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Supplying U.S. Colored Troops in the Field
DEXTER E. CLAPP,
Partially-Printed Document Signed, to William L. Ames. Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores. “In the field, Va.,” December 1, 1864. 2 pp, recto and verso, 8½ x 11 in.
Item #22960, $125
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Creating Two New Civil War Military Departments
EDWARD DAVIS TOWNSEND. [CIVIL WAR],
Printed Document Signed, “General Orders No. 34.” War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1862. 1 p., 5 x 7½ in.
Item #22956, $450
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Grant’s First Success: A Postwar Report of Guns Captured at Vicksburg and Fort Donelson
[CIVIL WAR]. FRANKLIN D. CALLENDER,
Manuscript Letter Signed, to Adam Badeau. St. Louis, Arsenal, Mo., August 1, 1866. 2 pp., 7¾ x 9½ in.
Item #22955, $495
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A Lieutenant in the 27th Ohio, United State Colored Troops, Records the Final Year of the Civil War
FREDERICK J. BARTLETT. [BLACK SOLDIERS],
Manuscript Document. Civil War Diary, Company C 27th Ohio Colored Infantry. Near Fort Fisher, North Carolina and Ohio, January – December, 1865. Leather cover. Approximately 100 pp., 53/5 x 3½ in. With a ledger of company expenses at the rear, in the same hand.
A rare, detailed account of an African-American regiment by one of its officers.
Item #22581, $4,800
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A Captain in the U.S. Colored Troops, Richard Andrews Describes his Closing Days of the Civil War and its Aftermath
[CIVIL WAR – UNION]. RICHARD ANDREWS,
Six letters to his wife Libby, approx. 15 pp. in all.
“There will be an awful hot time if our Brigade is engaged. I dont think anything can restrain the men if they once get started. I am in hopes to come out alive, but no one can tell but the Almighty”
Item #22399, $1,500
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A Fugitive Rebel General Presents His Memoir to a Fellow General, Who Then Adds his Marginalia
JUBAL A. EARLY,
Signed Book. Presentation Copy of Early’s A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence. (Toronto: Lovell & Gibson, 1866). 144 pp., 5½ x 8½ in.
Throughout, the recipient, Confederate General William Payne, adds his own notes and extensive comments detailing battles, disagreeing with Early’s assessments, correcting dates, and commenting on Early’s character.
Item #23149, $8,500
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On the Day of the First Battle of Bull Run, Confederate Ordnance Chief Josiah Gorgas Orders Equipment for 100,000 Troops
JOSIAH GORGAS. [BULL RUN],
Manuscript Letter Signed, to Ira R. Foster. Richmond, Va., July 21, 1861. 1 p., 8 x 9¾ in.
Item #22393, $1,950
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Burning Then-Senator Andrew Johnson in Effigy and the Southern Secession Question in 1860
[CIVIL WAR - CONFEDERACY]. J.B. BURNEY,
Autograph Letter Signed, to J.R. [James Russell] Burney. Memphis, Tenn., December 29, 1860. 4 pp. 5⅞ x 7¼ in.
A letter between brothers on the pressing issue of secession, written shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln and on the cusp of Southern Secession.
Item #22392, $450
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The Fall of Vicksburg: “Many a brave boy fell in one short half hour, and a bloodier scene I never wish to witness again” (SOLD)
[CIVIL WAR]. JAMES HARVEY THAYER,
Autograph Letter Signed, to E. Thayer and family. Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 25, 1863, 8 pp., 5 x 8 in.
This detailed, vivid account of the siege of Vicksburg conveys the unusual nature of this war between fellow countrymen with stark immediacy. Here, firsthand observation points out the extraordinary (“Our boys were frequently talking with the Rebs, asking them how they liked Grant’s corral & how they liked mule beef & other such taunting language, which was not altogether gentlemanly I will admit” ), and the sublimely mundane (“Peaches and figs are beginning to get ripe but there will be 4 soldiers to one peach so I do not expect to enjoy them much”).
Item #22270, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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The Gettysburg Address – Front Page News
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS,
Newspaper, The New York Times, November 20, 1863. (Gettysburg Address on p. 1, col. 3. Reporting on the event starts on p. 1, col. 2. Everett’s speech on pp. 2-3.) 8 pp., 15¼ x 20¾ in.
A scarce first day of printing issue.
Item #23108, $9,500
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General George Meade Assumes Command of the Army of Potomac
GEORGE MEADE,
Broadside. General Orders No. 67. Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac [Frederick, Md.], June 28, 1863. 1 p., with manuscript docketing “Recd July 21st 1863.”
Item #22700, $1,750
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Lincoln’s Former Home, and Lee’s Surrender
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 20, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-5-20-1865, $175
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Funeral Procession in New York City
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 13, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-5-13-1865, $250
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The Death Bed and Funeral
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 6, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-5-6-1865, $595
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Lincoln’s Assassination
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-4-29-1865, $625
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President Lincoln Commissions General Grant
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 26, 1864. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-3-26-1864, $120
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Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 2, 1863. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-5-2-1863, $100
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The Inauguration of President Lincoln
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 16, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
“touched...by the better angels of our nature...”
Item #H-3-16-1861, $395
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Lincoln Raises the Flag
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 9, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-3-9-1861, $160
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Broadsheet of Lincoln’s 1862 State of the Union Message
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Broadsheet, “Sentinel Extra” [place unknown[1]], ca. December 2, 1862, 9⅛ x 24 in. 2 pp.
We cannot escape history… In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth...”
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, the president proposes colonization and his plan for compensated emancipation, discusses foreign affairs, reports on progress of the Pacific Railroad, the war and finance. This rare “Sentinel Extra” broadsheet (apparently unrecorded in OCLC) has other news of the day on the verso, including a fantastic article quoting General Meagher’s reaction to the resignation of several officers after McClellan was removed.
Item #22179, $6,500
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