Lincoln and the South.
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
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.
American Civil War
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.
The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Signed by the Author and with publisher’s card]
A study of the Civil War-era faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the war and wanted to make peace with the Confederacy. From the..... Read More about The Hidden Civil War, The Story of the Copperheads. [Signed by the Author and with publisher’s...
Our Home and Foreign Policy. November, 1863.
Summary view of Confederate foreign policy in 1863 by Henry St. Paul, a Mobile and New Orleans attorney and Confederate soldier. After the Union capture..... Read More about Our Home and Foreign Policy. November, 1863
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...
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
Loyal Meeting of the People of New-York, to Support the Government, Prosecute the War, and Maintain the Union, held at the Cooper Institute, Friday Evening, March 6, 1863.
Report of patriotic meetings of pro-Union, loyalists from New York City held to establish the Loyal League of Union Citizens and pledge their loyalty to..... Read More about Loyal Meeting of the People of New-York, to Support the Government, Prosecute the War, and...
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
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
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...
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[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,...
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[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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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
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...
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
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...
The Right of Secession. A Review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the Congress of the Confederate States.
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...
[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...
[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...
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[1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley].
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
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
The Nation’s Hope in the Democracy—- Historic Lessons for Civil War. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox, of Ohio, on The Bill of H. Winter Davis, “To Guarantee to Certain States, Whose Governments are Usurped or Overthrown, a Republican Form of Government.” Delivered in the House of Representatives, May, 1864.
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,...
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,...
Dear Ones at Home, Letters from Contraband Camps.
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
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy.
Study of military conscription in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, based upon examinations of the Official Records of the War and contemporary..... Read More about Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy
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[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