Washington, John C. Rives. Folio. Vol. 1, No. 39, pp. [609] 610-622 describe in detail the Iuka-Corinth campaign, with the daily correspondence between Grant and Rosecrans, pp. 618-619 Abraham Lincoln's order of the blockade of Brownsville [Texas] relaxed, many other details for that week, from Joshua Chamberlain's move to Courts-Martial..... More
The document measures approximately 5" x 5". Written a week after the end of Cold Harbor as the men of the 2nd Regiment of Connecticut's Heavy Artillery moving slowly toward Richmond. In Vaill's History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Artillery, p. 75ff., Colonel Randl [sic] S. McKenzie yelled: "Tell Meramble..... More
New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1870. First Edition. Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 151p. Kate Benedict Freeman's early death af age 29 seemed tragic; nevertheless, she had already made a wonderful contribution in her early life. All through her early twenties, she visited the Civil War..... More
St. Paul, Minn; 1890 and 1899: The Pioneer Press Co. Quarto. The First Minnesota regiment sustained their greatest loss at Gettysburg. The regiment were engaged in battles at Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Nashville and Atlanta. The roster within the first volume contains the names of 26, 717 men and describes the action..... More
Check measures approximately 6 3/4" x 2 3/4". It is signed by Major George W. Walker who had been appointed paymaster of the USMC by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and he served until his death in 1862. The USMC was quite small at the time and there was usually..... More
Photograph measures 9" x 7" on mounted cardboard. All ten men identified by rank and last name. He was a well known lawyer in Vermont when he enlisted with the 5th Vermont Infantry, which he led through the Battle of Fredericksburg and he assumed command of the famed Vermont Brigade..... More
Jersey City, NJ: John P. Lyon (printer), 1863. Octavo. 584pp. Tipped in is letter from the Adjutant-General of New Jersey to Col. John P. Nicholson, dated Dec. 30, 1875. John Page Nicholson, of course, was the Chairman of the Gettysburg National Military Park from 1893 to 1922. Born in 1842..... More
Richmond, Virginia: William F. Richie, 1863. Octavo. 6 pages. bound with: Minority Report relative to The Contested Election (1863) 4 pages. Measuring approximately 5 1/4" x 8 7/8" OCLC records copies at University of Alabama and Wake Forest. Another source shows the Virginia State Library has a copy. When David..... More
Document measures 5 1/2" x 4 3/4". As the needs for the Confederacy grew more desperate, the demands placed on the South Side Rail Road had increased demands placed upon them by Lee's Army. While it was still privately owned business, its infrastructure was in decline as rails were often..... More
Springfied, IL. Illinois Journal Company, 1868. First Edition. Octavo. xii, 391 pages. Errata, (1)p. ad. Pages 317-391 lists the names of the entire Illinois roster. The regiment saw service at the Battle of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, Sherman's March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. First hand..... More
Washington: John R. Rivers, 1864. Folio. Vol. 1, No. 38. Pages [593]-608 (16 pages) with significant details: p, 606 Hallack relieved from duty and U.S. Grant assigned to command the armies of the United States. It continues: "W.T. Sherman is assigned to the command of the Military Division of the..... More
Concord: Ira .C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895. Thick Folio. xii, 1347 pages. "The best source for individual soldier's records". The cost of producing this huge volume was published with Adjutant General Ayling's push to have it published through the authority of state legislature. It has complete records of the 18..... More
Chicago: Press of J. Barnet, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Black and white frontispiece, tinted engraved title and regular title page, xvi (9-283). illustrated with 65 engravings, Includes the biography of Abraham Lincoln and, Colonel Julian E. Bryant, who took over the 46th regiment of black soldiers and unlike his predecessor..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Thick Quarto. Vol. I: 568 pp. with several folding maps. Vol. II: xxviii, 767, 23 tables with an explanation of the tables which includes various races, ages, American or foreign born, nationalities, age diseases and much more. During the first years of the war, the..... More
Richmond, VA: B.F. Johnson, 1900. First Edition. Octavo. 412pp., frontispiece and other portrait illustrations. A much consulted memoir by a Virginia cavalry man; especially good for Baylor's discerning personal observations (Nevins B-55) Baylor discusses the disgusting conditions of the prisons. It was so bad he had decided he would escape..... More
New York: Putnams, 1891. First Edition. Octavo. xiv, 187 pages, 2 folded maps. Originally was planned as a magazine article consequent to the raising by General Joseph E. Johnston of certain personal claims. Gustave T. Beauregard was a Creole Louisianan who after leading the attack on Fort Sumpter, oversaw the..... More
Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Monograph, 1970. Octavo. . 70 pages, index and illustrations. The third item in the Monographs of Texas and Confederate History Series. While the decline of the Confederate dollars is well-known, Brenner deals with a major contributing problem to the many versions of counterfeiting. Kate Stone..... More
Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co., 1867. First Edition. Octavo. . 799 pages, with an introduction by Henry E. Bellows and sixteen finely executed steel engravings, including a frontispiece, an engraved vignette title page, and the regular printed title page. This stirring volume is dedicated to the women of the Civil..... More
St.l Paul, Minn: The Pioneer Press, 1892. First Edition. Octavo. 594pp. illustrated with photographic images, map and drawings. Contains a rosters of volunteers and officers. Listing of those men wounded or lost, a few daily entries along with letters. A very good copy bound in red cloth triple ruled in..... More
Vega, TX: J.P. Burch, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 266 pp. With pictures, photos, articles pasted in with notes in the hand of James D. Horan for use in his later encyclopedic works on crime. Slight fraying at crown, heel of spine, spien slightly cocked. Gilt cover titles. More
Boyce, VA; (1955): Carr Publishing Co., Inc. First Edition. Octavo. 343pp. Illustrated by Timothy T. Pohmer. One of the Confederacy's best Generals. He served in the Eastern Theater of the war for the entire conflict, as a division commander under Stonewall Jackson. First state binding of gray cloth lettered in..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1862. First Edition. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 232 pages and (8) pages of ads. While some is regarded as propaganda, the day-to-day accounts of life in a Confederate camp are fascinating. The difficulty of keeping clean, limits to alcohol, much on the founding of Fort..... More
New York; (1917): The Abingdon Press. First Edition. Small Octavo. 116 pages, illustrated. There have always been some questions about the five known early copies of the Gettysburg Address (Bliss, Nicolay, Hay, Evertt, and Bancroft). In 1917 the copy of Clara Hay had appeared and was stolen though Helen Nicolay..... More
Milwaukee: Strickland and Co., 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 288pp., (6)pp. Ads at Rear. The author, a surgeon of the Fifth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War, presents his journal to the public in the style for which it was written, without correction of even its grammatical errors. The..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1865. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, and half-title, 221 pages, appendix with list of names. "The best source on the human interest side of Libby during its heaviest period of use." An unusually bright copy of an important book on prison life in the Civil War. Bound in..... More