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Civil War Letter
1864 Civil War dated letter " the union folks will give the rebels such a thraching that they never will need an other.
Civil War dated letter from Grizzly Bear HouseCA from Northern sympathizer who writes to his sister in Michigan in July of 1864. He writes on the civil war but also learns of his father's death. He writes in part : "The news from the war is verry good but some what to slow to suit me but I don't know as I ought to complain for the hart I take in it is not very hard just pay taxes and stay at home well taxes is one necessary part of the war and some one has to fight while others pay but I do hope our folks that is the union folks will give the rebels such a thrashing that they never will need an other and then there will be peace at home and abroad" The Letter is signed: "From your Brother John." The letter has a few splits at folds also minor creases otherwise in very good condition. Original Envelope with stampis included. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR LINDENKOHL Adolph
Northern Mississippi and Alabama
Washington 1864. Folded map 24 x 33 inches in thirty-two segments mounted on linen. Original card covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on label. Some light wear and minor soiling. Detailed field map for the Union Army in Northern Mississippi and Alabama.<br/> <br/>A highly detailed map of the northern half of Mississippi and Alabama showing the border with Tennessee and all points south to Vicksburg and Montgomery produced to support the operations of the Union Army there in 1864. This is one of several maps compiled by the U.S. Coast Survey in an attempt to adequately map the South during the Civil War for military purposes. A note on the map indicates that the present map was compiled from various sources including "campaign maps and information furnished by Capt. O.M. Poe Chief Engineer Military Division of the Mississippi and by Capt. W.E. Merrell Chief Engineer Department of the Cumberland." Merrill was Sherman's chief topographical engineer and he contributed to several important maps of the area including one of Northern Georgia produced in Chattanooga following the vital capture of that city. With the beginning of the Civil War the United States Army found itself scrambling to obtain adequate field maps for military operations in the South. The most established cartographic branch of the Government the Coast Survey was pressed into service to provide these maps some with a coastal component but mainly for landlocked locations. The cartographers of the Coast Survey reviewed all of the existing cartography available but also drew on military and scouting reports and covert agents to assemble the most detailed possible maps of places roads railroads natural features. The topography is illustrated with hachured and shaded relief and railroads shown in red. The circulation of these maps was controlled and only officers ranking major or higher were supposed to control copies. As a result they are rare today. Two key figures in the Coast Survey effort during the War were Henry Lindenkohl and his brother Adolph who were responsible for actually drawing many of the field maps. The Lindenkohls were born in Germany but emigrated to the United States as teenagers and became American citizens. Adolph had already worked at the Coast Survey before the War began and Henry joined in 1861. Together they made a huge contribution to the war effort through their superb cartographic work producing and revising maps of different theatres of operations through 1865. Both continued with the survey for the rest of their lives; Adolph died in 1904 after fifty years on the job and Henry in 1920 after fifty-nine. This map has the ownership inscription of Col. Joseph Corson Read 1831-1889. Read was one of the first wave of men to take up Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rebellion in April 1861. He remained continuously in the army serving first on General Jesse Reno's staff and rising to the rank of Chief Commissary for the Army of the Cumberland commanded by Gen. George H. Thomas. Thomas was impressed with Read and on May 1 1864 with the spring campaign against Atlanta imminent Thomas named Read Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland in the Field. This meant that although Col. A.P. Porter was the Army's overall chief Read would serve alongside Thomas in the field and had the responsibility to supply the entire army as it moved South. During the long and arduous Atlanta campaign he was the man on the ground making the supply side work. Read developed a close relationship with Thomas one with both personal and professional aspects. An important map of Northern Mississippi and Alabama particularly interesting as part of the greater project undertaken by the Coast Survey to map out the South during the Civil War and with excellent provenance and associations. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 27011
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CIVIL WAR MOBILE ALABAMA
An Alabama Grocery Store Opens Shortly After The Civil War
ADS. 1pg. 8†x 10â€. June 24 1865. Mobile AL. A document signed “J.R. Groves†and “J. W. Keesco†regarding the opening of a grocery store in Mobile AL shortly after the end of the Civil War: “For and in consideration of services rendered I mail the following agreement with J.R. Groves to wit; I am to furnish a cash capital of not less than $10000 ten thousand dollars to be increased as the business increases to do a commission and grocery business in the City of Mobile Alabama Terms of business; I am neither to advance money nor accept bills unless the produce is in hand or on its way with the bill of lading attached consigning it to me 2nd. After paying interest upon capital stock and expenses and losses the profits if any are to be divided equally between myself and J. R. Groves. Signed in duplicate this 24th June 1865 each retaining copy. This agreement may be set aside by either party.†The document is in good condition with slight fold separations and toning throughout. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2059
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Civil War New Hampshire Copperheads or Peace Democrats
Copperheads in Council! Declarations of the Leaders. Read and Ponder What They Say! Anti-Copperhead Broadside Produced for the 1863 Election
New Hampshire: Printer Unknown 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper margin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln's policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12 takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA Mexico Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana Ohio Illinois and Missouri.<br /> <br /> The broadside printed for the March 12 elections quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics a group which included Ira Eastman John Goerge Josiah Minot Thomas Treadwell Daniel Marcy William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes each with these politicians named and the caption "et id omne genus." Eastman the Democratic candidate for governor won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. "Men of New Hampshire!" the broadside asks: "Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men" with the final line imploring to "Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place." <br /> <br /> Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning small closed tear at upper magin light foxing at upper margin very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce with OCLC locating two copies only at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society. Printer Unknown unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : List1004
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Civil War photographs
Gettysburg Stereoview
Civil War related Stereoview photograph of an oil painting. Stereoview card bearing a double 7" x 4" sepia toned photograph of wounded soldiers in trenches "From the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. 1st headquarters of Gen. Geo. G Mead July 2nd". Part of a series of stereoviews representing different sections of an oil painting of the Cyclorama of Gettysburg by French artist Paul Dominique Phillipoteaux. From Bennett's series "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery." In excellent condition. unknown books
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Civil War photographs
Stereoview "Libby Prison
Civil War related stereoview photographs by the Kilburn Brothers Littleton New Hampshire Libby Prison with large sign "LIBBY PRISON". In excellent condition. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR READ Joseph Corson
Southern Mississippi and Alabama Showing the Approaches to Mobile
Washington: Coastal Survey Office 1863. Folding map 24 x 25 1/2 inches mounted in twenty-four sections on linen. Original card covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on label. Light wear. Minor foxing and wear to map. Rare field operations map of Mississippi.<br/> <br/>This rare Civil War map was created by the Coast Survey office the main cartographic arm of the Union Army for use in the Union campaigns into the South. This copy was owned and used by Colonel Joseph Corson Read the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland. In November 1863 the Union armies captured Chattanooga the "Gateway to the South" enabling them to stage a prolonged offensive into the Southern heartland. Grant moved very quickly to overwhelm the South and immediately ordered Sherman to move against Atlanta and its vital railroad supply lines at the same time as he sent Nathaniel Banks to attack Mobile Alabama. Joseph Corson Read 1831-1889 was one of the first wave of men to take up Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rebellion in April 1861. He remained continuously in the army serving first on General Jesse Reno's staff and rising to the rank of Chief Commissary for the Army of the Cumberland commanded by George H. Thomas. Thomas was impressed with Read and on May 1 1864 with the spring campaign against Atlanta imminent Thomas named Read Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland in the Field. This meant that although Colonel A.P. Porter was the Army's overall chief Read would serve alongside Thomas in the field and had the responsibility to supply the entire army as it moved South. During the long and arduous Atlanta campaign he was the man on the ground making the supply side work. Read developed a close relationship with Thomas one with both personal and professional aspects. This map scaled at ten miles to the inch shows Mississippi and Alabama from Jackson to Montgomery starting about fifty miles north of those two points and continuing south to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Rivers roads and rail lines and all the towns they connect are detailed with waterways printed in blue. Two of the railroads the Mobile & Pensacola and the Mobile & Great Northern construction and removal dates during the war. An important map that would have been used by the Union Army in the field specifically by the Chief Commissary of the Army of the Cumberland.<br/> <br/>Library of Congress Civil War Maps 260.1; Library of Congress Railroad Maps 140. Coastal Survey Office unknown books
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Civil War Siege Ball
Civil War U.S. Navy Siege Ball
Civil War unexploded 1" siege ball from the U.S. Navy. Ball was found October 1970 in the side wall of Confederate Fort Huger near Suffolk Virginia. The fort was built by some 1000 slaves and free blacks in 1861. It took ten months to build and was captured 10 months later. Fort Huger was named after Thomas B. Huger CSN who had served in the US Navy for 20 years before the war. He commanded a battery at Morris Island in Charleston Harbor SC in 1861 and was on the CSS McRae in New Orleans' defense. He was mortally wounded on April 241862. Siege ball most likely fired between April and May of 1963 during the Siege of Suffolk. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 12958
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Civil War Tintype
3/4 Plate Tintype of a Navy Chaplain in Full Uniform with Feathered Chapeaux and Drawn Sword
A large Civil War 3/4 plate tintype measures 5" x 7" of a Navy chaplain in full uniform with his sword pulled out of his rapier and in his hand. He has his dress uniform chapeaux with feathers on his head and a white sash with a chaplain medal in the center. There are crosses on his cuffs sash and belt buckle. A clean image with some minor cracking to the emulation barely noticeable. In an oval matte and original oval wood frame. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 11351
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Civil War Union Officers: Buttre John Chester
COLLECTION OF FIFTY ENGRAVINGS OF CIVIL WAR UNION GENERALS COLONELS COMMODORES AND OTHER NOTABLES INCLUDING LINCOLN AND WASHINGTON PUBLISHED DURING THE WAR
New York 1863. Fifty engraved portraits each 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Each stored inside its own paper sleeve and housed together in two contemporary brown leather portfolios stamped in gilt. Portfolios worn and rubbed. Images in excellent condition. A wonderful contemporary collection of Civil War-related engravings. Featured personalities are mostly Union generals colonels commodores and other officers and figures of note plus presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Also includes an engraving of William Gannaway Brownlow the anti-secessionist Tennessee newspaper editor and later governor of Tennessee immediately after the end of the Civil War. At the time of the publication of this set Brownlow was a celebrity in the North for his ardent anti-secessionist stance. <br> <br> Due to the portrait poses on which the engravings are based as well as the stated ranks of the military leaders and the general selection of personalities chosen for the set it must have been published in late 1862 or 1863. Of particular note is the image of Ulysses S. Grant who was still so relatively unknown in comparison to some of the other military leaders that the publisher either erred and used the likeness of another man or could not find a suitable portrait and used a different subject. Also the portrait of Lincoln is early as it shows the president without his trademark beard. While we have seen some of these engravings before we have never seen the full set in the original leather portfolios. All engravings include the facsimile signature of the subject and credits the engraver as J.C. Buttre of New York with many also crediting the original artist or photographer whose image the engraving is based on most by Brady with others by Fredricks Appleton German Silsbee et al; the Washington image is based on a Stuart painting. This is a very rare wartime-published collection of Union officers. <br> <br> The following is a full list in alphabetical order: <br> <br> 1 Anderson Brig. Gen. Robert <br> <br> 2 Baker Col. Edward <br> <br> 3 Banks Nathaniel P. <br> <br> 4 Blenker Maj. Gen. Louis <br> <br> 5 Brownlow William G. <br> <br> 6 Buell Maj. Gen. Don Carlos <br> <br> 7 Burnside Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. <br> <br> 8 Butler Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. <br> <br> 9 Carr Col. Joseph B. <br> <br> 10 Clay Maj. Gen. Cassius M. <br> <br> 11 Corcoran Col. Michael <br> <br> 12 Cox Brig Gen. J. Dolson <br> <br> 13 Curtis Maj. Gen. Samuel R. <br> <br> 14 Dix Maj. Gen. John A. <br> <br> 15 Doubleday Brig. Gen. Abner <br> <br> 16 Du Pont Com. Samuel F. <br> <br> 17 Ellsworth Col. Elmer E. <br> <br> 18 Foot Capt. John <br> <br> 19 Foote Com. Andrew H. <br> <br> 20 Fremont Maj. Gen. John C. <br> <br> 21 Grant Maj. Gen. Ulysses <br> <br> 22 Halleck Maj. Gen. Henry W. <br> <br> 23 Hawkins Col. Rush C. <br> <br> 24 Heintzelman Brig. Gen. Samuel P. <br> <br> 25 Hunter Maj. Gen. David <br> <br> 26 Lander Brig. Gen. Frederick W. <br> <br> 27 Lincoln President Abraham <br> <br> 28 Lyon Brig. Gen. Nathaniel <br> <br> 29 Mansfield Brig. Gen. J.K.F. <br> <br> 30 McCall Brig. Gen. George A. <br> <br> 31 McClellan Maj. Gen. George B. <br> <br> 32 McDowell Brig. Gen. Irvin <br> <br> 33 Meagher Col. Thomas Francis <br> <br> 34 Mitchel Maj. Gen. O.M. <br> <br> 35 Mulligan Col. James A. <br> <br> 36 Pope Maj. Gen. John <br> <br> 37 Rosecrans Brig. Gen. W.S. <br> <br> 38 Scott Lieut. Gen. Winfield <br> <br> 39 Shields Brig. Gen. James <br> <br> 40 Sigel Maj. Gen. Franz <br> <br> 41 Slemmer Maj. Adam J. <br> <br> 42 Sprague Maj. Gen. & Gov. of Rhode Island William <br> <br> 43 Stringham Com. S.H. <br> <br> 44 Wallace Maj. Gen. Lewis <br> <br> 45 Wallace Maj. Gen. W.H.L. <br> <br> 46 Washington President George <br> <br> 47 Weber Col. Max <br> <br> 48 Wilkes Capt. Charles <br> <br> 49 Wilson Col. Henry <br> <br> 50 Wool Maj. Gen. John E. <br> <br> There is only one similar item in OCLC a collection called PORTRAITS OF CIVIL WAR OFFICERS calling for 110 plates including Lincoln's cabinet and an engraving of his childhood home also by Buttre located at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. That collection is bound and was likely issued as a slightly different item by the publisher than the collection presented here. OCLC 20140615. hardcover books
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CIVIL WAR W. E. MERRILL
Map of Northern Georgia made under the Direction of Capt. W. E. Merrill
Chattanooga 1864. Lithographed folding map sectioned and linen-backed as issued. Original card covers printed paper label. In a modern folding morocco-backed box. A remarkable Union Army field map printed for Sherman's operations in Georgia.<br/> <br/>A highly detailed map of the northern part of Georgia made under the direction of Capt. W. E. Merrill Chief Topographical Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland. The map shows all the major roads and rail lines in addition to natural topographical features in northern Georgia. The map extends as far north as Chattanooga near the Georgia/Tennessee state line and far enough south and east to include the northwest sixth of the state. The capture of Chattanooga in November 1863 gave the Union the foothold they needed to cut off supply lines and advance into the deep South. In the spring of 1864 the forces under Gen. William T. Sherman were poised to strike. As soon as Chattanooga was taken Sherman's chief topographical engineer Capt. William E. Merrill "the most innovative and conscientious exponent of mapping during the Civil War" began to compile a map of northwest Georgia. Merrill had his own complete establishment for map production -- a printing press lithographic presses and draughtsmen. Equally importantly Merrill's assistant Sgt. N. Finnegan developed an extraordinary body of intelligence drawing on spies prisoners refugees peddlars itinerant preachers and scouts what Merrill called "his motley crew". All of this information was digested by Merrill day by day until he was notified that the campaign would begin within the week. At this point the topographers finished their work and two hundred copies were produced mounted on linen for field use and distributed to field commanders down to the brigade level. In five months Merrill and his men had produced a remarkably accurate map of country that lay mostly behind enemy lines. The Merrill map was a critical aid to Sherman's campaigns in Georgia. Five days after the map was completed on May 7 Sherman's army left Chattanooga and began its hard-fought push to the southeast slowly driving the Confederates back to the railroad hub of Atlanta which is in the lower right quadrant of this map. In a campaign of continual attempts by both armies to outflank each other the understanding of the ground it would have brought the Union commanders was invaluable. Sherman took possession of Atlanta in September and used it as a base of operations for the next two and a half months while he raided in every direction all within the boundaries of this map. On November 15 the Federal forces burned the city cut loose from their rail communications with Chattanooga and began the famous March to the Sea heading east toward Savannah burning and pillaging everything in their path. About a week later they moved off the east edge of this map. An examination shows why this map would have been an invaluable aid to the Union commanders in the Georgia campaign. It details topography rivers existing roads and railroads towns and other features on a very small scale of four miles to the inch. Conveying the latest in Union military intelligence and combining new and existing information it would have guided Sherman and his officers through eight months of the hardest-fought campaigning of the entire Civil War. A triumph of coordinated intelligence and map-making it is one of the most remarkable cartographic productions of the Civil War. Indeed it might be called the "Holster Atlas" of the Georgia campaign.<br/> <br/>Stephenson Civil War Maps in the Library of Congress S28-29; Miller Great Maps of the Civil War p.39. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR WAR DEPARTMENT
1865 General Orders Including Many Regarding LincolnÂ’s Assassination
1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Bound collection of separately printed General Orders from the Adjutant General's office for 1865. Containing 168 of 175 consecutive orders and a 94-page index at front. Bound for Major General William Scott Ketchum with his name in gilt on the spine and his markings or wartime notes on numerous pages. 4 3/4 x 7 in. Early resolutions concern the rates of pay for officers' servants equal clothing allowances for commissioned and non-commissioned officers and widow's rights to prize money and equal pay for both black and white volunteers Order No. 31/Public No. 57 and freedom for the wives and children of any army or navy volunteer Order No. 33/Public Resolution No. 25. Also includes several orders relating to the assassination of President Lincoln: Order No. 66 announcing the assassination; Order No. 67 announcing Andrew Johnson's ascent to President; and Order No. 69 announcing the closing of military bases in observance of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln with the official Order of the Procession for the ceremony on April 19th; also includes a Special Order regarding the transportation of President Lincoln's remains to Springfield Illinois and Order No. 72 assigning the Honor Guard to accompany the casket.Orders signed in type by Andrew Johnson concern ending the blockade and restrictions on internal commerce with the exceptions of weapons and gray cloth.Lacking order numbers 15 97 128 133 140 148 & 168 apparently never bound in.Condition Very good. Minor rubbing some staining to top of index pages. Later ink stamps of the Office of the Chief of Finance on front endpapers.William Scott Ketchum 1813-1873 graduated from West Point in 1834. He served in the Seminole Wars and on the Western frontier. As a captain he fought in the 1857 Expedition against the Cheyenne and the Battle of Solomon's Fork where he commanded the 6th Infantry Regiment. During the Civil War in February 1862 he was appointed brigadier General of Volunteers serving in Washington DC. hardcover books
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Civil War Zouave RegimentsVernacular Photography
An Unusual Outdoor Sixth Plate Tintype of a Zouave Soldier Possibly from New York
New York 1860. An unusual image of a Zouave soldier in an outdoor setting holding a horse. During the Civil War roughly 95 Zouave regiments formed adopting the names uni-forms and sometimes fighting styles of the North African Zouave brigades. The bulk - about 70 of the regiments - fought for the Union cause. We were unable to determine anything else about this soldier though the image was found in a New York estate. New York was home to two of the most famous Zouave brigades the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry and the 11th New York Volunteer In-fantry. A nearly fine image with a slight crease housed in a full case. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : CAT0150
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Civil War 19th C. Photo
CDV of 1860s ship on the Mississippi River
CDV. The Dictator was one of the busiest post-war ships on the coastal run from Charleston to Florida from 1865 to 1878; W. Hammant Jacksonville is noted on verso as photographer of the Dictator. In excellent condition. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR COLORED REGIMENTS
A Buffalo Soldier Identifies Himself in Original 1910 Photos
BUFFALO SOLDIER Pair of Real Photo postcards of 24th U.S. Infantry musicians in camp. Photographs 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" inches Pine Camp Fort Drum NY c. 1910. Infantryman Joseph Lee identifies himself in these photos. He was part of the 24th during their Houston Mutiny in which many members of the regiment were court martialed after famously coming to the defense of a black woman harassed by local police. <br/><br/>Photos depict members of an original Buffalo Soldier regiment dating from its time at Pine Camp NY later Fort Drum. One captioned in negative "The Famous 24th Inft. Band Pine Camp" shows ~30 uniformed soldiers with instruments. The other uncaptioned showing 7 soldiers; most in white robes with "USA" on the collar perhaps a regimental choir. Both were sent by Joseph Lee 1879- ~1940 Arkansas native enlisted as a musician in the 24th 1903-1919. Both inscribed and addressed one stamped neither postmarked; minimal wear. Lee has apparently self-identified with an arrow in each. This regiment was involved in the dramatic Houston Mutiny of 1917 beginning when a soldier was arrested for aiding a black woman. In the end 19 soldiers were executed and nearly 50 received life sentences but Lee remained with the regiment until his honorable discharge. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 15978
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CIVIL WAR CONFEDERACY
Opposing the Confederate Draft
1862. No binding. Fine. Broadside. ""The Petition of Certain Non-Conscripts Respectfully Presented to the Confederate States Congress."" Richmond August 8 1862. Signed in print ""The Petitioners By their Counsel John H. Gilmer."" 1 p. 7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. Petitioning against General Order No. 46 of the Confederate War Department which rescinded the part of the Confederate Conscription Act of April 16 1862 that mandated the discharge of all voluntary enlistees under age 18 or over age 35 in July 1862. ""These were the terms of the law. They were plain unequivocal and mandatory. Common sense - universal public opinion . understood accepted and adopted the law . Shall an army order revoke a solemn act of Congress . Have we a constitutional Government with specific powers granted . or have we an unlimited Government dependent only on Executive will or ministerial caprice Are the People free or is the Executive supreme"" Historical BackgroundPresident Davis Secretary of War George Randolph and the Confederate Congress instituted the first conscription act in American history in April 1862 after early defeats in Tennessee and North Carolina in anticipation of the expiration of one-year enlistments signed at the war's outset. The Conscription Act would cause all males ages 18 to 35 to be drafted into service unless exempted. Those already enlisted would be held to a three year commitment from their date of entry into the service. Conscription raised difficulties for Southern politicians who had argued for most of their careers against the broad construction of federal powers in the United States Constitution. Some believed it violated the cardinal principle of states' rights others such as Georgia Governor Joseph Brown protested its tendency toward centralization and despotism. Common folks complained about the fact that planters who owned 20 or more slaves were exempt as were many overseers and tradesmen and those who could afford to buy ""substitutes.""According to historian James McPherson conscription was ""the most unpopular act of the Confederate government. Yeoman farmers who could not buy their way out of the army voted with their feet and escaped to the woods or swamps. . Armed bands of draft-dodgers and deserters ruled whole counties.""ReferencesParrish & Willingham 5422 locating 5 copies.McPherson James. Battle Cry of Freedom New York 1988 p. 432. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR Confederate
Bound volume of 44 pieces of lithographed Confederate sheet music mostly with illustrated covers
Richmond Columbia Augusta and elsewhere 1863. Quarto. Collation as below. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt yellow endpapers<br/> <br/>An impressive collection of Confederate lithographed sheet music.<br/> <br/>This bound volume includes the majority of the imprints by Richmond publishers and lithographers George Dunn and Company active in Richmond from 1862-64. The collection includes: 1 The Dying Soldier or the Moon rose o'er the battle plain. 4pp. Richmond: J. W. Davies & Sons lithographed by E. Crehen 1864. P&W 6983. 2 Dear Mother I've come home to die. Words by E. Bowers Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia SC Julian Selby nd. P&W 6953. 3 God Save the South. Words by Earnest Halphin music by Chas. W. A. Ellerbrock. 6pp. Lithographed by B. Duncan & Co. Columbia SC. Baltimore: Miller & Beacham; Augusta: Blackmar & Co. nd. P&W 7064. 4 The March of the Southern Men. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7228. 5 On Guard. Words by Wallace Rowe. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7327. 6 The Southern Soldier Boy. Song sung by Miss Sallie Partington in the Virginia Cavalier at the New Richmond Theatre. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7494. 7 The South. Poetry by Charlie Wildwood. Music by John H. Hewitt. 4pp. Columbia SC: Julian A. Selby B. Duncan & Co. lith. 1863. P&W 7474. 8 Palmetto Schottisch. Composed and Arranged by A. F. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7348. 9 I Remember the hour when sadly we parted. 4pp. Mobile: H.C. Clarke and others 1864. P&W 7116. 10 Annie of the Vale. Words by G.P. Morris. Music by J.R. Thomas. 6pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 6806. 11 Good Bye Sweetheart Good Bye. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7084. 12 Spring Time Polka. Composed by A.J. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7505. 13 My Wife and Child Song. Poetry by the Late Lamented Hero General Stonewall Jackson. Music by F. W. Rosier. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7288. 14 Mother Oh! Sing me to rest. Composed by M. Keller. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7279. 15 The Musical Olio: or Favorite Gems of the Popular Southern Composer John H. Hewitt. 4pp. Macon & Savannah: John C. Schreiner & Son nd. P&W 6966. 16 Up With the Flag. Composed nd Respectfully Dedicated to the Fourth N.C. Troops by Dr. Wm. B. Harrell. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7572. 17 Pray Maiden Pray! Poetry by A. W. Kercheval. Music by A.J. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7380. 18 The Standard Bearer. Words by Major T.N. P. C.S.A. Music by N.S. Cleman. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7506. 19 No Surrender Song. Music by C.C. Mera. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7301. 20 Keep me awake Mother. Words by Mrs. M.W. Stratton. Music by Jos. Hart Denck. 4pp. Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7175. 21 Gen'l Morgan's Grand March. Composed by C.L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7049. 22 Nautical Song.The Alabama. By E. King. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.1864. P&W 6793. 23 All quiet along the Potomac To-Night. Words by Lamar Fontaine. Music by J. H. Hewitt. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 6796. 24 The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil. 4pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Broth.; Columbia: B. Duncan & Co. lith nd. P&W 7361. 25 Mary of Argyle. Music by S. Nelson. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.1864. P&W 7234. 26 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still. Words by J.E. Carpenter. Music by W.T. Wrighton. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7097. 27 Harp of the South. Awake! A Southern War Song. Words by J.M. Kilgour. Music by C.L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7090. 28 Mother is the Battle Over. Arranged by Jos. Hart Denck. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7277 29 The Southern Cross. Words by St. George Tucker. Music by C. L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7482. 30 The Star Spangled Cross and the Field of Pure White. Written and Composed by Subaltern. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7510. 31 Virginian Marseillasise. By F. W. Rosier. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7584. 32 Wait till the War Love Is Over. Words by A.J. Andrews. Music by C.W. Burton. 4pp. Richmond: West & Johnston litho. by Geo. Dunn. & Co. 1864. P&W 7599. 33 When this Cruel War is Over. Words by Charles C Sawyer. Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7630. 34 You Can Never Win Us Back . Written by a Lady of Kentucky. Arranged by J.E. Smith. 4pp. Richmond: J.W. Davies & Sons. litho. by E. Crehen 1864. P&W 7653. 35 Gems of Southern Song. 4pp. Macon: John W. Burke; Columbia: B. Duncan & Co. lith. nd. P&W 7576. 36 Call me not back from Echoless Shore. Words by Chas. C. Sawyer. Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 6878. 37 The Dearest Spot of Earth to Me Is Home. By W.T. Wrighton. 6pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. nd. P&W 6954. 38 There's Life in the Old Land Yet. Poetry by Jas. R. Randall. Music by Edward Eaton. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. lith. B. Duncan Columbia. nd. P&W 7548. 39 Who Will Care for Mother Now. Poetry by C.C. Sawyer. Music by C.F. Thompson. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7638. 40 Christmas and New Year Musical Souvenir. Music by F.W.R. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 6903. 41 Our First President's Quickstep. By P. Rivinac. 4pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. B. Duncan lith. Columbia. P&W 7337. 42 Something to Love Me.Words by J.E. Carpenter. Music by E.L. Hime. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7467. 43 Silver Bells Mazurka. Composed by Charles O. Pape. 6pp. Columbia: P.L. Valdry nd. P&W 7446. 44 We Have Parted. Poetry and Music by Miss Ella Wren. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7613. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR Confederate
The State of South Carolina. At a Convention of the People of the State . An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States . under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America' . done at Charleston 20 December 1860
Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1861. Lithographic broadside 34 x 26 inches. Expert restoration archivally paper-backed. South Carolina calls for secession.<br/> <br/>The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of Secession which precipitated the beginning of the Civil War and is thus one of the earliest Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed. This large-format contemporary print of the original engrossed and signed manuscript document presents the Act of Secession as it was passed and signed in the South Carolina State House. It so faithfully executed that it also reproduces the ink blots present on the original document. The document features the text of the secession ordinance and the signatures of D.F. Jamison President of the Convention and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention called by Gov. Francis W. Pickens. The historic resolution which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett editor of the Charleston Mercury which printed a well-known secession broadside of its own proclaiming: "The Union Is Dissolved!" The secession resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 20 after which Jamison said "The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth." Shortly after passage of the ordinance Evans & Cogswell printers to the convention were asked to prepare a copy for use by the members. The convention reconvened in March 1861 to address issues related to the coming war. According to the report of Paul Quattlebaum Chairman of the Committee on Printing published as an appendix to the March 28 1861 entry in the Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina the printing was "in a style creditable to the art; and by a careful comparison with the original the Committee find it to bear a very notable similarity to it." The convention delegates immediately authorized Evans & Cogswell to print 200 lithographic copies of the Ordinance to be distributed at the direction of D.F. Jamison. Evans & Cogswell likely printed the 200 copies including the present copy in the days that followed and probably before the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12. The copies were then most likely distributed to the convention delegates and other prominent state officials. An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham and even fewer in auction records.<br/> <br/>Crandall 1887; Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina pp. 204 543. Parrish & Willingham 3794; Sabin 87444. Evans & Cogswell unknown books
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CIVIL WAR Confederate Josiah GORGAS
The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the Confederate States Army
Richmond: West and Johnston 1863. 8vo. 546pp. 33 plates. Contemporary leather upper cover tooled in gilt rebacked.<br/> <br/>Provenance: General William Preston binding<br/> <br/>A substantial Confederate military manual covering all aspects of ordnance from artillery and transport to small arms and gunpowder. With distinguished provenance from Confederate General and Ambassador William Preston.<br/> <br/>"Adopted with some necessary changes omissions and alterations from the Ordnance Manual of the United States service of 1861. . It may be added that the labor of Ordnance officers has contributed to this new edition" Preface. Kentucky-born William Preston 1816-1887 studied at Yale and Harvard law school and led a regiment of Kentucky volunteers in the Mexican American war. He was a one-term U.S. Congressman and was named Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain by Buchanan in 1858. In 1861 he resigned his post and returned to the U.S. He was from a prominent Kentucky family with close ties to many Confederate officials and officers. He help organize the Confederate state government of Kentucky which fell in December 1861. Preston joined the C.S. Army and rose to the rank of major general. In 1864 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Confederacy to Maximilian Emperor of Mexico. After the Civil War he served two terms in the Kentucky state legislature.<br/> <br/>Parrish & Willingham 2491. West and Johnston unknown books
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Civil War Congress
Civil War Congressional Document Regarding Cavalry Forces
Four page Civil War date Congressional document regarding the cavalry forces of the United States. Printed on smaller size pages. 8vo In very good condition. unknown books
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Civil War Congress
Civil War Congressional Document Regarding Military Volunteers
4 page Civil War date congressional document titled "Report of The Secretary of War" regarding "the number of three year volunteers in the Service of the United States." Printed on short pages. Lists the number of three year volunteers and their ranks from each state. In very good condition. unknown books
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Civil War Congressional
Civil War Congressional Document
15 page Civil War date congressional document titled "Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Statement of the expenditure of the contingent expenses of the military establishment for the year 1862." Printed on short pages. The document consists of a 3 column table listing the expenses of war. Very good condition. unknown books
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Civil War Connecticut
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville Georgia October 23 1907 in Memory of the Men of Connecticut Who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons 1861-1865
Hartford: Published by the State Connnecticut 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good . The actual original edition published in 1908 large 8vo blue ribbed cloth gilt-pressed titles and vignette to front and titles to spine. Two frontispieces of sepia photographs of the Union soldier sculpture monument one of his face in close-up separated by tissue guard. 73pp. Laid-in is printed card "Compliments of the State of Connecticut. Library stamp of CT town on pastedown but no other library markings. Published by the State (Connnecticut) hardcover books
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Civil War Grant and Lincoln
Historic Newspaper with Large Civil War Illustrations including General Grant and Lincoln as a Marble Bust
Historic Newspaper. Harper's Weekly June 24 1865 New York. Cover has large illustration of General Grant meeting with General Scott at West Point. Inside are numerous Civil War illustrations including a whimsical portrayal of Lincoln as a marble bust with female personifications of liberty justice and victory or possibly the union around him. Liberty has her foot on the back of what appears to be a white slaveholder. To Lincoln's left a slave is in the act of rising up while broken shackles lie at his feet. Great content articles on the civil war throughout. Minor stains and very small tears around the edges. In very good condition and still very strong for a paper of this age. unknown books
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Civil War Lead Case Shot Balls
Collection of Civil War Era Lead Case Shot Balls found in Fort Huger
Collection of Civil War Era lead case shot balls and fragments. Fort Huger was an earthwork fortification located on Harden's sometimes called Hardy's Bluff along the James River in Virginia. The bluff is directly across the river from Newport News Virginia. Fort Huger along with nearby Fort Boykin were built in order to prevent Union forces from trying to move up the river towards the Confederate capital of Richmond. The fort was named after Major General Benjamin Huger. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR LINCOLN ASSASSINATION New York Tribune
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE; Friday June 2 1965
NY: New York Tribune 1865. Folio folded good copy. Includes an article on a Day of Fasting called by President Johnson after the death of Pres. Lincoln notes that Mrs. Lincoln gave Lincoln's cane to Frederick Douglas Jefferson Davis is still being held at Fortress Monroe and much more. New York Tribune unknown books
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Civil War Navy Jes
Autograph Letter Signed as "Jes" of the USS Port Royal to sister
New Orleans 1865. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Separations at folds crude tape repairs minor chipping. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Confed. ship attempting to run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Here a Union sailor describes one of the last naval incidents of the war in which the CSS Webb made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: "There has been a very dareing sic deed committed on this river since I wrote.All the men of war below us fired at her but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR New York Tribune
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE; Thursday May 18 1865
NY: New York Tribune 1865. Folio folded good copy. Includes an article on the Lincoln assassination final scene's in Booth's life Wheeler's command capitulates and much more war news. New York Tribune unknown books
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Civil War Newspaper
Our troops attacked and routed the enemy.
Vintage newspaper printed during the Civil War. The New York Times December 13 1864 issue New York NY. The entire front page of this historic war-dated paper has stories of the War including "The War in Tennessee." In part: ".Seventy-four shots were fired at it doing however no damage.Our troops attacked and routed the enemy. The Federal loss was four killed and forty wounded. The enemy's loss is unknown." Slight wear and light foxing. Overall in excellent condition. unknown books
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CIVIL WAR RHODE ISLAND
161 Young Men of Providence R.I. Found “Loyal League†Pledged to Support the Union
<p>"<i>We the members of the Loyal League do hereby pledge ourselves by words and acts whenever practicable to use our influence in support of the Government in all its measures for the suppression of the present unholy rebellion; and we will use our influence to discountenance and oppose all efforts in opposition to the Government and the Union.</i>"</p> <b>CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.</b>Pledge and original membership roll of the Loyal League of Providence Manuscript Document Signed with 161 signatures ca. January 1863 Providence RI. 2 pp. 7¾ x 22¼ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Loyal Leagues also often known as Union Leagues were men's clubs established during the Civil War. They usually consisted of the professional merchant and artisan classes in northern cities. The first such club formed in Philadelphia in 1862.</p><p>Many of the signers of this membership roll were born between 1844 and 1850 and many were probably students at Providence High School. In 1861 students from the high school organized into a militia company called the "Ellsworth Phalanx" in honor of the New York Zouave commander Elmer Ellsworth killed in May 1861 in Alexandria Virginia. They drilled and paraded in Providence throughout the winter and into the spring of 1862.</p><p>After Confederate General Stonewall Jackson routed Union General Nathaniel Banks' forces at Winchester Virginia and pushed them back across the Potomac River in May 1862 urgent calls went out for troops to defend Washington D.C. In response Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island ordered the organization of the 10th Rhode Island for three months' service. Company B was recruited almost entirely from the ranks of the High School and University companies and commanded by Captain Elisha Dyer former governor of the state. At least one of the signers here William H. Hawkes served in Company B in 1862 and another Harry A. Richardson had served in Company K of the 9th Rhode Island in the summer of 1862.</p><p>The likely author of the pledge and first signer on the right column was Granville Budlong 1844-1909. The first signer in the left column was Lewis G. Janes 1844-1901 son of prominent abolitionist Alphonso Janes. Other signers included Arthur Lincoln son of a professor at Brown University; and William E. Cushing 1844-1880 who became an architect and designed the city's baseball stadium in 1878. At least two signers Frederick Metcalf and Eugene F. Granger were killed later in the war while serving in the military. Metcalf was only seventeen when he died of disease in South Carolina in 1864 after a year in the service. Granger the son of a Baptist minister joined a New Hampshire regiment and died in a Confederate prison in North Carolina. His younger brother Edward V. Granger also signed this roll. Other signers were the sons of merchants railroad agents carpenters tin platers and masons in Providence. Several went on to graduate from Brown University in the late 1860s and early 1870s.</p><p>On March 19 1863 the <i>New York Times</i> reported that in Providence Rhode Island</p><p>"Only two weeks remain before the election. The Republicans and those loyal men of other parties who have united with them are diligently at work in canvassing the State. They are marking those "peace" men who … are expressing sympathy with the rebellion. The Democrats are really very unfortunate. They can't find one of their own party who wants office. They have been trying a month to get a Governor but no Democrat will accept their nomination…. When bad men combine good men must unite. So the loyal men of all parties are coming together in solemn league to support the Government and to give all their energies to the vigorous prosecution of the war. The "League" in this city is composed of some two thousand loyal names. It is fast increasing in numbers and is extending its spirit and influence throughout the loyal portions of the State."</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Originally two joined leaves. The topmost portion of the sheet lost allowing the title "Pledge" to just be made out. Conservation repairs of fold separations. Strong signatures in various color inks continuing and with docketing on verso.</p> books
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CIVIL WAR UNION. RICHARD ANDREWS
A White Captain in the U.S. Colored Troops Richard Andrews Describes his Closing Days of the Civil War and its Aftermath
1865. No binding. Fine. Six letters to his wife Libby approx. 15 pp. in all. ""There will be an awful hot time if our Brigade is engaged. I dont think anything can restrain the men if they once get started. I am in hopes to come out alive but no one can tell but the Almighty"" The white officer of the USCT Captain Richard Andrews wrote to his wife about the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond and the impending Appomattox campaign. Union forces including African American soldiers captured Richmond on April 3rd and Lee would be forced to surrender at Appomattox just over two weeks after Andrews wrote. In other letters he details his health concerns his transfers after the war's end and possibilities of land ownership. His final letter details an anticipated transfer to the Freedmen's Bureau in Galveston Texas.RICHARD ANDREWS. Autograph Letter Signed ""Richard"" to his wife Libby before Richmond Va. March 25th 1865 4 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. 4 pp. #22399.01"".I received a month's pay yesterday bought a sword belt for 7.00 a pair of pantaloons for $12.00 pair of gloves for $2.00 paid $25.00 towards the present to Genl. Draper.As soon as I sell my horse I will send you more if I had sold her three days ago I could have got over $100.00 for her but now she is very lame so much so that no one can use her. I fear I shall have to dispose of her at a loss. We shall move in a very short time.Things are coming to a crisis. Lee will have to skedaddle or there will be a terific fight. Our brigade is practicing charging every day. There will be an awful hot time if our Brigade is engaged. I dont think anything can restrain the men if they once get started. I am in hopes to come out alive but no one can tell but the Almighty. My health is pretty fair now and I trust I may not even get wounded for I am anxious to gain strength this summer.""Historical BackgroundFrom Salem Massachusetts Lieutenant Richard F. Andrews fought in the Battle of Chaffin's Farm September 29-30 1864. Just two months earlier he was so sick that he was excused from duty but he volunteered for service and helped lead the 36th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops to victory. The performance of the USCT at Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights put an end to any doubts of their bravery or fitness for service. There Andrews was shot in the leg and for his bravery he was promoted to Captain.The 36th Regiment of USCT was organized in February 1864 out of the 2nd North Carolina Colored Infantry. In addition to Chaffin's Farm it saw service toward the end of the Siege of Petersburg the single greatest concentration of African American troops during the war at Richmond and its occupation and in the Appomattox Campaign.The United States Colored Troops USCT were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War composed of African American soldiers. First recruited in 1863 by the end of the Civil War the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted approximately 10% of the Union Army. The United States War Department issued General Order Number 143 on May 22 1863 establishing a ""Bureau of Colored Troops"" to facilitate the recruitment of African-American soldiers to fight for the Union Army. Regiments including infantry cavalry engineers light artillery and heavy artillery units were recruited from all states of the Union and became known as the United States Colored Troops USCT. USCT regiments were led by white officers and rank advancement was limited for black soldiers. Approximately 175 regiments composed of more than 178000 free blacks and freedmen served during the last two years of the war. Their service bolstered the Union war effort at a critical time. RICHARD ANDREWS. Autograph Letter Signed ""Richard"" to his wife Libby near City Point Va. May 9th 1865 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. 4 pp. #22399.02"".I had quite a nap-fell asleep just after dinner and snoozed away for over two hours something unusual for. See website for full description unknown books
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CIVIL WAR "ONE OF THE NOBILITY
Subdued Southern Nobility: A Southern Ideal
New York: Sharps Publishing Company 1882. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 4392pp. Boards a bit rubbed with exposure at corners slight spine lean textblock a bit finger-soiled else Very Good and sound. Novel of the Civil War in which two friends attend a Northern college together before volunteering when hosilities break out each fighting for a different side. WRIGHT III 5314. Sharps Publishing Company unknown books
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CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION. RICHARD YATES
Illinois Governor Richard Yates’ Fourth of July Address at the End of Civil War – Unhappy that the Nation Would not Execute Jefferson Davis
<p>"<i>The American revolution was begun and fought through for an idea—to establish that man is a man—to vindicate the right of every man to equal rights and to equal citizenship…. Every boy imbibes the genius of our free institutions. The poor friendless rail splitter rises to the proudest pinnacle of human power. Cheers The poor tailor boy becomes and is now our President cheers the ferry boy the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court cheers and the humble tanner boys become the great commander who marshals a million of veteran warriors in the great cause of union and liberty and holds up the flaming symbol of emancipation to a whole race of mankind. Applause.</i>" p1/c2 – p2/c1</p><p>"<i>And yet for Jeff Davis who has been a wholesale murderer who has struck at the life of the whole nation and rolled the red wave of bloody civil war over the land they say we must be magnanimous. Sensation. We shoot the poor deserter and the poor soldier who is found sleeping at his post on guard but the nation must be magnanimous and not execute Jeff Davis!</i>" p6/c1</p> <b>CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION. RICHARD YATES.</b>Printed Pamphlet. <i>Speech of Hon. Richard Yates Delivered at Elgin Ill. on the Fourth Day of July A.D. 1865</i>. Jacksonville IL: Ironmonger and Mendenhall 1865. 8 pp. 6⅛ x 9½ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>We celebrate the 4th day of July 1776 because then commenced the great experiment whether man is capable of self-government. Our fathers boldly announced to the world in the great and immortal charter of freedom the Declaration of Independence the bible of the rights of man which has just been read to you.</i>" p1/c1</p><p>"<i>The American revolution was begun and fought through for an idea—to establish that man is a man—to vindicate the right of every man to equal rights and to equal citizenship not by virtue of his birth or fortune or of his nativity or color but by virtue of his intrinsic God-created manhood.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>Every boy imbibes the genius of our free institutions. The poor friendless rail splitter rises to the proudest pinnacle of human power. Cheers The poor tailor boy becomes and is now our President cheers the ferry boy the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court cheers and the humble tanner boys become the great commander who marshals a million of veteran warriors in the great cause of union and liberty and holds up the flaming symbol of emancipation to a whole race of mankind. Applause.</i>" p2/c1</p><p>"<i>The system of slavery existing in our Southern States fostered interests tastes opinions manners and prejudices at war with the genius of our institutions and necessarily divided our people.</i>" p2/c2</p><p>"<i>I feel highly honored to-day that I have the opportunity of meeting so many of our returned officers and soldiers here for somehow I cannot divest myself of the feeling that I have been in the war myself and am a returned soldier although I have only on one or two occasions smelt the gunpowder of the enemy. Laughter. Yet under my administration the State of Illinois has sent nearly two hundred thousand brave volunteers to the field.</i>" p3/c1</p><p>"<i>Your brave comrades have died and you have risked your lives that the nation and the Union might live and you have proclaimed at the point of the bayonet the divine right of all men to be free.</i>" p4/c2</p><p>"<i>But thanks to you the accursed blot of human slavery which has divided and distracted us at home and sullied our name abroad is wiped out and every man in America is free.</i>" p5/c1</p><p>"<i>peace prevails in the land yet peace brings with it the most complicated questions. We are not safe until the great questions in dispute for which we have fought have been definitely and forever settled and upon such a basis as to prevent the recurrence of another war to mar our peace and endanger the safety of the Union.</i>" p5/c2-p6/c1</p><p>"<i>And yet for Jeff Davis who has been a wholesale murderer who has struck at the life of the whole nation and rolled the red wave of bloody civil war over the land they say we must be magnanimous. Sensation. We shoot the poor deserter and the poor soldier who is found sleeping at his post on guard but the nation must be magnanimous and not execute Jeff Davis!</i>" p6/c1</p><p>"<i>As a Senator of the United States certainly I could consider no State Government Republican in form which was at variance with the fundamental principles of our republican institutions</i>; <i>which denied the equality of all men before the law; which set aside the principle that governments justly exist by the consent of the governed and that taxation and representation must go together. And I am here to-day to say that I could approve of no State government whose constitution or bill of rights does not deny in express words this right of a State to secede from the Union and which does not provide that slavery shall be finally and forever abolished and prohibited so that not even a root seed or grease spot shall remain of this sum of all villainies the accursed system which has been the fountain of all our troubles and of the fratricidal and bloody war which has desolated the land.</i>" p7/c1</p><p>"<i>I thank God that I have never cast a vote or uttered a sentiment against human freedom; and no loud alarums of popular applause no shining height of human power shall ever seduce me to give up the God-given sentiments of my heart in favor of freedom and humanity.</i>" p7/c2</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Fourth of July celebrations in the nineteenth century often began with artillery at dawn a parade and a speech at a courthouse or church for an hour or two. After the speech men often went to a tavern to drink thirteen toasts for the number of the original states while the women and children went home. Bonfires and fire-crackers carried the festivities into the evening. Typically a speech blended a sermon with a political address promoting patriotism. Readings of and orations on the Declaration of Independence or Washington's Farewell Address were also common.</p><p>Early during the Civil War celebrations often included sham battles to portray the real ones occurring on the battlefields. By the middle of the war fundraisers for widows and orphans of soldiers who had died in military service replaced the sham battles. After the war celebrations turned away from the community toward smaller gatherings of families and friends though many smaller communities continued the pre-war tradition.</p><p>The city of Elgin Illinois was established as a village in 1835 on the Fox River thirty-five miles northwest of Chicago. Chartered as a city in 1854 Elgin in 1865 had a population of 4000-5000 people. Four days after Yates delivered this address the city's first major fire swept the entire north side of Chicago Street in the business district.</p><p>Thousands of people from Elgin and the surrounding area celebrated the Fourth of July in 1865 with an artillery salute at dawn a "huge procession" at 10:30 a.m. of "returned soldiers civilians societies and other citizens" who marched from the Waverly House to Colby's Grove. The singing of "America" opened the exercises followed by a prayer by a local minister and a choir concert. Col. Edward S. Joslyn an Elgin attorney who served in the 36th Illinois Volunteer Infantry read the Declaration of Independence. State Adjutant General Allen C. Fuller delivered an address welcoming the returned soldiers then the choir sang "Battle Cry of Freedom." Gen. J. F. Farnsworth responded to Fuller on behalf of the soldiers followed by another choir performance. Former Governor and current Senator Yates followed with his oration and the singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" concluded the formal program. A dinner for the soldiers who were present and a general picnic followed. The city concluded the day's festivities with a ball at the Waverly House.</p><p>The <i>Daily Illinois State Journal</i> proclaimed Yates' speech at Elgin "not only the best effort of his life but one of the most forcible and eloquent among the many able and patriotic addresses which our recent National Anniversary occurring at a juncture in our history of so much interest has called forth."</p><p><b>Richard Yates</b> 1815-1873 was born in Kentucky and graduated from Illinois College in Jacksonville in 1835. He studied law in Jacksonville and at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky. Yates began practicing law in Jacksonville in 1837 and served as a Whig in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1842 to 1846 and from 1848 to 1850. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. He joined the Republican Party and supported John C. Fremont for president in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln for U.S. senator in 1858. In 1860 he was elected governor as a Republican and strongly supported the Lincoln administration's conduct of the war. When the Democratic state legislature proved uncooperative Yates dissolved the legislature on June 10 1863 and governed the state on his own. At the end of his term in 1865 Yates won election to the U.S. Senate where he served from 1865 to 1871. He supported radical reconstruction and the conviction of President Andrew Johnson.</p> Ironmonger and Mendenhall books
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Civil War / Confederacy / Education. Hinton Presley Lewellyn Jr. Student
CIVIL WAR - ERA MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK1858 - 1892. Containing Unrelated Writings by Several Members of the Hinton Family of Mecklenburg Virginia
Mecklenburg VA 1892. Sewn gatherings disbound with remanants of perished leather spine. Wear and soiling throughout; some chips occasionally causing minimal textual loss; last leaf quite ragged to inner margin significantly affecting final third of text. Writing in general legible and neat. Good condition withal. 29 leaves of lined wove paper including 4 half-leaves. Lacking first leaf pp 1 - 2 of lecture notes; 4 stubs. Inconsistently hand-numbered throughout.Manuscript notes in ink and/or pencil to recto and verso of leaves with varying amounts of writing per pg. ~1500 words. Some intratextual hand-drawn illustrations and graphs to lecture notes. 11-1/2" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>A notebook that appears to have been intended for lecture notes kept by Presley Llewellyn Hinton Jr. during a science class at Randolph-Macon College from 1858 - 59 but that was employed for several different purposes by other members of his family during the same period and throughout the Civil War. The Hintons were slaveholders owning at least 13 slaves according to the 1860 slave schedule and longtime prominent members of the community. The lecture notes which comprise hand-numbered pp 3 - 30 and 51 - 55 are from lectures taught by B. Puryear Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy; subjects covered include fairly introductory material regarding dew evaporation electricity elements of chemistry hydrogen and nitrogen gas carbon etc. and the like. Following the first section of lecture notes three pages by one of the Hinton parents we speculate Mrs. Hinton detail Presley’s service in the Confederate Army Company A 3rd Virginia Cavalry as well as that of his brother William from 1861 - 63 largely their leave-taking and visits home: “My Son William Emmet Hinton joind the Confederate Army and left home on the 14th day May 1861 to join his company Mecklinburg Cavalry at Lockets Store near Lombardy Grove. Many relatives and friends met . . . to take leave of their dear sons relations & friends who consented with cheerfulness to leave their quiet and happy homes to battle against our enemy the Yankee who are worse than Indian savages Yea to go through all the hardships privations difficulties and attending a camp life. . . . My Son Presley Lewellyn Hinton joind the Confederate Army and left home on the 26th day May 1861 . . . He would have gone on with his brother William but he was not prepared as he had just returned from the University of Virginia . . .” Approximately 15 remaining pages interrupted by the last section of Presley’s lecture notes are filled with a detailed account record of tuition charged for teaching the daughters and some sons of local families which we speculate was kept by the boys’ sister primarily because of the type of lessons taught. These included piano lessons worsted work and samplers grammar arithmetic geography the history of England and philosophy; fees for ink copy books and other supplies are also included. Another account record follows for bonds of some sort in the same hand as other and a love letter from Presley to a Miss Annie fills both recto and verso of the final leaf. Interspersed with these and sometimes written over top in pencil are the youthful scribblings and pencilled math work of James H. Palmer also of Mecklinberg dated 1892; he appears to have used the manuscript for scrap paper. All in all a uniquely faceted manuscript illustrating many aspects of the life of one Virginia family during the Civil War as well as the paper shortages that likely occasioned such thrift. hardcover books
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Civil War / Maritime
ORDNANCE INSTRUCTIONS For The UNITED STATES NAVY. Parts I - III
Washington: Government Printing Office 1866. 4th edition. Original green half leather binding with cloth boards; front board has Bureau of Ordnance device impressed in gilt. Marbled edges. VG pos & prior owner pencil annotations on blank front leaves/sm dampstain in lower gutter from prelims gradually diminishing gone by page 47/smattering of foxing throughout. Illustrated with wonderfully interesting plates & cuts of mortars howitzers etc. 8vo. <br/><br/>Part I: Preparation of Vessels of War for Battle and to the Duties of Officers and Others When at Quarters. Part II: The Equipment and Manœvre of Boats and Exercise of Howitzers. Part III: Ordnance and Ordnance Stores. Government Printing Office hardcover books
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Civil War / Railroad
The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition in Union Depot Chattanooga Tenn.
n.p.: Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway n.d. Full color chromolithograph with printed caption. 1 vols. Image 14 x 19 inches; matted to 21-1/2 x 26 inches overall. Small portion of blank lower right corner missing well away from image and caption and covered by mat; a few spots of almost imperceptible abrasion to surface else fine and handsome. Full color chromolithograph with printed caption. 1 vols. Image 14 x 19 inches; matted to 21-1/2 x 26 inches overall. Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph. An absolutely brilliant chromolithograph printed on heavy coated stock its clarity of detail putting most examples of this medium to shame. Caption states: "The 'General' was captured at Big Shanty now Kennesaw Ga. April 12 1862 by the 'Andrews' Raiders' and recaptured near Ringgold Ga. by W.A. Fuller Conductor and Anthony Murphy Shop Foreman for the Railroad Company assisted by Confederates and others after an exciting chase of about ninety miles." Illustrated here in repose the elegant engine glows as a work of art. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway unknown books
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CIVIL WAR : VERSE BROADSIDE
Battle of Cedar Creek. By Horace Maynard Co. E 28th Iowa Volunteers. Tune "Star-Spangled Banner." Caption title
New York: J. Dickson Printer 1864. Broadside in 4to. 310 x 235 mm. 12 x 9 ¼ inches. Caption and ten stanzas of verse in two columns within an ornamental border.  Sheet somewhat dust-soiled with a few minor stains surface wear along folds one corner slightly chipped &c. Still entirely sound and with good margins. The Battle of Cedar Creek was fought in the Shenandoah Valley on October 19 1864. Surprised by the Confederate forces under the command of Jubal Early the Union troops were nearly routed. Riding to the battlefield from Winchester twenty miles away Gen. Philip Sheridan rallied the troops and carried the day. This action occasioned the slightly more famous poem by Thomas Buchanan Read. Private Maynard's poem centers more narrowly on the actions of the 28th Iowa. The regiment was organized in 1862 and mustered out in 1865 having fought campaigns in Mississippi Louisiana and Virginia losing 271 men in the process.  "At dawn October 19 1864 the Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early surprised the Federal army at Cedar Creek and routed the VIII and XIX Army Corps. Commander Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan arrived from Winchester to rally his troops and in the afternoon launched a crushing counterattack which recovered the battlefield. Sheridan's victory at Cedar Creek broke the back of the Confederate army in the Shenandoah Valley. Lincoln rode the momentum of Sheridan's victories in the Valley and Sherman's successes in Georgia to re-election." Horace Maynard born ca. 1821 in Ohio is listed in the 1860 Federal census as a school teacher in Penn Iowa residing there with his wife and three small children.  American Battlefield Trust Website. Kansas Historical Society Enrollment of Civil War Veterans 1889.  Note cited in OCLC. National Park Service Website.  . J. Dickson, Printer unknown books
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CIVIL WAR Alfred Seelye Roe
TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS 1861-1866. "NEW ENGLAND GUARD REGIMENT
Worcester Mass: Twenty-Fourth Veteran Association 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. One of a number of regimental histories by Roe he produced half a dozen of them Bud Robertson doesn't discredit this history but does consider it derivative: "For this work Roe leaned heavily on the writings of Cols. Thomas G. Stevenson and Francis Osborn; other memoirs were also employed in describing the regiment's several campaigns along the South Atlantic coast" Nevins I 153. This copy has had a discreet repair to the textblock evident at page 400. Otherwise a clean and tight copy in the publisher's blue cloth from the library of Bud Robertson with his bookplate on the pastedown. Nevins I 153. Very Good binding. Twenty-Fourth Veteran Association unknown books
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CIVIL WAR Anthony M. Keiley. A Virginia Confederate
IN VINCULIS; OR THE PRISONER OF WAR. BEING THE EXPERIENCE OF A REBEL IN TWO FEDERAL PENS INTERSPERSED WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE WAR ANECDOTES OF SOUTHERN GENERALS ETC.
Petersburg: Daily Index" Office 1866. First Edition. Very Good binding. With a lengthy inscription on both sides of the first blank beginning "This book belongs to Russel and Dorothy D. Keiley." and Dorothy Keiley nametag on the title page. This is the revised edition of Keiley Prisoner of War which is considered to be "a well-written wartime account based on a diary with good descriptions of Point Lookout and Elmira" Nevins I 195. The blank has considerable edgewear and has almost certainly been reinserted. The title page has minimal edgewear as well. Still a presentable copy of a scarce Confederate item with a family association. Nevins I 195. Very Good binding. Daily Index" Office unknown books
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Civil War Auchmuty Richard Tylden
Letters of . Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac. Edited by E.S.A.
Privately Printed 1890. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full calf a.e.g. Spine label worn else Fine. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Grandson of a Signer. Privately Printed unknown books
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Civil War Bishop J. W.
Autograph letter signed "J. W. Bishop" to Daniel Aldrich a lawyer in Warren or Washington Counties New York
258 Henry Street New York 1861. 4 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Some spotting and light soiling else in good condition. 4 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Bishop writes Aldrich regarding a legal case concerning a lien on some property in the post script he writes "The news from the South today is cheering-important & fully confirmed. Our troops have taken Port Royal 2 or 3 forts & made a good landing on South Carolina soil & with reinforcements supposed to be on the way will probably take Charleston. In Kentucky Gen. Nelson has obtained a most important victory--400 killed & 1000 prisoners among them 2 generals. unknown books
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Civil War Blackwell Robert
Original Acrostics on Some of the Southern States Confederate Generals and Various Other Persons and Things
St Louis: Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co 1869. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. Soiling to boards free endpapers missing. A very good copy. First edition. Illustrated. 100 iv pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co unknown books
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Civil War Bounty Bill
EQUALIZATION BOUNTY BILL! AS PASSED BY CONGRESS JULY 27 1866 GIVES $100 ADDITIONAL BOUNTY! TO EVERY HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIER WHO ENLISTED INTO THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE APRIL 19TH 1861.
Columbus Ohio 1866. Folio broadside printed on yellow paper 13" x 18". A variety of bold type sizes and fonts. A couple of closed tears no loss which do not impair text. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> T.W. Tallmadge of Columbus Authorized Military Claim Agent offers his services and explains the terms of the Bounty Bill and its eligible recipients. Tallmadge "will prepare your applications for BOUNTY and PENSION at once and proposes to visit WASHINGTON CITY to hasten the collection thereof. His experience and facilities for collecting claims are unsurpassed by any other attorney." <br/> Tallmadge is recommended by none other than Major General William Tecumseh Sherman in the following note printed along the left margin dated February 22 1866 from St. Louis: "I have known Theodore W. Tallmadge since his childhood and his father and family quite as long but have never had any personal knowledge of his business. Being applied to I am willing to express my belief that he is worthy of confidence and capable to discharge the business he has undertaken at Columbus Ohio as Military Claim Agent."<br/>Not located on OCLC as of August 2017. unknown books
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Civil War Broadsheet. Budding Calvin S.
The SCOUT'S STORY." By Calvin S. Budding Late Adjutant of the 45th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
n. p.: Blanche Budding Flora 1900. 1st printing presumed. Buff printed paper. Modest wear to broadside age-toning some light soiling and edgewear. Withal a VG example. Broadside printed recto only. 14-5/8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>A relative of the Buddings said this was handed out at Reunion Meetings and is apparently a true story. Union troops on scout are asked by a Tennessee Confederate farmer to help him extricate a stuck wagon and promises them some Apple Jack in return. Unfortunately for the Union troops the story is a ruse and the "Yanks" are captured by 20 Confederates. While marching one member of the 45th chews on soap foams at the mouth and plays dead. They march on only to get freed by 50 Union troops. The original group goes back to the farmer to get the Apple Jack and tie up the farmer and take all of his provisions. <br /> <br />"The Johnnies took a look at him and then one sed/ That thar Mr Yankee is clean gone dead/ The Captain he examined him sed to one of his men/ He's the ugliest corpse I seed in my life/ and we can't stop long to tend/ to any kind of a burying for he's drawed up like a toad/ Gist roll him in the bushes on the lower side of the road. I kind of smiled to myself but did'nt say nothing but thunk/ I looked at Jim and he looked at me and gave his one eye a wunk." <br /> <br />Only 1 institutional holding located on OCLC Yale. Rare in the trade. Blanche Budding Flora unknown books
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Civil War Broadside. Copeland R. Morris AA. Gen. & Maj of Vol. by order of General NP. Banks. A. A. N. P.
General Order. The Commanding General regrets to learn …
<p>Charlestown Virginia: Head Quarters Banks' Division Charlestown March 5 1862. First edition. Folio 13.5" x 10" letterpress broadside printed on thin paper in black ink. Accompanied by a manuscript version of the text single sheet 2 pages which includes corrections as reflected in the published version almost certainly contemporary. Corona & Shetler/ West Virginia Imprints 805 citing this copy. </p><p>Broadside with old folds edge wear tears & a couple of old tissue repairs on the verso. Manuscript folded & foxed.<br /></p><p>General Nathaniel P. Banks via Assistant Adjutant General & Major of Volunteers R. Morris Copeland condemns the actions of troops for "<b><i>depredations on property disturbance of peaceful families and the most reprehensible infringement upon the rights of citizens"</i></b> and warns of the consequences:<br /></p><p><b><i>"To countenance excuse or tolerate such crimes is to impair and destroy the discipline of the army and injure the holy cause that we have left our homes to sustain. The citizens who are wronged suffer least from the injuries inflicted upon them. The curse returns upon the army which thus abuses its power and for that reason as well as others they must be suppressed. Men who commit such flagrant acts will meet the punishment such acts deserve and for the worst the punishment is DEATH." </i></b><br /></p><p>Major Robert Morris Copeland was dishonorably discharged from the army later in 1862.<br /></p><br /> Head Quarters, Banks’ Division, Charlestown books
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Civil War Clifton J. Leonard 1841 1924
COMMENTING ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF "aristocrats" and poor folks in New Bern North Carolina along with some general comments about the land and agriculture in the area in an autograph letter signed June 7 1862 to his father in Allentown Pennsylvania
Newbern sic NC 1862. 8vo. Five pages approximately 400 words in part: "The Aristocrat walks very erect very seldom converses upon any subject and as a general thing turns up his nose in defiance of a Federal Soldier but keeps docile thinking no doubt discretion the better part of valor. They dress in varieties of homespun and create a fantastic appearance they live in poorly erected buildings that have neither witnessed lime nor paint for a century but as a general thing splendidly furnished . they are a valorous people but deficient in pride. The poorer class display remarkable qualities of lamentable ignorance they are eager to converse and are poorly educated . this class is principally engaged in fishing they not having gifted sense enough to learn a trade. The land here is in my opinion completely wore out it is poorly manured . there is no lime put on it as that is a scarce article . there are no cellars to their houses . the buildings are generally raised a few feet from the ground by placing a few bricks under each corner. Crops raised here are of the poorest sort cotton in particular." Clifton born in Allentown Pennsylvania served as an enlisted soldier in the 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers participating in the capture of New Bern in March 1862 and other unit campaigns as a part of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia; he died in Easton Pennsylvania. Ink faded in a few places but the text is quite legible and provides an interesting description of New Bern and its inhabitants from the perspective of an enlisted garrisoned Union soldier. Folded as for mailing. 10795. <br/><br/> unknown books
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Civil War Covers
SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF 119 UNUSED CIVIL WAR-ERA PATRIOTIC POSTAL COVERS ALL BUT ONE OF THEM ILLUSTRATED ALMOST ALL WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED OR HAND-COLORING
Various locations including Philadelphia New York Salem Cincinnati Baltimore and others 1865. 119 unused postal covers all but one of them illustrated almost all printed in color or hand-colored. Generally minimal wear. Ranging from very good to near fine condition. An interesting and substantial grouping of Civil War-era patriotic covers encompassing a wide variety of themes devoted to the Union cause. A great number of Union officers are celebrated here among them are eight examples depicting General McClellan three of Gen. Fremont and a pair featuring Gen. Rosecrans the "Hero of the West." There are also numerous regimental leaders including Edward Dickinson Baker Commodore Silas H. Stringham Lt. John T Greble Gen. Wool printed with a map of the seat of war in Missouri Col. E.D. Baker Col. H.E. Paine of the Wisconsin Volunteers Col. Max Friedman of the Cameron Dragoons and many others. There are also pictorial covers of Gen. Sherman's Headquarters at Hilton Head; a pair depicting Fort Sumter; four depicting Camp Dennison near Cincinnati; one of the Battle Monument in Baltimore; and one featuring Benton Barracks in St. Louis. Three examples are practically bird's-eye views of Baltimore one a general view another from the perspective of Federal Hill and the third from Fort McHenry. <br> <br> A common visual theme is the use of symbolic iconography of the United States. Numerous examples depict women standing proudly with the American flag and are evocative of Columbia the personification of the United States. One depicts a woman serving with the "Home Guard" and decked out in a dress resembling the flag. Another example shows a "Daughter of the Regiment." Yet another is titled "The Ladies' Envelope" and features Columbia with an American flag-style shield. There are also a plethora of examples featuring the flag itself. One example prints a "History of Our Flag" beginning with its endorsement by Congress on June 14 1777. One prints the flag next to a warning reading "If Any One Attempts to Haul Down the American Flag Shoot Him on the Spot." <br> <br> The American Eagle features prominently here as well. In one example the great bird is tearing apart a Rebel flag with his beak. In another the eagle holds a banner in his mouth reading "Beware" while confronted with a disjointed hand labeled "Jeff. Davis" holding eight snakes labeled with the names of the Confederate states an interesting twist on the famous severed snake image featured in the Revolutionary-era "join or die" illustration. <br> <br> Also a handful of the covers display the type of twisted gallows humor sometimes literally to be expected from patriotic covers. One of these shows Jefferson Davis hanging from a tree; the text around his lifeless body reads "Southern Eagle Jeff. Davis in Suspense Long May He Wave." A similar example shows Davis hanging from a gallows; the caption reads "Jeff. Davis 'President' of Traitors Robbers and Pirates; the Nero of the 19th century. On the Last 'Platform' of the Southern Confeder- ass-y." Yet another cover not gallows humor but featuring Jefferson Davis depicts him as a fox holding two geese one labeled Tennessee and the other Virginia above a caption reading "Jeff. Davis on a Scouting Expedition." <br> <br> A particularly-colorful example depicts a proud Union soldier defending Washington D.C. The soldier holds fast to an American flag as a cannon fires beneath his feet with the Capitol building in the background. Other examples celebrate the New York State Volunteer Militia the Pennsylvania Volunteers the Quartermaster Department of the Anderson Zouaves the Monitor the naval battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack Sherman's Flying Artillery the text of the Army Hymn "Jeff. Davis' Doom" various political cartoon-style illustrations and many more. <br> <br> A significant collection of one of the more ephemeral and visually significant artifacts of life in the North during the Civil War. unknown books
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Civil War Dead
A List of the Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville. Copied from the Official Record in the Surgeon's Office at Andersonville
New York: Published by the Tribune Association 1866. Tall 8vo.  260 x 180 mm. 10 ¼ x 7 inches. viii 74 pp. Self-wrappers with printed title-page stitched as issued; some soiling to the first leaves and a few chips to the corners and edges. With the signature of H. Henry Sheldon on the title-page in three places along with the stamp of the Sheldon Art Museum. First edition. The text comprises the "Report of the expedition to Andersonville Georgia July 1865 for the purpose of identifying the graves and enclosing the grounds of a cemetery created there during the occupation of that place as a prison for Union Soldiers in Rebel hands."  Included is a history of the Andersonville Prison its administration and treatment of soldiers under its care. The lists of soldiers is organized by State and is 74 pages long. Published by the Tribune Association unknown books
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Civil War Document Bayonets Musket
1863 Camp Farr Bayou Gentilly "Sword Bayonets Musket " Document
Civil War document regarding arms and ammunition "Return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores received issued and remaining on hand in Company E 42nd Regiment Mass Vols Infantry for First Quarter 1863" Great descriptions of ordnance. "Springfield rifled muskets caliber .58 Springfield Smooth Bore Musket caliber 69/100 Bayonet scabbards for sword bayonets." and more like this. Includes cartridges numbers of each etc. Signed by John W. Emerson Capt. 42nd Mass. 31 March 1863. Some slight wear but overall in very good condition. unknown books
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Civil War Envelope
HOT AIR BALLOON LABELED 'SECESSION' DEFLATES WHILE MEN TUMBLE OUT OF OVERTURNED BASKET. CONFEDERATE FLAG ATTACHED TO EACH SIDE OF BASKET
n.p. 1861. Small envelope 3" x 5.5". Minor foxing and dusting. Couple of closed tears and a small chip. Good. WRLC Digital Repository Item 1961/1942. unknown books
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