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Ortelius, AbrahamBiblio.com

An attractive copy of this monumental work with all maps contemporay hand-coloured.

Lincoln, Abraham; and Edward EverettBiblio.com

An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg November 19 1863 at the Consecration of the Cemetery Prepared for the Interment of the Remains of Those Who Fell in the Battles of July 1st 2d and 3d 1863

1863376857New York: Baker & Godwin 1863. First edition in book form. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers expert restoration to the spine. Housed in a morocco backed box. First edition in book form. 48 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A lovely copy of the rare first edition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address delivered at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln's speech delivered in only a few minutes stands as a supreme distillation of American values and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom. Much controversy surrounds the circumstances and content of the address as it was actually delivered at Gettysburg. The words spoken in the speech differ in the versions appearing in newspapers and the text which appeared in Washington several days later published as The Gettysburg Solemnities and known in only four copies which is now taken as the closest version to Lincoln's final intent because of its correspondence to the known manuscript versions. Interestingly and according to Carbonell the text of the first appearance of the speech in book form published a few days later as An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg i.e. the present printing is taken largely from the New York Tribune printing. Lincoln's address appears on page 40 and parenthetical notes are added indicating "applause" and "long-continued applause." A diagram on page 32 gives the details of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. "Lincoln's speech composed on the train on the way to Gettysburg and written down according to tradition on scratch-paper and the backs of envelopes comprised ten sentences and took only a few minutes to deliver. From the first words - 'Four score and seven years ago' - to the last - 'that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth' - it is immortal one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom" PMM. PMM 351; Wills 191-204 261-263; Howes E233; Sabin 23263; Streeter sale 1747; Monaghan 193 Baker & Godwin unknown

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Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Writes Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton Urging Stanton to Help Gen. Montgomery Meigs Bolster the Quartermaster's Department

18642292021/03/1864. <blockquote>â€œIf there is on file a request of Gen. Meigs that William Alexander may be appointed an Assistant Quarter-Master with the rank of Captain let him be appointed.â€ There is no record of the appointment having been made with speculation being that Lincoln possibly sent the appointment to Stanton to die there <img class=""alignnone wp-image-22921 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204160847/branding-Lincoln-March-21-1864-C-e1640668975889-1600x692.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""692"" /></blockquote>Lincoln had the rare quality of not taking opposition personally. During the Civil War he was vilified more than any other public figure in American history yet saw the issues as so great that they transcended any personal aspect. He bore no resentments because as he said he â€œnever thought it paid.â€ He appointed men to high office because he perceived that they would be useful to the war effort. When Gen. George B. McClellan was insufferably rude to him he was willing to suffer the personal indignity if only McClellan would win. His most important civilian appointment shows this management principal in operation. Edwin Stanton had met Lincoln before the war when they had served as co-counsel in a famous lawsuit involving the McCormick reaper. Stanton who had a reputation for being stern imperious hot-tempered and controlling had snubbed him and then ridiculed him publicly as a gorilla and an imbecile. Lincoln also saw him as honest dedicated and extremely competent. Carrying no grudges he appointed Stanton to be Secretary of War and it was a brilliant choice. The two men came to respect and even like each other as they worked together daily to achieve victory.Lincoln even used Stanton to deflect criticism from himself. Lincoln was inundated with requests for military positions requests in which he had little if any interest. But these requests often came from members of his administration from Union generals or other notables and the President could not decline them without angering his friends colleagues or other supporters of the Union cause. He shoveled these requests to Stanton with his endorsement. But Stanton would only approve those requests he deemed meritorious.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-22923 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204160837/Lincoln-March-21-1864-B-e1640669110694-1600x636.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""636"" />Montgomery C. Meigs was a career United States Army officer civil engineer and construction engineer. At the start of the Civil War Lincoln appointed Meigs quartermaster general a crucial post that was perfectly suited to his organizational and management talents. Before the war Meigs played a key role in the extension and dome of the U.S. Capitol. After the war he oversaw much of the design and monument construction at Arlington National Cemetery.Meigs had requested that Lincoln make an appointment in his department and the President wrote this letter to accommodate him. Autograph letter signed on Executive Mansion letterhead Washington March 21 1864 to â€œHon. Secretary of War.â€ Lincoln writes â€œMy dear Sir If there is on file a request of Gen. Meigs that William Alexander may be appointed an Assistant Quarter-Master with the rank of Captain let him be appointed. Yours truly A. Lincoln.â€There is no record of the appointment having been made with speculation being that Lincoln sent the appointment to Stanton to die there. An interesting letter associating the President Secretary of War and Quartermaster General and taking place just eleven days after Grant assumed the role that led to Union victory.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-22732 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204162353/Folder-site-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

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ABRAHAM LINCOLNABAA

President Lincoln Vouches for a Maryland Unionist Congressman

186325464"I esteem Gov. Francis Thomas as an able and very true man. I do not know that he agrees with me in everythingâ€”perhaps he does not; but he has given me evidence of sincere friendship & as I think of patriotism." ABRAHAM LINCOLN.Autograph Letter Signed to Robert C. Schenck May 31 1863 Washington D.C. 1 p. Complete TranscriptPrivateExecutive Mansion Washington May 31 1863.Major Gen. SchenckBaltimore Md. I have been requested to say what I very truly can that I esteem Gov. Francis Thomas as an able and very true man. I do not know that he agrees with me in everythingâ€”perhaps he does not; but he has given me evidence of sincere friendship & as I think of patriotism.Yours trulyA. Lincoln.Historical BackgroundLincoln had served in Congress together with fellow Whig Robert C. Schenck in the 1840s and made Schenck a Major General at the beginning of the war. Severely wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862 Schenck was given command of the Middle Department. He firmly supported the Unconditional Unionists from his headquarters in Baltimore and despite the necessity of tact in the politically sensitive border state of Maryland had little tolerance for middle ground.In July 1861 Secretary of War Simon Cameron with the president's encouragement had authorized Thomas to raise four regiments of loyal citizens from western Maryland for the protection of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A month later Thomas recommended and Lincoln endorsed three officers for the 1st Maryland Regiment Potomac Home Guard.In early September 1862 Thomas sent Lincoln a lengthy private letter: "Our acquaintance is very limitedâ€¦and it may be presumptuous in me to write this letter." Nevertheless he continued "In my humble judgment all the evils now threatening seriously the utter ruin of the country are to be traced to the error consumatted in the organization of your Cabinet. There is not so far as my knowledge extends at the head of any one of the Departments a single individual who has come into your Administration under the right influencesâ€¦" "Now I have watched with the deepest anxiety" Thomas informed Lincoln "all or nearly all of your difficulties have their origin in the fact that you have Presidential aspirants in your cabinet and Presidential aspirants in your own party outside of your cabinet all of whom have their partisans in the Senate and House of Representatives." The "vast interests at stake" demanded that Lincoln reorganize his cabinet and announce his own candidacy for reelection.Two months later Lincoln's cabinet crisis reached a boiling point when Radical Republican senators demanded Secretary of State William H. Seward's resignation. Lincoln called the senators to a meeting with every member of the cabinet except Seward who had offered his resignation. Lincoln asked if the cabinet had freely debated issues and offered input before important decisions were made. The cabinet agreed that they had. Chase who had painted a picture to the senators of Seward and Lincoln running roughshod over the cabinet was cleverly chastened and offered his resignation. Lincoln refused the resignations of Seward and Chase thus maintaining intact his now famous "team of rivals" and keeping the senate at bay.Despite his criticism Thomas was also supportive. On April 23 1863 he was one of the speakers at a mass meeting of Unconditional Union men of Allegany County Maryland. Thomas "accorded to President Lincoln the purest motives and a patriotic determination to crush the rebellion and restore peace and prosperity to the country. He said that power and responsibility must rest somewhere and that he was willing to confide in the President and sustain him to the fullest extent in carrying out the measures adopted by Congress for prosecuting the war. He spoke of the emancipation proclamation of the President as a retaliatory measure for the confiscation acts of the southern conspirators and said it was a war measure calculated to subdue the rebels who had raised the standard of rebellion without any justifiable cause."Despite the unsolicited advice and criticism Lincoln offered this honest testimonial. It isn't clear if this answered a request of Thomas or a mutual contact or if Lincoln wrote it to send Thomas with his own purpose in mind. In mid-April Schenck who had a reputation for ham-handed harshness ordered at least eight persons charged with "using treasonable language" or "disloyal practices" in Baltimore to be exiled to the South. Less than a week later he had two newspaper editors from smaller towns in Maryland sent South for "having published treasonable articles." On May 28 three days before Lincoln penned this letter Schenck and Maryland Governor Augustus W. Bradford visited Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin in Harrisburg to discuss "the more effectual protection of the southern borders of Pennsylvania and Maryland against any further incursions of rebel cavalry." Schenck and the two governors then left for Washington. Within a month the entire Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was in Pennsylvania heading for a conflict at Gettysburg.In mid-July 1863 a few weeks after writing this private letter Lincoln told his secretary John Hay that General Henry W. Halleck "thinks Schenck never had a military idea & never will learn one. however you may doubt or disagree with Halleck he is very apt to be right in the end."Schenck resigned from the army in December 1863 after again winning election to Congress. On the other hand Lincoln maintained his trust of Thomas.On July 5 1864 Confederate General Jubal Early crossed the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry with a corps of the Army of Northern Virginia aiming at Washington. General Lew Wallace's determined resistance near Frederick Maryland delayed the advance by a day providing defenders in Washington critical time to prepare. After the Confederate army withdrew into Virginia on July 14 Major General David Hunter ordered the provost marshal in Frederick to arrest "all male secessionists with their families" and force those who had given "undue sympathy" to the Confederates to sell their furniture for the benefit of Union families who had lost possessions during the incursion and to seize the sympathizers' houses for government use. By August 1 Major John I. Yellott had placed twenty-three southern sympathizers and their families under house arrest.On August 3 Lincoln ordered the Secretary of War to suspend Hunter's order and have Hunter send a report of the charges against each individual. Hunter requested to be relieved of command a wish that was soon granted.On August 13 Thomas protested to fellow Marylander and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair writing that the arrests of "quiet inoffensive citizens who have not publicly given by words or acts encouragement to the enemy cannot but be mischievous." The President asked Thomas to investigate.In September Thomas reported back. With the exception of two already discharged and two others charged with "a grave offence" who "ought to have an opportunity to establish their innocence" Thomas recommended that the President order the release of all the others on the list. Thomas followed up later that year reporting that specific charges had been made against only John W. Baughman an editor of the Republican Citizennewspaper in Frederick who had been sent South and against John Ruck and Isaack Ruck who were like the others on the list still under arrest at their homes in Frederick. On January 21 1865 Lincoln ordered all but Baughman discharged.Lincoln's unmatched ability to take advice from all sides and to work with capable men whose own ambitions sometimes conflicted with Lincoln's views is reflected in our letter.Robert C. Schenck 1809-1890 was born in Ohio and graduated from Miami University in 1827. He received a master's degree in 1830 studied law under Thomas Corwin and gained admission to the bar in 1831. He moved to Dayton Ohio and opened a successful law practice. After serving in the state legislature he represented his district in Congress from 1841 to 1851 when President Millard Fillmore appointed him as U.S. Minister to Brazil. Schenck served there until 1853. In 1859 he gave perhaps the first public endorsement of Lincoln for the Presidency in a speech in Dayton. At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln commissioned Schenck as a brigadier general and he served in both Battles of Bull Run and in the 1862 Valley Campaign. He was wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run and held an administrative post in Maryland while recovering. He resigned his commission in December 1863 after election to Congress where he served again until 1871. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as U.S. Minister to Great Britain a position he held until 1876 though his involvement in an American mining scandal left him thoroughly discredited.Francis Thomas 1799-1876 was born in Frederick County Maryland attended college in Annapolis and was admitted to the bar in 1820. He began a practice in Frankville in western Maryland and served in the state legislature in 1822 1827 and 1829. From 1831 to 1833 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Thomas served as governor of Maryland from 1842 to 1845 but his term and political future was marred by his public and contentious divorce from his much younger wife Sally Campbell Preston McDowell the daughter of the governor of Virginia.Thomas was a strong opponent of slavery which was unusual in a border state like Maryland. Defeated for reelection in 1844 he served in the state constitutional convention of 1850. He was again elected to Congress in 1860 serving until 1869 as a Unionist an Unconditional Unionist and then a Republican. From 1870 to 1872 he was collector of internal revenue for Maryland and then U.S. Minister to Peru from 1872 to 1875. He was killed when struck by a locomotive near his estate in Frankville. books

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LINCOLN AbrahamABAA

Autograph Letter Signed

18636046021863. "A. Lincoln" in black ink on Executive Mansion Washington letterhead March 18 1863. 5" x 8" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good. Integral blank with an autograph endorsement signed by Holt and clerical endorsement from the Adjutant General's office. To Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt: Lincoln requests his Judge Advocate General to investigate the "Strong Mitigating Circumstances" surrounding the court-martial of a member of the West Point Class of 1861. "It is said Lieut. John Benson Williams of the 3rd regular infantry as been sentenced by a Military Commission to be dismissed the service. I have some reason to believe there are strong mitigating circumstances in his case which the Commission perhaps did not deem competent for them to consider I will thank you to procure the record examine it and report it to me. . ." Holt forwarded Lincoln's letter to the Adjutant General noting that "No record or report in regard to the Williams case has been received at this office." The letter was returned to Holt accompanied by the record of William's court-martial and docketed "Please see papers within." After studying the record Holt made a lengthy report to Secretary of War Stanton March 30 1863 which survives in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Holt dismissed the "mitigating circumstances" referenced by Lincoln - Williams's supposedly "severe sickness" - and concluded that "It is evident that Lieut. Williams left his command on the battlefield and returned to Washington without leave and in known violation of orders and of his duty. . . .He has shown himself disqualified for the profession of arms." On April 8th Stanton in turn forwarded Holt's deposition to the President "as requested by his note on the 18th Ulto" that is the present letter. Lincoln ended the matter with his own terse endorsement on April 11th: "I decline to interfere in Behalf of Lieut. Williams" Basler 4:169. Although referred to in Basler's note regarding Lincoln's endorsement the present letter does not appear in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books

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Lincoln, AbrahamBiblio.com

Autograph Letter Signed

1863604602"A. Lincoln" in black ink on Executive Mansion Washington letterhead March 18 1863. 5" x 8" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good. Integral blank with an autograph endorsement signed by Holt and clerical endorsement from the Adjutant General's office. To Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt: Lincoln requests his Judge Advocate General to investigate the "Strong Mitigating Circumstances" surrounding the court-martial of a member of the West Point Class of 1861. "It is said Lieut. John Benson Williams of the 3rd regular infantry as been sentenced by a Military Commission to be dismissed the service. I have some reason to believe there are strong mitigating circumstances in his case which the Commission perhaps did not deem competent for them to consider I will thank you to procure the record examine it and report it to me. . ." Holt forwarded Lincoln's letter to the Adjutant General noting that "No record or report in regard to the Williams case has been received at this office." The letter was returned to Holt accompanied by the record of William's court-martial and docketed "Please see papers within." After studying the record Holt made a lengthy report to Secretary of War Stanton March 30 1863 which survives in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Holt dismissed the "mitigating circumstances" referenced by Lincoln - Williams's supposedly "severe sickness" - and concluded that "It is evident that Lieut. Williams left his command on the battlefield and returned to Washington without leave and in known violation of orders and of his duty. . . .He has shown himself disqualified for the profession of arms." On April 8th Stanton in turn forwarded Holt's deposition to the President "as requested by his note on the 18th Ulto" that is the present letter. Lincoln ended the matter with his own terse endorsement on April 11th: "I decline to interfere in Behalf of Lieut. Williams" Basler 4:169. Although referred to in Basler's note regarding Lincoln's endorsement the present letter does not appear in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln". Extra shipping required.

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Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Orders Implementation of the New York Draft Call Less than One Year After the Draft Riots in that State

18642373223/04/1864. <blockquote>A search of public sale records going back 40 years fails to turn up even one other example of this document</blockquote>After the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12 1861 enthusiasm for enlisting in military service swept through both the North and South. In remarkable speed two large volunteer armies were created. Except for a tiny number of professional soldiers all expected to be in service for a brief term. Not just soldiers but the public and political leaders had fooled themselves about the war's likely duration. However the patriotic hope on each side that the war would be over in a matter of weeks or months was dashed in the first battle of Bull Run on July 21 1861. By late 1862 no sensible person believed that an early end to the bloody strife was possible and the knowledgeable expected peace to be far off in the future. Facing a protracted war maintaining a sufficiently sizable army became the greatest problem facing both Union leader Abraham Lincoln and Confederate leader Jefferson Davis.In 1862 rather than institute a draft President Lincoln requested 300000 more men and assigned each state a quota. The states could meet their quota in any manner they saw fit. Most states offered cash incentives known as bounties to gain recruits. Depending on where one enlisted the combination of local state and federal bounties could exceed $1000. But the 1862 policy also did not recruit enough troops.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-24611 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204150003/Lincoln-April-23-1864-2-1600x602.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""602"" />As the war dragged on with no end in sight the inflow of volunteers was drying up and the Union needed to keep the ranks filled. The U.S. Congress resorted to the first draft in the countryâ€™s history in March 1863. All able-bodied men between ages 20 and 45 were required to be enrolled and available for military service. Draftees were chosen by lottery. Once conscripted a man could avoid service for that particular round of the draft either by paying a $300 commutation fee or by hiring a substitute to take his place. As in the South this raised accusations that the war had become â€œa rich manâ€™s war but a poor manâ€™s fight.â€ Nevertheless in both North and South statistics indicate that wealthy men were represented in the service in at least the same proportion as they were in the general population.A lot of blood was spilled in 1863 with the battles of Chancellorsville Gettysburg Vicksburg Chickamauga and Chattanooga among others. By yearâ€™s end President Lincoln and the Union leadership realized that more men were needed for the army and urgently. On February 1 1864 Lincoln called for 500000 men to serve for three years or for the duration of the war. Then on March 15 he supplemented this with a call for 250000 more. There would be another draft call in December 1864 but it was never completed due to the impending end of the war.The March 1864 draft call stated: â€œWashington March 15 1864. In order to supply the force required to be drafted for the Navy and to provide an adequate reserve force for all contingencies in addition to the 500000 men called for Feb. 1 1864 the call is hereby made and a draft ordered for Two Hundred Thousand men for the military service â€“ Army Navy and Marine corps of the United States. The proportional quotas for the different wards towns townships precincts or election districts or counties will be made known through the Provost Marshall Generalâ€™s bureau and account will be taken of the credits and deficiencies of former quotas.The 15th day of April 1864 is designated as the time up to which the numbers required from each ward of a city town etc. may be raised by voluntary enlistment; and drafts will be made in each ward of a city town etc. which shall not have filled the quota assigned to it within the time designated for the number required to fill said quota. The draft will be commenced as soon after the 15th of April as practicableâ€¦â€ It took little more than a week for everything to be in place.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-24623 size-full"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204145931/My-Movie-177ygbhbj.gif"" alt="""" width=""1920"" height=""1080"" />The mechanics of the draft were that each state and district within a state were assigned quotas and the President would order that each stateâ€™s draft numbers and districts be implemented. This was the actual order for the draft. Then each individual district would receive from the President details of its requirements in a circular letter. One sees these individual district circular letters on the market every now and then. But what one never sees is the order to implement the draft for a state assigning the districts and number of troops being called forth. In fact a search of public sale records going back 40 years fails to turn up another example nor have we seen one before.Document signed as President Washington April 23 1864 being Lincolnâ€™s implementation order for New York. â€œI hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to the apportionment of the quota of troops to be furnished by the State of New York from its several districts dated and this day signed by me and for so doing this shall be his warrant.â€An extremely rare if not unique document showing Lincoln raising troops on the macro level of a state.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-23729 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204152429/Folder-site-7-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

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LINCOLN, Abraham; Edward EverettBiblio.com

An Oration delivered on The Battlefield of Gettysburg November 19 1863 at the Consecration of the Cemetery: Prepared for the interment of the remains of those who fell in the battles of July 1st 2d and 3d 1863

1863423266New York: Baker & Godwin Printers and Publishers Printing-House Square opposite City Hall 1863. Softcover. Very Good. The earliest publication of Lincolnâ€™s Gettysburg Address in book form preceded only by the exceptionally scarce 16-page pamphlet The Gettysburg Solemnities. Octavo. Stitched in the original printed wrapper with a publisherâ€™s advertisement on the rear wrap. pp. 1-3 4-48. Modest overall toning and rubbing to the wrapper some fraying at the corners part of the paper along the spine back is perished one vertical stain at the front wrap and title page a very good copy with a few scattered contemporary brown ink markings. Very light contemporary ownership name in pencil at the top of the front wrap. Housed in a fine quarter blue morocco slipcase with gilt spine lettering and two raised bands and with an internal cloth chemise. â€œCollection of Foreman M. Leboldâ€ stamped in gold on the front cover of the slipcase. Foreman M. Lebold was a noted collector of Lincoln material and the eldest brother of Nathan Leopold one of the infamous Leopold and Loeb teenage thrill killers convicted of the murder of Bobby Franks which captured the attention of the nation. Foreman like much of his family eventually changed his last name to Lebold because of the notoriety of the trial. Lincoln delivered his speech at the dedication ceremony of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19 1863 about four months after the pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. His speech was preceded by an Oration by Edward Everett the most famous orator of the day. Everettâ€™s oration printed here in full took about two hours to deliver and is now largely forgotten. Lincolnâ€™s address was delivered in only a few minutes and is now celebrated as the supreme distillation of American values and testament to the sacrifices necessary to achieve freedom for all Americans. It is printed on page 40 of this booklet under the title: â€œThe dedicatory remarks were then delivered by the President as follows: / President Lincolnâ€™s Speech. / Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation â€¦â€ A well-preserved copy in the original wrappers. Sabin 23263; Printing and the Mind of Man 351. Baker & Godwin, Printers and Publishers, Printing-House Square, opposite City Hall unknown

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LINCOLN Abraham 1809 1865; and Edward EVERETT 1794 1865ABAA

An Oration delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg November 19 1863 at the Consecration of the Cemetery Prepared for the Internment of the Remains of those who fell in Battles of July 1st 2d and 3d 1863

186331428New York: Baker & Godwin 1863. 8vo. 9 x 5 5/8 inches. 48pp. Publisher's lettered wrappers publisher's ad on rear wrapper. Repair to paper spine. Within a modern box. "Four score and seven years ago.": the earliest publication of the Gettysburg Address in book form preceded only by the exceptionally rare sixteen-page pamphlet The Gettysburg Solemnities known in only three copies. Lincoln made his speech at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield some four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln's speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett the most famous orator of his day. Everett's speech took some ninety minutes to deliver and is largely forgotten. Lincoln's speech delivered in only a few minutes is immortal. It is a supreme distillation of American values and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom. "The Washington Chronicle of 18-21 November reported extensively on this ceremony and included a verbatim text of 'Edward Everett's Great Oration.' On the fourth day it noted in passing that the President had also made a speech but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication on 22 November Everett's 'Oration' was reprinted from the standing type but Lincoln's speech had to be set up. It was tucked away as a final paragraph on page 16 of the pamphlet The Gettysburg Solemnities. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leaflet was replaced by a 48-page booklet published by Baker and Godwin of New York in the same year" PMM. Lincoln's address appears on page 40 and parenthetical notes are added indicating "applause" and "long-continued applause." A diagram on page 32 gives the details of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Howes E232 "b"; Monaghan 193; Grolier American 100 72 note; Streeter Sale 1747; Sabin 23263; cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 351; Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg pp.191-204. Baker & Godwin unknown books

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ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT, Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la; Abraham BRADLEY (1767-1838)Biblio.com

Carte générale des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale divisée en ses 17 provinces; Carte des États-Unis provinces Septentrionales; Carte des États-Unis Provinces méridionales.

179912534Paris: Du Pont 1799. Three engraved maps 465 by 420 mm 550 by 340 mm and 530 by 350 mm respectively with fine contemporary hand-colour in full old folds. These maps from the library of the Rochambeau family were published in the first edition of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt's travels in the United States 'Voyage Dans les États-Unis D'Amérique Fait en 1795 1796 et 1797" Paris 1799 annotated in an early 19th-century hand after Abraham Bradley Junior's 1796 map 'A Map of the United States. Exhibiting Post Roads & Distances'. They are reduced copies of the 1796 first edition of Bradley's map and are therefore the first French edition of these maps. The Comte de Rochambeau 1725-1807 was a battle-hardened French general chosen by King Louis XVI in 1780 to command the expeditionary corps in the United States under the orders of General George Washington. Their combined success at the Siege of Yorktown on the 19th of October 1781 ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence. 1."Carte générale des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale divisée en ses 17 provinces" annotated in an early 19th-century hand numbering each of 16 states giving the location of Native American tribes providing a key showing the major post roads from Main to South Carolina all after Abraham Bradley's map of 1796 acknowledged by the inscriber who has replaced the imprint with "par Abraham Bradley Jun.r" This map of the East Coast extends from Quebec south to include part of East and West Florida; the western boundary of Georgia extends to the Mississippi River; a strip of land extending westward between Georgia and Tennessee is designated "United States Territory" having been ceded back to the United States in 1787 from South Carolina; another strip between Georgia and West Florida is "Land claimed by the united states" referring to the ongoing dispute between the United States and Spain; all the land to the west which would become the Louisiana Purchase is "Spanish Territory Louisiana." English captions and French title. Manuscript ink annotations in French indicating the names of the 17 states and the position of the Indian tribes. Ink manuscript inscription to verso "IK 403" shelfmark of Rochambeau family library and as "Etats-Unis en 17 provinces." 2. The "Carte des États-Unis Provinces méridionales" shows Kentucky Virginia Tennessee North and South Carolina Georgia a strip of land between Tennessee and Georgia as "United States Territory" and to the south of Georgia "Land claimed by the united states". 3. The "Carte des États-Unis provinces Septentrionales" shows the states from Main sic to Maryland and Delaware. François Alexandre Frédéric duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 1747-1827 was a French writer and courtier. A social and scientific reformer he was elected to the Estates-General and pushed for changes to the absolute monarchy of France. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt was the first to warn Louis XVI of the fall of the Bastille; when the king called it a revolt Rochefoucauld Liancourt replied "No sire it is a revolution". Despite being sympathetic to the original aims of the Revolution and serving as the first president of the Constituent Assembly he opposed republicanism and secretly tried to arrange for the escape of the king. Following the storming of the royal palace in August 1792 and the beginning of the September Massacres later that same year precipitated his flight from France and he went into self-imposed exile in America. From London in September 1794 Angelica Schuyler Church wrote to her brother-in-law Alexander Hamilton with a glowing introduction. Liancourt made his was to Philadelphia in November and travelled extensively from "le Haute-Canada" above Lake Ontario to Charleston South Carolina taking notes on everything from the economy to slavery to agriculture. After returning to France in 1799 when Napoleon took power he published his analysis as an eight-volume work in which these maps were published. Related Letters and Historic Background Angelica Church to Alexander Hamilton September 19 1794: "My dear Brother I have very particular and very good motives to ask your kindness for the Duke de Liancourt. he loved Liberty with good sence and moderation; and he meant so well towards his country as to introduce into France a better system of Agriculture and to soften the situation of the Lower class of people there: Virtue has not found its reward for in the many scenes of distress that has afflicted his unfortunate country he like many more good men has been obliged to leave his possessions and seek an Asylum in this country. He goes to America and goes there without a friend unless my dear Brother who is always so good will extend to Monsieur de Liancourt his ease. besides many good Qualities this gentleman is the friend of the Marquis de La Fayette. Angelica Church." On April 10 1795 Liancourt wrote to Hamilton in a letter docketed by the recipient and then later by his widow Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Rough translation from French: "You have allowed me to count on your interest Monsieur and this without complaint a hope for which I am flattered. I am herewith asking you to prove it which I hope will be one for you interest since it seems to me not being a stranger to you. I am at the point of leaving for a voyage that will take me as far as Canada. I will enter the United States through the province of Maine from there for another voyage in the east There are introduction letters to principle places that I am due to visit that I would be more pleased to get from you rather than anyone else. If you agree as I think you will to give them to me would you please send them to General Knox in the province of Maine where I will be until the end of July. I flatter myself that you will excuse my importunity!." Although France and the United States had been allies since 1778 political developments in both countries damaged the relationship. The French Revolution was viewed by Federalists like Alexander Hamilton as a dangerous precedent; and the ensuing wars between Britain and France placed the neutral United States in a precarious position. Relations deteriorated further on the signing of Jay's Treaty 1794 with Great Britain. France ordered the seizure of American ships carrying British goods and in 1796 the French refused to admit American diplomats. This impasse led to the XYZ Affair which provoked Congress in turn to suspend commercial relations with France and to authorize American warships to seize armed French vessels. This undeclared naval war lasted for three years with the United States capturing about eighty-five French vessels Du Pont, unknown

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From the First Case from the Legendary Law Firm Lincoln & Herndon: an Unpublished Draft with Extensive Handwriting of Both Men

18463117130/03/1846. <blockquote>At the time Lincoln wrote this he was running for Congress</blockquote><blockquote>It shows the relationship between perhaps the most famous senior and junior law partners </blockquote>https://vimeo.com/943731365share=copy In his nearly 25 years as a lawyer in Springfield Illinois Abraham Lincoln had three partners. He joined John Todd Stuart as a junior partner then started a new practice as a junior partner with Stephen T. Logan. In 1844 Lincoln and Logan took on William H. Herndon. In the fall of 1844 Lincoln was tired of being a junior partner. He had worked for senior partners with political ambitions and Lincoln wanted a younger partner to whom he could relate. Logan and Lincoln dissolved their partnership in December 1844. Logan wanted to practice law with his son David and Lincoln wanted to start his own law firm. In October Lincoln invited his friend William Herndon to form a partnership with Herndon as junior partner. Thus was born Lincoln and Herndon. The firm would become a legend. In all three firms Lincoln functioned as a general practitioner taking a wide variety of civil and criminal cases. Herndon did not disappoint his friend. He contributed to the practice by performing research for his older and more experienced partner building the firm's law library and overseeing young men who came to study law read the law at their office.Business began slowly for the new firm. Not until March 1845 was their first case heard in the Sangamon County Circuit Court. That first case was Hope v. Beebe et al and was action in debt with Lincoln and Herndon appearing for plaintiff and Logan for defendant. Here is a description of that case: A plaintiff Norwood had won a replevin suit against the Beebee also spelled Beebe Brothers in the U. S. Circuit Court Beebee Brothers v. Whitney & Norwood. Hope the marshal of the U. S. Circuit Court District of Illinois to help Norwood collect what he was owed retained Lincoln and Herndon and sued Beebee and others in an action of debt the intent being to collect money ordered paid by the court. Beebee and others named on the replevin bond in the federal suit failed to perform the obligation of bond - they did not or would not pay. Beebee claimed that he was unable to pay because of another suit that Norwood instituted against Beebee.On March 18 1845 the case was continued and heard again in July when Lincoln filed documents allowing for concessions on both sides. It was again continued until March of 1846. Lincoln with the help of Herndon then drafted another document seemingly pointing to the another aspect of the suit and explaining why the plaintiff should not have to drop the suit.In 1846 Lincoln was running for what would be his first elected position Congressman. In August he won that election and served one term. In March he was campaigning and seeking to gain support.Autograph document signed ""Lincoln & Herndon"" Springfield late March 1846 in the hand of both partners showing their collaboration. It begins in Lincoln's hand: â€œAnd for further replication"" before switching to Herndons for the lines"" to the said plea of the said defendants by them above pleaded said plaintiff says that to be further precluded from maintaining his said action against said defendants because of the matters in said plea alleged he ought not because he says that since the pleading of the last plea by said defendants to wit on â€” day of February AD 1846 the said replevin suit by the said Norwood and Turner against the said Beebees in the Said plea mentioned was by the same court at which it was pending determined in favor of the said Beebees and against the said Norwood and Turner and by the judgment of said court a return of the bacon in the plea mentioned.â€Lincoln hand wrote the balance: â€œâ€¦Mentioned was awarded to the said Beebees and also adjudged that the said Beebees should recover of and from the said Norwood and Turner the sum of $650 damages and costs of suit and this he is ready to verify. Wherefore he prays judgment.â€ At that time Lincoln was preparing for his run for Congress his only national election until 1860.The parties would later reach an agreement in March 1847 and the court dismissed the case. Lincoln and Herndon received fees of $25 for their legal services. A final version of this filed document is published by the Papers of Abraham Lincoln as is the judge's further March 1846 continuance. The present document is three pieces affixed either by Lincoln or at a later date.This is the only paperwork from Lincoln and Herndonâ€™s first case we have ever seen on the market.<img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-25018"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

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Abraham Lincoln

186332820640Mammoth albumen print 17 ½ x 22 in mounted oval gilt-rule mat. Retouched vignetted enlargement. A few spots some toning. Very good condition.This famous "Gettysburg portrait" with Lincoln looking directly into the camera was made just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19 1863.A giant of American photography Alexander Gardner is credited with introducing the large-format Imperial portrait to the United States while working as a staff photographer for Mathew Brady. Gardner left Brady's employ in early 1863 and his studio quickly rivaled Brady's for the quality and extent of its war and portrait photography. Gardner first photographed Lincoln as president-elect while working for Brady and he went on to take Lincoln's portrait more than any other photographer.Lincoln sat for Gardner on several occasions usually visiting his studio on Sunday to avoid crowds. Lincoln sat for this splendid portrait on Sunday November 8 1863. His private secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay joined him. Hay noted in his diary that "We had a great many pictures taken … some of the Prest. the best I have seen." This print emphasizes Lincoln's head and shoulders enlarging them to a size rarely seen.The gilt-ruled paper mat is characteristic of the 1860s and 1870s with this style of mat being popular during this period. Moses Rice subsequently had access to Gardner's negatives and routinely signed his prints with his name suggesting that Gardner himself made this enlargement. He died in 1882.The photography session of November 8 1863 also produced the mammoth portrait we offer for $95000. That photograph and the present are among the only early mammoth Lincoln portraits we have ever encountered.This is the only mammoth example of the famous Gettysburg portrait that we have seen.Ostendorf O-77

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Lincoln Plans Legal Strategies

185316994Springfield Ill: Handwritten Letter 1853. ALS. Cloth. Very good. A two-page handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln to fellow attorney Thomas J. Turner of Freeport Illinois addressing their future legal strategy since ".the Judge has already decided." The letter is dated June 27 1853 and is self-addressed. Octavo 4pp. Previously folded glue remnant along top edge. Several folds of the letter are weakened some partially separated. Small paper loss at intersecting fold with archival tissue repair. The letter is addressed in Lincoln's hand with "Springfield" and "Paid 3" stamped on cover. Housed in custom folding folio quarter blue morocco blue cloth title in gilt on the spine illustration of Lincoln on the front pastedown. This letter concerns the case of Kemper v. Adams & Bovey a land dispute in Freeport Illinois. Lincoln was retained by Adams and Bovey who after a series of losses and appeals prevailed in March 1858 by appealing to U.S. Circuit Court of Northern Illinois. Full letter reads: "Springfield June 27. 1853. / Hon. T. J. Turner: / Dear Sir: Your letter of the 20th. reached me day-before yesterday. I had the day before written to Adams to be on hand with his witnesses- but at the request of Judge Logan who is Kemper's attorney I put in a Post-script saying to Adams if he was agreed the cause should be continued over the summer term. On subsequent reflection I rather wish Adams may not agree. I have the case fresh in my mind and therefore wish to keep it going till it is finished. I have already drafted a Bill of Exceptions and my plan is to put the common lawsuit through the forms of a second trial up to a verdict which must be against us under Judge D's view of the law except & save all the points and then before judgment file our Bill and get an injunction. I shall begin preparing a Bill this afternoon which I which I wish to file during the evening term; and I believe I will do this Mr Adams must come down to swear to the Bill. In no event can we be ready for proof in the chancery suit at this time so that we will need no other witness than the one that was here last summer. I wrote Mr Adams about a Register's certificate & if he can find one or two missing tax receipts let him bring them. I should be glad to see you & shake you by the hand; but as there is no contested jury question I scarcely think you need be at the trouble & expense of coming. All the law questions which can arise at this term the Judge has already decided. Very truly yours A. Lincoln." Provenance: Originally the property of Claribel Mitchell of Freeport Illinois a principal at the Lincoln School until 1916. The letter was sold at auction by the American Art Association on January 30 1923 to Mr. George A. Ball of Muncie Indiana the namesake of the Ball Mason Jar Company. This letter was published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by Roy Basler New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press 1953 2:199-200. Handwritten Letter unknown

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Autograph endorsement signed to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to discharge two underage soldiers from the Union Army.

1863192290Springfield Illinois: 22 January 1863. Lincoln intercedes for two runaway boys On the verso of a letter to Stanton from Illinois Governor Richard Yates 1815-1873 the president writes "The families to which these boys belong are among my old acquaintances. A. Lincoln. Jan. 22 1863". Yates 1815-1873 was a longtime friend of Lincoln's. His letter dated 12 January 1863 states that "Thomas E. Clark and Jonathan C. Bergen of Petersburg in this state respectively 17 and 16 years of age left home some time during the last month without the consent of their parents and joined the 2nd Reg't U.S Cavalry stationed at Carlyle Barrack Pa". Yates requests to Stanton that "Messrs Clark & Bergen are both respectable & loyal citizens and you will oblige me by discharging these boys from the service of the United States". Petersburg Illinois is near New Salem where Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. Lincoln also received letters from the fathers George S. Bergen and David Clark which he referred to the Adjutant General of the Army Lorenzo Thomas on 21 January Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Vol. 8 1953 p. 509. Although no one under 18 could legally enlist without the written consent of a parent or guardian many did so. By one recent estimate underage enlistees accounted for roughly a tenth of the Union forces Clarke & Plant. Parents filed thousands of petitions with Union authorities and state courts to secure their children's discharge. Here the families were sufficiently well-connected to appeal at the highest level; Lincoln's endorsement implies that the request was granted. Provenance: Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang their sale at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1978 lot 484; Louise Taper Beverly Hills California; acquired by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation as part of the Taper Collection 2007; sold by the Foundation at Freeman's Hindman in their Lincoln's Legacy sale 2025 lot 78. Single sheet on State of Illinois Executive Department letterhead 253 x 197 mm handwritten by Yates on recto endorsed by Lincoln on verso alongside a note it was forwarded to Stanton. Central folds repaired still in very good condition. The endorsement is published in Roy P. Basler The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln First Supplement 1974 page 175. Frances M. Clarke & Rebecca Jo Plant Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era 2022. unknown

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The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States to Take Effect January 1st 1863 wrapper title

1862376858Boston: J.M. Forbes 1862. 7 1 blankpp. Miniature 3-1/4x2-1/8 inches. Original wrappers unstitched. Small repair to tears at gutter. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. 7 1 blankpp. Miniature 3-1/4x2-1/8 inches. The first and only contemporary printing of Lincoln's historic preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in separate pamphlet form. This small pamphlet was printed by John Murray Forbes a Boston industrialist and abolitionist for distribution by Union soldiers to African Americans in the south. In 1899 the publisher's daughter recalled the genesis of this pocket-sized edition: "With the view of placing the Proclamation of Emancipation in the hands of the negroes themselves my father had printed 1000000 copies on small slips one and half inches square put into packages of fifty each and distributed among the Northern soldiers at the front who scattered them about among the blacks while on the march. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner approved the idea ." Sara Forbes Hughes Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes pp. 348-49. Indeed in a letter to Forbes on Christmas Day 1862 Sumner asked "Why not send to all the hospitals camps posts The more the better" However the diminutive printing's scarcity in institutions and in the market would seem to belie that notion as it is among the rarest of editions of the Proclamation no doubt in part because of its small size. The preliminary proclamation of the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on September 22 1862 shortly following the Battle of Antietam and declared the freedom of all slaves in any Confederate state that did not return to Union control by January 1 1863. The text of the final official proclamation was the result of Lincoln's consultation with his cabinet on the morning of Dec. 31 1862 in which many changes were suggested. Lincoln then retired to consider all the cabinet members' recommendations and compose the final proclamation which he completed late in the day just before it would take effect. A signal moment in American history and the ideological raison d'etre of America's bloodiest war. Eberstadt 7; Monaghan 147 J.M. Forbes unknown

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C, Mr [CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham] (1684 - 1743); Mr [Nicolas] Gueudeville (1652 - ca 1721) y [en el tomo 7 suplemento por] H P deBiblio.com

Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction A l'Histoire à la Chronologie & à la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne; Représentée dans de Nouvelles Cartes Où l'on remarque l'établissemant des Etats & Empires du Monde leur durée leur chûte & leurs differens Gouvernemens; La Chronologie des Consuls Romains des Pappes des Empereurs des Rois & des Princes &c. qui ont été depuis le commencement du Monde jusqu'à présent: Et la Génealogie des Maisons Souveraines de l'Europe / par Mr. C. Henri Abraham Chatelain; Avec des Dissertations sur l'Histoire de chaque Etat Par Mr. Nicolas Gueudeville; Y el tomo 7º con un Suplement a L'Atlas Historique. Avec des dissertations sur chaque sujet Par Mr. H. P. de Limiers. OBRA COMPLETA EN 7 TOMOS

172037027A AMSTERDAM: TOMO 1Âº 4Âª et DerniÃ¨re Edition corrigÃ©e et augmentÃ©e Chez Zacharie Chatelain 1739 Avec Privilege; TOMO 2Âº primera parte Nouvelle Edition Chez L'Honore & Chatelain Libraires 1720; TOMO 3Âº o segunda parte del tomo segundo Nouvelle Edition Chez L'Honore & ChÃ¢telain Libraires 1720; TOMO 4Âº Nouvelle Edition revue corrigÃ©e et considerablement augmentÃ©e Chez Zacharie Chatelain 1725; TOMO 5Âº Seconde Edition corrigÃ©e et augmentÃ©e Chez Zacharie ChÃ¢telain 1732 Avec Privilege; TOMO 6Âº Seconde Edition corrigÃ©e et augmentÃ©e Chez Zacharie Chatelain 1732 Avec Privilege; TOMO 7Âº & dernier Chez Zacharie Chatelain Libraire 1732 Avec Privilege.- CONTIENE CADA VOLUMEN: TOMO 1Âº 8 h. 8p. 2 h. 2 h. 8 p. 2 h. 9-24 p. 14 h. 25-38 p. 5 h. 39-50 p. 3 h. 51-66 p. 10 h. 67-74 p. 12 h. 75-82 p. 8 h.: Con 46 grabados al cobre a saber 1 in-frontis grabado por B. Picort 26 mapas plegados 19 cuadros genealÃ³gicos herÃ¡ldicos y cuadros sinÃ³pticos de historia muchos plegados. TOMO 2Âº primera parte 8 h. 12 p. 6 h. 13-18 p. 5 h. 19-30 p. 4 h. 31-44 p. 4 h. 45-58 p. 12 h. 59-66 p. 17 h. 67-90 p. 6 h.: Con 37 grabados al cobre a saber 1 in-frontis grabado por Sluyter 12 mapas plegados 25 cuadros genealÃ³gicos herÃ¡ldicos y sÃntesis histÃ³ricas muchos plegados hasta en tres partes / ademÃ¡s 7 textos impresos que van numerados correlativamente con los grabados. TOMO 3Âº o segunda parte del tomo segundo 6 h. 91-120 p. 20 h. 121-130 p. 6 h. 131-136 p. 17 h. 137-144 p. 10 h. 145-154 p. 4 h. 155-162 p. 8 h. 2 h.: Con 30 grabados al cobre a saber 18 mapas muchos plegados 12 cuadros genealÃ³gicos histÃ³ricos administrativos etc. bellamente ilustrados / ademÃ¡s 6 textos impresos con aclaraciones histÃ³ricas que van numerados correlativamente con los grabados. TOMO 4Âº 6 h. 14 p. 5 h. 15-62 p. 31 h. 63-70 p. 19 h. 71-86 p. 6 h. 87-98 p. 13 h.: Con 30 grabados al cobre a saber 1 in-frontis por P. Siurter 15 mapas plegados 18 cuadros genealÃ³gicos lÃ¡minas de costumbres y enumeraciÃ³n de muchas casas reales con sus reyes escudos de armas y blasones. TOMO 5Âº 4 h. IV p. 2 h. 196 p. pero son 198 p. ya que se repite por error el nÂº 127-128 : Con 58 grabados al cobre a saber 1 in-frontis 13 mapas plegados 44 cuadros genealÃ³gicos sinopsis histÃ³ricas cuadros de costumbres con ilustraciones. TOMO 6Âº 1 h. IV p. 2 h. 166 p. por error de impresiÃ³n la pÃ¡gina nÂº 48 figura con el nÂº 41 pero continÃºa correctamente la numeraciÃ³n: Con 38 grabados al cobre a saber 16 mapas plegados 22 lÃ¡minas con sinopsis histÃ³ricas cuadros de costumbres plantas y animales descripciÃ³n y planos de ciudades reyes etc. NO TIENE LA LAMINA NÂº 30 "CARTE TRES CURIEUSE DE LA MER DU SUD" PERO HA SIDO FIELMENTE REPRODUCIDA EN FACSIMIL Y ESTA BELLAMENTE ILUMINADA. TOMO 7Âº 2 h. IV p. 2 h. 112 p.: Con 40 grabados al cobre a saber 1 grabado in-frontis por B. Picaut 9 mapas plegados 32 grabados plegados con cuadros genealÃ³gicos de las casas reales escudos y blasones Ã³rdenes de caballerÃa y sus escudos y cuadros histÃ³ricos ilustrados / tambiÃ©n lleva impresas 4 sÃntesis de Historia Sagrada que van correlativamente numeradas con los grabados; En gran folio 465 x 304 cm.; Excelente impresiÃ³n a 2 columnas sobre magnÃfico y grueso papel de hilo verjurado; Portada a dos tintas; Texto en francÃ©s; Enc. de la Ã©poca en Plena Piel pasta antigua lomo con 7 nervios y cuajado en oro. La encuadernaciÃ³n tiene las esquinas rozadas y con pequeÃ±as faltas de piel la cabeza y pie de los lomos tambiÃ©n con pequeÃ±as faltas. Particularmente al Tomo 3Âº le falta un trozo de piel al pie del lomo de 35 cm. al Tomo 5Âº le falta un trozo de piel en la cabeza del lomo de 13 cm. en disminuciÃ³n y una grieta de 10 cm. mas abajo. Todo esto ha sido reparado en lo posible quedando los libros con buen aspecto. El interior en muy buen estado salvo varias hojas en general muy pocas que tienen algunas motas de Ã³xido y la lÃ¡mina NÂº 9 del Tomo 1Âº que tiene la parte superior del tÃtulo cortada por error del encuadernador. Como ya hemos indicado anteriormente al Tomo 6Âº le falta la lÃ¡mina NÂº 30 que es un precioso gran mapa plegado y dividido en 2 partes hemisferio norte y hemisferio sur titulado "Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud" pero va incluÃda en su lugar una reproducciÃ³n facsÃmil a tamaÃ±o real del original bellamente iluminada e impresa sobre papel especial. H. A. Chatelain fue un pastor hugonote de origen parisino que viviÃ³ en ParÃs St. Martins Londres ca. 1710 La Haya ca. 1721 y Amsterdam ca 1728. Es reconocido como un gran cartÃ³grafo alemÃ¡n en especial por su gran obra el "Atlas Historique" que fue publicado en Amsterdam entre 1705 y 1720. Innovador para su tiempo por la gran calidad y exactitud cartogrÃ¡fica de sus mapas bellamente grabados al cobre que iban acompaÃ±ados con gran cantidad de planchas igualmente grabadas al cobre conteniendo multitud de datos histÃ³ricos genealÃ³gicos herÃ¡ldicos nobiliarios etnogrÃ¡ficos cosmogrÃ¡ficos todos ellos bellamente ornamentados artÃsticamente con muchas ilustraciones. Cada lÃ¡mina va numerada individualmente e indicando el nÃºmero de tomo correspondiente. Los grabados y tablas de esta obra estÃ¡n realizados por los mejores autores del momento como: Dapper Chardin de Bruyn Le Hay y otros. Muchos mapas estÃ¡n basados en los trabajos del gran geÃ³grafo Guillaume de L'Isle. Esta formidable obra fue presentada por la Familia Chatelain en forma de enciclopedia. Los textos van impresos a dos columnas por lo general. Al parecer algunos eruditos dudan de que Henri Abraham Chatelain fuese el Ãºnico autor de esta magna obra - ya que en el libro solo figuran escritas como autor las iniciales "Mr. C."- y suponen que en su realizaciÃ³n colaborÃ³ toda la familia en especial su hermano ZacarÃas Chatelain y su padre tambien ZacarÃas. GEOGRAFÃA GUÃAS Y ATLAS DEL EXTRANJERO Livre en franÃ§ais Chez Zacharie Chatelain, Chez L'Honore & Chatelain Libraires hardcover

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President Abraham Lincoln Allows a Key Kentucky Advisor to Cross the Lines into the Confederacy to Attend the Trial of His Son

18643503129/10/1864. <blockquote>Journalist George D. Prentice's son was a Confederate officer captured by Union forces who would later be charged with murder</blockquote>George D. Prentice was born in Connecticut on December 18 1802 and graduated from Brown University in 1823. He came to Kentucky in 1830 to write a campaign biography entitled The Biography of Henry Clay and remained in this state until his death on January 22 1870 in Louisville. Prentice became the editor of the Louisville Journal the newspaper of the Whig Party. The main focus of this paper was the promotion of Henry Clayâ€™s agenda and his multiple presidential campaigns. Prentice brought the Journal from upstart newspaper to the most widely read newspaper in the western United States because of his wit and command of the English language. Upon the failure of the Whig Party Prentice supported the Know-Nothing Party. Prentice then supported John Bell and his Unionist platform in the 1860 election calling for the Southern states to stay in the Union. Following the repeal of neutrality in Kentucky the pro-Union Prentice wrote in the Louisville Journal on September 19 1861: â€œWell thank God we at last have weighed anchor and set out for the haven of safety and of honor. Now let all possible sail be spread and the noble ship of state be driven into the lines of her insolent foe with the whole might of the valor and devotion of her true men.â€ Prentice became part of Lincolnâ€™s core group of advisors for Kentucky affairs during the war. But despite Prenticeâ€™s Unionist satisfaction that Kentucky was no longer neutral his two sons fought in the Confederate army one dying in 1862 and the other being captured in 1863.The son of Prentice Clarence J. Prentice was one of the most colorful Kentuckians in the Confederate Army. From 1863 to 1865 he commanded the 7th Confederate Cavalry Battalion. Based in southwestern Virginia the 7th was composed of mountaineers who resided along the Kentucky-Virginia border. The unit was difficult to discipline and was regarded as a ""black sheep"" battalion by other units in the department. While some members of the battalion accompanied Gen. John Hunt Morgan on his last Kentucky raid they were part of the dismounted brigade. Prentice and the balance of the 7th was left behind to guard Pound Gap. In his ""Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie"" George Dallas Mosgrove left a lively pen portrait of the young officer. He described the 7th as wild and difficult to discipline but added that the men were afraid of Prentice who was a crack shot. Major Prentice was captured on March 31 1863.George Prentice wrote to Lincoln to enlist his help in securing a parole for his son. In his letter to Lincoln dated Journal Office Louisville Ky. May 6 1863 Prentice stated: â€œI wrote to you last week in regard to my son Major Clarence Prentice now a rebel prisoner at Camp Chase. He would ere this have been forwarded for exchange but Gen. Burnside at my solicitation consented to have him detained until I could have time to hear from you. I think there has been time but I have received nothing from you either by mail or telegraph. I know that the pressure of the affairs of state upon you is very great. Perhaps you did not read my letter at all. Major Prentice is the only child left to me. My household is very desolate. My son is tired of the war but unfortunately he thinks the south right. I ask you to direct his release upon his taking the non combatants oath and giving bond and security for its scrupulous observance. If you cannot do this as I painfully fear you cannot I earnestly appeal to you to parole him to stay outside of both the United States and the Southern Confederacy until after the rebellion. I should scarcely venture Mr. President to make this appeal to you but that I think I have served the Union cause faithfully devotedly and successfully. I have suffered very much and sacrificed very much in its behalfâ€”more I am sure than any other man in Kentucky; and I am likely even at the best to suffer and sacrifice much hereafter. I think there is not a candid and intelligent Union man in this state who would hesitate to say to you that I have saved it to the Union politically.â€œAnd now dear sir pray grant me what I ask in behalf of my only son. His mother is half delirious and so am I. I am scarcely capable of performing my daily duties to the country but if my request were granted I feel I should be buoyant with new life. Please let me know your decision soon for if my son cannot be paroled upon either of the conditions I have mentioned I want him sent forward as soon as possible to City Point as he is extremely uncomfortable in his present situation.â€Ten days later Lincoln issued an order written on the back of Prentice's letter instructing General Burnside to parole young Prentice ""to remain outside the limits of both the loyal and disloyal States or so-called 'Confederate Statesâ€™â€¦during the present rebellion and to abstain from in any wise aiding or abetting said rebellion."" He was released in May 1863. However Clarence Prentice immediately upon his release from Camp Chase violated his oath and re-entered the Confederate Army. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Only a few months after his parole he was back to robbing banks burning courthouses and spreading terror and destruction generally along the Kentucky-Virginia border.In the fall of 1863 after being released from Union custody Prentice shot and killed a hotel proprietor named White in Abingdon Va. during a ""personal difficulty."" His trial was set for November 8 1864 in Abingdon and his father wanted to attend and assist him at his trial. George Prentice again wrote Lincoln asking for his assistance.Lincoln complied with Prenticeâ€™s request. Autograph note signed Washington October 29 1864. â€œAllow George D. Prentice of the Louisville Journal to pass our lines go to Abingdon Va. and return.â€Prentice also wrote to Secretary of State William Seward on October 25 1864. A letter of Captain R. H. Baptist exists October 22 1864 to Prentice offering to give evidence in the forthcoming trial of his son saying â€œa conversation occurred between White & myself that ought to be made known in the trial of your son by all means.â€ Prentice sought Sewardâ€™s help in lining up Baptist up as a witness for his son: â€œCapt Baptist who formerly served under my sonâ€¦and is now a prisonerâ€¦at Johnson's Island writes to me some facts which would be of vast importance to my erring child in his approaching trialâ€¦and which Capt. B. says he would state on oathâ€¦if he could be paroled to the Southern Confederacy or exchangedâ€¦I think that the exchange of Capt Baptist would subserve the cause of truth humanity and justice.â€™â€™ After being shown Baptist's letter Lincoln arranged for his parole so that he could testify on behalf of Clarence Prentice.Thus did Lincoln intervene twice to aid his Kentucky advisor.Clarence Prentice was acquitted of the murder charge. He continued to serve in the Confederate Army until the war ended.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis23 000,00 $US≈ 19 460,30 €

Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Seeks to Reward a Distinguished Soldier from the First Major Conflict of the Civil War the Battle of Big Bethel and Honor the Personal Request of His Mother

18613521508/08/1861. <blockquote>""It is said that the young man named within was in the Great Bethel affair. His mother calls on me to ask a Lieutenancy for him"" We have never before a document on the market referencing Bethel by name or referring to the battle as great Part of a private collection assembled at Sesslers more than a half century ago</blockquote>The Civil War formally began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12â€“13 1861 but the first sustained clash between organized armies on land was the Battle of Big Bethel also called the Battle of Bethel Church fought on June 10 1861 near Hampton Virginia.Virginia's decision to secede from the Union had been ratified by popular vote on May 23 and Confederate colonel later major general John B. Magruder was sent down to the peninsula to deter any advance on the state capital Richmond by Union troops based at the well-defended post of Fort Monroe.Confederate forces under Magruder defeated a probing Union attack led by John Adams Dix and field commander Theodore Winthrop who was killed in the assault. The Union objective was to push back Confederate outposts guarding the Yorktown Road but poor coordination and a nighttime friendly-fire incident ruined surprise. When Union troops advanced at dawn they were repulsed by well-positioned Southern artillery and infantry around Big Bethel Church. The battle ended in a Confederate victory providing an early morale boost to the South while exposing the inexperience and disorganization of Union forces in the warâ€™s opening weeks. It confirmed that the conflict would not be short or bloodless.Abraham Lincoln was distressed by the Union defeat at Big Bethel. The battle underscored for him the Union's lack of military preparedness and the challenges in finding capable commanders reinforcing his determination to avoid future losses.During his presidency Lincoln would regularly meet with members of the public who would wait to see him in the foyer of his office in the White House. This included soldiers and their family members.Autograph letter signed Frank J. White as Captain of Company A 10th Regiment Fortress Monroe July 27 1861 seemingly given to the soldier himself or his sent to his family. ""Mr. Charles. J. Seymour has been a member of my company for three months and has gained my highest esteem for the excellent manner in which he has discharged his duties. He is well qualified to hold a much higher position than his present one.""Autograph document signed August 8 1861 on a detached leaf no recipient but likely Secretary of War Simon Cameron. ""It is said that the young man named within was in the Great Bethel affair. His mother calls on me to ask a Lieutenancy for him; and I ask a respectful consideration of his case.""Seymour received the promotion Lincoln requested becoming a lieutenant just weeks later on August 27 1861. He served as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles and was later promoted to major. He also assisted in recruiting efforts in New York City.This was acquired from Mabel Zahn at Sesslers in the 1970s.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis22 500,00 $US≈ 19 037,25 €

Lincoln, Abraham [Gerald R Ford]Biblio.com

Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois.

1860149362Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition early issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate. Octavo original cloth stamped in blind. Ownership bookplate of President Gerald R. Ford to the front pastedown. President Gerald R. Ford and Abraham Lincoln occupy distinct yet symbolically linked places in American presidential history united by their encounters with political violence and national division. Abraham Lincoln the 16th president led the United States through the Civil War and became the first American president to be assassinated when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Fordâ€™s Theatre in 1865â€”a moment that transformed him into a martyr for the Union and a symbol of democratic perseverance. Over a century later Gerald R. Ford the 38th president survived two assassination attempts within seventeen days in 1975 both carried out by womenâ€”Lynette â€œSqueakyâ€ Fromme and Sara Jane Mooreâ€”amid the turbulence of the post-Watergate era. While Fordâ€™s brush with assassination did not result in tragedy it echoed the lingering volatility of American political life that had claimed Lincolnâ€™s. In near fine condition. An exceptional example with even better provenance. Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois senatorship in 1858 Lincoln challenged incumbent and Democratic leader Stephen Douglas to a series of debates. The result was a memorable chain of lively arguments in front of cheering crowds. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race â€œhe began collecting a scrapbook of his best speeches particularly those from the just-concluded campaign against Douglas for possible inclusion in a book. Assiduously pasting newspaper accounts of the debates into the scrapbook Lincoln cast about for a publisher. Initial efforts failed mainly because Lincoln wanted the book printed in Springfield which had no local publishing or printing facilities. Eventually however the Columbus Ohio firm of Follett Foster & Company showed interest and he began preparing the first editionâ€¦ Somewhat surprisingly for an attorney Lincoln did not seek Douglasâ€™ permission to publish a book of their combined speeches although Douglas was later given the last-minute opportunityâ€”he declinedâ€”to make corrections to his own remarksâ€ Morris 121. Follett, Foster and Company hardcover

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis22 500,00 $US≈ 19 037,25 €

Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Works to Honor ""My Old Friend Joseph Gillespie"" as Well as One of the Pallbearers at His Funeral

15093547615/09/1863. <blockquote>The letter itself was from Lamb a pallbearer after Lincoln's assassination</blockquote>Joseph Gillespie was a Whig member of the Illinois Assembly in 1840-41 and then served in the State Senate from 1847 to 1859. He joined the Republicans in 1856. Gillespie chaired the Illinois Republican State Convention in 1860 where presidential electors were selected who would vote for Abraham Lincoln and served as circuit court judge in Southern Illinois from 1861 to 1873.From when they met in 1840 Gillespie was a key political ally lawyer and trusted and intimate friend to Abraham Lincoln. They consulted on legal cases and in political matters where they kept each other informed of political developments. Gillespie visited President-elect Lincoln at Springfield before he left for Washington. When Lincoln was president Gillespie occasionally went to Washington to see him and kept him informed about the political situation in the western states. Their correspondence shows a close personal bond.James L. Lamb was a meatpacker industrialist and friend of Lincoln from Illinois known for his business dealings with the future President and his role as one of the pallbearers at Lincoln's funeral. In a letter addressed to President Lincoln Lamb wrote him from Springfield Ill. September 10 1863 to secure a position for a relative. â€œMy friend and relative Mr. James H. Lea is an applicant for the position of paymaster in the army. His appointment I am sure would meet the approbation of all true friends of the Government who are acquainted with him. I have long known him as a reliable competent businessman and one whose integrity could be fully relied upon. His moral character is without blemish and the most satisfactory assurances can be given of his integrity and fitness for the position.â€ The docket states â€œSpringfield Sep. 10/63 James L. Lamb to the President. Application for appointment of James H. Lea as a Paymaster.â€This letter was not mailed by Lamb to Lincoln. Instead Lamb gave the letter to Gillespie to enlist his support and use his influence with Lincoln. Gillespie presented Lambâ€™s letter to Lincoln with his request that it be honored.Autograph endorsement signed Washington September 15 1863. â€œMy old friend Gillespie presents this; and I would like for him to be obliged.â€ This is unpublished and not in Baslerâ€™s Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. The wording of Lincolnâ€™s endorsement saying that Gillespie presented this to Lincoln and the implication that Gillespie will need to be presenting this to the Secretary of War raises the possibility that Gillespie handed this to Lincoln in person and then took the endorsement to Stanton.On October 10 Gillespie wrote Lincoln that the appointment had not yet been made and relating a communication with Stanton saying â€œI would beg to call your attention to the subject of the appointment of my friend James H. Lea of Alton to the office of paymaster in the regular army. Secy. Stanton told me that he would retire one now on the list to make place for Mr Lea in a short time. I have heard nothing from him since. I would take it as a great favor if this thing could be done soon. I am aware how much you must be pressed with business of an engrossing character at this juncture but hope you may find leisure to jog the secretaryâ€™s memory.â€According to papers in the Library of Congress James H. Lea was appointed an additional paymaster of volunteers to rank from February 23 1864. He signed his oath of office in April.This is a fascinating endorsement showing how Lincoln sought to assist his old friends to the extent he appropriately could.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis22 000,00 $US≈ 18 614,20 €

BLOEMAERT, AbrahamBiblio.com

Eerste beginselen der teken-kunst vervattende in haar veelerlei oogen neusen monden ooren als meede natuurlyke beweegingen van hoofden troniën handen voeten armen beenen enz. Mitsgaders veele volkomene beelden soo mannen vrouwen als kinderen; .

1730D8IBHTPY7SFPAmsterdam 1730. Folio. Reinier & Joachim II Ottens Half mottled sheepskin ca. 1840 sewn on 4 cords the spine has 5 gold-tooled raised bands but the middle one may be merely decorative papier coulé sides red spine-label red sprinkled edges. With a letterpress title page printed in red and black an engraved frontispiece self-portrait of Bloemaert engraved by Joachim Ottens here serving as no. 1 of 140 otherwise numbered engraved plates including illustrated part-titles for parts 2-6 with drawn models of parts of the human body and human figures and characters in various postures movements and scenes. 1 leaf plus plates. Famous drawing book of Abraham Bloemaert 1564-1651 a very influential Dutch painter and art teacher. It contains 140 numbered engraved plates with no text providing models for drawing parts of the human body including eyes ears noses faces hands feet arms legs busts heads hair styles and beards some for men women and children as well as human figures and character types in various postures kinds of movement also including men women and children. Four plates give models for drawing animals and animal's heads including horses cats a dog a fish a lion and cattle. In good condition and with generous margins with a small tear and minor smudges in the title-page the first and last leaves slightly browned and a few unobtrusive restorations. A classic Dutch drawing book providing a storehouse of human forms that influenced many artists for more than a century.l WorldCat 1 or 2 copies; cf. Bolten Method & Practice. Dutch & Flemish drawing books pp. 51-67; Hollstein II p. 86 nos. 36-155 ca. 1650-ca. 1657 F. Bloemaert ed. of parts 1-6. ABE CAT Art History hardcover

Asher Rare Books · Pays-Bas18 000,00 €

Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Appoints a Signal Corps Officer Who Would Serve with Sherman on the March to the Sea

15073254115/07/1864. <blockquote>A real rarity the first Lincoln appointment to the Signal Corps for an officer active in Shermanâ€™s Georgia Campaign we have seen</blockquote>On March 29 1860 the United States House of Representatives approved the Army appropriations bill for fiscal year 1861 which included the following amendment: ""For the manufacture or purchase of apparatus and equipment for field signals $2000; and that there be added to the staff of the Army one signal officer with the rank pay and allowance of a major of cavalry who shall have charge under the direction of the Secretary of War of all signal duty and all books papers and apparatus connected therewith."" The United States Senate eventually approved the appropriations bill over the objections of Jefferson Davis now Senator from Mississippi and President James Buchanan signed it into law on June 21 1860 the date now celebrated as the birthday of the modern U.S. Army Signal Corps.Now armies on the go could report back to their civilian leadership in real time and those leaders could make decisions without waiting for a messenger on horse. This changed the face of warfare. President Lincoln himself spent significant time in the telegraph office sending and receiving war correspondence. He often walked alone from the White House to the office and chatted with the operators. As Bates later wrote â€œDuring the Civil War the President spent more of his waking hours in the War Department telegraph office than in any other place except the White House. While in the Telegraph Office he was comparatively free from official cares and therefore more apt to disclose his natural traits and disposition than elsewhere under other conditions.â€John Quincy Adams first enlisted in 1862 with the 38th Ohio Volunteers. On October 15 of that year he was a quartermaster sergeant with the 10th Ohio Cavalry. After a stint as acting lieutenant on July 15 1864 he was appointed by the President Second Lieutenant to date from March 3 1863. Adams was actively involved in the Georgia campaign conducted by Gen. William T. Sherman. He was with left wing of the 16th Army Corps on the march to Chattanooga Tenn. In the Atlanta Campaign he participated in the battles of Resaca Dallas Kenesaw Mountain. and Jonesboro. He manned signal corps stations at Kenesaw Mt. and Allatoona.Adams was in the engagements at Port McAllister and Rice Mill station in the campaign from Savannah through the Carolinas including battles at Columbia Bentonville and Raleigh; and at the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Sherman on April 26 1865. Adams was breveted 1st lieutenant for gallant and meritorious service in the Signal Corps at the battle of Allatoona; he was breveted captain for gallant and meritorious services in the Signal Corps at the capture of Fort McAllister and Savannah and throughout the war. Adams was mustered out August 22 1865. After the war he was in the 1st U. S. Cavalry and was in the Indian wars and finished his career as captain and aide to Gen. O.O. Howard in October 1884. He is listed on the roster of the U.S. Signal Corps in the Civil War.Adams is also a protagonist in one of the most famous telegraph exchanges of the war during the battle near Allatoona. During this battle legend goes that Sherman signaled to General Corse and his men to ""hold the fort"" a phrase that inspired the later popular religious hymn entitled Hold the Fort by Chicago evangelist Philip P. Bliss which featured the chorus 'Hold the fort for I am comingâ€™ which then became a common expression. We still use ""hold down the fort"" today. Adams was the signal officer who received that message or rather a variant as Sherman did not use that exact phrase though captured the sentiment.This is President Lincolnâ€™s appointment of Adams as Second Lieutenant. Document signed Washington July 15 1864 naming Adams ""Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps"" dating from the third of March 1863.This document is a real rarity as we have never before seen a Lincoln appointment to the Signal Corps for an officer active in Shermanâ€™s March to the Sea. Moreover Lincoln Signal Corps appointments are themselves uncommon this being our first.It was acquired from the Adams descendants and has never been offered for sale before.<img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis19 000,00 $US≈ 16 075,90 €

Abraham LincolnBiblio.com

President Abraham Lincoln Promotes the Chief of Ordnance for Cairo Ill Who Helped Supply Union Forces During the Siege of Fort Donelson

18623341204/03/1862. As 1862 opened the war was not going well for the Union. In the east Bull Run had been a disaster and led to the shake-up of command with no results yet to show for it. In the west the loss at Wilsonâ€™s Creek gave the Confederates the upper hand. The Federal armies in the west then turned their attention to implementation of the Anaconda Plan â€“ to cut the Confederacy in half by securing the Mississippi River from St. Louis all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and clearing a maritime invasion route into the heart of the Confederacy by taking the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers which lay just to the east of the Mississippi. If successful these maneuvers would cut Texas Arkansas and Louisiana off from the main body of the South hold Kentucky and Missouri firmly in the Union and make it difficult for Tennessee to cooperate with her sister Confederate states. The first moves would be to take and hold commanding locations north on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and command of the operation was given to Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant an obscure and largely unproven officer.On February 6 1862 Fort Henry commanding the Tennessee River was captured by Grantâ€™s forces. It had a poor defensive position and was reduced mainly by the bombardment of gunboats on the river. Nonetheless its fall opened the Tennessee River to Union gunboats and shipping past the Alabama border and provided a real victory for Union arms. Grant next focused his attention on Fort Donelson eleven miles away on the more strategically important Cumberland River. This fort had a much stronger physical position and the Confederates had placed some 20000 men and a number of senior commanders on site to engage in its defense. They were not about to concede the fort and they were ready and waiting for Grant. Grant arrived at Fort Donelson late on February 12 and on the 13th established his headquarters near the left side of the front of the line. That day was spent in battle preparation with a few small probing attacks being carried out against the Confederate defenses.Grant's headquarters was at Cairo Ill where the head of Ordnance was Stephen Lyford. Grant arrived at Fort Donelson late on February 12 and on the 13th established his headquarters near the left side of the front of the line. That day was spent in battle preparation with a few small probing attacks being carried out against the Confederate defenses.The battle was severe with nearly 1000 soldiers on both sides killed and about 3000 wounded. When Simon Buckner the Confederate commander asked for surrender terms Grant famously replied â€œNo terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be acceptedâ€œ adding â€œI propose to move immediately upon your works.â€ Buckner surrendered his command of about 15000 men; this was the first of three Confederate armies that Grant captured during the war.The capture of Fort Donelson gave the North control of the Cumberland River which provided the road that opened the Deep South to Union invasion. It boosted morale in the North which now saw that the war could result in great victories and not just defeats. It gave President Lincoln the fighting general he was looking for and it made Grantâ€™s career in the process; he was soon promoted to major general of volunteers.Stephen C. Lyford had a long and distinguished career. He served from May to August 1861 in the defenses of Washington D. C. and in the Manassas Campaign participating in the Battle of Bull Run July 21 1861. He was Aide-de_Camp to Brig. General McDowell in the defenses of Washington D. C. August to October 1861 and Asst. Ordnance Officer at St. Louis Arsenal Mo. November 2 1861 to February 1 1862; in command of the Cairo Ordnance Depot Ill. February to May 1862 being detached to the Cumberland River and was present at the Surrender of Ft. Donelson. He was part of Gen. Halleck's Mississippi Campaign May to July 1862 being engaged in the Siege of Corinth May 1862 and was Chief of Ordnance for Department of the Tennessee July 11 1862 to September 6 1863 and fought in the Battle of Corinth. He would go on to teach at West Point and also serve as aide-de-camp for Gen. Halleck and as representative of the US to Japan to bring back information and technology relevant for American ordnance.Document signed with engravings of flags and weapons Washington March 4 1862 Naming Lyford a â€œSecond Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department.""<img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown

The Raab Collection · États-Unis18 000,00 $US≈ 15 229,80 €

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