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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.

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3733451] Fredericksburg and Its Many Points of Interest. R A. Kishpaugh

Fredericksburg and Its Many Points of Interest.

A scarce and well-illustrated promotional guidebook for Fredericksburg. The rear map is notable for identifying various local landmarks: “Rising Sun Tavern, Mary Washington Hospital, Negro..... Read More about Fredericksburg and Its Many Points of Interest

Price: $85.00

3733009] [Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public...

[Association Copy] West Point Life: An Anonymous Communication, Read Before a Public Meeting of the Dialectic Society, United States Military Academy, March 5, 1859.

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...

Price: $950.00

3733077] The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness...

The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness and Honour; An Address, Delivered before the Dialectic Society of the Corps of Cadets of the Military Academy, Westpoint…

Benjamin Butler’s speech to West Point cadets was published here, on their behalf, in 1839. Butler is remembered for his role during the Civil War..... Read More about The Military Profession in the United States, and the Means of Promoting its Usefulness and...

Price: $75.00

3731943] Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery ... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday,...

Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery ... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 17th, 1879 [opening lines of broadside].

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,...

Price: $1,250.00

3731462] To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth...

To All Whom it May Concern, Know Ye, that Edwin A. Collins, a Musician of the Fifth Regiment of Band… (Civil War Discharge Paper)

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...

Price: $250.00

3731431] Album of the Heart. (Civil War-era Friendship Album with autograph of Gettysburg...

Album of the Heart. (Civil War-era Friendship Album with autograph of Gettysburg prisoner of war, Joseph L. Sutherland of the First Vermont Cavalry, and other Civil War combatants)

A partially-used Civil War-era friendship album presented to Jennie G. Grieb by her brother. Most of the inscribers hail from Philadelphia or nearby regions such..... Read More about Album of the Heart. (Civil War-era Friendship Album with autograph of Gettysburg prisoner of war,...

Price: $125.00

3730924] Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas...

Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border during the Civil War of 1861 to 1865. ... As told by Captain Harrison Trow, One Who followed Quantrell through His Whole Course.

Six-Guns 323: “Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject’s name correctly. His name was spelled Quantrill..... Read More about Charles W. Quantrell, a True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border...

Price: $45.00

3730831] Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes. Caspar Bruchhausen

Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes.

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

Price: $150.00

3730624] 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John...

25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John Harwood Pierce].

This lecture ticket admitted a whole family to Col. Pierce’s Lecture. John Harwood Pierce (1848–1925) led a full and exciting life, gaining fame as a...... Read More about 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John Harwood Pierce

Price: $75.00

3730335] Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select...

Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report].

Report on the murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, a capital case touching on habeas corpus and the jurisdiction of military courts in the..... Read More about Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report

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3730286] Head Qr’s Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864....

Head Qr’s Military Division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala. October 17th, 1864. General Orders No. 1 [opening lines of broadside]

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...

Price: $1,250.00

3730087] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...

[Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, August 1, 1863. General Orders, No. 107 [caption title].

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,...

Price: $250.00

3730086] [Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond,...

[Confederate Virginia Imprint] Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, Richmond, December 13, 1862. General Orders, No. 104 [caption title].

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,...

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3730089] When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]

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

Price: $125.00

3730067] Speech of Benjamin H. Brewster, Delivered at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia....

Speech of Benjamin H. Brewster, Delivered at the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia. Wednesday Evening, March 11, 1863 [presentation copy].

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...

Price: $50.00

3730188] Our Boys: Northern York County in the Civil War. Victor A. Neubaum

Our Boys: Northern York County in the Civil War.

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

Price: $45.00

3730121] History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel,...

History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests who use its facilities for driving over the Battlefield [cover title].

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...

Price: $125.00

3729949] [1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the...

[1863 Civil War-Era Independence Day Oration preceding a Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence evoking the U.S. Constitution and referencing Slavery and “Our Imperilled Government”].

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...

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3729944] [1863 Morning Report for Felix Confort of Confort’s Independent Battalion of New York...

[1863 Morning Report for Felix Confort of Confort’s Independent Battalion of New York Volunteer Infantry while Stationed in Beaufort, South Carolina].

“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...

Price: $250.00

3729839] James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Robert Franklin...

James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882.

Publisher’s review copy and from the personal library of historian Bell Irvin Wiley. Biography of the Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882)..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882

Price: $35.00

3729688] Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on...

Discourse on The Aspects of the War, Delivered in The Indiana-Place Chapel, Boston, on Fast Day, April 2, 1863.

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,...

Price: $75.00

3728738] [Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo

[Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne.

Sub-titled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under..... Read More about Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne

Price: $250.00

3728331] To the Laboring Men of New York. attributed to Sinclair Tousey

To the Laboring Men of New York.

“Stand by the Law!” One of four rare broadsides issued in 1863. This broadside is a dramatic plea for Democratic laboring men to support the..... Read More about To the Laboring Men of New York

Price: $6,500.00

3727902] The Brandywine Homefront during the Civil War 1861-1865. (Signed). Norman B. Wilkinson

The Brandywine Homefront during the Civil War 1861-1865. (Signed)

First edition. Inscribed 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 about The Brandywine Homefront during the Civil War 1861-1865. (Signed

Price: $35.00

3727777] [Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook,...

[Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs].

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 about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs

Price: $225.00

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