Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Secession, Draft Riots, Soldiers' Letters and Diaries, Martial Law, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Secession, Draft Riots, Soldiers' Letters and Diaries, Martial Law, Etc.
![3733034] Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill...](/images/noimage-req.png)
A limited edition, of one 1,000 copies, reprinting the first edition of W.W. Heartsill’s great 1876 Texas-Confederate rarity and one of the most desired books..... Read More about Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill for Four...
![3733009] [Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public...](/pictures/thumb/3733009_2.jpg?v=1674689658)
Entirely in verse, West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society… “details the intense social life at West..... Read More about Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of...
Benjamin Butler’s speech to West Point cadets was published here, on their behalf, in 1839. Butler is remembered for his role during the Civil War..... Read More about The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness and...
![3731943] Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery ... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday,...](/pictures/thumb/3731943_1.jpg?v=1674243905)
A rare and ephemeral New Orleans-printed broadside advertising this Reconstruction Era lottery. The commissioners are identified in the broadside as “G.T. Beauregard” and “J.A. Early”..... Read More about Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery ... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 17th,...
![3731462] To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth...](/pictures/thumb/3731462_1.jpg?v=1654398347)
The 1862-dated discharge paper for Edwin A. Collins (b.1819), a forty-three year-old shoemaker-turned-musician and native of Salem County, New Jersey. Collins was one of eleven..... Read More about To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth Regiment of...
![3731431] Album of the Heart. (Civil War-era Friendship Album with autograph of Gettysburg...](/pictures/thumb/3731431_1.jpg?v=1651626345)
A partially-used Civil War-era friendship album presented to Jennie G. Grieb by her brother. Most of the inscribers hail from Philadelphia or nearby regions such..... Read More about Album of the Heart. (Civil War-era Friendship Album with autograph of Gettysburg prisoner of war,...
![3731382] Lincoln and the South. James Garfield Randall, 1881–1953](/pictures/thumb/3731382_1.jpg?v=1654200431)
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
![3730924] Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas...](/pictures/thumb/3730924_1.jpg?v=1632596708)
Six-Guns 323: “Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject’s name correctly. His name was spelled Quantrill..... Read More about Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border...
![3730831] Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes. Caspar Bruchhausen](/pictures/thumb/3730831_1.jpg?v=1630610195)
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
![3730624] 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John...](/pictures/thumb/3730624_1.jpg?v=1624502602)
This lecture ticket admitted a whole family to Col. Pierce’s Lecture. John Harwood Pierce (1848–1925) led a full and exciting life, gaining fame as a...... Read More about 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John Harwood Pierce
![3730335] Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select...](/pictures/thumb/3730335_1.jpg?v=1620785300)
Report on the murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, a capital case touching on habeas corpus and the jurisdiction of military courts in the..... Read More about Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report
![3730286] Head Qr’s Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864....](/pictures/thumb/3730286_1.jpg?v=1621645490)
A rare Confederate Alabama broadside, General Beauregard’s October 17, 1864 announcement of his assumption of command of the of the Military Division of the West..... Read More about Head Qr’s Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864. General Orders...
![3730087] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...](/pictures/thumb/3730087_1.jpg?v=1619699168)
Confederate General Order issued in Gettysburg’s aftermath. In their retreat South, across the Potomac, Confederate force suffered 5,000 casualties, including 3500 captured troops. The Order..... Read More about Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, August 1,...
![3730086] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...](/pictures/thumb/3730086_1.jpg?v=1619699168)
Illustrated in Parrish & Willingham (2429), this Confederate General Order was issued during the Battle of Fredericksburg. The battle was fought in and around Fredericksburg..... Read More about Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, December 13,...
![3730089] When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover...](/pictures/thumb/3730089_1.jpg?v=1614648605)
From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
![3730067] Speech of Benjamin H. Brewster, Delivered at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia....](/pictures/thumb/3730067_1.jpg?v=1615500317)
Patriotic speech given by Philadelphia attorney Benjamin H. Brewster (Benjamin Harris Brewster) at the inauguration of the National Union Club, a patriotic association organized to..... Read More about Speech of Benjamin H. Brewster, Delivered at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia. Wednesday...
![3730188] Our Boys: Northern York County in the Civil War. Victor A. Neubaum](/pictures/thumb/3730188_1.jpg?v=1613498982)
The history of York County, Pennsylvania in the American Civil War. Self-published. 1989. 36 pages. Pictorial wraps, as published. Well-illustrated. Signed by the author; limited..... Read More about Our Boys: Northern York County in the Civil War
![3730121] History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel,...](/pictures/thumb/3730121_1.jpg?v=1616019037)
Scarce guidebook—similar to a like-titled guidebook (OCLC 14103425, [4] cc.)—but this variant published to promote Gettysburg’s City Hotel, owned by John E. Hughes. The inside..... Read More about History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests...
![3729949] [1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the...](/pictures/thumb/3729949_1.jpg?v=1611683827)
Civil War-era oration delivered on Independence Day in 1863 to a northern audience evoking the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution..... Read More about 1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the Declaration of...
![3729944] [1863 Morning Report for Felix Confort of Confort’s Independent Battalion of New York...](/pictures/thumb/3729944_1.jpg?v=1611683826)
“Morning Report” for April 13, 1863 for the Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer Infantry, also known as German Legion or New York Corps of..... Read More about 1863 Morning Report for Felix Confort of Confort’s Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer...
![3729839] James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Robert Franklin...](/pictures/thumb/3729839_1.jpg?v=1605647027)
Publisher’s review copy and from the personal library of historian Bell Irvin Wiley. Biography of the Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882)..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
![3729688] Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on...](/pictures/thumb/3729688_1.jpg?v=1599170966)
Discourse by this Transcendentalist and Boston Unitarian minister on the American Civil War with some remarks on Black Americans and slavery: “And even as regards..... Read More about Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on Fast Day,...
![3729632] Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps. selector and Henry L. Swint](/pictures/thumb/3729632_1.jpg?v=1642439152)
First edition. Civil War-era letters from two Northern women, Quakers Lucy and Sarah Chase of Worcester, Massachusetts, presenting a first-hand description of the conditions in..... Read More about Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps
![3728738] [Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728738_1.jpg?v=1557940086)
Sub-titled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under..... Read More about Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne
![3728331] To the Laboring Men of New York. attributed to Sinclair Tousey](/pictures/thumb/3728331_1.jpg?v=1557954666)
“Stand by the Law!” One of four rare broadsides issued in 1863. This broadside is a dramatic plea for Democratic laboring men to support the..... Read More about To the Laboring Men of New York
