[Memphis, TN]: November 30, 1864. 4to. One-page; docketed verso. The manuscript shows that S. H. Cobb, Superintendent of Colored Schools, received $438.25 in tuition for the month. Old fold lines, very good. More
4to. One-page (verso of integral leaf employed for address, Philadelphia postmark), approximately 100 words, in part: “I have yours with the accounts, which I hoped would show more money on hand, for I would like exceedingly to see some come, or coming.” Old fold lines. Very good, though Carey’s small..... More
[Boston, MA ?]: 1862. Broadside. 25 x 20 cm. Blind stamp of Essex Institute in one corner; short split at margin, along an old fold line (not affecting text). An attractive broadside appealing for men to go on a day's notice to support the Union cause. Based on the date..... More
![Item #66742 THE OLIVE BRANCH--PEACE AND UNION. HOW WE SHALL OBTAIN THEM? [caption title]. CIVIL...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66742.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654287234)
New York [NY]: P.W. Derham, Printer and Stationer, 15 Nassua Street, Corner of Pine, nd [1863-4?]. Folio broadside, 48 x 29.5 cm., text in two columns beneath the title in display type. Old folds with slight damage; some foxing. Professionally rebacked. This broadside, printed ca. 1863-4, offers a political analysis..... More
[Waterbury, CT]: Waterbury American, 1865. Broadside. 49 x 33.5 cm. Printed in five columns. Old fold lines, splitting along the vertical fold, with loss of a few letters. A tender copy. Contains speeches to the returning soldiers by Rev. John Purves, P. M. Trowbridge, Wm. Cothren (at whose bunting-draped house..... More
[Various places: 1861-63]. A collection of 42 pamphlets, numbered 20-60 (with a few supplements, and a few numbers lacking) all in original self-wrappers, some untrimmed and unopened. All in very good condition. The Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by the U. S. Government in July, 1861 "to..... More
[G.O. 171, W.D., A.G.O. June 9, 1863]. Single sheet of lined paper, 9.5 x 7.5 in., 2 pp., approx. 220 words. A manuscript copy, in a clerical hand, signed [secretarial] by E.D. Townsend. Blind embossed stamp of the Capitol building and "Congress P & P" in upper left corner, docketed..... More
The first two have been folded for mailing, the first is accompanied by its mailing envelope (addressed to Mrs. F. B. Clark), the third with a little silverfish damage verso of the integral leaf. Very good lot. (1) The pleasure of your company is respectfully solicited at a Complimentary Ball..... More
Boston, (MA): The society, November 7, 1864. Printed broadside, 24 ¼ x 20 ¾ inches, the text printed in seven columns separated by narrow rules, at head of text “[No. 239]”. Prints a long, passionate speech by Pierrepont (1817-1892; U.S. Attorney General, 1875-1876, other political offices; “served as Abraham Lincoln’s..... More
Np: nd [1861 ?]. Engraved cartoon on a slip of paper, 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches, mounted at the corners on a slightly larger piece of brown paper. The cartoon pictures a cannon ball bursting through a medicine shelf sending two bottles (with faces, arms, and legs) scuttling away..... More
The letters and documents include orders to move ships and provide aid to a blockade runner, personnel matters, transfers, promotions, repairing and outfitting ships, reporting on the dead and wounded from the “Atlanta,” and other matters. All of the material is more fully described below, generally in chronological order (starting..... More
Louisville, KY: 1864. Printed handbill, 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches. Ewing (1826-1905), a hero at Antietam, later commanded a brigade under his brother-in-law Gen. Sherman, brought some humanity to the internecine struggle in Kentucky during his Louisville service, and ended the war commanding a division in North Carolina. Old..... More
New York: Photolith by the N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., Julius Bien, Supt., From surveys under the direction of Bvt. Brig. Gen. N. Michler, Maj. Of Engineers, by command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Brig. Genl. & Chief of Engineers, 1867. First separate edition. Lithographed broadside map..... More
Washington, (DC): Johnson & Ward, c1861. Engraved map with hand-coloring, 20 x 30 inches, the United States and territories (12 ¼ x 19 inches to neatline), with maps of harbors at New Orleans, Mobile Bay, Pensacola Bay, Key West, Savannah, Charleston, Hampton Roads, Washington, and Baltimore (each about 3/12 x...... More
NP: np, [1862]. Broadside. 30 x 17 cm. Two poems, printed in two columns, separated by a thin rule. The first has 19 stanzas of six lines each, under the bold header "Company B, 16th N.H. Volunteers." The second is titled "The Sword Presentation," with 7 stanzas of six lines..... More
![Item #70151 Commutation Receipt [caption title, followed by eight lines of italic script]. CIVIL...](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70151.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768066473)
Deerfield, NH: 1st Congressional District, State of New Hampshire (J. M. Whittemore & Co, Boston), September 11, 1863. Partially printed form, 5 x 8 inches, completed in manuscript and signed by James M. Lovering as Receiver of Commutation money, recording James M. Bachelder’s bounty payment of $300 for discharge from..... More
NP: 1863. 4to. One page, approximately 100 words, in part: “We will not give aid to the Rebellion against the Government of the United States nor give aid to the so called provisional Government of Ky.” Owen and Scott were prominent residents of Bourbon County. Old fold lines, but very..... More
Folio. 4 pages, approximately 600 words. "Atlanta: we can see in the distance her spires, the smoke of business, each tending heavenward betraying her locality to those that would be boistrous and bully-proud of being the agents of her downfall and gloat over the form in the posture of subjugation."..... More
8vo. 3 pages, approximately 225 words. "We have a nice view of the city and of the ever flowing waters of the Potomac and of the Capitol of the United States and of the President's house." Red and blue patriotic letterhead, a flowing American flag and eagle "The Star Spangled..... More
8vo. 4 pages, approximately 450 words. Fighting with the 34th New York Infantry, White asks "don't you think it is all for the nigers [sic] I think it is and I am played out fiting [sic] for the damn nigers ... unless we get [McClellan] back we shall lose our..... More
NP: np, nd. Broadside, 12 x 4 3/4 in., printed in various sizes and styles of type. The text describes the battle which began on the morning of March 25, 1865, when "the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 9th army corps, commanded by Gen. McLaughlin, occupied the line of breastworks from..... More
New York: J. T. Lloyd, 1861. Second edition, variant issue (first published in 1859; reprinted several times during the Civil War and after). Lithographed map, 31 1/2 x 51 inches, mounted on linen and folded into a 12mo cloth case, counties colored in various pastel shades, state boundaries colored in..... More
Raleigh, NC: 1862. Folio. One page, countersigned by Pulaski Cowper, the governor's private secretary. Henry Clark (1808-1874), a native of Tarboro, gradated from U.N.C. in 1826 and read law before taking over the management of his father's plantation and other business affairs in the early 1830s, entering politics with election..... More
1925. Folio. Eight pages, approximately 2750 words; accompanied by another autograph letter from Russell to Trowbridge (14 March 1925; 4to, four pages, approximately 750 words), with more information on the political situation in Missouri on the eve of war, and an autograph transcription by Russell of the long poem "The..... More
Fort Laramie, WT: 1882. 4to. Three pages, approximately 275 words, in part: "There is not to my mind, outside of Divine Writ, so convincing an evidence of the immortality of the soul, as is furnished by the growth and development of the mind and character of this greatest of American..... More
