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Handbill advertising a “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan, campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham. Unidentified.

Handbill advertising a “Freedom of Speech,” anti-Lincoln, pro-McClellan, campaign rally featuring a balloon ascension and speech by the exiled Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham

Unidentified: Unidentified, [1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio between June and August of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is lightly... More

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Seven-year Civil War era diary kept by a handicapped Yale student who became an Electrical-Galvanic Physician in New Haven. Edward Lyman Washburn.

Seven-year Civil War era diary kept by a handicapped Yale student who became an Electrical-Galvanic Physician in New Haven

New Haven, Connecticut and Natick, Massachusetts: 1860-1866. This daily journal measures 8” x 10” inches and contains 172 pages of densely written entries that begin on September 4, 1860 and end on January 8, 1866. Included are 12 pieces of related ephemera including an index of patients he treated and... More

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Union soldier’s Civil War letter on patriotic letter head informing his family in Illinois that he had been deployed to St. Joseph, Missouri where his unit would soon begin enforcing martial law. Erber Shelton.

Union soldier’s Civil War letter on patriotic letter head informing his family in Illinois that he had been deployed to St. Joseph, Missouri where his unit would soon begin enforcing martial law

St. Louis and St. Joseph, Missouri: 1861. Unbound. This four-page letter from Private Erber Shelton of the 52nd Regiment of Illinois Volunteers to his family at home is dated “St. Loose Misoura / December the 13.” Its accompanying envelope bears a 3ct rose Washington stamp (Scott #65) that has been... More

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Loan request sent to the preeminent retailer and one of the wealthiest men in the United States from a New York business man who had been ruined during the Civil War when the Confederacy seized his entire inventory in accordance with its Sequestration Act of 1861. J. W. Little to A. T. Stewart, Alexander Turney.

Loan request sent to the preeminent retailer and one of the wealthiest men in the United States from a New York business man who had been ruined during the Civil War when the Confederacy seized his entire inventory in accordance with its Sequestration Act of 1861

New York City: 1869. Unbound. In this three-page letter to Stewart, Little asks to borrow money to pay off a loan for equipment he purchased to re-establish his business after Confederate authorities in Mobile, Alabama seized his entire inventory. A stereoview of Stewart’s four-story, cast-iron, full-block retail “Palace” in New..... More

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Loyalty and Religion. A Discourse for the Times. By Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot.

Loyalty and Religion. A Discourse for the Times

St. Louis: George Knapp, 1861. Wraps. Complete with 12 pages including the cover. (See Sabin 2217.) In nice shape with some light marginal toning. William Greenleaf Eliot was born in Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard Divinity School in 1834, he moved to St. Louis where he founded the first Unitarian... More

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Albumin photograph of the 50th New York Engineers Headquarters at Petersburg, Virginia taken by the famed Civil War photographer, Timothy O’Sullivan. Timothy O’Sullivan.

Albumin photograph of the 50th New York Engineers Headquarters at Petersburg, Virginia taken by the famed Civil War photographer, Timothy O’Sullivan

Petersburg, Virginia: 1864. Unbound. The unmounted photograph measures approximately 9” x 6.75”. It shows the elaborate tent headquarters constructed by the unit complete with evergreen lined outside walls and double-arched entrance topped with a large triple-turreted insignia of the U.S. Army Engineers. A tripod-mounted theodolite and the unit’s colors stand..... More

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Small collection of letters pertaining to a Civil War naval officer who became a faculty member at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Theodor Cooper.

Small collection of letters pertaining to a Civil War naval officer who became a faculty member at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis

Various locations: 1863-1867. Unbound. Four letters and one stereoview. The first two letters are from Cooper to his family, one of which cautions against allowing a younger brother to become prey to full-grown seamen by joining the navy. The third is a manuscript copy of an official letter (with secretarial... More

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