‎Guerre‎

‎COBDEN, Richard, and BRIGHT, John‎

‎A Friendly Voice from England on American Affairs‎

‎New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co 1862. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 30pp. Good. Internally sound some soiling to several pages but outer wrappers soiled and a bit edgeworn. At a banquet honoring British member of Parliament Bright 1811-89 both Bright and his 1846 comrade-in-arms in repealing the corn laws Cobden 1804-65 offer speeches supporting the Union cause. First edition. SABIN 14037. Wm. C. Bryant & Co paperback‎

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‎FISCHER, LeRoy Henry‎

‎Adam Gurowski and the Civil War: A Radical's Record‎

‎Urbana IL: N.p. 1943. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 18pp. Very good. Minor handling. Sole edition of this "Abstract of a Thesis" boldly inscribed by the author on the inside front wrapper to the founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop who is also mentioned in this pamphlet's acknowledgments: "To my friend Ralph / Newman with sincere / appreciation and warmest / personal regards. / LeRoy H. Fischer." A perfect companion to Fischer's more common 1964 study of the Polish nobleman "Lincoln's Gadfly Adam Gurowski." Like most thesis abstracts printed in an extremely modest quantity and quite uncommon. A choice presentation copy. N.p. paperback‎

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‎WOOD, William Nathaniel‎

‎Reminiscences of Big I.‎

‎Jackson TN: McCowat-Mercer Press Inc 1956. Hardcover. Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley. Small 4to. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. xxviii 138pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive. First edition of this reprint of the rare 1909 edition. Vivid memoir of a second lieutenant who worked his way through the ranks in the 19th Virginia. This is the "Rebel Shavetail Edition" with a special Civil War Book Club sheet signed boldly by Wiley tipped in. NEVINS I 181. DORNBUSCH II 1409. McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc hardcover‎

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‎DAVIS, William C‎

‎The Imperiled Union: 1861-1865‎

‎Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1982. Hardcover. Two volumes. Small 4to. Blue cloth spines and red paper over boards pictorial dust jackets. xviii 316pp; xix 359pp. Illustrations map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition of this two-volume set consisting of "The Deep Waters of the Proud" and "Stand in the Day of Battle. Doubleday & Company hardcover‎

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‎TOOMBS, Robert A (1810-85)‎

‎Autograph Note Signed‎

‎Georgia senator and representative who resigned his seat in 1861 to join the Confederacy becoming Confederate secretary of state and then brigadier general; he fled to London for several years after the war to avoid arrest he returned and resumed practicing law -- though he never sought to regain citizenship. ANS 1p 5" X 3" n.p. n.d. Very good. Cryptic legal matter: "Browner has written me to file a bill against Burch -- you kindly offered to do it for me & I will be much obliged if you will do so immediately." Signed simply "Toombs." This item has been handsomely and archivally double matted together with a brass plaque and a large striking closeup photograph of a steel engraving of Toombs and framed in an ornate 1½" gilt frame overall dimensions 20½" X 16½". unknown‎

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‎LEACH, JM J M‎

‎State of the Union. Speech of Hon. J.M. Leach of North Carolina Delivered in the House of Representatives February 7 1861‎

‎N.p. 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Binding traces. Shortly before North Carolina seceded from the Union this representative presented this emotional appeal for peaceful settlement. "I am for settling our troubles by the ballot and not by the bullet." SABIN 39509. N.p. paperback‎

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‎SCHURZ, Carl‎

‎For the Great Empire of Liberty Forward!" Speech of Maj.-Gen. Carl Schurz of Wisconsin Delivered at Concert Hall Philadelphia on Friday Evening September 16 1864‎

‎New York: Union Congregational Committee 1864. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 16pp. Very good. Minor binding traces down gutter. First edition a clean and attractive copy of this remarkable Wisconsinite's thoughts near the war's conclusion. SABIN 78031. Union Congregational Committee paperback‎

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‎WESTON, George M‎

‎The Federal Union.--It Must Be Preserved. Number One‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1856. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Slight overall age toning mainly to outer wrappers; occasional light foxing. Interesting compilation of extracts from Congressional speeches "by Southern members in which is avowed the purpose. of dissolving the Union and overturning the existing Federal Government." Slavery and the fugitive slave law crop up often and the troubled author concludes: "The shadows sir of the COMING STORM already darken our pathway. It will soon be upon us WITH ALL ITS FURY." Not in Sabin. N.p. paperback‎

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‎NAGLEE, Henry M‎

‎Document No. 21: The Two Letters of Gen. H.M. Naglee about Gen. McClellan‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1864. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Cover a tad soiled and age toned else clean and attractive. Text of Naglee's September 27 1864 letter to William D. Kelley. Pages 5-8 consist of "Second Chapter from the Secret History of the War" Naglee's October 6 1864 letter to Kelley. Not in Monaghan but just as cryptic bibliographically and clearly a variant of some sort. Interestingly Monaghan mentions "A Chapter from the Secret History of the War" and "First Chapter from the Secret History of the War" as variant titles -- but never any "Second Chapter." Unusual. DORNBUSCH 51720 note where a publication year of 1862 is mistakenly hazarded. N.p. paperback‎

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‎ALLEN, Hervey‎

‎Action at Aquila‎

‎New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial dust jacket. 369pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition a lovely copy in lovely jacket. Noteworthy Civil War fiction from the author of "Anthony Adverse" -- with a fine autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a 3" X 1½" heavy stock card boldly signed in black ink by Allen who adds "Cordially yours" Front pastedown bears the ownership of noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93 which he dates April 10 1952. IN TALL COTTON 2. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover‎

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‎ROSS, Fitzgerald‎

‎Cities and Camps of the Confederate States‎

‎Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1958. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell. 8vo. Black cloth pictorial dust jacket. xxii 262pp. Illustrations pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. First of this modern edition of the 1865 classic tight and handsome. An English cavalry captain tours the South in 1863-64. Bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from noted Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple 1p 8" X 11" Harrogate TN 1958 July 23. Addressed to noted Lincoln scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93.Near fine. On "Lincoln Memorial University" letterhead Temple encourages Gates to review the Ross book for the "Lincoln Herald." Gates did review it there in the Fall 1958 issue writing that this edition would "take an important place alongside Fremantle's Diary and Russell's Observations." NEVINS I 154. University of Illinois Press hardcover‎

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‎WESTON, George M‎

‎Will the South Dissolve the Union‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1856. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 7pp. Uncut. Good plus. Moderately age toned mainly to outer wrappers. This author's take on why it's not in the South's best interest to secede. North and South are "the protector and protected. The inherent weakness of the South is sheltered by the power and vigor of the North." Unusual. Not in Dornbusch or Sabin. N.p. paperback‎

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‎MERRILL, James M‎

‎William Tecumseh Sherman‎

‎Cicago: Rand McNally & Company 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth dust jacket. 445pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition with a bookplate signed by Merrill on the front flyleaf. Rand McNally & Company hardcover‎

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‎MILHAM, Charles G‎

‎Gallant Pelham: American Extraordinary‎

‎Washington DC: Public Affairs Press 1959. Hardcover. Introduction by U.S. Grant III. Small 4to. Green cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. ix 250pp. Drawings maps. Very good/good plus. Dust jacket edgeworn and slightly rubbed with several small edge chips. Uncommon first edition a tight and quite decent copy. Well-written biography of the colorful Confederate artillerist John Pelham. NEVINS II 76. Public Affairs Press hardcover‎

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‎House Bill No. 311. A Bill To provide additional Clothing and Privileges to Troops in the Field‎

‎N.p. 1864. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 2pp. Good. Dampstaining; edge tears and chips. Confederate bill voting among other things "That the non-commissioned officers musicians and privates. shall be provided each with one complete suit of uniform clothing. as an expression of the gratitude of the nation for their gallantry their sacrifices and their unflinching devotion to the country." PARRISH 762. N.p. paperback‎

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‎COSKI, John M‎

‎Capital Navy: The Men Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron‎

‎Campbell CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth pictorial dust jacket. xiv 344pp. Illustrations maps. Fine/fine. A superb tight perfect first edition. Savas Woodbury Publishers hardcover‎

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‎COLLIS, Charles HT H T‎

‎Case of F.F. Cavada‎

‎Philadelphia: King & Baird 1866. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 14pp. Very good. Bit of soiling to outer wrappers else tight and nice. Collis a colonel with the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry published this collection of documents regarding the character of one Frederick Fernandez Cavada 1832-71 to protest Cavada's appointment as United States Consul at Trinidad de Cuba. Cavada was cashiered for "behaving himself in a cowardly manner in the presence of the enemy by absenting himself from the battle-field" at Fredericksburg but was reinstated. Cavada displayed similar cowardice at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg but resigned before he could be tried. Whether the publication of Collis's pamphlet affected Cavada's Consul appointment we have not been able to determine. Most unusual. First edition. DORNBUSCH I P 275A. SABIN 14457. King & Baird paperback‎

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‎PERRY, Milton F‎

‎Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare‎

‎Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xi 230pp. Illustrations maps. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of minor jacket wear. First edition tight and handsome. Uncommon. Louisiana State University Press hardcover‎

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‎BRADFORD, Augustus W‎

‎Proclamation by the Governor‎

‎Annapolis MD: State of Maryland Executive Department 1863. Paperback. Self-cover. 8vo. 4pp. Very good. Minor binding traces. Clean and bright with an attractive Maryland state seal at upper left of the first page. This November 2nd proclamation "To the Citizens of the State and more especially the Judges of Election" indignantly protests a military order stating that "evil disposed persons" found in Maryland and tolerated by state officials would be attempting to disrupt elections and authorized military personnel and provost marshals to arrest persons loitering about polling places. The text of General Schenck's October 27th General Order No. 53 giving this direction is included as is Lincoln's directive revoking the offensive portion of Schenck's order. Uncommon. State of Maryland, Executive Department paperback‎

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‎Woodward in 1860 & 1863‎

‎N.p.: N.p. 1863. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 7pp. Very good. Minor binding traces else tight and nice. Presumably a Republican attack on the then-gubernatorial candidate a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice. ".the creed which Judge Woodward's party has adopted is servile unpatriotic and disorganizing. the Judge's position in regard to the great issues now before the country is faithless inconsistent and wholly delusive." The writer then critiques Woodward's famed 1860 speech criticizing "The Falseness of its Statements in regard to the Abolition of Slavery by the North" "Judge Woodward's Bible Views of Slavery" and "The Right of Secession as Claimed by Judge Woodward." Woodward critic of course does not let him forget his infamous statement that "We must reassert the rights of the slave-holder." Not in Sabin. Interesting and unusual. N.p. paperback‎

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‎HELENIAK, Roman J, and HEWITT, Lawrence L (editors)‎

‎Leadership During the Civil War -- The 1989 Deep Delta Civil War Symposium: Themes in Honor of T. Harry Williams‎

‎Shippensburg PA: White Mane Publishing Company 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. xiii 196pp. Frontispiece illustrations maps. Near fine/very good. A tight and lovely first edition of this essay collection featuring a "Who's Who" of Civil War historians such as Richard N. Current Grady McWhiney Emory M. Thomas Ed Bearss Herman Hattaway Richard M. McMurry and others writing on various Civil War topics -- plus this unusual copy bears a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed from Festschrift honoree T. HARRY WILLIAMS 1909-79 the influential historian and long-time 38 years! Louisiana State University professor who penned such classics as "Lincoln and His Generals" 1952 "Huey Long" 1969 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner "Lincoln and the Radicals" 1941 "P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray" 1955 and others. 1p heavy stock 5½" X 4¼" tan correspondence card Chicago IL 1977 June. Near fine. On the blank verso of a Chicago Civil War Round Table reservation card for the Fourth Annual Nevins-Freeman Award Dinner on which Williams pens "Over" the historian pens a regret in blue ballpoint: "Sorry I can't be there. Please convey my best wishes and congratulations to my friend and fellow Civil War scholar Lloyd Miller" signed boldly in full. Autograph material from the famed Lincoln and Civil War scholar is seldom encountered. A special copy. White Mane Publishing Company hardcover‎

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‎BALES, Richard‎

‎The Union; The Confederacy‎

‎N.p.: Columbia Records 1965. Hardcover. Two volumes. Oblong 4to. Blue cloth with pictorial gilt; grey cloth with pictorial gilt. 60pp record album in sleeve; 32pp record album in sleeve. Numerous illustrations. Very good. First edition of these two large text/music selections including essays by Bruce Catton Clifford Dowdey and Allan Nevins. Records still in original glassine feature music based on actual Union and Confederate songs from 1861-65. A handsome pair clean and tight. Columbia Records hardcover‎

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‎OPTIC, Oliver (William T Adams)‎

‎Fighting Joe: or The Fortunes of a Staff Officer‎

‎Boston: Lee and Shepard 1866. Hardcover. 16mo. Newly rebound in quarter black calf and tan marbled paper over boards gilt spine. 326pp. Illustration. Fine/very good. Binding is fine -- superbly crafted and tasteful -- while text block from title page through final text page is lightly age toned with the occasional bit of fixing and mild edgewear. Overall a quite attractive second printing of this 1865 "Story of the Great Rebellion" being the fifth volume in Optic's six-volume series "The Army and Navy Stories." In a preface Adams makes a point of noting that "This volume. is not a biography of the distinguished soldier whose sobriquet in the army has been chosen as its principal title though the prominent incidents of his military career are noticed in its pages." A beautiful copy. Lee and Shepard hardcover‎

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‎(BRIG GENERAL ARMSTRONG -- WAR OF 1812)‎

‎Brig General Armstrong 1817-1882‎

‎Hardcover. On September 26 1814 the American privateer "General Armstrong" named after Continental Congressman John Armstrong Jr. a U.S. Army general under the command of Captain Samuel C. Reid was docked at the Portuguese port of Fayal in the Azores when three British warships on their way to the Caribbean to join a flotilla for the Battle of New Orleans decided to violate international laws of neutrality and instead attack. Under the command of Robert Lloyd the British ships finally succeeded in scuttling the American brig though they suffered 65 killed and 117 wounded in the process while the Americans lost only two; the American crew escaped to land. The incident was an enormous tactical error that swung the War of 1812 in the direction of the Americans for it gave General Andrew Jackson time to reach New Orleans and prepare for the battle. It was also a public relations disaster for the British becoming a sensation in popular songs poems books and colorful prints. Collection of six pamphlets bound chronologically. Small 4to. Hand-lettered vellum spine and green paper over boards. 3pp; 24pp; 150pp; 28pp; 5pp; 25pp. Very good. Mild age toning and faint soiling to binding; first couple pamphlets rather age toned with bit of dampstaining but remainder clean handsome and tight. Pamphlets in order consist of: 1 Frederick Jenkins and Rensselaer Havens "In Senate of the United States. January 23 1817." N.p.: N.p. 1817. 2 "Memorial of Sam. C. Reid Jr. In behalf of the claimants of the brig General Armstrong praying indemnity." Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1854. 33d Congress 1st Session Mis. Doc. No. 14. 3 "In the Senate of the United States. The Court of Claims submitted the following Report. Claimants Brig General Armstrong vs. The United States." Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1858. 35th Congress 1st Session Mis. Doc. No. 142. 4 "Owners of Brig General Armstrong. Memorial of Sam. C. Reid in Behalf of the captains owners officers and crew of the late United States private armed brig General Armstrong their heirs executors administrators or assigns." Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1879. 46th Congress 1st Session Mis. Doc. No. 16. 5 "Brig General Armstrong. Report. for the relief of the captain owners officers and crew of the United States private-armed brig General Armstrong." Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1880. 46th Congress 2d Session Report No. 1014. 6 "In the Senate of the United States. Report. for the relief of the captain owners officers and crew of the late United States private-armed brig General Armstrong their heirs executors administrators agents or assigns report the said bill with an amendment and recommend its passage." Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1881. 47th Congress 1st Session Report No. 270. An interesting and unusual assemblage spanning 65 years obviously gathered by someone intensely interested in the outcome of the financial claims made afterward -- makes you wonder if it belonged to one of the "heirs executors administrators or assigns" often referred to! hardcover‎

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‎KELLER, Alan‎

‎Morgan's Raid‎

‎Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1961. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red and white cloth pictorial dust jacket. 272pp. Frontispiece illustrations map. Very good/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear. Tight and handsome first edition -- with a choice autograph addition: Laid into the original mailing envelope which is tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from Keller 1p 8½" X 11" New York NY 1961 September 26. Addressed to .noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar ARNOLD F. GATES 1914-93. Very good. Carbon copy of a letter to Civil War Round Table of New York vice president Thomas J. Mullins to which Gates' was "cc"d transmitting biographical data about himself likely connected with an appearance of Keller before this distinguished group -- a mini-biography of sorts. Boldly signed in full in red ballpoint -- as is the envelope which bears the printed "New York World-Telegram" masthead return address. Warren W. Hassler Jr. calls this study "A thin but colorfully written narrative of the 1863 raid into Ohio by John Hunt Morgan." NEVINS I 34. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover‎

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