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1811réf. 38950Washington 1811 or 1812. Reorganizing the Way the Army is Provisioned on the Eve of the War of 1812 An interesting unofficial handbill relating to the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department on the eve of the War of 1812 with references to the impending war with Britain Indian business and the Barbary powers. In 1811 Congress introduced "A Bill for the Establishment of a Quarter-Master's Department" which the anonymous author of the present document notes "merges the duties of the superintendent of military stores in the quarter master without naming the former." The author urges Congress to keep separate the military office of the Quartermaster from the civil positions of the Army Purveyor. Dbd. Soft vertical fold. Light offsetting from a different document near title else very good. unknown books
1782réf. 68281N.p. but Hartford Nov 22 1782. Pay for a New Hampshire Soldier A partially printed form accomplished in manuscript authorizing a payment of ten pounds six shillings and eight pence to one Sampson Huntington for his service to the Continental Army in 1780. Sampson Huntington was a private in the 8th company of the 2nd N. Hampshire Regiment under Captain John Dennet. The Continental Army was constantly behind in paying its soldiers so the fact that Huntington was being paid only two years late made him one of the lucky ones. He remained in that unit at least through 1781 however so likely had a bit longer to wait for the following year's pay. Eleazer Wales who signed and likely filled out this document was a citizen of Hartford and was elected commissioner of accounts by Congress on February 3 1778. While he resigned that position out of frustration in 1780 it would appear that he was still lending his analytical mind to the Revolution on behalf of the Pay-Table Office in 1782. Light soiling and edge wear. Very good. unknown books
1918réf. 57357Fort Sill OK. ca. 1918. Original Photos from the Early Days of the Artillery Training School at Fort Sill A rare commercially produced photo album rendered unique by the addition of thirty original photographs of the U.S. Army Artillery Training School in Fort Sill Oklahoma at the end of World War I. The first section begins with a printed one-page "Short History of the Fort Sill Military Reservation" and consists of mounted photographs in printed frames with printed captions. This printed portion of album is divided into three parts with individual titles: "Fort Sill Oklahoma: The World's Largest Artillery Training Post"; "Medicine Park: Southwest Oklahoma's Pleasure Resort"; and "Some Views of the Comanche and Apache Indians." The second section of the album consists of blank pages for personal photographs here filled with thirty photographs with occasional manuscript captions supplied by an unnamed Army corporal. In addition to photographs of camp buildings artillery emplacements and scenery in and around Fort Sill the album features a number of photographs of the 1918 Victory Day Parade as well as a "pageant" held at the fort where members of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes participated in reenactments of the early frontier days at the fort. Fort Sill was also the birthplace of U.S. combat aviation in 1915 and a few photographs show some of the earliest military planes. The personal photos at the rear of the album include a number of individual soldiers a handful of alternate views of parades and events and the owner's actual cloth uniform stripes pasted to the final page. A rare and interesting look at the early days of a major American military base at the conclusion of World War I. OCLC records two copies of a similar souvenir album which also covers Camp Doniphan but does not locate the present version anywhere. Forty-one mounted photographs with printed captions and an additional thirty original mounted photographs some with manuscript captions most about 2½ x 4½ inches plus pasted-in corporal's stripes on final album leaf. Oblong quarto. Original printed thick wrappers with wrapper title "Souvenir from Fort Sill Oklahoma" tied with string. Spine ends chipped edge wear to wrappers. Photographs lightly faded occasional adhesive residue or paper defects particularly in latter half. Overall very good. hardcover books
1960réf. 57626Tokyo and surroundings. ca. 1960. An African-American Soldier in Japan in the 1960s An album of charming vernacular photographs assembled by a young African-American soldier on a United States Army base near Tokyo in the period between the Korean and Vietnam wars. The majority of the photos are impromptu portraits or scenes from camp life depicting the soldier and his diverse group of White Asian-American and African-American comrades. Many of the soldiers are identified by a surname written in ink on the photograph and a number of the images show soldiers of different races associating together. In addition to pictures of himself and his friends our photographer has captured a number of Japanese tourist scenes including the Kamakura Daibutsu zen gardens around the city festivals and processions nature scenes and more. Laid into the rear of the album are a number of smaller personal or family photos with some identifying notes including an ink note on one labelled "me" the same person appears in many of the military photos in the album. There are also a few flyers for Tokyo nightclubs and a handful of names and addresses for soldiers in his unit. An interesting look at the daily life of American soldiers in Japan in the early '60s. 186 mounted photographs and postcards on 32 leaves plus eleven loose photographs and five printed flyers. Images vary from 2½ x 1¾ inches to 10 x 7½ inches. Quarto photograph album. Original green velvet with origami crane stitched in gilt on front board a.e.g. Boards lightly rubbed and stained. Album leaves almost entirely loose from binding several photographs loosely laid in. The images themselves very crisp and clean. hardcover books
1898réf. 80937St. Louis MO: A. Whipple Printer. Very Good. 1898. Softcover. This item is soft-bound in tan wrappers with black printing on the upper cover. The covers show soiling/toning and edge-wear. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. . A. Whipple, Printer paperback books
1954réf. List3873Washington D.C.: Department of Defense 1954. Photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches. With caption manuscript and later sticker verso. Slight damage to edges; excellent. A 1954 Department of Defense press photograph of Alaska Native soldiers of the Alaska National Guard on winter patrol wearing white camouflage and moving through snowy brush. The period caption refers to the men as an "Eskimo Patrol" training "among the frozen wastes of Alaska" language typical of midcentury military publicity but also pointing to the specific role of Alaska Native soldiers in Arctic defense. The photograph belongs to the early Cold War history of Alaska as a strategic military frontier. During World War II the Alaska Territorial Guard had drawn thousands of Alaska Native volunteers from coastal and interior communities to watch for invasion protect transportation routes and serve as the Army's local "eyes and ears." After the war that model continued in the Alaska Army National Guard's Scout units whose members operated from villages across northern and western Alaska and helped observe the Bering Sea coastline during the Cold War. The image is useful as a record of Indigenous participation in the military infrastructure of Arctic surveillance. Alaska Native guardsmen brought local knowledge winter mobility and village-based observation to a defense system that also included radar stations air bases communications sites and ground observers. . Department of Defense unknown books
2008réf. 232860Skyhorse 2008-06-17. Hardcover. Good. 5x0x8. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations light wear to the hardcover some staining to the edges hb. LF Skyhorse hardcover books
réf. 38684SONG SHEET THE ARMY AND NAVY FOR EVER. New York: Charles Magnus circa 1860s. Colored illustrated letter-sheet 8 x 5 inches. Wolf American Song Sheets 64a. Three ten-line stanzas of patriotic verse. The top half of the page is a colored illustration showing victorious Union army and navy men raising the stars and stripes over a Confederate fort with cheering soldiers and sailors all round and Union ships firing cannon. Evidence of removal at the corners of the blank leaf. Fine. 38684. unknown books
1932réf. 140947479New York: Coventry House 1932. First edition. First edition. 47 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with paper title label. Near Fine with slight lean to spine in a Good example of the rare dust jacket with some chips to edges and along gutters and wear. Seldom seen in jacket. A collection of music for the Bonus Army AKA the Bonus Expeditionary Force as they called themselves a group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington seeking the bonuses the government had promised them for their services but had never paid. It didn't end well: in 1932 President Hoover would have them gassed shot at and charged by the military under MacArthur. This particular collection of songs was produced anonymously by the Communist Party USA looking to piggyback on the cause of the Bonus Army whose exact politics remain the subject of debate amongst historians to this day. Similar to IWW songbooks these are parodies of well-known songs with political sometimes bitterly humorous lyrics. Illustrated. Coventry House unknown books
1796réf. Cat327United States 1796. One small slip signed "C. Swan PMG U.S." with additional authorization by J. Haskell. Measuring appx. 3 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Near Fine. In the 1790s ongoing conflicts between the United States and Native nations produced large numbers of captives taken in raids and only gradually returned through negotiation exchange and treaty. The U.S. Army was responsible not only for recovering these individuals but for housing and provisioning them while their status was resolved. Offered here is a concise U.S. Army ration return issued by Caleb Swan documenting subsistence for "one released Indian captive who lives with me" calculated at "1 Man 31 Days 31 Rations" for March 1796. Swan appointed paymaster of the army in 1792 and attached to General Anthony Wayne's Legion was responsible for overseeing pay and provisions in the field. The document gains significance from Swan's earlier experience. Before becoming paymaster he had traveled through the southern frontier-particularly among the Muscogee Creek Nation-where he encountered firsthand the system of captivity produced by years of raiding along the Georgia border. Captives both Black and white were often absorbed into Native communities sold or retained under local customs and U.S. officials struggled to secure their return.1 By 1796 Swan appears on the other side of that process. The present return shows that he himself had custody of a "released" captive likely an American who had been held in a Native community. The individual was residing with Swan and being fed at government expense. This comes immediately after Swan's presence at the Treaty of Greenville which formally ended major fighting in the Northwest and included provisions for the return of prisoners. The Treaty of Greenville specifically required the mutual return of prisoners with Native captives held by the United States released immediately and American captives to be delivered within ninety days backed by the detention of chiefs as hostages. This places Swan's 1796 ration return squarely in the aftermath of the administrative effort for restoring frontier captives. 1 Andrew K. Pressley A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country University of Georgia Press 2024. books
1852réf. List3713This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. Fort Gibson Indian Territory 1852. Single two-page letter measuring 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches postmarked Fort Gibson. Damage to upper right corner intersecting with text; repairs with archival tape; with small portion of text continued on cover missing. Very good minus. A letter from James Johnson at Fort Gibson to his wife Grace in New York dated July 30 1852. Johnson had left home in search of work trying "every means of getting a station"; he "would have got one in Cincinnati but I had no money to pay my board until the vacancy would occur" and was therefore "obliged to enlist I could not work and to beg I could not." He had apparently stopped writing to his wife due to shame but she had discovered his enlistment anyway. He details his service: "As soon as I enlisted I was sent on to join the Regiment in Fort Leavenworth and from thence to Santa Fe en route for California. On the plains I could not write to you. After marching 700 miles on the Wild Prairie among the Indians we were turned back and sent to Jefferson Barracks and from thence here a distance of 2000 miles. On settling down here . I had every opportunity of writing to you but I could not bring myself to do it". This itinerary places Johnson's service with the "Army of the Frontier" a term for US Army activity protecting Euro-American settlers and participating in the Indian Wars which would drive Indigenous tribes off their land. Fort Gibson in particular located within Indian Territory played a significant role in the program of Indian removal with tribes there under the Army's control including the Cherokee Muscogee and Seminole. The content of Grace Johnson's objection to her husband's service and the cause of his shame over it are not entirely clear from the letters but they are felt intensely: Johnson laments that he could not save "myself from disgrace and suffering and the accusation of my own conscience" and remarks of "William John" apparently a deceased child that "I feel content he is out of this sinful world lest any of his fathers sins should fall upon him". Though he does state that he "would not feel half as I do" if he were without a family the guilt and shame seem to center as much around the military service as around the family abandonment. He closes his letter with a plea to Grace to help him leave the army: "Dear Grace you can get me out of the army any time you like if you take the proper steps by going to a lawyer and I will give you every assistance in my power for when I enlisted I enlisted as a married man and had 3 children". The letter reflects the sentiment that though above begging enlisting in the army was a shameful last resort for those who could not obtain civilian jobs. Of interest to historians of economic enlistment and public sentiment regarding the US Army in the midcentury. books
1961réf. 61596New York: The Fair Play for Cuba Committee 1961. Pamphlet. 11p. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches evenly toned with rubberstamp of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee Los Angeles branch on front cover and previous owner's name on front wrap a former SDS field secretary otherwise in very good condition. Reprinted from New World Review April 1961. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee unknown books
1973réf. 124367US: Dept of Army 1973. Very Good. Oct. Very good. Rubbed. Stapled together very slight yellowing. Dept of Army unknown books
1994réf. 179263New York: Perigee 1994. Softcover. Fine. Adv copy. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Perigee unknown books
1969réf. 194113US: Dept of Army 1969. Softcover. Very Good. January. Very good. Cover rubbed with some staining. Dept of Army unknown books
1954réf. 194111US: Dept of the Army 1954. Very Good. May. Very good. Pages creased. Cover rubbed and creased. Name end paper. Dept of the Army unknown books
1917réf. 187567Washington DC: US Government 1917. Very Good. Later. Very good. Name on inside cover. US Government unknown books
1988réf. 227032Harrisburg PA: Stackpole 1988. Softcover. Very Good. 44th. Very good in wrappers. Book shows rubbing to all edges and front and back panels front bottom corner lightly flared price sticker on back. Paperback. Stackpole unknown books
1957réf. 194118US: Dept of Army 1957. Very Good. Oct. Very good minus. Browning ink on cover and stamp. Cover rubbed. Dept of Army unknown books
1973réf. 57089Fort Dix NJ: Department Of The Army 1973. First Edition. A book depicting many aspects of training at Fort Dix in New Jersey and featuring the graduating class of Company B Second Battalion on October 25 1973. Quarto: imitation blue leather stamped in black & gilt; about 70 pages. Illustrated With Photographs. Very Good some wear & little chipping spine; contents clean & tight. Department Of The Army unknown books
1967réf. 56895NY: Dodd Mead & Company 1967. First Edition. With a rare signed presentation from one of the French Resistance Fighters mentioned in the book on the front endpaper. In French but a rough translation is "To my little sister illegible name remembering the bad hours of the war spent together. Bacher another illegible name possibly her married name. `Baddah'. page 13.". Possibly to Bacher's own sister Desoline Bacher aka “Buddah” has her involvement in the French Resistance cited on page 13 which she has highlighted by an ink line down the margin. She had also marked her listing in the Index while someone presumably her has also made a spelling correction on page 125. See scans. Bacher worked as a secretary at the French Embassy from 1951 until her retirement in 1983. A native of Corsica she received citations for her efforts in the French Resistance. She died in 1996. 8vo. yellow cloth in dust jacket; 133 pages. Illustrated With Photographs. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight; some wear some rubbing tiny chips & tears d/j. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1864réf. 46274Washington D.C. 1864. Very good folded stained along edges. 1 pp. Bifolium. 5 x 7.5 inches. Details on the care of rifled guns. Republished from the prior year. "The following Circular from the Ordnance Office is republished for the guidance of all concerned. Its provisions will be strictly adhered to: Circular No. 55 - Series os 1863. Management of Rifled Ordnance. Ordnance Office War Department Washington November 12 1863." unknown books
1911réf. 34464Cincinnati / Chattanooga: Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing 1911. First editions. Cloth. Very good or better copies with all but four volumes with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns shelf stickers on foot of backstrips their stamp on title pages otherwise crisp and clean. Illus. 8vo. Most are presentations copies illustrated with frontis engravings color reproductions of the Society badge and include photographs engravings minutes addresses banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. The Burial of General Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetary May 17 1902 is the very scarce first edition nearly the complete stock of this original edition was destroyed by a fire at Robert Clarke the publisher just as distribution started. It was subsequently reprinted with a note explaining the reasons for the reissue. The 37th volume includes the scarce accompanying pamphlet: "The Battles of Chattanooga" address of Major W. J. Colburn at the dedication of the New York Monument in Point Park Lookout Mountain Tennessee on Nov. 15 1910. Lacking only the 2nd 7th 19th 23rd 26th and 29th reunions. Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing hardcover books
1886réf. 31348Cincinnati: Robert Clarke 1886. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip their stamp on title page otherwise crisp and clean. 314 pp. 8vo. Presentation copy from the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Illus. with frontis engraving of Brigadier General T.T. Crittenden and a color reproduction of the Society badge. Includes minutes addresses and orations in Memoriam banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. Robert Clarke hardcover books
1888réf. 31349Cincinnati: Robert Clarke 1888. First edition. Cloth. A very good or better copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip their stamp on title page otherwise crisp and clean. 280 pp. 8vo. Presentation copy from the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Illus. with frontis engraving of a statue of Major General James A. Garfield and a color reproduction of the Society badge. Includes minutes addresses and orations in Memoriam banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. Robert Clarke hardcover books
