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
The author, who formerly had worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, served as a cipher-operator and was the Manager of the War Department Telegraph Office, 1861–1866... Read More
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/images/noimage-req.png)
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
![Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln [Revised Edition; Inscribed by Author]. J G. Randall, 1881–1953, James Garfield Randall.](/pictures/thumb/3728020_1.jpg?v=1544562369)
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
![[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)
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
![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)
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
![The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Inscribed by the Author]. Wood Gray, 1905–?](/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
![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)
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 Collapse of the Confederacy. [Inscribed by the Author]. Charles H. Wesley, 1891–1987.](/pictures/thumb/3727876_1.jpg?v=1542302140)
Covers war matériel, politics, cotton and slavery, emancipation, and the “Impressment of Slaves for war Purposes.” Useful appendix gathers primary source documents. Charles H. Wesley... 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
![[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H. Anderson.](/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
