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606454not signed from the 1974 film "Dark Star." 1. 3/4 length shot of two astronauts fighting over a weapon. 2. Full length dramatic shot of an astronaut on the floor of his space ship trying to reach his fun in front of him. 3. Full length shot of three astronauts in the control room. 4. Full length shot of an astronaut seated inside the space ship. Photographs are on heavy weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good fresh minor signs of handling; 1974. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
606424not signed from the 1974 film "Dark Star." 1. 3/4 length shot of a man in deep sleep with the doctor observing. 2. Full length dramatic shot of an astronaut walking in space. 3. Full length distorted shot of three astronauts in the control room. Photographs are on heavy weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good fresh minor signs of handling; 1974. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1968132378New York: Stuart Millar Productions 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. <br/><br/>Based on George Plimpton's 1966 book. Alan Alda in his first starring role plays Plimpton who has put himself into the sports arena writing about his experiences. He's entered the ring with a professional boxer and pitched in an All-Star game. He decides to try his hand at being the quarterback of a professional football team and he gets his opportunity with the Detroit Lions. While everyone involved agrees to keep his secret feigning time spent as a semi-pro in Canada it soon becomes clear that he is clueless on the field. Eventually he earns his teammates' respect and even gets to play in an exhibition game. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York Missouri and Florida. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for writers Roman and Plimpton. 132 leaves mimeograph duplication with the last leaf of text numbered 131. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Stuart Millar Productions unknown books
1944141117Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Based on John Steinbeck 1943 novella of the same name. Reference numbers are 619-53 black-and-white stamped on verso as "KEY SET" and 619-70 sepia apparently mounted for internal use. <br/><br/>The film follows a group of survivors stranded on a lifeboat following an attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot a course to land or rescue. The film is the first in Hitchcock's "limited-setting" fims followed by "Rope" Dial M for Murder" and "Rear Window." Steinbeck who wrote the novella for the film was aggravated by the changes made to his work specifically to an African American character who he felt had been transformed into a grotesque caricature. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Florida and California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with toning to one image as well as a holograph graphite notation to the other. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1956132800London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1956 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on Moore Raymond's 1945 novel of the same name about a young boy in the Australian bush hailed as the Australian "Huckleberry Finn." <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few moderate creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1971151346Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1971 documentary film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five black and white photographs and three pages of promotional reading material.<br/><br/>A documentary following the star-studded 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival which featured Crosby Stills Nash and Young Joan Baez Joni Mitchell and many others. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Big Sur. <br/><br/>Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1955147888N.p.: Visual Drama 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Joyce Jameson and Myron Healey from the 1955 film here under the alternative title Gangbusters. <br/><br/>NBC aired the True Crime television series Gang Busters from March 20 1952 to October 23 1952 and reedited the three episode storyline The Pinson Gang into the 1955 feature film Gang Busters. <br/><br/>Lifelong criminal Pinson Healy keeps escaping from prison. Loosely based on Omar August Pinson American robber and murderer.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing to corners some edgewear and two small closed tears in left margin. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Lyons US. Visual Drama unknown books
1995169802New York: Fly By Night Press 1995. First edition. Softcover. 91 pages. A collection of poems by Star Black. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Includes a laid in handwritten note from Star Black presenting this book to fellow poet Star Black. Note in near fine condition. Fly By Night Press unknown books
188039439.71880. Dated & SIGNED in lower right of the "June" sketch; titled & dated in lower left of the "July" sketch. Bit of age toning to extremities. The June drawing with thumbtack holes in the corners otherwise Very Good Plus as is the 2nd drawing. Single sheet each The June sketch oriented vertically: 9-3/4" x 6-3/8". The July sketch oriented horizontally: 6-3/8" x 9-7/8" <br/><br/>The two sketches depict "J. De Estrella" a cowboy or man of such an aspect. the first shows him grasping a six-shooter at a holster on the left waist; the second the man is relaxing in a chair reading a paper feet up on a nearby table. Booksin a Calfornia native who settled in the San Jose area ~ 1881 where he died almost 70 years later. Named after this individual is Booksin Elementary a high achieving elementary school located in the heart of San Jose's Willow Glen suburb. From the Jeff Sahadi collection of L A Booksin drawings. unknown books
1999PW1093Cambridge MA:: MIT Press 1999. 1999. 8vo. xii 377 1 pp. Figs. index. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0262522950 A major comparative study of systems of large-scale classification. See book review by Stefan Helmreich "Torqing Things Out" Science Technology & Human Values Vol. 28 No. 3 Summer 2003 pp. 435-440. Bowker is a professor of Informatics at UC Irvine. Susan Leigh Star American sociologist UCSD "She specialized in the study of information in modern society; information worlds; information infrastructure; classification and standardization; sociology of science; sociology of work and the history of science medicine technology and communication/information systems." She is called by some "one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades." MIT Press, 1999. unknown books
1978147796Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Collection of 13 vintage black and white reference photographs 6 vintage color studio still photographs 5 vintage studio still photographs 2 vintage black and white borderless reference photographs and 1 color reference photograph from the 1978 film. Several of the photographs are candid shots taken on the set of the film.<br/><br/>The sequel to "National Velvet" 1944 based on the 1935 novel. A former horse riding champion helps her troubled niece achieve Olympic horse riding glory.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in England.<br/><br/>24 photographs 10 x 8 inches 1 photograph 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 6 x 9.5 inches 1 photograph 7.5 x 5 inches. Near Fine some with faint edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956139119Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Original British black-and-white premiere program for the 1956 US film. Printed and distributed to coordinate with a European gala premiere of the film at the Odeon Theatre June 26 1956 as a charity fundraiser to benefit the Actors' Orphanage and the Variety Club Heart Fun for Under-Priveleged Children. <br/><br/>Based on Max Catto's often wrote as Simon Kent 1950 novel "The Killing Frost." Lancaster who was an acrobat in his younger years plays Mike a trapeze artist trying to overcome an injury. Tino Curtis and Lola Lollobrigida pursuade him to pursue his dreams and return to the Big Top. <br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>8.5 x 11 inches 12 leaves with color wrappers saddle-stapled. Very Good plus with rubbing a vertical crease and light spine stress. Scarce. United Artists unknown books
1940WRCLIT82807Beverly Hills: United Artists 1940. 16pp. Quarto. Stiff pictorial self-wrapper. Illustrations including color. Upper wrapper quite tanned and soiled around edges internally very good. An original theatrical souvenir program for the 1940 release of Chaplin's barbed satirical attack on Nazism and Fascism and their respective figureheads. This was both Chaplin's first full sound film and commercially the most successful in its original release. Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie costarred. United Artists unknown books
19891994China Tiananmen Square New Star Publishers. <b>The Beijing Riot--A Photo Record</b>. Beijing: New Star Publishers 1989. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 260 x 185 mm 32 pages in stapled wrappers.<br /><br />Chinese government booklet justifying the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. "Beijing experienced a horrifying counter-revolutionary rebellion on June 3 and 4 1989" according to the introduction. "The purpose of the rebellion was to overthrow the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and subvert the socialist People's Republic of China."<br /><br />Profusely illustrated with gruesome color photos of soldiers allegedly beaten or killed by "ruffians" and "thugs" as well as photos of burned-out vehicles; ordinary people supposedly thanking soldiers for ending the rebellion; scenes from Tiananmen Square and the surrounding streets; government and party leaders; and much more.<br /><br />This booklet is rare. OCLC lists only three institutional holdings: Harvard and Linfield College in the U.S. and the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands. An oddly fascinating -- if jarring -- attempt by the Chinese government to present its case to a foreign audience. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear rubbing to laminated wrappers internally clean bright and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. New Star Publishers books
1988132528N.p.: Media Home Entertainment 1988. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1988 videocassette release of the 1988 US film. <br/><br/>An action-packed thriller about of drug-related murders in Saigon and the ex-Green Beret who must find the culprits. <br/><br/>8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Media Home Entertainment unknown books
193443131Great Britain: Cunard White Star 1934. Oblong 8vo unpaged; chiefly color and black and white illustrations some photographic; decorative borders in yellow and silver; original tan staplebound decorative wrappers stamped in red and gilt; "Ships--Queen Mary" in ink at top of upper cover withdrawn rubberstamp on p. 1; very good. Promotional brochure for the iconic ship which was still in preparation as of its publication: "The rooms will be perfectly satisfying to the most cosmopolitan conceptions of culture and good taste at the same time retaining the atmosphere of restfulness and comfort associated with the most dignified English country homes." <br/><br/> Cunard White Star unknown books
1950327Twelve Menus from R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth" Cunard White Star Line printed in England September 6-10 1951 for September 6 Luncheon and Dinner September 7 Breakfast Luncheon and Dinner September 8 Luncheon and Dinner September 9 Luncheon and Dinner September 10 Breakfast Luncheon and Farewell Dinner. Luncheon and dinner menus measure 26.5 cm x 21 cm with illustrated front covers by Vernon Ward Arthur Rowlands Cowlam Edgar Woolax C. F. Hopkinson and T. Peddie. Breakfast menus measure 27.5 cm x 17 cm printed on one side only. Condition is fine. <br /> Cunard White Star Line paperback books
2019172584Madrid: Fundacion Mapfre 2019. Hardcover. VG. BW-photographic and yellow cloth boards with black stamped lettering. 263 pp. BW illustrations. "Berenice Abbott was one of the first people to photograph New York City. Seen through her camera lens the city became a living entity a remarkable character whom visitors can now pursue as they move through its crowded streets looking upwards to discover the modern beauty of its skyscrapers. This publication presents Berenice Abbott's work in several themes: her portraits photographs of the city and scientific photographs"--. Fundacion Mapfre hardcover books
2018172921Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya 2018. Paperback. VG- light wear to edges and corners. BW-illustrated wraps with black lettering white paper band with black lettering. 251 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona July 7-October 14 2018. Text in Spanish. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya paperback books
1976149427Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. With 33 revision pages bound in at the rear. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member Robert Harrison with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper and his name in holograph pencil or ink at the top right corner of several leaves. Several of the aforementioned revision pages rubber stamped "RECEIVED / DATE / ROBERT HARRISON."<br/><br/>Based on the 1973 novel. The story of a woman held captive and forcibly impregnated by a rogue supercomputer that has attained artificial intelligence.<br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 101 dated May 17 1976 with credits for novelist Dean Koontz and screenwriters Robert J. Jaffe and Roger O. Hirson. Title page integral to the first page of text. 129 leaves on white stock with last page of principal text numbered 96. 33 blue and gray revision pages bound in at the rear all intended as replacements for pages in the principal text but have been added rather than substituted. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
194035014NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1940. Paulo Werneck. 4to. Pages not numbered. First published in Brazil. A picture book with a simple story. Very nice illustrations by Paulo Werneck. Paper over boards cloth spine. Some water stains at bottom of pages cover somewhat worn and soiled. Good only. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
194075874New York NY.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. VG. 1940. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in white paper covered boards with color printing to the covers with a white cloth spine in a grasscloth slip-case with a printed paper label on the upper cover with some wear and cracking to the edges. The covers show some light soiling and toning. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with color illustrations. . Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers hardcover books
1952151878Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1952 film one showing actors Arthur Franz and Marie Windsor in conversation between takes the other showing Franz and Windsor sitting with director Edward Dmytryk assistant director Billy Reineck dialogue director Lauren Gage and script supervisor Frances McDowell. One with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Columbia Pictures stamp the other with a RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>A severely mentally ill delivery man struggles with his irrational hatred of women and begins venting his rage by killing women from a distance using a M1 carbine. One of the most minimal and exciting noirs of the 1950s and Edward Dmytryk's first return to directing after his long tenure on the Hollywood blacklist. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Francisco. <br/><br/>One 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
186524356.99<p>"<i>June 18. Reached Front Royal & met there the famous & very handsome rebel spy Belle Boyd who gave to me the rebel flag waving which she led the attack upon Kenly in May.</i>"</p><p>The "stars and bars" circular canton pattern with eleven-stars was used for First National flags from July 2 1861 when Tennessee and North Carolina joined the Confederacy until November 28 1861 when stars were added for Missouri and Kentucky. The other side of this rare two-pattern configuration is a tribute to the "Bonnie blue flag that bears the single star" the unofficial first Confederate flag.</p><p>Frederic d'Hauteville's small autograph note has been loosely stitched to the flag: "<i>Confederate flag. Taken by F.S.G d<i>'</i>H. and given by him to E.S.F. in 1862. To be given to Freddie d'Hauteville when he is fifteen.</i>" His first wife Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish died in 1863. Freddy his son by his second wife was born in 1873 thus dating his note about the second gifting of the flag to between 1873 and 1888. The flag remained in his family preserved in perfect condition until 2015 when contents from their Swiss castle were sold clearing the way for the property to be sold; it is now on the market for $60 million dollars.</p> <b>ELEVEN-STAR "FIRST NATIONAL" FLAG WITH SINGLE STAR "BONNIE BLUE" FIRST UNOFFICIAL CONFEDEDERATE FLAG VERSO.</b>Belle Boyd the "Siren of the Shenandoah" gave the flag to Captain Frederic Sears Grand d'Hauteville on June 18 1862 telling him that it was the flag she waived to urge on Confederate troops at the Battle of Front Royal a month earlier. D'Hauteville's 25-page autograph manuscript war memoir with his account of the gift of the flag quoted above is included. See below for complete transcript. With additional photographs and manuscripts. Homemade perhaps even by Boyd or a family member and used only briefly before being given to d'Hauteville the flag has been perfectly preserved retaining the short ribbons along its hoist and showing no tears holes fraying loss or staining. Over 5 x 3 feet. <p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>D'Hauteville had joined General Nathaniel P. Banks' staff before Banks advanced south up the Shenandoah valley the Shenandoah river flows north into the Potomac at Harper's Ferry so you go "up" the valley to the south and "down" the valley to the north to Strasburg maneuvering against Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's army.</p><p>Belle Boyd had moved to Front Royal to stay with relatives when her hometown of Martinsburg West Virginia had been occupied by Union troops in March 1862. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday Boyd hid in a local hotel in Front Royal where she overheard General James Shields and his officers discussing orders to transfer his division to the Union army along the Rappahannock River in eastern Virginia. Boyd reportedly rode fifteen miles on horseback through Union lines to tell Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby of the reduced Union presence in Front Royal. When approximately 3000 of Jackson's men attacked the Union force occupying Front Royal on May 23 Boyd ran to meet Jackson's men as they advanced and urged them onward. The Union garrison approximately 1000 strong under the command of Colonel John R. Kenly of the Union 1st Maryland Volunteer Infantry was routed. Kenly was wounded and he and nearly 700 of his men were captured. Jackson later sent Boyd a note of gratitude for her role.</p><p><b>Robert Gould Shaw </b>1837-1863 another officer in Banks' command confirmed d'Hauteville's account. In a letter to his mother Shaw wrote "Perhaps you have seen some accounts of a young lady at Front Royal named Belle Boyd. There was quite a long and ridiculous letter about her copied into the 'Evening Post' the other day. I have seen her several times but never had any conversation with her. Other men who have talked with her tell me that she never asked for any information about our army or gave them the slightest reason to suppose her a spy; and they were probably as capable of judging as the correspondent who wrote about her. She gave Fred. D'Hauteville a very pretty Secession flag which she said she carried when she went out to meet Jackson's troops coming into Front Royal." Shaw went on to command an African-American regiment the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry which obtained fame in the Second Battle of Fort Wagner at Charleston Harbor on July 18 1863. Shaw died with many of his men that day and was immortalized in a memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Boston and in the 1989 film <i>Glory</i>.</p><p>That both d'Hauteville and Shaw believed Boyd's account that she waved this flag to encourage the Confederate attack demonstrates her ability to manipulate both men and narratives. In her own entertaining and exaggerated memoir Boyd later wrote "As I neared our line I waved my bonnet to our soldiers to intimate that they should press forward." Another key witness Henry Kyd Douglas 1838-1903 a member of Jackson's staff later recalled in his memoir seeing "the figure of a woman in white glide swiftly out of town" and that Boyd "seemed when I saw her to heed neither weeds nor fences but waved a bonnet as she came on." Whether she actually waived her bonnet or this flag or perhaps both at different moments during the battle that day she clearly gave it to d'Hauteville to curry favor and that apparently worked. Rather than being prosecuted for her role in aiding the Confederates in what was a disaster for the Union she was celebrated for her charm. Before being banished to England Boyd was arrested six or seven times and always managed with the help of gentlemanly Union officers to avoid the most serious consequences. Her seemingly innocuous flirtations apparently provided her with her greatest source of influence.</p><p><b>Isabella Marie "Belle" Boyd </b>1844-1900 was one of the most famous and notorious Confederate spies. After her father enlisted in the Confederate army Boyd became an espionage agent at the age of seventeen aiding the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Forced from her home in Martinsburg West Virginia when Union troops occupied it she moved in with relatives in Front Royal Virginia. During the spring 1862 Valley Campaign she was a courier and provided valuable information to General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. General Jackson reportedly made her a captain and honorary aide-de-camp on his staff. On one occasion she wooed a Northern soldier to whom she was "indebted for some very remarkable effusions some withered flowers and last but not least for a great deal of very important information. I must avow the flowers and the poetry were comparatively valueless in my eyes." Boyd continued in her melodramatic style "I allowed but one thought to keep possession of my mind—the thought that I was doing all a woman could do for her country's cause."</p><p>After being betrayed by a lover she was arrested on July 29 1862 and spent a month in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington D.C. Exchanged a month later she lived with relatives in the South for a time. She was again arrested in June 1863 while on a visit to her birthplace of Martinsburg. Suffering from typhoid fever she was released on December 1 1863 and banished to the South. While attempting to sail to England on May 8 1864 she was arrested again as a Confederate courier. With the help of Lieutenant Sam Hardinge a Union naval officer she escaped to Canada and then to England where she and Hardinge married in August 1864. While in England Boyd had a stage career and published a highly fictionalized two-volume work entitled <i>Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison</i> 1867. She died in Wisconsin while touring the western United States telling her story.</p><p><b>Frederick or Frédéric Sears Grand d'Hauteville</b> 1838-1918 was born in Boston Massachusetts to a Swiss nobleman and American mother who returned to the United States while pregnant. Their marital conflict led to a contentious custody battle over Frederick in 1840 in a Philadelphia court which his mother won. D'Hauteville graduated from Harvard University in 1859. He was appointed volunteer aide-de-camp to General Nathaniel Banks in December 1861 and served at the Battle of Winchester in March 1862. Commissioned captain on June 30 1862 he served on General Samuel Crawford's staff including action at Cedar Mountain in August. At the Battle of Antietam in September his commanding general was wounded in the leg while talking to him and a few minutes later d'Hauteville himself was struck by a musket ball that was deflected by his boot but still seriously bruised his leg but. By December he returned to General Banks' staff in the Department of the Gulf. He resigned his commission on March 1 1863. He married Elizabeth Fish daughter of Hamilton Fish of New York in 1863 but she died the following year. In 1872 he married Susan Watts Macomb 1849-1928 with whom he had three children. She was the grand-daughter of Major General Alexander Macomb 1782-1841 general-in-chief of the U.S. Army from 1828 to 1841.</p><p><b>Additional Items</b></p><p>Five additional brief notes including one on letterhead marked "Newport" are loose in the notebook. Most were written by d'Hauteville and two are initialed "F d'H." This lot also includes cartes-de-visite of d'Hauteville and his commander Major General Nathaniel P. Banks and an albumen image of four officers who attended d'Hauteville's alma mater Harvard University and served with d'Hauteville in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862 from left to right Major James Savage Jr. 1832-1862 killed at Cedar Mountain; Captain Robert Gould Shaw 1837-1863 killed at Fort Wagner; Major Robert Morris Copeland 1830-1874; Captain Henry S. Russell 1838-1905.</p><p><b>Provenance</b></p><p>These materials descended in the d'Hauteville family until sold in September 2015.</p><p>The d'Hautevilles kept a home in Newport Rhode Island but they also lived much of the time at his family's palatial estate overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Approximately 1600 items from the family's estate were sold. Having been cleaned out the 30-room d'Hauteville chateau built in 1760 and its 64-acre estate is now on the market.</p><p><b>More Historic Background</b></p><p>Learning that Confederates had captured Front Royal Banks retreated north to Winchester. There he tried to slow Stonewall Jackson's pursuit leading to another lopsided Confederate victory on May 25. Fearing that Washington D.C. was exposed President Abraham Lincoln ordered General John C. Fremont's forces in western Virginia and General Irvin McDowell's forces in Fredericksburg to converge and trap Jackson. The Confederates demonstrated against Harper's Ferry on May 29 and 30 but General James Shields leading the only division McDowell actually sent recaptured Front Royal on May 30.</p><p>Over the next week as Jackson retreated the opposing cavalries met in several small skirmishes. In battles on June 8 and 9 at Cross Keys and Port Republic Jackson repulsed Fremont's and Shields' armies and stopped their pursuit. After initially considering a counterattack in the valley Jackson instead joined General Robert E. Lee at Richmond opposing General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Although Jackson's daring actions had threatened Washington D.C. and relieved pressure on Richmond Union armies resumed their occupation of Winchester and Front Royal.</p><p><b>Civil War Memoir of Frederick Sears Grand d'Hauteville </b>included with the flag.</p><p>The notebook is bound in black leather stamped in blind and gilt with marbled endpapers and lined pages. Titled in manuscript "The War of Secession 1861" this memoir was written between 1887 and d'Hauteville's death clearly compiled from notes or a diary made during the conflict. The gilt decoration is still bright and the leather and pages still fresh.</p><p>D'Hauteville's Memoir includes fascinating accounts of and commentary on the Battles of Winchester Cedar Mountain and Antietam. At Cedar Mountain D'Hauteville was particularly moved by the losses of the 2d Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers "one of the best in the whole Union Army… officered almost entirely by young men belonging to the leading families in the City of Boston. All of them were my friends & very dear friends. Their loss was enormous but they went to their deaths with sublime courage. There was no flinching there."</p><p><b>Complete Transcript of Civil War Memoir of Frederick Sears Grand d'Hauteville </b></p><p><i>The War of Secession 1861.</i></p><p><2> <i>I enlisted as "private" in the Fourth Battalion of Massachusetts State Infantry Militia at Boston Harbor Fort Independence in May 1861 & remained there for garrison duty and drill for one month. Afterwards drilled with the Battalion in Boston during the summer and autumn of that year.</i></p><p><i> Reported to Major General N P Banks commanding Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac at Darnstown Maryland about November 20 1861 as volunteer Aid de Camp without pay. Was appointed volunteer Captain & A.D.C. on General Banks Staff on December 5 1861. See General Orders no 70 Head Quarters Banks Division.</i></p><p><i> Was very busy learning duties during all the time that the division remained in Autumn field quarters at Darnestown and during the winter months at Frederick City.</i> <3></p><p><i>Darnestown Md. Headquarters of the Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac Banks Division November 1861.</i></p><p><i>Major General N. P. Banks Major General Commanding.</i></p><p><i>Major R Morris Copeland Asst. Adjt. Genl.</i></p><p><i>Major D. D. Perkins USA Chief Inspector.</i></p><p><i>Colonel S B Holabird Chief Quartermaster.</i></p><p><i>Colonel E S Beckwith Chief Commissary.</i></p><p><i>Captain Aberd U.S.A. Chief Engineer.</i></p><p><i>Captain C S Best Chief of Artillery.</i></p><p><i>Colonel John S Clark A.D.C.</i></p><p><i>Captain Schreiber German A.D.C.</i></p><p><i>Captain Schiffler German A.D.C. not speaking English</i></p><p><i>Captain Munther German A.D.C. not speaking English</i></p><p><i>Captain Strothers extra A.D.C. Old magazine writer Porter Crayon</i></p><p><i>Captain F. d'Hauteville Volunteer A.D.C.</i></p><p><i>Dr. King Medical Director </i></p><p> <4></p><p><i> The Division left Darnestown for Frederick City Md on December 4 1861 arriving there on December 6<u>th</u>. Quarters were assigned to me in the law office of Colonel Bradley T. Johnson of the Confederate Army. All law books and papers were carefully looked after by me. Friends made during the winter at Frederick City: General Shriver & family & Colonel Maudsley & family.</i></p><p><i> The advance of the Army of the Shenandoah into Virginia began on February 26<u>th</u> Head Quarters Staff left Frederick City on February 27 reached Harper's Ferry on that day & crossed to Virginia by pontoon bridge. Visit from General McClellan & staff on February 28<u>th</u> Comte de Paris & Duc de Chartes ADC accompanied by the Prince de Joinville.</i></p><p><i> From Harpers Ferry marched to Winchester by Charlestown. Winchester occupied March 10. </i>Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall"<i> Jackson retiring down the Valley of </i><5> <i>of the Shenandoah.</i></p><p><i> March 22. First battle of Winchester or Kernstown in which General Jackson was defeated by General Shield's Division. General Shields wounded.</i></p><p><i> The pursuit of Jackson by General Banks entire Army Corps began on the following day by main road passing Cedar Creek. First camp at Strasburg.</i></p><p><i>April 1st advanced from Strasburg to Woodstock. Artillery duel Cothran Battery. Bridge at the narrow pass saved then on to Edenburg. Bridge burned by enemy. Rebuilt next day by Pennsylvania men. Very heavy storm.</i></p><p><i>April 17th Pursuit of Jackson resumed reached Mt Jackson General Shields Division leading. Next day to Newmarket frequent Artillery duels & rear guard & advanced guard skirmishes & picket firing. Lovely country.</i></p><p><i>April 25. Moved on to near Harrisburg</i> Harrisonburg. <6></p><p><i>May 5. Started on return towards Strasburg after many reports of impending battle with Jacskon who report said had been largely reinforced. Strasburg May 13.</i></p><p><i> <b>May 23. Colonel Kenly attacked & overwhelmed at Front Royal. The first news was received by <u>me</u> at Head Quarters at 4. P.M. General Banks was absent but Captain Brown of the 2d Mass was with me at the time.</b></i></p><p><i> May 24. Retreat commenced towards Winchester by Middletown Newtown & Kernstown.</i></p><p><i> May 25. Battle of Winchester. See General Banks Official Report. United States War of the Rebellion Series I Volume XII. Part 1 pages 550</i><i> 552 606</i><i>Personal notice of myself. In this battle my attention was called to the very gallant conduct of a Confederate General Officer in leading his men alone on horseback over the Hill on the Federal right to what appeared</i> <7> <i>certain death. </i><i>After the conclusion of the war I asked General Richard Taylor whose Brigade fought on the Confederate side if he could tell me the name of that gallant Officer. He replied very modestly that it was himself and that it gained for him the rank of Major General.</i></p><p><i> Banks defeated & much demoralized Army retreated in disorder to Williamsport & remained there until June 10.</i></p><p><i> On June 10 the army largely reinforced recrossed the Potomac & marched towards Winchester through Falling Waters and Bunker Hill.</i></p><p><i> <b>June 18. Reached Front Royal & met there the famous & very handsome rebel spy Belle Boyd who gave to me the rebel flag waving which she led the attack upon Kenly in May.</b></i></p><p><i> July 6. Advance again passing through Chester Gap Luray Amissville Little Washington</i> <8> <i>Sperryville Gaines Cross Roads to Fairfax Culpepper August 4<u>th</u>. </i></p><p><i> Although ordered several weeks previously by the War Department to report to General Crawford for assignment as Ass<u>t</u> Adj<u>t</u> Gen<u>l</u>to his Brigade General Banks short of Staff Officers could not spare me and he ordered me to remain with him until the Army reached Culpeper and it was not until August 4 that I was detached from his Staff.</i></p><p><i>Advanced towards Cedar Mountain on August 8 and crossed the Creek.</i></p><p><i> August 9 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain. See Official Reports War of the Rebellion Series 1. Volume XII. Part II. Page 149 150.</i><i> Personal notice</i></p><p><i> During the battle my blankets strapped behind my saddle were pierced by one ball making more than a dozen holes.</i></p><p><9></p><p> <i>The battle of Cedar Mountain was one of the most sanguinary of modern times having in view the numbers engaged and the losses sustained. It should never have been fought. The Commander of the Corps </i>Banks<i> was a political General without military experience or training & the plan of the battle was thoroughly bad. Nothing but disaster could have been the result & there was no co-operation from beginning to end. The right flank of the attacking Brigade General Crawford was exposed to the fire of a largely superior force. No reconnaissance of the ground was made during all the morning previous to the enemy's advance while the troops were lying idle under arms & there were no reserves. Any advantage which the Union Army might have temporarily gained was therefore lost in advance before the battle began as it could not be held. </i></p><p><10></p><p><i>General Banks was afterwards charged by General Pope the Commander in Chief with disobedience of orders in forcing the battle. This accusation was unjust and was clearly an afterthought on the part of General Pope. As the Assistant Adjutant General of the advanced Brigade these written orders were shown to me by General Banks and no question whatever arose in the minds of everyone who saw them in regard to their purpose & intent. They were worded as follows & taken down in writing when they were given: "If the enemy advances attack him instantly & be reinforced from here." Culpepper. The enemy certainly forced the attack to which General Banks replied with disastrous results. The explicit orders were strictly obeyed but the disposition for the attack & the general management of the battle could not have been worse. </i></p><p><11></p><p> <b><i>General Pope afterwards claimed that General Banks should have attacked only with his "skirmishers" & wait to be reinforced on the following day. The written orders cannot be twisted into such a construction as this. An instant attack against any advance of the enemy was ordered early in the morning in writing and it was naturally inferred that the necessary orders for reinforcements were arranged for <u>then</u>.</i></b></p><p><b><i> The 2d Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers one of the best in the whole Union Army in General Gordon's Brigade was officered almost entirely by young men belonging to the leading families in the City of Boston. All of them were my friends & very dear friends. Their loss was enormous but they went to their deaths with sublime courage. There was no flinching there.</i></b></p><p><i> The retreat began on August 11<u>th</u> & the</i> <12> <i>Brigade reduced in numbers by exactly one half reached Culpepper on August 12.</i></p><p><i> August 18. fell back towards the Rappahannock.</i></p><p><i> August 19. Brandy Station & Beverley ford. Sharp skirmish across the river & very heavy rain.</i></p><p><i> August 20. Sulpher Springs. Very heavy shelling from Confederate batteries. Next day to Bealton Station by Fayetteville then Catletts. August 28. Kettle run. First day of second battle of Manassas.</i></p><p><i> August 30. Broad run.</i></p><p><i> August 31. Burned by urgent orders all wagons including ammunition. Attack expected at any moment by overwhelming forces. It did not come. Passed through Brentsville & forded the Occoquan to Bull Run & Centreville.</i></p><p><i> September 1<u>st</u> Battle of Chantilly. Generals Kearny & Stevens killed. The Brigade was on the extreme right of the</i> <13> <i>line & was not actually engaged.</i></p><p><i> September 2. on towards Alexandria.</i></p><p><i>September 3d camped near Fort Albany</i></p><p><i>September 4<u>th</u> Crossed the Potomac & encamped just outside of Washington on the Rockville turnpike.</i></p><p><i>September 5. Rockville.</i></p><p><i>September 9. Advanced along the Rockville Road & encamped near Middlebrook. The 124 125 & 128 Pennsylvania Regiments new were assigned to Crawford's Brigade.</i></p><p><i>September 10. Encamped near Damascus.</i></p><p><i>September 12 General Crawford in command of Division.</i></p><p><i>September 13 Crossed the Monocacy and encamped just outside Frederick City.</i></p><p><i>September 15 Battle of South Mountain Brigade acted as reserve & was not engaged. General Reno killed.</i> <14></p><p><i>September 16. Advanced during the day. Crossed the Antietam and encamped in fields just across the stream. Heavy rain at night.</i></p><p><i>September 17. Under arms at 5. AM and advanced. Was very promptly met by very heavy firing from both Artillery & infantry. The battle in our immediate front had its ups & downs all day long & the Regiments became very much broken up & formations lost. General Crawford was with the old Regiments & I was with the new ones from Pennsylvania. About noon when we were together under very heavy fire & close to the enemy General Crawford was wounded in the leg & a few minutes later a musket ball struck the calf of my leg but my heavy top boots stopped its entrance.</i> <15> <i>The leg however was very much bruised. Shortly before this <b>General Williams temporarily in command of the Corps General Mansfield having been killed early in the Battle gave an order for the Commanding Officer of a small Brigade which did not belong to his Command to charge the woods from which we had just been driven back.</b></i></p><p><b><i> I took the order under a very heavy fire but the Commanding Officer very properly questioned the authority.</i></b></p><p><b><i> To obey it would have been the destruction of his Brigade without the slightest chance for success.</i></b></p><p><i> Colonel Wilder Dwight of the 2d Massachusetts & a very dear friend was killed at Antietam.</i></p><p><b><i> From the eighth of August when we marched from Culpepper en route for Cedar Mountain until the battle of</i> </b><16><b> <i>Antietam on September 17<u>th</u> I had slept for four nights only under any kind of shelter. The weather had been very wet & officers & men slept on the grass without shelter tents. Everyone was starved during Pope's retreat as all supplies were cut off & our principal ration was the growing green corn. I remember very well picking up a piece of "hard tack" dropped in the mud by a soldier & eating it ravenously. The horses from want of fodder could hardly stand. </i></b><i>The result was a very severe attack of diarrhea which I could not shake off for many weeks.</i></p><p><i> For the official reports of General Crawford's Division at the Battle of Antietam see No 107 167 page 484 Official Records War of the Rebellion. Series 1. Vol XIX Part I Personal record.</i></p><p><17></p><p><i>After Antietam General Crawford's wound obliged him temporarily to relinquish his command & he ordered me to report to General Banks who was then in command of the Defences of Washington to help me to recover from an attack of jaundice which the acute diarrhea had promptly brought on. General Banks assigned me to the task of passing upon all applications for furlough for the whole army around Washington. My offices were on the whole of the ground floor in the historic building which had served as Head Quarters for the General in Chief since the beginning of the war. It was a very arduous & responsible duty as the orders from General Halleck were very positive. No leaves of absence were to be given except upon Surgeons certificate that there was danger to life or permanent disability.</i></p><p><i> I remained in Washington on duty for about a month. My dear Mother</i> <18> <i>my Grandmother & Mr Amory paid me a visit of a few days.</i></p><p><i> In the early part of October General Banks invited me to go with him as one of the Assistant Adjutant Generals in his Staff on a proposed expedition South by sea no one knew where. I accepted promptly as General Banks paid me the compliment of asking me first before any other officer to join his staff. The expedition was being fitted out in New York & the Head Quarters of the Command were located there. About October 15 General Banks paid an official visit to Boston and I went with him. My dear Mother was then far from well but upon the advice of Dr Warren I went back to New York as it was feared that by remaining with her & missing</i> <19> <i>the Expedition the worry & anxiety of my remaining near her would very likely do her more harm than good. On the evening of November 29 Mr Frank Davis brought me a telegram from Boston telling me that my dear Mother was dying and that all hope was gone. I was able to catch the night train & reached her bedside very early in the morning.</i></p><p><i> My darling mother was then unconcious & at half past nine on November 30 1862 she passed away.</i></p><p><i> About December 10 I returned to New York. General Banks Expedition having sailed I was ordered to report to General Andrews who was in charge of a number of regiments to be dispatched later on.</i></p><p><i> While with him I had charge of sanitary inspection duty among other things & I found that there was much irregularity which required correction.</i></p><p><i> On January 5<u>th</u> I was ordered by</i> <20> <i>General Andrews to report at once to General Banks & I sailed for New Orleans by way of Havana. I remained at New Orleans for about six weeks with nothing to do but office work & on occasion uneventful expedition up the Mississippi to Baton Rouge & elsewhere.</i></p><p><i> My resignation was offered on March 1st & accepted as my Mothers death & the consequent urgency of winding up her estate & other matters called me home.</i></p><p><i> I shall never cease to regret as long as I live that I did not remain in the Army until the end of the war.</i></p><p><21></p><p><i>Details.</i></p><p><i>Private Fourth Battalion Massachusetts State Militia May 1861.</i></p><p><i>Volunteer Aid de Camp to Major General N. P. Banks Commanding Division Army of the Potomac Darnestown November 1861. Rank of Captain Volunteer December 5 861 Frederick City M<u>d</u></i></p><p><i>Head Quarters Department of the Shenandoah February to July 1861.</i></p><p><i>Captain & Assistant Adjutant General N P Banks Commanding Department of Washington September 1862.</i></p><p><22></p><p><i>Assigned to duty with "Banks Expedition" as Assistant Adjutant General with others November 1862. Sailed for New Orleans Department of the Gulf January 5 1862</i></p><p><i>Resigned alas! March 1 1863.</i></p><p><i> During all my services with General Banks from Frederick City to Culpepper I always acted as his personal Aid de Camp. All his private & official papers & dispatches came under my notice & I occupied not only a very interesting but also a very responsible position on his Staff.</i></p><p><i> During the retreat of General Banks</i> <23> <i>Corps from Strasburg to the Potomac in the temporary absence of the Assistant Adjutant General Major R. Morris Copeland practically all the duties were performed by me & I think to the entire satisfaction of the Commanding General. Proof of this is forthcoming in the double offer of Generals Crawford & Gordon to accept the regular position of Assistant Adjutant General upon their Staff. Both of these Generals had recently been appointed to the command of Brigades in General Banks Army Corps & both were present during the retreat.</i></p><p><i> During all the spring months I alone in all the Army Corps was entrusted with the Government Cyphers. During General Pope's retreat I was one day sent for by Generals Pope & Banks to</i> <24> <i>put into cypher a very important dispatch to General McDowell with whom direct communication had been cut off by the enemy.</i></p><p><i> I was obliged to reply that during the severest part of the Battle of Cedar Mountain when I was in the greatest danger of being killed or captured at any moment I had felt it my duty to destroy the cypher which I tore up into a hundred or more very small pieces & swallowed some of them. My action was approved. I then offered to carry the orders unwritten myself to General McDowell if I could find him and take my chances.</i></p><p><i> My offer was accepted but while</i> <25> <i>the instructions were being prepared the advance of General McDowells Corps came in sight & I was relieved from a duty which would have put me in the greatest danger of capture or otherwise.</i></p> books
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