Category: Civil War

The Story of the Twenty-First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, During the Civil War. 1861-1865.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Middletown, CT, Press of the Stewart Printing Company : 1900

Seller ID: 021736

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's blue pebble cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. 6" x 8 1/2." 448 pages, complete. Black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations, complete. Former owner's signature in pencil on the front free endpaper: "J. S. Green." Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact overall. Covers and spine have slight rubbing. A few minuscule spots on front cover. Transcription of the "Official Record of the Service of the Men of the Twenty-First Regt., Conn. Vol. Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion." in th...
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Original Stereocard Portrait Photograph. "Major-General Nelson A. Miles, Commander of the U.S. Armies."

By: Miles, Nelson A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Underwood & Underwood : 1898

Seller ID: 12621

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Stereograph on bone colored boards (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title under the right photo. Wear to the board due to use. Portrait of General Miles with a wreath of flowers around him. General Miles (1839-1925) served in the Civil War, the Indian Wars; and the Spanish-American War. He won the Medal of Honor in 1862 at Chancellorville. He played a role in nearly all of the Army's campaigns against the American Indians in the West - fought the Cheyenne / Lakota / Nez Perce / and captured Geromimo in the Apache wars. He was Commanding General during the Spanish-American War and led the invasion of Puer...
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In Commemoration of the One Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of Hannibal Hamlin, Paris, Maine, August 27, 1909; Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Maine

By: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Maine

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Portland, ME, Lefavor-Tower Company : 1909

Seller ID: 020948

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's blue wrapper. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Thirty-two pages, complete. Black and white plates, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact overall. Small, faint spot measuring about 1/2" x 1/2" on front cover. Covers have some edge wear. Former ownership bookplate tipped in on inside of front cover with an illustrated portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the following text: "Library of Lincolniana; William Barton; Fide et Fortitudine." This pamphlet is a biography and tribute to Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), who was Vice President to President Abraham Lin...
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My Story

By: Mills, Anson; Claudy, C. H. (Editor); Miles, Nelson A. (Preface)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Anson Mills; Press of Byron S. Adams : 1918

Seller ID: 024454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering and two gilt decorative seals on front cover. All edges gilt. No lettering on spine. Original black ribbon bookmark included. "Published by the Author." Printed by the Press of Byron S. Adams of Washington, D.C. 6" x 8 1/2." 412 pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Appendices in back. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. An As New copy. Autobiography of Brigadier General Anson Mills (1834-1924). Mills served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Mills divides...
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Reviews of Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches

By: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Jackson, MS, : 1924

Seller ID: 022739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's green cloth binding. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." Eighty-eight pages, complete. Black-and-white plates, complete. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact except for some offsetting on the front and back endpapers. Binding is tight and crackles. A Fine copy. "Printed for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History." This book contains seven reviews of Dunbar Rowland's book, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches, by authors representing different publications. In this book, Rowland re-examined the life and character of Davis. Je...
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Westways: A Village Chronicle

By: Mitchell, S. Weir

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Company : 1913

Seller ID: 021880

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 510 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 14272. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician and writer who is credited with discovering causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia (a vascular pain disorder). Excerpt from the Preface: "Long before the Civil War there were in the middle states, near to or remote from great centres,...
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An Analysis of Lincoln's Funeral Sermons

By: Monaghan, Jay

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 024786

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, Thus. Original publisher's light blue paper wrappers with staple binding. Black lettering on front cover. No date, circa 1945. 6 3/4" x 10." Fourteen pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Corners are slightly bumped. Light to moderate age toning along edges of the covers. A Very Good copy. "Reprinted from the Indiana Magazine of History, XLI, No. 1, March, 1945." A unique analysis of funeral sermons given in Northern churches on the occasion of Lincoln's assassination. Author Jay Monaghan delves into the nature of these se...
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Signature on Card - Lot M. Morrill

By: Morrill, Lot M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 1881

Seller ID: 019385

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Signature on beige card in brown ink by Lot M. Morrill. December 25, 1881. Card is adhered to a beige piece of paper. Card measures 3 3/4" x 2 1/8"; paper measures 6" x 9." Card reads: "Dec. 25-1881, Lot M. Morrill." Card, paper, and signature are very clean and intact. Lot M. Morrill (1813-1883) was a U.S. Senator from Maine (1861-1876) and was Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1877).
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Letters of Edward Bates and the Blairs, Frank P. - Sr. And Jr. - and Montgomery, from the Private Papers and Correspondence of Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin.

By: Mowry, Duane (editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Missouri Historical Review : 1917

Seller ID: 10655

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Good

Offprint from the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW (1917): Pages 123-146. Inscribed "Compliments of the Contributor" in ink and receipt date stamp. The letters are concerned with Negro colonization, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Clean copy other than the inscriptions.
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Signature on Card - Robert H. Nugen

By: Nugen, Robert H.

Price: $25.00

Seller ID: 025418

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine)

Signature of Robert H. Nugen in black ink on an off-white piece of paper tipped in on sheet of beige paper. The paper with signature has been carefully adhered over a window at the center of the paper sheet. Signed, "R. H. Nugen, Newcomerstown, Ohio." No date, circa 1840s-1860s. Paper with signature: 4 1/4" x 1 1/2." Beige sheet of paper (backing): 6" x 9." Signature is virtually pristine and intact. The piece of paper with signature is virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning. The beige sheet of paper is very clean and intact except for slight age toning, a small ...
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Abraham Lincoln, Meade, Lee and Gettysburg

By: Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Peoria, IL, Edward J. Jacob : 1929

Seller ID: 019573

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's blue wrapper and beige envelope. Pamphlet signed by author in ink on front free endpaper. Pamphlet measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"; envelope measures 6 3/4" x 10." Sixteen pages, complete. Pamphlet features a beautiful multicolored illustration of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Fold-out envelope has a black and beige illustration on the front with portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Meade, and Robert E. Lee. Pamphlet is pristine and undamaged; a fine copy. The envelope is also clean and intact but has a slight wrinkle near the snap clasp on the back. From Monaghan, th...
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The Great Task Assumed by Abraham Lincoln and the Burden He Had to Bear. Address Delivered Before the Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. at Its Eighty-second Annual Communication, Held at Davenport, Iowa, June 9-11, 1925

By: Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa Masonic Library : 1925

Seller ID: 019545

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's beige wrapper with staple binding. June 9-11, 1925. Davenport, IA. 6 3/4" x 10." Fourteen pages, complete. List of publications by the Iowa Masonic Library printed on the back cover. Pages and covers are clean. Reprinted black and white photograph of the Iowa Masonic Library on front cover and portrait photograph of Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf on inside of front cover. This address by Mason Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf is a biography that pays homage to Abraham Lincoln and includes details of his life. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2800: "A variant from same...
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A Report to the Secretary of War of the Operations of the Sanitary Commission, and upon the Sanitary Condition of the Volunteer Army, Its Medical Staff, Hospitals, and Hospital Supplies. Sanitary Commission, No. 40. December 1861.

By: Olmstead, Frederick Law; United States Sanitary Commission

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., McGill and Withrow, Printers : 1861

Seller ID: 021793

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's beige wrappers bound with string. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." 107 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Most of the pages are clean internally. Covers have some foxing as well as a few of the pages in the front and back. Vertical fold line at center. The "Organization and Duties," "Preliminary Survey," "Classification of Hospitals," "Mortality, Diseases and Casualties," "Disposition of the Sick," "Tendencies of Disease," "Military Hospitals," "Medical and Surgical Service of the Army," "Volunteer Hospital and Other Supplies," "Special Relief to V...
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Supplement to The Lerna Eagle, Lincoln Anniversary Edition, 1928. Lincoln with His People: The following Reminiscence of the Martyred President By R. H. Osborne was written a number of years ago.

By: Osborne, R. H.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Lerna, IL, The Lerna Eagle : 1928

Seller ID: 024788

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Original small broadside printed in black ink on white paper. 5 3/4" x 17." Two pages (one leaf printed on front and back), complete. Two black-and-white illustrations, complete. One illustration is of Abraham Lincoln; the other shows the Lincolns' Logan Cabin near Farmington. Broadside is very clean and intact except for light age toning throughout, moderate age toning on top half of front, a few wrinkles, and about four horizontal fold lines. A Very Good copy. In February 1861, Abraham Lincoln made his last visit to his relatives living in Farmington, Coles County, Illinois after bein...
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Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett

By: Parke-Bernet Galleries

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Incorporated : 1950

Seller ID: 019580

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's light blue wrapper. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 293 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Prices written in pencil by a former owner in the page margins. Full Title reads: "Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett; Sold by Order of His Son Roger W. Barrett; Public Auction Sale, October 30 and 31 at 8 p. m. and November 1 at 2 and ...
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The Effect of Slavery on the American People. A Sermon Preached at the Music Hall, Boston, on Sunday, July 4, 1858. Revised by the Author.

By: Parker, Theodore

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, William L. Kent & Company : 1858

Seller ID: 025399

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. 5 3/4" x 9." Fourteen pages, complete. Former owner's stamp in upper-right corner of title page: "S. A. Wright, Jr." Pages are clean and intact overall but the first page is loose and they have light age toning, faint dampstaining at top, a split along spine measuring 2 1/4" from the tail, and significant chipping about halfway down from the top that extends about 3/4" inward from spine and fore-edge. Text is still readable and barely affected by said chipping. A Good copy. A sermon by Theodore Parker (1810-1860), an American Transcendentalist,...
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The Diary of Orville H. Browning: A New Source for Lincoln's Presidency; A Lecture Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society, March 29, 1923

By: Pease, Theodore Calvin

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press : 1924

Seller ID: 019557

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original publisher's brown wrapper. Address given March 29, 1923. Published 1924. 6" x 9 1/4." Thirty-six pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean. Minimal wrinkling on the edges of the covers. Orville Browning (1806-1881) was an attorney and politician involved with the Whig and Republican Parties. His and Abraham Lincoln's political careers overlapped, and they subsequently became lifelong friends. This pamphlet is a combination of excerpts from Browning's diary, which provides first-hand insight in his and Abraham Lincoln's lives, and Theodore Pease's commentary and analysi...
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"For the Good of the Bleeding Land" Being the Text of a Letter from James Phelan to Confederate President Jefferson Davis Dated January 21, 1865, In the Collection Of the Filson Club Historical Society.

By: Phelan, James

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky, Contre Coup Press : 1999

Seller ID: 11471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Edition of Sixty copies. 23 pages; bound in decorative boards with gray cloth backing, gilt lettering. Foreword and Afterword written by Theophile Homard. Phelan was a Confederate military judge from Mississippi who wrote the letter favoring the dismissal of Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee. Fine clean copy inside and outside.
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The Sponsor Souvenir Album and History of the United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, 1895. Patriotic Poems, War Songs, Romantic Incidents, Biographical and Historical Sketches.

By: Philpott, William Bledsoe (Editor)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Houston, TX, Sponsor Souvenir Company : 1895

Seller ID: 021737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2." 241 pages (many are unpaginated), complete. Black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations and one color frontispiece showing the Confederate flags, complete. Three additional pages in the back, two of which are advertisements for engraving and photography companies and the other being an ad for a magazine called the Confederate Veteran. The Confederate Veteran's subject matter, as the name suggests, was about veterans of the Confederate Army. The Confederate Veteran was...
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Autograph Letter Signed - J. S. Pollock

By: Pollock, J. S.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: : 1918

Seller ID: 8939

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Autograph two page letter (8 x 10 inch) signed, on lined sheets. Dated April 8, 1918 from Little Rock, Arkansas. Letter to a family friend (Mrs. Barnett) commenting on news of WWI, health and discussing mutual friends. J.S. Pollock (c.1840- ) was working in the post office in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out and was appointed Post Master in a number of southern cities after the Union Army liberated them. Among the cities were Memphis (1862), Vicksburg (1863), and Little Rock (1864). After the Civil War he remained in the Postal System and later went into banking. Some evidence of folding...
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Category: Civil War