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FREMONT, Jessie Benton
The Story of the Guard: A Chronicle of the War
Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown heavily blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. xiii 227pp 2pp. Very good. Bit of wear at head and tail of spine else tight clean and nice; 1863 nonauthorial ownership signature on front flyleaf brown ink on brown endpaper thus barely discernible. Exceptionally tight and attractive first edition of what James I. Robertson Jr. criticized as "Too feminine and prejudiced to be of value; treats of her husband's mounted bodyguard." The controversial John C. Fremont 1813-90 -- military officer explorer senator presidential candidate -- succeeded in driving the Confederates out of southwest Missouri. Wife Jessie 1924-1902 was the daughter of Missouri statesman Thomas Hart Benton and a noted writer and activist in her own right. NEVINS I 91. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
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(CIVIL WAR -- Richmond, Virginia -- Map)
Johnson's Map of the Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia
New York: Johnson's 1862. 27" X 18". Very good. Slightest bit of age toning and wear else clean bright and attractive. Handsome hand-colored map "Compiled from the Official Maps of the War Department by A.J. Johnson" and "Showing also the interesting localities along the James Chickahominy and York Rivers." Choice early war-date map simply and tastefully double matted and glazed in a 1¼" walnut-finish frame overall dimensions 33½" X 25". unknown
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SMITH, William NH N H
The Crisis its Responsibilities and Perils. Speech of the Hon. William N.H. Smith of North Carolina. Delivered in the House of Representatives Ferbuary sic 8 1861
N.p. 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 16pp. Near fine. Binding traces. A thorough presentation of the North Carolina point of view by the soon-to-be Confederate congressman. "Thirty of our associates have withdrawn at the call of their respective states and are no longer of our body. N.p. paperback
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Information for Army Meetings: November 1864
Philadelphia: James B. Rodgers 1864. Paperback. 16mo. Pale red wrappers. 36pp. Very good. Overall a tight and attractive copy though a bit of paper loss to rear wrapper. Reports on "Our Navy Work" including a prayer meeting on the Monitor Onondaga "Western New York" "Maryland" "The Shenandoah" and "Army of Potomac." The U.S. Christian Commission was a forerunner of the Red Cross. James B. Rodgers paperback
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(WAR OF 1812)
The Weekly Messenger: October 21 1814 No. 1 Vol. 4
Boston: James Cutler 1814. Paperback. Folio 13¼" X 19½". Self-cover. 4pp. Good plus. Mildly and evenly age toned with mild edgewear; separated at fold. Overall clean and attractive though easily legible and quite handleable. A nice copy of the October 21st 1814 issue No. 1 Vol. 4 of this weekly which was founded in 1811 and in 1814 changed ownership when Nathan Hale acquired it and changed the name to the "Boston Weekly Messenger" also changing the size and format. This issue is filled with notable War of 1812 news the front page including two lengthy communications signed in type by U.S. commissioners JOHN QUINCY ADAMS HENRY CLAY ALBERT GALLATIN J.A. BAYARD and JONATHAN RUSSELL reporting on their attempts to negotiate a peace treaty at Ghent. There's also page 2 an "Official Account of the Repulse of the British at Mobile" and page 4 a "Biographical Sketch of Lieut. John G. Cowall Late of the U.S. Navy." A fine period piece. James Cutler paperback
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FISKE, John
The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxv 368pp 4pp ads. Tissue-guarded map frontispiece 23 maps some partly-colored. Top edge gilt. Very good. Faint edgewear with rear inner hinge a tad delicate. First edition of what Parrish in Nevins' Civil War bibliography considers an "overrated outdated study" but which I still find useful. NEVINS II 149. DORNBUSCH III 2540. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
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EISENSCHIML, Otto
The Celebrated Case of Fitz John Porter: An American Dreyfus Affair
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. 344pp. Frontispiece illustrations maps. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition tight and attractive. Typically rabble-rousing Eisenschiml -- according to Warren W. Hassler Jr. "A lightly documented strongly argued but on the whole convincing brief on behalf of Porter." NEVINS I 28. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover
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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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Report on the Address of a Portion of the Members of the General Assembly of Georgia
Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1860. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 6pp. Very good. Although the goal of this report was to urge the state conventions of South Carolina Alabama Mississippi and Florida "that no final separate State action shall be taken upon the question of secession from the Union until a general Convention of the Southern States can be had" it was not received before South Carolina's withdrawal; therefore this pamphlet became South Carolina's attempt "briefly to state the causes which induced the passage of the Ordinance" to Georgians. This she does passionately and yes briefly. A very scarce Confederate imprint. PARRISH 3815. Evans & Cogswell paperback
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SEWARD, William H
Secretary Seward's Review of Recent Military Events. The Failing Cause of the Rebels
N.p.: Evening Journal 1863. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover housed in modern cardboard pamphlet binder. 8pp. Good plus. Mild age toning and foxing mainly to front wrapper. "Evening Journal Documents. No. 2." being an interesting detailed recap of the war to date -- all shed in the best possible light of course and with the end just around the corner. First edition. Evening Journal paperback
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SANDBURG, Carl
Tormenta Sobre la Tierra: Lincoln y la Guerra Civil Estadounidense
Buenos Aires: Editorial Futuro 1945. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey paper over boards pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 301pp. Illustrations decorated endpapers. Very good/very good. Scarce Argentinian edition of "Storm over the Land. Editorial Futuro hardcover
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ELY, Alfred
The Revolutionary Movement. Letter from Hon. Alfred Ely
N.p.: N.p. 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 4pp. Very good. Minor binding traces. New York congressman urges defeat of Senator John J. Crittenden's resolution recognizing slavery in certain southern territories urging instead an "unequivocal exhibition of a firm and resolute purpose to maintain the authority of the Constitution." Good slavery content. Not in Sabin. N.p. paperback
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(CIVIL WAR)
Chicago Tribune: November 11 1865
Chicago: Chicago Tribune November 11 1865 Vol. XIX No. 163. Large folio. 4pp. Near fine. Clean and handsome free of foxing and edge tears -- altogether superb. Civil War wrap-up news: Execution of Andersonville commander Henry Wirz etc. unknown
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Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia Passed at Called Session 1862 in the Eighty-Seventh Year of the Commonwealth
Richmond: William F. Ritchie 1862. Paperback. Small 4to. Tan wrappers. 36pp. Good. Some soiling minor edge tears. First edition. Nice copy of this Confederate imprint. PARRISH 4387. William F. Ritchie paperback
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STRAIT, Newton A
Alphabetical list of Battles 1754-1900
Washington DC: N.p. Government Printing Office 1900. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. 252pp. Very good. Dornbusch lists only a 1909 edition of this useful compilation which covers not only the War of the Rebellion but also the Spanish-American War Philippine Insurrection "and all Old Wars." Stamped "Property of the Bureau of Pensions" on three pages which is interesting since the Preface prints a letter from the Bureau of Pensions acknowledging how helpful Strait's earlier lists were to the work of the bureau. DORNBUSCH III 1449. N.p. [Government Printing Office] hardcover
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KEAN, Robert Garlick Hill
Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean Head of the Bureau of War
New York: Oxford University Press 1957. Hardcover. Edited by Edward Younger. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxxvi 241pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn and a bit age toned. First edition -- tight clean and attractive. The autograph edition with a special printed leaf signed boldly in blue fountain pen by editor Younger tipped in. Perceptive account of the principal figures and events of the Confederacy. EICHER 258. NEVINS II 174. Oxford University Press hardcover
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MERRILL, James M
Battle Flags South: The Story of the Civil War Navies on Western Waters
Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 334pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of jacket edgewear. Handsome and tight first edition bearing an archival bookplate on the front flyleaf signed boldly and in full by Merrill in black ballpoint. Uncommon. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press hardcover
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ADAMS, Charles Francis
Speech of Charles Francis Adams of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives January 31 1861
N.p.: N.p. n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Near fine. Minor binding traces else clean and attractive. Eloquent speechifying by the son of John Quincy Adams who predicts the downfall of slavery and the inevitable victory of the Union. "The Confederate experiment will ignominiously fail" he intones. Soon after this Adams was named U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James where he was embroiled in the Trent affair. First edition. SABIN 186 which misquotes the title. N.p. paperback
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Correspondence Relative to the Case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell
Washington D.C.: Department of State 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 15pp. Good. Wrappers age toned else fine. Close-cropped clipped signature of CSA diplomat John Slidell 1793-1871 tipped to front wrapper. Circa 1900 catalogue slip affixed to top of front cover. NEVINS I 274. Department of State paperback
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BROWN, Dee Alexander
The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Raiders
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine and red marbled paper over boards pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear with chip at head of jacket spine. First edition tight and clean of this popular biography of Colonel John Hunt Morgan. DORNBUSCH II 377. NEVINS I 64. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover
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MORTON, Oliver P
Message of Gov. Oliver P. Morton Delivered at the Called Session of the Indiana Legislature April 25th 1861 Together with the Proclamation of President Jackson
Indianapolis: Berry R. Sulgrove 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers. 25pp. Very good. In this dramatic address the newly-elected governor who'd been in office only three months lectures an often-uncooperative legislature: "You have been summoned together under circumstances of the most grave and important character." A strong Union man Morton sums up the righteousness of the Union cause noting that "The origin of this most wicked rebellion dates back more than thirty years.distinguished Southern Statesmen as early as 1829 cherished the dream of a vast Southern Slaveholding Confederacy. The determination was then formed to break our Republic into pieces. The first one seized upon by South Carolina was the tariff question." He concludes "I therefore recommend that one million of dollars be appropriated for the purchase of arms and munitions of war" among other things such as organizing a volunteer militia. The legislature failed to provide this funding by the way forcing Morton to borrow the one million dollars. Andrew Jackson's famed December 10 1832 address quelling the explosive tariff issue in South Carolina and curbing state's rights fills pages 9 through 25. First edition. Not in Sabin. Berry R. Sulgrove paperback
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TILDEN, Samuel J
The Union! Its Dangers! And How They Can Be Averted. Letter from Samuel J. Tilden to Hon. William Kent
N.p. New York: N.p. 1860. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 16pp. Very good. Mild age toning throughout; minor binding traces. Tilden's dislike of Abraham Lincoln was well known and this October 26 1860 missive on the eve of the election predicts Civil War should he be elected. There is also a very involved slavery discussion. Not in Sabin. N.p. paperback
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Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865
Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961. Paperback. Small 4to. First five volumes out of six in stiff pictorial wrappers. iv 41pp; iv 117pp; iv 169pp; iv 151pp; vi 149pp. Numerous illustrations. Overall very good. First edition. This extremely detailed day-to-day chronology may not be annotated as Nevins points out but still provides a vast amount of useful data and makes an excellent reference tool. NEVINS I 236. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865
Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961. Paperback. Small 4to. Five volumes out of six in stiff pictorial wrappers. iv 41pp; iv 117pp; iv 169pp; iv 151pp; vi 149pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. Near fine. Boldly signed on the front wrapper of the first part by E.M. Eller Director of Naval History whose Navy Department office was responsible for compiling these volumes This extremely detailed day-to-day chronology may not be annotated as Nevins points out but still provides a vast amount of useful data and makes an excellent reference tool. NEVINS I 236. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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DINKINS, James
By an Old Johnnie. Personal Recollections and Experiences in the Confederate Army
Dayton: Press of Morningside Bookshop 1975. Hardcover. Illustrations by L.T. Dickinson. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xv 280pp 2pp ads. Illustrations. Near fine. First published in Cincinnati in 1897 and now quite scarce this facsimile reprint "Facsimile 24" in Morningside's reprint series is itself a bit uncommon. James I. Robertson Jr. characterizes it as "Personal oftentimes lightly written sketches by a North Carolina soldier; especially good for observations on the Peninsular Campaign." A tight handsome copy. NEVINS I 81. Press of Morningside Bookshop hardcover
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NEWTON, Virginius
The Confederate States Ram Merrimac or Virginia: The History of her Plan and Construction and her Engagements with the United States Fleet March 8 and 9 1862
Richmond: The Hermitage Press Inc 1907. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff green wrappers. 34pp. Illustration. Good. First separate edition. Scarce reprint from Volume XX of the Southern Historical Society Papers. Memoir by a Confederate midshipman. The Hermitage Press, Inc paperback
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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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PATRICK, Robert
Reluctant Rebel: The Secret Diary of Robert Patrick 1861-1865
N.p.: Louisiana State University Press 1961. Hardcover. Edited by F. Jay Taylor. Small 4to. Tan cloth pictorial dust jacket. xiii 271pp. Map endpapers. Very good/very good. Minor jacket wear with some archivally closed on verso edge tears. Tight clean handsome second printing of this 1959 text signed and inscribed large and bold by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "For -- / Dr. and Mrs. George Meade -- / Thank you for your kindness -- / F. Jay Taylor / May 2 1962." A superb copy. Louisiana State University Press hardcover
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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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PRESTON, Robert L
Southern Miscellanies: No. 2 February 1919
Leesburg VA: Robert L. Preston 1919. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 39pp. Outer wrappers a bit soiled with several small edge chips and edge tears and archivally strengthened along the spine fold. Probable sole printing. Largely on essay on Colonel Henry Watterson 1840-1921. Uncommon. Robert L. Preston 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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WISTAR, Isaac Jones
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half a Century in War and Peace
New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering price-clipped dust jacket. 530pp. Frontispiece illustrations folding map. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and light age toning with a few tiny edge chips. Second trade edition and first single-volume edition of this Indian fighter and railroad executive's memoir after 1914 two-volume private publication by The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia described on front jacket panel as "A Chronicle of Lusty Adventure Out of Our Pioneer Past." Howes describes this as "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860 in which Wistar played a conspicuous part before achieving fame and fortune in Pennsylvania" Wheat as a "Significant and engaging narrative by a man of great native attainments." Rather uncommon in the jacket. GRAFF 4724. HOWES W598. NEVINS I 181. WHEAT 234. Harper & Brothers 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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SHANKS, Henry T
The Secession Movement in Virginia 1847-1861
Richmond: Garrett and Massie 1934. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth dust jacket. xi 296pp. Map frontispiece 5 maps. Good plus/very good. Some binding edgewear; front inner hinge neatly discreetly archivally strengthened with vintage paper; jacket spine sunned. Attractive first edition in the uncommon and usually-absent dust jacket. Garrett and Massie 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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GREENE, A Wilson
Whatever You Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson
Baltimore: Butternut and Blue 1992. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert K. Krick. Small 4to. Red cloth dust jacket. xxviii 186pp. Illustrations maps. Fine/fine. A superb tight first edition signed large and bold by Greene in black ballpoint on the half-title page. Uncommon. Butternut and Blue hardcover
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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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EISENSCHIML, Otto, and LONG, EB E B
As Luck Would Have It: Chance and Coincidence in the Civil War
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth price-clipped dust jacket. 285pp. Maps. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear with single edge chip. First edition tight and attractive. Tipped to two inner flyleaves are Typed Letters Signed from both authors. Eisenschiml's is 1p 7" X 10½" Chicago IL 1952 February 6. Addressed to noted autograph collector and author Warren A. Reeder. Very good. Graciously declines an invitation to speak. Long's is 1p 6½" X 10" Oak Park IL 1959 January 2. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold Gates. Fine. Nice content regarding Gates' attempt to become a literary agent. Signed simply "Pete." A unique copy. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover
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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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SINCLAIR, Donald A
The Civil War and New Jersey: A Bibliography
New Brunswick: Friends of the Rutgers University Library 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 186pp. Fine. First edition. Friends of the Rutgers University Library hardcover
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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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AVERY, PO P O
The Fourth Illinois Cavalry Regiment
Humboldt NE: The Enterprise 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in blue cloth. 194pp. Illustrations. Errata slip tipped to front pastedown. Very good. Binding slightly edgeworn. Clean and attractive first edition of this scarce slim Civil War regimental. Due to a binder's error one small page gathering pp. 31-34 appears upside down -- an error we've encountered in other copies of this title. Phineas O. Avery born 1838 served with Company I of this regiment from September 1861 to November 1864 removing to Nebraska afterward to farm and raise cattle. Extremely uncommon and normally only encountered in glorified photocopy form. BROADFOOT I-I 22. NEVINS I 53. The Enterprise hardcover
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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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LORD, Francis A
Civil War Sutlers and Their Wares
New York: Thomas Yoseloff 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth pictorial dust jacket. 162pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and a tad rubbed. A tight clean attractive first edition of this uncommon title. Thomas Yoseloff hardcover
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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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EISENSCHIML, Otto, and LONG, EB E B
As Luck Would Have It: Chance and Coincidence in the Civil War
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1948. Hardcover. Maps by Barbara Long. 8vo. Burgundy cloth dust jacket. 285pp. Maps. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear with single large chip at upper left of front panel. First edition tight and attractive -- boldly signed by both authors and the map illustrator wife of co-author Long on the front flyleaf and inscribed by the map illustrator above their signatures to an early member of the Chicago Civil War Round Table: "Inscribed for / R.R. Hughes / with the cordial good / wishes of the authors / Otto Eisenschiml / E.B. Long / Barbara Long / Sept. 25 1948." Ironically it's reviewed in Nevins' "Civil War Books" annotated bibliography by -- one of the authors! E.B. Long writes "How some minor events led to major consequences; authentic but popularly written on the 'if' theme." NEVINS II 13. The Bobbs-Merrill Company 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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BARNARD, JG J G
The Peninsular Campaign and Its Antecedent as Developed by the Report of Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Other Published Documents
Washington DC: Union Congressional Committee 1864. Paperback. Small 4to. Wrappers. 15pp 1p ad. Good. Minor age toning edgewear and light soiling. Apparently a "Cliff's Notes" version of the 96 page New York version. SABIN 3483. Union Congressional Committee paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 13649
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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
Riferimento per il libraio : 12908
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DEANE, Frank P, II (editor)
My Dear Wife.": The Civil War Letters of David Brett 9th Massachusetts Battery Union Cannoneer
Little Rock: Pioneer Press 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red and blue cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxi 137pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition an exceptionally tight and pristine copy. Pioneer Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 21319
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