vp: Most ca. 1861-1864. Pro-Union Covers in Contemporary Album. An album of nearly 100, unadressed pro-Union pictorial envelopes assembled during the war and housed in a contemporary album made for the purpose. The illustrations on the envelopes are done in the style of caricature, and bear an array of pro-Union..... Read More about An album of Civil War Patriotic Pictorial Covers with pro-Union designs and slogans

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, March 3, 1863. 37th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 82. Read More about Annual Report of the Post Office Department. Letter from the Postmaster General

New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1874. First edition. The author served as an officer in Alex Haskell's 7th South Carolina Cavalry and recounts the final days of the Confederacy. This example with provenance to Charles Herbst, who served with the First Kentucky Brigade of the Confederate Army (aka..... Read More about The Falling Flag. Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox. By an Officer of...

Charleston: Joseph Walker, Agt., Stationer and Printer, 129 Meeting-st, 1866. First edition. A resident of Charleston from 1796 onward, he became editor of the Southern Patriot and later its publisher. A Sephardic Jew, both he and his brother Isaac were influential among the Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston. The..... Read More about Reminiscences of Charleston

New York: Sheldon & Co, 1864. First edition. Read More about Report on the Organization & Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac with an Account of the...

Washington, D.C: War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers [Lithographed by Julius Bien, New York], [1869]. First Edition. The topographic maps comprise: 1A. Gettsburg to Appomattox Court House (northern) 1B Gettysburg to Appomattox Court House (southern) 2. Fredericksburg 3. Chancellorville, 4. The Wilderness 5. Spottsylvania 6. North Anna (single..... Read More about Military Maps Illustrating the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James, May 4th,...

New York: Phelps & Watson, Publishers, 16 Beekman St, 1864. Fragile and very scarce map from the Civil War, this copy being issued after May, 1864, as the final entry on the accompanying booklet listing skirmishes concludes with 'spotsylvania, Pa." The map itself locates battles and skirmishes by means of..... Read More about Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States

[Washington, D.C.]: [Government Printing Office], [1885]. Robert Scott's pencil inscription at the head of the wrapper title: "This carefully revised statement differs materially from Genl. Meade's statement." According to Nicholson, only fifty copies printed. Scott served as editor of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion. Read More about Return of Casualties in the Union Forces (Mag.-Gen. George G. Meade, U.S. Army, Comdg.) at the...

[Richmond]: 1864. This partly printed form accepts payment in taxes by supplying the Confederate government with crops, i.e. wheat, oat, sheaf oats, rye, cured hay or wool. The verso includes a listing of 5 "Special Exemptions." Though partly accomplished in manuscript, the handwriting is quite faded. OCLC locates three examples..... Read More about Tax in Kind. Form No. 1. Estimate No. Estimate and Assessment of Agricultural Products which are...

New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers, 1866. Second edition. Read More about The Nation's Loss. A Discourse upon the Life and Services and Death of Abraham Lincoln

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...

Galveston: 1870. This broadside, published by Galveston's largest newspaper, includes a printing of Lee's General Orders No. 9, as well as a poem titled Lee at the Wilderness. Read More about The Galveston News. In Memory of the Death of Robert E. Lee

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1862. Read More about Manual of Bayonet Exercise: Prepared for the Use of the Army of the United States ... Printed by...