Robert Edward Lee, the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870
(New York: James Clarke & Co., c1902). Extract from the publisher’s “Beacon Light of History.” 8vo. (2), [321]-354 pp. Later plain wrappers (brittle). More
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List of wounded, from Shiloh, in Louisville hospitals and other war news, in a single issue of The Louisville Daily Journal.
Louisville, KY: Prentice, Henderson & Osborne, April 15, 1862, Vol. XXXII, No. 115. Double-folio. (4) pp., printed in 8 columns. Gives the name, rank, and regiment of approximately 200 soldiers, the Confederates in a separate list, being treated in Louisville hospitals (the important Battle of Shiloh had been fought April..... More
Stonewall Jackson and the Old Stonewall Brigade. Edited by Richard B. Harwell.
Charlottesville, VA: U. of Virginia Press, (c1954). First separate edition (original published in three issues of The Southern illustrated News in February, 1863). 8vo. 76 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Dornbusch II, 2824. Nevins I, p. 74. Gray cloth, red spine title; some foxing, else very good. More
Memorial Address on Life and Character of Lieutenant General D. H. Hill, May 10th, 1893.
Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, Power Printers and Binders, 1893. First edition. 8vo. 41 pp. Dornbusch II, 2790. Original printed tan wrappers (darkened around the edges, several small chips at extremities). Very good copy housed in a custom gilt-stamped navy leather folder. More
The Confederate States Ram Merrimac or Virginia: The History of Her Plan and Construction, and Her Engagements with the United States Fleet March 8 and 9, 1862
Richmond, VA: Hermitage Press, 1907. Second separate edition, reprinted from the Southern Historical Papers, Vol. XX (first published separately in 1892). 12mo. 34 pp. One illustration from a wood engraving. The author served as a midshipman aboard the Beaufort during the battle. This copy with a stamp on the verso..... More
Shrouds of Glory From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (c1995). First edition, uncorrected proof. 8vo. xiv, 294 pp. Publisher’s promotional review letter (dated December, 1994) laid in. Original color illustrated glossy wrappers. Fine. More
The Last Battle of the Civil War
Columbus, GA: Columbus Historical Society (Gilbert Printing Co.), 1915. First edition. 8vo. 33 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits. Description of the capture of Columbus, Georgia, by Union soldiers under Gen. James H. Wilson, April 16, 1865. Dornbusch 2743. Original printed gray wrappers. Very good. More
Richmond Hussars Centennial Souvenir, 1795-1895 [cover title]
(Augusta, GA: Augusta Litho. Co.), 1895. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (76) pp. Illustrated, portraits, scenes of Augusta and the unit's training camp from 1893; profusely illustrated with local ads, some illustrated. Includes a brief historical sketch by Charles C. Jones, unit rosters, biographical sketches for the officers of the Civil..... More
Georgia’s Navy,1861
Griffin, GA: Goen Printing Co. (for the author), 1945. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Portrait plate (Commander John MacIntosh Kell). Kell was the first U.S. naval officer to resign and volunteer his services to the Confederacy; before receiving his Confederate commission, he commanded the Georgia state gunboat Savannah. OCLC: “Consists..... More
Fredericksburg in War Times. Map and auto route of the battlefields
Fredericksburg, VA: R. A. Kishpaugh, (1906). First edition. 12mo. 20 pp. Illustrated from photographs, folding map affixed to rear wrapper, folding color panorama of the battlefield affixed to verso of the front wrapper. Includes “The Shelling of Fredericksburg: Recollections of Mrs. Frances Bernard Gollrick” (pp. 9-19). At head of title..... More
The Civil War, a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian
NY: Random House, (c1963). First edition. 8vo. (6), 988 pp. Maps, endpaper maps. The second volume of the author's three-volume masterpiece. Gray cloth, decorated dust jacket (some insect damage to fore-edges). Still a very good copy. More
Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, a Confederate Soldier.
Nashville, TN: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1922. First edition. 8vo. 213 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. Duncan fought in Nathan Bedford Forrest’s command in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Pencil ownership signature on title page “H.G. Doyle / Co. G 7th S.C. Cav / Yary’s Brigade / A.N.V. / League, Texas. /..... More
Brother against Brother, the War Begins: The Civil War.
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, (c1983). First edition. 4to. 176 pp. Illustrated from photographs, paintings and other artwork, ephemera, newspaper headlines, plates, some in color, double-page color map. Embossed gray cloth, photographic portrait onlay on upper board. Very good. More
A Bill to Regulate the Pay and Allowances of Certain Female Employees of the Government [caption title]
(Richmond, VA): Senate Bill No. 155, Jan. 5. [1865]. 8vo. 3 pp. 58 numbered lines to the bill which raises the pay and makes other adjustments for women working in a variety of areas: clerks, matrons and nurses in hospitals, seamstresses making military clothing, those “engaged in making or preparing..... More
Washington Artillery Polka March. Arranged by A. E. Blackmar
New Orleans, LA:Blackmar & Co.; Augusta, GA: Blackmar & Bro. c1863 (C.S District Court, Georgia). 4to. 3 pp Music only. Publisher’s catalogue on verso of final leaf (lower edge trimmed taking final line of catalogue). Cover leaf: Southern Military Music for Piano, listing 20 titles, this one (“Washington Artillery Parade..... More
Improvisation on the Bonnie Blue Flag. Composed by Theod Von La Hache.
New Orleans, (LA): Blackmar & Bro. c1862. 4to. 9 pp. Publisher’s catalogue on verso of final leaf. “To his Friend / Mr August Davis” printed at head of title leaf. Music only. Crandall 3571. Parrish & Willingham 7149 (12 copies). Disbound (removed from a bound volume of sheet music); light..... More
Plan of the Western Seat of War [caption title above map]
(New Orleans, LA): H. P. Lathrop (J. Manouvrier & Co. Lith., N.O.), nd [1861-1865?]. Lithographed map, 14 ½ x 22 inches, a “general map of Kentucky, Tennessee, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina, showing principal roads, railroads, towns, and rivers. Fortified sites and battlefields are not..... More
Speech of George W. Richardson, of Hanover, in Committee of the Whole, on the Report of the Committee on Federal Relations, in the Convention of Virginia, April 4, 1861.
Richmond, (VA): Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1862. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Forceful advocacy for secession, primarily based on the evils of abolitionism. Parrish & Willingham 5778. Original printed blue wrappers; some interior soiling, text uniformly browned, but a very good copy. More
The Battle of Chancellorsville: The Attack of Stonewall Jackson and His Army upon the Right Flank of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on Saturday Afternoon, May 2, 1863
Bangor, ME: Published by the author, 1896. First edition. 8vo. 196 pp. Nine maps in color, two double-page. Cover title: The Battle of Chancellorsville: Jackson’s Attack. Dornbusch III, 1674. Nevins I, p. 31: “Detailed study of Jackson’s flanking movement; author defends Howard’s XI Corps.” Original decorated tan wrappers (some soiling..... More
Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Statesman
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1943. First edition. 8vo. ix, (5), 432 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old art work, plates, portraits, frontispiece portrait of Benjamin (1811-1884), who served as the Confederacy’s Secretary of State, 1861-1865. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, color decorated dust jacket (worn, price-clipped). More
Swearing to support the Constitution of the United States, in a partly printed document for Calhoun County, Alabama, completed in manuscript and signed by the oath taker T.M. Burgess of Calhoun County, 30 August 1865;
also signed by Justice of the Peace James Barber. This “Oath of Amnesty” [printed headline] 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 emancipation of slaves.” Old folds, but very..... More
Address of Gen. Henry R. Jackson, President of the Georgia Historical Society, Delivered at the Annual Meeting, February 12, 1889.
Savannah, GA: Townsend, Fine Printer and Binder, 1889. First edition. 8vo. 15 pp. Cover title: The Interest and Efficiency of Woman in the Development of Literature and Art. Original printed gray-green wrappers (front wrapper chipped and creased, with a long split in the crease). Good copy, with brittle wrappers. More
FELTON, Rebecca Latimer, as told to Carter Brooke Jones in The Atlanta Georgian.
Atlanta, GA: The Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American, 1930. First separate edition. 8vo. 47, (1) pp. Felton (1835-1930) was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, appointed following the death of Thomas Watson, the incumbent (she served one day). Original decorated orange wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
Extraordinary Land Opening Announcement of the Southern Georgia Railroad-Land Development Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington, D.C. [caption title]
Washington, DC: The company, nd [ca. 1910, from internal evidence]. 16-panel brochure folded to narrow 8vo. Title panel, 15, (1) pp. Recto prints eight pages of promotional text for Wayne County emphasizing agriculture and pecan growing on land near Brunswick in Wayne County, Georgia; verso prints seven panels of extracts..... More
Tom Watson’s / Magazine / [cut of the Liberty Bell, 6 ½ x 4 7/8 inches, in red, overprinted with a Watson quote in blue: “I believe that equal and exact justice between man and man should be the object of law. I believe that special privileges can never be granted to one class without gross injustice to others.”] / Monthly, One Dollar per Year / Tom Watson’s Magazine / 121 West 42nd Street / New York / Subscriptions Received Here [complete text].
New York: The magazine, [1905 or 1906]. Advertising poster, 16 x 11 inches, printed in red and blue on pink paper, the headline in large all capitals. “Equal Rights to All / Special Privileges to None” below the Liberty Bell; Volume one, number one was published March, 1905, and the..... More
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