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Original Sheet Music. "Brother Tell Me Of The Battle"

By: Manahan, Thomas and Geo. F. Root

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, Root & Cady: 1864

Seller ID: 018496

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Original white wrapper with a decorated black boarder surrounding black lettering on the front cover. 10 X 13 inches. 4 pages. This song tells the story of a soldier who has come home from the war to tell of the causalities. Foxing on all pages. Spots on the back cover. Pages are clean and complete.
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Speech of Hon. Horace Mann of Massachusetts on the Institution of Slavery Delivered in the House of Representatives August 17, 1852

By: Mann, Horace

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Buell & Blanchard, Printers: 1852

Seller ID: 018791

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. 24 pages, complete. Some darkening along spine.
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A Yankee in Andersonville

By: Mann, T. H.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Harper's Magazine: 1891

Seller ID: 015552

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Excerpt from a 1891 issue of Harper's Magazine with cardstock cover. Chipping along edges and spine of cover. 34 pages with 14 illustrations. Originally written in 1866 and 1867, this is the author's edited version of his experiences in Andersonville and other Confederate prisons during the Civil War.
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The Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of General McClellan. (George B. McClellan.) The Hero of Western Viriginia! South Mountain! and Antietam! With a Full History of All His Campaigns and Battles; As Well as His Reports and Correspondence with the War Department and the President in Relation to Them, from the Time He First Took the Field in This War, Until He Was Finally Relieved from Command After the Battle of Antietam, with His Various Speeches to Soldiers, etc., Made by Him up to the Present Time

By: McClellan, George B.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, T. B. Peterson and Brothers: 1864

Seller ID: 021831

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 194 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece showing an illustrated portrait of General McClellan, complete. Twelve additional pages of advertisements in the back for other books published by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Former owners' inscriptions on the front endpaper; the one on the pastedown is written in black ink and is dated 1937; the other was on the front free endpaper in pencil and has been erased. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Gilt lettering is faded. T...
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Addresses, Speeches, Lectures and Letters upon Various Subjects

By: McCulloch, Hugh

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Wm. H. Lepley, Printer. Washington, D. C. 1890.: 1890

Seller ID: 665

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Inscribed by McCulloch, Lincoln's Treasury Secretary (front end paper). Chipping spine top; slight chipping spine bottom. Wear to corners. Front end papers split at spine top, small damp stain and one inch tear page top. The author speaks and writes about many issues including the Civil War in 1861 and 1865 (the beginning and the end); money; currency -- legal tender notes; silver certificates; the tariff; taxation; import duties; foreign exchange; the right to vote; labor-saving inventions; labor; a Republic form of government; etc.
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in Answer to A Resolution of the House of 16th Instant, Relative to Obstructions in Savannah River; Letter Dated January 24, 1868 (Cover Title)

By: McCulloch, Hugh.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (Washington, D. C.), House of Representatives: 1868

Seller ID: 4521

Binding: Illustrated Wrappers

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 123. Front and rear cover pages loose. From page 1: ".during the late rebellion, a large number of vessels, cribs, and other obstructions, were placed in the channel of the Savannah river by the so-called confederate government, to bar access to the city by the naval and military forces of the United States". The issue for discussion is who is authorized to remove obstructions and who can lay claim to the materials. Captured and abandoned property.
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Si Klegg : Thru (sic) the Stone River Campaign and in Winter Quarters in Murfreesboro

By: McElroy, John

Price: $37.50

Publisher: The National Tribune Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 016508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second Edition - enlarged and revised. Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration of a canteen on front. Moderate rubbing, bumped corners. "Book No. 2" printed on front cover. 271 pages. John McElroy (1846-1929) was a printer, author and soldier in the Civil War. He is most noted for his 4 vol. work "Andersonville", which was based on his experiences as a prisoner of war. This book is a fictional work about the adventures of a two soldiers, "Josiah Klegg, of the 200th Indiana, and Shorty, his Partner".
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"Ben-Hur" Wallace: The Life of General Lew Wallace

By: McKee, Irving

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1947

Seller ID: 8775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Publisher's green cloth with maroon lettering. Dust wrapper lightly worn with tape repair reverse back cover and with some glue showing through. Inscribed by the author: "To Bob Young, "thump" like your esteemed ancestor. Irving McKee. Nov. 14, 1951." Young was the grandson of William Winter, America's leading theatre critic (1870's through the 19 teens). Winter appears twice in the text, with McKee pointing out on page 180 that Winter had panned a theatrical performance of Wallace's play "Commodus" with a "quick thump to the author's head." Young himself was th...
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A Speech by Abraham Lincoln: Contemporary Records of a Campaign Speech Delivered at Alton, Illinois, on April 9, 1840

By: McMurtrie, Douglas C.

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society: 1939

Seller ID: 019570

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition. One of 100 copies. Original publisher's blue wrapper. 6" x 7 1/2." Seven pages, complete. Pages are clean and undamaged. This pamphlet features a broadside for one of Abraham Lincoln's speeches in Alton, Illinois in his early political career and provides background information on the historical context of this speech.
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Profiles, of the Mean Monthly and Bi-Five Day Curves of the Water Levels, at the Several Stations of Observations, on the Five Great Lakes and Detroit River, for the Year, Commencing September 1859 and Ending August 1860. Constructed with a View of Eliminating the Effects of the Winds and Storms. Compiled from Data in the Office of the U.S. Lake Survey, Under the Direction of Captain Geo. G. Meade. T. E. Superintendent. By J. M. Bigelow and C. R. Rabaut.

By: Meade, George G.; Bigelow, J. M.; Rabaut, C. R.; United States Lake Survey

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 0

Seller ID: 019782

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's plate (chart) from a U.S. government report (36th Congress, 2nd Session, no. 1; circa 1860) showing monthly water levels in the five Great Lakes from 1859-1860. No date, circa 1860. Chart folds out to 20 1/2" x 33." Chart is very clean and intact overall. There is some splitting at the folds and very minimal foxing and browning. Months and years at the horizontal (X) axis. Lake names and water levels are on the vertical (Y) axis. Each lake has readings from three or four stations. George G. Meade (1815-1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union genera...
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The Story of the Twenty-First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, During the Civil War. 1861-1865.

By: Members of the Regiment

Price: $150.00

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

Seller ID: 021736

Binding: Hardcover

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 t...
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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 ...
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Some Economic Aspects of American Negro Slavery: A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Economics and the Committee on Graduate Study of the Leland Stanford Junior University in Partil Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (Original Carbon Typescript)

By: Miller, Kenneth J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University: 1950

Seller ID: 019961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's red cloth binding. 8 5/8" x 11." Ninety-seven pages, complete. Includes a four-page bibliography in the back. Signature of approval in blue ink by Professor Moses Abramovitz (1912-2000), who was a longtime professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Obituary article on Abramovitz laid-in on Page 49. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Chapters include the following: "Review of the Economic Causes Leading to the Slave System in the South," "Southern Staple Production and the Westward Movement in Relation to Slavery,...
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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 gr...
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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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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 varia...
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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. F...
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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 ...
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Category: Civil War