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18612786np: np 1861. First edition. Original leather covers. Good. A REMARKABLY EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF A UNION SOLIDER INCLUDING DIARIES FROM 1861-1865 SPANNING HIS ENTIRE CIVIL WAR CAREER.<br /> <br /> THE SOLDIER CHARLES E. SMITH PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE MOST CRITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR INCLUDING THE SEIGE OF VICKSBURG THE FALL OF ATLANTA AND SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA. Background:<br /> <br /> Charles E. Smith 1836-1905 was born in Berlin Township Ohio. He worked as a farmer and country schoolteacher in Alum Creek Delaware County Ohio. He enlisted in the 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the age of 25 on September 3 1861 and mustered in September 7 1861. He was promoted to the rank of corporal in Company I of the regiment on January 30 1864. He was slightly wounded on July 29 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign. He mustered out of the service on July 20 1865 at Louisville Kentucky.<br /> <br /> The 32nd Ohio Infantry was organized at Mansfield Ohio on August 20-September 7 1861 and mustered in for three years' service under the command of Colonel Thomas H. Ford. The regiment was involved in several important engagements and operations during the Civil War including the Battle of Greenbrier River the Battle of McDowell the Battle of Harpers Ferry the Battle of Champion Hill the Siege of Vicksburg the Atlanta Campaign the Battle of Jonesborough Sherman's March to the Sea the Carolinas Campaign and the Battle of Bentonville. The 32nd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville Kentucky on July 20 1865.<br /> <br /> The Collection:<br /> <br /> The collection consists of 26 dairies dating from 1859 to 1866. Except for four volumes covering a period from 1856 to April 1861 and one covering the period September 18 1865 to December 5 1866 the remaining dairies 21 volumes span his entire Civil War career in the 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry covering the period September 3 1861 the date of his enlistment to the date of his mustering out of the service on July 20 1865. The diaries of various sizes average approximately 100 pages with few blank pages.<br /> <br /> His daily entries in his Civil War diaries many of which are detailed consist of descriptions of the weather diet geographical locations his devotion to the Union camp activities military news and description of engagements. He also included several drawings in the diaries some in color. He described his day of enlistment of September 3:<br /> <br /> "Enlisted at Lewis Center between 8 and 9 oclock in Captain Dyre's company of 3 years volunteers. I bid good bye to all my folks and started having resolved to assist in sustaining the Government. But the feelings which came over me when I left home friends and all that seemed dear to me I cannot describe."<br /> <br /> The new enlistees moved to Camp Dennison and Smith records the daily activities in camp as his company prepared for their first movement. From Camp Dennison the 32nd Ohio was ordered to western Virginia present-day West Virginia to assist in driving Confederate forces out of the region. On October 3 1861 the 32nd Ohio participated in the inconclusive Battle of Greenbrier River. Smith records in his diary beginning on September 29 through October 3:<br /> <br /> "In the evening we received orders to march to make an attack on Greenbrier about 12 miles distant. Our company numbered 86 men. Our regiment probably numbered 900 men present and able to perform duty. The 32nd. Went in advance and cleared out the road and took one prisoner. Our regiment stopped at the cross roads within four miles of Greenbrier and stopped. We expected there that the battle commenced. but they Confederate troops did not come and we. crept into the thick laurel bushes to lay till morning. When I awoke it was daylight and other regiments were passing. The artillery was hurrying along as fast as possible each gun was drawn by six horses and about nine oclock the canons began to roar. It was kept up till two oclock on both sides when our communication failed and our men withdrew from the field without losing any guns. The canons roared very loud and the sound rolled over the Mountains and valleys and made everything ring once more. Our loss was including those that were killed on the field and those that died of wounds after the battle about 12 men. We took 13 prisoners." <br /> <br /> Smith describes an engagement with Confederate forces around Beverly Virginia on December 18 1861:<br /> <br /> "The rebels came out and met our forces and a bloody fight ensued. The 32nd fought bravely and drove the enemy back. The 25th were in the advance and were cut up dreadfully. They fell back and the 32nd stood their ground and fought them like tigers. Our men made two or three gallant charges and drove them out of their entrenchments and were forced out themselves. Our boys could not drive them out again and after a desperate and bloody struggle our troops retreated. having lost about one hundred men."<br /> <br /> After spending the winter in Beverly Virginia the 32nd Ohio participated in the Shenandoah Campaign of 1862 where they engaged Stonewall Jackson's Confederate force at the Battle of McDowell Virginia on May 8 and were defeated. On that day Smith recorded the following:<br /> <br /> "We formed into line and gave three cheers to the cavalry and were waiting to welcome the infantry when a dispatch came for us to report immediately at headquarters armed and equipped. We went forthwith and formed into line of battle on an open field. The rebels came down on the hills & tried to pick a spot to plant a gun and our boys threw shell amongst and drove them out. The rebels gathered on a mountain at the right of town about 4000 men. Our boys did not find out what they were at or where they were till late in the afternoon. Two regiments went up the mountain and the ball was opened. The battle lasted till after 8 oclock at night when our boys withdrew bringing the wounded and mostly all the dead from the field. The fight lasted about 4 hours."<br /> <br /> The 32nd Ohio retreated to Franklin Virginia where they joined General John C. Fremont's command. Fremont followed the Confederates into the valley and engaged a Confederate force at Cross Keys Virginia on June 8 1862 but Smith's company did not participate in the action. The 32nd Ohio move on to Winchester Virginia where they performed garrison duty for the remainder of the summer.<br /> <br /> In September 1862 the 32nd Ohio was dispatched to Harper's Ferry. The regiment again faced Stonewall Jackson participating in the Battle of Harper's Ferry September 12-15 1862. In this engagement Jackson captured the town and nearly twelve thousand Union soldiers including the 32nd Ohio subsequently paroling them after confiscating their supplies. In his entry for September 15 Smith describes the last day of the battle:<br /> <br /> "At sunrise the ball opened with a heavy cannonade from both sides. Our men were nearly out of ammunition for artillery and the enemy was mowing down our ranks. The shells and shot came down like hail all around and amongst us and many of our officers and soldiers were mortally wounded. Our artillerists run out of ammunition and there was no other way for us to do than surrender or be slaughtered on the field. At about 8 oclock the stripes and stars were hauled down and the white flag waved as a signal for surrender. The rebel cavalry and officers were soon riding through our camp. They hoisted the bars and stars where an hour before our glorious old star spangled banner floated proudly in the breeze. O how my heart beat and my bosom heaved to see that corrupt flag raised in defiance over us."<br /> <br /> The surrender of the 32nd Ohio resulted in a revolt in the ranks of the enlisted men against the regiment's officers which Smith later discusses in a January 15 1863 entry in his diary stating: "we were obliged to surrender 11500 men to the Rebels General A.P. Hill. It was the opinion of nearly all of our men that Colonel Miles of Baltimore betrayed us into the hands of the Rebels. It was said that he got 15 cents per head for us. Our Col Thomas H. Ford was examined by a committee and dismissed from the service for blame that was unjustly laid against him for the evacuation of the Maryland Heights. Since we were paroled a hard feeling was created between the officers of the regiment." Smith and his regiment eventually rejoined General Ulysses Grant's Army of the Tennessee in Memphis on January 25 1863. The regiment was involved in Grant's Siege of Vicksburg beginning in April 1863.<br /> <br /> A pivotal engagement in Grant's Vicksburg Campaign was the Battle of Champion Hill which occurred on May 16 resulting in a Union victory. Smith's entry for that day records the fighting:<br /> <br /> "A battle had begun on the left the firing seemed to be from large guns and the line seemed to be several miles long. We halted to await orders. Soon they came & we went forward & laid behind a ridge where we could see the fighting. The scene was grand but terrible. The heavy fighting was on the left & center at first. Our brigade charged on a rebel battery and took it & hauled it off. The 32nd did a noble part charging on the hills & ravines and out the battery driving the enemy before them killing a large number."<br /> <br /> The siege of Vicksburg ended on July 4 1863 when the Confederate forces surrendered and the Union troops under Grant including the 32nd Ohio entered the city. Smith recorded the events of July 3 and 4 in his diary. On July 3 he wrote: "This is the 46th day of the Siege. The rebels have sustained at this place and nobly and bravely have they defended it but General Grant has been too much for them." The next day's entry detailed the surrender. "At nine oclock it was announced that Vicksburg was surrendered. What a thrill of joy ran through every heart. The boys all seem lively and jubilant over the success which has crowned our arms. At half past ten oclock the rebels march out of their forts and rifle pits. and form in line outside their works and stuck arms."<br /> <br /> After Vicksburg the 32nd Ohio joined an expedition to Monroe Louisiana and then participated in General James McPherson's expedition to Brownsville Mississippi. In addition to his daily entries Smith also drew a number of pencil and ink sketches that reflected what he described in on a particular day such as sketching images that depicted the sleeping arrangements in the soldiers' tents maps of terrains and a two-page spread showing the capture of a Confederate battery in Mississippi. He also wrote down poems whether written by him or others. For example on January 31 1864 he added a six-stanza poem possibly written by him entitled "Evening Thoughts" to that day's entry. A partial transcription reads: "I'm weary and I'm lonely//As I'm sitting in my tent//And I'll take my leaden pencil//And give you my feelings sent// O would this war be over//And these bloody strivings cease//And our country now distracted//Return with lasting peace."<br /> <br /> In February 3 to March 6 1864 the 32nd Ohio was involved in General William T. Sherman's Meridian Expedition which resulted in the capture of Meridian Mississippi. On March 3 Smith recorded a diary entry that detailed the destruction rendered by the campaign:<br /> <br /> "I cannot fully give the amount of damage done to the Southern Confederacy while on this Expedition but the result foots up about as follows. About 200 miles of railroad running east & west was destroyed. About 60 miles of the Mobile and Ohio railroad was destroyed and about 40 miles of the Central Mississippi road destroyed. There were about 25 Locomotives and a considerable number of cars together with Confederate railroad houses machine shops and foundries manufacturing establishments of arms ammunition. A large amount of cotton was burned."<br /> <br /> On June 10 1864 the 32nd Ohio joined Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. In the campaign the 32nd fought in the Battles of Kennesaw Mountain Atlanta Ezra Church and Jonesborough. The campaign ended on September 2 1864 when Union forces occupied Atlanta. Smith's diary entry for June 27 mentions the engagement at Kennesaw Mountain:<br /> <br /> "We were aroused at early dawn. and then ordered to pile our knapsacks and be ready to move. A battery had been brought up and was shelling the Rebels lively for a while. Our division having formed a line of battle came to a right shoulder shift arms and then we advanced in line through the woods toward the enemy. The skirmishers engaged the enemy who replied by volleys of musketry which whizzed overhead and sounded hideous. The rebels brought several batteries down and opened upon us. Moved up a little higher and laid down again and the rebels opened with shot and shell which came whizzing overhead. Some of them sung like an old spinning wheel under the control of a northern farmer's wife. Our loss in this engagement was considerable. We fell back learning that the rebels were massing their force to right and formed a new line of battle in front of our new breastworks and behind the skirmishers. Skirmishing was kept up lively along the lines and many had hair breadth escapes. We made our demonstration to draw as much rebel force away from the right as possible."<br /> <br /> His diary entry for September 3 1864 reported the good news concerning the fall of Atlanta:<br /> <br /> "Atlanta was evacuated yesterday morning at daylight the rebels having blown up large magazines of ammunition destroyed government stores and eighty carloads of ammunition. The Twentieth Corps under General Slocum marched into and took possession of the city of Atlanta an eleven oclock. We have last caused the rebels to evacuate what they called the 'Gate City' or 'Key' to the southern Confederacy and that without a very general battle. The rebels have made many boasting speeches and declared that they would fight for Atlanta till the last man woman and child was sacrificed before they would give it up. Where is their vain boasting where are their prophesies"<br /> <br /> The capture of Atlanta had a major impact on the presidential election of 1864 and helped President Lincoln's chances for reelection enormously. On election day November 8 the 32nd Ohio voted in the field. Smith's diary entry for the day reads "This being election day the polls were opened and we voted for President. Abe Lincoln carried the day."<br /> <br /> In mid-November 1864 the 32nd Ohio participated in General Sherman's "March to the Sea." The command engaged in no noteworthy battles or skirmishes until reaching Savannah Georgia. On December 10 1864 the regiment was among the lead Northern units that drove the Confederate garrison into the confines of city. Upon the Union Army's capture of Savannah on December 21 1864 the 32nd entered and encamped in the city.<br /> <br /> Within a week of the fall of Richmond the capital city of the Confederacy the news of President Lincoln's assassination and death on April 15 spread slowly to the soldiers in the south including the 32nd Ohio. On Monday April 17 Smith recorded in his diary:<br /> <br /> "An order said to have come from Secretary Stanton to General Howard was announced to the soldiers. That President Lincoln Secretary Seward and son were assassinated and that the President was killed. Whether this be true or not it caused sadness in many hearts and was believed to be reliable."<br /> <br /> The next day's entry was in response to the confirmation that Lincoln was dead:<br /> <br /> "News of the death of our President Abraham Lincoln causes a gloom over our minds. We feel that in losing him we have lost one of the best men our nation ever produced. In losing him we lose a wise and intelligent statesman a great and good counsellor a lover of freedom and humanity and the deliverer of our nation from the curse of slavery."<br /> <br /> In addition to the dairies there are several documents and papers relating to Smith and his family including the following: 1 An autograph manuscript entitled "The Vicksburg Campaign from Millikens Bend Louisiana. From March to July 4th 1863" 81 pages one side only in a bound copy book cover missing 8.5" x 11.5" n.p.; n.d.<br /> <br /> 2 An autograph manuscript entitled "The Siege of Vicksburg Continued" 34 pages one side only in a bound copybook 6.75" x 8.25 n.p.; n.d.<br /> <br /> 3 Autograph manuscript signed entitled "Diary of Events Transpiring between the United States and Spain over Cuban affairs." 117 pages in bound copy book 5.75" x 9" n.p.; circa 1901.<br /> <br /> 4 Autograph manuscript signed entitled "Closing Scenes of the Rebellion. An Original Poem" Six pages one side only in bound copybook 8" x 10" n.p.; May 30 1895. Poem was recited on Decoration Day at Cheshire Ohio on May 30 1895.<br /> <br /> 5 An autograph manuscript entitled "The Great Three Days Battle of Gettysburg Fought July 1 2d & 3d 1863. The Greatest and Most Decisive Conflict of the Great Struggle for American Independence" 28 pages one side only in bound copy book missing front cover 8" x 10" n.p.' n.d.<br /> <br /> 6 Autograph manuscript part 2 of number 4 above 27 pages one side only in bound copy book 8" x 10" n.p.; n.d.<br /> <br /> 7 Autograph manuscript entitled "Original Poem Written for the 49th anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Louisa Rolson Smith" Five pages one side only 8" x 10" n.p.; June 22 1895.<br /> <br /> 8 Autograph manuscript signed entitled "Incidents in the war of the rebellion from 1861 to 1865. Poetical Effusions from the pen of Charles E. Smith late of Co. F. 32d Ohio veteran volunteer Infantry" 68 pages one side only in bound copybook missing front and back cover 8.5" x 11.75" n.p.; n.d.<br /> <br /> 9 Photograph of Charles E. Smith 3.5" x 4.75 oval albumin print mounted on board n.p; circa 1894. <br /> <br /> 10 CDV of George Smith brother of Charles E. Smith 2.5' x 4" T.Beach photographer Delaware Ohio; circa 1860s. <br /> <br /> 11 Medal with badge for 32nd National Encampment GAR Cincinnati 1898.<br /> <br /> 12 Photograph of residence of Charles E. Smith West Berlin Ohio an 9.25" x 7.5 albumen print on a 10.25" x 8.5" mount Acme View Company McAlisterville Pennsylvania; 1894. <br /> <br /> 13 A Confederate envelope "captured on the battle field of Raymond Miss. May 12 1863 by C. E. Smith. <br /> <br /> 14 Discharge of Charles E. Smith from the service one page 6" x 8.5" Columbus Ohio; July 28 1865.<br /> <br /> 15 Two pencil sketches by Smith of "A residence near camp of 20th Ohio sketched by C. E. Smith Dec 3d 1863" on front and "A scene in co. D. 20th O.V.I. Thursday evening Nov 26th 1863. A Thanksgiving oyster supper. Sketch by C. E. Smith Nov 27th 1863." <br /> <br /> 16 A pencil sketch of the "View of The Court House at Vicksburg. Drawn by C.E. Smith Nov 4th 1863."<br /> <br /> 17 Pencil sketch of the Rock House inside the Confederate fortifications at Vicksburg "Sketched by C.E. Smith Nov 2d 1863." On verso is sketch by Smith of the city vault in Vicksburg November 2 1863.<br /> <br /> 18 Photocopy of will of Charles E. Smith Two pages West Berlin Ohio; December 18 1901. <br /> <br /> Condition: The 26 diaries all have leather covers over boards which in most cases are worn but intact. The front cover of volume #9 has separated. Most have flaps. Overall the dairies are in good condition. The other items in the collection are overall good; numbers #1 and #7 manuscripts are brittle and fragile. Foxing and toning to letters along with creasing and light tearing at edges. Wear and staining to the exterior of diaries.<br /> <br /> Note: The text of the collection has been published as "A View From the Ranks: The Civil War Diaries of Corporal Charles Smith" in a very limited printing by the Delaware County Historical Society 1999. A copy of the book is included with the collection. <br /> <br /> A REMARKABLE UNBROKEN RUN OF DIARIES OFFERING A HIGHLY LITERATE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE EYES OF A UNION SOLDIER. np unknown
18616200San Antonio: February 2 1861. Good. Broadside on silk 19.5 x 14 inches. Expertly cleaned and restored. Previously folded with some creasing still visible. Moderate staining and a few small holes and separations aided by conservation. Scattered contemporary manuscript notations. An exceptionally rare Texas secession broadside executed on silk satin in San Antonio in 1861. Printed in five columns with an ornamental border the broadside features both the Ordinance of Secession and the Declaration of Causes two of the three principal documents drafted by the Texas Secession Convention along with a list of delegates. According to the colophon "These sheets on Fine Satin may be had at the Herald Office for $1 or on fine Book Paper at 10 cents each." The present broadside belonged to Cyrus Halbert Randolph 1817-1889 who was the Texas State Treasurer at the time of secession. Randolph arrived in Texas in March 1838 and quickly became established as an attorney and politician. A member of the Snively Expedition in 1843 he served in several political roles in Houston County including justice of the peace 1840 chief justice of the county circa 1843 and sheriff 1847. He also represented the county in the Texas Legislature in two terms between November 1851 and November 1857. Randolph was elected state treasurer 1859 and won re-election in 1860. Notably small pencil notations are next to the names of several delegates in the list perhaps associates of Randolph. Other known copies have connections to delegates and it seems likely that the sheets printed "on Fine Satin" were ideal souvenirs for prominent Texas politicians. <br /> <br /> After South Carolina's secession in December 1860 Texas was not far behind in joining them. The Constitutional Convention was organized on February 1 1861 and voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession. The ordinance was ratified by popular vote on February 23rd. The document begins with the Declaration of Causes a fiery assertion of Texas's rights which highlights her unique history as an independent country and leaves no doubt as to the core issue at stake: "Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. … She was received as a commonwealth holding maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery -- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits -- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States since our connection with them"<br /> <br /> Continuing in scathing language the authors accuse the North of interfering directly as they "encouraged and sustained lawless organizations to steal our slaves;" "invaded Southern soil and murdered reoffending citizens;" "sent seditious pamphlets and papers among us to stir up servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage to our fireside;" "sent hired emissaries among us to burn our towns and distribute arms and poison to our slaves;" and "finally by the combined sectional vote of the seventeen free or non-slave-holding States they have elected as President and Vice President of the whole Confederacy two men whose chief claims to such high positions is their approval of these long continued wrongs and their pledges to continue them to the final consummation of these schemes for the ruin of the slaveholding States."<br /> <br /> What follows is a list of the 168 delegates ending with Philip A. Work distinguishing this copy as a first edition. Noted bibliographer and Texas historian Everett C. Wilkie Jr. made a detailed study of the Texas secession documents in The 1861 Printings of the Ordinance of Secession Dallas 2011 and identifies three separate editions of the broadside essentially differentiated by the list of delegates. The first edition Wilkie 23 was almost certainly printed in February 1861 and ends the delegate list with Philip A. Work. The later editions Wilkie 24 & 25 were printed in early and mid-March respectively with additional delegates added to the list. The present edition is also the only one to include six lines naming the delegates who voted against secession. <br /> <br /> Printed in the right-hand column is the Ordinance of Secession stating the Texas is once again "a separate sovereign state." The preamble encapsulates the grievances of the state "Whereas the action of the Northern States of the Union is violative of the compact between the States and the guarantees of the Constitution and whereas the recent developments in Federal affairs make it evident that the power of the Federal Government is sought to be made a weapon with which to strike down the interests and prosperity of the people of Texas and her sister slave-holding states; instead of permitting it to be as was intended our shield against outrage and aggression; therefore."<br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham note three institutional copies: University of North Carolina University of Texas and Baylor University. The Baylor copy however is actually a 7-page pamphlet edition Parrish & Willingham 4150. The UNC and Texas are therefore the only other known copies of the first edition. A unique opportunity to acquire one of the most significant broadsides in Texas history in the first edition and on silk.<br /> Crandall 2153. Parrish & Willingham 4151. Wilkie 23. Winkler & Friend 171. February 2 unknown
1860369308Charleston S.C.: Evans and Cogswell 1860. Broadside 11-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches. Old folds. Nicely mounted framed and glazed. Broadside 11-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches. One of the earliest Confederate imprints: South Carolina's official act of secession printed for delegates at the secession convention. This first printing of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession the document which caused the departure of South Carolina from the Union set the nation irrevocably on the path to the Civil War. <br /> <br /> After Lincoln's election South Carolina moved vigorously to follow through its threat to secede from the Union. A secession convention was called and assembled at Charleston on December 20 1860. Their entire business was to debate the issue of secession which they favored overwhelmingly and to settle on the wording of a secession ordinance. Within the day the 169 members of the Convention voted unanimously for the ordinance.<br /> <br /> This is the printing of the ordinance made for the use of the delegates to the Convention. The ordinance was set up in the form of a "reading bill" or "slip bill" familiar to most delegates as the typical form of a legislative bill in working draft with the body of the text in numbered double-spaced lines to facilitate the making of corrections. Following the title given above the text reads:<br /> "We the People of the State of South Carolina in Convention Assembled do declare and ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention on the twenty-third of May in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty-eight whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments to the said Constitution are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of 'The United States of America' is hereby dissolved."<br /> <br /> Presumably only several hundred copies of this "slip bill" version of the Secession Ordinance were printed - just enough to distribute to the members of the convention. They were probably printed just before the convention began. Indeed setting and printing it would have taken a few hours at most. After its passage the ordinance would famously be published as a newspaper extra by the Charleston Mercury with the following words in bold below the text of the ordinance: The Union Is Dissolved!<br /> <br /> This is one of four extant examples of the slip bill the others being examples at the Huntington Library Emory University and one in private hands being the example once belonging to Jay Snider sold to him by the William Reese Company in 1997 and resold at the sale of his collection at Christies June 21 2005 lot 165 selling for $66000. Parrish & Willingham 3795; Crandall 1888 Evans and Cogswell unknown
186136810Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1861. Lithographic broadside 34 x 26 inches. Expert restoration archivally paper-backed. South Carolina calls for secession.<br/> <br/>The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of Secession which precipitated the beginning of the Civil War and is thus one of the earliest Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed. This large-format contemporary print of the original engrossed and signed manuscript document presents the Act of Secession as it was passed and signed in the South Carolina State House. It so faithfully executed that it also reproduces the ink blots present on the original document. The document features the text of the secession ordinance and the signatures of D.F. Jamison President of the Convention and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention called by Gov. Francis W. Pickens. The historic resolution which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett editor of the Charleston Mercury which printed a well-known secession broadside of its own proclaiming: "The Union Is Dissolved!" The secession resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 20 after which Jamison said "The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth." Shortly after passage of the ordinance Evans & Cogswell printers to the convention were asked to prepare a copy for use by the members. The convention reconvened in March 1861 to address issues related to the coming war. According to the report of Paul Quattlebaum Chairman of the Committee on Printing published as an appendix to the March 28 1861 entry in the Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina the printing was "in a style creditable to the art; and by a careful comparison with the original the Committee find it to bear a very notable similarity to it." The convention delegates immediately authorized Evans & Cogswell to print 200 lithographic copies of the Ordinance to be distributed at the direction of D.F. Jamison. Evans & Cogswell likely printed the 200 copies including the present copy in the days that followed and probably before the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12. The copies were then most likely distributed to the convention delegates and other prominent state officials. An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham and even fewer in auction records.<br/> <br/>Crandall 1887; Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina pp. 204 543. Parrish & Willingham 3794; Sabin 87444. Evans & Cogswell unknown books
1861WRCAM52380Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1861. Lithographic broadside 33 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. Mild creasing toning and spotting. Very minor repaired marginal tears small chip in lower left corner. Near fine. Matted and framed. The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of Secession which precipitated the beginning of the Civil War and is thus one of the earliest Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed this copy was found among the papers of William Dunlap Simpson a prominent South Carolina legislator and governor. Simpson was a lawyer who served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and one in the state Senate. He acted as a lieutenant colonel during the Civil War and was a delegate to the Confederate State House in 1863. After the Civil War Simpson was elected lieutenant governor then governor for a brief time before serving ten years as chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. <br> <br> This large format contemporary engraving of the original engrossed and signed manuscript document presents the Act of Secession as it was passed and signed in the South Carolina State House. It was so faithfully executed that it also reproduces the ink blots present on the original document. The document features the text of the secession ordinance and the signatures of D.F. Jamison president of the Convention and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention called by Gov. Francis W. Pickens. <br> <br> The historic resolution which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett editor of the CHARLESTON MERCURY which printed a well-known secession broadside of its own proclaiming: "The Union Is Dissolved!" The secession resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on December 20 after which Jamison said "The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth." <br> <br> Shortly after passage of the ordinance Evans & Cogswell printers to the convention were asked to prepare a copy for use by the members. The convention reconvened in March 1861 to address issues related to the coming war. According to the report of Paul Quattlebaum Chairman of the Committee on Printing published as an appendix to the March 28 1861 entry in the JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA the printing was "in a style creditable to the art; and by a careful comparison with the original the Committee find it to bear a very notable similarity to it." The convention delegates immediately authorized Evans & Cogswell to print 200 lithographic copies of the Ordinance to be distributed at the direction of D.F. Jamison. Evans & Cogswell likely printed the 200 copies including the present copy in the days that followed and probably before the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12. The copies were then most likely distributed to the convention delegates and other prominent state officials such as William Dunlap Simpson. <br> <br> An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document once belonging to a South Carolina governor and Civil War officer with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham and even fewer in auction records. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3794. CRANDALL 1887. SABIN 87444. JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA pp.204 543. Evans & Cogswell unknown books
1863353816Gettysburg PA 1863. 1p. Signed in print by Maj. Gen. Meade. 6-3/8 x 6-1/2 inches. Old folds. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. 1p. Signed in print by Maj. Gen. Meade. 6-3/8 x 6-1/2 inches. The General Orders continues: "Our task is not yet accomplished and the Commanding General looks to the Army for greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of the presence of the invader. It is right and proper that we should on all suitable occasions return our grateful thanks to the Almighty Disposer of events that in the goodness of his Providence He has thought fit to give victory to the cause of the just."<br /> <br /> Lincoln would take issue with Meade's choice of words arguing that "our soil" applied to the southern states as well. In addition he was disappointed that Meade did not impel a greater effort to pursue Robert E. Lee in retreat. Nevertheless the Union victory at the three-day Battle of Gettysburg would prove a seminal turning point of the war arguably the greatest military victory for the Union. Interestingly Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address would echo Meade's own words from this order over the historic nature of the victory: "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here."<br /> <br /> Fewer than ten known copies of this battlefield-issued printing of Meade's victory message are recorded in several variant printings. The use of tabletop field printing presses by both the Union and Confederate armies helped make quick field communication possible but minor typographical differences were certain to occur given the circumstances of their composition. In addition a more formal printing of General Orders 68 was issued in Washington and can be found in annual bound volumes of such orders though is frequently misidentified as the present field-printed order. The last example on the market sold at Sotheby's in May 2016.<br /> <br /> WITH: Two-page manuscript official true copy of Meade's General Orders No. 66 assuming command of the Army of the Potomac just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg dated June 28 1863 written and signed by Acting Assistant Adjutant General Paul Nason.<br /> <br /> This example accompanied by a contemporary official manuscript true copy written and signed by A.A.A.G. Paul F. Nason of Meade's General Orders No. 66 in which he assumed command of the Army of the Potomac on the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg: "The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of an hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved and let each man determine to do his duty leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest unknown
18201541751820-21. Vibrant immediate and honest An outstanding series of 37 vivid candid letters by Major-General Sir George Ridout Bingham 1777-1833 transcribed by him from his original correspondence home and spanning April 1809 to January 1814 including the campaign of Talavera. They constitute a major primary source for campaigning in the Peninsula. In a reflective foreword written at Dean's Leaze in 1820-21 Bingham explains that he found his mother's preserved cache of letters on his return to England and copied them out verbatim omitting only personal matters. He stresses that he made no revisions leaving his early impressions misjudged predictions and evolving opinions intact and notes the gradual growth of his confidence in Wellington. An index closes the volume. A letter of 29 July 1809 from the field near Talavera captures the collection's immediacy: Bingham reports the ferocity of the action the heavy British casualties borne without Spanish support the army's acute want of provisions the deaths and wounds among senior officers his own collapse from exhaustion and the Spaniards' killing of wounded Frenchmen. Such unvarnished observations typify the set. The foreword and letters are printed in Gareth Glover's Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler 2005. Glover notes that all surviving transcripts - including those at the National Army Museum typescript copies presented to the United Services Institute in 1923 - derive from lost originals. He characterizes the letters as frank immediate and rich in operational detail free from retrospective shaping and attentive to landscape people officers daily routines and the brutal conduct of war. Bingham from a long-established Dorset family rose rapidly: ensign in the 69th 1793 major in the 82nd 1801 and in 1805 lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 2/53rd. He led the battalion throughout its distinguished Peninsula service Porto to Burgos later commanding a provisional battalion through Vitoria the Pyrenees and the Nivelle. Decorated with the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword and made KCB he escorted Napoleon to St Helena and commanded there until 1819 later serving on the Irish staff during a turbulent period. He was widely regarded as a considerate and able officer. Provenance: pencilled ownership of Col. John Delalynde Mansel 1850-1915 Rifle Brigade whose grandfather Lieut.-Col. John Mansel served as Bingham's second-in-command in the Peninsula. Subsequent family marriages united the Mansel Bingham and Pleydell lines. Small quarto 230 x 185 mm. Contemporary red half roan smooth spine divided by seven pairs of gilt fillets gilt lettered "MSS. Letters from the Peninsula" sides and corners trimmed with paired gilt fillets red paper sides. 163 pages running to about 32000 words written in a neat hand. Binding professionally refurbished slight cockling to first few leaves otherwise clean and presenting smartly. Gareth Glover Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler: The Peninsula Letters & St Helena Diaries of Sir George Ridout Bingham 2005; T. H. McGuffie ed. "The Bingham Manuscripts: 2nd/53rd in the Peninsular War 1809-10 and 1812-13" JSAHR Vol. 26 No 107 Autumn 1948. unknown
1878166983London & Simla: 1878-82. Confidential India Office archive revealing British decision-making in the final phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War An exceptional archive of confidential India Office and Government of India papers this collection offers an unusually detailed view of the diplomatic and bureaucratic manoeuvring that accompanied the final stages of the Second Anglo-Afghan War and the negotiation of Britain's withdrawal. Bringing together Foreign Department memoranda from Simla Cabinet papers printed at the Foreign Office and India Office material that seldom survives outside official files it reconstructs policy formation across two administrations and two continents. Running through the papers is the early career of Reginald Baliol Brett later 2nd Viscount Esher who became private secretary to Lord Hartington in 1878. As Hartington and the new Liberal government sought to reverse Lord Lytton's "forward" policy and disengage from Afghanistan the India Office and the Government of India frequently disagreed over strategy intelligence and the limits of influence. The archive captures these tensions vividly and shows Brett learning to operate as an assertive intermediary whose probing questionnaires marginalia and attempts to synthesize rival views already marked him out as a rising - and at times unsettling - force within the department. The documentary foundation of the dossier lies in A. W. Moore's two major surveys of Afghan affairs annotated by Brett and widely regarded as the most authoritative India Office narratives of the conflict. These are complemented by a sequence of extremely restricted Simla-printed papers and a run of Cabinet memoranda from Thomas Harrison's private press together charting the shift from aggressive frontier ambition to the more pragmatic Liberal policy of withdrawal and the recognition of Abdur Rahman as Amir. High-level submissions by Hartington Ripon and Evelyn Baring illuminate the arguments over the retention of Kandahar and Pishin while the "Aide-Mémoire" on negotiations with Abdur Rahman documents the decisive recalibration of British aims. Other materials probe the immediate crises of the war: memoranda assessing Yakub Khan's responsibility for the Kabul Residency attack; correspondence among Griffin Stewart and Lyall on the deteriorating northern situation; and the substantial "Very Confidential" dossier of Russian correspondence between General von Kaufmann and Shere Ali which exposes the diplomatic pressures of the "Great Game". Operational detail appears in the viceroy's secret telegrams of early 1880 field reports from Kandahar and Kabul Wilson's military sketch of the campaign and manuscript troop returns. Among the most revealing personal items is General Charles Gordon's autograph draft of a letter to The Times opposing the retention of Kandahar heavily revised and ultimately suppressed by Brett who feared it would damage Gordon's standing. His decision and later grief at Gordon's death lend an unexpected human dimension to a collection otherwise dominated by official policy and statecraft. Only a handful of the documents can be traced in institutional collections and few survive in private hands. Gathered here in a coherent sequence with close associations they provide a rare high-resolution record of how British officials interpreted the war navigated clashing doctrines and personalities and ultimately engineered their exit from Afghanistan. A full list of the contents is available on request. Folio 339 x 215 mm comprising 37 printed and manuscript items: full listing with titles paginations and outline content given in the note. Contemporary light olive brown diagonal zigzag-grain cloth boards rebacked and cornered in brownish orange morocco in the mid-20th century red morocco label original moderate bluish green endpapers retained matching linen hinges. Esher armorial bookplate. Cloth starting to lift a little from the edges of spine; contents variably browned margins a little fragile in places with a few consequent chips and splits one title page torn across and neatly repaired with archival tape: overall very good. James Lees-Milne The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher 1986. hardcover
1864WRCAM54026Richmond: Ayres & Wade 1864. Forty-four issues of 110 most 8pp. each. Folio. Old fold lines and light wear. Separations along gutter vertical folds. Some light tanning and soiling scattered foxing and wear. Some issues lightly dampstained. Many issues trimmed at gutter margin creating loose sheets. Still very good overall. THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS was the Civil War South's answer to northern publications such as HARPER'S WEEKLY. A pictorial paper it printed portraits and biographies of important military leaders political cartoons mocking President Lincoln and other northern figures as well as literary tidbits. The paper ran from Sept. 13 1862 to Feb. 4 1865 and was published weekly. Through 1863 issues were eight pages in length but into 1864 issues were more often four pages or sometimes skipped entirely and only published every other week. <br> <br> The quality of the publication and its illustration were rather crude by comparison with the North's offerings. The publishers advertised several times for expert engravers but never seem to have found any to take up the job. Nevertheless each issue contains cartoons and portraits of famous generals and officers along with literary works a few advertisements theatre and literature critiques and the news of the day though often several days behind. The back page of each issue advertises literary works now available or recently off the press maps of the war and different plays and shows coming up. One cartoon shows a downcast President Lincoln as Julius Caesar with a black Brutus; another shows the pleasant conditions for Union soldiers at Belle Isle Confederate Prison as opposed to the isolation and unhappiness of Confederate soldiers imprisoned in Ohio. Still a further illustration shows a dead man sprawled across a coffin captioned: "The Fate of a Deserter." The NEWS not surprisingly published with a pro-southern bias even to the point of declaring the Battle of Gettysburg to be a great Confederate victory. <br> <br> Publication only became more difficult as the months passed. Legend has it that in 1864 several issues were printed with shoe polish rather than proper printing ink due to shortages not borne out by an examination of existing copies. Paper was also in short supply resulting in shortened or skipped issues. By 1865 with the Union Army occupying major southern cities and marching further into the heart of the Confederacy the paper's circulation plummeted and distribution outside of Richmond became next to impossible. Richmond fell to the Union on April 2 1865 which is when the periodical effectively ceased. <br> <br> This excellent run consists of issues spanning from Sept. 20 1862 No. 1:6 through March 5 1864 No. 3:9. The NEWS published forty-two issues in its first volume Sept. 13 1862 to June 27 1863 twenty-five in its second volume June 27 1863 to Dec. 26 1863 and thirty-eight issues in its third Jan. 2 1864 to Dec. 24 1864. There is some confusion about how many issues appeared in 1865. Some sources record the paper running until September 1865 though that is almost certainly wrong; others say the end of March. The Library of Congress website devoted to historical newspapers "Chronicling America" indicates an end date of Sept. 3 1865 but gives the final issue as Volume 4 issue 5 which was published on Feb. 4 1865. Emory University holds a 4:5 dated Feb. 4 1865 the latest we can find listed anywhere and thus probably the actual end of the publication. Assuming this is correct the present run contains forty-four of one hundred ten issues. <br> <br> Issues are rare and representative runs even more so. A wonderful resource for Civil War history. Ayres & Wade unknown books
1879169244Onboard ship and in southern Africa: 1879. I should not like to say how many kraals we burnt Such warfare is not very glorious This substantial archive of largely unpublished correspondence - around 21000 words written in the field - offers a vivid and unusually frank primary source for the Zulu War only partially treated in existing historiography. Captain Fitzwilliam Elliot youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Minto and a perceptive officer on special service writes with sharp intelligence admiration for the Zulu and unguarded criticism of British command. Addressed to his mother the well-read and formidable Nina Countess of Minto the letters track his movements from the aftermath of Isandlwana to the campaign's close often with acute reflections on strategy discipline and morale. Elliot sailed shortly after the disasters of early 1879 joining General Crealock's coastal column. He denounces the confused state of operations deplores the "sensational" reporting of the Prince Imperial's death and is consistently scathing of Crealock as "an old woman" and Chelmsford for the "feebleness" of his reports. His march from Durban to Fort Chelmsford and northwards is marked by slow progress foul weather and disorganization. He gives sharp portraits of officers and units praising the veteran 57th and dismissing the 88th as "a real rowdy lot of Irishmen but good to fight friend or foe". He describes kraal raids with discomfort acknowledging the logic of destroying Zulu resources while feeling "rather a scoundrel" at the spectacle of looted food and driven captives. Yet his admiration for the Zulu is striking: "they are always so thoroughly manly never appearing angry nor even humiliated at the loss of homes cattle women every thing indeed which they possess". He reports the VC ceremony for Rorke's Drift doubting the award to Chard and remarks acidly that Colonel Pearson lionized at home after the siege of Eshowe is regarded in the field as "one of the greatest muffs this war has produced". His final letters follow the victory at Ulundi where the "streams are now full of dead Zulus" a scene he describes with evident distress and sanitary alarm. On 12 August he writes from Ulundi to wish his family good sport on the Glorious Twelfth and the next day notes departure "for a dart after Cetewayo better game than grouse". The archive is accompanied by cartes-de-visite of Elliot his parents and John Dunn; Elliot's commission as captain; and his 1867 record of services. 14 autograph letters signed 11 retaining envelopes pale blue paper generally 200 x 125 mm written largely in pencil but also in ink; Record of Services printed on pale blue paper with envelope; commission dated 29 October 1878; 5 carte de visite 2 of the young Elliot in uniform one each of his parents one of John Robert Dunn. Some tears to envelopes otherwise well preserved. John Buchan Lord Minto: A Memoir 1924. unknown
18656242Various locations 1865. About very good. Forty letters approximately 96pp. Many with original envelopes. Light wear and soiling old folds. In a legible hand. Together with twelve additional family letters and two military commissions. A wonderful archive of correspondence written home from the Confederate lines by William Henry Tabb of the 14th Mississippi Infantry. William Henry Tabb 1837-1864 was the son of a minister at the Choctaw Agency in Oktibbeha County Mississippi. In April 1861 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Agency Guards which were soon absorbed as a company in the 14th Mississippi Infantry. He was captured at Fort Donelson exchanged reached the rank of captain and was with his regiment when he suffered a fatal wound in the defense of Atlanta on August 5 1864. <br /> <br /> Tabb begins his letters with optimism. On August 1861 after training in Corinth Mississippi the regiment met with a parade in Huntsville en route to eastern Tennessee: "The women men and children were down to see us and a regiment turned out to do us honor. Such cheering from beautiful young ladies all along our way is enough to make men brave." On October 22 1861 he recounts the recent death by disease of his brother Thomas Tabb in Marion Alabama also of the 14th Mississippi calling him "my dearest friend on earth."<br /> <br /> Tabb was captured at Fort Donelson in February of 1862. Two of these letters were written from the Union prison at Johnson's Island near Sandusky Ohio. In May 1862 he writes: "We are not allowed to write what nor as much as we please. I have no friends to work for me see no indications of a general exchange or parole and it is almost impossible to escape from this island. It is amusing to see men one day Confederate officers and the next day cooking or around the wash tub. We have no servants. I am well treated have a plenty not a variety of food and clothing that we need issued to us." By September 24th he was back with his regiment in Mississippi: "The Yankees stole my shoes and I am wearing an old pr of boots. It appears that my conduct at Donelson has been very highly spoken of. Well I.tried to do my duty but I am sure I did nothing extra. Indeed our regt in my opinion fell little short of disgracing itself." He adds a word on the troubled home front situation: "Am sorry to hear that the Negroes have commenced stealing. I would very much like to see all that have behaved themselves and wd thrash those who have been stealing."<br /> <br /> On April 11 1863 he describes the recent Battle of Ponchatoula which other companies in his regiment participated in: "Rollins was sent out with ten of the company on our right wing to try to flank them. As soon as he commenced firing on them we attacked their center and they broke to run. They were zouaves red pants we never could catch them." He lamented the loss of his enslaved servant on June 7th near Yazoo City: "I expected John to come to me. I have become attached to John and don't know how to get along without him. I look for him every day now." Tabb had some great stories about Grant's efforts to take Jackson the Mississippi capital from which Johnston's Confederates performed a stealth evacuation. On the 19th and 20th of July 1863 he wrote: "All of the boys wanted to stay and fight but Grant had 80000 men and we had only 30000. It is true we were behind breastworks but they were not good and the place could be easily flanked. Johnson prepared to evacuate the place from the time we got there. The Yankees knew it. Not a word was spoken not a command given. The Yankees knew nothing of our leaving. Some of our men did not know we had left and were left behind but overtook us. I hear that the Yankees commenced shelling the town the other morning after we left and kept it up til 9 o'clock when some of the citizens hoisted the white flag and surrendered the place. They were vexed to know that we had left them without their knowing anything about it."<br /> <br /> Tabb had been away from the regiment for the start of the Atlanta campaign and on July 9 1864 he wrote: "I reached the command the evening of the 5th and found my company.8 miles from Atlanta. I found the men dirty and many of them with worn out clothes and not very good rations but all in good spirits and glad to see me. The people of Atlanta are leaving rapidly. They think the place will be evacuated. Do not be surprised if you hear it. We will not be whipped if we do leave it." This is Tabb's final letter in the collection. He was shot a month later. The group concludes with nine condolence letters and memorials. An October 1864 memoriam copied in 1894 recounted his death: "At the time he received the fatal shot he was commanding the brigade skirmishers & was just forming the line to proceed to the front. Though terribly mangled & in great pain he was calm & collected." He survived long enough to send farewell thoughts to his family and to regret "that I was not spared to see my country through her troubles." Also included are two of Tabb's military commissions in the Agency Rifles from the State of Mississippi: as Second Lieutenant on 24 April 1861 and as First Lieutenant on 25 December 1861. Both are signed by Governor John J. Pettus. In all a wonderful archive from a Confederate soldier who saw significant action and imprisonment during the war. unknown
186126345Washington: Bureau of Topographical Engineers 1861. Sun printed i.e. photozincographed map after the original manuscript routes of railroads and canals hand-coloured 44 x 51 1/2 inches dissected into 24 sections and linen-backed as issued. Manuscript annotations in pencil by J. J. Young. Modern blue morocco-backed box. Provenance: Descendants of Amiel Weeks Whipple. Incredible Civil War map of Virginia produced by the Corps of Topographical Engineers for use by Union officers in the field.<br/> <br/>A highly important military map of Northern Virginia made for the use of the Union Army in the early days of the Civil War by an important military cartographer. The present map depicts Virginia as far north as Fredericksburg as far south as the North Carolina border and as far west as Charlottesville with detail including towns roads waterways and railroads. A statement on the map cites the U.S. Coast surveys and the Boye map of Virginia as sources in addition to surveys conducted by the Corps of Topographical Engineers. The map was completed within a month of the first major battle of the war the Battle of Bull Run fought on July 21 1861. The failure of the Union forces there made it clear that the war was not going to be resolved easily and quickly. Although not named as the cartographer the present map can be attributed to Amiel Weeks Whipple. During the 1850s Whipple became one of the most accomplished surveyors in the Corps of Topographical Engineers leading explorations for the transcontinental railroad. Captain Whipple was immediately ordered to report to the Chief of Topographical Engineers in Washington. There was then a dearth of maps giving any but the most meagre of information concerning the State of Virginia and to him as Chief of Topographical Engineers of the defenses of Washington South of the Potomac was entrusted the very challenging duty of making armed reconnaissances to collect the topographical details required. It was hazardous work in a country thickly wooded in places where small bodies of men could be concealed with absolute impunity; and the first skirmishes of the war such as that at Fairfax Court House were fought during its continuance. The work however was successfully and very quickly done and reliable maps were soon in possession of the Union commanders" Stoddard. Attribution of this map to Whipple can also be determined by a very similar map though focussed on Fairfax Loudoun and Prince William Counties which identifies Whipple as the source for the manuscript drawn by Civil Engineer J. J. Young see Stephenson 536.6. That map is in essence the companion to the present map i.e. showing the northern regions of Virginia not shown on this map. The handwriting of the manuscript used for that map and the present map are identical suggesting both to have been drawn by Young. Interestingly the present map includes pencil annotations again in the same hand see for example the naming of the branches of the Elizabeth River near Norfolk. That this map was done specifically for use in the field is suggested by the hurried process of its production. Rather than taking the time to have the map lithographed or engraved a sun print process was used to duplicate the original manuscript. Sun prints also called photozincography were developed in Great Britain in the mid-19th century to reproduce maps created during the Ordnance Survey. In this photographic process a negative is made of the original using a wet plate collodion method which is then exposed onto a thin sheet coated with a saturated potassium bichromate solution and transferred to a zinc plate coated in ink and put through a press. The present copy descended in the family of Whipple and includes a manuscript presentation below the cartouche "To accompany letter to / dated Bureau of Topogl. Eng.s Augt 1861." The name of the recipient is not filled in suggesting that Whipple kept this copy for himself. The map is very rare with OCLC citing but three known examples.<br/> <br/>Stephenson Civil War Maps 451.6; Francis R. Stoddard "Amiel Weeks Whipple" in Chronicles of Oklahoma vol. 28 Autumn 1950. Bureau of Topographical Engineers unknown books
1861WRCAM48993Richmond: West & Johnston 1861. Sheet map 19 3/4 x 26 inches. Old fold lines. Some separation at two folds on the right edge. Light wear minor toning. Very good. A handsome and historic map depicting the First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run depicting troop positions and movements roads railroads houses and other significant geographical features. First Manassas was the first significant engagement of the Civil War and the place where Thomas J. Jackson became "Stonewall" Jackson when his brigade stood their ground against disorganized Union forces. The Confederate troops won the battle raising hopes in the South and signaling to the North that the war would not be won so easily. The map indicates that it was "made from observation" by Solomon Bamberger and lithographed by the firm of Hoyer & Ludwig in Richmond. <br> <br> It appears that at least two issues of this map exist this being the most vividly pictorial that we have found and thus perhaps the later of the two. Rather than a simple plan of the battle the present map lays out the same information augmenting the background with shading and pictorial scenery. The title is likewise enclosed in a simple border setting it off from the rest of the map and though the title is the same the typeface of some of the title lettering has been changed slightly. Parrish & Willingham do not indicate any differentiation of issues but the details and graphics make this by far the most desirable. <br> <br> A rare and interesting map of this important battle and one of the most dramatic graphics produced in the Confederacy. Without the means to produce suitable paper few pieces on a comparable scale were created. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6148. West & Johnston unknown books
18990012049Donsol Pilar Manila Philippines New York Malta. Poor with no dust jacket. 1899-1901. Other. On offer is an unbelievable handwritten account of 19 months of action on the frontlines of the Philippine Insurrection the Philippine-American War between November 1899 and June 1901. An unknown American soldier writes of his experiences in a level of detail that cannot be overstated. This diary places the reader in the Philippines with shocking realism making this diary exceedingly rare. The 139 pages of this journalled account of events have been removed from a larger document and someone has pinned these loose pages together. This writing begins at the end of a sentence penned on presumably November 17 1899 and concludes half way through a sentence written on June 23 1901. There seem to be very few missing pages from within the journal and it reads very smoothly. The content is outstanding. The diary opens with our soldier diarist sailing from New York to the Philippines via the British Naval base at Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. He describes his experiences sailing sharing about a stop ashore in Malta a Thanksgiving spent at sea a concert enjoyed aboard the gunboat Nashville on the way to Manila and more. He arrives with his regiment in Manila on Dec 22 1899. The troops explore Manila and meet Filipino locals. In early January of 1900 they receive orders to head to southern Luzuon on the Kobbe Expedition which refers to General William Kobbes Expedition to Bicolandia. This expedition was in response to an urgent order from Washington to open up hemp ports of Southern Luzon due to an American hemp shortage. The problem was the port towns were largely controlled by Filipino Insurgents. Our diarist provides absolutely remarkable detail about Americas role in defeating the Insurgents and the tragedy of the Filipino peoples experience. Context indicates that our diarist was possibly a member of the 43rd Volunteer Infantry Regiments USV Company A. An excerpt that provides a sense of how our soldier explains the circumstances in the Philippines follows: Jan 16th we got the order to pack up and get ready to leave Mikata and to proceed to the Southern part of Luzon we were put aboard the transport Hancock which was at anchor in the Bay of Manila All combined we were named the Kobbe Expedition to the Southern Luzon to open up the Hemp ports and protect the natives from the Insurgents down there On the 21st of Jan 1900 our boats dropped anchor in a bay named the bay of Sorsogon in the Province of Albay All over this province there are large gangs of Insurgents holding the towns so at many towns our boys had a hard fight with the Insurgents before they could take the towns and the gun boat had to shell many of the towns. Our Regt. Occupied nine towns. Our detachment of A and D. Co. Were taken to a town named Donsol the gunboat Helena took us ashore from the Hancock On their arrival ashore they were met by a crowd of Philippinos. They had an order from the officers of the Insurgents it read saying that they would not haul down their colors nor surrender for three days. So our Major returned to the gunboat and a short conversation was held with the officers of the gun-boat and it was decided to prepare the gun boat for action and land all of us. If the Insurgents fired one shot at us the gun-boat would shell the town The hills were full of fleeing people. A detail of men were sent out on the hills at once then the Insurgents fired their first shot at us. Our boys had a warm fight for 15 minutes. They found the hills well entrenched and also found one big cannon. Lots of spears Bolas and wooden guns. They returned to town bringing in a few prisoners. A scouting party was seent and they saw a lot of Philippinos fleeing to the mountains. This town had a population of 10000 and three hundred were Insurrectors. The next thing we done was to find ourselves some good houses to live in. Outposts were put out all around the town. A few natives came across our post for a few nights and on the 22th Jan the Insurgents paid our town a visit setting fire to one of the big houses where our men were sleeping. Our men got out of the house without anyone being hurt. We surrounded the town fired a few volleys . Later in January our soldiers regiment goes on the first of many missions all of which he describes in glaring detail. On this mission the troops attempt to leave Donsol for Pilar when they run into trouble as the connecting bridge was destroyed by Insurgents. They make it to Pilar and find the town has been deserted. As they march back to Donsol they find someone has lit the bridge ablaze: Jan 28th We had a very hard time crossing the bridge burning our shoes and legs but we got safely on the Donsol side before the bridge fell with a crash into the river. We marched on we heard several shots from the Mauser and Remington rifles. Next we discovered a big fire and a call to arms and fire call was sounded The fire of the Insurgents got heavier. Our Major gave an order not to fire. He was going out in the front of our lines. He went out with a detail of men and discovered that our town was surrounded and the hills were full of Insurgents. He fired a few volleys then he came into town. The Insurgents answered him by firing a cannon. Then the Insurgents gave a yell and started to advance and we kept quiet and let them get close to our lines. Then we got the order to commence firing and the boys opened up all around the town and we soon put the Insurgents to flight firing a few shots as they ran. Next morning we discovered a few dead Insurgents close to our lines. The Insurgents almost always carry their dead and wounded along with them in their flight Our soldier does an absolutely phenomenal job of describing not only the day-to-day in Donsol where he spends majority of his time but also the various missions in which he participates. His words paint a fulsome picture of the war: 21st Feb at noon our Major asked for a detachment of men to volunteer to go up the river on a scouting expedition. I along with 12 more men went out of our company and 12 out of D. Co. Along with Capt. Hart of D. Co. And our Major left Donsol in a hard paddle boat and one white boat in tow On our way up the river we could see high hills on each side and the river was very narrow. There were many Insurgents outposts in the high trees all the way up and we fired at every one we saw. We went up a distance of 8 miles before we thought of coming home as it was getting late We had traveled one mile on our homeward way when the Insurgents fired on us from the left hand ashore. Our men in the rear boat fired a volley into the two Insurgents and were taking good aim for a second volley when the hills fairly echoed with the yells from the Insurgents. They then opened up on the right hand side which was aimed at the white boat hitting one of our men our company in the head and he was killed instantly. Then we answered their shots from each of our boats and from that time until we got back to Donsol we were under the hot fire of the Insurgents we could see the hills full of Insurgents and we had plenty to shoot at. We made every shot count. The insurgents even fired rocks at us from the high hills . More texture is added when our soldier discusses aspects of the war that dont involve active fire. Some examples follow: March 5th Gen Kobbe of the 8th Army Cor was here on a visit and he said these two companies were a very industrious lot of men and that the building of the stocade and trenches was a very sensible work he also brought us 17 of the Battery G 3rd Artillery men and one Hotch Kiss gun for reinforcements. April 10th the mail boat was here bringing the report of Gen. Pawa likely Jose Ignacio Paua an Insurgent Gen in Command of the Insurgent troops through this province. He surrender to our Colonel in Legaspi Legazpi and was sent to the Military Prison in Manila. April 21st We took a long march across the hills in a round about manner to a town named Sevilla merely an Insurgent camp. The town was deserted on our arrival. Fires were still burning in the houses. Everything was just as they had dropped it in their flight. We passed through the town and discovered many traps laid in the roads for us. One trap was an arrow trap on each side of the path in the bushes and by pulling a strong the arrows would stick into anyone going down the path. None of their traps caught us. Our soldier writes frequently about expeditions for which he volunteers. He describes a mission to Banningaran sic. En route the men captured Captain Hernandiz sic; possibly Adriano Hernández y Dayot and his family before being caught unprepared by the Insurgents who severely injured one of the American sargeants. On their hike back to Donsol they are again attacked by the Insurgents this time caught off guard as they attacked from the rear. And so it goes for many more months. Our author describes the movements of the men with whom he is stationed his commanding officers and the various wins and setbacks of both the Americans and the Insurgents. In May of 1901 our soldier and his regiment begin the process of boarding a ship to return to America. There is of course never a straightforward path and there are many bumps in the road. However our soldier does eventually board a ship and begins again to describe his journey in detail. The diary cuts off abruptly mid-sentence on June 23 1901 as our soldier is describing being at sea with nothing but a sailboat in sight for miles. While we do not know our soldiers identity we do know he was safely heading home at the conclusion of his diary. We know he was a highly motivated volunteer soldier who displayed total buy-in to the mission of the Americans in the Philippines and we know he was a gifted writer penning his experiences with such texture and realism that the reader feels as though they too have been on the front lines of a bloody wet miserable war in the Philippines - fighting for America and for the displaced Philippino people forced to flee from the Insurgents to the mountains. This journal measures 8x5 inches and contains 139 single-sided sheets. The pages were all loose so the author has pinned them together with a single round-headed fastener post. There are no covers to this journal. As a result the first and last few pages show obvious and significant wear and tear including a large corner of the first page being completely ripped off obstructing the text. The handwriting is quite legible. Overall Fair to Poor. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages . unknown
1865377676St. Louis: Printed by Joseph Gedney 1865. Inscribed by Sherman at the lower right "With compliments of W. T. Sherman Lt. Genl. Saint Louis MO September 21 1868. Large map drawn by Capt. William Kossak and John B. Muller under the direction of Maj. W. L. B. Jenney engraved by Evans and Courtenay. 33x51 inches sheet size. Military movements hand colored. Old folds repairs on verso along folds minor staining. Inscribed by Sherman at the lower right "With compliments of W. T. Sherman Lt. Genl. Saint Louis MO September 21 1868" Large map drawn by Capt. William Kossak and John B. Muller under the direction of Maj. W. L. B. Jenney engraved by Evans and Courtenay. 33x51 inches sheet size. Military movements hand colored. An impressively large map covering most of the southern theater of the Civil War extending from Washington D.C. in the northeast to Brunswick GA in the south and westward as far as Natchez Little Rock and St. Louis. The map is filled with remarkable detail including roads towns and villages rivers creeks and railroads. Compiled under the direction of Bvt. Maj. W.L.B. Jenney by order of General Sherman 13 different authorities are credited in its preparation.<br /> <br /> A key to the hand coloring at the bottom reveals the true reason for the map i.e. to chart Sherman's taking of Atlanta and his infamous march to the sea: black lines show the route of the infantry yellow the pursuit of Hood red the 4th Army Corps green the 14th Army Corps and so on; Union fortifications are colored blue and Confederate in red; the routes of Wilson and Stoneman's cavalry corps are also separately delineated.<br /> <br /> There are various versions of this map similarly titled but produced for different publishers and reasons. The most common includes the imprint of Ferd. Mayer Genl. Lith. of New York who printed the map for inclusion in Sherman's Memoirs New York 1875. Another version was produced at a reduced scale for inclusion in the Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies with the imprint of Julius Bien plate CXVII. Yet another includes the The American Photo-Lithographic Company of New York imprint at the lower right. The present version however with the St. Louis imprint of Joseph Gedney at the lower left would appear to have been separately published. Given the present version inscribed by Sherman it was perhaps produced on his behalf.<br /> <br /> We have never encountered another of these maps inscribed and signed by Sherman. Stephenson 72; Rumsey 3876 Printed by Joseph Gedney unknown
186426136Chattanooga 1864. Lithographed folding map sectioned and linen-backed as issued. Original card covers printed paper label. In a modern folding morocco-backed box. A remarkable Union Army field map printed for Sherman's operations in Georgia.<br/> <br/>A highly detailed map of the northern part of Georgia made under the direction of Capt. W. E. Merrill Chief Topographical Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland. The map shows all the major roads and rail lines in addition to natural topographical features in northern Georgia. The map extends as far north as Chattanooga near the Georgia/Tennessee state line and far enough south and east to include the northwest sixth of the state. The capture of Chattanooga in November 1863 gave the Union the foothold they needed to cut off supply lines and advance into the deep South. In the spring of 1864 the forces under Gen. William T. Sherman were poised to strike. As soon as Chattanooga was taken Sherman's chief topographical engineer Capt. William E. Merrill "the most innovative and conscientious exponent of mapping during the Civil War" began to compile a map of northwest Georgia. Merrill had his own complete establishment for map production -- a printing press lithographic presses and draughtsmen. Equally importantly Merrill's assistant Sgt. N. Finnegan developed an extraordinary body of intelligence drawing on spies prisoners refugees peddlars itinerant preachers and scouts what Merrill called "his motley crew". All of this information was digested by Merrill day by day until he was notified that the campaign would begin within the week. At this point the topographers finished their work and two hundred copies were produced mounted on linen for field use and distributed to field commanders down to the brigade level. In five months Merrill and his men had produced a remarkably accurate map of country that lay mostly behind enemy lines. The Merrill map was a critical aid to Sherman's campaigns in Georgia. Five days after the map was completed on May 7 Sherman's army left Chattanooga and began its hard-fought push to the southeast slowly driving the Confederates back to the railroad hub of Atlanta which is in the lower right quadrant of this map. In a campaign of continual attempts by both armies to outflank each other the understanding of the ground it would have brought the Union commanders was invaluable. Sherman took possession of Atlanta in September and used it as a base of operations for the next two and a half months while he raided in every direction all within the boundaries of this map. On November 15 the Federal forces burned the city cut loose from their rail communications with Chattanooga and began the famous March to the Sea heading east toward Savannah burning and pillaging everything in their path. About a week later they moved off the east edge of this map. An examination shows why this map would have been an invaluable aid to the Union commanders in the Georgia campaign. It details topography rivers existing roads and railroads towns and other features on a very small scale of four miles to the inch. Conveying the latest in Union military intelligence and combining new and existing information it would have guided Sherman and his officers through eight months of the hardest-fought campaigning of the entire Civil War. A triumph of coordinated intelligence and map-making it is one of the most remarkable cartographic productions of the Civil War. Indeed it might be called the "Holster Atlas" of the Georgia campaign.<br/> <br/>Stephenson Civil War Maps in the Library of Congress S28-29; Miller Great Maps of the Civil War p.39. unknown books
1899182470South Africa: 1899-1902. A unique snapshot of Boer War Cape Town A highly unusual accomplished series of pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches - landscapes and social and military subjects - covering many aspects of life both high and low in Cape Town during the conflict including depictions of indigenous people Malays and Boers. These attractive well-finished sketches in an unusual and flamboyant style seem professional and illustrative rather than "fine art" and captioned in a decorative and very well-formed hand. The artist may well have been a working illustrator: his captions are certainly in the manner used by such periodicals as the Black & White and The Graphic and the style is that employed for lightly "humoresque" reportage. However we have been unable to trace any published versions and of course he may have been simply an observant talented well-placed amateur. The captioning reveals him to be probably British but possibly American - he makes references to the British soldier as "Tommy" and refers to "Australian and Canadian" troops. The album opens with a bird's eye view of Cape Town from Leeuwen Street and is followed by three military subjects. "Poor Tommy passes in his check" shows a British soldier struck in the head by a bullet as fellow infantrymen take cover behind rocks. "Passed in his check" was a slang expression for dying used mainly in America where there was considerable sympathy for the Boer cause and the unsentimental rendering of a Tommy's death may indicate that the artist is indeed American. Similarly the following picture "An intercepted despatch" shows a mounted courier being picked off by a Boer marksman. This is followed by "Cronje's barkers at Green Point - captured at Paardeberg" with a British sentry guarding artillery and a Maxim gun taken at that hard-fought battle 18-27 February 1900. The camp at Green Point Common was established for British troops before being used to house Boer prisoners of war. Of the dozen appealing watercolours five are landscapes the remainder portraits except for "On the Terrace Dix's" which shows a well-to-do trio seated at a table at Dix's Café the place to be seen in fin de siècle Cape Town it's "leading café during the South African War. When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York later King George V and Queen Mary visited Cape Town the Mayor's banquet was held at Dix's" Green. Particularly striking is the very nicely rendered full-length portrait of a young black woman entitled "The girl aint coloured she was born that way". This is much more of a likeness than a "type" and is echoed to some extent in the preceding image "Tommy's substitute for Maria" which shows a British soldier conversing with two well-dressed black women. These may well be "sly girls" a term for women who supplemented their income with occasional sex work. At home and among the higher echelons of the Army there was deep concern about the loose morals of troops in South Africa and "one problem was considered to be their preference for black prostitutes" Kuitenbrouwer p. 203. The artist's rendering of horses is particularly adept as illustrated by "Every man his own horse breaker - Buckjumbers sic from Argentina" a buckjumper is a horse that habitually bucks; many British cavalry mounts were imported from Argentina during the war and an untitled sketch showing a Yeomanry trooper on a prancing mount. Around nine subjects are military including Boer prisoners being escorted under guard at Green Point and soldiers carousing in a mule cart entitled "When the Canadians and Australians went home". Local scenes include several images of refugees from the fighting a nicely rendered portrait of a smartly dressed Indian trader drunks on Bree Street and "doppers" members of the Reformed Churches in South Africa. "Ricksha" is a spirited sketch showing a young Zulu rickshaw-puller fancifully dressed and adorned with horns and wings - an outfit intended to attract custom and often seen in tourist album photographs into the 20th century - pulling a fashionably dressed lady. The artist's eye for costume is also notable even when a little exaggerated for effect giving the images the hallmark of verisimilitude. The album closes on a humorous note with "Our friends the enemy: the mosquito the bug and the nimble flea the African horrors" showing a trio of anthropomorphized insects. Landscape octavo 145 x 245 mm. With 39 original pen-and-ink drawings and 12 watercolours of scenes and people. Contemporary dark brown hard-grain morocco gilt lettered "Sketch Book" on front cover and initialled "A.H." or "F.H." within border of gilt paired fillets gilt milled edge roll gold-veined Double Marble pattern endpapers. Custom brown quarter morocco solander box. Some abrasions to covers a few pale stains to back cover inner hinges cracked but firm expert repairs to edges of first 8 leaves general toning and finger soiling. Overall in very good condition. Lawrence Green Tavern of the Seas 1947; Vincent Kuitenbrouwer War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War 1899-1902 2010. unknown
1865353265Vp New York South Carolina Georgia and Virginia 1865. Approx. 260pp. Variously written in pencil or ink on a variety of paper but generally quite legible. A few with original envelopes. With: Haskell's manuscript discharge dated Nov. 18 1864 partly-printed discharge of the same date a cdv of Maj. Gen. Hunter and Haskell's 1865 marriage certificate. 8vo or 4to. Usual folds. Approx. 260pp. Variously written in pencil or ink on a variety of paper but generally quite legible. A few with original envelopes. With: Haskell's manuscript discharge dated Nov. 18 1864 partly-printed discharge of the same date a cdv of Maj. Gen. Hunter and Haskell's 1865 marriage certificate. 8vo or 4to. Haskell 1836-1877 enlisted at Canandaigua Ontario County New York on November 18 1861 and mustered for a three year enlistment in Company F of the 1st New York Engineers. At the start of the war the Army Corps of Engineers was severely underpopulated; Civil Engineer Edward Serrell began recruiting for the specialized service in October 1861 with promises of pay one-third greater than infantry service.<br /> <br /> The first five letters of this archive are written by Haskell from Camp Washington on Staten Island as the regiment was formed trained and awaited orders. The letters describe his daily routine quarters the batteries and harbor and relate news that he has passed as an engineer. Among the most interesting of these letters is one dated January 22 1862 in which he details a visit to Central Park with a lengthy description of the landscape and ongoing construction. <br /> <br /> The 1st New York was deployed to Port Royal Sound and was formed as the 10th Corps Engineers in the Department of the South. Haskell and his company are sent to Hilton Head arriving at the end of February 1862. The next six months are spent on the island working on its wharves and fortifications. He describes his quarters and rations inspection and drills his work on a powder magazine flood gate and surveying for new fortifications. <br /> <br /> He writes at length about the number "contrabands" i.e. the freed or escaped slaves from Confederate plantations coming to Hilton Head. He writes on March 1 1862 soon after arriving: "There are a plenty of contrabands slaves here. They chop and raft logs for the wharves that they are building. The women & children are around among the soldiers selling sweet potatoes oysters and such to them. There are a good many soldiers here on the island and there was a good many that have just left on an expedition and they keep coming." On April 1 1862 he adds: "The government is making preparation to put in a cotton crop here. The negroes are preparing the ground. Contrabands come in every day. Two came in yesterday who said that they had nothing to eat for 4 days." On May 10 1862: "There is a good many contrabands and they keep coming in all the time. When they first arrived they are very ragged both men and women but they are all provided with suitable clothes. The soldiers are down on them because the negroes are used better than they are and have more privilege granted to them by the authorities. And the soldier vents his spite on the negro every chance he can get. Most of the negroes are employed. General Hunter has just commenced getting up a negro regiment of 1500 men to do guard duty through the night and to garrison some of the forts. The officers are to be white men and are to be taken from our regiment. There is quite an effort by some northern society to educate them to work; a job which they have but a slight idea." On October 5 1862 he notes the work General Mitchel among the formerly enslaved: "I went yesterday Sunday to the ordination of the Negro Church Baptist. Our chaplain read the ordination service of the Episcopal church and made a few remarks but General Mitchell done most of the talking . He told them that he was going to have them time by themselves and was going to educate them and make them good citizens. He has a squad of 50 men building houses for them about 3 miles from head quarters called the negro villages."<br /> <br /> In April 1862 he participates in the Battle of Fort Pulaski giving a lengthy account on April 15: "We fell in and marched through the rain to the docks stood in the rain all of an hour and then went on board pretty well soaked. At 9 o'clock the steamboat started. About noon we anchored off Tybee Island in full sight of Fort Pulaski . at seven o'clock the next morning the bombardment of Fort Pulaski commenced. Before the firing commenced Gen. Benham sent a flag of truce and demanded the surrender of the fort in the name of the U.S. " After describing the bombardment he continues: "At sunset the firing ceased on both sides and the two companies of engineers was divided into squads of 8 or 10 men each and sent out to repair the batteries. We worked all night. " He details the work of mounting two 10-inch columbiads "which dismounted themselves the very first shot they made. One of these guns the boys mounted after sunrise and as soon as they discovered from the fort what they was about they directed all of the guns which they could bring to bare upon that particular place. But the boys stuck to their gun and mounted it while the cannon balls was flying over their heads. A feat which they received considerable praise for. " <br /> <br /> In November 1862 Haskell's company is transferred to Fort Pulaski where they work on repairing the damage to the fort remounting the artillery and building a new magazine. He tells news of the war related to his department including a November expedition to destroy railroad bridges between Charleston and Savannah and the death of General Mitchel: "Our Generals called it a partial result and considerable gained by it. But it was such results as I do not believe in for we got tremendously whipped and lost 225 men in killed wounded and missing. But our company succeeded in tearing up some 200 feet of rails on the reach and cutting the telegraph while they were guarded by a few companies of infantry and they all barely escaped being taken prisoner. They found the bridges all guarded by strong batteries. Just as our company and 4 companies of infantry came up to tracks there was a train of open cars going pass loaded with troops. Our men hid behind the fence and when the train came up fired into it and they think they killed a good many. Since then General Mitchel has died and two or three of the other head men . some think that they had yellow fever . others think they was poisoned by eating fish that they bought of the negroes."<br /> <br /> Much of his war commentary during his nine months on Fort Pulaski includes descriptions of the iron clads and monitors. On March 5 1863 for example he writes: "The rebel steamer Nashville was destroyed last Saturday by one of the Monitors The Passaic. She ran by a 13 gun battery and run up the river where she lay and fired two shots into her the first went clear through and the second a shell burst in the magazine and this blew the Nashville to atoms." On June 21 1863 he writes: "The rebel ram Fingal i.e. CSS Atlanta that was built at Savannah and which has kept us in a sweat for nearly a year here and at Hilton Head was captured by one of our monitors last Tuesday without firing a shot." He details the action and movements of the ships before continuing sarcastically: ".The means for building the ram was furnished by the ladies of Savannah and there was two boat loads of them followed the ram down to see her destroy our battery and gun boats but they went back closely followed by one of our gun boats and you must imagine their joy." <br /> <br /> Haskell provides news of the Battle of Fort Wagner on Morris Island including the role of African American troops. He writes on July 15 1863: ". Gen. Gilmour is working his way toward Ft. Sumter and Charleston. There has been some hard fighting on Morris Island." On the 24th he writes: ". our forces had taken eleven batteries on Morris Island and there was two that they had not got possession of yet and that our forces had taken 700 prisoners . yesterday it was reported by some fellows that came from the head that there had been more fighting on Morris Island that the two remaining batteries had been stormed three times and our forces had been repulsed each time with tremendous slaughter. The 55 i.e. 54th Mass. color reg. was one of the storming parties. They were 1200 strong. They lost 700 in killed wounded and missing and the NY 48 was another." Interestingly that same letter includes a commentary on the New York draft riots: "I see by the late NY papers that there is a riot in NY city to resist the draft . I should say that it was to burn buildings murder and to plunder the city. I hope that they will be put down."<br /> <br /> At the end of July 1863 his company is transferred to Morris Island South Carolina to participate in the shelling of Fort Sumter and Charleston where he remains until February 1864. His letters provide great detail of the shelling his work on the artillery and the condition of Fort Sumter. For example: "We are hard at work building batteries and mounting guns . We have just finished a three gun battery on a small island about two miles from our camp. All of the material except the sand had to be boated guns and all. The guns are pointed toward Charleston and the city may feel the effects of them . Two sides of Ft. Sumter are knocked down and the other sides are full of holes and badly shattered & she has not fired a gun in a number of days but we cannot get possession of her until our forces take Fort Wagner . Our regiment is what is called sapping Fort Wagner that is digging trenches in the ground and they are within 100 ft of the fort. We have some killed by grape and canister and by the sharp shooters . The rebels had rifle pits outside of the fort and from these pits they annoyed our boys very much. The 24 Reg. Mass. made a charge on these pits and took 80 prisoners and drove the rest of them into the fort ."<br /> <br /> In January 1864: "You must remember that it takes a tremendous force to throw a hundred lb shell over four miles and it is with the utmost difficulty that we can elevate our guns sufficiently to do it. It requires from 36 deg. to 40 deg. and this elevation allows but little recoil to the gun and the consequence is that we are using up more guns than the damage to the city amounts to. But our Colonel has invented a new wooden gun carriage and day before yesterday one of our men with myself laid the platform and put the carriage . on it and the artillery fellows mounted the gun and tried it. It works first rate and yesterday fired 175 shells into the city and got smoke to rising in a number of places."<br /> <br /> At the end of April 1864 with the shelling of Charleston continuing his regiment is reorganized and he is sent up the James River toward Richmond to join the Army of the Potomac in the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign writing on April 27: "the second battalion which includes our regiment starts for Fortress Monroe tonight . the whole of the 10th army corps are going to operate with the army of the Potomac . The report is that there will be no movement the present season and that all but the most important places will be evacuated and that those will be garrisoned by colored troops."<br /> <br /> Arriving at Bermuda Hundred Virginia in May he writes: "The infantry landed and had a skirmish and took 600 prisoners. Then we built docks to land the cavalry and artillery. The troops advanced some 12 miles our battalion stayed at the landing until most of the stuff was landed which took 24 hours and then we followed on . built fortifications and obstructions then we again advanced and had quite a severe fight and torn up the railroad between Richmond and Petersburg . they said that in one of the battles the 25th SC Reg lost all but three men . We hear that Meade has licked Lee and that he is falling back to Richmond . We are now about 14 miles below Richmond."<br /> <br /> After fortifying the breastworks at Bermuda Hundred his company is moved to Dutch Gap to work on the canal being built to flank the Confederate battery on the river. He writes on August 13 1864: "The river here is very crooked. It runs around five miles and comes within 200 yards of meeting again. The rebels have the most of this five miles filled in with torpedoes and obstruction and a powerful battery to protect them." After describing the topography he continues: "We are digging across here so as to let the monitors go through and thus cut off the rebels battery and their obstructions. But the working party has had a rough time of it today. The rebels have shelled us from their batteries and their iron clads. There has been some killed and quite a number wounded . I think that Gen. Grant will stick to them until he fetches them out of Petersburg and Richmond . There will be some hard fighting in northern Virginia and Maryland ." He adds the following week: "We are at work on the canal. Not exactly at the canal but on the fortifications to protect the canal and are building a corduroy road across a swamp able to get to the canal. We are encamped on the opposite side of the river from the canal and have to cross the river in small boats to our work; the negroes does most of the work on the canal and it does not progress very fast." <br /> <br /> In October he is moved forward to Deep Bottom writing on the 16th: ". Our reg was in the late advance on the north side of the James toward Richmond and have seen some rather rough times . Our company are at work on the advance line. They say about 5 miles from Richmond. I am with four other engineers in charge of building a ten gun fort. We have about 300 men helping us. I have charge of 75 who are cutting away the wood around the fort and carrying timber for it and obstructions to put around it . The rebels are about a mile from this line of works . Wednesday the 12th there was quite a fight here but there was nothing materially accomplished on either side save the killing and wounding of quite a number of men . things indicate a forward movement very soon."<br /> <br /> His letters from Deep Bottom at the end of October and the beginning of November largely concern the presidential and local elections sending his father his ballot to ensure that his vote would be cast. On November 18 1864 with his 3 year term up Haskell is discharged at Varina Virginia and the archive includes both a manuscript discharge and the official partly-printed one he subsequently received. The archive includes one additional letter dated May 19 1865 written from City Point Virginia suggesting he re-upped for another shorter term. He writes: ". For the past ten days we have been busy from 4-1/2 o'clock in the morning until dark at night fitting up boats for transporting troops and horses. The twenty-fifth corps colored are going to Texas to settle the hash with Kerby Smith. One division has already gone and the boats are being fitted up as fast as possible for the rest . I have been to Richmond and Petersburg ." <br /> <br /> A very good Civil War archive of letters by an enlisted man serving as an artificer and engineer on the Georgia and Carolina coast participating in the the Battle of Fort Pulaski and the bombardment and siege of Charleston and Fort Wagner and along the James River in the Richmond-Petersburg campaign. unknown
186123285<p>Writing as acting Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin denies Major General Braxton Bragg the possibility of a transfer to a more active post. Instead Benjamin gives Bragg additional responsibilities including defending Alabama. Bragg must have become tired of inaction as three days after Benjamin wrote this letter Bragg ordered the Confederate assault on Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.</p> <b>JUDAH P. BENJAMIN. CIVIL WAR.</b>Autograph Letter Signed as acting Secretary of War to Braxton Bragg. Richmond Va. October 6 1861. 4 pp. 7¾ x 10 in. On War Department letterhead.<p><b>Transcript</b></p><p><i>"I have your favor of 25th Ulto and have examined into the causes suggested by you as tending to create dissatisfaction amongst your officers and whilst there is much truth in the assertion that some of your juniors have received advanced rank in the Provincial army I find that this complaint in relation to the case of Lieut. Wheeler is wholly without foundation and will state the facts that you may be able to dissipate the impression of any injustice done by the department to his fellow-officers.</i></p><p><i>1st on the 14th August a communication was addressed to this department by the Col. and a large number of the Company officers of the 7th Ala. Regt. urgently requesting the appointment of Lieut. Wheeler to the position of filed officer of the same regiment. This letter was written from "Camp Walker Head Quarters of the 7th Regt. of Ala. Vols."</i></p><p><i>2d on the same day 14th August 1861 a letter was addressed by Lieut. Wheeler to the Adjt. General soliciting a commission with increased rank as are of the regiments of the provisional army or a commission with authority to raise a battalion or regiment for the War. This letter was endorsed with a very earnest recommendation that the appointment should be made signed by Col Wood of the 7th Ala Regt. commanding 2d Brigade and was forwarded by <u>yourself</u> with a <u>'full and cordial endorsement of Lt Wheeler's application'</u>and it was in consequence of these endorsements and recommendations that my predecessor yielded to the solicitation of the officers of the 19th Ala Regt. and appointed Lieut. Wheeler their Colonel. I enclose you copies of the papers as a duty to my predecessor whose action on the subject is somewhat impugned by your letter of 25 Ulto.</i></p><p><i>And now my dear sir having disposed of this matter let me say that the noble and self-sacrificing spirit displayed by yourself and the gallant spirits that are now chafing in the hateful inaction on the sands of Pensacola harbor are fully appreciated and elicit the most heart-felt approval and admiration not only of the President Jefferson Davis but of every member of the administration. We are as anxious as you can possibly be to relieve you from a position to which the fortune of war has condemned you and we look forward as impatiently as you can to some opportunity of testifying our sense of what is due to you all. But all our deliberation results in this that to remove you as we know is your earnest desire to some field of more active operation would have the most disastrous effect on the morale of the army under your command whilst for your officers we can do nothing for the moment under the legislation as it now exists; but we shall none the less hold them in remembrance for the marks of approval as soon as it shall be possible to transfer them to other fields of duty; and I will further say that whenever you feel you can spare any of your officers and desire him rewards I will find the means to place him in some desirable post and with increased rank in the provisional army.</i></p><p><i>In the mean time the President in conversing with me on the subject of own position has suggested that it might be a partial relief to the tedium of your constant vigil to extend your command and make it embrace the coast of Alabama thus giving you an additional chance for an actual fight in the event of a descent by the enemy and you will accordingly find that a general order has been issued making of your command a department and placing the coast defences of Alabama under your control. I think you will thus have an increased chance for actual combat."</i></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Santa Rosa Island blocked the mouth of Pensacola harbor and the Union Fort Pickens effectively eliminated any strategic value of the Confederate capture of Pensacola's naval shipyard and nearby railroad. Three weeks prior to this letter Union forces raided the captured shipyard and burned the schooner <i>Judah</i> to prevent its putting to sea as a privateer. As evidenced in this letter Confederate Major General Braxton Bragg was <i>"chafing in the hateful inaction on the sands of Pensacola harbor"</i>cut off from using his newfound assets to their fullest benefit. As Benjamin was writing this letter denying Bragg's transfer request Bragg himself must have been planning the retaliatory raid against Fort Pickens. The battle which took place on October 9 1861 was inconclusive with both sides claiming victory in the Florida's first land action of the war.</p><p>Known as "the brains of the Confederacy" <b>Judah Benjamin</b>1811-1834 served in the Louisiana state legislature and U.S. Senate before joining Jefferson Davis's cabinet first as Attorney General then Secretary of War and finally as Secretary of State. A New Orleans lawyer Davis had given Benjamin the post of attorney general until deciding he needed him in a more important role. In September 1861 he was moved to the War Department. His closeness to Davis—and his Jewish faith—attracted resentment from jealous rivals. With the loss of Roanoke Island in 1862 along with Grant's capture of Forts Henry and Donelson critics demanded Benjamin's blood. Davis responded by promoting him to Secretary of State a post he held until the collapse of the Confederacy. Initially part of Davis's contingent when the Confederate president fled Richmond in women's clothing Benjamin escaped to England where he thrived as a lawyer and was named to the Queen's council. He retired in 1883.</p><p><b>Braxton Bragg</b> 1817-1876 was a career military officer first in the U.S. Army and later in the Confederate Army. He attained the rank of full General in the Confederate Army one of only seven in the Confederacy. He fought at the Battles of Shiloh Chickamauga and Chattanooga among others and in 1864 became Jefferson Davis's military adviser.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Very good. Some separation at folds. One and one-quarter inch tear at the upper edge of page three. Minor paper loss along the main vertical fold. Areas light toning.</p> books
1898WRCAM54683Various places including Pennsylvania Virginia at sea New Jersey and Puerto Rico 1898. 171pp. with 342 photographs. Four large quarto photograph albums. Matching contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco and cloth front covers gilt. Minor shelf wear and some rubbing. Images in overall very good condition. An amazing assemblage of photographs documenting the Spanish-American War experiences of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry which was at that time the oldest volunteer military unit in continuous service to the United States. The photographs are arranged chronologically in four contemporary photo albums with the images occasionally annotated in a contemporary hand and including the identification of numerous members of the Troop. <br> <br> The first volume opens with images of Mt. Gretna Pennsylvania "where troops were sworn into U.S. service May 7th 1898 by Maj. Thompson U.S.A." The photographs record field exercises camp building and tent organization at Camp Hastings cavalry drills an image of "Capt. Groome reading the Articles of War to Troop June 1898" a "first arrival of government horses" several shots of men training and "throwing" their horses shooting practice "Capt. Groome assigning Government horses to Troopers" and various shots of the men at work and even some play. Over the course of the album the names of numerous soldiers are recorded below several of the photographs. <br> <br> The second album opens with several photographs of the Troop striking their tents in preparation for leaving Camp Hastings at Mt. Gretna headed for Camp Alger at Dunn Loring Virginia. Here the Troop was ordered to increase their enlistment numbers. At Camp Alger the Troop was also fitted out with federal supplies and assigned to the Second Army Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. William Graham who is pictured here. Other photographs capture the camp scene at Alger "the First Troop picket line" the Troop receiving their federal-issue khaki uniforms the Troop at roll call and some shots featuring African-American helpers. <br> <br> In late July the Troop was sent to Newport News and several photographs record their brief time there with about a dozen shots of their temporary camp. On July 28 1898 the Troop left Virginia on the transport ship MASSACHUSETTS bound for Puerto Rico. Several images here capture the frenetic loading of the troops and their horses onto the ship with the remaining half dozen or so shots recording the Troop's time on board. <br> <br> The third album picks up where the second left off with the First City Troop embarked on the transport ship MASSACHUSETTS headed for Guanica Puerto Rico. Shipboard activities captured here include a few shots of groups of men being showered with water hoses. Several shots record the arrival of the men in the port of Guanica where they encounter the hospital ship NUECES which reports of the news of the "surrender of Ponce." After the men disembark they pitch their camp around Cathedral Virgin del Carmen on August 5. The next day several photographs record the unloading of horses and stores in the harbor at Ponce. The remaining thirty-eight photographs in this volume record scenes in the interior of Puerto Rico and are the most heavily annotated of the four albums. The images record scenes from the "road from Port of Ponce to Ponce" several scenes capturing a market day in Ponce and recording numerous native islanders the Troop's "temporary camp about 2 miles beyond Ponce" the "Troop wagon leaving camp beyond Ponce to join wagon train for Guayama" on August 8 a shot of the Troop's wagon "on road to Guayama in a Porto Rico mudhole" images of the wagon train to Guayama with the H Troop 6th U.S. Cavalry the "Point of Advance Guard entering Guayama within the lines" the Troop itself "entering Guayama passing General Brooke's Headquarters" a "View of First Troop Phila. City Cavalry U.S.V. Camp at Arroyo August 10th to 6A.M. Aug. 13th 1898" with the last ten images recording the camp or the streets at Arroyo. <br> <br> The fourth album documents the Troop's voyage home to Philadelphia. This time they take passage on the transport ship MISSISSIPPI and about half of the images record their voyage on board. On Sept. 10 1898 they reach Jersey City in New York harbor where they camp for a short time before returning to camp in Pennsylvania where the album ends. A couple of months later all three officers and the ninety- eight enlisted men of the First City Troop were mustered out of federal service for the Spanish-American War. <br> <br> Originally founded in 1774 by twenty-eight Philadelphia patriots as the "Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia" the First Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry is the oldest mounted military unit operating in continuous service to the American republic being the first volunteer cavalry troop organized in defense of the colonies. Among the Troop's original founders was John Dunlap printer to Congress from 1778 to 1789 publisher of the first American daily newspaper and the first printer of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the earliest members were similarly notable professional men of Philadelphia. The Troop served with valor in the American Revolution the War of 1812 the Mexican- American War the Civil War the Spanish- American War and every major American war through the Korean War. <br> <br> The present albums present a unique and important visual record of the First City Troop's activities before during and on the way home from the Spanish-American War. hardcover books
186335748Richmond Columbia Augusta and elsewhere 1863. Quarto. Collation as below. Expertly bound to style in half dark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt yellow endpapers<br/> <br/>An impressive collection of Confederate lithographed sheet music.<br/> <br/>This bound volume includes the majority of the imprints by Richmond publishers and lithographers George Dunn and Company active in Richmond from 1862-64. The collection includes: 1 The Dying Soldier or the Moon rose o'er the battle plain. 4pp. Richmond: J. W. Davies & Sons lithographed by E. Crehen 1864. P&W 6983. 2 Dear Mother I've come home to die. Words by E. Bowers Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia SC Julian Selby nd. P&W 6953. 3 God Save the South. Words by Earnest Halphin music by Chas. W. A. Ellerbrock. 6pp. Lithographed by B. Duncan & Co. Columbia SC. Baltimore: Miller & Beacham; Augusta: Blackmar & Co. nd. P&W 7064. 4 The March of the Southern Men. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7228. 5 On Guard. Words by Wallace Rowe. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7327. 6 The Southern Soldier Boy. Song sung by Miss Sallie Partington in the Virginia Cavalier at the New Richmond Theatre. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7494. 7 The South. Poetry by Charlie Wildwood. Music by John H. Hewitt. 4pp. Columbia SC: Julian A. Selby B. Duncan & Co. lith. 1863. P&W 7474. 8 Palmetto Schottisch. Composed and Arranged by A. F. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7348. 9 I Remember the hour when sadly we parted. 4pp. Mobile: H.C. Clarke and others 1864. P&W 7116. 10 Annie of the Vale. Words by G.P. Morris. Music by J.R. Thomas. 6pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 6806. 11 Good Bye Sweetheart Good Bye. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7084. 12 Spring Time Polka. Composed by A.J. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7505. 13 My Wife and Child Song. Poetry by the Late Lamented Hero General Stonewall Jackson. Music by F. W. Rosier. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7288. 14 Mother Oh! Sing me to rest. Composed by M. Keller. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7279. 15 The Musical Olio: or Favorite Gems of the Popular Southern Composer John H. Hewitt. 4pp. Macon & Savannah: John C. Schreiner & Son nd. P&W 6966. 16 Up With the Flag. Composed nd Respectfully Dedicated to the Fourth N.C. Troops by Dr. Wm. B. Harrell. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7572. 17 Pray Maiden Pray! Poetry by A. W. Kercheval. Music by A.J. Turner. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7380. 18 The Standard Bearer. Words by Major T.N. P. C.S.A. Music by N.S. Cleman. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7506. 19 No Surrender Song. Music by C.C. Mera. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7301. 20 Keep me awake Mother. Words by Mrs. M.W. Stratton. Music by Jos. Hart Denck. 4pp. Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7175. 21 Gen'l Morgan's Grand March. Composed by C.L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7049. 22 Nautical Song.The Alabama. By E. King. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.1864. P&W 6793. 23 All quiet along the Potomac To-Night. Words by Lamar Fontaine. Music by J. H. Hewitt. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 6796. 24 The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil. 4pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Broth.; Columbia: B. Duncan & Co. lith nd. P&W 7361. 25 Mary of Argyle. Music by S. Nelson. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.1864. P&W 7234. 26 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still. Words by J.E. Carpenter. Music by W.T. Wrighton. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7097. 27 Harp of the South. Awake! A Southern War Song. Words by J.M. Kilgour. Music by C.L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7090. 28 Mother is the Battle Over. Arranged by Jos. Hart Denck. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7277 29 The Southern Cross. Words by St. George Tucker. Music by C. L. Peticolas. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7482. 30 The Star Spangled Cross and the Field of Pure White. Written and Composed by Subaltern. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1864. P&W 7510. 31 Virginian Marseillasise. By F. W. Rosier. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7584. 32 Wait till the War Love Is Over. Words by A.J. Andrews. Music by C.W. Burton. 4pp. Richmond: West & Johnston litho. by Geo. Dunn. & Co. 1864. P&W 7599. 33 When this Cruel War is Over. Words by Charles C Sawyer. Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7630. 34 You Can Never Win Us Back . Written by a Lady of Kentucky. Arranged by J.E. Smith. 4pp. Richmond: J.W. Davies & Sons. litho. by E. Crehen 1864. P&W 7653. 35 Gems of Southern Song. 4pp. Macon: John W. Burke; Columbia: B. Duncan & Co. lith. nd. P&W 7576. 36 Call me not back from Echoless Shore. Words by Chas. C. Sawyer. Music by Henry Tucker. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 6878. 37 The Dearest Spot of Earth to Me Is Home. By W.T. Wrighton. 6pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. nd. P&W 6954. 38 There's Life in the Old Land Yet. Poetry by Jas. R. Randall. Music by Edward Eaton. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. lith. B. Duncan Columbia. nd. P&W 7548. 39 Who Will Care for Mother Now. Poetry by C.C. Sawyer. Music by C.F. Thompson. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co. 1864. P&W 7638. 40 Christmas and New Year Musical Souvenir. Music by F.W.R. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 6903. 41 Our First President's Quickstep. By P. Rivinac. 4pp. Augusta: Blackmar & Bro. B. Duncan lith. Columbia. P&W 7337. 42 Something to Love Me.Words by J.E. Carpenter. Music by E.L. Hime. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby nd. P&W 7467. 43 Silver Bells Mazurka. Composed by Charles O. Pape. 6pp. Columbia: P.L. Valdry nd. P&W 7446. 44 We Have Parted. Poetry and Music by Miss Ella Wren. 4pp. Richmond: Geo. Dunn & Co.; Columbia: Julian A. Selby 1863. P&W 7613. unknown books
185521630Washington D. C.: Gpo. Very Good. 1855-1857. First Edition. Hardcover. The first 8 volumes are uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarter red leather. The last four volumes have been rebound to match in red cloth. Volumes 2 6 & 7 have some damp-staining. Moderate foxing. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Gpo hardcover
1861WRCAM56192Austin 1861. Letterpress broadside 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds tiny fold separations at edges minor wrinkling. Near fine. A phenomenal Texas Confederate broadside calling for the recruitment of infantry volunteers just two weeks after the attack on Fort Sumter ushered in the Civil War. It is only the second copy of this broadside that we have been able to locate. The proclamation was issued by Texas Governor Edward Clark who arouses the southern patriotism of potential Texas Confederate recruits asking them to join the battle since "the arrogant administration of Abraham Lincoln has proclaimed its intention of invading our soil and conquering our people." Governor Clark "most deeply impressing upon the people of Texas the urgent necessity of combining every effort to effect the immediate organization of our brave men" calls for volunteers for the Confederate Infantry. <br> <br> Clark appeals not only to patriotism and a sense of religious destiny but also evokes an obvious and widely-shared disdain for the northern states of the Union: <br> <br> "Let every young and chivalric man in the State bear in mind that it is a solemn duty to himself and his country which now invokes his action and let the old men gird their armor on the young and inspire them with a holy zeal and an inflexible determination to repel the vandals of the North who have already possessed themselves of our homes and made known their intention of destroying everything that is dear to us." <br> <br> Governor Clark calls for the immediate formation of one or more companies in as many communities as possible in the state of Texas and orders those companies to report to the Adjutant General in Austin. Clark hopes that these companies will soon number "eight thousand men to defend our new-born glorious Confederacy and a reserve force of many thousands to preserve us as we have ever been independent and invincible." <br> <br> The attack on Fort Sumter raged from April 12 to 14 1861 and resulted in a resounding Confederate victory. In the aftermath of the battle both Union and Confederate officials kicked off aggressive recruitment campaigns. The news of Fort Sumter was received by Governor Clark in Austin on April 17; that day Clark issued a directive to establish and instruct volunteer companies dividing the state into six districts Parrish & Willingham 4233 Winkler 1662. The present broadside issued a week later was a response to the Confederate government's request for five thousand more troops for a total of eight thousand new Texas infantry recruits in the two weeks following the outbreak of the war which were promptly furnished by the state. <br> <br> This is an extraordinarily rare Texas Confederate broadside. Parrish & Willingham and Winkler record only a single copy at the University of Texas. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4230. WINKLER 1663. unknown books
18559027465Washington D. C.: A.O.P. Nicholson 1855 - 1860. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Rebound in quarter black cloth and marbled paper boards brown paper label on spine printed in black and white. Volumes 1 2 11 map volume and 12 part I are Senate issues; the rest are House of Representative issues.Observations on condition: VOLUME FOUR; 21 of the black and white lithographic plates foxed more heavily than the rest. VOLUME FIVE; 7 of the colored lithographic views foxed more than the rest one plate loose. VOLUME SEVEN; waterstain to the first eighty-three pages affecting the upper perimeter of the text and eight color lithographic views. VOLUME TEN; slight foxing to four color bird lithographs and overall foxing to one black and white reptile lithographs and minor overall spot foxing to several black and white reptile and fish lithographs. VOLUME ELEVEN the upper and lower folds of the maps have some wear weathering and separation. The fore edge folds are clean and strong. VOLUME TWELVE BOOK TWO; two black and white rodent lithographs heavily foxed one black and white fish lithographs heavily foxed with minor scattered foxing to several others. <br/><br/> A.O.P. Nicholson hardcover books
1882H-104A very rare signed edition of privately printed 100 copies of Captain Francis W Dawson's memoir by The News and Courier Book Press. Blue-gray cloth binding decorated with red stamped C.S.A and embellishments. 240 x 150 mm. 9 3/8 x 5 7/8". 180 pp.Author signed: "Mr. W.L. Daggett from F.W. Dawson Jan 1883". The author inscribed this book to William L. Daggett 1824-1889 a printer working for the Charleston's News and Courier with Dawson. Presumably Mr. Daggett was responsible for printing this book making this a presentation copy.This very rare book is a remarkable account of an Englishman traveling to the American South to join the Southern Confederacy. His book includes 18 wartime letters to his friends and family in England.Note: A few pages pp 9-16 inside are loosening from spine not completely detached there is also no loss to text or tear hence we have adequately reduced the price. Overall this book is in great condition and would be a beautiful addition to the library of someone passionate about the American Confederacy. hardcover
