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: 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 about Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. A novel of Southern society during the Civil War. Read More about Inside: A Chronicle of Secession. By George F. Harrington

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

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1866. First edition. Our first attempt at a graduated Income Tax to help finance the Civil War. Read More about The Tax-Payer's Manual; Containing the Entire Internal Revenue Laws, With the Tables of Taxation,...

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

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 about Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886

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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 about Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1886. Mcvickar. First edition. An unusual item with a very handsome cover. Read More about Blue Jackets of ’61. A History of the Navy in the War of Secession

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 about Autograph letter signed "J. W. Bishop" to Daniel Aldrich, a lawyer in Warren or...