Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America.
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;.....
American Civil War
Civil War Battles, Carpetbaggers, Confederacy, Confederate Imprints, Copperheads, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Regiment Histories, Secession, Union, Etc.
The Negro’s Civil War. How Americans Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. [Inscribed & Signed, First Edition]
This noted American historian writes of the Civil War from the perspective of African Americans; how they “felt, and how they played an important role.....
Southern Negroes, 1861-1865. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
“A classic account of what happened to Southern Negroes in their transition from slavery to freedom during the Civil War. The book examines the changing.....
Reconstruction in Mississippi.
The effects of the Civil War on Mississippi, viz., “The primary purpose of this work is to give a detailed study of reconstruction in Mississippi.....
Recognition Denied, A History of the Black Soldier in America’s Civil War. [Signed by Author]
“This book concerns the role of the Black soldier during the American Civil War and key individuals, both Black and White…” (Introduction). The author promotes.....
The Armies Of The Streets. The New York City Draft Riots of 1863.
From the dust jacket: “In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time...
The South to Posterity. An Introduction to the Writing of Confederate History.
A valuable overview of Confederate writings immediately after the Civil War, written by this notable historian. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. 235pp. First Edition.....
[1862 Civil War Letter by Major Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, 36th Ohio Infantry, with Battle Content and Observations on His Regiment and the Army of the Potomac].
Autograph Letter by Major Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews (1821–1880) of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Andrews discusses the defeat of Confederate forces under General Henry...
[Retained Confederate Civil War MS. with Copies of a Report and Orders by Major General Bushrod Rust Johnson during the Second Battle of Petersburg.]
Manuscript leaf, fragile, of Confederate Army Division battle orders during the Second Battle of Petersburg and a pre-battle report, all issued in June 1864 by...
[1847–1992 Archive pertaining to Rev. John S. Long (1830–1902), Southern Orator and North Carolinian].
Abstract: Archive of 10 original academic, Confederate memorial, and religious manuscript orations and other writings by Rev. John S. Long of North Carolina. Four of...
The Bummer Boy, A “Spoony” Biography. By “That Brick.”
Scarce to commerce. Extreme, biting humor at the expense of presidential aspirant General Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893), known as the “Beast” or “Beast Butler” whose.....
[1861 Civil War LS from Vermont Governor Erastus Fairbanks concerning the 4th and 5th Vermont Regiments, to Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Railroad and Telegraph Lines, Col. Thomas A. Scott].
1861 letter signed from Vermont Governor Erastus Fairbanks (1792–1864) to Assistant Secretary of War Col. Thomas A. Scott concerning uniforms, equipment, and rifles for the...
![A Woman of War and Other Stories. [Inscribed by the Author]. Felix Agnus, 1839–1925.](/pictures/thumb/3728151_1.jpg?v=1548184398)
A Woman of War and Other Stories. [Inscribed by the Author]
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,”.....
The Civil War and Reconstruction.
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.....
President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before and Since the Civil War.
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...
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]
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.....
Lincoln & The Politics of Slavery.
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.....
![[African American Prisoners] Eighth Annual Report of William J. Mullen, Prison Agent, to The...](/pictures/thumb/3724800_1.jpg?v=1546963420)
[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.
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...
Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition.
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......
Foreigners in the Confederacy.
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...
![Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln [Revised Edition; Inscribed by Author]. J G. Randall,...](/pictures/thumb/3728020_1.jpg?v=1544562369)
Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln [Revised Edition; Inscribed by Author].
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.....
Anti-Abolition Tracts, No. 2. Free Negroism: or, Results of Emancipation in the North and the West Indian Islands; with Statistics of the Decay of Commerce, Idleness of the Negro, His Return to Savageism. And the Effect of Emancipation upon Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes.
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...
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[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.
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.....
About the War. Plain Words to Plain People by a Plain Man.
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...
![The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author]. Henry Pleassants Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728041_1.jpg?v=1545174816)
The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author]
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.....