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1981153079Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1981. Paperback. Minor soil and name to front cover else very good sound condition. 900pp. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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123900Yorkton Saskatchewan: Yorkton Veterans Centennial Project 978-0-9784420-0-2 978-0-9784420-0-2 2007. Mass market paperback 272. Very good. 4to. The stories of veterans of World War II who were born in or live in Yorkton Saskatchewan and the surrounding area. Clean tight brightsolid copy with black and white photographs. Yorkton Veterans Centennial Project 978-0-9784420-0-2 Paperback
1922List2720Butte Montana 1922. Approximately 113 pieces: fifty-one letters to Thomas Williams; thirteen to various politicians mainly members of Congress; and twenty to Williams’ advocates mostly from Congresspeople; fifteen miscellaneous items including Grand Army of the Republic materials and Williams’ citizenship document; and fourteen empty envelopes. Materials date from between 1911 and 1922. Near fine with normal wear. Thomas W. Williams 1845–1931 was born outside of Swansea Wales and died in a Soldier’s Home in Los Angeles California. According to his obituary he came to the United States in about 1857 as a very young boy briefly left to learn blacksmithing in Toronto Canada and then returned stateside. He enlisted with the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War shortly before he turned 16 and served in the 1st Missouri Cavalry of Volunteers Company C. After the war he was a resident of Butte Montana to or from which many of these letters are written.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a large lot of materials relating to Williams’ efforts late in life to secure a veteran’s pension for his service – or at least to have his 1864 dishonorable discharge expunged from his record. Williams enlists a number of people to help him with this task including fellow 1st Cavalry veteran Abraham Brokaw several local attorneys and the mayor of Butte. Their letters on Williams’ behalf are mainly addressed to congressmen mostly from Montana whose replies start out with polite deferrals—they would of course love to do anything in their power to help but these matters are difficult and now is simply not the right time—but devolve into accusations and firm denials.<br /> <br /> According to Williams he had served with Company C until his honorable discharge in May of 1864 at which point he immediately reenlisted. He received a thirty-day furlough on reenlistment and decided to visit his uncle in Hamilton Ontario as he had no other family on the continent. On attempting to return to his post:<br /> <br /> “As I was not of age my uncle held me and prevented me from returning to my command. I tried to get away so as to get back ran away twice but was recaptured twice my uncle having a letter from my mother instructing him to hold me as I would only be 19 on Sept 15 1864. I was branded as a deserter when I applied for a copy of my discharge.†December 11 1919<br /> <br /> His record prior to this he claims had been stellar as he lays out in an eleven-page notarized statement as part of his appeal May 3 1922. He describes being sent as a member of General Frémont’s bodyguard into the First Battle of Springfield:<br /> <br /> “we were sent to lexington to drive Price and the Rebels out of Mo. we camp about 20 miles away in a viliage before we reached Springfield and General Freemont called the Body guard out at 2 oclock in the morning for volenteers we came out . we did not know where we were going. after we had gone a few miles we had a fight with the Rebels pickets and whiped and drove them away and we went two or three miles towards Springfield . we made the charge and drove the rebels out there were 2200 of them. we laid out in the prairies all night without Hat Coat or Blanket to keep us warm and Held our Horses by the Bridel all nightâ€.<br /> <br /> The men “formed a camp near Springfield and you can see cut in a large rock the name of Camp Bliss which I cut and the dait of the year.†When Frémont was ordered back to Washington he ordered a dispatch sent from Springfield to Sedalia which Williams carried<br /> <br /> “132 miles from 8 oclock in the morning on our same Horses. and only one drink of water for our selves our Horses from the time we left camp that night untill 11 oclock when we arrived in Seidailia we then returned to Springfield with General Hunters comand escorted General fremont to Rollaâ€.<br /> <br /> The men go on “to Levenworth Kansas and the Bushwackers fought us all the wayâ€. They winter in Leavenworth and are then sent to “Independence Mo to drive Quantrell and his gang out of North Mo†– that is William Quantrill and his Raiders an infamous pro-Confederate guerilla group. Williams writes:<br /> <br /> “We left the Sargent of Co E. in Kansas City to get our mail and a citizen and his son was with him Quantrell gang captured them and striped the both and placed them in a fence corner and killed them Both and placed fence rail over them and Burned them up and left the Boy see them do this he came to our Captain Miles Kehoe who sent us out in squads on all the roads and we captured 9 of the Rebles Captain line them up and told the Boy to pick out the man that killed his father . they coart Marcheled him and Hanged him the next morning at 8 oclock Capt Kehoe let the others go and told them if they were caught in any thing But a fair fight he would Hang them tooâ€.<br /> <br /> Quantrill’s men heed Keogh’s warning and go much easier on six of the company’s men who are captured while searching for more feed for the horses:<br /> <br /> “Quantrals gang caught them after disarming took them to a farm house gave them supper and sent some of his men around and collected all the young ladies they could get and an old Mo fidler they danced all night and then Quantral gave them Brekfast and sent them to there camps this was the last trouble we had with him and his gangâ€.<br /> <br /> At this point Williams does admit to running into some trouble himself: another soldier “started to curse queen Victoria and I hit him . my Welch Blood could not stand to hear himâ€. Williams asks the soldier what he “would do to a man if he damned presedent Lincoln†and the soldier<br /> <br /> “went and swore I damned the president and I was Coart Marceled and sent to Alton then a Military Prison and at the Cort Marshal they did not alow me to say one word to protect myself when I arrived at Alton I explained the whole afair to the officer who had charge of this prison he advised me to write to president Lincolnâ€.<br /> <br /> Williams is shortly released from prison and sent back to his post at Little Rock; in later tellings of the story by Williams’ advocates including in a resolution of the Grand Army of the Republic Lincoln personally ordered Williams released. Willliams’ company fights in the Battle of Prairie D'Ane and then camps with “a comand of Jenensons coulered troopsâ€â€”probably Colonel Charles Jennison—who were “attacked by the rebles†and “shot at them and then went at them with Bainets and drove them for miles it was a Sight to see the dead rebles how they were Killedâ€. Shortly before his initial discharge Williams’ company goes on to Camden where:<br /> <br /> “some of our troops were on picket and those not on guard were asleep around a fire and the rebles made a charge and shot the Boys around the fire after that the Boys took logs and put Hats and overcoats on the logs and the Rebles tryed the same game But was caught in a trapâ€.<br /> <br /> Finally Williams is discharged reenlists and is furloughed and heads to Canada where his troubles begin.<br /> <br /> He first appeals to fellow 1st Missourian Abraham Brokaw since Brokaw could act as a witness to his claims. In their correspondence Brokaw sometimes recalls interesting anecdotes from the war including the “dirty irishman thief and libertine†Kelley “who the boys you will call to mind was going to hang at Little Rock for steeling our postals†April 18 1912 and a “band of gurillas from Ark. that had captured and was holding the little town†of Ozark Missouri who “had got word of our coming and left for parts unknown a few hours before our coming†January 26 1915.<br /> <br /> The letters to Williams and his advocates are frustrating – what he’s told is inconsistent and he makes little progress. First he has to get confirmation of his first honorable discharge which he seems to receive around September of 1916. Then he applies for a pension; however the office of the Bureau of Pensions writes to him the following year that his pension “claim was rejected November 13 1916 on the ground that you were never honorably discharged from the only contract of service you entered into during the Civil War†August 31 1917. A month later the Missouri Adjutant General writes a certificate of his service which “clears your record both here and in Washington†and congratulates him “on receiving at last your just due as a Veteran so richly merited†September 20 1917. By the end of the year though he is still trying to clear the desertion charge and has now resorted to trying to pass a bill in congress to do so. Montana Senator Thomas Walsh writes that “I have tried very hard to secure a favorable report . but have been unable to induce the Military Committee to take action thereon†December 11 1917.<br /> <br /> The congressmen to whom he appeals—including Senators Walsh Tom Stout and Henry Myers and Representatives Frank W Mondell Carl W Riddick and Henry Z Osborne—are less than helpful. They often claim that there is insufficient time remaining in the current congressional session remind him that such bills are difficult to pass even in favorable circumstances and ask him to furnish them with the same information he has already provided. After years of this Senator Myers suddenly tells Charles Juttner one of Williams’ advocates a very different story about Williams’ service:<br /> <br /> “The report of the War Department shows that in March 1863 Mr. Williams was tried by court-martial on a long list of serious charges and that he was found guilty on all of them; that he was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the duration of the war or at least until his term of enlistment should expire and that other penalties were assessed against him one of which was that at the expiration of his term of imprisonment he should be dishonorably discharged from the Army. It appears however that after having been imprisoned nearly a year the remainder of his sentence was remitted and that he was allowed to rejoin his company and that he did rejoin it in February 1864. The records of the War Department however show that July 4 1864 at St. Louis while on furlough Mr. Williams deserted and never rejoined the army.†July 18 1921<br /> <br /> A letter from the War Department Adjutant General adds the details that he “was found guilty . of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and of disobedience to orders†and that his sentence had included “a ball and chain weighing twelve pounds attached to his leg†and the forfeiture of all present and future pay and allowances January 16 1922.<br /> <br /> It is difficult to say which account is true. Myers however had given some telling further reason that Williams’ bill might have been rejected:<br /> <br /> “There is an intense prejudice in Congress against such bills. . The senators and representatives seem to think that such a bill is merely a prelude to an application for a pension and the expenses of the government are now so enormous and the expenses of providing for the veterans of the World War are so great . that there seems to be a general disposition in Congress not to increase the Civil War pension list any more by a single dollar.â€<br /> <br /> Overall a record of one veteran’s experience dealing with the federal government. Of interest to scholars of the American Civil War and postbellum civilian life both for its firsthand accounts of engagements in the trans-Mississippi theater and for the look it offers at the treatment of veterans. unknown
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187027943Paris J. Rothschild 1870 Une lithographie Originale, colorée et glaçée à la main d'époque à la gomme arabique, Format : 45 centimètres de haut par 35 centimètres de large, sur papier blanc, imprimé en bas à gauche sous la gravure : de Moltzheim inv. et Del. + imprimé en bas à droite sous la gravure : Imp. Aug. BRY Paris + imprimé au centre dessous la gravure : 1860 - CANONNIERS VÉTÉRANS - J. Rothschild Editeur, tirée de : "L'Artillerie Française Costumes - Uniformes - Matériel Depuis Le Moyen Age Jusqu'A Nos Jours Ouvrage orné de 64 Planches en couleur reproduites d'après les Originaux Appartenant A Sa Majesté L'Empereur Et Publié Sous Ses Auspices" par Auguste de Moltzheim, 1870 Paris: J. Rothschild, Éditeur,
185027160Paris Aubert, Maison Martinet 1850 Une lithographie Originale, colorée et glaçée à la main d'époque, Format : 29,5 centimètres de haut par 41,5 centimètres de large, sur papier blanc, imprimé en bas à droite dans la gravure : Ch. VERNIER, tirée de : [Costumes de l'armée française depuis Louis XIV, jusqu'à ce jour.] Paris : Aubert, Maison Martinet Editeur, [vers 1850],
199398985Military Intelligence Service Veterans of Hawaii 1993. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Trade paperback in near fine condition. 50th Anniversary Reunion Edition. Military Intelligence Service Veterans of Hawaii Paperback
92 pages. Lovely A.J. Casson painting of a bustling winter street on front cover Features: Great vintage photo ad for the New International "Special Delivery" Truck; Cream of Wheat ad claims it keeps pupils more alert; When Men Kill for Whisky - Millionaire Carling Breweries Executive Sam Low of Walkerville, Ontario was kidnapped by Gangsters for a $35k ransom - great photo-illustrated article about rum-running between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit; Brummagen Love, by Thelma Rudge; What I Learned from Europe, by Ontario Premier G. Howard Ferguson; Ottawa-Vancouver in 32 Hours - The Stirring Story of Canada's First Transcontinental Air Mail Flight - with photos; The Mystery of Number Nine, by Leslie McFarlane - Part 1; Louis Letourneau, Leo Dandurand and Joe Cattarinich - a colorful description of the adventures and achievements of The Three Musketeers of Modern Sport; Canada's Pictorial War Records - Adequate Housing Required, by W.W. Murray; Lights in the Windows, by Lillian Beynon Thomas; Full-colour colour reproduction of painting "Canada's Answer" by Norman Wilkinson, R.I.; The Work Cure - Vetcraft has brought health, happiness and economic being to hundreds of veterans; By Especial Corespondent, by Geoffrey Hewelcke; The Devil Guards His Own, by Victor Lauriston; Amazing photo of Malahat Drive on Vancouver Island - not much more than a couple of ruts through the forest; Nice ad for the De Soto Six, by Chrysler; "New York Now Huge Negro City - Black Invasion of Harlem"; Art Deco-style ad for the New Frigidaire refrigerator; Science Teaching Weather Control - Man has made enormous progress in combat with nature; Fantastic colour full-page ad for Packard cars; Great colour full-page ad for Wahl-Eversharp Pens, Pencils, Desk Sets; Wonderful full-page ad for Erector Set toys; Color ad for Chipso Laundry Soap; *Magnificent* Colour Centerfold ad for Parker Duofold Pens, Pencils and Duettes; Great full-page colour ad for Westclox Clocks; Ad for Mueller Faucets of Sarnia, Ontario; "Let the Laundry Do It" - a two-colour ad encouraging readers to let laundries clean their clothes; Nice Hupmobile Ad for their Century Six and Eight; Colour photo ad for Kodak cameras; Lovely colour full-page ad for Moirs Chocolates; Article about collector Walter McRaye; Buses Hurt British Railways - with photo of their first auto Pullman which allows passengers to sleep on the bus; The Road to Perth - short history article by Donald McNicol; Ad for the T-N Toilet which promises to 'banish embarrassment' because it is quiet; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon; Two-Colour full-page Christmas-themed ad for Eveready flashlights and batteries; Home-Made Christmas Gifts; Short write-up and photo of Elizabeth Styring Nutt; Rug Magic, by Mary Agnes Pease; Stewart Warner radio ad; Business Article - "Adventuring in Speculation is Highly Specialized Business"; Colour ad fo Sun-Maid Puffed seeded Muscat Raisins inside back cover. Average wear to textblock. Crossword completed on page 83 otherwise unmarked. Chips and openings along cover fold. Covers loose as one but present. Back cover in rough shape. Particularly wonderful content to go with the excellent front cover artwork. Book
64 pages. Articles: A noted doctor talks about alcohol and tranquilizers; An album of amateur art; Canadian Theatre's Fiery Godmother - Dora Mavor Moore; Canada's last great train robbery - CPR No. 63; How Doug Harvey Loafed his way to Fame (Hockey); Around the World in 80 days... the hard way; How the Veterans are Fighting the Peace. Nice colour ads for: the 1958 Chrysler; General Electric 'Filter-Flo' Automatic Clothes Washer; Matinee Cigarettes; Oldsmobile Auto; '58 Dodge Auto; O'Keefe Ales. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: This issue features, for the first time, cover art by James Hill of Hamilton, featuring an actual scene of a snow sleigh being painted in Dundas, Ontario during a light snow; Great colour ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd. inside front cover features their equipment mining uranium ore ungerground; Household Finance ad features photo of Mr. S.B. Kelly, Manager of the Richmond St., London, Ontario office; One-page two-colour ad for Thor household appliances; Nothing Sacred About the Two-Party System (Editorial); Column on B.C.'s Socred government; Nice colour ad for Canadian General Electric features six of their clocks; Canada's best-loved Governor-General, Lord Alexander, becomes Defense Minister of Great Britain - article with many photos; Benny's Happy Family - nearly four hundred veterans and their wives, and fourteen hundred children live at Benny Farm, a huge apartment development in Montreal's suburb of Notre Dame de Grace - article with five photos; Keep Away from Laura - fiction by Morley Callaghan; The Mysterious Kingdom of the Saguenay - photo-illustrated article (including photo of Madame Gunder Olsen sitting outside her home; How Mackenzie King Won His Greatest Gamble - the fantastic events of 1926 showed him as a true political genius; They're Looting Our History - American collectors and tourists armed with shovels are carting away the story of Canada's dim past from Manitoulin Island - article with photos; When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's - great photo-illustrated article on this important Canadian department store merger; Why the Braden's Don't Come Home - Photo-illustrated article on Bernie and Barbara Braden, once of Vancouver, who now have jobs in British TV, radio, stage and movies; Colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad features puffing majorette; Colour centrefold ad for Westinghouse home appliances; Prest-O-Lite ad features photo of Boston Bruin Milt Schmidt in action; Interesting illustrated ad for film "Androcles and the Lion" with heading "Barbaric revelry to fire the senses of the world... in the story of history's most sin-swept era!"; Nice colour ad for Aylmer Golden Corn; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs features boy throwing snowball; Uncommon Stelco ad features photos of their new 673-foot ore unloading bridge at Hamilton, their new blast furnace at Hamilton Works, and their new Open Hearth Furnace at Hamilton; Nice two-page Buick ad; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A high-quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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1993Embry 111074Curtis Media Corporation 1993. First edition first printing. Fine. B&W photos Light gray leatherette. Curtis Media Corporation, 1993. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
19392456Boston: The Veterans of Foreign Wars 1939. Cards. Cream illustrated cards. Good. 23 x 15.5 cm. Folding cream card menu featuring photo illustrations of Eugene I. Van Antwerp Commander-in-Chief and Anna Mae Lockner National Auxiliary President. Cover: Reception and Banquet Tendered by the 1939 National Encampment Corp. - HOTEL SOMERSET Boston Mass. Wednesday Evening Feb. 15 1939 in conduction with 40th National V.F.W. Encampment. <br /> <br />The Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW - an organization of U.S. war veterans who as military service members fought in wars campaigns and expeditions on foreign land waters or airspace - held conventions yearly VFW National Conventions used to be called encampments. This menu for the reception and banquet was held at the beginning of 1939 while tensions escalated overseas and the U.S sentiment was anti-interventionist. <br /> <br />Guests include: Bennett Champ Clark - U.S. Senator Missouri Leverett Saltonstall - Governor of Massachusetts Maurice J. Tobin - Mayor of Boston and many more. Dinner featured Filet Mingon Delmonico Potatoes dessert. Some foxing and stains with previous fold mark throughout the middle. <br/><br/> The Veterans of Foreign Wars unknown books
194412619New York: American Veterans Society of Artists Inc 1944. Staplebound. Near fine. Small octavo unpaginated 24pp. illustrated. A near fine copy in the publisher's stapled wraps. A smoker's copy with faint tobacco odor. Staples rusted else a sound clean example. SIGNED and generically INSCRIBED by Frederic Allen Williams then President of the organization as well as a contributing artist. A catalogue for the sixth such exhibition this one held during the height of America's involvement in World War II five months after D-Day. There are sixteen halftone illustrations depicting some of the work on display; mostly painting but some sculpture as well. While all of the art is competent some of it is truly impressive and it's clear that while the organization welcomed a range of talent most of the artists had some mastery of their form. Williams in his introduction to the catalogue writes: "The demoralizing influences of war are obvious throughout the country and have made a great impression on creative genius. As the clouds of war pass by art shall bloom again nurtured by the sanity of American Art tradition and fed by the passion of young blood. Stand by and support American Art." Williams was a privileged Bostonian and a veteran of World War I. While he didn't see actual combat there can be no question that the experiences of his comrades left a great impression on him and he became involved with the American Veterans Society of Artists. He was an early member of the artist set in Taos and his work was exhibited in countless mainstream museums during his lifetime. The pamphlet is scarce--in fact we find no holdings of this exact one in OCLC and just a handful of other near-contemporary ones. We also have had toruble finding examples of his signature outside of original artwork. As such a desirably scarce example. American Veterans Society of Artists, Inc unknown
140 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Numerous reproductions of archival black and white photos. "More than 500 men and women joined the services from the extended Milton area. More than 30 were killed." Contains recollections of the following veterans: Dick Clement, Marie Clements, Art Cooper, Lyle Dales, Jack Dawkins, Edith Dick, Ken Hassard, Barb & Lorne Havard, Ken James, Bruce Kitchen, Mike Ledwith, Harvey Leggo, Siegfried, Lenk, Nelly Lorenz, Bruce McNab, Stan Marsh, Ken Marshall, John McTrach, Rodney Ramsden, Marg Robinson, and Jim Sproat. Also includes a Milton community scrapbook, information on war brides who enriched Canada, list of veterans, and photos with write-ups of those who lost their lives. Faint prior owner's name on front cover, otherwise unmarked with average soiling and wear. A sound copy of this informative and sobering commemorative work, published on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. Book
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