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1896RF 818<p><i><b>Collection of 23 original edicts February 1896-September 1898 by the Captain Generals of Cuba 19 by General Valeriano Weyler 4 by General Ramón Blanco the last Spanish Captain General of Cuba. The edicts concern the attempts by the Spanish authorities to control the insurrection. They range from Weyler's efforts to concentrate the population in fortified encampments a measure often considered the precursor of concentration camps to Blanco´s establishing of a ceasefire in 1898.</b></i></p><p>23 ORIGINAL EDICTS; some manuscript annotations and the stamp of the Army of Cuba on some communiqués. The collection includes three items of related ephemera.</p><p>Notable collection of original edicts from Spanish authorities who participated in the Cuban War of Independence and attempted unsuccessfully to end the insurrection. The Cuban War of Independence the War of 1895 is the name given to the final Cuban war against Spanish domination. It is one of the last American wars against the Kingdom of Spain. The war began on 24 February 1895 with a simultaneous insurrection in 35 Cuban localities known as Grito de Oriente formerly known as Grito de Baire and ended in 1898 with the surrender of the Spanish Colonial army to the U.S. military advance with the assistance and support of <i>mambises</i>members of the Independentist Cuban army in the conflict known as the Spanish-American War. </p><p>Details on each of the edicts available on request. G. 11653/ RF 818. X99X001160 </p>
187596430Lock and Whitfield circa 1875. 1875. Very good. - A richly hued 4-1/2 inch high oval woodburytype portrait of Leon Gambetta mounted onto 11-1/4 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide stiff cream stock. A light gray printed decorative frame highlights the image. The subject's name is printed in the same light gray centered within the lower half of the sheet. "Lock and Whitfield" and "Woodbury Process" are printed at left and right along the lower edge. There is a light vertical crease in the mat and a tiny stain to it's right edge. Very good. <p>The French statesman Leon Gambetta 1838-1882 was admitted to the bar in 1859 and the Conference Mole in 1861. In 1868 Gambetta was selected to defend the journalist Delescluze who was being prosecuted for promoting the erection of a monument to Baudin who'd been killed resisting the 1851 coup d'etat. Gambetta used the occasion to both attack the coup d'etat and the government. He was elected to the assembly by both a district in Paris and one in Marseille. Initially opposing the war with Prussia he gradually came to accept the patriotic line and called for strong measures following the disaster at Sedan. It was he who proclaimed the deposition of the emperor at the corps legislatif and the establishment of a republic at the Hotel de Ville. As one of the first members of the new Government of National defense he became Minister of the Interior. When the delegation to organize resistance in the provinces failed Gambetta set off in the "Armand-Barbes" a coal gas-filled balloon to take control as minister of the interior and of war in Tours. With his assistant secretary of war and the young officer of engineers Freycinet Gambetta organized an army which might have successfully relieved Paris if Metz had not fallen. He later faded from politics after his republican party was defeated by the conservatives and monarchists.<p>Both a printing process and the print which it produces Woodburytype was invented and patented by Walter B. Woodbury in 1864. A photomechanical process Woodbury type prints are made from exposing a dichromate-sensitized sheet of gelatin to UV light shining through a photographic negative. Each area of the gelatin hardens to a depth in proportion to the amount of exposure to the light before it is then soaked in warm water. The relief image is then pressed onto a sheet of lead to create an intaglio metal printing plate. Lock and Whitfield, circa [1875]. unknown
186221798<p><i>"The colored population of Fredericksburg are strolling about town and seem to be perfectly happy our country is ruined and slaughtered worse than beeves all on account of the negroes! Can it be possible that man will sacrifice their country for the negro…"</i></p><p>A fine war-date newspaper published in Fredericksburg Virginia. Articles on the front page describe the destruction of President Jefferson Davis's Mississippi plantation the Battle of Memphis military actions near Richmond and an account of operations near Charleston South Carolina. Several other articles deal with the subject of slavery.</p> <b>CIVIL WAR – CONFEDERACY.</b>Newspaper. June 11 1862. <i>The Christian Banner</i> Fredericksburg Va. J.W. Hunnicutt Vol. 1 Number 6. 4 pp. large folio.<p><b>Excerpts</b></p><p>"<i>We learn that the vandals have come off their boats and battered down and utterly destroyed the residence of Jeff. Davis and also that of Joe Davis. Their acts of destruction and vandalism in that neighborhood were complete leaving nothing behind but a bleak and desolate track behind them</i>."</p><p>"<i>African Slavery. The fact can be no longer disguised; let this war result as it may African Slavery in Virginia is already virtually swept from her territory. If she would lay down her arms and return to the Union her citizens might receive some remuneration for their servants from Government</i>"</p><p>"<i>Submission … This is submission with a tyrant's rod and a vengeance. And all who were opposed to secession have been forced to </i>submit<i> because a Military despotism has been hanging over them ever since. and this is freedom—Independence!"</i></p><p>"<i>The word submission has produced a greater terror over the Southern people than any word in the world. Submission! Submission to what Submission to Old Abe Lincoln Submission to Black Republican rule what power had he Lincoln none whatever! If all the States had remained quietly and peacefully in the Union. Lincoln could not have inaugurated a civil war upon the South</i>"</p>
186521232New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co 1865. Very good condition. Review concerning the Union General Benjamin Butler notorious for issuing "The Woman Order" General Order No. 28 during the 6 months May - October 1862 he was the military governor of New Orleans. It essentially ordered that any woman showing contempt for a Union soldier "shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation" in other words a prostitute. Butler nicknamed "The Beast" was also charged with looting gold and other valuables from New Orleans mansions and banks the subject of this review. 8vo 27pp. Tan printed wrappers title in black at front wrapper. Wrappers a bit sunned. OCLC: 5728749. Wm. C. Bryant & Co unknown
186223685New York: G. Savage 1862. Fine. Civil War era addenda to the Municipalist a New York magazine published following the "Separation of the United States". The first sentence reads "Since the preceding Letters have been published the United States of America have been dissevered and a new federation under the name of Confederate States of America formed". The Municipalist was first published in 1858; the second edition in 1859. <br /> <br /> Contents include secession enforced union convention of the states Abolitionists Shay's Rebellion the United States a great people no nation; and more.<br /> <br /> Plain paper wrappers. 16mo 303-348pp 1pp "Some Private Opinions". Stitched. Sabin 51330. OCLC: 950932219 one copy at the American Antiquarian Society. G. Savage unknown
186423679Boston: Gould & Lincoln 1864. Very good - condition. Civil War era publication assessing the resources and debt paying capacity of the US "Can we pay our present and prospective National Debt . p1 written by American economist and advocate of low tariffs David Ames Wells.<br /> <br /> Wells 1828 - 1898 was a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln during the war writing pamphlets reassuring investors on Lincoln's financial policies. <br /> <br /> 'Our Burden and Our Strength' established Wells' reputation as a political economist. Wells' analysis attracted the attention of Lincoln who in 1865 appointed him chairman of the National Revenue Commission. In this role Wells was the first to collect economic and financial data for government use; the Commission's recommendations became law in 1866.<br /> <br /> 8vo 39pp. Original printed paper wrappers with chips around the edges wrappers loose but present. OCLC: 12120949. Gould & Lincoln unknown
186713091Rock Island IL: L.M. Haverstick Printer Union Job Rooms 1867. Broadside 24 x 18 inches. Old folds minor creasing a few small chips short closed tear to left edge near the "B" in "Babcock's" faint circular dampstain in center minor scattered foxing. Withal very good condition. A visually appealing and seemingly unique surviving broadside advertising a January 18 1867 lecture by Clara Barton. At the time Barton was touring with her lecture entitled "War & Incidents of Army Life" part of a popular post-Civil War series of talks she delivered across the United States. Barton spent two years touring and recounting her battlefield experiences which helped popularize her and fund her subsequent efforts to locate missing soldiers. The present lecture was delivered at Babcock's Hall in Rock Island Illinois. In addition to the bold title containing the relevant information on the lecture and the information on obtaining tickets at the bottom the middle portion of the broadside prints a quote by noted temperance lecturer John B. Gough praising Barton's lecture: "Miss Clara Barton was at my house and read Her Lecture to us and I must say I never heard anything more touching more thrilling in my life. I want all to hear her." Below this quote is a notice that although Moline and Rock Island are only a few miles apart "An Extra Train" on the famed Rock Island Railroad will be provided to transport attendees of the lecture from Moline for a ten-cent fare. Typographically the broadside is interesting for employing several sizes and types of fonts likely wooden type which provides multiple opportunities for catching the eye of the observer. This includes a rather Gothic-style font when printing the date of the lecture.<br /> <br /> Clara Barton 1821-1912 was a noted educator and humanitarian who helped distribute needed supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross. Barton garnered nationwide recognition for her efforts during the war and quickly became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." After the war Barton's lecture tour brought her in contact with other notables of the day including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and also Frederick Douglass who involved her in the suffrage and civil rights movements respectively. In the Fall of 1866 Barton began to lecture on her Civil War experiences in lyceum halls churches town halls and schools. Though she never felt comfortable in front of an audience wherever she spoke Barton was well received. Her contemporary biographer Percy Epler wrote that "a tear-stained multitude thronged everywhere to hear her" as she had made it her mission to show not "the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how while they march on.some one must follow closely in their steps crouching to the earth faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows."<br /> <br /> From 1866 through 1868 Barton delivered over 200 lectures throughout the northeast and midwest regarding her Civil War experiences. She shared platforms with other prominent figures including the aforementioned Douglass as well as Ralph Waldo Emerson William Lloyd Garrison and Mark Twain. She often earned $75 to $100 per lecture. Original broadsides advertising her lectures are exceedingly rare to say the least. We could locate just a single result in auction records of a much smaller example and OCLC reports just one institutional holding of any Barton lecture broadside again much smaller for an 1867 event in New Haven located at the Library of Congress. L.M. Haverstick, Printer, Union Job Rooms unknown
183534738Carroll County Ohio: n/a 1835. Paper. Very good. Paper. Part printed and part manuscript document. Paper measures approximately 8" x 3.5". Signed at the bottom "Daniel McCook Clerk". Light toning to the paper. <br /> <br /> From wikipedia: Daniel McCook June 20 1798 – July 21 1863 was an attorney and an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was one of two Ohio brothers who along with 13 of their sons became widely known as the “Fighting McCooks†for their contributions to the war effort.12.With the outbreak of the Civil War McCook although 63 years old volunteered his services to the Union. He was commissioned as a major and paymaster. When Confederate Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan led his troops through southern Ohio during Morgan's Raid Major McCook joined in the advance of the Union pursuit. Early in the morning of July 19 1863 Federal troops attacked Morgan at Buffington Island where the Confederates were planning to cross the Ohio River back into Western Virginia. McCook was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later and his body was buried with full military honors in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati Ohio.5. n/a unknown
184635409Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. 4 pages. Lined paper folded. 4 pages of content. Postal mark and address written center of the 4th page. Two small wax seals on the edges of page 4. <br /> <br /> Letter is addressed to William Roney Jr. Corner of Third & Branch Sts Philadelphia Pa. Letter written aboard the U.S. Frigate "Raritan" off Pensacola Navy Yard April 3rd 1846 and has a Pensacola post mark and date of April 6 . Written on the eve of the Mexican War April 24 1846 to February 2 1848. Content summarized:<br /> <br /> Thomas Roney Midshipman writes a lengthy letter to his brother about his situation in Pensacola and requests his brother's help with family debts. He writes:“There is very little news from Mexico the latest is that Mr. Slidell has been informed that the government could not receive a Minister from the United States but that there were ready to receive a Commissioner for the settlement of the Texas question. We had consequently demanded his passports and is expected here very shortly in the Ship Manzo. The Mexicans have been making every preparation for a war…were preparing to place Santa Anna at the head of the government again….†Roney had been transferred from the U.S. Brig Bainbridge back to the Raritan. He was relieved as “master†and appointed "midshipman". Roney has no problem with this because the Raritan is more comfortable. Roney recently returned from Rio de Janerio and had to take large advance to pay off debts. The only regret of his demotion to midshipman is that he can’t send money home to Mother any more hopes brothers can make it up. He complains of the cost of his “mess bill†and outfitting upon leaving the coast of Brazil. He writes "Any place is better than the coast of Brazil unknown
184635410Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. Folded to make 4 pages. 1 page of content 2 blank pages 1 page with address and postal mark from Pensacola Florida dated August 20 1846. Letter addressed to "Dear Sister" and signed "W Conway". Multiple folds and some creasing and toning to the paper. Red wax seal left edge page 1. Small paper tear from opening the letter. Good condition. Letter content summarized:<br /> <br /> US Frigate Potomac. W. Conway Pensacola Florida writes to sister Camden Goose River Maine while involved in the Blockade of Vera Cruz. USS Potomac sailed w/ships Cumberland Missippy sic Princeton Falmouth Truxton Somers Reefer Bonito and Petrel to mouth of river Alvarado off of Veracruz. Describes bombardment: “…the Commodore made rig to get spring word the cable to bring the broadsides to bear on the fort at 6 PM the firing Commenced and Continued about 2 hours we didi not land the next day we got under weigh and came back to our anchorage. we are waiting for orders from Washington to Attack the Castle of St. Juan Ola Fort San Juan de Ulúa offshore opposite Veracruz. unknown
184736655New Orleans: N/A 1847. N/A. Letter. Good. Letter. Approximately 8" x 10". Multiple folds. 4 pages with 3 pages of contents. Addresses and a pencil note written on the back page. 4 small circle corner stains on the first two pages. Overall condition is good or better.<br /> <br /> U.S. Army Paymaster John B. Butler is writing his daughter Harriet on January 17th 1847. From New Orleans he writes ".the wants of the Army imperatively demand that I shall return immediately. I leave tomorrow in the Steam Ship Alabama for the Army in Mexico. I shall go by Brazos Santiago the Rio Grande Camargo Monterey Mier Seraluo &c." He ads "There are many troops arriving from Penna among them I have met Several from Pittsburgh. They are now all embarking on board of ships provided with three months provisions. Their destination is not known but is supposed to be and Vera Cruz.I think Vera Cruz & the castle at that place will be assailed conjunctively by forces on land & by sea. May the God of battles protect our friends."<br /> <br /> Butler urges his daughter to give his kind regards to friends at her school. After initially closing the letter Butler writes a lengthy post script. New intelligence has been provided ".Genl Scott has returned from Carmgo and the Rio Grande and is now at the Brazos awaiting arrival of the troops that have been and that now being shipped at this place. This confirms the belief that Vera Cruz is his destination and the General's first demonstration will be against the fort and fortifications at that place."<br /> <br /> Butler urges his daughter to look at the map to find Vera Cruz and about the strong fort and castle. writing of strife and battle he writes his daughter "War always produces a wanton waste of blood & treasury - Every victory must have its victims; & contending armies are indiscriminate so there is no knowing who may fall."<br /> <br /> The last page has addresses and the letter is addressed to "Miss H. E. Butler Care Rev. C. C. Beatty Steubenville Ohio. N/A unknown
185135415Georgetown: n/a 1851. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 8" x 10". 1 page of writing. Paper previously removed from a glass frame. Tissue repairs on the edges. Paper has multiple folds. According to a note found on the back of the glass frame William Mann addressed this letter to Col. William S. Amweg a pension attorney near Lancaster Pennsylvania area in the years 1849-1851. The number 200 is written top of the paper. Unfortunately the note affixed to the back of the frame is now missing. Col. Amweg's name is not found in this document.<br /> <br /> The letter transcribed as best as possible reads: "Georgetown June 8 1851 Sir Having heard not reading that there was an appropriation being made for the last legislative body appropriating a sum of $30000 dollars for defraying the expenses of the First & Second Pennsylvania volunteers in Mexico and not being to the whole circumstance belonging to the Co. of First Pennsylvania Ridgement under Colonel Wincape and Lt. Col. Samuel Black therefore I wish you to intercede for me and lose nothing. I have great acquaintances in your place Rea Frarer Jones B. Canfuier Dr. Casally &c. which will certify that I was there. Reece was there also. The reference would be to Brigadier General John Bennet of Philadelphia who was my captain in Mexico and who would be a friend in need. Just ask for I cannot say much at present but request an answer respecting these things and oblige yours most respectively William Mann. P.S. I would inform you that when I landed in Philadelphia I was sickly and destitute of friends that I sold my discharge papers for the sake of getting home decently and therefore have no certificate to show but making reference to General Bennet Jr. can be had nothing more at present but remain yours &c William Mann. Excuse my bad spelling for I am no scholar. Please direct to post office. n/a unknown
1854373729The Times London 1854. Newspaper. Good Condition. The two Times Special Reports dated 13 November 1854 The Attack on Balaclava and 23 November 1854 The Battle of Inkermann provide detailed contemporary accounts of two of the most significant engagements of the Crimean War. The Balaclava issue contains the earliest extended reports of the battle of 25 October including the now-legendary Charge of the Light Brigade official despatches from Lord Raglan and narrative descriptions that shaped public perception of both the disaster and the heroism involved. The Inkermann issue presents Lord Raglan's despatches and extensive coverage of the desperate fighting on 5 November 1854 when outnumbered British and French forces repelled a much larger Russian army. Together these issues stand as immediate first-hand printed records of events that soon became iconic in British military history. These copies are original 1854 issues of The Times not later reprints or bound compilations. Issued as separate folio supplements printed on rag-based paper and headed with the distinctive Times masthead and royal crest they were sold individually to provide the public with full stand-alone accounts of major battles. Survival of such ephemeral publications is uncommon making these examples both scarce and historically significant. Their value lies not only in their rarity but also in their role as primary sources that convey how the war was reported understood and remembered at the time. Two issues each four pages in length. Some minor marginal tears probably inevitable with newspapers of this sort. Preserved in a modern card cover prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 29 x 44.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Newspapers; Special Interest. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. The Times unknown
185835408Barbados: n.p. 1858. Letter. Good. Letter. 8" x 10". 4 pages. 3 pages of contents. Page 4 clipped section at bottom. Paper folded and in very good condition otherwise. <br /> <br /> Letter written aboard the USS Atlanta at Barbados December 27 1858. Eggleston writes: "I am perfectly willing to leave Barbados and its free impertinent darkies. I would like to lasso some 50 or 100 and put them to work in a cotton field. I am convinced that such a field is the only one in which the darky character can be truly developed. Here they do nothing but stroll about the streets & chatter like so many monkeys from sunrise to sunset. We employ them to coal our vessels and how I have wished for Jack Stringer with a bull whip among them whenever I have had anything to do with them". <br /> <br /> Eggleston would later serve as a Lieutenant on the CSS Virginia and was later promoted to Captain in the Confederate Navy. Eggleston was one of the lieutenants of the Virginia Merrimac during its life under the Confederate flag. During his life Eggleston provided details of the legendary battle of the two ironclad ships which can be found under various web sites. n.p. unknown
186233742Pocotaligo: n.p. 1862. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 8" x 5". 3 pages of manuscript. No envelope or stampless mark on the paper. Paper has three folds. Paper is in very good condition with light edge wear to a couple of spots. The following transcription is a best guess. The legibility of letter is difficult to transcribe and some words are omitted and other words spelled as they appear.<br /> <br /> Pocotaligo Feb 1 1862<br /> Mr E Ward Rock Island Tenn<br /> <br /> Dear Sir<br /> <br /> I find myself seated with yours of January 19th before me. I was very glad to hear from you I had wrote four letters to you and heard from you once in the time I dont think that you ought to quit writeing to us if I do belong to Jeff Davis traveling hog hay stealing 16th regiment I want you to write to me start your letter and I will get them for they will fallaw ten us and we will get them. I have had your letter for several days but I did not have the chance to answer it E We have to stand Pickett Cal Ful and Savages Regiments take it times a we go have and stand twelve days and then they stand twelve days. We have to go about twelve milds miles from the camps to stand. Darien is the Part Rail river and the yankees an on the Island of the same name I stand in sight of plenty of the damn yankees. We was yesterday and came to camps last night. We expect to have a fight hear with the yankees before long for there is plenty of yankees hear. You wanted to know about the fight that was hear on New Years day our regiment was not in it. We it for ten mild mile but it was over before we got thear. Wen we say our men we men mean the Dixaboys the yankees killed our men and we killed some of there and made them take again. We would nat have lost any men at all if our men had nat were two brave and run there up under the canans at the yankees and they Burned them and killed some men. I want you to write to me as soon as you get this gets to hand Tell Nancy that I am as fit as she ever saw me. E I get same good letter from my mama. This leaves me in good health. I remain yours till N.B. Hamrick. The Battle Mr. Hamerick referenced in this letter January 1st 1862 was probably part of the Union Army's Port Royal campaign. A battle took place along the Coosaw River near the Port Royal Ferry in Beaufort County South Carolina. From the Beaufort County Library: <br /> <br /> In late December 1861 the Union forces recognized that the Confederates recently removed to the mainland had been building batteries along the Coosaw River near the Port Royal Ferry. Union Commanding General I.I. Stevens ordered components of the 8th Michigan Infantry 47th and 48th New York Infantries 1st New York Engineers and the 50th Pennsylvania to destroy the Confederate breastworks capture the guns and force the retreat of some companies of the 12th South Carolina Infantry into the interior of Beaufort District. The Union forces accomplished their mission on New Year’s Day January 1 1862 with minimal casualties.<br /> <br /> The first Battle of Pocotaligo took place May 28th 1862. The Union army goal was to tear up the railroad between Charleston and Savannah. The second Battle of Pocotaligo took place October 22 1862. In the first battle the Union moved to destroy a bridge and having reached their objective retreated back to Hilton Head. both armies suffered a few casualties. In the second Battle the Union's goal was again to tear up the Railroad between Savannah and Charleston. After pushing the Confederates back to Pocotaligo the Union initiative stalled and the Union army retreated before nightfall. <br /> <br /> An interesting side note on the future fate of N. B. Hamericksp during the War comes from articles collected in The Spencer Times and the Sparta Exhibitor titled "Recollections of the War From Carroll H. Clark" Transcribed with all the commas dashes and lack of capitalization from Memorial and Biographical Record of the Cumberland Region An Illustrated Compendium of Biography. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Chicago 1898. pp.253 and 254.<br /> <br /> Carroll Clark was from McMinnville Tennessee. In one of the several articles Clark makes a reference to a "N. B. Hamericksp" possibly the same soldier who wrote this letter. An excerpt from article 25 ".I have left untouched very many interesting events for instance the Battle of Franklin Tennessee in which many brave commanders and soldiers were killed of whom was Genl. Cleburne Genl. Carter and others. My dear friend and schoolmate N. B. Hamrick was killed there. His father and family lived out two miles from here at the place now called the Hill place on the road to Farris Griffiths. N.B. had three brothers in the war and all came through alive. The family came from North Carolina a few years before the war and it has been said brought the first yellow horse to this country. I yet remember the names of the whole family as follows: Uncle Billy Aunt Polly Jeroam Napoleon Bonapart killed at Franklin Jereboam Zorobabel Doctor Cortez and Don Pedro were the boys and two girls named Martha Salena and Mary Boston. All except Jeroam were my schoolmates."<br /> <br /> This letter was addressed to Mr. Ward in Rock Island Tennessee. Carroll Clark's war reminiscences was written in Tennessee. It is possible this is the same N. P. Napoleon Bonaparte Hamericksp who wrote the letter that was later killed at the Battle of Franklin in 1864. Information found regarding casualties at Franklin include variant spelling in the last name. A listing from the Civil War Talk web site states "1st Sgt. Napoleon B. Hambrick Co. I Killed." Another site Home dot Freeuk dot com lists "Sgt Napoleon Bonaparte Hanmbrick n.p. unknown
1863196851863. Negro Soldiers Speech of Hon. James S. Rollins of Missouri Delivered in the House of Representatives Feb. 2 1863. Washington D.C.: L. Towers & Co. 1863. 8 pages. 5.5" x 8.5". Rollins was a nineteenth-century Missouri politician and lawyer notable for his role in establishing the University of Missouri. In this speech Rollins while a committed Unionist comes out against black soldiers entering into combat roles in the Union Army. He addresses Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and is concerned that African Americans desire for vengeance against their Southern oppressors would bring the country to ruin. Rollins' support for the war extended only as far as the maintenance of the Union stating that "whenever it becomes a war of subjugation and of conquest or dwindles into a miserable abolition war to free the slaves of the South. then the sooner it is abandoned the better for the entire country." Despite the dissent of Rollins and the sizable element who shared his views Lincoln other leading Republicans like Speaker Colfax and military brass saw the value in forming African American regiments. In fact not long after the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment becomes were the first black unit to see combat in the Civil War as well as being the first black regiment organized in a northern state. The regiment served primarily in Missouri engaging the Confederates several times including at the Battle of Honey Springs. This speech is a interesting demonstration of the range of opinion within the Civil War era Republican Party and Unionist side more broadly. This speech has been separated from a larger volume; its binding is intact. Foxing along margins some mild toning. Very good condition overall. unknown
186331605Columbus Georgia 1863. Letter. Very good. Letter. Approx. 9.5" x 7.5" lined sheet of paper. Letter is one page long. Folded. Addressed to "Dear Cousin George" <br /> <br /> Hargraves writes "My sister received the following Telegram from Mobile: Have you any information of Martina Lucketts father. If not take her home immediately from the Sisters of Visitation in Mobile." George continues "I suppose from above that Martina is at school and the Superior not hearing from Mr. Luckett wants to get rid of her. What shall be done" Hargraves mentions that he could contact Mr. Jno Forsyth to help Martina and that Aunt Sophia probably would take her in. Written below the Hargraves signature - "I have not been able to hear from any Mississipian about Mr. Luckett. - G H" At the bottom of the letter possibly written in a different hand is a note - "Miss Singleton from Canton saw the Luckett six weeks in two months ago - his children were all with him Miss Martina also. He was not then in the Army." <br /> <br /> The writer of this letter George Hargraves was married to Virginia Forsyth daughter of famous Georgian John Forsyth. "Mr. Jno Forsyth" mentioned in this letter could quite possibly be the son of John Forsyth. John Forsyth Jr. who resided in Columbus before moving to Mobile. unknown
186333624Tullahoma Tennessee 1863. Document. Fair. Manuscript Document. Approx. 12.5" x 8". General Order No. 18 written on the front side and signed by the Assistant Adjutant General H. W. Walter. Also located on the lower left corner of the document is written "Maj Genl Wheeler a' g Wheeler's Cav Corps." On the verso is a handwritten summary of the order. The paper has dried water stains. The ink is light in spots. This handwritten General Order was reprinted in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion War of the Rebellion Records Series I. Vol. XXIII Part II Correspondence Etc. Chapter XXXV pages 858 859. The signature at the bottom of the document is not legible but it is not in the hand of General Wheeler. The document reads:<br /> <br /> The enemy has seen fit to expel from his lines and send to our midst not only those supposed to be guilty of crimes but non-combatants found in their homes in the peaceful pursuits of life. In the perpetration of these outrages on humanity and these violations of civilized warfare he has prostituted the flag of truce to the base purpose of protecting the guards who drive forth these exiles. Hereafter that flag will not protect those guards but they will be seized and sent forward to be treated as spies or prisoners of war as the circumstances in each case may require. By Command of General Bragg. unknown
186336642Hamilton County Tennessee: n/a 1863. Document. Good. Document. Folded sheet of paper. 9" x 5". Paper has blue lines and multiple folds. 4 pages with 2 pages of content. Some fading to the ink and light toning to the paper. Chattanooga Tennessee is the seat of Hamilton County. Hand written document transcribed here: "State of Tennessee Hamilton County I Sam Elder of said County and State have this day hired Thomas Cavender as a substitute to serve as a Private in Capt J B Kings company or Capt Lyness for which I agree to pay the said Cavender one thousand dollars in hand & the other thousand dollars to be paid in three months from this date and to be loned at interest for twelve months two years is the time of service I have hired the said Thos Cavender now if the said Cavendar serves faithful as a substitute for the time of two years and at the expiration of that time the said Elder to take his place the one thousand dollars that is to be loned if the said Cavender should desert is to come to me the said Elder given under our hands this 30th day of April 1863 attest Wm Caruthers and Bob Caruthers signed seal S. H. Elder signed seal Thos Cavender." A Confederate soldier who paid another person to take his place is often referred to as a "substitute" soldier. During the American Civil War individuals who were drafted or conscripted into military service had the option to hire a substitute to serve in their place if they could afford it. These substitutes were typically individuals who were either unemployed or seeking financial gain. The practice of hiring substitutes was more prevalent among wealthier individuals who could afford to pay for someone else to take their place in the military.<br /> <br /> The Elder family were pioneers in Tennessee. Some of the family settled in Hamilton County. This excerpt is copied from Chattanoogan dot com: "The children of Robert S. Elder included Samuel Houston Sarah Jane Minerva Jane Robert and James B. Sarah married Thomas Monger a Unionist who was on the County Court. Minerva married James Clifford Allen who fought for the Union and was in the Legislature from Bradley County. Samuel H. was on the Confederate side joining 2nd Co. K of the First CSA Cavalry on Sept. 23 1862. He married Sarah J. White. Their daughter Mary A. married Aaron E. Smith. Samuel H. and his brother Robert had a "store boat'' that made calls at the various river landings and they also had a general store at Snow Hill. Samuel H. was postmaster at Long Savannah. He died in 1910 of a heart attack while walking from Avondale to Snow Hill."<br /> <br /> A record for Benjamin Franklin Cavendar from Hamilton County was found. However no mention of Confederates in Hamilton County for Thomas. Although a "Reader's Comment" from the Chattanoogan dot com states this: CAVENDER Benjamin Franklin Co. B 1TN Cav. Carter's Born 1839 in TN son of Henry Cavender. Farmer in Ooltewah. 1860 HC Census Reader Comment; Henry Cavender by his first wife did have a son named Benjamin S. Cavender b. ca. 1806 in NC living in Hamilton in 1850 but d. March 14 1858 in Dade Co. MO. By his 2nd wife Henry Cavender had a son named Franklin b. ca. 1839 in Hamilton Co. TN. However Henry Cavender relocated with several of his married and unmarried children after the 1860 census but prior to the War to Pitman Randolph Co. AR. In service with nephews in Company A of the 12th Missouri Infantry is Henry's son Francis Marion Cavender and an F.N.C. Cavender who I assume may be Henry's son Franklin. I cannot say for certain since there are no enlistment dates on this post but this Benjamin Cavender may be the son of Henry's son Thomas Cavender who remained in Hamilton Co. Thomas' son Benjamin J. Cavender was b. ca. 1844 in Hamilton Co. relocating after the War to Jeffersonville IN. I would be interested in hearing how the authors pegged this solder as Benjamin Franklin Cavender as Civil War soldiers database only lists him as Benjamin. I regret I cannot say anything more definitive than to cast some doubts. Kendall Sparkman.<br /> <br /> According to a record found in familysearch dot org: Captain J. B. King mentioned in the document was an officer for for Company B of the 1st Regiment Tennessee Cavalry Carter's. This regiment was organized in November 1862 using the 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. This company was active in the Vicksburg Campaign and was captured July 1863. By exchanged it was attached to Waul's Texas Legion then returned to the regiment. It surrendered with the Army of Tennessee.1<br /> <br /> The Caruthers individuals who attested this document were not found in a brief internet search. However there are other possible spellings of the name such as CARRUTHERS CARETHERS CAROTHERS. Some of the individuals named in the site Chattanoogan dot com were near the Chattanooga area during the Civil War. n/a unknown
186334799Long Swamp Florida: n.p. 1863. Letter. Good. Manuscript letter written on blue paper. Approx. 10" x 8". 1 page of content. On the back side is written "J L McGahagin Seller Jany 25th 1863". Hand writing is difficult to read at times. Letter has multiple folds. The paper is in good condition with some small splits at the folds. Transcription below:<br /> <br /> Long Swamp Fla Jan 25th 1863<br /> Mr. H. L. Flast<br /> Dear Sir<br /> <br /> I received your letter with draft of $1500 on Maj Teasdale which I will not want to use at percent - 8 I was disappointed in getting the cotton at or near Wacahoota persons in that section have put is up to 45 cts I have about 15 Bales seed Cotton and 12 gined at Home. I will tomorrow to haul down more seed cotton which I think I will enough to make 20 Bales I went to Gainesville and got the draft of 1900 from Dawkins I will have to pay for cotton if I get any more at 'presant' I to pay 'presant' prices - I have not heard from the teacher as yet that you were to and we have an application from Miss Baker for a friends of hers and are waiting to hear from you let us hear soon<br /> <br /> Yours Respectfully signed J L McGahagin<br /> <br /> From find a grave dot com:<br /> <br /> His first wife Sarah Adeline Eubanks McGahagin 1830-1856 is buried on the north side of him. On his other side is his second wife Margaret Jane Leitner McGahagin 1838-1896. His brother William Emmit McGahagin and his brother’s wife Sarah Eliza McCormick McGahagin are buried about fifteen feet south of J.L. McGahagin's tombstone.<br /> Joshua L. McGahagin was a farmer a saw-mill owner and owned real estate. He owned property in Brazil as well as in this country. He owned a sawmill on Lake Weir. He would barge logs across the lake take them by ox cart to the Ocklawaha River where they were barged to Jacksonville. He was a Captain in the Confederate Army.<br /> <br /> "Longswamp was the name applied to a large area which extended from the site of the present Belleview south and southwestward to the Withlacoochee River. A post office under Joshua L. McGahagin was established for this region on August 29 1846. Frequently the office was in the home of the postmaster and mail was carried by rider once each week."<br /> <br /> "In August of 1850 panic followed after finding an Indian camp nearby on the Withlacoochee. As all Indians were supposedly within a reservation in the Everglades wild rumors were circulated. On the McGahagin plantation log barricades were hurriedly erected and settlers from isolated homes rushed here for protection. But the alarm was unjustified. An intensive search disclosed only eleven Indians. These Indians were soon deported back to the Everglades."<br /> <br /> These excerpts were taken from a history of Marion County called "Ocali Country Kingdom of the Sun" by Eloise Robinson Mrs. Roy V. Ott and Louis Hickman Chazal.<br /> <br /> One day several years after the Civil War a man who had served under Joshua Lucas MaGahagin's C.S.A. command entered the home of his eldest son William "Billy" Emmit. He saw his father's framed photograph over the mantel and exclaimed "Why that's the Ole Warhorse!"<br /> <br /> Joshua left for South America in 1868 taking one of his daughters Lula with him. He was back in Marion County in 1870 as he was listed in the Census that year.<br /> <br /> After surviving the Civil War and a trip to Brazil spending hours on horseback Joshua died when he was thrown from a horse. n.p. unknown
186634704Ludlow Vermont 1866. Ledger. Good. Ledger. Octavo. 234 pages total of which 174 pages have writing from a few word numbers etc. to completely filled accounts. Approximately 60 pages are blank. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with tan leather spine. Marbled paper is shelf worn. Spine is chipped at head and base. Arithmetic pencil notes written on the end sheets. A few pages torn out of the ledger in back. Interior content in good condition. About half the pages or less are used for accounts. First page starts with the written heading - "Cash paid out for Company 1863 by S. W. Stinson." Items listed on the first two pages include Horse accessories wagons wagon parts shoes stables oats hay and other horse and wagon related items. Several pages following the 1863 and 1864 records are equations written in pencil. One of these pages has the heading - "Bark Measured for S P Atherton". From the middle sections of the ledger to the end are several products associated with clothing accessories. One page is dated 1865/66. Goods and costs of items include a sewing machine buttons embroidery "infants waist" braid fringe ribbon lace cuffs collars trimmings feather bonnets hats silk etc. Towards the back of the ledger is a short inscription signed by S Stinson Ludlow Vermont. Good. unknown
1864127291864. Civil War dated letter from Grizzly Bear HouseCA from Northern sympathizer who writes to his sister in Michigan in July of 1864. He writes on the civil war but also learns of his father's death. He writes in part : "The news from the war is verry good but some what to slow to suit me but I don't know as I ought to complain for the hart I take in it is not very hard just pay taxes and stay at home well taxes is one necessary part of the war and some one has to fight while others pay but I do hope our folks that is the union folks will give the rebels such a thrashing that they never will need an other and then there will be peace at home and abroad" The Letter is signed: "From your Brother John." The letter has a few splits at folds also minor creases otherwise in very good condition. Original Envelope with stampis included. unknown
186436185Quincy: Confederate States 1864. Paper. Good. Paper. Approximately 9.5" x 6.5". Folds. Printed and written manuscript form that is dated December 28th 1864. Form lists 7 passenger names taking 8 seats. Likely this route was between Quincy Florida and Albany Georgia. This form was used late in the Confederacy after the fall of Atlanta and Savannah. Paper is in good condition. Confederate imprint. Confederate States unknown
1864167911864. Confederate States of America $10 Note of 1864. When the Civil War broke out the newly-formed Confederate States of America needed to create a monetary system to finance the government and the war effort. The Confederate Treasury printed bank notes The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war on the prospect of Southern victory and independence. As the Civil War progressed and victory of the South seemed less and less likely its value declined. After the Confederacy's defeat its money had no value and most notes were destroyed. In very good condition. unknown
1864167921864. 1864 Confederate States of America $20 Note T67; Feb. 17th 1864 Criswell T67; When the Civil War broke out the newly-formed Confederate States of America needed to create a monetary system to finance the government and the war effort. The Confederate Treasury printed bank notes The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war on the prospect of Southern victory and independence. As the Civil War progressed and victory of the South seemed less and less likely its value declined. After the Confederacy's defeat its money had no value. Very good condition. unknown
