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.
Issued from the Riddick House in Suffolk, Virginia, an almost plaintive plea for Civil War Union officers wanting to resign or request leave of absence..... Read More about Suffolk, Virginia: Headquarters Army of Potomac. July 9, 1862 Manuscript Circular on Resignations...
A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
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From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
Patriotic speech given by Philadelphia attorney Benjamin H. Brewster (Benjamin Harris Brewster) at the inauguration of the National Union Club, a patriotic association organized to..... Read More about Speech of Benjamin H. Brewster, Delivered at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia. Wednesday...
The history of York County, Pennsylvania in the American Civil War. Self-published. 1989. 36 pages. Pictorial wraps, as published. Well-illustrated. Signed by the author; limited..... Read More about Our Boys: Northern York County in the Civil War
Important First Annual Report and scarce war-time publication issued by the Union League of Philadelphia, a patriotic society founded in 1862 to support President Abraham..... Read More about First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of The Union League of Philadelphia
Lovely copy of this scarce war-time publication issued by the Union League of Philadelphia, a patriotic society founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln..... Read More about Charter and By-Laws of The Union League of Philadelphia
Scarce war-time publication issued by the Union League of Philadelphia, a patriotic society founded in 1862 to support President Abraham Lincoln and to champion the..... Read More about Articles of Association of the By-Laws of The Union League of Philadelphia. [1863 American Civil War
Scarce guidebook—similar to a like-titled guidebook (OCLC 14103425, [4] cc.)—but this variant published to promote Gettysburg’s City Hotel, owned by John E. Hughes. The inside..... Read More about History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests...
One-page Civil War-date letter written by Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886) —“Hancock the Superb” —career military officer and Union hero of Gettysburg. By the time this..... Read More about 1864 Civil War-Date Autograph Letter Signed by Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Gettysburg Hero
Reply to an article by Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis written by Joel Parker (1795–1875), judge and Royall Professor of Law in the..... Read More about The Right of Secession. A Review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the Congress of the...
Civil War-era oration delivered on Independence Day in 1863 to a northern audience evoking the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution..... Read More about 1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the Declaration of...
“Morning Report” for April 13, 1863 for the Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer Infantry, also known as German Legion or New York Corps of..... Read More about 1863 Morning Report for Felix Confort of Confort’s Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer...
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American Civil War historian and author Bell I. Wiley (1906–1980) taught for 40 years at various Southern colleges and universities including the University of Mississippi..... Read More about 1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Speech of Congressman Samuel S. Cox, Democrat of Ohio on the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 introducing a legislative plan for Reconstruction. The bill “…was less..... Read More about The Nation’s Hope in the Democracy—- Historic Lessons for Civil War. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox,...
Civil War-time speech of U.S. Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan concerning the re-admission to the Union of the former Confederate State of Louisiana, then..... Read More about Speech of Hon. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan, on the Joint Resolution for the Recognition and...
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Full-length portrait photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale of the 68th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. Beale is shown in uniform, holding a sword and..... Read More about CDV Photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale, 68th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry
Printed during the last year of the Civil War, rare sheet music for voice and chorus and piano of Sherman’s March to the Sea, dedicated..... Read More about Sherman’s March to the Sea. Words by Adjt. S.H.M. Byers of Iowa. Music by F.B. Plimpton. [sheet...
Discourse by this Transcendentalist and Boston Unitarian minister on the American Civil War with some remarks on Black Americans and slavery: “And even as regards..... Read More about Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on Fast Day,...
A rather interesting intersection of the order of Mennonites and the part they played in the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Herald Press..... Read More about Mennonites in the Confederacy. a Study in Civil War Pacifism
Civil War-era letters from two Northern women, Quakers Lucy and Sarah Chase of Worcester, Massachusetts, presenting a first-hand description of the conditions in freedpersons’ or..... Read More about Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps
![For Governor, Maj. Gen. John W. Geary. [1866 Political Campaign Broadside]. John W. Geary](/pictures/thumb/3729325_1.jpg?v=1606334901)
Rare patriotic 1866 political campaign broadside urging votes for John W. Geary (1819–1873), running for Pennsylvania governor against his opponent Hiester Clymer and Clymer’s white..... Read More about For Governor, Maj. Gen. John W. Geary. [1866 Political Campaign Broadside
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 about The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois
