nd. [c. 1880-90s]. A remarkable collection of newspaper dispatches, maps, plans, portraits and illustrated scenes of battles and... Read More about Remarkable bespoke bound collection of Civil War extracts, illustrations and ephemera
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[Cambridge: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, November 1930]. No. 77 of 350 copies, signed by the author. Read More about American Vignettes
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Wilmington, DE: Press of Ferris Bros., Printers, 1883. First edition, one of 50 copies. Privately Printed in a Small Edition. Both this work and DuPont's EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LETTERS … were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that..... Read More about Official Dispatches and Letters of Rear Admiral Du Pont, U.S. Navy. 1846-48.1861-63
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"On Picket Duty" November 8, 1862. Parsippany NJ Soldier killed at Fredericksburg. Read More about ALS. To His sister Marietta
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[Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963]. From the Library of Charles Edison. Read More about Civil War Naval Chronolgy 1861-1865
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Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co, 1865. Second edition. The experiences of a woman who diguised herself as a man and entered the Union Army with the Army of the Potomac. She was born in New Brunswick, Canada. It is not clear when the first edition of this book appeared. probably..... Read More about Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in...
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Philadelphia: Ledger & Co. Printing Establishment, [1865]. American painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900) lived in the White House while he worked on his large-scale painting titled First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln, finishing it in 1864. The "painting deals in its subject matter with a significant historical..... Read More about Emancipation Proclamation. Carpenter's Great National Picture the Emancipation Proclamation...
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[New York: 1881]. Rare broadside poem by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Field, 1814-1893, on the first man in the U.S. Navy to hold the title of Admiral. Read More about Written on the occasion of the unveiling Farragut statue by St. Gaudens, on 25th May, 1881, City...
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St Louis: Published for the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, R.P. Studley & Co, 1864. First edition. Read More about The Western Sanitary Commission: Sketch of Its Origin, History, Labors for the Sick and Wounded...
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New York: Scribner's, 1945. Later edition. Freeman classic. Read More about Lee's Lieutenants. A Study in Command
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Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge, Prs. fl. 1877-1900, nd. Read More about Memorial Hymn. Dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic
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Zanesville, [Ohio]: Courier, 1844. Gatling is most famous for the Gatling Gun, but an inventor of a rice sowing machine as well as this wheat drill. In 1850 he also received an M.D. from Ohio Medical College, but never practised. In 1861 just in time for the Civil War he..... Read More about Broadside: "Farmers of the United States. Drill your Wheat, and save in one year...
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New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Read More about The Artillerist's Manual, compiled from various sources, and adapted to the Service of the United...
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Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1861. First edition. Union-printing of the premier drill manual employed by both sides during the Civil War. The author was instructior of tactics at the Virginia Military Institute, an the Confederate Richmond printing of his manual is more typically encountered. A very nice, bright copy in the..... Read More about Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the United States
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[New York: Ellison B. Greenstone, 145 W. 45th St, 1939]. Keepsake from the first run of the movie. rare in good condition. Read More about Gone with the Wind
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Read More about Reminiscences of the Civil War
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Early Reprint (First edition was 1866). Read More about The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, & Other Rebel Prisons, W/...
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Princeton [NJ]: March 1858. The Rebels of Princeton. By the end of the 18th century forty percent of undergraduates enrolled at at Princeton came from below the Mason-Dixon line, which was described in an article in the Princeton Alumni (“Princeton in the Confederacy’s Service,” Maynard, March 23, 2011) as “the..... Read More about Autograph Book of Hon. George Gray from his Princeton Years, with the sentiments and signatures...
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Guiford, Ct: Feb. 13, 1864. Mentioning requests he receives for "Autographs, etc...from Ladies in aid of no end of 'Sanitary Fairs. Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed. To H.(enry) T.(heodore) Tuckerman
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[Washington]: June 15, 1860. With inscription on endpaper "J. W. Van Arsdale From Gnr. (Jnr?)R. Thomson N. S.S Aug 1860." Senate report 278. Read More about Report. The Select Committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and...
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New York: Published by Mason Brothers 23 Park Row, 1855. First edition. "The Preface of the book is of interest because it contains a curious prediction of the Civil War." - Van Winkle. Read More about Wager of Battle; A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest
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New York: Published by Mason Brothers 23 Park Row, 1855. First edition. Inscribed at The Cedars. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: “Richard E. ——, with the regards of his friend the author, Henry Wm Herbert, The Cedars” "The Preface of the book is of interest because it..... Read More about Wager of Battle; A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest
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Boston: D.B. Updike: The Merrymount Press, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED TO H.C. LODGE. Inscribed: " H.C.Lodge from H.L. Higginson July 8, 1902". Robert Gould Shaw and his black soldiers of 54th Massachusetts Volunteers has been immortalized by the movie. Read More about Four Addresses: The Soldiers' Field: The Harvard Union I: The Harvard Union II: Robert Gould Shaw
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1965]. Limited SIGNED edition, no. 1 of 15 author's presentation copies specially bound. Copy Number One, Inscribed to the Publisher. INSCRIBED on colophon page by the author below his signature, "Margaret & John Farrar, my friends, with devoted respect 1965." Read More about Songs after Lincoln
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New York: The James Kempster Printing Company 117-119-121 Liberty Street, n.d. [1903]. First edition. "Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Society of America [v. 6, pp. 161-171]" A history of two Scotch-Irish American families from Ohio that gave two fathers and fourteen sons to the military service of the..... Read More about A Brief Historical Sketch of the "Fighting McCooks"
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