Item 300151Personal Memoirs of.
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New York: Charles Webster, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for Personal Memoirs of.. Add to Wish List
Item #300151
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New York: Charles Webster, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for Personal Memoirs of.. Add to Wish List
Item #300151
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Boston: Printed by Warren Richardson, 1869. Scarce piece of post-bellum American humor by Brown, proposing a celebration of the end of the Civil War on Boston Common. “We have not, as a people commemorated this great event, except in the hanging of Wirz, and the acquittal of Surratt…The object of..... Read More Item Details for Our Great Peace Festival and Pow-Wow; To be Held in Boston, June 1869 Add to Wish List
Item #9901
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[Providence, R.I: Livermore & Knight, n.d., 1886]. A Slocum ‘Biscuit’. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Bull Run, veterans of the Civil War honor the memory of the Rhode Island hero, John Stanton Slocum, first colonel of the Second Rhode Island volunteers, who fell in..... Read More Item Details for Slocum [cover title]. A Hero sans peur et sans reproche. In Memoriam [preface by Alonzo Williams]. “For What He Was and All He Dared Remember Him Today” [Memoir] by Olney Arnold Add to Wish List
Item #317191
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New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 16 & 18 Jacob St., Fire-Proof Building, 1860. First edition. About John Brown and suit against Watts Sherman, etc. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was his first cousin. Read More Item Details for Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New York Add to Wish List
Item #216999
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Richmond: Jany 23 1864. William "Extra Billy" Smith (1797 – 1887) was a lawyer, congressman, the 30th and 35th Governor of Virginia, and a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On his appointment in January 1863, at the age of 65, Smith was the..... Read More Item Details for ALS to Governor William Smith of Va., with "Extra Billy's" note on back agreeing with the assessment, asking for help for his brother Captain Thomas L. Pitts Add to Wish List
Item #316346
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [co. 1888]. Read More Item Details for The Sailor Boys of ’61 Add to Wish List
Item #226718
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Washington, D.C: Printed by Judd & Detweiler, 1870. Tributes to Lincoln's Secretary of War, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by Grant, and died four days after his confirmation. Scarce. Read More Item Details for Eulogies Delivered on the Occasion of the Announcement of the Death of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States, by Members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Claims Add to Wish List
Item #228262
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Washington, D.C: July 21, 1862. "I felt that it was better for the country that I should be falsely accused..." A letter from Lincoln's secretary of war, then embroiled in controversy over actions taken during the Peninsula campaign in the early spring and summer of 1862, to his friend, retired..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("Edwin M Stanton") to John C Knox, regarding his silence in the face of accusations he'd withheld support from McClellan's Peninsula campaign of 1862 Add to Wish List
Item #313767
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Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, [1866]. First edition. Stephens was the Vice-President of the Confederacy, after prison term Governor and Senator from Georgia. Read More Item Details for Alexander H[amilton) Stephens, in Public and Private, with Letters and Speeches, before, during and since the War Add to Wish List
Item #244608
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New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1863. Second edition. William G. Stevenson was a physician from Troy N. Y. and a correspondent for the Memphis Avalanche covering the war in the South. He was impressed into service in the Second Tennessee Volunteers. Read More Item Details for Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army: Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; with an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South. By an Impressed New Yorker Add to Wish List
Item #324164
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n.p: 1892. Kruell, Gustav. Harriet Beecher Stowe Engraving with Artist's Autograph Letter, signed. Gustav Kruell (1843-1907) was born in Germany and established himself as an engraver in Stuttgart. He came to the US in 1873, and quickly obtained commissions from the leading illustrated periodicals. He fell under the artistic influence..... Read More Item Details for Proof portrait wood engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and artist's Autograph Letter, signed concerning it, with another engraving of unidentified man Add to Wish List
Item #43578
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[Boston: n.d., ca. May 1861]. Stowe requests portrait of daughter, for her son ‘who leaves for the seat of war’. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin writes to well known Boston photographer James Wallace Black (1825-1896): “Mr. Black, My daughter Miss Stowe I wish if possible to have taken this..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Note, Signed (“H B Stowe”) to Mr. [James Wallace] Black, photographer of Boston, arranging a portrait of her daughter “for her brother [the author’s son Frederick] who leaves for the seat of war on Saturday” Add to Wish List
Item #212557
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Washington, D.C: January 16, 1865 [the book: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930]. To Ulysses S. Grant. Laugel (1830-) would publish an account of the war, including his experience among Grant's army in January 1865, titled Etats-Unis Pendant la Guerre. For an English translation of the portion of the..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed to Ulysses S. Grant, introducing Auguste Laugel, "a most intelligent friend of our country & of the national cause" Add to Wish List
Item #323683
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New York: Printed for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1918-1919. From an edition limited to 1200 copies of each volume. Read More Item Details for Confidential Correspondence Of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865 Add to Wish List
Item #258368
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Annapolis Junction: Headquarters 109th, Sept 16 1863. During the Civil War, Tracy commanded the 109th New York Infantry Regiment, and served as a Union Brigadier General. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864. He beacme in 1889..... Read More Item Details for Letter Signed. To James J. Johnson. Withdrawing the recommendation of promotion of Ist Lieut. P.W. Hopkins and placing instead the name of Orderly Sargeant Edwin Evans Co. "C" Add to Wish List
Item #249319
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for North America Add to Wish List
Item #247250
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New York: Harper & Row, [1972]. First edition. Inscribed to Jane Engelhard by Reuben Askew, Governor of Florida, on the flyleaf. Read More Item Details for Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish Add to Wish List
Item #226752
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Richmond: William F. Ritchie, 1863. Confederate Imprint. Pages 3-27 comprise the public acts and pages 29-45 private acts, with Resolutions on pages 47-51 and an index in the rear. See pages 4-6 for the passage of laws related to the use of slaves in the defense of the state... Read More Item Details for Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, passed at called session, 1863, in the eighty-eighth year of the Commonwealth Add to Wish List
Item #322981
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Hartford: The J.B. Burr Publishing Co, 1875. First edition. Fry was Captain of the S.S. Virginius, a Cuban blockade runner fraudulently flying US colors and carrying guns and 300 Cuban rebels, when, in 173 it was seized by Spanish authorities Fry and over 50 U.S. and British citizens were executed..... Read More Item Details for Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, The Cuban Martyr. Being a faithful Record of His Remarkable Career from Childhood to the Time of His Heroic Death at the Hands of Spanish Executioners; Recounting His Experience as an Officer in the U.S. and Confederate Navies, and Revealing much of the Inner History and Secret Marine Service of the Late Civil War in America Add to Wish List
Item #58258
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Vicksburg, Miss: Thursday July 2-4, 1863 [actually c. 1888]. Wall-Paper Newspaper Facsimile. A facsimile of a Confederate wall-paper newspaper, printed on the verso of a sheet of wallpaper due to the scarcity of paper. “Compelled to print on one side of the paper only, and frequently shorn of advertisements, [the..... Read More Item Details for Daily Citizen [FACSIMILE] Add to Wish List
Item #224763
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New York: D. Van Nostrand; London: Trubner & Company, 1861. Read More Item Details for Elementary Instruction in Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Add to Wish List
Item #324169
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Chicago,Ill: Feb 6, 1885. Washburne was Secretary of State under Grant for 5 days. he met Grant in Galena and they became fast friends. He also was a strong supporter of Lincoln. He was known for his courage, and met President-elect Abraham Lincoln upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. on..... Read More Item Details for A.N.S.Response to a letter from Richard Kaives asking for address of Dr. Lyon Playfair, the English Parliamentarian Add to Wish List
Item #249660
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1862. 37th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 56. The plates depict the sinking of the Manassas and the Ram Louisiana. The work principally relates to the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Read More Item Details for Letter of the Secretary of the Navy ... transmitting the official reports and documents connected with the recent engagements on the Mississippi river Add to Wish List
Item #323025
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1863. Read More Item Details for Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with An Appendix Add to Wish List
Item #324201
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Boston: John L. Shorey, 1863. Seventh edition. Inscribed H.P. Hoppin from J. Amory. Read More Item Details for The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of the Congresss in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery Add to Wish List
Item #214673