‎War‎

‎Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg: Siege of Vicksburg‎

‎NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY JULY 4 1863‎

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

Bookseller reference : 36673

‎Civil War: Confederate Imprint‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54583

‎Civil War: Cooke James‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM50270

‎Civil War: Harrison Samuel Rev.‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM55438

‎Civil War: Lincoln Abraham: Cook John Pope‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54585

‎Civil War: Military Press Printing‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54141

‎Civil War: New York‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54022

‎Civil War: Pennsylvania‎

‎ONCE MORE FOR THE COUNTRY!! caption title‎

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54027

‎Civil War: Simplot Alexander?‎

‎BATTLE OF CORINTH. OCT. 1862 manuscript caption title‎

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM48438

‎Civil War: Smart Edwin‎

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

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

Bookseller reference : WRCAM55392

‎Civil War: South Carolina‎

‎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 33 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. Mild creasing toning and spotting. Very minor repaired marginal tears small chip in lower left corner. Near fine. Matted and framed. 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 copy was found among the papers of William Dunlap Simpson a prominent South Carolina legislator and governor. Simpson was a lawyer who served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and one in the state Senate. He acted as a lieutenant colonel during the Civil War and was a delegate to the Confederate State House in 1863. After the Civil War Simpson was elected lieutenant governor then governor for a brief time before serving ten years as chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. <br> <br> This large format contemporary engraving 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 was 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. <br> <br> 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 December 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." <br> <br> 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 such as William Dunlap Simpson. <br> <br> An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document once belonging to a South Carolina governor and Civil War officer with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham and even fewer in auction records. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3794. CRANDALL 1887. SABIN 87444. JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA pp.204 543. Evans & Cogswell unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM52380

‎Civil War: Stone George Day Lieut.‎

‎ROBUST CIVIL WAR ARCHIVE CONTAINING PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT REPORTS AND LEDGERS RELATING TO THE 40th REGIMENT OHIO INFANTRY‎

‎Various places including Ohio Kentucky and Georgia but mostly Tennessee 1864. Five cloth-bound manuscript ledgers two printed books and over 100 documents letters and related forms either wholly manuscript printed or partially printed. Some soiling and staining to bound volumes some bindings partially perished. Typical folds some edge wear and soiling to documents. Overall fair to very good condition. A valuable collection of ledger books and documents recording the Civil War service of Company H of the 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This archive contains five manuscript ledger books two printed volumes and more than 100 documents and letters relating to the unit. The 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase Ohio in December 1861. They saw action at Chickamauga the Siege of Chattanooga Lookout Mountain the Siege of Atlanta and the Battle of Franklin. While some of the regiment was mustered out in October 1864 the remainder was mustered out in Nashville in December 1864 with the exception of veterans who were consolidated with the 51st Ohio Infantry. <br> <br> These materials were preserved by 1st Lieut. George Day Stone whose reports and letters can be found in this archive. Lieutenant Stone served in Company H of the 40th Volunteer Infantry from Oct. 9 1861 until Dec. 6 1864. He enlisted as a 2nd lieutenant and was promoted to 1st lieutenant on April 25 1862. He served under two company captains - William Cunningham through 1862 and whose account book is present here and John C. Meagher who is referenced throughout the archive. <br> <br> The 40th Ohio regiment lost over 200 men during service with six officers and ninety- six enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and one officer and 134 enlisted men who died of disease. A healthy number of these casualties are recorded here in the Company H ledger books. <br> <br> The bound volumes chronicle important service details and include: <br> <br> 1 Folio account book of Capt. William Cunningham of the 40th Regiment Ohio Infantry 109pp. September 1861 to August 1862. The ledger records pertinent details regarding moneys issued to various members of Company H throughout the first years of the war. <br> <br> 2 Folio ledger book 57pp. listing commissioned and non-commissioned officers along with a one-page detailed listing of thirty soldiers killed and a descriptive roll of the company with detailed remarks on desertions mustering in and out soldiers taken prisoner and more. <br> <br> 3 Folio ledger book with 16pp. of furlough lists descriptive roll notes and manuscript general orders. <br> <br> 4 Folio volume of Morning Reports 50pp. dated November 1861 to October 1864 listing number of troops with about twenty full reports and a dozen pages of remarks. <br> <br> 5 Oblong folio ledger book 190pp. dated 1862-1864 recording soldier pay and supplies for Company H with notes. <br> <br> 6 INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING QUARTERLY RETURNS OF ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES. Washington: Government Printing Office 1863. 140pp. Publisher's pebbled cloth gilt. Captain Meagher's copy with his ownership signature on the front endpapers. <br> <br> 7 A volume of printed General Orders dated 1863-1864 variously paginated but approximately 150 pp. reporting rolls of officers and men assigned to various units including those judged unfit for duty or removed to invalid units. <br> <br> A sampling of the loose letters and documents is as follows: <br> <br> 1 Lieutenant Stone's report Nov. 15 1863 detailing the capture of John Meagher at Chickamauga and stating that he "was placed in command of said company." Stone then relates the inventory of supplies he found among the remaining men in the company. <br> <br> 2 Two letters addressed to Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs one dated June 4 1864 and one Sept. 13 1865 being letters of transmittal of men and materials. <br> <br> 3 Letter dated Dec. 5 1864 reporting on David Holmes a private who was "captured and taken prisoner by the enemy while in the line of Duty on or about the 22nd day of September 1864." <br> <br> 4 Several partially-printed "Quarterly Returns of Deceased Soldiers" from 1864 completed in manuscript. <br> <br> 5 Manuscript report from Sept. 25 1863 2pp. reporting on soldiers taken prisoner and supplies lost to the enemy at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge Tennessee. The report reads in part: "I certify.at Chickamauga.The Regt. to which my company belongs was directed to advance under the fire of the enemy to take a certain position; in so doing one private was killed two severely wounded & two taken prisoner." The report then lists the material lost to the Confederates and a similar report follows detailing prisoners taken and material lost at Missionary Ridge. <br> <br> 6 Two manuscript field orders from the Army of Kentucky dated in the Spring of 1863. The first dated March 20 gives directions on uniform regulations and then instructs officers and soldiers "now quartered at dwelling houses will at once remove to their tents or such hospital as the Regimental Surgeon or Medical Director shall direct." The second field order instructs all soldiers to carry "forty rounds of cartridge in their cartridge boxes." <br> <br> 7 Commissioned officer list for Company H from October 1863 listing thirty-two officers including Stone a sergeant a corporal the wagoner and twenty-eight privates along with detailed remarks on recent movements of everyone but Stone. Most of the privates are listed as either absent or sick. <br> <br> 8 Commissioned officer list for Company H from December 1863 listing thirty-eight officers taken prisoner by the Confederates at the Battle of Chickamauga on Sept. 21 1863 including the aforementioned Captain Meagher and David Holmes. <br> <br> 9 Various blank report forms including morning reports inspection reports receipts for ordnance volunteer descriptive lists and more. <br> <br> An important collection from the 40th Regiment Ohio Infantry providing insight into the various day-to-day activities experiences and duties of the unit during its Civil War service. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54525

‎Civil War: Tennessee‎

‎LARGE CONFEDERATE MUSTER ROLL FOR COMPANY E OF THE 2nd GEORGIA BATTALION SHARPSHOOTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE DATED FEBRUARY 28th 1863‎

‎Richmond 1863. Printed form approximately 24 x 36 inches completed in manuscript. Folded. Light wear and a few small separations along folds. Slightly wrinkled at right edge. Moderate tanning scattered foxing. Still very good. A rare example of a Civil War muster roll for a Confederate unit. This roll is for for Company E of the 2nd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters commanded by Maj. J.J. Cox as they mustered on Feb. 28 1863 near Chattanooga shortly after the battle of Fort Donelson. Although it was a Georgia Battalion the vast majority of men in Company E were from Montgomery Alabama. As a part of Gen. J.K. Jackson's Brigade in the Army of Tennessee the unit fought at Murfreesboro Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge and later as a part of Gen. Gist's Brigade participated in the battle for Atlanta and Hood's Tennessee operations. The roll lists all officers and enlisted men records two deaths in the company a number of absentees through sickness and desertion and even notes two instances of substitution. Civil War soldier substitutions were a controversial tactic in which men of means bought their way out of service. A fine copy of a scarce Confederate military document. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54505

‎Civil War: Winant Mary‎

‎ARCHIVE OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED SENT HOME TO THE WINANT FAMILY WITH MOST ADDRESSED TO MARY H. WINANT FROM VARIOUS UNION SOLDIERS INCLUDING HER BROTHER COUSIN UNCLE AND VARIOUS FRIENDS AT HER HOME IN STATEN ISLAND AND ONE WRITTEN BY MARY IN RESPONSE TO HER SOLDIER BROTHER‎

‎Various locations including Washington D.C.; City Point Va.; Petersburg Va.; Brandy Station Va.; Annapolis Md.; and others 1865. Thirty-two war-date letters totaling approximately 95pp. plus ten retained transmittal covers and assorted post-war family papers. Original folds minor wear creasing and toning. A few letters slightly clipped likely to retain the patriotic letterheads. Overall very good. In mylar sleeves within a modern three-ring binder. An interesting Civil War collection of thirty- two letters spanning the length of the war almost all addressed to Mary H. Winant of Staten Island along with ten original transmittal covers and other documents and family papers. Many of the letters are from Mary's family members serving in the war including her brother James her cousin George F. Rezeau and her uncle James E. Rezeau as well as a few other friends. The letters present the experiences of war from numerous different perspectives showing how the conflict affected extended families and whole communities all of them sent to the same woman back home a beloved sister relative and friend. <br> <br> James Winant writes to his sister on November 10 1861 after his unexpected enlistment. It appears that he had not intended to join the army but was swept up in the fervor after many of the young men from their hometown answered the call. He writes to Mary from Camp Campbell in Washington D.C.: <br> <br> "I was expecting to come down the first of November but Mr. Alfred Dart was getting up a Company of cavalry & quite a number of the Herrick boys put their names to the list & wanted me so I did not mean to back out. I put my name to the list the 15th of October & started for Harrisburg the 23. I had but a little time to get reddy sic to go with that company as I should have come to see.I have been in to the Capital & I saw a site the city is well surrounded by our northern troops we expect to hear of a battle every day on the other side of the Potomac. There was about 20000 soldiers left since Friday." <br> <br> Despite having seemingly joined the Union Army on a whim James Winant took his duty very seriously. Two weeks later James tells his sister in a November 23 letter: "I should like to see you but I do not know when that will be but I shall not leave without orders if I was shure that I would never be found out I never would. I will die in the battlefield before I be a Diserter sic never. I came to Fite sic for my country and I shall if called on and never flinch in that course." However that did not mean that James was thrilled with life in the army. His January 15 1862 letter reads in part: ".I hope you enjoy your new year well although I did not enjoy mine very well for I had to stand on guard and that is the worst part of soldiering we have to be out in all kinds of weather and the weather is very changeable. One day it is almost like summer and the next day it is cold enough to freeze a person.It takes 104 men to guard our camp." Moreover by February 25 James was thoroughly restless and tired of being at Camp Campbell writing: <br> <br> "Our Regiment is No.1 & it is referred for the City Provost Guards. There is two Companys out of our regiment guarding the city now & we expect to go in a week. We expect to get our horses this week. I would rather be in the army acrost sic the Potomac for I am getting tird sic of guarding this old camp. When we get to the city we will have better times. There has been quite a move for the last two weeks. The federal troops has got a strong hold of the rebels & I hope they will keep on crossing it." <br> <br> Interestingly in one of the only letters not addressed to Mary James writes his father with much of the same information he includes in this letter. It reads in part: "Our troops is doing good business in the South they have taken the most important places & a large number of prisoners & they will soon take the rest. I wish our company was in the army acrost the Potomac. I should like to see a fight with the rebels for I am getting tired of guarding this camp." <br> <br> In the only response from Mary retained in the collection she writes back to James trying to offer her brother some comforting words although she was worried about him being sent into battle. In a letter written on April 28 Mary writes to James to beg him to put his faith in God. She included a poem to let him know she was always thinking of him. The letter reads in part: <br> <br> "O James how it cheers my Lonely Heart to hear from you.that you would not be cald sic to the battlefield but since I read your last letter wich sic informs me that you have been ordered to march in pursuit of the Enemy. My hope is well nigh expired though I know Dear Brother that you have Enlysted sic in a noble cause and given your heart and hand to your Country and now there is one step more noble for you to take and that is give your heart and head to God and you will be indeed a brave soldier." <br> <br> Mary also received a couple letters from her cousin George Rezeau in Pennsylvania and a few from her uncle James Rezeau. George does not appear to be serving in the military yet when he first writes to Mary though he would enlist shortly. By November 1862 George writes to check in on Mary from Camp Simmons and Camp McClellan. He signs off the former letter "Your naughty cousin G.F. Rezeau." <br> <br> George's father Uncle James Rezeau is also a Union man. He writes to Mary from Annapolis in August 1862 that he is anxious for his regiment to join the battle and that "if our regiment don't go on soon I will leave it and go into York State and join some other one and go down South for I enlisted to fight for my Country.I want to see the Elephant Old Jeff Davis and feed him some cold lead or else about twelve inches of cold steel." <br> <br> The latest letter in the archive is also from James Rezeau dated March 3 1865 to Mary written from the 67th Regiment Headquarters near Petersburg Virginia. Here a month before the war's end Mary's uncle writes to her check on her as he had heard she was sick. Uncle James also writes about war wages and sending money home to various family members including Mary whom he sends seventy-five cents. He also writes a letter to Mary's parents his own brother- in-law and sister from Brandy Station in early February 1864. He talks about his various health ailments including dysentery and diarrhea "It seems almost as bad as consumption for it reduces a man to almost a Skeleton" how he can't keep down any real food the bitterness of the cold and muddy Virginia winter and how he looks forward to seeing "all of you when this cruel War is over." <br> <br> There are also a handful of letters between family members i.e. a letter to Mary from her mother Eliza and some from friends and other soldiers. One letter dated August 26 1864 is from a friend "M. McPherson" who writes to Mary with news of her wounded cousin George: <br> <br> "G.F. Rezeau started for the Hospital this morning. He was wounded yesterday in a Battle between Shepherds Town and Winchester his wound is through the left hand the ball passed through his hand and spoiled the pocket in his shirt his glasses and his pocket combs beside bruising his side right smart. His wounds were very Lucky ones if there is any such. At the time George was wounded we were just going to charge he went to the Rear the Regt charged and we received a Perfect Shower of Rebel Compliments. There was a whole Brigade of Reb Infantry lying in ambush when we charged upon the Hill. They raised up there position was such they had a cross fire upon us." <br> <br> Included at the end of the archive are a number of documents and forms from after the war and as late as the turn of the century. They appear to be unrelated to Mary Winant although they could have belonged to her family or descendants. There are also ten original transmittal covers addressed to Mary Winant. <br> <br> An informative and research-worthy collection of Civil War and Civil War-era family correspondence. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM55678

‎Civil War; Thulstrup Thure de‎

‎Antietam‎

‎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 Antietam Maryland the fighting near Dunker Church on September 17 1862. It was the first field army-level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War to take place on Union soil. It remains the bloodiest day in American history. <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. He obtained 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. 15 x 21 3/8" plus margins. Very bright copy. American Lithographic Co. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 29185

‎Civil War; Autograph‎

‎Cabinet Cards of Brig. General Joseph C. Breckenridge and Captain Joyce‎

‎1865. Photography. Fine condition. Breckenridge 1842 - 1920 was a Union officer from Kentucky in the Civil War; His two older brothers and cousin fought on the Confederate side. His rank during the war was 1st and 2nd Lieutenant 1862-3. In later life he became a brigadier general 1889 in the U.S. Regular Army and Inspector General of the Army as well as a major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War. wikipedia dot com. Breckenridge is dressed in formal uniform with medals and insignia and looks off to his right. Portrait was taken by Prince with locations in New York and Washington DC. Signed by the General on verso.<br /> <br /> Captain Joyce known thus by pencil writing on verso is seated and looks to his left dressed in full uniform with medals and saber. His uniform differs from traditional Civil War ranking officer with 3 rows of buttons and soutache decoration. 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28407

‎Civil War; Confederacy. Davis Jefferson‎

‎CSA President's Message. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States: December 7th 1863‎

‎Richmond VA 1863. Good overall. Confederate imprint. Jefferson Davis's annual state of the Confederacy address to the Confederate Congress in Richmond dated December 71863. <br /> <br /> Davis tries to put the best light on a year that had seen the Confederate Army defeated at Gettysburg and the Union triumphant on the Mississippi with the fall of Vicksburg. Parrish & Willingham 925. <br /> <br /> 8vo pamphlet 29pp original stitching very good condition. OCLC: 6786297; Crandall # 627. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 10467

‎Civil War; Van Horne Thomas‎

‎HISTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. It's Organization Campaigns and Battles. Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas chiefly from his private military journal and official and other documents furnished by him‎

‎Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co 1875. 3 volumes including 2 volumes of text plus the Atlas. First Edition. Illustrated with 22 campaign and battle maps in the atlas volume compiled by Edward Ruger. 8vo publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and ruled and black and pictorially decorated in gilt on the upper covers with a large star. xiv 454 pp; v 478 pp; iv 22 fold-out maps. A very fine set externally and internally near pristine and as mint. Very Rare Thus. RARE AND AN ESPECIALLY FINE AND BRIGHT SET OF THIS FIRST EDITION HISTORY OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL UNION ARMIES OF THE WESTERN THEATER OF THE CIVIL WAR. The army originally fought under the name Army of the Ohio until Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans assumed command of it along with the Department of the Cumberland; he thus changed the name of the newly combined entity to the Army of the Cumberland. Under Mahor General George H. Thomas who took command in October of 1863 the Unit played a major role in Sherman's March to Atlanta. In all; the Army of the Cumberland played important roles in the battles of Stones River Chickamauga Chattanooga-Ringgold Peachtree Creek Kennesaw Mountain and Nashville. The Atlas volume depicts the army's movements during these battle and campaigns. Robert Clarke & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32326

‎Civil War; Fort Pillow.‎

‎REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR‎

‎U.S. Printing Office. 38th Congress. 1st Session. Rpt. No. 65 1864 Description: Two reports in one volume. pp. 128; 38 8 p. of illustrations showing emaciated white soldiers with identifications and details. 8vo. 230 mm. Original full cloth binding. XLib. "On April 12 1864 some 3000 rebels under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest overran Fort Pillow a former Confederate stronghold situated on a bluff on the Tennessee bank of the Mississippi some 40 miles north of Memphis. The garrison consisted of about 600 Union soldiers roughly evenly divided between runaway slaves-turned-artillerists from nearby Tennessee communities and white Southern Unionist cavalry mostly from East Tennessee. Under a flag of truce which his men violated by creeping up on the fort Forrest demanded the garrison's surrender threatening that if it refused he would not be responsible for the actions of his men. Believing Forrest was bluffing Bradford refused whereupon the Confederates swarmed over the parapet. The overwhelmed garrison fled down the bluff to the river where they were caught in a deadly crossfire. Forrest's men continued to shoot well after the Federals had thrown down their weapons and many men were killed in hospital tents or as they begged for mercy. By the next morning only about 65 blacks had survived a massacre that had continued intermittently through the night. More than seventy percent of the white survivors would perish in rebel prisons. The Confederates lost about 18 killed. Northern Radicals seized on the massacre to inflame a wavering Northern public. Though Forrest initially described the river as "dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards" and his field commander bragged that his men had taught "the mongrel garrison" a memorable lesson Forrest and his staff later either denied there was a massacre or blamed it on the garrison itself." - From Black Past W21 / YORK HS Language: eng. Hardcover. Good. U.S. Printing Office. 38th Congress. 1st Session. Rpt. No. 65 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 036A70B

‎Civil War; Fort Pillow.‎

‎REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR‎

‎Description: Two reports in one volume. pp. 128; 38 + ** 8 p. of illustrations showing emaciated white soldiers with identifications and details. 8vo. 230 mm. Original full cloth binding. XLib. "On April 12, 1864, some 3,000 rebels under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest overran Fort Pillow, a former Confederate stronghold situated on a bluff on the Tennessee bank of the Mississippi, some 40 miles north of Memphis. The garrison consisted of about 600 Union soldiers, roughly evenly divided between runaway slaves-turned-artillerists from nearby Tennessee communities and white Southern Unionist cavalry mostly from East Tennessee. Under a flag of truce which his men violated by creeping up on the fort, Forrest demanded the garrison's surrender, threatening that if it refused he would not be responsible for the actions of his men. Believing Forrest was bluffing, Bradford refused, whereupon the Confederates swarmed over the parapet. The overwhelmed garrison fled down the bluff to the river, where they were caught in a deadly crossfire. Forrest's men continued to shoot well after the Federals had thrown down their weapons, and many men were killed in hospital tents or as they begged for mercy. By the next morning only about 65 blacks had survived a massacre that had continued intermittently through the night. More than seventy percent of the white survivors would perish in rebel prisons. The Confederates lost about 18 killed. Northern Radicals seized on the massacre to inflame a wavering Northern public. Though Forrest initially described the river as "dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for 200 yards," and his field commander bragged that his men had taught "the mongrel garrison" a memorable lesson, Forrest and his staff later either denied there was a massacre or blamed it on the garrison itself." - From Black Past W21 / YORK HS‎

‎Civil War]‎

‎1886 calligraphic manuscript book in honor of Colonel George Laird who served in the Civil War 22nd Infantry Division.‎

‎Oblong leatherette album. Beautiful multi-colored caligraphic title page followed by pages of signatures; blank leaves toward the end of an album printed for the twenty-second regiment. <br/><br/> hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : WB15947

‎CIVININI Guelfo -‎

‎Qualche giorno coi granatieri.‎

‎Milano, 1917, estratto con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 843/849 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 Guelgo.‎

‎Giorni del mondo di prima, vagabondaggi e soste di un giornalista. (Articoli si cose, aspetti, momenti e personaggi del mondo di prima della guerra), scritti tra il 1907 e il 1911. Coll. Le Scie.‎

‎In-8° pp. 399, leg. edit. con tracce d'uso e sovrac. ill.‎

‎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

Bookseller reference : 2399

‎Claës Jeanne‎

‎"Souvenirs d'agent double (Histoire vécue) - ""La guerre secrète"""‎

‎Baudinière. vers 1935. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 223 pages. Léger accroc sur le 1er plat. 1er plat légèrement plié. Dos plié, mors fendus en coiffes. Page de garde légèrement déchirée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

‎Classification Dewey : 940.3-Première Guerre mondiale 1914-1918‎

Bookseller reference : R300317790