James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a selection of printed and manuscript Civil War Americana, including new acquisitions and with material from a variety of collecting interests and price points. Highlights include the first separate printing of the Gettysburg Address, a collection of Confederate imprints from the "Rebel Archives," and the Metropolitan Police record of the Draft Riots in New York.
Price: $150
Np: [privately printed], 1883. Inscribed "Compliments of Fred. Phisterer" on the front endpaper. Read More Item Details for The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro', Tennessee, from December 31st, 1862 to January 3d, 1863, both dates inclusive Add to Wish List
Item #329203
Price: $3,500
Jersey City, NJ: May 3, 1916. Autobiographical Manuscript Memoir of a 19th Century American Photographer. Born on November 9, 1841, in Constance, Baden-Württtemberg, Germany, Gubelman arrived in New York in May 1854. The following year he found work with famed mapseller J. H. Colton "as pupil to Jos. Schedler who..... Read More Item Details for Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant photographer during the Civil War Add to Wish List
Item #321536
Price: $100
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865-1866. Read More Item Details for Register of the Commissioned, Warrant and Volunteer Officers of the Navy of the United States, including Officers of the Marine Corps and others, to January 1, 1865 Add to Wish List
Item #324198
Price: $80
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865. Read More Item Details for Regulations for the Government of the United States Navy. 1865 Add to Wish List
Item #324183
Price: $125
Washington, D.C: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. First edition. Includes Col. Huger's report of experiments made at Harper's Ferry 1853-54, Lieut. Benton's reports on 1854-1855 experiments and others, largely dealing with the firing of elongated bullets through rifled chambers. Read More Item Details for Reports of Experiments with Small Arms for the Military Service Add to Wish List
Item #324190
Price: $80
Philadelphia: J.G.L. Brown, [1861]. Read More Item Details for Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861 Add to Wish List
Item #324199
Price: $80
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First edition. Read More Item Details for Recollections of War Times. Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington 1860-1865 Add to Wish List
Item #324197
Price: $125
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865. Read More Item Details for Instructions for Making Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Add to Wish List
Item #324185
Price: $80
Washingtopn: Gales & Seaton, February 3, 1835. 23d Congress, 2d Session, Ho. of Reps, War Dept. Doc. No. 121. A revision of the system of discipline for the army, prepared by Major Generall Scott. Read More Item Details for System of Discipline for the Army Add to Wish List
Item #323500
![Item #317191 Slocum [cover title]. A Hero sans peur et sans reproche. In Memoriam [preface by...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/317191.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575489296)
Price: $1,000
[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
Price: $2,250
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
Price: $150
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
Price: $600
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
Price: $6,500
Philadelphia: Printed for the Navy Department, by T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1852. First American Uniform Book for the U.S. Navy. A rare color plate book describing and illustrating the uniforms and dress of officers in the United States Navy and Marines. Contains several pages of detailed regulations on the dress..... Read More Item Details for Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States Add to Wish List
Item #332767
Price: $125
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
Price: $200
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
Price: $200
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
Price: $100
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
Price: $850
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1863. First edition. Joseph Janvier Woodward was an 1853 University of Pennsylvania medical graduate entered the Union Army in June 1861 and was assigned to serve as regimental surgeon with an artillery unit. Woodward served with the Army of the Potomac and participated in the..... Read More Item Details for Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies as observed during the present war Add to Wish List
Item #324168