![[1764 Autograph Document Signed for Surgeon’s Necessaries by Captain Archibald Kennedy, Royal Navy; During the Stamp Act Crisis: Kennedy in charge of protecting the Tax Stamps in New York City]. Archd. Kennedy, Captain Archibald Kennedy.](/pictures/thumb/145381_1.jpg?v=1534362277)
During the 1765 Stamp Act taxation crisis, Captain Archibald Kennedy (bef. 1736–1794), commander of the frigate HMS Coventry, was stationed in New York Harbor; his... Read More
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S.Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its white... Read More
![From Harlem to the Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. [Presentation Copy]. Arthur W. Little, 1873–1943, Arthur West Little.](/pictures/thumb/3728004_1.jpg?v=1542302157)
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S. Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its... Read More
![From Harlem to the Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. [Signed]. Arthur W. Little, 1873–1943, Arthur West Little.](/pictures/thumb/3728003_1.jpg?v=1542302156)
History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S. Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its... Read More
![[1801 Autograph Document Signed by Alexander Lindsay, Earl of Balcarres, Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, Revolutionary War Officer, and Duelist of Benedict Arnold]. Balcarres, Aleyne Hampden Pye, 1752–1825, 6th Earl of Balcarres Alexander Lindsay.](/pictures/thumb/3725785_1.jpg?v=1540853602)
The Earl of Balcarres and Benedict Arnold Alexander Lindsay (1752–1825) was the 6th Earl of Balcarres, British army officer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War... Read More
![Report of the Secretary Of War, Communicating ... A Report of E. F. Beale of his Exploration for a Wagon Road from Fort Defiance, in New Mexico, to the Western Borders of California… [ caption title]. Edwin F. Beale.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Beale’s preliminary report upon his arrival in California after a 48-day journey to explore a suitable route for wagons from Fort Defiance, New Mexico to... Read More
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order... Read More
West Point cadet Thomas Ragland’s defense before a military Court of Inquiry for his role in leading a “mutiny” or revolt against Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872)... Read More
![[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga Lake Military Academy, 1870–?, Walter Douglas Young.](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in... Read More
True copy of a U.S. Treasury Auditor’s report concerning Quartermaster Corps expenses in the Department of North Carolina. The report, called a “Statement of Differences,”... Read More
Pair of World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command class books from the Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments Training Detachment. These... Read More
The author, who formerly had worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, served as a cipher-operator and was the Manager of the War Department Telegraph Office, 1861–1866... Read More
Medical observations on the Spanish-American War by noted American medical author and surgeon, Dr. Nicholas Senn (1844–1908). Dr. Senn served in the in the field... Read More
![You’ll Find Old Dixieland in France [sheet music]. lyrics Grant Clarke, music Geo. W. Meyer, French lyrics Louis Delamarre.](/pictures/thumb/3727075_1.jpg?v=1540246015)
Unusual small format sheet music celebrating African-American soldiers fighting in France in the First World War. With lyrics in both English and French, the song... Read More
![[1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for Battle of Resaca, Georgia]. Henry E. Tremain.](/pictures/thumb/3726386_1.jpg?v=1534362364)
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades... Read More
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... Read More
![Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following articles of Condemned Quartermaster’s Stores… [opening line of broadside]. Lieutenant 16th Infantry I O. Shelby.](/pictures/thumb/3726336_1.jpg?v=1534362355)
1874 advertising broadside for a United States Army quartermaster’s sale in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, apparently unrecorded. The sale of camp stores and garrison equipage was held... Read More
![The Army Paymaster’s Manual [Charles Colné‘s Copy with his Numerous Manuscript Emendations]. Paymaster United States Army J. H. Eaton, Charles Colné.](/pictures/thumb/3724903_1.jpg?v=1537914654)
American Civil War-era, 1864 official military handbook, The Paymaster’s Manual, or Collection of Official Rules, for the Information and Guidance of Officers of the Pay... Read More
First World War home-coming celebration program for the borough of Catasauqua in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The cover depicts a triumphal arch adorned with American flags... Read More
Near fifty (mostly) diplomatic and military calling cards kept by Lt. Col. William R. Livermore and his wife during a diplomatic posting in Stockholm and... Read More
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National... Read More
![[Japanese Atrocities and U.S. Military Training in Pre-World War II China: Two 1941 ALsS by a U.S. Marine in Shanghai]. Pfc. J. E. Dupont Jr., Mrs. R. H. Chadwick, Rosa Supple Chadwick, William S. Chadwick.](/pictures/thumb/3726418_1.jpg?v=1534362375)
Two letters from a U.S. Marine of the Asiatic Station, Shanghai, China describing Japanese atrocities and U.S. military preparations in China on the eve of... Read More
Unrecorded 1896 program for New York’s Seventh Regiment’s annual annual athletic games competition held at the regiment’s Park Avenue armory. The illustrated program comprises a.... Read More
![[18th Century Manuscript Accounts, possibly for Outfitting a Military or Surveying Expedition]. Unk.](/pictures/thumb/3726443_1.jpg?v=1535405588)
A manuscript showing purchases in excess of £2700 that suggest either a military expedition or an impending exploration, perhaps for surveying, of some kind in... Read More
