Civil War

1863 1ed Confederate Civil War Southern Pictures Estvan Longstreet Robert E Lee

Bela Estvan was French author who, while traveling in America, became fascinated by the American Civil War. He was especially impressed by General James Longstreet whom he describes as "one of the ablest generals of the Confederate army." He also gives accounts of various battles including Bull Run, Battle of Bethel, Battle of Manassas, and numerous battles in Missouri including the Battle of Lexington and Wilson's Creek.

Item number: #9247
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ESTVAN, Bela
War pictures from the South
New York: Appleton, 1863. First edition

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[viii], 352, [2]
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References: Piston, Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant;
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Language: English
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Binding: Cloth; tight and secure
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Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21cm x 14cm)
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1862 1ed SLAVE Census DATA Indians Confederacy Civil War Steel Industry
The 'Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census' is the last census report to show slavery data. Interestingly, since the preceding Census of the U.S. (1850) added every member of the household including women, children and slaves, Kennedy added also American Indians if they had renounced tribal rules. Particularly are the government discussions on disabilities of blindness, idiocy, and the major diseases at the time.

This 1862 edition of Kennedy's census report includes topics such as:
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Growth of New York with an added population of 783,000 to Virginia where the population had gone down by 17% for the white population (and 3.88% of the slave population)
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Indian slavery
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Manumission
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Fugitive slaves
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Mortality rates and notes the rates of both whites and slaves
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Various disabilities including the deaf and dumb as well as the blind
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Growth of various asylums for the… Read More

1887 Civil War 1st ed George McClellan Own Story Union General Slavery Lincoln
"The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood."
– George B. McClellan

A rare first edition of George B. McClellan's "Own Story" which wasn't published until 1887, after his death. McClellan used this work as a platform to defend his conduct, actions, and decisions during the Mexican American War and Civil War. This book includes letters to his wife, in which McClellan reveals his pride as a general as well as his feelings toward war.
Some of the most important inclusions in this work are McClellan's views on the causes and reasons for the Civil War, noting slavery and the Lincoln-Douglas debates as primary causes, but he blamed the South as the culprit for causing the uprising, rather than putting any blame on the North.
Per Eicher,
"This is in large part a reworking of McClellan's 'Letter of the… Read More

1884 1ed Confederate War Papers General Gustv Smith Battle Seven Pines Civil War

Gustavus Woodward Smith was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, best remembered for his role in the Battle of Seven Pines. When General Joseph Johnson was injured, Smith took over the commanding role until his health deteriorated and Robert E. Lee ultimately took over.
Following the war, Smith published a memoir of his experience in the war. 'Confederate War Papers' covers topics including Jefferson Davis's presidential election, battle tactics and maneuvers, Confederate defenses and forts, and much emphasis on the Battle of Seven Pines. However, according to Nevins,
"Smith was a failure as a general; this work is largely his rationalization for shortcomings at Seven Pines."
Item number: #14309
Price: $499
SMITH, Gustavus W
Confederate War Papers
New York, Atlantic Pub. and engraving Co., 1884. 1st edition

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1881 Civil War Boys of 61 Illustrated Battle Bull Run Richmond CSA Fall Coffin

Charles Coffin's 'Boys of '61' is a 19th-century account of battle efforts from the Civil War. This book describes specific battles and skirmishes giving special attention to guerilla and militia warfare. One particular instance of this is accompanied by a fine engraving of the Union army in Missouri seeing troops burning houses, crops, farm animals, wagons, and all types of private property, causing devastation throughout the west.
Item number: #14652
Price: $399
COFFIN, Charles Carleton
The boys of '61 ; or, Four years of fighting : personal observation with the army and navy : from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881. 1st edition

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xviii, 558
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Heavily illustrated throughout
· Provenance: Handwritten – Frank F. Stokes, 1881
· Language: English

· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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1864 Civil War 1ed Life w/ 49th Massachusetts Volunteers Illustrated Portraits
"Have I the right to take a human life? To be slain seems not half so fearful as to slay."
– Henry T. Johns
Henry T. Johns was a Union Soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. Army's highest decoration: the Medal of Honor. He joined the 49th Massachusetts Infantry from Hinsdale, Massachusetts in September 1862, and mustered out with this regiment one year later. He was commissioned as an officer of the 61st Massachusetts Infantry in September 1864 and mustered out with this regiment in June 1865.
A first edition account of "Life with the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers" featuring woodcut engraved illustrations throughout the text.

Item number: #15664
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JOHNS, Henry
Life with the Forty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers
Pittsfield, Mass. : Published for the author, 1864. 1st edition

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o 14 woodcuts by S.J. Pinkney including… Read More

1865 1st ed Confederate General John Morgan Raid Civil War Ohio CSA Senour
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general during the Civil War best known for his infamous raid in Ohio in which he disregarded orders and suffered serious losses. While he intended to confuse and disrupt Union forces, his execution of plans significantly derailed the Confederate push.
Reverend author Faunt Senour wrote a biographical sketch of the life and military career of Morgan. Nevins notes that this work is "largely of Morgan's 1863 raid".

Item number: 16509
Price: $499
SENOUR, Faunt
Morgan and his captors
Cincinnati ; Chicago : C.F. Vent & Co., 1865. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o x, 389, [1]
o Engraved frontispiece
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References: Sabin 79144; Nevins I, p.157
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Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
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· Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 14cm)
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[Civil War ][Virginia] Virginia Electoral Ticket. [Davis & Stephens] [Virginia?]: [publisher not identified]. 1861. Printed ballot for the 1861. 11 x 13 cm. Unevenly cut. Printed on blue paper. Writing on verso: "Geo. H. Thomas Congress Critcher."
OCLC shows 9 holdings (Cornell; Newberry; Boston Athenaeum; Williams Coll.; Miami Univ.; Library of Virginia; Virginia Hist. Soc.; Duke & Yale). Hummel, Southeastern Broadsides Before 1877 No. 4668. Confederate Virginia election of Jefferson Davis for President, Alexander Stephens for Vice President, and others. This represents the only presidential election held by the Confederate States of America. The Jefferson Davis–Alexander H. Stephens ticket ran unopposed, and was elected to serve a six-year term

[Civil War] [Texas] Gideon Welles. General Order, No. 55. [Washington, D.C.?]: [publisher not identified] May 24, 1865. White printed wraps. 21 cm. One sheet folded into four leaves, printing on first two only. Two small holes in margin, not affecting the text, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this order. Signed in type: Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Andrew Johnson, President and W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. Announcement of the order by President Johnson to end the naval blockade against foreign commerce, except in the ports of Galveston, Lasalle, Brazos de Santiago (Port Isabel) and Brownsville, Texas. "All such offenders will be held and dealt with as pirates." Although Lee had surrendered in April 1865, the Confederate armies in Texas had not surrendered, hence the U. S. naval blockade on Texas ports needed to be maintained.

[Texas] [Civil War] S. H. Darcy. Autograph letter, signed. La Grange, Texas. June 4, 1863. To Mrs. Jones. One page. 8 x 10.5 in. Black ink on blue paper. Approximately 250 words.
La Grange, Texas, the county seat of Fayette County, was untouched by fighting during the Civil War. This letter gives an interesting view of the home front in 1863. A long discussion on getting a quantity of sugar, which would have been scarce and which "cost me by the hogshead 1 dollar a pound" but will let her have a pound for "less than 1 dollar and 25 cents." Mentions someone who traveled to Arkansas and saw her sister, indicating that the war had not yet disrupted travel of that sort. In addition, a number of Confederate militia companies were organized at La Grange. The letter writer indicates that a friend had a letter from "Wink" who says "they are ordered to the Rio grande." Civil war material of this type from La Grange is uncommon.

[Texas] [Reconstruction] M. St. Johns, Register.
Elector Certificate and Oath. New Orleans: Peter O'Donnell, Stationer [1867]. Partially printed form with manuscript insertions. One sheet 22.5 x 28 cm printed on both sides. Has been folded. Some chips and small splits to one edge. Very good.
OCLC shows two holdings for similar forms in Louisiana (Tulane [2]). A Reconstruction Era form for elections in the former Confederated States. St. Johns certified that , a resident of Carthage, Panola County, Texas was registered as a qualified elector of the Panola County. On the back was an oath, signed by Jones, who declared that he had "not been disenfranchised for participating in any rebellion or civil war against the United States" never participated in "insurrection and rebellion against the United States" nor "held any executive of judicial office in any State and afterwards engages in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, and given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof" and will… Read More

[[Slavery] [African American] Thomas Taylor. Autograph Letter, Signed. [Columbus, Texas?]: January 7, 1861. Handwritten letter on gray lined paper. 20 x 23 cm. Discoloration and small splits at old folds. Writing is legible.
Mr. Taylor writes to a friend passing on word that "Mr. Shropshire requested me to let you know that he wishes the negro hire settled." Says Mr. Shropshire will be here a few days and mentions he may be in Lagrange today. There is a town named La Grange in Texas and there was a prominent slave and plantation owner named Shropshire in nearby Columbus, Texas. John Samuel Shropshire moved to Texas in 1854 and settled in Columbus, Colorado County. In 1860 Shropshire owned sixty-one slaves and operated a 750-acre plantation. - Handbook of Texas. It was common for slavers to hire out the enslaved persons, as shown in this letter on the eve of the Civil War.

1867 Confederate 1ed John Morgan's Raid CIVIL WAR Basil Duke Gettysburg Vicksburg
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War known mostly by his now famous Raid, an operation now known as 'Morgan's Raid'. Morgan sought to slow the Union growth in both Vicksburg and Gettysburg (both of which would become war-changing battles) by moving Confederate troops throughout the North hoping to draw Union armies toward the raiders and away from strongholds.
Morgan was shot and killed during his raid; however, one of Morgan's officers, Basil Duke, wrote a memoir on the life of General Morgan following the War – a work which provides incredible first-hand details on the raid and its influence on the Civil War.
According to Coleman,
"This work is the standard account of General John H. Morgan and his Confederate Cavalry. The author, Basil Duke, assumed command of Morgan's Cavalry after the death of General Morgan in 1864."
Krick supports this by saying that the work is
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Original drapery from Lincoln home on front panel. The book was in a case which is not in good condition. Original will be shipped with the book.
The book and hard cover is in good condition. The interior of the book is almost new. Book has many personal and other illustrations. This book is priceless. It has first hand accounts from her sister Emilie (Helm), from her personal diaries, and from numerous documents and letters written to and from Mary Lincoln.

Very rare edition of both volumes of Sandberg's Lincoln The Prairie Years published in a single book