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‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54525

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54585

‎Civil War: African Americana‎

‎GENERAL ORDERS NO. 296 297 & 300. WAR DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE WASHINGTON DECEMBER 2 3 & 19 1864‎

‎Washington 1864. Three sheets each 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Loose sheets. Two slits at gutter margins for intended binding. A couple of small creases at corners. Very good. Three interesting General Orders from the War Department at the end of 1864 relating to freedman and the organization of black troops in the Union Army. Two of the orders authorize transportation of supplies and books by the United States Army on behalf of the United States Commission for the Relief of the National Freedmen as well as for the American Freedmen's Friends Society and the Executive Committee for the Relief of Freedmen of Iowa. The third order reorganizes black troops in the Union Army from Virginia and North Carolina into the 25th Corps. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54372

‎World War I: Alabama‎

‎ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DEPICTING A YOUNG MAN'S LIFE IN INDIANA AND HIS MILITARY TRAINING IN ALABAMA IN PREPARATION FOR SERVICE IN WORLD WAR I‎

‎Indiana and Camp McClellan Al 1918. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with over 100 mounted silver-gelatin photographs. Minor shelf wear. A few loose photographs. Very good. An interesting vernacular photograph album of a young American's life in the early 20th century. The compiler of the album served with the 36th Artillery Regiment and trained at Camp McClellan in Alabama of which there are almost fifty photographs present here. Additionally most of the photographs are annotated in ink identifying the soldiers in the photographs the settings and locations and the activities in the pictures. The photographs include tanks a gas mask a brownie gun and three shots of an African- American soldier or staffer. Numerous images capture the training in progress with the soldiers "out on a hike" while they "prepare for action guns set ready for loading" and more. One image depicts a simple Alabama farm and is captioned in manuscript "Alabama scene." <br> <br> The remainder of the album is devoted to the young man's life in Indiana with numerous shots of farm life and prairie land and including a trip to a cabin in Morgan County. These shots are not annotated but provide an important peek into rural life in the Midwest during the early 20th century. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54314

‎World War II Photographica: Philippines Photographica‎

‎PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING OVER 130 ORIGINAL IMAGES COMPILED BY A MEMBER OF THE 142nd UNITED STATES NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BATTALION STATIONED IN GUIUAN DURING 1945 FOLLOWING THE PHILIPPINES CAMPAIGN‎

‎Philippines; Okinawa; San Diego 1945. 133 silver gelatin photographs most 2 1/2 x 4 inches but ranging from 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 to several 10 x 7 inches. Oblong folio. Black leatherette album strong tied. Light wear. Photos in corner mounts with many captions. Very good. A fascinating photographic account of military service in the Philippines compiled by a member of the 142nd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion the Seabees in 1945. Most of the images approximately three- quarters of the album were taken in Guiuan on Samar Island in the central Philippines where the photographer was stationed. Guiuan city square the Seabees' camp numerous portraits of local girls who sometimes pose with American soldiers local families and their activities native architecture and other local scenes. They also show the Immaculate Conception Church with shots of the exterior and detailed views of the silver altar - built in 1595 to 1844 but completely destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Several other photos evidently portray the album's compiler posing next to an American fighter plane while boiling sea shells in front of his tent etc. <br> <br> The final portion of the album contains photos taken during the operations aboard the USS "Monrovia" and "President Harris" in October-November 1945 including views of Okinawa on the way to China and snapshots of soldiers unloading cargo in the Yellow Sea China before returning to Manila. There are also eight clear views of Manila showing destroyed Japanese cranes and boats in the harbor American army headquarters and a warehouse. The album concludes with a few photos of the homeward voyage and shows soldiers discharged in San Pedro California. <br> <br> Overall a very good album depicting local life and the activities of the 142nd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion in the Philippines and Yellow Sea in the last months of the World War II. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54321

‎CIVIL WAR‎

‎A New York Soldier's Affidavit Allowing a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election‎

‎<p><b>CIVIL WAR.</b>Partially Printed Document Signed by James M. Smith countersigned by Jerome B. Parmenter and Captain Joseph H. Allen. Richmond Virginia October 18 1864. 1 p. 8 x 12½ in. With printed envelope restating affidavit's claim on the outside. </p><b>Excerpt:</b><p>"<i>I James M. Smith a member of Company K of the 169th Regiment New York Volunteers…do hereby authorize and empower Nicholas Weaver of the town of Lansingburgh in the county of Rensselaer to cast for me and in my name and stead…my vote or ballot the same as if I was personally present at the general election to be held on the 8th day of November 1864.</i>"</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>On April 21 1864 the New York State Legislature passed "An Act to enable the qualified electors of this State absent therefrom in the Military Services of the United States in the Army and Navy thereof to vote." Each soldier and sailor needed to select someone at home who could cast his ballot for him.</p><p>In this Soldier's Power of Attorney James M. Smith of the 169th New York Volunteer Infantry authorized Nicholas Weaver to vote on his behalf in Lansingburgh New York in the 1864 election. In mid-October 1864 when Smith signed this document the 169th New York was in the trenches before Richmond Virginia. Three weeks earlier the regiment had suffered 21 casualties at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm. A few weeks after the election the 169th New York left on an expedition to Fort Fisher which led to its capture in mid-January 1865.</p><p>Republican President Abraham Lincoln was running for reelection against his former general Democrat George B. McClellan who was widely considered the favorite among his former troops. Instead Union soldiers such as Smith voted for their commander in chief in great numbers reelecting Lincoln using proxy voters like Weaver. Although no statistics exist for soldiers who went home to vote or voted by proxy as Smith did those 40000 soldiers who voted in the field gave 75 percent of their votes to Lincoln. He won reelection by more than 400000 popular votes and by an overwhelming 212 to 21 vote in the electoral college.</p><p><b>James M. Smith</b> b. c. 1820 was born in Essex County New York and enlisted on August 28 1862 at Lansingburgh New York as a private in Company K of the 169th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to chief bugler on April 28 1864 and was mustered out with his regiment at Raleigh North Carolina in July 1865. A month earlier he is listed on the census of Lansingburgh with his wife Elizabeth three of their children and his mother. His profession was listed as "soldier" and he lived next door to Nicholas Weaver and his family. By 1870 his wife and three children still lived next door to the Weavers but James M. Smith was not present.</p><p><b>Nicholas Weaver</b> 1798-1878 served as the president of the village of Lansingburgh New York in 1840 and 1842. In 1865 he was a river captain in Lansingburgh where he lived with his second wife Phoebe Homan and four of their eight children next door to James M. Smith and his family.</p><p><b>Jerome B. Parmenter</b> 1838-1910 graduated from Union College in 1857. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. Parmenter mustered in as a 1st lieutenant in Company A of the 169th New York Volunteer Infantry in August 1862. He became captain of Company I on December 31 1862. On December 2 1863 he was discharged for disability and returned to his law practice. Because Parmenter filled in and witnessed this power of attorney form he may have been revisiting his old regiment for the purpose of gathering such documents to return to Rensselaer County in time for the election. In 1868 he bought a half-interest in the <i>Troy Press</i> newspaper for which he served as editor until the 1880s. By 1890 he lived in Bennington Vermont.</p> books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21264.05

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52380

‎Civil War: SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS‎

‎THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS‎

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54026

‎Civil War: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54027

‎Civil War‎

‎IS THE WAR A FAILURE caption title‎

‎New York 1864. Broadside approximately 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Small portion of upper left corner torn away short closed at tear at upper right. Tanning light mat burn. Good plus. This scarce broadside rebuts Copperhead claims that the War is a disastrous mistake requiring that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." Issued during the critical 1864 presidential campaign it quotes generals Grant Sherman Seymour and Dix who make clear that the Rebels are on their last legs. In fact "The rebel cause is fast failing from exhaustion." Grant reports: "The rebels now have in their ranks their last man. The little boys and old men" are filling the ranks. "AMERICANS! Read these declarations of your Generals in the field and then decide whether the Chicago Convention was right or wrong in pronouncing the war a failure" unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM53826

‎Tennessee: Civil War‎

‎HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES No. 278.A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE 2d AUDITOR OF THE TREASURY.TO TAKE PROOFS AS TO THE EXPENDITURES OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE IN CONSTRUCTING MILITARY DEFENCES AND THE SUPPORT OF HER ARMY PREVIOUS TO ITS TRANSFER TO THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT‎

‎Richmond 1864. 2pp. Minor toning to edges very faint ink stamp of the Rebel Archives on first page. Very good. An interesting slip-bill seeking to authorize the Confederate treasurer to take account of Tennessee's military expenditures since their "early withdrawal from the United States." Apparently the state of Tennessee was seeking reimbursement for military expenses and also for the loss of disbursement vouchers that resulted from Tennessee "being overrun by the enemy and by the burning of the buildings occupied by the Quartermaster and Commissary and other unavoidable causes." <br> <br> The bill was put forth by James McCallum who represented Tennessee in the Second Confederate Congress. Like many others around the end of 1864 McCallum must have seen the writing on the wall and tried to get back as much money for his state as possible as the war and thus the Confederacy ended just about four months later. Parrish & Willingham locates numerous copies in institutions but it rarely surfaces in the trade. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 754. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM53699

‎Guerra Francisco‎

‎AMERICAN MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1639 - 1783‎

‎New York: Lathrop C. Harper 1962. 885pp. plus twenty-five plates of illustrations. Thick octavo. Original blue cloth gilt. Boards slightly rubbed a few marks to spine. Internally clean. Near fine. An extensive bibliography concerning imprints in America containing material on medical matters up to the end of the Revolution. Lathrop C. Harper hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM53302

‎Civil War: Slavery: Confederate Imprint‎

‎CIRCULAR. ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE GENERAL ORDERS No. 32.AN ACT TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMY BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF FREE NEGROES AND SLAVES IN CERTAIN CAPACITIES caption title‎

‎Richmond 1864. Broadside 18 x 12 inches. Printed in three columns. Previously folded with a couple small separations along old fold lines. Light toning and foxing. About very good. A very scarce and quite interesting broadside circular printing of the act which allowed slaves and free blacks to be used in certain tasks by the Confederate Army during the Civil War as well as instructions for the conscription and induction of those men into the armed forces. The Confederacy was loath to arm any of its slave population but by 1864 could not spare any further manpower from their infantry to perform menial tasks and the government therefore passed a law allowing slaves to be used "in certain capacities" such as the construction of fortification the production of arms and the transport of materiel. The first column of this broadside comprises a full printing of that law while the remainder sets forth the rules for the impressment of slaves into military service for their care while in service and for the compensation of their owners. <br> <br> A fascinating piece that lays bare the desperation of the Confederacy for labor and supplies in early 1864. Not in Parrish & Willingham. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM53096

‎Missouri: Civil War‎

‎OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT caption title‎

‎Jefferson City Mo. 1862. Broadsheet approximately 8 x 10 1/4 inches. Previously folded with some small separations and tears with one larger repaired 2 1/2 tear. Small closed marginal tear at lower left corner. Moderate patch of dampstaining at central upper edge. Good plus. An apparently unrecorded form printing an oath of allegiance to the United States government and the provisional government of Missouri early in the Civil War. The pro- Union state government was established when Northern forces took Jefferson City in 1861 and the Confederate government established by Claiborne Fox Jackson was put to flight. Nevertheless the shadow government continued to operate and the national Confederate government at Richmond counted Missouri as one of its constituent states; moreover there was much conflict between pro-Union and Confederate Missourians throughout the course of the war. The document the present copy of which in uncompleted states in part that the signer will: "Solemnly swear that I will support protect and defend the Constitution and Government of the United States and the Provisional Government of the State of Missouri against all enemies wether sic foreign or domestic. And I take this oath without any mental reservation or evasion whatsoever with a full and clear understanding that death or punishment by the judgment of a Military Commission will be the penalty for the violation of this my solemn oath." An evocative piece of ephemera from Missouri's Civil War history. Not in OCLC. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52572

‎World War I: Arizona‎

‎STRIKING PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH OF A MILITARY ENCAMPMENT LIKELY DOUGLAS ARIZONA CIRCA 1915 AT THAT TIME THE TRAINING GROUND FOR AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE 1916 MEXICAN EXPEDITION AGAINST PANCHO VILLA AND LATER WORLD WAR I‎

‎Camp Douglas Az 1915. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 32 3/4 inches. Matted and framed. Minor dust-soiling some foxing at right a handful of tiny surface abrasions. Overall very good. An intriguing "yard-long" panoramic photograph showing a handful of men and supplies likely belonging to the Sixth Field Artillery at Douglas Arizona around 1915. A pencil notation in the bottom margin identifies the location as "Douglas Ariz." and the supplies are similar to those found in another Camp Douglas encampment photograph held by this firm. The foreground captures about a dozen large gauge artillery guns on wooden wagon wheels likely officer's quarters atop the hill and then hundreds of tents arranged in tight quarters in the valley below for as far as the eye can see. The photograph captures important details on the organization and supplies necessary for training troops in the American army during the early 20th-century. <br> <br> Military records indicate the regiment training at Douglas at this time was the Sixth Field Artillery shortly before they participated in the Mexican Expedition of 1916-17 designed to defeat Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. The regiment would soon after fold into the First Expeditionary Division later the First Infantry Division - known to history as the Big Red One - during World War I. Soldiers who had come from the Sixth Field Artillery to the First Infantry Division would see action in France specifically Lorraine and Picardy in 1917 and 1918. <br> <br> An important view of military organization in the early decades of the last century before mechanized vehicles became the norm in war. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52514

‎Mexican American War‎

‎INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE GENERAL MEETING OF ELECTORS TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY AND DISTRICT OF MEXICO‎

‎Mexico City: Printed by R. Rafael 1847. 7pp. Dbd. Minor toning soft vertical crease throughout. Very good. The English-language portion of a rare bilingual-printed Mexican pamphlet from the waning months of the Mexican-American War. The Spanish portion of eight pages was published with a separate titlepage as INSTRUCCIONES OTORGADAS POR LA JUNTA GENERAL DE ELECTORES A LOS REPRESENTANTES DE LA CIUDAD Y DISTRITO DE MEXICO. Ostensibly a short instructional guide for future elected representatives in Mexico the work is also a bitter indictment of both American imperial expansion and ineffectual Mexican political authorities. The author rails against the "deplorable occupation" of the United States and also the "imbecile abandonment" by Mexican authorities. The article concludes with a list of seven guidelines for the formation of a new elected assembly. OCLC records just five bilingual copies including the copy at the Biblioteca Nacional which reports the Spanish and English portions separately. OCLC 2576135 651382166 651382169. Printed by R. Rafael unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52366

‎Civil War: First Maine Cavalry‎

‎FIRST MAINE BUGLE. CAMPAIGN II. CALL 2 -10‎

‎Rockland Me.: First Maine Cavalry Association 1892. Nine issues several with plates plus two supplements. Original printed wrappers mostly detached and chipping heavily. A few chips to initial leaves of one issue otherwise internally very good. A significant run nine of fourteen total issues with two additional supplements of a periodical for Civil War veterans of the First Maine Cavalry. "Published four times a year and will contain the proceedings of the yearly reunions of the First Maine Cavalry matters of historic value to the regiment and items of personal interest to all the members." The volunteer cavalry regiment served with the Army of the Potomac for the duration of the war and participated in many of the critical battles including Brandy Station the largest cavalry engagement of the entire Civil War. First Maine Cavalry Association unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52035

‎Maryland Laws: French and Indian War‎

‎ACTS OF THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND MADE AND PASSED AT A SESSION OF ASSEMBLY BEGUN AND HELD AT BALTIMORE-TOWN ON FRIDAY THE EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL.1757‎

‎Annapolis: Jonas Green 1757. 213pp. Contemporary plain front wrapper rear wrapper renewed. Small ink library stamp on verso of titlepage tape repairs to edges of each leaf mostly small and inconsequential minor foxing. Very good. In a black cloth slipcase. A rare Annapolis imprint comprising the session laws for Maryland in early 1757. In the midst of the French and Indian War naturally there is significant content related to the war. Namely there are three acts: "An Act for his Majesty's Service and the more immediate Defence and Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province" encompassing the first four-and-a-half pages "An Act for the Relief of sundry Inhabitants of this Province who have had their Servants Enlisted into his Majesty's Servants" and "An Act to prevent the Exportation or Carrying out of this Province Ammunition Warlike Stores or Provisions of any Kind towards supplying the French or their Allies." The first of these acts calls for the raising of 500 men to be organized into companies to protect the frontier and for the manner of their deployment and use. Most of the others laws are continuing acts relating to slaves "languishing Prisoners" debtors and other issues. Rare with ESTC recording only three copies in two institutions AAS has two. EVANS 7935. WROTH 197. ESTC W7081. Jonas Green hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM9300A

‎United States Congress: Civil War‎

‎LARGE GROUP OF ISSUES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE FOR THE 2nd SESSION OF THE 36th CONGRESS December 1860 TO MARCH 1861‎

‎Washington: John C. Rives 1861. Various paginations. Most issues in loose gatherings some stitched several with straight pins. Ownership and other ink notations on several leaves. Soiling foxing dampstaining. Edges chipped and torn a few areas of paper loss and several significant tears. First leaf of issue seventy-two lacking. About good. Untrimmed. Fifty-five issues plus a sizeable appendix of The Congressional Globe the official record of proceedings in the United States Congress from 1833 to 1873. These papers cover the 2nd Session of the 36th Congress which met from December 3 1860 to March 3 1861. They record a critical period in United States history documenting the beginning of the secession of the southern states and the run-up to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War. While not a complete run these issues comprise a large portion of the set and include issues four through ten fifteen through twenty twenty-three though forty-one forty-six forty-eight through fifty-eight seventy-two through seventy four and a further eight issues from the range for eighty-one to ninety-four. Issue ninety-four contains some of the proceedings from the Special Session of the 37th Congress which ran from March 4 1861 to March 28 1861 contiguously with end of the 2nd Session. John C. Rives unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM51820

‎War of 1812‎

‎AN ADDRESS OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED SATES TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN‎

‎New York: C.S. Van Winkle 1812. 32pp. Stapled. Wear and soiling. Fair. A protest of the War of 1812 signed by thirty-four members of Congress. One of several printings others appearing the same year in Alexandria Hartford New Haven New York Baltimore etc. HOWES A77. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24548. C.S. Van Winkle unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM45158

‎War of 1812‎

‎NORFOLK CONVENTION. PURSUANT TO PREVIOUS NOTICE REPUBLICAN DELEGATES FROM THE SEVERAL TOWNS IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK ASSEMBLED AT MARSH'S TAVERN IN DEDHAM.caption title‎

‎Norfolk 1812. 20pp. Dbd. Tanned else very good. Contains the ADDRESS AND RESOLUTIONS of the committee of "Republican Delegates" concerning the unjust commercial relations between the United States and Great Britain with opposing commentaries interspersed throughout the text. The examination of the address questions whether "there now exists sufficient cause of war with Great Britain and whether the prosecution of it promises any solid advantages to the U.S." SABIN 55468. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 29378. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM16789

‎Great Britain Parliament: French and Indian War‎

‎THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED‎

‎London 1755. 2pp. extracted from an unkown source. Folio. Spine edge chipped old fold lines. Good. Parliament's response to King George's speech in November of 1755 on the eve of the French and Indian War. Parliament affirms their unwavering support of the Crown in going to war with France in North America. Followed by George II's brief response of thanks. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM40158

‎War of 1812‎

‎MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.TO EXPLAIN THE CAUSES OF THE FAILURE OF ARMS OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER‎

‎Albany 1814. 8890pp. Three-quarter sheep and marbled boards. Front board detached top of spine gone. Internally good. Reprint of the government document explaining away the reversals in the northern branch of the War. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 33305. HOWES M556. hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM268

‎Great Britain King George II: French and Indian War‎

‎HIS MAJESTY'S MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT ON THURSDAY THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1755 caption title‎

‎London 1755. 2pp. extracted from an unknown source. Folio. Slight tanning at spine edge old fold lines. Very good. Speech of King George II to Parliament on the eve of the French and Indian War. The speech outlines the steps that have already been taken and the steps that will need to be taken in order to go to war with France in North America. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM40157