, John‎

‎These Hallowed Grounds‎

‎New York: Hawthorn Books 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light green-gray cloth lettered in black. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket has small area of loss at top front corner and short closed tear separation along a portion of rear flap fold now in mylar. 159 pp. 1st ed. Hawthorn Books Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 064627

‎Claims, Committee on War‎

‎War Claims of Certain States Against the United States Classic Reprint‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1333617445.G ISBN : 1333617445 9781333617448

‎Clair W. Hayes‎

‎The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders‎

‎New York: A.L. Burt 1918. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/Poor. J. Watson Davis. Wear to top right front edge clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at corners and edges 3" tear/crease to top left front portion of lower spine missing; jacket art by Skrenda. Lists to this title inside; to "Marshal Foch" on jacket. <br/> <br/> A.L. Burt hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 007073

‎Clair Wills‎

‎That Neutral Island: A Cultural History Of Ireland During The Second World War‎

‎Faber and Faber 2007. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first printing hardback 2007 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to front pastedown; text map and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Faber and Faber hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 240757 ISBN : 057122105x 9780571221059

‎Claire B. Rubin (editor); David Butler; Keith Bea; Richard T. Sylves; John R. Harrald; Melanie Gall; Susan L. Cutter; Robert War‎

‎Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005‎

‎Public Entity Risk Institute 2007-06-01. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. INCLUDES CD Looks New Contains highlighting Public Entity Risk Institute paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9034345 ISBN : 0979372208 9780979372209