Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Etc.
![[Speech Upon Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia, within:] The Bradford Argus…Towanda, Bradford Co., Pa., April 17, 1862. George Landon, 1816–1904, Hiester Clymer, 1827–1884.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Entire front-page Civil-War-era anti-slavery speech arguing for the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. by Free Soil Republican State Senator George Landon. Landon’s speech printed... Read More
W.E.B. Du Bois’s landmark book on the “...Civil War and its aftermath, combining both literary charm and integrity [...] The underlying message of Black Reconstruction... Read More
Publishers—“This two-volume set is an authoritative selection of the writings of the dean of black letters in America, W.E.B. Du Bois ... brilliantly recording and... Read More
The author studies in detail how the American Civil War affected the thinking and views of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became one one... Read More
Preface: “This clerico-political study seeks to discover the mind of the Northern Clergy: their ideas, opinions, convictions and attitudes toward the South from 1860 through... Read More
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
![[Carte de Visite:] Lincoln Family. Abraham Lincoln.](/pictures/thumb/3727514_1.jpg?v=1535409019)
Carte de visite photograph of the Civil War-era family of President Abraham and Mary Lincoln derived from an engraving made by engraver Adam B. Walter... Read More
![[Carte de visite Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln]. Mary Todd Lincoln; 1818–1882.](/pictures/thumb/3727108_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Carte de visite half-lenth portrait photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, made by Boston photographer Edward L. Allen. The... Read More
![Songs and Poems,—and Writings of,—Edward Jay. The Property of Edward J. Paxson.—Vol. 2— [manuscript caption title]. Edward J. Paxson, “Edward Jay”, Edward John Paxson, 1854–1920.](/pictures/thumb/3727219_1.jpg?v=1535553285)
Dramatically decorated and highly illustrated handwritten album of poetry and some prose by Philadelphian Edward J. Paxson. Using the pseudonym “Edward Jay,” Paxson writes of... Read More
![[1842–1917 Combination Bound Volume of Masonic, Musical, and Theatrical Programs and Scrapbook kept by Musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania]. Albert Ritter, c.1838–1915.](/pictures/thumb/3727221_1.jpg?v=1534362500)
For Christmas 1873, musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania was given a scrapbook. He immediately began to fill it with ephemera from the various fraternal... Read More
[i.e., House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 15.]. CWB I, p10: “McClellan’s official report, containing much information on the initial organization... Read More
Irish-American Robert Patterson (1792–1881) fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Defeating Stonewall Jackson early in the war, he was later blamed for... Read More
![[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
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
Archive of five letters to Harvard student and textbook author, Cortland Saunders. Saunders was subsequently killed during the Civil War in his native Virginia at... Read More
Intriguing 11-page draft manuscript indictment by jurors in Baltimore alleging perjury to and contempt of election judges and disloyalty to the federal and state governments... Read More
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
![[1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for Battle of Resaca, Georgia]. Henry E. Tremain.](/pictures/thumb/3726386_1.jpg?v=1534362364)
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
General George B. McClellan’s widow, Ellen Mary Marcy McClellan (1836–1915), writes on mourning stationary paper that she has no autographs of her famous husband to... Read More
Raconteur, Orator, Author American soldier and diplomat Horace Porter distinguished himself as a Civil War officer, secretary to General, later U.S. President Grant, and ambassador... Read More
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
In the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry in Virginia, a small pocket New Testament Bible was given to a woman, Mollie E.... Read More
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
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
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
