With Two Mathew Brady Images from the Field
Eight photographs of General Winfield Scott Hancock
V.p. [Virginia, Washington, D.C., et al]: ca. 1861-1865, printed ca. 1870s. With Two Mathew Brady Images from the... Read More
Price: $17,500
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'Have Hopes That I Shall See You'
Autograph note signed ("Charles Sumner") to Dr. Edward Jarvis ("Sir").
Boston: Wednesday 23rd Nov, 1859. 'Have Hopes That I Shall See You'. A brief note by the fiery orator, abolitionist leader, and radical Republican Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner (1811-1874), written the year he returned to the Senate after being infamously caned by Representative Preston Brooks after days after Sumner... Read More
Price: $150
Deluxe Issue
Confederate Arms.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More
Price: $750
Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of Representatives, January...
Washington: M'Gill & Withrow, 1861. Concerning what Garnett considered the disastrous economic and political consequences of the emancipation of slaves: "...the destruction of southern wealth and industry will be almost complete...You may substitue the slavery of the law...but you will get not half work; and in destroying the personal and..... Read More
Price: $100
The Life of Turner Ashby.
New York: The Neale Publishing Co, 1914. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
Inside: A Chronicle of Secession. By George F. Harrington.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. A novel of Southern society during the Civil War. Read More
Price: $200
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-1865).
Washington, D.C: General Printing Office, 1875. Second Issue (Vol. III, 1 first edition). Read More
Price: $2,000
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1928. First edition, one of 500 copies uncut. Read More
Price: $250
Composed since Blind...Tune-Power of Prayer.
np: nd. Probably Matthew Burdick of the 85th New York who was blinded in the Civil War. Read More
Price: $75
"Bonnie Blue Flag" with Seal of Maryland on right.
New York: Chas. Magnus, nd (c.)1863. Read More
Price: $250
The New-York Tribune. Containing front-page story of the apprehension and death of John Wilkes Booth.
New York: New-York Tribune, Friday, April 28, 1865. Vol. XX, No. 2,079. Read More
Price: $175
The Tax-Payer's Manual; Containing the Entire Internal Revenue Laws, With the Tables of Taxation, Exemption, Stamp-Duties, &c., and a Complete...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1866. First edition. Our first attempt at a graduated Income Tax to help finance the Civil War. Read More
Price: $300
![The Lugo Case, A Personal Experience. [With]: Capture Of The Ironclad, "Indianola." Joseph Lancaster Brent.](/pictures/thumb/253289.jpg?v=1539018814)
The Lugo Case, A Personal Experience. [With]: Capture Of The Ironclad, "Indianola."
New Orleans: Searcy & Pfaff, 1926. Brent was a lawyer and politician in California before becoming a Confederate Brigadier General. In this volume, which was published as two works together, he recounts the details of a murder case he tried in early Los Angeles in the 1850s, and the capture... Read More
Price: $400
ON CIVIL WAR
5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War.
Rochdale: 1858-1866. ON CIVIL WAR. John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, a Quaker orator who battled the Corn Laws, and a promoter of free-trade policies. He says in one letter, dated January 11, 1865: "I take a special interest in the United States because they seem to... Read More
Price: $450
Report of the Secretary of War...a copy of the report of Captain Thomas J. Cram, of November, 1856, on the...
Washington, D.C: 1856. Read More
Price: $85
Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886.
Charleston, South Carolina: [c. 31 August 1886]. An album of 120 vintage albumen photographs showing the devastation to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, following the earthquake of August 31, 1886. Estimated to have reached a magnitude of between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter scale, the earthquake left 60... Read More
Price: $25,000
Confederate Imprint
By-Laws of the Orphan House of Charleston South Carolina. Revised and Adopted by the Board of Commissioners 4th April 1861.
Charleston: Steam Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. First edition. Confederate Imprint. Read More
Price: $150
Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph
“The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition in Union Depot, Chattanooga, Tenn.”...
n.p: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, n.d. Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph. An absolutely brilliant chromolithograph, printed on heavy coated stock, its clarity of detail putting most examples of this medium to shame. Caption states: “The 'General' was captured at Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Ga. April 12, 1862, by..... Read More
Price: $750
Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907. First Edition. A detailed biography of the colorful financier (1821-1905), whose firm marketed the huge Civil War loans of the Federal Government; whose marketing of its bonds enabled the Northern Pacific Railroad to expand to the Dakotas; and whose firm's eventual closing precipitated the Panic... Read More
Price: $250
Rare and Fragile Civil War Map
Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States.
New York: Phelps & Watson, Publishers, 16 Beekman St, 1864. Rare and Fragile Civil War Map. 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... Read More
Price: $1,000
Blue Jackets of ’61. A History of the Navy in the War of Secession.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1886. Mcvickar. First edition. An unusual item with a very handsome cover. Read More
Price: $150
Letters of … Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac. Edited by E.S.A.
Privately Printed, n.d.[1890]. Grandson of a Signer. Read More
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Autograph letter signed "J. W. Bishop" to Daniel Aldrich, a lawyer in Warren or Washington Counties, New York.
258 Henry Street, New York: 13 November, 1861. Bishop writes Aldrich regarding a legal case concerning a lien on some property, in the post script he writes "The news from the South today is cheering-important & fully confirmed. Our troops have taken Port Royal, 2 or 3 forts & made... Read More
Price: $250
Original Acrostics, on Some of the Southern States, Confederate Generals, and Various Other Persons and Things.
St Louis: Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co, 1869. First edition. Read More
Price: $200