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.
![3735393] Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735393.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755809138)
Stonewall Jackson’s name leads this very rare Register of West Point cadets from June 1846, the year he graduated. Older than most classmates, Jackson entered..... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York....
![3735373] The Confederate States of America Twenty Dollars… (Confederate Currency & Patent...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735373.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755119926)
Printed in 1885, this dual-sided circular advertises Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills on one side and features a black-and-white facsimile of a Confederate States $20..... Read More about The Confederate States of America Twenty Dollars… (Confederate Currency & Patent Medicine...
![3734778] The Libby Prison Minstrel! ... Thursday eve’g, Dec. 24th, 1863. Programme. Adjt. R. C....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734778.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756936637)
A circa 1890s facsimile of a rare 1863 handbill, advertising a Christmas Eve theatrical and musical performance organized by captured Union officers imprisoned at Libby..... Read More about The Libby Prison Minstrel! ... Thursday eve’g, Dec. 24th, 1863. Programme
![3733777] The Monument to Robert Gould Shaw. Its Inception, Completion and Unveiling 1865–1897....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733777.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743801913)
Scarce and substantial tribute to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first African American regiment to be mustered in the North to fight for the Union..... Read More about The Monument to Robert Gould Shaw. Its Inception, Completion and Unveiling 1865–1897
![3734847] Willard’s Hotel, Washington, January 29, 1866. Hon. F. W. Seward, Assistant Secretary...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734847.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743616690)
In the wake of the Civil War, a heated dispute erupted between Col. Charles H. T. Collis and Lt. Col. Federico F. Cavada of the..... Read More about Willard’s Hotel, Washington, January 29, 1866. Hon. F. W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State....
![3734846] Union Soldier in the Andersonville Prison. [caption title of illustrated broadside]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734846.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743616690)
This broadside poem voices the imagined last words of a dying Union soldier held at Camp Sumter, more widely known as Andersonville. The text is..... Read More about Union Soldier in the Andersonville Prison. [caption title of illustrated broadside
![3734817] Jackson’s Campaign against Pope in August, 1862. An Address by Lieut. Gen’l Jubal A....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734817.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743448750)
First edition. Address by Lieut. General Jubal A. Early (1816-1894) recounting Stonewall Jackson’s August 1862 campaign against Union General John Pope. Early’s speech frames Jackson’s..... Read More about Jackson’s Campaign against Pope in August, 1862. An Address by Lieut. Gen’l Jubal A. Early...
![3734789] 1933 Typed Letter Signed by Roy Bird Cook, Noted Stonewall Jackson Biographer,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734789.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742332687)
A 1933 typed letter from Charleston, West Virginia, discussing the family and historical background of George Imboden, a Confederate officer from the Staunton region, and..... Read More about 1933 Typed Letter Signed by Roy Bird Cook, Noted Stonewall Jackson Biographer, Discussing...
![3734156] Life of Turner Ashby. M. D. LL D. Thomas A. Ashby](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734156.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730759559)
First edition. Krick 10: “An adulatory appraisal of the legendary cavalryman. Despite the partisan flavor and the absence of the trademarks of scholarship, this is..... Read More about Life of Turner Ashby
![3734148] Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade ... Containing the daily experiences of four...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734148.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741631351)
First edition. Blunt, insightful, and witty, Casler crafted one of the definitive sources on the South’s most renowned brigade —“a superb tale of a common..... Read More about Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade ... Containing the daily experiences of four year’s service...
![3734147] Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston, once the Quartermaster...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734147.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729805398)
First edition. Presentation inscription from the editor, former Confederate General, Bradley Tyler Johnson: “Maj[or] Charles McCain from Bradley T. Johnson.” Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston..... Read More about Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston, once the Quartermaster General of...
![3734145] Lee, West Point and Lexington. Ph D. Walter Creigh Preston](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734145.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751468724)
Scarce. First edition of this focused study on three under-explored phases of General Robert E. Lee’s life: his cadet years, his time as superintendent at..... Read More about Lee, West Point and Lexington
![3734140] Carte-de-visite of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson with hand-embellished...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734140.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724965979)
An expression of Confederate sympathetic folk art, this printed souvenir CDV portrait of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was turned into an object of mourning. This..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson with hand-embellished mourning border
![3734152] Life and Campaigns of Lieut-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson). Illustrated with...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734152.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729783862)
First American edition. “Written by a member of Jackson’s staff, with the help of Jackson’s family. Next to Henderson, his most authoritative biography.” Nevins II..... Read More about Life and Campaigns of Lieut-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson). Illustrated with steel...
![3734137] Stonewall Jackson. Thesaurus of Anecdotes and Incidents in the Life of Lieut-General...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734137.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726847295)
First edition of Riley’s collection of historical anecdotes focusing on the life and legacy of General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall ”Jackson. Riley emphasizes the significance of..... Read More about Stonewall Jackson. Thesaurus of Anecdotes and Incidents in the Life of Lieut-General Thomas...
![3734132] A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734132.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716405308)
Scarce first edition. This copy includes a notable full-page quarto letter, written in the year of publication, by Hunter McDonald, the annotator of the diary..... Read More about A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley 1860-1865. (With...
![3733869] Two large 19th c. photographic images showing the Battle of Stones River, i.e., the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733869.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707422168)
These large and oblong 19th-century albumen photographs are possibly based on prints originally made by the Cincinnati lithographers Middleton, Strobridge & Co. between 1863 and..... Read More about Two large 19th c. photographic images showing the Battle of Stones River, i.e., the Second Battle...
![3733009] [Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733009.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721264193)
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...
![3733077] The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733077.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675983400)
Benjamin Butler’s speech to West Point cadets was published here, on their behalf, in 1839. New York: Samuel Colman, [1839]. [1–7], 8–46, [2, blank]pp. +..... 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,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731943.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666302)
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...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731462.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654398287)
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...
![3730831] Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes. Caspar Bruchhausen](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730831.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721772431)
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
![3730286] Head Qr’s Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730286.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1621642807)
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,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730087.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613587645)
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,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730086.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613587644)
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,...
