Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Etc.
Rare American Civil War-era pamphlet urging an alliance between France and the Confederate States of America by Louisiana-born, francophone physician and writer Alfred Mercier. Mercier’s..... Read More
Collection of Civil War short stories by veteran, Baltimore newspaperman, and sculptor Felix Agnus (1839–1925). Though fictionalized—the author calls them “tales built upon true incidents,”..... Read More
Classic study and important re-interpretation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, by a noted academic and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. “Rejecting the older..... Read More
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
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln..... Read More
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
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
From slavery to emancipation, popular Civil War era fiction written by this Gloucester, Massachusetts native about the emancipated male African American slave “Peculiar Institution”, a.k.a...... Read More
Germans. Italians. Poles. Irish. Cubans. Persians. Russians. And more. The author explains that contrary to popular notion, the Confederacy was filled with an astonishing numbers... Read More
A study of Abraham Lincoln’s government and the great issues of constitutional law raised during his war-time presidency. Revised Edition with new 23-page foreword by..... Read More
Virulent attack during the Civil War on the abolitionist cause, weighing in on the potential impact of emancipation for American slaves. This anti-abolitionist tract is... Read More
Report issued by Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association concerning the former slaves of coastal South Carolina liberated by Union army forces and the flight of their..... Read More
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
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
First-hand observations of President Abraham Lincoln and letters to and from John Hay, a private White House secretary to the president. Along with Lincoln’s principal..... Read More
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
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
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
American Civil War diary of Kentucky-native James T. Ayers, “...an Illinois lay preacher who served in Sherman’s Army. His day-by-day entries constitute a humorous and..... Read More
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
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
Goodspeed: “Letters from members of a civilian commission sent to take charge of slaves, crops, & civil affairs in the Sea Island region after its..... Read More
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
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
Civil War-time report on a Confederate conspiracy conducted by the “Order of American Knights” a.k.a. “Order of the Sons of Liberty.” This group grew out..... Read More
![A Woman of War and Other Stories. [Inscribed by the Author]. Felix Agnus, 1839–1925.](/pictures/thumb/3728151_1.jpg?v=1548184398)
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
![[African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The Philadelphia Society, for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons…January 1, 1862. Prison Agent William J. Mullen, 1805–1882.](/pictures/thumb/3724800_1.jpg?v=1546963420)
![Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln [Revised Edition; Inscribed by Author]. J G. Randall, 1881–1953, James Garfield Randall.](/pictures/thumb/3728020_1.jpg?v=1544562369)
![[Freedmen and the Port Royal Experiment:] Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia ... to Take into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the South. Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association.](/pictures/thumb/3728057_1.jpg?v=1543363497)
![The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author]. Henry Pleassants Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728041_1.jpg?v=1545174816)
![Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay. [Signed by the Compiler]. Tyler Dennett, 1883–1949, 1838–1905, John Hay.](/pictures/thumb/3728019_1.jpg?v=1545174815)
![Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. [Inscribed by the Author]. J G. Randall, 1881–1953, James Garfield Randall.](/pictures/thumb/3728007_1.jpg?v=1545068126)
![Lincoln and the Bluegrass. Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. [Inscribed by Author]. William H. Townsend, 1890–1964, 1878–1958, William Henry Townsend, Claude G. Bowers.](/pictures/thumb/3727884_1.jpg?v=1542302152)
![The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Inscribed by the Author]. Wood Gray, 1905–?](/pictures/thumb/3727879_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3727878_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
