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.
Salem: Geo. W. Pease & Co, 1866. Sold to benefit the education of Soule's orphaned children. The 23rd Maine mustered in September 1862 for nine-months service, largely in the defense of Alexandria and along the Potomac. Read More about Major Soule. A Memorial of Alfred B. Soule, Late Major of the Twenty-third Regiment, Maine...
Price: $200
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1864. Read More about Pay and Tax Tables for the use of the Paymasters and others of the United States Navy
Price: $80
Np: [privately printed], 1883. Inscribed "Compliments of Fred. Phisterer" on the front endpaper. Read More about The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of...
Price: $150
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 about Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant...
Price: $3,500
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865-1866. Read More about Register of the Commissioned, Warrant and Volunteer Officers of the Navy of the United States,...
Price: $100
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865. Read More about Regulations for the Government of the United States Navy. 1865
Price: $80
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 about Reports of Experiments with Small Arms for the Military Service
Price: $125
Philadelphia: J.G.L. Brown, [1861]. Read More about Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861
Price: $80
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First edition. Read More about Recollections of War Times. Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington 1860-1865
Price: $80
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1865. Read More about Instructions for Making Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores
Price: $125
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 about System of Discipline for the Army
Price: $80
![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=1690408525)
[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 about Slocum [cover title]. A Hero sans peur et sans reproche. In Memoriam [preface by Alonzo...
Price: $1,000
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 about Autograph letter signed ("Edwin M Stanton") to John C Knox, regarding his silence in...
Price: $2,250
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 about Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army: Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry,...
Price: $150
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 about Autograph letter signed to Ulysses S. Grant, introducing Auguste Laugel, "a most intelligent...
Price: $600
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 about Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States
Price: $6,500
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 about Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, passed at called session, 1863, in the...
Price: $125
New York: D. Van Nostrand; London: Trubner & Company, 1861. Read More about Elementary Instruction in Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
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 about Letter of the Secretary of the Navy ... transmitting the official reports and documents connected...
Price: $200
Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1863. Read More about Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with An Appendix
Price: $100
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 about Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies as observed during the present war
Price: $850