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Longstreet, James, Lietuenant-General, Confederate ArmyABAA

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Illustrated with Numerous Portraits Engravings and Colored Maps Specially Prepared for This Work. Second Edition Revised.

1903réf. acs1442Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1903. Howes L451. Octavo maroon cloth hardcover gilt lettering 698 pp. Bookplate; otherwise Fine. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From Preface: After the surrender of the Confederate armies engaged in the war between the States General Lee undertook to write of the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia while under his command and asked such assistance as I could give in supplying reports dispatches and letters of his the originals of which had been lost or destroyed. Under the impression that they could not be put to better use such as were in hand were packed and sent. He gave up the work and after a few years his death made it impossible that the world should receive the story of the Confederate campaigns in Virginia from the noble mind that controlled them. Possibly had I not expected our commander to write I should have written myself a decade or so earlier. But the world is now better prepared to receive the account of events as the records show them. While I am so constituted temperamentally as to have viewed the great struggle then as I view it now I do not know what others might have so regarded it at the earlier periods to which I refer. I believe that now more fully than then the public is ready to receive in the spirit in which it is written the story which I present. It is not my purpose to philosophize upon the war but I cannot refrain from expressing my profound thankfulness that Providence has spared me till such time as I can see the asperities of the great conflict softened its passions entering upon the sleep of oblivion only its nobler -- if less immediate -- results springing into virile and vast life. I believe there is to-day because of the war a broader and deeper patriotism all Americans; that patriotism throbs the heart and pulses the being as ardently of the South Carolinians as of the Massachusetts Puritan; that the Liberty Bell even now as I write on its Southern pilgrimage will be as reverently received and as devotedly loved in Atlanta and Charleston as in Philadelphia and Boston. And to stimulate and evolve this noble sentiment all the more what we need is the resumption of fraternity the hearty restoration and cordial cultivation of neighborly brotherly relations faith in Jehovah and respect for each other; and God grant that the happy vision that delighted the soul of the sweet singer of Israel may rest like a benediction upon the North and the South upon the Blue and the Gray. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Howes L451. hardcover books

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Elting, John R; Colonel, United States Army (Ret).ABAA

Amateurs To Arms! A Military History of the War of 1812.

réf. vot874Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991. Octavo black cloth & boards hardcover xv 353 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: It was our “most unmilitary war” a near disaster for the fledgling United States of America. Begun in ignorance of the military facts of life it was fought catch-as-catch-can with raw troops incompetent officers and appallingly inadequate logistics. American soil was invaded along three frontiers the national capital was occupied and burned and the secession of the New England states loomed as a definite possibility. In Amateurs to Arms! the distinguished military historian Colonel John R. Elting shows how the young republic fought and almost lost its “Second War for Independence” and how it was saved by the handful of amateur soldiers and sailors who survived mastered their deadly new professions and somehow battled Great Britain to a standstill along our wilderness borders and across the high seas. This latest volume in Algonquin Books’ Major Battles and Campaigns series takes up the military developments of “Mr. Madison’s War” in succession beginning with the first stumbling U. S. efforts to invade Canada. Elting describes the planning and preparations -- or lack of them -- for campaigns in the North Northwest and South tells how they were fought and analyzes the battlefield performance of both sides. The odds against the American fighting forces -- woefully unrealistic preparation and expectations British military might a feckless Congress and administration the treason of too many of their fellow citizens who fed and praised their enemy -- were overwhelming. Yet as Colonel Elting demonstrates our troops in the field endured -- and because they did so did the United States of America. Sixteen specially prepared maps numerous illustrations and a descriptive bibliography help complement Colnel Elting’s lively narrative and make Amateurs to Arms! the definitive military study of a too-little-remembered war. hardcover books

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A Graduate, Late an Officer in the United States ArmyABAA

Letter to the Honorable Mr. Hawes in Reply to His Strictures on the Graduates of the Military Academy.

1836réf. 2129glsNew York: Wiley and Long 1836. Octavo string-bound wrappers 30 pp. Top leaf loose neat former-owner signature soiling to wrappers. “Sir:-- / When one charged with the responsible duties of a legislator forgets the nature of the trust which he holds for the Commonwealth and instead of consulting the common interests alone endeavors to procure the enactment of laws of a purely local tendency which whilst they momentarily affect one portion of the country favorable bear at the same time prejudicially upon others and in the end become of permanent disadvantage to the whole -- when one vested with the authority of a statesman narrows down his views to the attainment of some object of petty ambition instead of following out an enlarged and liberal system of policy by “giving up to party what was meant for mankind” -- when one clothed in the invulnerable armor of a representative of the people’s sovereignty becomes so lost to a proper sense of the dignified attitude in which he has been placed by his constituents as under cover of the aegis of their majesty to let fly with an irresponsible and unsparing hand the shafts of personal invective against individuals or classes of his fellow citizens there is a point where neither the exercise of charity which supposes honest motives in all nor the forbearance to which even the prejudices of well meaning ignorance are entitled nor the respect of silence due to those whose power is thus abused and misdirected can longer be classed as virtues; and that point is when wrong-headedness the result at first of ignorance is perservered in through sheer obstinancy in spite of the weight of testimony of the most respectable and impartial witnesses against the errors and folly of such a course. With your career sir as a legislator and a statesman I have nothing to do. That is a subject which must rest of examination in the hands of your legitimate judges your own constituents. Wiley and Long, 1836. hardcover books

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[LOST CAUSE] [CONFEDERATE ARMY] [MEMORIALS]ABAA

Late 19th and 20th-century efforts to memorialize the Confederate States of America the Confederate army and Confederate heroes as reflected in a small collection of printed materials and a photograph including a trade catalogue hagiographic orations on Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson and other Confederate leaders ephemera related to the carving of Stone Mountain by Gutzon Borglum cemetery dedications and one anti-Confederate memorial speech the photograph being an early image of the Charlottesville statue of General Lee that was at the center of the White Supremacist march in 2017. Each item more fully described below. A little storage soiling to some of the material but a very good lot overall

réf. 709311 GEORGIA DARLING Jasper T. Praise or Passion cover title. Chicago: Cook Co. Soldiers and Sailors Assn. nd 1909. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Portrait of the author illustration of the Wirz Monument at Andersonville on front wrapper. A rebuke to the women of Georgia the monument was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy for "honoring" Henry Wirz one of two Confederate soldiers executed for Civil War actions as commander of the Andersonville prison camp. Original illustrated gray wrappers stapled. OCLC locates six copies Huntington Georgia A. Lincoln Presidential Charleston Library Society Virginia Wisconsin Historical Society. Very good. 2 JACKSON HOGE Moses and Gen. James L. Kemper. Inauguration of the Jackson Statue Tuesday October 26 1875. Introductory address of Governor Kemper and Oration by Rev. Moses D. Hoge D.D. Richmond VA: R.F. Walker supt. public printing 1875. First edition one of two 1875 printings priority unknown. 8vo. 15 pp. The governor's address fills the first two pages with Hoge's memorial following; the statue of Stonewall Jackson was erected on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Original self-wrappers soiled edges somewhat worn stitched. Good solid copy. 3 JACKSON MCGUIRE Hunter. Stonewall Jackson. An address at the dedication of Jackson Memorial Hall Virginia Military Institute and repeated before R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 C. V. Richmond Va. July 9 1897. Richmond VA: The camp 1897. First edition with this title published earlier in the year in Lynchburg. 8vo. 24 pp. The author was medical director of Jackson's Second Corps Army of Northern Virginia. Dornbusch 2847. Original printed gray wrappers darkened stapled. Very Good. 4 LEE DANIEL John W. Ceremonies Connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the Unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee at Washington and Lee University Lexington Va. June 28 1883: Oration. Historical Sketch of the Lee memorial Association. Richmond VA: West Johnston & Co. 1883. First edition. 8vo. 83 pp. Original printed gray-green wrappers spine partly eroded some soiling; internal leaves browned from laid-in clipping no longer present. Good copy. 5 LEE The Life-Size "Lee Monument Portrait" of General Robert E. Lee caption title. Engraved on steel by A.B. Walter under the direction of the American Art union and adopted and sold by the Lee memorial Association incorporated by the legislature of the State of Virginia for the purpose of erecting a Monument to the memory of Gen. R E. Lee at the Washington and Lee University Lexington Va. Cincinnati OH: W.W. Bostwick & Co. General Agents for the Lee Memorial Assn. c1974. Prospectus for the portrait being completed as a fund-raising effort to finance the building of the monument. 8vo. 4 pp. Front wrapper illustrated with an engraving of the proposed monument featuring a recumbent Gen. Lee. The final page prints 20 testimonials for the project including ones from Lee's widow Jefferson Davis and Gens. Hood Forrest McLaws and Pillow among others. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original illustrated self wrappers a little rumpled. Very good. 6 LEE ROLLER Gen. John E. Inspiration by Heroic Exemplars: Anniversary Address . Birthday of Robert E. Lee; Heroes of the Confederacy the Reformers of a New Reformation Teach the Lesson of Self-Sacrifice caption title. Harrisonburg VA: np 1905. First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. With a number of manuscript corrections deletions and additions through the text. Cover title: General Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration Thursday Jan. 19 1905. OCLC locates three copies outside Virginia Alabama California-Santa Barbara Duke. Original printed gray wrappers stapled. Very good. 7 LEE TYLER Lyon Gardiner. General Lee's Birthday: Address at Hollins College on January 18 1929 and repeated before the State College for women at East Radford January 19 1929 on General Robert E. Lee. NP: np 1929. First edition. 8vo. 21 1 pp. Original printed blue wrappers partly sunned to brown stapled. 8 LEE PHOTOGRAPH The statue of Robert E. Lee astride his horse in Robert E. Lee Park Charlottesville Virginia as seen in a photograph taken about the time of its unveiling. Charlottesville VA: ca. 1925. Photograph 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches picturing the statue that was conceived by Henry M. Shrady completed by Leo Lentelli and presented to the city of Charlottesville in 1924 by Paul G. McIntire to serve as the centerpiece to the one-acre midtown park previously donated by McIntire in 1917; in the background is a nearby building under construction or renovation with scaffolding on two sides and looking at the statue is a well-dressed man in his mid-60s about the age McIntire would have been in 1924. The image is a little toned but very good. 9 MCKIM Randolph H. The Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South in the Civil War: Oration delivered before the United Confederate Veterans at their fourteenth annual reunion at Nashville Tenn. June 14 1904. Nashville TN: United Confederate Veterans 1904. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. "The fact that the Confederate soldiers and the people of the south made their superb struggle and their marvelous sacrifices for the right of local self-government has silently impressed the minds of the American people." "Price 25 cents" stamp on lower front wrapper. Original printed gray wrappers rubbed stapled. Very good. 10 MISSISSIPPI Program of Exercises attending the unveiling of the Statues of Jefferson Davis and James Z. George in Statuary Hall of the National Capitol Washington D.C. Tuesday Afternoon June 2 1931 at Three O'Clock cover title. Washington DC: McQueen for the Davis-George Statue Commission 19 31. Fist edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Illustrated from photographs of the two statues Mississippi's two entrants in Statuary Hall. Davis 1808-1889 served as President of the Confederate States through the Civil War years; George 1826-1897 served as a field officer in the Confederate army and brigadier general of Mississippi state troops during the conflict. Both served in the U. S. Senate. Original printed self-wrappers stapled. Very good. 11 NORTH CAROLINA MASON Hon T.W. Address before the Ladies' Memorial Association at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Confederate Monument Raleigh N.C. May 20 1895. Raleigh NC: E. M. Uzzell printer and binder 1898. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. North Carolina historian R.D.W. Connor's copy with his ownership signature at the head of the front wrapper. OCLC locates eight copies New York Historical Connecticut State library Library of Congress Duke East Carolina North Carolina State Library of North Carolina Huntington. Original printed tan wrappers stapled. Very good. 12 NORTH CAROLINA MOORE Maj. John W. Address delivered at Oakwood Cemetery May 10th 1881 by Request of the ladies' Memorial Association of North Carolina. Raleigh NC: Edwards & Broughton 1881. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Moore 1833-1906 historian and Confederate officer compiled the first roster of N.C. troops in the Civil War. OCLC locates two copies North Carolina East Carolina; Library of Congress holds a defective copy. Original printed tan wrappers some soiling. Very good. 13 POSTCARD TEXAS Confederate Monument and Court House Sherman Tex. caption title below image. NY: The Rotograph Co. nd ca. 1900. Postcard 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches the illustration recto from a photograph the Court House surrounded by trees the monument in foreground. Most towns and cities in the south erected these Confederate memorials most often in the town square as the Lost Cause idea gained momentum in the late 19th century. Addressed in pencil verso postmarked Sherman Tex. Benjamin Franklin one cent stamp. Some offset and storage soiling but very good. 14 TRADE CATALOGUE Statues in Stamped Copper and Bronze. Salem OH: W.H. Mullins Co. c1913. First edition. 8vo. 79 pp. Two poems two pages of text 70 representative monuments and memorials from photographs picturing works already completed samples of suggested poses for various types of soldiers bronze plaques and bas reliefs etc. each with a caption. Cover title: The Blue and the Gray. Color illustrated blue and gray stiff paper wrapper spine ends a little chipped short splits at joints near head of spine. Very good. 15 VIRGINIA ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY INVITATION Confederate Monument Association / of the / United Daughter of the Confederacy / Request the Honor of Your Presence at the / Celebration Ceremonies / Incident to the Laying of the Corner Stone / of the / Arlington Confederate Monument / in Arlington National Cemetery / On Tuesday Afternoon November the Twelfth at Two O'Clock / Nineteen Hundred and Twelve complete text. Arlington VA: The association 1912. Printed invitation on thick paper. Small 4to 8 7/8 x 7 inches the invitation printed on the recto of a first leaf with a blank integral leaf. Gold embossed seal of the Confederate States of America at the head of the invitation. Signed in type by Mrs. Alexander B. White President General United Daughters of the Confederacy et al. Creased horizontally for mailing; soiling. Very good copy. 16-17 STONE MOUNTAIN Stone Mountain a Magazine of information about the Great Stone Mountain Memorial to Confederate Heroes being Carved by Gutzon Borglum. Atlanta GA: Stone Mountain Memorial Assn. 1923. First edition nos. 1 and 3 all published. 4to. Two numbers: 20; 20 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates. All about the planning design and construction of the Stone Mountain Memorial a Mount Rushmore-like tribute to three heroes of the Confederacy Stonewall Jackson Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis the largest bas-relief sculpture in the world; Borglum worked on the sculpture through 1925 and after a number of others took a hand it was finally decreed complete in 1972. OCLC records six locations for these two numbers Arkansas Historical Commission Arkansas Duke Florida Virginia Library of Virginia one for number one only Boston Public and one for number three only Georgia. We have been unable to trace a number two online or through various reference sources. Very good. Original illustrated wrappers stapled. 18 STONE MOUNTAIN Handbook of Information about the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial being carved by Gutzon Borglum on the Precipice of Stone Mountain near Atlanta under the auspices of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association cover title. Atlanta GA: The association nd ca. 1923. First edition. Narrow 8vo. 8 pp. OCLC locates four copies Birmingham-Jefferson Co. Public Emory Georgia Archives Wisconsin Historical Society. Original printed self-wrappers stapled. Very good. 19 STONE MOUNTAIN BROADSIDE Resolutions / By Government Civic and Patriotic Bodies of Atlanta Endorsing the Dis- / missal of Gutzon Borglum for Gross Negligence and Other Reasons / followed by 52 paragraphs of dense text divided into ten sections with separate bold sub-titles for each in four columns divided by thin bold rules. Atlanta GA: np 1925. Printed broadside 18 ½ x 10 ½ inches the lead title word in bold capitals. Following the dismissal of Borglum by the Stone Mountain Monumental Association in 1925 various local politicians and organizations expressed support for its position citing Borglum's interview statements that were interpreted as attacks on the association. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Folded some edgewear along the top edge. Very good. For the collection of 19 items unknown books

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