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

Philadelphia: Robert P. Desilver, 1839. First edition, Presentation Copy: inscribed by Anderson to Capt. Silas Casey on verso of the title. Presentation Copy. Presentation copy of an important military manual, from one future Civil War general to another. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, graduated West Point the year prior to..... Read More about Instruction for Field Artillery, Horse and Foot. Translated from the French and Arranged for the...

New York: The Neale Publishing Co, 1914. First edition. Read More about The Life of Turner Ashby

Staten Island: 1866. Includes pay rolls, appropriations, returns of revenue taxes, accounts of dispursements, etc., most signed by Barnard. Barnard graduated from West Point in 1833 at the top of his class, embarking on a 48-year career in the Corps of Engineers. After service in the Mexican War, Barnard oversaw..... Read More about Archive of partly-printed documents, most signed by Barnard, relating to Corps of Engineer...

Camp Monmouth, Washington D.C: May 18, 1861. When the Civil War began, Clara Barton was working as a copyist in the Patent Office. Union troops passing through Baltimore on the way to Washington were attacked by a mob of pro-Confederate sympathizers. Visiting the wounded being treated at the Washington Infirmary..... Read More about Autograph note signed, as commanding officer of the 4th N.J. Infantry, a military pass issued to...

[Washington, D.C.]: [March 1869]. Barton Petitions Congress to Assist Freed Slaves in Washington, D.C. On March 25, 1869, Charles Sumner presented on the floor of the Senate the present memorial by Barton "in favor of the passage of the joint resolution giving surplus tools and machinery for the use of..... Read More about Autograph manuscript signed, her memorial to Congress arguing that freed slaves had not been...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1928. First edition, one of 500 copies uncut. Read More about Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858

New York: Chas. Magnus, nd (c.)1863. Read More about "Bonnie Blue Flag" with Seal of Maryland on right

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...

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 about 5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War

Washington, D.C: 1856. Read More about Report of the Secretary of War...a copy of the report of Captain Thomas J. Cram, of November,...

Garden City, NY: 1954. Signed by Eugene V. Connett on half title. Read More about A Stillness at Appomattox