Civil War Times, 1961 Paper Covers. Good+. Volume III, #5, August 1961. Civil War Times magazine. 28 pages. In this issue - "Did Stanton Plan Lincoln's Murder?" Pictured on the front cover is Lafayette C. Baker, "The Maste r Spy" of the Union cause. Double page illustrations of "The Scene at the Bedside of the Dying Abraham Lincoln." "Text of Hearing Regarding Codicil to Baker's Will." An article on Berdan's Sharpshoote rs, and on John Basil Turchin, "The Russian Thunderbolt".. Soft Cover. (more information)

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Published by Thomas Yoseloff, CR 1961, CR 1961, this is the 2nd printing March 1964, 366 pages. This is Volume 1 only. The Confederate Armies. Blue covers, slight fade, overall good+. Contains local destinations of Confederate Org., Memorandum of Armies, Corps , and Geographical Commands in Confederate States 1861-1865. X-library with card and stamps and number on spine. Civil War, history, americana, Confederates, Confederate statistics.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs Merrill Dust jacket with mylar over black covers, all very good condition. Ink name front endpapers "I.R.Church, Gates City, MO.": 404 pages with index and notes to chapters, black and white photos and 1 map of the Southeastern Theater 1863-1865 The 18th regiment's experience ranged from peace-keeping in western Missouri to anti-guerrilla operations in Tennessee and Missouri and conventional campaigns and battles in Georgia and the Carolinas. It was characterized as "one of the few that forgot its way from the Missouri River near Fort Leavenworth, to the Capital". . First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Boston: Little Brown, The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke. CR 1952. Frontis is a woodcut of Mary Ann by Bernard Brussel-Smith. 278 pages with index and notes and bibliography. Born Mary Ann Ball in 1817, she married a widower with young children and moved to Galesberg, Illinois. Reverend Edward Beecher and his congregation sent her to Cairo with donations for the war effort (Civil War). She worked at Fort Defiance Hospital in Caior. Then she joined Grant's Army and continued her nursing work. A hospital ship during WWII was names after her. All good+ condition.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Hobbs, Dorman & Co. A one-hundred year old chronicle of the assissination of President Abraham Lincoln from the early plotting to the execution of the conspirators. Foreward copyright 1965. This book, originally by J. R. Hawley in 165 was the first book to summarize the events leading up to and following the assassination of President Lincoln. . Soft Cover. (more information)

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New York: Castle Books CR 1956, special contents by Thomas Yoseloff published in arrangement with A.S. Barnes. Dust jacket and book very good. 752 pages. This is Volume 3 of the set of 4 about the Civil War. The most authoritative source book ever published on the Civil War. Eyewitness accounts, hundreds of drawings, steel engravings and maps from the original set.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Woodcuts by R.B. Dance. CR 1971. Heritage Printers, Cherokee, NC. Dust jacket with mylar and book all very good condition. 232 pages. Historical fact and fiction, a 14 year old, Rob Crawford, set out on an 800-mile trip to join his brother who was with Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross, heroic commander of the Sixth Texas Cavalry in Mississippi. This book records his trip to Mississippi, his adventures as a courier and later an orderly to Colonel Ross.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Edited by Ben Ames Williams. Title date 1949, CR 1905, 1949, 572 pages with index. Frontis of Mary Chestnut. This new edition includes passages that had been eliminated from the earlier 1905 edition. She wrote this diary day-to-day during the Civil War on whatever scraps of paper she could find; after the war she knew that the diary should be preserved so she began transcribing the original to a series of small notebooks. Brown covers, all good+ condition.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Konecky & Konecky. Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1909, reprint printed circa 1996, 539 pages with index. Text cuts, maps and black and white illustrations. This was the first book to accurately describe conditions on the borders during the tumultuous years of the Civil War, focusing on the life of Quantrill - the bloodiest man known to the annals of America. Quantrill gathered a troop of Raiders including Frank and Jesse James, and they burned and pillaged towns loyal to the Union along the Missouri-Kansas border during the Civil War.. Reprint of 1909 Edition.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by Wilfred Funk, CR 1940, CR 1940, 1st edition, 415 pages with index. Dust jacket slight tears, corners slightly bumped B&W photos all good+. Was there more than one plot? Was Booth killed or did he escape? Was Mrs. Surratt tortured be fore she was executed? Here are new long-buried revelations fully substantiated by documented evidence. Abraham Lincoln, Civi War, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Surratt, assassination, presidents.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Al. Knopf, CR 1996, dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition, 419 pages with index, sources, notes, and epilogue. Black and white photos in center of book. April 1865, Union troops, unimpeded, marched into the charred city of Richmond. The author conjures up wartime Richmond with its bread riots, hospitals crammed with amputees, rat infestation, etc., but despite universal hardship, Richmond crackled with spirit. The theaters kept showing plays, taffy parties, faro parlors and sewing circles kept most people entertained. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Second Edition. Published by The Pemberton Press, Jenkins Publ., Co, Austin, Texas. This published in 1969, 2nd edition. Dust jacket and book are very good condition. Black and white frontis of Abraha m Lincoln, with other black and white illustrations. 63 pages. Ferguson was the call boy and bit actor at Ford's Theater and was on the stage when Booth shot Lincoln. Also in the book are his memoirs of Washington and the surrounding area during the Civil War.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Dodd Mead, The Greatest Period in the Life of a Great American. Dust jacket has tears, red covers, all good+. 242 pages with index, black and white photos in the center. Lee resigned from the US Army in 1865 and was branded as a traitor and he seemed destined to spend his final years as a prisoner on parole - but he refused to do that and went on to become the President of Washington College and left a deeper mark on history in the four years after Appomattox than he and his troops made during the war years.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company Written while in active service in the Army of Northern Virginia, together with some personal recollections of the war written by him after its close. Compiled from the original manuscript by Puloski Cowper of Raleigh, North Carolina. Title date 1986, CR 1986 on new material. This is a reprint. 143 pages. Frontis is picture of Grimes. Mylar over covers, all very good condition. Major Grimes was one of the most prominant North Carolinians in the Army of Northern Virginia and was the last major under General Robert E. Lee.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by T. Crowell, CR 1898 with 399 pages. Gray illustrated covers, all good+. A story of Naval adventures in the Civil War 1861-1865 about a son who fought for the Union and a father who was a Confederate soldier on the inland wate rs of Virginia and North Carolina. He was in the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. New England, Americana, History, Civil War, Massachusetts, Regimental histories, Virginia, North Carolina, Confederate soldiers, Union Soldiers.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Lancaster, Ohio : Vanberg Publishing Introduction to 1996 edition by Eric J. Wittenberg. Blue covers with gilt lettering. X-Library with just stamps on title page with errata page. Very good condition. CR 1996. The Sixth Cavalry, known as Rush's Lancers, was made up of the cream of Philadelphia society and saw action in nearly every major cavalry engagement of the Civil War. Originally published in 1868. Written by a Chaplain, it was selected from all that was available because of its storied history and eloquent narrative, which brings this story to life. 371 pages with index. Less than 1,000 were originally published.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press Dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition. Illustrated pastedowns with Tennessee Campaign Map. From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War. CR 1995, 308 pages with index, bibliography, and notes on sources. Black and white photos, one map. Focused on Confederate General John Bell Hood's decisive action in the western theater of operation during the final moments of the Civil War, through the ravaged South to the City of Nashville where he makes one last futile attempt to preserve the Confederacy.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana/Chicago, CR 1983. Dust jacket and book are very good condition. "Being an account of the hatred felt by many Americans for President Abraham Lincoln d uring the Civil War and the first complete examination and refutation of the many theories, hypotheses, and speculations put forward since 1865 concerning those presumed to have aided, abetted, contro lled, or directed the murderous act of John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater the night of April 14." (from front page of dust jacket). Black and white illustrations in center of book, 303 pages with ind ex.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by Four Winds Press, CR 1968, CR 1968, 1st edition, 127 pages. Dust jacket and book good+. B&W illustrations. The death of Abraham Lincoln. Reconstructing the tragedy and description of origins of the plot and the twisted motives of John W ilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators. Abraham Lincoln, Presidents, Americana, assassinations, John Wilkes Booth, conspiracies.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Published by Grosset & Dunlap, CR 1931, 1936 by Bobbs Merrill, 514 pages with index. Illustrated endpapers, B&W photos. Backstrap is stained and has small tears. New and Revised edition with foreward by D. S. Freeman. Integrates memoirs, mo nographs, and official correspondence and reports. Civil War, Confederacy, wars.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Winston-Salem, NC: John F Blair. Naval Incidents of the Civil War. Dust jacket and book very good condition. CR 1989, 207 pages with index, black and white photos of ships and people. Stories about the Hunley, the experimental sumarine that sank the USS Housatonic, history's first sub attack. Epic battle between the Merimack and the Monitor, Davy Farragut's enrance into Mobile Bay, and the Alabama's desruption of Union shipping.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Chicago: Lakeside Classics, R. R. Donnelley Edited by Richard Harwell. Xmas 1962, CR 1962. Frontis black and white with tissue of E.R.S. Canby, black and white text cuts. 306 pages with 2 pages of Lakeside Classic Books. Has a business card "With the compliments of the Season, Paul Rydell, Lakeside Press, RR. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago". Blue covers with Lakeside Press logo on front cover, all very good condition.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by Crown CR 1954 with 326 pages w/index. Front cover is warped, dust jacket and book are good. Black and white sketches and photos, map on endpapers. True story of the conspiracy that came close to destroying the Union fro m within, getting Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to join the Confederacy while New York City was in flames, Chicago was ready for rebellion, 100,000 Northern Confederates stood ready to strike. Civil War, Confederate Army, Confederacy, Americana, History.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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T. Nelson, 1967 Cloth. Price Clipped, Very Good. First Edition. The Baltimore Plot Against Lincoln. Published by T. Nelson, CR 1967, 1st edition, 127 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped otherwise all is very good. Il lustrated endpapers of "The Flight Of Abraham", cartoon-style. Black and white sketches and photos. A Pinkerton agent discovers a plot to assassinate Lincoln a few weeks before the inauguration. They planned to ambush him when he changed trains in Baltimore. Lincoln escaped but the events of his trip read like a modern spy thriller. History, Americana, Abraham Lincoln, assassinations, Presidents, Civil War.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Charlotte, NC: Surry County Historical Society Delmar Printing CR 1992. Ink inscription and signature by author, "To Blanche Norman Falger a dear friend and neighbor". Also signed by Jackson below her printed name on the title page. 405 pages with index, black and white photos and sketches. North Carolina was the last state to secede in the Civil War in 1861. Letters to and from sons and fathers, sons and mothers, etc. Biographies of soldiers with birthdates, marriages, deaths, wounds suffered and children's names. Excellent reference for those researching family members, children's names, when they were born, location, where they moved to after the Civil War. Large book and heavy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Published by Hastings House, CR 1961, CR 1961 with 308 pages with index and bibliography. About J. Henry in the North and Matthew Maury in the South. Joseph Henry invented the electromagnet. Gray blue covers with blue lettering. All good+. Civil War, Confederacy, Union, Scientists, wars, Americana.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Boston: Published by Houghton Mifflin, CR 1911, published May 1911, 683 pages with 6 pages of ads. Decorated cover with gilt, slight fade to covers, and slight foxing on pages. Pencil inscription on front endpapers. Pastedown illustrations in front , the loose page is torn out. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (4 in color). End papers illustrated with Region 7 day fighting in Virginia. Civil War, Americana, illustrators, N.C. Wyeth, wars, Confederacy, Union.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press Dust jacket with mylar, all very good condition. CR 1993, first edition. Two maps and one photo of a page of a record of slave testimony. 391 pages with appendices and a cast of characters of blacks by name, if known, and their owners. Testimony is from slaves and others involved. In 1861 a group of slaves in Adams County, Missippi, conspired to gain their freedom by murdering their masters. But they were discoverd, arrested and tried, and were hanged.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New Jersey: Prentice Hall CR 1958, 282 pages with index. John Brown and a band of anti-slavery adherents swooped down onto Harper's Ferry to seize the Federal Arsenal hoping to start the end of Negroes held in bondage. This action fueled the rebellion against slave-holding states. Black and white photos, covers and content good+ condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. (more information)

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New York: Harper & Collins Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman's Campaign. Dust jacket has slight tears, 418 pages with index, bibliography & notes. Black and whie photos, maps. CR 1995. There is yellow highlite through page 119.. Hard Cover. (more information)

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