Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1864. First edition. 12mo. viii, 223 pp. 15 maps, ten folding. "Palmetto Series" gilt-stamped at head of front board. Folded maps with imprint "George Philip & Son, London & Liverpool." Parrish & Willingham 7923. Original gilt-stamped purple cloth (a little faded). One leaf torn (without loss)... More
NY and Washington, (DC): Neale Pub. Co., 1908. First edition. 8vo. 238 pp. Fifteen of the 22 sketches relate to the Civil War and include a first hand account of the Battle of the Crater where Stewart commanded a Confederate regiment. Also included are several essays on colonial southern history... More
Petersburg, (VA): Evangelical Tract Society, 1863. 8vo. 45 pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Choice copy. First edition. Parrish 9351. Stiles (1795-1875), a Presbyterian and a native of Savannah, Ga., spent the last fifteen years of his long career as an evangelist in the South. More
Petersburg, (VA): Evangelical Tract Society, 1863. 8vo. 45 pp. Disbound pamphlet; title page foxed, else very good. First edition. Parrish 9351. Stiles (1795-1875), a Presbyterian and a native of Savannah, Ga., spent the last fifteen years of his long career as an evangelist in the South. More
Charleston, SC: Carolina Art Assn. (c1939). Second edition, 1/1500 copies (first published the previous year in an edition of 1500 copies). Folio. 243 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, plans, endpaper maps. Architectural history of the coastal regions of South Carolina, in the "great plantation age," roughly 1700 to the Civil... More
8vo. Ten pages, approximately 1500 words. "Su," having migrated to Texas from the north three years earlier, writes of her activities as a teacher and on the health and general condition of relatives and friends; not much war related commentary, but she writes "One's heart saddens at the thought that... More
Mobile, AL: (Press of Merchants Printing Co.), 1925. Small 8vo. (2), 134 pp. Gilt-stamped olive cloth (dull). Very good. First edition. Two companies were formed from the unit; one served in the 3rd Alabama Infantry, the other in the 21st Alabama Infantry. A partly printed 1882 check for $50 from... More
[Cowpens, SC?]: (The author?), 1931. First edition (another edition was published around 1950). 12mo. (23) pp. Portrait frontispiece. Tanner served with Company C, 13th South Carolina Infantry (roll included here, those killed or wounded noted); he was wounded twice and promoted to lieutenant from the ranks, serving throughout the war... More
Folio. Three pages, approximately 400 words; docketed on the verso of the second sheet. Included in the sale were the foundry building, barracks, stable, and officers' quarters. Folded. Very good. More
Winchester, VA: Eddy Press Corp. 1907. 8vo.; 211pp. Frontis. portrait & illustrations (one plate damaged in binding, affecting the lower blank corner, and part of the caption line under the portrait). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (light wear to spine ends). A very good copy. First edition. More
Nashville, (TN): Brandon Printing Co., (1906). First edition. 8vo. 21 pp. Two maps. The author, a captain and ordnance officer in the First Ohio, took command of an endangered supply train at the rear, helping save the day for the Army of the Cumberland; by the end of the war... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Lee & Walker, (c1864). First edition. 4to. 5 pp. Cover lithograph illustration of a pair of lovers walking down a moonlit forest path (T. Sinclair's Lith., Philadelphia). Publisher's ad on verso of final leaf. OCLC locates four copies (Alabama, Filson Historical Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Disbound. Some light foxing... More
NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. Second edition. 12mo. 2 volumes: xv, 195; iv, (4), [199]-392 pp. Howes T-394: "A prophetic foretelling of the Civil War." Recent burgundy buckram, marbled endpapers, gilt spine titles, original printed wrappers bound in. Bookplate in each volume, very good. More
NY: Allied Printing, 1925. First edition. Printed broadside, 16 x 9 11/16 inches, three columns of dense text, reviewing the ill treatment of those volunteers who answered the emergency call for volunteers when Lee's second invasion of the North was discovered, including an account of services rendered (e.g., quelling the... More
Broadside, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, on green paper, countersigned by W.H. Browder as Commander Camp No. 94, United Confederate Veterans. Folded. Very good. More
Five pay vouchers, partly printed documents, each 3 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, completed in manuscript 10 June to 30 July 1863, and signed by Henry McFarland, D.L. Eaton, and Wm. B. Rochester, as Paymasters for the unit, variously for service in March through June. During this period the cavalry... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. First edition. 8vo.; x, (2), 502 pp., 8 folding maps, (6 pp. of ads). Frontis. portrait. Gilt stamped dark blue pebbled cloth. Spine ends rubbed; rear hinge cracked; upper outer corners of two leaves chipped, not affecting text. Small ownership stamp on front and... More
NY: Neale Pub. Co., 1914. First edition. 12mo.; 72pp. Blue cloth; black lettering on front board. Outer edge of front board faded. A very good copy otherwise. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. A record of the battle of Stone's River (also known as Murfreesboro, in the South), in... More
New York: Beadle and Co., (c1861). First edition. 12mo. 118 pp. Double-page map. Cover title: Winfield Scott: Commander-in-Chief, U.S.A. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Scott was, indeed, commander-in-chief of the United Sates Army, but he retired in October, 1861, on account of age and infirmities. Original printed gold... More
Richmond, VA, vol. xxiii, no. 111, 10 November 1862. Double-folio. (2) pp. War news, including reports of a raid on Fredericksburg and the campaign in eastern North Carolina, a long, three-column statement by James Buchanan on the war's genesis, as well as advertisements and auction and legal notices. Crandall 5160. Folded; browned. More
Columbia: State Co, 1907. 8vo. 7pp. 1pp. illus. Promotional pamphlet. Very good. More
Richmond, VA: Patrick Keenan, Book Publisher and Printer, No. 1206 Main Street, 1882. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 3-288pp. Illus. Not in Turnbull. Curious book of travels and musings, some concerning the author's Civil War years spent in South Carolina. Original cloth, paper spine label. Very good. More
[Huntsville, AL? 1880]. Broadside, 8 1/2 x 6 in., on yellow paper, signed in type by Wheeler (lower corner torn away with no loss of text). The letter is addressed to William M. Lowe, the incumbent congressman from Huntsville, whom Wheeler had just defeated in the race for that seat... More
Np: np, 1884. Broadside, 21 x 14 inches, three columns, signed in type by Wheeler. Creased from folding; old tideline in margin, one short tear in lower margin (not touching text). Very good. First edition. The old Confederate cavalry commander, serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives... More
New York: Van Nostrand, 1860. First edition in English, a translation of the Austrian Army's "Manovrir-Reglement fur die Kaiserlich-Konigiche Infanterie" (Wien, 1853). Small 8vo. 132. Illustrated, three large folding sheets, printing 11 plates, each with multiple representations (several short tears into the diagrams). Wilcox (1824-1890), serving in the 7th Regiment... More
