Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Etc.
Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Etc.
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after..... Read More about President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before...
Study of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidency and his evolving political positions on the issue of slavery. With a handy “Political Calendar” providing a digest of Lincoln’s..... Read More about Lincoln & The Politics of Slavery
![African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The...](/pictures/thumb/3724800_1.jpg?v=1546963420)
Report to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons by its Prison Agent, William J. Mullen. It discusses the insane in prison..... Read More about African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The...
Union Pamphlets 22: “[A] simple historical and constitutional sketch of the background of the conflict, apparently aimed at those Philadelphia workingmen who were voting so..... Read More about About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man
![The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author]. Henry Pleassants Jr](/pictures/thumb/3728041_1.jpg?v=1545174816)
This particular copy inscribed “...with deep appreciation and still deeper envious admiration” to one Harry Wildes. A tale of the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia by..... Read More about The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author
![Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. [Inscribed by the Author]. J G. Randall, 1881–1953, James...](/pictures/thumb/3728007_1.jpg?v=1545068126)
A study of Abraham Lincoln’s political liberalism presented as a series of essays examining such topics as the dilemma over Fort Sumter, constitutional law, the..... Read More about Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. [Inscribed by the Author
![Lincoln and the Bluegrass. Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. [Inscribed by Author]. William H....](/pictures/thumb/3727884_1.jpg?v=1542302152)
A biographical study of Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and political connections to his native, slaveholding Kentucky. According to author, William H. Townsend, “...Abraham Lincoln’s personal..... Read More about Lincoln and the Bluegrass. Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. [Inscribed by Author
![The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Inscribed by the Author]. Wood Gray,...](/pictures/thumb/3727879_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
A study of the Civil War-era faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the war and wanted to make peace with the Confederacy. “Wood Gray’s..... Read More about The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Inscribed by the Author
The 1968 reprint edition of this 19th-century title first published in 1887 by the Palmetto Publishing Company. Preface—“In presenting this history of the Colored Race..... Read More about History of the Colored Race in America. Containing also their Ancient and Modern Life in Africa...
Inscribed and signed by the author. Delaware during the American Civil War. Preface—“This book portrays the life on one home front, the Brandywine-Wilmington region during..... Read More about The Brandywine Homefront during the Civil War 1861-1865
Scarborough’s book attempts to separate myth from reality when documenting the plantation manager and his role in the Southern agricultural economy. The work, to a...... Read More about The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South
![Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from..... Read More about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
![The Army Paymaster’s Manual [Charles Colné‘s Copy with his Numerous Manuscript Emendations]....](/pictures/thumb/3724903_1.jpg?v=1537914654)
American Civil War-era, 1864 official military handbook, The Paymaster’s Manual, or Collection of Official Rules, for the Information and Guidance of Officers of the Pay..... Read More about The Army Paymaster’s Manual [Charles Colné‘s Copy with his Numerous Manuscript Emendations
Nevins I:144: “A brief narrative, company sketches, and a series of personal recollections form a disorganized summary of the unit’s Western service.” The Forty-Fifth fought..... Read More about History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment. Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865
![Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865. Eugene Munday](/pictures/thumb/3726712_1.jpg?v=1534362447)
Undoubtedly composed and printed within days of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this sorrowful tribute takes its name from the April 15, 1865 newspaper headline..... Read More about Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865
True copy of a U.S. Treasury Auditor’s report concerning Quartermaster Corps expenses in the Department of North Carolina. The report, called a “Statement of Differences,”..... Read More about Statement of Differences arising on settlement of the accounts of Joseph Fulton Boyd Brig. Genl....
An autograph souvenir from Joseph J. Hatlinger, a self-proclaimed “Hungarian Exile.” During the Civil War, Hatlinger, as a first lieutenant, would direct African-Americans serving in..... Read More about 1860 Autograph Souvenir of Hungarian Exile, Yale Graduate, Directing African-American Troops in...
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades..... Read More about 1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for...
Here is a ticket. It is an admission ticket to “Col. Pierce’s Lecture.” The ticket cost 25¢ and admitted a whole family. It is printed..... Read More about 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket likely for a lecture by John Harwood Pierce, frontier showman
Published in the following months after the end of the Civil War, a large southern American broadside describing a significant quantity of commercial and residential..... Read More about 1865 Tennessee Broadside:] Chancery Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Springfield … [opening lines
Autograph letter signed from American Civil War veteran and United States Claim Agent, Captain William H. Weaver in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, offering to help a widow..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed from a Captain William H. Weaver, concerning Civil War Soldier Pension
There is an old saying that you’ll catch more flies with teaspoon of honey than with a barrel of vinegar. But, what if you are..... Read More about W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev’g, April 9, ‘87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall,...
This holograph score for piano forte appears to be a contemporary copy of what would become Luigi de Perini’s published march entitled The Adieu. March..... Read More about Union Scotische Dedicated to Captain Meade, U.S.S. North Carolina. Composed by Luigi de Perini...
“Counterfeit” edition of this 1860 Confederate imprint originally published in Charleston, South Carolina by “Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention” which famously prints the..... Read More about Declaration of the Immediate Cause which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from...
