JAMESTOWN JOURNAL. EXTRA by [Civil War] [Gettysburg] - 1863

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5th Printing Hardcover in very good condition. Gray boards with black spine cloth containing silver spine lettering. Beige end papers show sepia-toned signature of Lincoln. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Contains a section of glossy black & white photographs / illustrations and several other illustrations/photographs in text. Dust jacket very good. Not price clipped. Concludes with four Appendixes: (A) The Program at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, November 19, 1863, (B) A Beautiful Hand: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's Hand, (C) Parsing Lincoln, and (D) Dollar Signs (A Brief Look at the Monetary Afterlives of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address.) These are followed by an extension section of notes to the chapters, Bibliographical information, Acknowledgments, and a comprehensive Index. 415 pages.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, t

Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers State Printer, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quartos. Two volumes. Volume I: x, 526 pages. Volume II: pages 527-1080. Illustrated with frontispieces both volumes and engraved plates in the text. Volumes restored by the National Library Bindery in Atlanta, Georgia. Original marbled paper covered boards remain. Newer faux leather corners and spines. Gilt titles on the spines. New white end sheets both volumes. Browning and foxing to the preliminary pages (up to iv) volume 1. Foxing to the title page volume 2. Light spotting to the foredges. Edge and shelf wear to the original covers. Interior contents clean. A good set.

New York, 1863. Elephant folio, 8pp. Disbound and lightly worn. Each page printed in six columns. Upper blank corners of last page with remnants of old matting. Very Good. Exciting material on the "Rebel Invasion" and "The Fighting at Gettysburg" is printed, with "The Rebels still Desperately Contesting" the Siege at Vicksburg. General Order No. 5, prohibiting Copperhead "Secret Societies," is also printed; as is material on "Colored Enlistments.

A field report from the Battle of Gettysburg by Major Allen G. Brady, commander of the 17th Connecticut Regiment, written on the 4th of July, 1863, the day after the battle ended in a great victory for the Union.

"We had not more than time to form before the enemy were discovered advancing rapidly upon us on our right & a full Brigade obliquely towards our left….our fire was so destructive it checked their advance the troops on our left giving way the enemy came in behind us but we still remained firmly at the stone wall until the rebels were driven back." [CIVIL WAR – GETTYSBURG].
Allen G. Brady, Autograph Manuscript, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1863. 6 pp., in pencil, an unsigned draft or retained copy.
With: [ANDREW JOHNSON]. Officer's commission of brevet Lieutenant Colonel to Allen G. Brady, "for gallant conduct at the Battle of Chancellorsville Va, to date from March 13, 1865," March 20, 1866, signed with stamp, not in ink; and,

With: ALLEN G. BRADY.
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