Circa 1885. This pane of Confederate stamp reprints is from an altered plate of the 1862 5-cent Jefferson Davis stamp (see the note after Scott #s 6-7). Both the stamps and the advertisement are nicely centered. Previously folded with a few small splits along some of the folds. There are... More
St. Louis: 1861-1865. This lot contains four items: 1) Captain Johnson’s manuscript Honorable Discharge from federal service, dated 12 September 1865 (approximately 6” x 8”), 2) A letter of recommendation dated September 12th 1865 at St. Louis, Missouri for Captain Johnson testifying to his integrity, morality, and steadfastness during “perilous... More
[Washington]: Lemuel Towers, 1860. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 16 pages. Some minor soiling and foxing; previously bound. Exceptional content. Although the speech does not touch upon the bitter and acrimonious debate over the Republican candidate for Speaker, John Sherman of Ohio (the younger brother of William Tecumseh Sherman), it goes... More
![Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music]. Dan Bryant.](/pictures/thumb/007954.jpg?v=1465418748)
New York: Firth, Pond & Co. 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. Early Civil War music with a terrific cover showing five black misfit volunteers in various milita and zouave uniforms. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an... More
Unlisted. Unbound. Nice cdv of Confederate General Braxton Bragg. Identified in pencil on front of the card under the photograph. In the uniform of a US general officer. Bragg was a principal Confederate commander in the Western theater and later the military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. More
E. & H.T. Anthony. Unbound. Nice cdv of General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden. Crittenden was a border state general from Kentucky who remained loyal to the Union. Following the Battle of Shiloh, he was promoted to Major General and served as one of General Rosencran's principal lieutenants at Tullahoma and Chickamauga... More
Boston: J. W. Black & Co. Carte De Visite. Photographer's mark on the reverse reads "Black / 163 Washington St. / Boston." Upper left corner is slightly trimmed. There is a narrow strip of light toning at the top of the reverse of the card. The Reverend Hall was one... More
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1862. Unbound. Approximately 10.75” x 13.75”. Complete with 10 pages including the cover. The front cover shows a color illustration of Admiral Farragut’s Union warships passing the Confederate Forts Jackson and St. Phillip below New Orleans on 24 April 1862. Minor soiling and edge wear. Once... More
Richmond: West & Johnston, 1861. First Edition. Half Leather. 12mo. Complete with 447 pages and folding chart. (Parrish & Willingham 6111) Sound binding. Clean pages. Minor wear to the cover; mostly at corners and along spine. Post-war owner's name (Col Ezra H. Ripple, 13th Pennsylvania National Guard) on the front... More
Petersburg, Virginia: 1861-1863. Hardcover. Both volumes, apparently re-used geological journals, measure approximately 6” x 9” and contain a total of approximately 260 pages filled with newspaper clippings from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, including Petersburg’s Daily Express, Richmond’s Central Presbyterian, and The Richmond Sentinel. A number of ephemeral pieces are laid-in... More
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted, 1862. Unbound. Complete with 8 pages including the cover. Bright and colorful front cover illustration of Major General Franz Sigel on horseback titled, “Gen. Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge / 6th, 7th, 8th March 1862.” A tribute under the title reads, “Respectfully dedicated to... More
New York: Wm A. Pond, 1865. Unbound. 6 pages including the cover. Light wear and toning; two small ghosts at top margin of cover. On April 15, 1865, after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, his body was carried by an honor guard to the White House. There... More
Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann, Schutze & Co. 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. Complete with 4 unnumbered introductory pages, 264 text pages, tipped-in errata sheet, and advertising section in rear. One plate and many in-text b/w illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering and black decorations. (See Dornbusch II, 2675.)... More
[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his... More
New York: J. P. Robens, 1865. _. Hard Cover. 12mo. Third edition. Complete: 424 pages; 6 plates; 6-page advertising section in rear. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Small owner's label inside front cover. Minor cover wear, heaviest at the head of the spine. "The best account of prison... More
Greenwood, [Pennsylvania]: 23 June and 18 July 1863. Unbound. Two letters (one with 6-pages and one with 4-pages) measure approximately 4.5” x 6.5”. Their envelopes are postmarked at Brookeville, Maryland; one is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65), and the stamp is missing from the other. The letters... More
![Major Anderson's Grand March [Sheet Music]. Charles Grobe.](/pictures/thumb/007104.jpg?v=1465418721)
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. Unlisted. Sheet Music. Complete. 6 pages including cover. Cover features a large portrait of Major Robert Anderson, the Commander of Fort Sumter. Clean with only light wear. Once bound. Slight tobacco odor. An early Civil War patriotic march published shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter. More
Charleston, SC: Steam Power Press of Walker Evans & Co. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 28 pages. Some toning and foxing; previously bound. In this pre-Civil War speech, Hammond, a Senator from South Carolina, addressed constituents at Barnwell Court House. He uses the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed four years previously, as... More
Washington: Lemuel Towers, 1860. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 8 pages. Previously bound. Hammond’s speech is a short exposition on the doctrine of "squatter sovereignty," that is, the action of importing new ‘citizens’ into a territory (in this case, Kansas) to influence the popular vote (in this case, admission to the... More
Various places: 1861-1882. Hardcover. This large (9”x 14”), thick (2.5”) heavily worn scrapbook with reattached covers contains 190 pages filled with clippings from a wide variety civilian newspapers and military publications, almost entirely related to the U.S. Navy. Many of the clippings have glue stains, and some show edge wear... More
Philadelphia: Obtained by J. Frank Knight, 1872. Framed. The letter, cdv, and button are all arranged and matted in an 11” x 12” frame. The letter is written on Howard University stationery and dated Nov. 26, 1872; it reads: “Mr. J. Frank Knight / My Dear Sir / Your kind... More
Camp Vermont near Hunting Creek, Virginia: 5 December 1862. Unbound. Two-page letter with envelope. Envelope is franked with a three-cent stamp (Scott #65) cancelled with a circular Washington, DC postmark. The letter and envelope are in nice shape; clean and legible. This charming letter written to the wife of a.... More
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1862. First Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages including the cover. Portrait illustration of Sprague on the front cover. Once bound so slightly trimmed with a rough left edge. Light wear and soiling. Small owner's stamp in upper right corner of the cover. William Sprague was the... More
Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 8 pages. Toned; previously bound. Excellent pre-Civil War content. In this speech, Miles succinctly states the Southern opinion regarding the controversy of admitting Kansas as a state, discussing not only legal concerns but touching upon "bloody Kansas," the... More
Camp at Potomac Creek near Falmouth, Virginia: 1863. Loose Leaf Reports. Ten legal-size legible pages record the history of two companies from the 1st New York Infantry during the Civil War. Some minor soiling and edge wear. These official histories were written in April, 1863 as the regiment prepared to... More
