CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT The Ordeal of the Union WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue celebrates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, with an offer- ing that encompasses the roots of the national sectional struggle, the war itself, and the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction. Included are both of Winslow Homer’s independent graphic works on the war; significant military and political manuscripts; many items relating to Lincoln; a variety of confederate imprints; and maps, pamphlets, letters, broadsides, army field printings, regimental histories, periodicals, and color plate books. 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Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com FRONT COVER: 86. Homer, Winslow: Campaign Sketches. Boston: L. Prang & Co., [1863]. REAR COVER: 115. [Lincoln, Abraham]: Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. [Washington. 1863]. Striking Abolitionist Broadside 1. [Abolitionist Broadside]: UNION WITH FREEMEN – NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! [caption title]. Salem, Oh.: Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10¾ inches. Early horizontal fold and some early creasing. Several pin-sized holes along fold, two very small holes (not exceeding one-eighth of an inch in diameter) in text. Light dampstains in right and lower margins, not affecting text. Light toning and foxing and faint offsetting. Very good. A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society and a small but important center of progressive movements through much of the 19th century. As suggested by their advertisement’s headline, “Union with Freemen--No Union with Slaveholders,” the members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society were radical Garrisonian abolitionists, who believed that the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally a pro-slavery document and therefore unfit to bind together a morally just nation. Formed in the mold of Garrison’s New England Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1832) and American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society first assembled in 1833 in Putnam, Ohio, and in 1839 moved its headquarters to Salem and became known as the Western Anti- Slavery Society. From 1845 to 1861, the Society published a weekly newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Bugle, printed for the first five weeks in New Lisbon, Ohio, and for all subsequent issues in Salem. The text of the broadside, a printed blank form for advertising abolitionist meetings, reads in full as follows: Union with Freemen – No Union with Slaveholders. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] in the [blank] at [blank] To be Addressed by [blank] Agents of the Western ANTI- SLAVERY SOCIETY. Three millions of your fellow beings are in chains – the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! AND LEARN YOUR DUTY TO YOURSELVES, THE SLAVE AND GOD. EMANCIPATION or DISSOLUTION, and a FREE NORTHERN REPUBLIC! OCLC lists two copies, at Yale and Williams College; the Library of Congress holds an additional copy, which may be viewed online at the American Memory web site (see below). “An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera.” Library of Congress, American Memory web site, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/ r?ammem/rbpebib:@ field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+13700400)). $4000. 2. [Abolitionist Broadside]: HYDE (CITIZEN OF NEW YORK) WILL HOLD A NATIONAL CONGRESS WITHIN 10 MILES OF STRATFORD-ON-AVON – ON THE 4th OF JULY, 1852. TO FORWARD THE CAUSE OF ABOLITION – THE PROT- ESTANT ALLIANCE – AND ANTI-DESPOTISM [caption title]. Leamington, England: Brierley, [1852]. Broadside, 14¼ x 10 inches. Old folds. Some wear at folds, slight loss affecting three letters. Tears repaired on verso with older tape. A touch worn, but clean. Good. Broadside advertising an anti-abolition event in England and proposing “An Union between England and the Abolition States of North America will take place im- mediately.” The broadside proclaims that 7,250,000 human beings “are ‘detained’ in bondage in America – in consequence of England’s tariff – being favorable to slavery and opposed to free labour.” It goes on to condemn the British government for its role in supporting policies that contribute to the continuation of slavery, and declares President Fillmore to be a despot and “the ‘wicked’ author of the Fugitive Slave Bill.” An interesting piece of trans-Atlantic abolition propaganda. $3000. 3. Abrams, A.S.: A FULL AND DETAILED HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. Atlanta: Intelligence Steam Power Presses, 1863. 80pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine reinforced with cellophane tape. Contemporary ink signatures and inscriptions on titlepage, outer and inner wrappers, and occasional text margins (inscriptions include a few obsceni- ties, some of which are partially erased). Heavily toned. Sealing wax in some margins, not affecting text. Good. A largely firsthand account of the siege and battle of Vicksburg, published in the same year as the events that are described. In his own words, the author “claims the right of knowing as much about the siege of Vicksburg as anyone residing in that town, from the fact that he was at that point, in Company A, Withers’ Light Artillery, as a private, when the first gun was fired in its defense, and served as such until the raising of the first siege. In September, 1862, he was discharged from the army on account of sickness, and being unable to return to his home, (New Orleans) obtained a position in the office of the ‘Vicksburg Whig,’ where he remained until its destruction by fire in the early part of May, 1863, and was taken prisoner and paroled after the surrender” (p.3). A fascinating account of both military and civilian aspects of the conflict, including one chapter describing the “spirit of the women” during the siege and another describing the “impudence of negroes” immediately following it. HOWES A21. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4715. $2500. 4. [African-American Image]: [CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF A YOUNG BLACK BOY, SEATED ON A BARREL, WARMING HIS HANDS BY A COAL STOVE]. [Np. ca. 1860]. 17½ x 12 inches. Minor edge wear. Moderate marginal foxing. Very good. Mounted on original stiff card, matted, 23 x 17½ inches. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. An engaging unattributed chromolithograph showing a young black boy sitting on a small barrel warming his hands in front of an open coal stove. The image is captioned in contemporary pencil in the upper left margin: “Master James Crow.” Despite this annotation, this image is in no way denigrating. It is a well-realized, handsomely composed picture; the boy is wearing neat but worn clothes, and looks sideways toward the viewer with an engaging smile. The small coal stove radiates flame from its open mouth, while a small hand bellows lies on the floor nearby. A handsome and interesting image. $1000. 5. [African-Americana]: THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. A NEWS- PAPER PRINTED AT HEADQUARTERS EVERY SATURDAY. DON’T SPEND YOUR MONEY FOR NAUGHT. REMEMBER THE OLD EX-SLAVE OF THE SOUTH [caption title]. [Washington, D.C. ca. 1870]. Broadside, 11¾ x 9 inches. Old fold lines. A few minor tears and losses at edges. Very good. Advertisement for the National Capitol, a weekly newspaper printed in Washington, urging people to subscribe to the paper under the headline, “Don’t spend your money for naught. Remember the old ex-slave of the South.” This headline deceptively draws the reader in to find out that in the event a bill is passed for pensioning for- mer slaves, the paper promises to print it in full. Though we could find no record of this newspaper, it claims to have been “published each and every week, and has been, five long years, right at the National Capitol, where all national legislation must first see the light.” The marketing in this advertisement would imply an African-American readership. Future contributors are listed (“Rev. Campbell, Rev. Cage, Mr. Mallory, Mr. Wills, Captain Zediker and possibly Mr. Lawson”), perhaps indicating that this is a prospectus for a potential paper, rather than an advertisement for an existing publication, despite claims of publication longevity. $675. The Occupation of Mobile 6. [Alabama]: [Civil War]: NOTICE TO PRIVATES!! CERTAIN PUBLIC PLACES ARE ORNAMENTED WITH HANDBILLS, PROCLAIMING A “MASQUERADE BALL” ON THE NIGHT OF THE 31st INST., EXCLUDING ALL PRIVATE SOLDIERS..