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.
Interesting Typed Note Signed by Horace M. Bond (1904–1972), Black academic and college administrator, then serving as president of Lincoln University, the first African-American to..... Read More about 1954 Typed Note Signed by Horace Mann Bond, President of Lincoln University (HBCU), discussing...
![1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley]. Bell I....](/pictures/thumb/3729895_1.jpg?v=1608588577)
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
Eyewitness account of the Confederate Attack on Petersburg, Virginia at the Battle of Fort Stedman on March 25, 1865 by Union infantry soldier, Private James..... Read More about Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Fort Stedman: 1865 Civil War Letter by a Union Infantry...
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
![1862 Manuscript Diary of Phebe Whitford of Persia, Cattaraugus County, New York]. Phebe Whitford,...](/pictures/thumb/372328_1.jpg?v=1605737168)
Almost miniature diary written by Eliza “Phebe” Whitford (1825–1888), during her mid-30s, recording her itinerant life living away from home with various relatives plus much..... Read More about 1862 Manuscript Diary of Phebe Whitford of Persia, Cattaraugus County, New York
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...
Two Virginia letters taken as Civil War trophies by A.H. Mershon after the evacuations of Yorktown and Gloucester Point, just opposite on the York River..... Read More about Two Autograph Letters Signed taken as Civil War Trophies after the Evacuations of Yorktown and...
![CDV Photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale, 68th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry]. Drum Maj....](/pictures/thumb/3729266_1.jpg?v=1600902485)
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
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
![Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. [inscribed and signed by author]. Earl E. Thorpe](/pictures/thumb/3729334_1.jpg?v=1593463458)
Includes much on slavery. Chapter titles include “Intimacy and Affection Between the Races in the Old South”; “Southern Democracy and the Triumph of Repression”; “The..... Read More about Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. [inscribed and signed by author
![Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3729194.jpg?v=1580949172)
This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin,...](/pictures/thumb/3729191.jpg?v=1592939174)
American Civil War diary of Kentucky-native James T. Ayers, “...an Illinois lay preacher who served in Sherman’s Army. His day-by-day entries constitute a humorous and..... Read More about The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author
Anglo-Irish war correspondent’s published diary of his visit to the United States during the first year of the American Civil War; issued with map showing..... Read More about My Diary North and South
From the library of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, American historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
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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
“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
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
