Washington, DC: House of Representatives, 23d Congress, 2d Session, 1835, Document No. 591. Extract from a larger work (“Military Affairs,” Vol. V, from a government serial set). Folio. Pp. 463-466 (only a fragment of the printed text is included here, with all maps). With three illustrations: (1) a large folding..... More
[Richmond, VA]: House of Representatives, Feb. 6, 1865. First edition. 8vo. (1) pp. In part: “If we then judged that the enemy intended to impoverish and oppress us, we now know they propose to subjugate, enslave, disgrace, and destroy us … our cause is righteous and must prevail … unawed..... More
Charleston, SC: Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Sabin 87435. Parrish & Willingham 3761. Disbound pamphlet (lacking outer printed wrappers; text block uniformly browned); inscription or owner’s name at the head of the title page almost entirely trimmed away in binding, a good..... More
[Charleston, SC]: 1860 Association (Evans & Cogswell’s Steam-Power Presses, Charleston, S.C.), 1860. First edition, Association Tract No. 2. 8vo. 36 pp. Howes P-489. Turnbull III, p. 317. Disbound pamphlet. More
Richmond, VA: House of Representatives, Jan. 10, 1865. First edition. 8vo. 5 pp. Correspondence concerning the conscription of slaves between Secretary of War James A. Seddon and other government officials and military officers (including Maj. Gen. J. L. Kemper) charged with carrying out the impressment. “Rebel Archives” stamp, else a...... More
Richmond, VA: Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, April 6, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 13 pp. Regulations concerning impressment of private property for military needs, including slaves, in part: “Where slaves are impressed by the confederate government to labor on fortifications or other public works, the impressment shall be made according..... More
New Orleans, LA: Blackmar & Co.; Augusta, (GA): Blackmar & Bro. (c1861). 4to. 5 pp. Music only. Cover leaf: Southern Military Music for Piano, listing 20 songs, this one underlined in blue and mis-attributing authorship to “C. Young” (Adolphus Brown is correctly printed at the title). Publisher’s catalogue on verso..... More
New Orleans, (LA): A.E. Blackmar, 167 Canal Street, (c1861). 4to. 5 pp. Music only. Publisher’s catalogue on verso of final leaf. Cover leaf: Southern Military Music for Piano, lists 26 titles, this one (“Gen. Bragg’s Grand March”) marked in blue. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Disbound (removed from a bound..... More
New Orleans, LA : Blackmar & Co.; Augusta, (GA): Blackmar & Bro. (c1862). 4to. 5 pp. Music only. Publisher’s catalogue on verso of final leaf. Cover leaf: Southern Military Music for Piano, listing 20 songs, this one marked in blue. Crandall 3395 (and see note there). Parrish & Willingham 6932..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Protestant Episcopal Book Society, (1861). 16mo. 64 pp. Each page of text printed within a thin rule border. Inscription on front endpaper: “S. M. Robinson / Co. I 1st Maine Cavy. / Given me by the / Chaplain while in / Prince St. Hospital / Alexandria, Va., in..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Protestant Episcopal Book Society, (1861). 16mo. 64 pp. Each page of text printed within a thin rule border. OCLC locates one copy (New York State Library). Original cloth-backed printed stiff tan wrappers. Very good. More
National Railway Historical Society, 1966. First separate edition (first published in the society’s Bulletin, Vol 31, Nov. 6, 1966). 8vo. 31, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, folding map, “Railways of Southeastern United States, April, 1861,” laid in. Original printed stiff yellow wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
First edition. 4to sheets folded into 8vo printed wrappers. (2), 7, (3) pp. [printed rectos only]. The origins of the author’s interest in Shelby and the Trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War, culminating in his monograph of this title (U. of North Carolina Press, 1954). OCLC locates five copies (Duke..... More
Raleigh, (NC): Branson, Farrar & Co., 1867. First edition. 8vo. 29 pp. Inscribed at the head of the front wrapper “Jonathan Cowles, Esq. / With the regards of the author.” Pepper (1833-1899) served as chaplain of the 80th Ohio in Sherman’s army, publishing his memoirs (Personal Recollections, Zanesville, 1866) with..... More
Charlotte, NC: E. H. Britton, March 20, 1863, Vol. VII, No. 1201. Second edition (of this issue). Double-folio. (2) pp. Prints brief notes concerning a blockade runner in Charleston, skirmishes near Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Franklin, Virginia, and a report on the Battle of Williamsburg that took place four months..... More
This oath of amnesty includes a passage regarding African Americans: “[I will] abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves.” Old folds, but very good. More
(Raleigh, NC): Session 1860-’61 (John Spellman, Printer to the State), General Assembly Doc. No. 1, Nov. 20, 1860. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. OCLC: “Includes much on railroads and a discussion of political affairs on the eve of the Civil War.” OCLC locates five copies (North Carolina, East Carolina, Wake..... More
(Tulsa, OK: Tulsa World, 1924). First separate edition (first published in the Tulsa World, January 6, 1924). 12mo. (14) pp. Portrait plate of the author, signed by him in the lower margin. Yeager served in the 43rd Kentucky Cavalry in John Hunt Morgan’s command and participated in Hunt’s raid through..... More
Vicksburg, MS: M. Shannon, November 14, 1862, Vol. XXIII, No. 207. Double-folio. (2) pp., printed in six columns. Prints news notes from around the south, short articles on protecting cotton from the enemy and on Gen. Pemberton, ads for various goods and services, contributions from other newspapers, war news from..... More
Frederick, (MD): Beale H. Richardson, June 22, 1861. First edition, Senate Doc. J, 1/2000 copies (unnumbered). 8vo. 4 pp. “[This being] our solemn protest against the said acts of the President of the United States [listed in an article above the resolution], [we] declare the same to be gross usurpation..... More
Nashville, TN: UCV, 1904. First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Original printed gray wrappers (rubbed); “Price 25 cents” stamp on lower front wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
Shreveport, (LA): Louisiana State Collector’s Office, July 18, 1864. Handbill, 8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, the supplemental instructions printed recto (13 numbered paragraphs, signed in type at the end “P. W. Gray / Agent of Treasury”), “Additional Instruction to District Collectors and Assessors of the War Tax” printed verso..... More
Bloomington, (IN): Indiana U. Press, (c1960). First edition thus, a reprint of the 1896 edition , with new material. Thick 8vo. xxix, 13-692 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings; included is a facsimile of a 3-page ALS from Robert E. Lee to Longstreet. Howes L-451. Nevins I, pp. 122: "A..... More
Indianapolis, (IN): Bobbs-Merrill, (c1956). First edition. 8vo. xi, (5), 368 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old art, plates, facsimile. “Arming of the Union forces in the Civil War.” Nevins I, 5: “Scholarly study of Union equipment from rifles to ships, showing Lincoln’s strong interest in all kinds of weapons.” Two-tone..... More
NY: Rinehart & Co., (c1956). First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 466 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Gray cloth (spine foxed), illustrated dust jacket (several small ships and some edgewear). Very good. More
