The Ordeal of the Union

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 offering 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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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 immediately.” 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 former 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... [caption title and first lines of text]. Mobile. July 31, 1865. Broadside, 15½ x 10½ inches. Old fold lines. Heavily worn and stained, with tape repairs vertically down center and left edge of sheet. Slight loss along some folds, affecting a few words of text. Else good.

This broadside, composed by a member of the Union occupying forces after the Civil War, expresses outrage at the decision of army officials to exclude “private soldiers” from a masquerade ball. The author, who signs himself as “High Private,” expresses indignation at the exclusion of the common soldiery, expressing a serious contempt for the officer corps. He writes:

[We] would like to know what class will compose the favorite guests? If negroes, we will be happy to stand off on the windward side. If citizens, we will respectfully give way. But if officers, we wish to say a word or two before we retire: If it had been a battle, instead of a ball, who would then have been excluded? Not the private soldier! We have suffered the privations of a soldier’s life; we have left our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters, and our companions and children, and many of us have suffered the insolence of tyran- nical officers. Thus it follows, insult is heaped upon injury....After weighing the matter carefully, we have decided on one of two conclusions: First, they wish to conceal from our gaze their dark deeds of lewdness. Secondly, they fear we may prove successful competitors. If correct in the first, we have seen enough already; but if correct in the second, they are welcome to their tainted meat.

A contemporary manuscript notation at the bottom reads “1st Brig. 119th Ill.,” indicating, perhaps, the intended audience or a previous owner. Not recorded in Hummel or Ellison, and not found in OCLC. Rare and interesting. $1650. 7. [Alabama Claims]: [TWENTY BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOC- UMENTS ABOUT REBEL WARSHIPS, ESPECIALLY THE ALABAMA, AND LATER CLAIMS MADE BY THE UNITED STATES]. London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1864-1874. Collations as given below. Some stitched, some with original wrappers, two disbound. All very good copies. In a cloth clamshell box, leather label.

During the Civil War several British warships were converted to Confederate ships and, still associated with Britain (sailors, etc.) started attacking United States vessels. The most notorious of these ships was the Alabama. These documents are the diplomatic paper trail of the results of those attacks, and records of the United States claims after the war to get monetary compensation from the British government. Within them are detailed material about the activities of the Rebel raiders during the Civil War. Such British government documents are much scarcer than American government documents, being issued in much smaller editions.

1) (1864.) Correspondence Respecting the Alabama in Continuation of...March 1863. 57pp. First diplomatic correspondence from U.S. protesting the Alabama’s attacks and demanding recompense. 2) (1864.) Correspondence Respecting the Alabama in Continuation of...February 1864. 18pp. Specific claim for recompense for sinking of the Sea Bride by the Alabama off the Cape of Good Hope; the British government summarily dis- misses the claim. 3) (1864.) Correspondence Respecting the Tuscaloosa. 32pp. The Tuscaloosa was a United States warship that the Alabama captured and made into a Confederate ship; it was then detained in a British port and the Confederacy attempted to regain it through much haggling about neutrality and “prizes of war.” 4) (1865.) Correspondence Arising Out of the Conflict Between the “Kearsage” and the “Alabama.” 15pp. The Kearsage sunk the Alabama; these papers convey the United States’ anger when another British vessel saved many of the escaping officers and sailors. 5) (1868.) Despatch from Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams, Respecting British and American Claims.... 1p. Dispatch rejects certain arbitration proposal. 6) (1871.) Correspondence Respecting the Appointment of a Joint High Committee to Consider the Various Questions Affecting the Relations Between Great Britain and the United States.... 6pp. 7) Despatch From Her Majesty’s High Commissioners, With Copy...Of The Treaty Signed At Washington. May 8, 1871. 12pp. Treaty setting up council of neutral arbitration, delineation of some international rules of neutrality. 8) (1872.) Case Presented on Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration.... 168pp. 9) (1872.) The Case of the United States to be Laid Before the Tribunal of Arbitra- tion.... 143pp. 10) (1872.) Correspondence Respecting the Presentation at Geneva of the British Counter-Case to the Arbitrators.... 2pp. 11) (1872.) Counter-Case Presented on the Part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration.... 154pp. 12) (1872.) Correspondence Respecting the Presentation of the Counter-Cases of Great Britain and the United States.... 6pp. 13) (1872.) The Counter-Case of the United States Presented to the Tribunal of Arbitration.... 49pp. 14) (1872.) Correspondence Respecting the Geneva Arbitration. 48pp. 15) (1872.) Correspondence Respecting the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitra- tion at Geneva. 12pp. 16) (1872.) Argument or Summary...by the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in Answer to the Claims of the United States.... 91pp. 17) Argument of the United States...June 15, 1872. 193pp. 18) (1873.) Papers Relating to the Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva. Part I.... 401pp. 19) (1874.) Correspondence with the Government of the United States Respecting the Communication to Other Governments of the Rules of the Treaty of Wash- ington. 21pp. 20) (1874.) Papers Respecting the Proceedings of the Mixed Claims Commission.... 128pp. $1250.

8. [Alabama Claims]: [COLLECTION OF SIXTY-TWO PETITIONS, BRIEFS, AMENDMENTS, DEPOSITIONS, AND OPINIONS IN SEVERAL CASES FILED BY AMERICAN CITIZENS AT- TEMPTING TO WIN CLAIMS FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ARISING FROM DEPREDATIONS BY BRIT- ISH-BUILT CONFEDERATE CRUISERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. [Washington, D.C. 1883-1885]. Several hundred total pages. String- tied or original self-wrappers. Some occasional edge wear. Very good.

A large collection of printed legal documents arising out of the so-called “Alabama Claims,” one of the major diplomatic controversies that grew out of the American Civil War. During and after the war citizens in the North claimed that British shipbuilders, in contravention of neutrality laws, built ships that were used by the Confederacy to attack northern shipping. The Confederate cruiser Alabama was one of many ships that raided Union commercial vessels, and millions of dollars in damages were claimed in all. The Treaty of Washington (1871) between the United States and Great Britain set up a commission that awarded some $15.5 million in damages to the United States. The American government then set up a commission to consider claims for damages by citizens who had been victimized by the attacks. The present collection of legal documents, almost certainly printed in small numbers for those involved in the court proceedings (which stretched into the 1880s), relates details of a large number of claims that were filed with the Alabama Claims Com- mission. Most of the complainants were owners of ships that were destroyed by the Alabama and other Confederate vessels outfitted in England, including the Texana (destroyed on June 10, 1863), the P.C. Alexander (destroyed Aug. 19, 1863), and the Ocilla (destroyed on Nov. 11, 1861). Fragments of an envelope accompanying the documents indicates that this collection came from the United States Treasury Department. An interesting and informative collection of legal documents, which would be difficult to reassemble on a piece-by-piece basis. $750.

9. [American Newspaper]: THE DAILY CITIZEN. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1863. Vicksburg, Ms.: J.M. Swords, Proprietor, 1863. Folio broadside, printed on wallpaper. Old folds, closed tear in blank margin of one fold, some spotting. Very good.

The newspapers printed on wallpaper in Vicksburg during its siege were widely noted at the time, and the Union troops who took possession of the city on July 4 completed and distributed the last issue standing in type. Numerous facsimile versions were published later. This is the first reproduction issue, probably produced in the North as a commemoration later in 1863. Brigham identifies this as the first reproduction, noting its minor variations from the original, mainly the substitution of the article, “Recent Federal Losses at Vicksburg,” in the last column. Brigham details some twenty facsimile versions. Brigham, “Wall-Paper Newspapers of the Civil War” in Bibliographical Essays for Wilberforce Eames (New York, 1924), pp.203-9. $1000.

From George Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign

10. Barnard, George N.: ALLATOONA FROM THE ETAWAH. [Plate 24]. [New York. 1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10 x 13 inches, on original two-tone gilt-edged thin card mount, 16 1/8 x 20 inches, with plate title and photographer’s credit. Very good. A fine copy of a stunning image from Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign, an album which is one of the two greatest photographic monuments to the Civil War and “a landmark in the history of photography” (Keith F. Davis). A contemporary reviewer wrote of this image and its companions: “These photographs... surpass any other photographic views which have been produced in this country – whether relating to the war or otherwise” (Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 8, 1866, p.771). This image comes from George N. Barnard’s album titled Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign, Embracing Scenes of the Occupation of Nashville, the Great Battles Around Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Campaign of Atlanta, March to the Sea, and the Great Raid Through the Carolinas (1866). This album, together with Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War (1866) are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War. Between them, they contain some of the most famous images of the War. The present image offers a poignant reminder of the trail of destruction left across the Confederacy by General William T. Sherman’s army in 1864 to 1865 during his famous campaign from Nashville to Chattanooga, then Atlanta, and so to Savannah and the sea, then by-passing Charleston, and north to Columbia. In the meantime, a smaller force had occupied Charleston and Fort Sumter. To the North, the military campaign was brilliant, bold, and decisive – an event worthy of the present monumental album. To the South, it was vicious, bloody, and destructive. DE RENNE, p.1317. HOWES B150, “b.” SABIN 3462. Taft, Photography and the American Scene, pp.232, 486. George N. Barnard, Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign...with a new preface by Beaumont Newhall (New York, 1977). Keith F. Davis, George N. Barnard Photographer of Sherman’s Campaign (Kansas City, Mo., 1990). $2000.

11. Barnard, George N.: THE ALLATOONA PASS LOOKING NORTH. GA. [Plate 29]. [New York. 1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10 x 13 inches, on original two-tone gilt-edged thin card mount, 16 1/8 x 20 inches, with plate title and photographer’s credit. A fine copy of a stunning image from Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign. DE RENNE, p.1317. HOWES B150, “b.” SABIN 3462. Taft, Photography and the American Scene, pp.232, 486. George N. Barnard, Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign...with a new preface by Beaumont Newhall (New York, 1977). Keith F. Davis, George N. Barnard Photographer of Sherman’s Campaign (Kansas City, Mo., 1990). $2000.

12. Barnard, George N.: SAVANNAH, GA. No. 1. [Plate 49]. [New York. 1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10 x 13 inches, on original two-tone gilt-edged thin card mount, 16 1/8 x 20 inches, with plate title and photographer’s credit. Very good.

A fine copy of a stunning image from Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign. DE RENNE, p.1317. HOWES B150, “b.” SABIN 3462. Taft, Photography and the American Scene, pp.232, 486. George N. Barnard, Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign...with a new preface by Beaumont Newhall (New York, 1977). Keith F. Davis, George N. Barnard Photographer of Sherman’s Campaign (Kansas City, Mo., 1990). $4750.

13. Barnard, George N.: SAVANNAH, GA. No. 2 [Plate 50]. [New York. 1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10 x 13 inches, on original two-tone gilt-edged thin card mount, 16 1/8 x 20 inches, with plate title and photographer’s credit. Fine.

14. [Barnes, Joseph K., editor]: THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.... Washington. 1875-1888. Six volumes. Illustrated with dozens of plates, many of which are fine chromolithographs of Civil War wounds. Thick, heavy quarto. Original green cloth, spines gilt. Bindings edgeworn, spine ends frayed. Hinges weak on most volumes, rear hinge broken on Medical volume of first part and front hinge broken on Medical volume of third part. Generally clean internally. A good set.

Second issue of the first part, and first issue of the second and third parts. “The horrors of the Civil War provided surgeons with a multitude of complicated cases. This vast work, in six bulky volumes, attempted to quantify the medical knowledge so painfully gained, extensively illustrating case histories with chromolithographic plates. The set marked the first major government subsidy in publishing medical research, the only such official study to rival the expenditure made for exploration surveys of the era” – Reese. Barnes was surgeon general. A landmark in medical illustration. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 80. $2500.

Rare Confederate Regimental

15. [Bartlett, Napier]: A SOLDIER’S STORY OF THE WAR; INCLUD- ING THE MARCHES AND BATTLES OF THE WASHINGTON ARTILLERY, AND OF OTHER LOUISIANA TROOPS. New Or- leans. 1874. 259,[1],[251]-252[i.e. 262],[2],13,[36]pp. plus ads. Original gilt cloth. Slight fraying at some edges, some tanning and scattered foxing. A very good copy.

“A highly reliable, even-tempered account of the war in Virginia by a member of the famed Washington Artillery; especially good for camp scenes” – Nevins. Although Howes calls for plates but states, “Both editions issued also without plates,” copies containing the mounted photographic plates are virtually unobtainable. This work was expanded and issued in 1875 as Military Record of Louisiana.... An important and scarce journal of military life during the Civil War. HOWES B206, “aa.” COULTER 18. NEVINS I, p.55. $1500.

16. Barton, Clara: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM CLARA BARTON TO JOSEPH L. KILLGORE, COMMANDER NEW YORK ASSOCIATION UNION OF EX-PRISONERS OF WAR]. Brooklyn, N.Y. May 5, 1907. [2]pp. on two sheets of letterhead of The Na- tional First Aid Association. Fine. In a quarto folding cloth case, leather label.

At the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln placed Clara Barton, the “Angel of the Battlefield,” in charge of the search for the missing men of the Union Army. In the summer of 1865, Barton, along with a detachment of workers, soldiers, and a former prisoner named Dorence Atwater, who had smuggled out a list of all the union soldiers who had lost their lives at Andersonville prison, came to the An- dersonville cemetery to identify and mark the graves of the Union dead. Thanks to Atwater’s list and the efforts of Clara Barton, over 12,000 soldiers who died at Andersonville were identified, and their graves were marked. Upon being invited to participate in a memorial service for the dead over forty years later, Barton responds with a ringing statement of hope:

Soldiers, it is well you meet to memorialize such an occasion, and immortalize such a day; for immortal it will be in one form or another, while history lasts. The world has no history so enduring as the history of its martyrs. They who write their names in blood, for the cause of righteousness, and humanity, like the Great Martyr of all, sign a deathless record. A record that neither perishes, nor fades with time, but like His holds a beacon Light for all coming generations. This, soldiers is your mission, the Holy cause which calls you together, which inspires your thought, and your action; and in this spirit I am with you, even unto that great day when wars shall cease, humanity fill its depleted ranks, – men calmly reasoning together shall search the right and the truth, and these shall make them free. $4500.

17. Barton, Clara: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM CLARA BARTON TO FREDERICK HILL MESERVE, RESPONDING TO HIS PROSPECTUS FOR The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln]. Glen Echo, Md. Nov. 24, 1910. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet of ruled paper, with mailing envelope addressed in Barton’s hand. Splitting along fold, else fine. In a quarto folding cloth case, leather label.

A particularly touching letter from the great humanitarian and nurse, Clara Barton (1821-1912), the “Angel of the Battlefields” of the Civil War, the indefatigable and courageous woman whom Abraham Lincoln appointed to search for the thousands of soldiers missing in action, and who in 1881 founded the American Red Cross. Here, on the eve of Thanksgiving, Barton responds to collector Frederic Hill Meserve’s advertisement for his soon-to-be-published book, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (1910). Here is the response from the eighty-eight-year-old Clara Barton:

...What a valuable and interesting volume that will be! Do not fear that I should think it sent with the hope of my subscription. – For every reason – no. Your own good judgment tells you I am not rich enough to possess such luxuries. – Again, that book should not be holden by the “Likes a one,” a mere light- ening scathed tree alone in a pasture. But, for the head of a family, with children and grandchildren to inherit and preserve as a rich family legacy. And this will be its role and destiny. Your “odd hours” are well employed; pleasurably, though laboriously to yourself, richly and profitably for others....

A remarkable response from this woman, to whom the face of Lincoln meant a great deal, and who, ever sensitive to the sight of suffering in others, wrote to a friend in 1864: “The Pres. grows more gaunt, pale, and careworn than ever. I feel badly when I think how much four years have changed him.” $4500.

18. Beale, Richard Lee Tuberville: HISTORY OF THE NINTH VIR- GINIA CAVALRY, IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. Rich- mond: B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899. 192pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt. Institutional bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip. Accession number neatly inscribed in blue crayon on front pastedown and titlepage. Some soiling, cloth brighter at foot of spine, where library label was evidently removed. Overall very good.

An exceptional Confederate regimental, earning rare praise from Nevins: “An excellent and descriptive narrative of cavalry operations in the East; the discerning nature of the book makes it a valuable research tool for all aspects of the war.” Beale led the North Virginia Cavalry as brigadier general, and the present narrative was found among his papers after his death in 1893. A roster, an article on the Dahlgren Raid, and an article comparing the “’Yankee’ and ‘Rebel’ Yells” are appended. COULTER 22. HOWES B274, “aa.” NEVINS I, p.56. $2000.

Archive of Civil War Letters on the Road to Appomattox with Great Battle Content, from a “Fire-Breathing” Union Soldier

19. Beard, E.J.H.: [ARCHIVE OF FIFTY-NINE CIVIL WAR LET- TERS, AUGUST 3, 1864 – JUNE 17, 1865, PLUS ELEVEN ADDI- TIONAL POST-CIVIL WAR LETTERS, 1867 – 1875, AND ONE TYPED LETTER FROM 1918 RECOUNTING THE WRITER’S EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCES]. [Various places]. 1864-1875. Together fifty-nine letters with 240 pages of war-date content, plus twelve letters with forty-seven pages of personal and non-war date content, for a total of approximately 287 pages. Condition of letters is generally excellent (an exception is letter 43, which is lightly foxed and closely written in pencil; however, the transcript shows quite an interesting battlefield letter). The letters are written in a fine, easily readable hand. In addition, the collection includes quite a number of Civil War postal covers. In a binder with mylar sleeves.

A great group of letters from a young man educated at Hamilton College in Clin- ton, New York. Beard was a prolific letter writer and his observations show a keen intellect and interest in his surroundings. Letters 1 to 12 (August to October, 1864) describe the following: In the summer of 1864 Beard was apparently actively campaigning for Lincoln; then in September Beard enlisted in the 91st New York Infantry as “heavy artillery.” Initially ill, he soon recovers and accompanies his regiment to Harper’s Ferry, where he gives great descriptions of the locations of “John Brown’s Notoriety,” whom he regards as a “patriot who nobly struggled for the advancement of the nation and the cause of humanity,” but he notes: “I can’t say that I admire the taste of Old John Brown who selected this place for his seat of operations. For surely a more godforsaken place I never saw.” The regiment went to Alexandria, and then Washington. “I declare I never saw so villainous a city in my life, would the public buildings taken away there were not be a single redeeming feature.” He goes on to describe the fortifica- tions of Washington in some detail. Then while stationed at City Point on Sept. 20th, 1864, he writes: “We hear at intervals the booming of the Petersburg siege guns and last night the rebs were said to have made a foraging raid within a short distance of camp....I am not sorry that I enlisted, it is too big a thing not to have a hand in...I feel it is a glorious cause & that there can be no fail.” While stationed at Fort McHenry in October of 1864 he was assigned to procure ballots, and has forwarded “80 Union Votes – to lend our might to defeat treason and Southern Villainy...I only wish I could guard the Copperheads of the North in our prison here.” Letters 13 to 28 (November 1864 to mid-January 1865) describe in great detail (not all of which has been transcribed) his time in the Post Hospital at Fort McHenry, including details of social history. For example, at one point a rebel prisoner was placed in the hospital bed next to him with the measles: “They get the same care and attention as our own soldiers. I wonder if they ever think of what they give our sick, or of the ‘tender mercies’ of Libby Prison.” He comments in one letter from the hospital about what the re-election of Lincoln meant for the Union: “It is to us, in this dark hour of our trial, what July 4th was to our fathers of the Revolution – a Pole Star to cheer and guide every friend of our Republic [and] a withering, blighting curse to every enemy.” He complains about election fraud in the regiment: “One thing I do know that in our regt. has been fraud of a kind here as black and diabolical as Satan himself ever invented. I don’t think that one republican vote in a hundred reached the polls & I think that McClellan got many votes from those who supposed they had voted the Union ticket.” The reb prisoners, he notes, “are the most ignorant low fellows that I have met as a class, few know how to read or write.” The letters give additional information on medical conditions, rations, and the overflowing conditions in the hospital at Fort McHenry. Letters 29 to 36 ( January to March, 1865) have him guarding rebel prisoners at Fort McHenry. He expects to be move to Fort Federal Hill about three miles from Fort McHenry, complains about long, cold marches which are hard on the heels and toes of his socks, and the long hours of guard duty. He wonders if the home town is getting enough volunteers to avoid the calling of a draft. “We are expecting five hundred more rebs here to guard tomorrow and yesterday they brought in 17 of Moseby’s gang of murderers, these will probably be shot or hung, no mercy should be shown the cut-throats.” “560 ‘Johnnies’ came in tonight. There is only about 300 men in the garrison to guard them, and these have to be guarded together with about 400 other rebs and prisoners, the order is given for every man to sleep with his rifle and his equipment in his bed as a safeguard against an outbreak – there will be some of them ‘spitting blood’ if they attempt to do anything rash.” “Day before yesterday there were 700 rebels brought into the Fort – as there was not room enough to stow them away in the prisons they were put in an unoccupied barrack; and we had to stand guard round them in mud up to our knees, my feet were soaked with the cold ice water for 24 hours.” Letters 37 to 43 (March to April, 1865) were written while on the road to Appomattox. Writing from the field near Hatcher’s run on March 5th, 1865, he describes the route from Fort McHenry: “we are now on the extreme left of the Federal line and our campground was occupied by the Myrmidons [hire ruffians] of Secesia (Secessiontists) two weeks ago. The picket lines are about half a mile from our encampment. Everything is quiet now, but we can’t tell at what moment we might have heavy work. Includes descriptions of the temporary accommodations and pine boughs for beds. “Our six months of garrison duty kept us so busily engaged that we are poorly prepared for blood-letting.” Letters 44 to 59 (April to June, 1865) cover his reactions to the assassination of President Lincoln as well as the end of the War and mustering out. Letters 60 to 71 (1867 to 1918) provide valuable biographical information on the remainder of Beard’s life, including a secret loan from his father so he could get married, and his school in Newton, Iowa. This correspondence is included with the Civil War letters. A detailed inventory of the letters, including quotations from many of them, is available upon request. $8500.

One of the Greatest American View Books

20. Beyer, Edward: ALBUM OF VIRGINIA; OR, ILLUSTRATION OF THE OLD DOMINION. Richmond [but actually Dresden & Ber- lin]: Edward Beyer [but printed by Rau & Son of Dresden and W. Loeillot of Berlin], 1858. Lithograph titlepage (with five vignettes) plus forty tinted lithograph plates. Oblong folio. Original gilt cloth boards bound onto larger modern three-quarter morocco and cloth. Titlepage lightly soiled and edgeworn. A few plates with closed marginal tears, expertly repaired; titlepage and each plate backed by tissue. [with:] [Beyer, Edward]: DESCRIPTION OF THE ALBUM OF VIRGINIA: OR THE OLD DOMINION, ILLUSTRATED. VOL. I [all published]. Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Printing Office, 1857. [79]pp. Original half calf and cloth boards, gilt title on front board. Text volume very clean internally. Overall a very good, handsome copy of a book very difficult to find in clean condition, here with the scarce accompanying text volume. Both volumes housed in folding cloth box.

Item 20. The Beyer album is one of the foremost American view books created in the 19th century. “This is a major outstanding item, the rarity of which is by no means fully appreciated” – Bennett. Edward Beyer was a German artist who visited the United States in the early 1850s. He chose to concentrate his work on Virginia and Kentucky, spending three years in Virginia working on the original drawings for this book. Although the titlepage asserts Richmond was the place of printing, the book was actually produced in Germany, with the plates being prepared in Dresden and the letterpress in Ber- lin. The superb tinted lithograph views include beautiful natural scenes, Harpers Ferry, White Sulphur Springs, railroad bridges and tunnels (e.g. Highbridge near Farmville), views in Weyer’s Cave, and scenes at many of the fashionable resorts which were nestled amid the mountains of Southwest Virginia. “He was taken by the beauty of the Virginia landscape, particularly by the elegant settings of some of the region’s watering places...Virginians responded warmly to Beyer’s enterprise and often gave him advance access to architectural plans when these could be of help to him. There was probably no Virginia county that Beyer left unvisited in his zeal to present what is, in fact, an affectionate family album of an entire state” – Deák. Deák praises Beyer’s “delicate and precise style” and “characteristic refinement of proportion.” It is one of the foremost works of American scenery. This copy of Beyer is notable for being accompanied by the small volume of explanatory text, separately published in Richmond in 1857. This volume is quite rare and almost never found with the album. HOWES B413, “b.” SABIN 5125. BENNETT, p.10. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 721. $45,000.

21. [Black Songster]: [Chaff, Gumbo, pseud]: THE ETHIOPIAN GLEE BOOK; A COLLECTION OF POPULAR NEGRO MELODIES, ARRANGED FOR QUARTETT CLUBS. No. 3. Boston: Published by Elias Howe, 1849. [2],115-167,[1]pp. Original yellow printed wrappers, front cover lacking. Rear wrapper lightly soiled and chipped. Contemporary pencil ownership inscriptions on front fly leaf. Lightly soiled. About good.

Excellent black songster, with music and words for forty-two songs, including “Darkies, Our Master’s Gone to Town,” “My Lubly Clementine,” “Ole Virginny,” “Picayune Butler, “Yaller Gals,” and others. It is noted as “No. 3” on the titlepage, and paginated in such a way as to make it the third part in a series of songsters. The first part was published the previous year. The headline above the title reads: “Published under de sankshun and wid de approbashun ob all de Darkey Bands truout de United State.” $1250. Buchanan Affirms His Belief in Democracy and the American People

22. Buchanan, James: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES BUCHANAN TO “MESSRS. MANN, DOUGHERTY, SCHELL, LYONS, RUSH & OTHERS”]. Bedford Springs. July 17, 1849. [2]pp. Quarto. Very good. In a red cloth chemise.

In response to an invitation to a public dinner in his honor, the former Secretary of State under Polk and the future fifteenth president of the United States, thanks his hosts, writing:

Your partiality has attributed too much to my “salesmanship.” The late [i.e. Polk] administration, it is true, were almost uniformly successful in their great measures & have left the Country eminently prosperous at home & enjoying a higher character abroad than at any former period of our history. But all this has been the result of clearly defined & well established Democratic principles honestly reduced into practice. The late lamented Presi- dent was faithful to his pledges & carried them into execution with energy, ability & success. For this, his memory will be ever revered. Still it was the people who gave the impulse; it was the progressive Democracy keeping pace with the advancing & improving spirit of the age which has swept away the abuses & the cobwebs of antiquity & substituted for them measures adapted to the intelligence & the wants of our existing civilisation. These measures will not, – cannot be materially changed by our successors. Those who indulge a different belief are destined to disappointment. A people so intelligent & enterprising as ours, with a boundless career before them of liberty, prosperity & power, never go backwards. On the contrary, they not only hold fast what they have already achieved; but convert each new acquisition into the means of still further advancement. You may rest assured that the age of National Banks, Pet Deposit Banks, high protective tariffs and illiberal and unwise commercial restrictions in our intercourse with foreign nations has passed away forever. $7500.

23. Buchanan, James: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES BUCHANAN TO REID SANDERS]. Wheatland, near Lan- caster. June 28, 1856. [2]pp. Old folds, else fine. with an engraved portrait. In a chemise.

Buchanan writes to eighteen-year-old Reid Sanders after his nomination at the Democratic convention. Reading in part:

You have proven a true prophet in regard to the nomination but according to the old proverb, no man can tell who will be chosen until after the election. I rejoice to learn that you are studying hard because I feel a deep interest in your welfare. The boy who does not study in his youth will bitterly repent this in later years. Since a cultivated intellect without health to make it effective will be of no use to the possessor himself or to the world. Exercise and moderate recreation are necessary to the formation of a vigorous constitution and these you ought by no means to neglect....Pray take regular exercise & reflect upon all you read so as to incorporate & appreciate it & not suffer it to slip away from your memory. $1000.

24. Buchanan, James: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES BUCHANAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO HON. CHARLES W. UPHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE, AND OTHERS]. Washington, D.C. May 25, 1857. [1½]pp. on first leaf of single folded sheet of stationery. Folio. A few wrinkles and old folds; two repairs to small, marginal tears. Overall very good.

The newly elected fifteenth president of the United States writes to representatives of the Massachusetts Legislature, declining an invitation to attend the “celebration of the seventeenth of June [Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker next & the inauguration of the Statue of General [ Joseph] Warren”:

I should be much gratified were it in my power to accept this distinguished honor for which I feel truly grateful & therefore, deeply regret that the pres- sure of important public business will render this impossible. No spectacle could afford me greater satisfaction than to be present at the inauguration of a Statue dedicated to the memory of the first great martyr in the cause of American Independence....

General Joseph Warren (1741-75) was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775. $1250.

25. Buchanan, James: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES BUCHANAN TO THE BISHOP OF OXFORD, INTRO- DUCING A FRIEND]. Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pa. Aug. 6, 1867. [1] p. Old folds, else quite fine.

Letter of introduction written by former president James Buchanan in the last year of his life, introducing Rev. Robert J. Nevin to the Bishop of Oxford in England. Nevin, who had recently been ordained in the Episcopal Church, was one of Bu- chanan’s neighbors; he commanded a company of Pennsylvania artillery in the Civil War. The letter reads:

Rt. Rev. Sir, Permit me to recall myself to your recollection by presenting to you my young friend, Rev. Robert J. Nevin who has recently been ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. I have known Mr. Nevin for a number of years; his family, which is highly respectable, being my near neighbours. He has been carefully educated under the direction of his father, an eminent Divine, and promises fair to become an able and useful member of the Church. In visiting England, he naturally desires to make the acquaintance of the Bishop of Oxford, whose name and character are justly appreciated on this side of the Atlantic. With sentiments of the highest regard I remain yours very respectfully. James Buchanan (1791-1868) had the misfortune to serve as president in the four years immediately preceding the Civil War. He served as U.S. Minister to England from 1853 to 1856, which was likely the source of his acquaintance with the Bishop of Oxford. $1500.

26. Butterfield, Carlos: UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE, AND STATISTICS OF MEXICO. New York: J.A.H. Hasbrouck & Co., 1860. Uncolored double-page map showing the proposed route of the Steamship Line; large folding handcolored map attached to rear pastedown titled “Map of the United States and Mexico. Published by Johnson & Browning, under the direction of Col. Carlos Butterfield” and dated 1859. Original dark brown cloth, covers elaborately blocked in blind, the flat spine divided into five compartments by blind fillets, lettered in gilt in the second compartment; pale yellow endpapers. Expert restoration at the joints. Very good. Provenance: Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900, signatures, judge, congressman, and territorial governor of Montana Territory).

One of the best statistical reviews of Mexico for the period, together with an important map. Referring to the map, Wheat writes:

Each state is brilliantly colored, and the West, which takes up a quarter of the map is interesting....The Pacific Railroad Routes are all shown, and a dashed line carries the emigrant route over the Sierra Nevada...[and shows] the mail route from Boonville, in Missouri, to San Francisco....The map is a most important one for showing the political subdivisions of the West, and its tracing of the “Mail Route” on the route of the Butterfield Stageline.

WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 978. SABIN 9666. $2500.

27. Chesney, Charles Cornwallis: A MILITARY VIEW OF RECENT CAMPAIGNS IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. [with:] CAM- PAIGNS IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND, etc. etc....VOLUME THE SECOND. (CONTINUING THE HISTORY TO THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR). London. 1863/1865. Two volumes. vii,230pp. plus two maps; viii,234pp. plus five maps and errata slip. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Without the errata slip in the first volume. Very good.

Chesney was a British military observer of the Civil War. While the second title is designated “Volume the Second,” the volumes were issued in two different years and are seldom found as a set. The second volume is inscribed by the author: “Brig. General Napier with the Author’s Regards New Year 1865.” Robert Cornelius Napier (1810-90) was a major British military figure, first baron Napier of Magdala and commander in chief in India. “A rather precise early account by a professor at the British Staff College” – Nevins. HOWES C351. SABIN 12520, 12521. NEVINS I, p.25. $850.

No Habeas Corpus: The Prisoners of the Guantanamo of the Civil War and Their Stories

28. [Civil War]: “IN PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM.” PRISONERS CONFINED AT FORT WARREN BOSTON HARBOR NOVEM- BER 1861. “PRISONERS OF STATE” OR “POLITICAL PRISON- ERS” SO STYLED BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. ARRESTED AND HELD AS PRISONERS BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES [manuscript titlepages]. Boston. 1861. Fifty pages with manuscript text or signatures; the majority of the leaves in the volume are blank. Quarto. Original calf, “Fort Warren, Massachusetts” stamped in gilt on front board, expertly rebacked in matching calf. Calf rubbed, edges and corners repaired. Manuscript titlepage and following five leaves stained, else quite clean and very good internally. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A remarkable manuscript artifact of the Civil War, this album is a collection of signatures and statements of the men held at Fort Warren, Massachusetts in 1861. The nature and tone of the volume indicates that it was created by the prisoners as a memorial of their confinement and, in several cases, as an opportunity to state the details of their capture. The translation of the Latin title at the beginning of the volume is “in everlasting remembrance.” Among those who have signed the album or given statements of the details of their capture are the Confederate diplomats seized in the Trent Affairs, James Mason and John Slidell, Kentucky Governor Charles Morehead, a number of Maryland state politicians and police officials, and several United States military officers who resigned their commissions and were subsequently arrested. Fort Warren, completed shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, is located on Georges Island in the entrance to Boston Harbor. During the Civil War it served as a prison for Confederate officers and government officials. The majority of the political leaders imprisoned there came from Maryland, as is evidenced in this album. In 1865, after the period covered in this album, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens was detained at Fort Warren for five months. The most famous names in this album are those of James Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana, the Confederate envoys to Great Britain and France. On November 8, 1861, while on their way to England on the British mail steamer Trent, the pair were captured by Union forces and taken to Fort Warren, where they were held prisoner until January 1862. Mason and Slidell’s signatures are the first in this volume, directly following the manuscript titlepages. Following their signatures are those of George Eustis and James E. Macfarland, their secretaries. A full page of the volume is taken up by Kentucky Governor Charles S. More- head’s manuscript account of his arrest for treason. Kentucky tried to remain neutral during the war, but the Confederates occupied the state in the summer of 1861, and a breakaway faction tried to establish a Confederate government. Morehead publicly advocated neutrality, though he was personally sympathetic to the South and was critical of Lincoln. Morehead writes:

On the night of the 18th of Sept. 1861, I was taken out of my bed at 2 o’clock by the Federal Marshal for Kentucky upon a warrant for treason. I urgently requested him to wait until day light, but this was refused and I was placed in a hack and carried to the bank of the Ohio river where I was directed to get into a skiff to be transported to Jeffersonville Ind....A writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Catron of the Supreme Court, and the Marshal returned that I was in his custody and would be delivered up next morning....The grand jury sat upon my case for ten days and have certified that all that was proved against me was that I had said “war was disunion.”

A large portion of the signatures in this album are those of members of the Maryland state legislature who were imprisoned at Fort Warren, many of them also giving the date of their arrest. Maryland was another of the so-called border states in the Civil War – though it did not join the Confederacy, it harbored a large number of Confederate sympathizers. On September 11, 1861, President Lincoln ordered the arrest of Maryland legislators who were openly pro-Confederacy. Among those signing this album are E.G. Kilbourn, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates; Charles Pitts; Henry Warfield; Bernard Mills; and James Maxwell, all of whom were arrested in mid-September 1861. In all, nineteen members of the Maryland legislature are represented by signatures and statements in this album. The names of several other legislators who were arrested but discharged after swearing an oath of allegiance to the United States are also given. Also giving statements as to the particulars of their arrests are several Baltimore police officials, including Marshal George Kane; Charles Howard, president of the Baltimore Board of Police; and Police Commissioner John Davis. Several other signatures and statements are from United States army and navy officers who had resigned their commissions and were subsequently arrested for disloyalty. Another section contains signatures of Confederate officers captured at Fort Hatteras on August 29, 1861, and other prisoners of war. A gentleman of Richmond, Virginia whose signature is unintelligible has noted that he was “il- legally and cowardly kidnapped by the U.S. Detective ‘Munson’ alias ‘Baker’ in the city of Philadelphia on the 20th Sept. 1861.” Another prisoner, Mr. Winder of Philadelphia, takes the opportunity of writing in this volume to describe conditions upon his arrival at Fort Warren “when for one week in a room 14 x 20 with eight others had only the bare floors (stone) with no particle of bedding or furniture of any kind....” Charles Green of Savannah notes that he was arrested in Detroit, on his way back from England, on “suspicion of having been engaged in purchasing arms in Europe for the Confederate government.” Another signature is that of the editor of the Franklin Gazette, in Malone, New York. It is interesting to note that many were arrested in the dead of night, thereby reducing their chance of escape and indicating the urgency felt by federal officials. In all the volume contains the signatures of some seventy-five prisoners at Fort Warren, many with accompanying statements. A quite remarkable record of the Confederate prisoners held at Fort Warren in the first year of the Civil War, featuring the signatures Confederate diplomats James Mason and John Slidell, and Kentucky Governor Charles Morehead. $25,000.

The Trent Affair in Humorous Verse

29. [Civil War]: [Trent Affair]: THE LOST AMBASSADORS. SHOW- ING HOW THEY WENT FORTH AND IN WHAT MANNER THEY RETURNED. A BALLAD, AFTER THE MODEL OF JOHNNY GILPIN. By Anti-Secesh [caption title]. Boston. Nov. 25, 1861. Broadside, 14 x 7 inches. Old folds. Top half lightly dampstained; light soiling. Slight separation at some folds. About good.

Broadside printing of a song, in thirty-three stanzas, chronicling the capture of the Confederate envoys to Great Britain and France, James Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana. On November 8, 1861, while on their way to England on the British mail steamer Trent, the pair were captured by Union forces and taken to Fort Warren, where they were held prisoner until January 1862. Scarce, with only four copies located in OCLC, at New-York Historical, Brown, Harvard, and the American Antiquarian Society. $675.

30. [Civil War]: ON THE RUN! AN M.C. ON THE ROAD TO WASHINGTON, ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIGHT AT BULL RUN WHO ATTRIBUTED HIS SAFETY TO THE FACT THAT HE WORE A PAIR OF MAULDIN & CO’S IRREPRESSIBLE BOOTS! THE EASE, ELASTICITY, STRENGTH AND DURA- BILITY OF WHICH AIDED HIM IN DISTANCING ALL COM- PETITORS!...[caption title]. [Indianapolis. 1861]. Broadside, 18¾ x 6¼ inches, with 4 x 4-inch woodcut illustration on top quarter of the sheet. Old folds, very minor soiling. Pencil inscriptions of sums on recto. Entire verso inscribed in pencil with notes (accounts? inventory notes?) dated between Dec. 17, 1858 and July 10, 1860. A very good copy.

A fine and amusing illustrated Civil War-era broadside advertising boots for sale at the Mauldin & Co. store in Indianapolis. Printed after the first major battle of the Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run, the text refers to the retreat of Union Forces on July 21-22, 1861 under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell, noting that an M.C. (assumedly a Member of Congress, portrayed on the run in the woodcut illustration) was able to safely escape due to his footwear from the Indiana firm.

A few more of the same sort are in store, and will be specially reserved for those who intend witnessing the next Great Battle, in which the gallant M’Clellan [Gen. George B. McLellan, who replaced McDowell] is destined to achieve a glorious victory! Not to be invidious, Mauldin & Co., have also a stock of boots and shoes, suitable for all ages, sexes and classes of society, the best they have ever had in Indiana, and in consequence of the war panic they will dispose of them at prices never before heard of in the Hoosier State.

The broadside indicates prices for brogans for men, boys, and youth and a variety of footwear for children and ladies. A rare advertising broadside from the beginning of the Civil War, with no copies located on OCLC or RLIN. $1750.

Lost Cotton, Lost Jobs

31. [Civil War]: THREATENED DISSOLUTION OF THE AMER- ICAN REPUBLIC, AND GREAT MOMENTARY PANIC AMONGST THE BRITISH MANUFACTURERS AND SHIP- PING AGENTS. UPWARDS OF HALF A MILLION OF MER- CHANDIZE FORCED UPON THE HOME MARKET AT AN ALARMING SACRIFICE...[caption title and first line of text]. [London. 1861]. Broadside, 15 x 9 inches. Small loss at bottom edge, neatly repaired. Lightly toned. Very good. Archivally matted.

As the Civil War opened, the southern states – here referred to as “the Land of Inhumanity, Cotton and Slaves” – believed that their control of cotton would be a deciding factor, bringing Britain into the war on their side. Nearly twenty percent of the entire British population depended in some way on the cotton trade and, as the Charleston Mercury announced on June 4, 1861, “the cards are in our hands, and we intend to play them out to the bankruptcy of every cotton factory in Great Britain.” Because of a record 1860 crop, however, there was no shortage of raw cotton at the beginning of the war. The decline in demand and the unwillingness of English merchants to trust the American export market for finished goods led to the dumping of existing stocks at reduced prices on the home market. This broadside advertises one such panicked sale, made by Aeneas Head, with cotton bales discounted 53.5% from the invoice prices. An interesting piece. $1250.

The Elephant and the Donkey

32. [Civil War]: JEFF. SEES THE ELEPHANT [caption title]. Hartford: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, [ca. 1861-1862]. Colored lithograph, 11 x 15 inches within the mat. Tanned. Matted and framed. Very good.

A rare, significant, and humorous political cartoon satirizing the Confederacy, and quite likely the first instance in which an elephant and a donkey were used to sym- bolize competing political entities in the United States. The Union is symbolized by a powerful elephant, who wears a blue coat and shoes and stockings decorated in the manner of the American flag. He carries the Constitution in his pocket and holds a sword in his right hand and eight cannons in his left. Behind him are more cannons, a pile of cannonballs, the flag, and the U.S. Capitol. The elephant stares at a donkey in the left side of the image. The donkey, dressed as a dandy and symbolizing Jefferson Davis, raises a monocle to peer at the elephant. He holds a plumed helmet decorated with a skull and crossbones. Behind the donkey stands an army of donkeys, carrying rakes, pitchforks, brooms, and scythes. A gallows in the background between the elephant and the donkey portends a bleak future for the Confederacy. The phrase “seeing the elephant” gained popularity during the Gold Rush and meant “seeing it all.” In this instance, Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy see the full array of Union might. The Kelloggs share the imprint with George Whiting of New York, but the print is very clearly the work of the Kellogg brothers. The Kelloggs were one of the major American printmaking firms of the 19th century, and their operation and output closely resembled that of Currier & Ives. “During the war, [the Kelloggs] produced a series of remarkable prints that have received little attention. These colorful cartoons with delightful animal figures in graphically clever designs are very different from those published by other American lithographers during the war. The Kellogg prints are today quite rare, but they are well worth bringing into the limelight” – Lane. Lane notes a total of nine recorded Civil War cartoons issued by the Kelloggs, all of them incorporating animals into the image. Not in Reilly’s catalogue of American political prints in the Library of Con- gress. Not in Nelly, Holzer and Boritt’s studies of prints depicting the Union and the Confederacy. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the American Antiquarian Society. Rare, and a fascinating Civil War satirical print. WEITENKAMPF, p.129. OCLC 191119953. Christopher Lane, “The Kellogg Menagerie of Civil War Cartoons” in The Magazine Antiques, July 2006. FINLAY, PICTURING VICTORIAN AMERICA, PRINTS BY THE KELLOGG BROTHERS 455. $3500.

A Set of War Department General Orders 1861-63, with the Emancipation Proclamation

33. [Civil War]: [Lincoln, Abraham]: [COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 400 GENERAL ORDERS FROM THE WAR DEPART- MENT DURING THE CIVIL WAR, INCLUDING THE EMAN- CIPATION PROCLAMATION, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL GENERAL ORDERS FROM THE NAVY DEPARTMENT]. Wash- ington. 1861-1863. Six volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Hinges cracked but solid. Light wear to spines and boards. Quite clean internally. Very good.

An extensive collection of general orders from the War Department, covering the first three years of the war, and including “General Orders No.1” for 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation. This is the first generally available version of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued, according to Eberstadt, about January 7, 1863. He designates this the fifth edition, following the two State Department issues, the newspaper extra in the Illinois State Journal, and the Circular Letter edition of January 5, all of which are extremely rare (two of them are known in a single copy only). Thus, this is the first obtainable edition of one of the great American state papers. In addition to the most famous of the Civil War’s general orders, this set of orders covers issues of staffing and personnel, including enlistments, promotions, casualties, and pay issues; provisioning and supplying; the formation of military departments; courts martial; and army medical directives. Several orders from the navy are also represented here, including one abolishing forever the naval ration of spirituous liquors. An important source for the history of the Civil War. EBERSTADT, LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 12. STREETER SALE 1751. $5000.

34. [Civil War]: JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE. THURSDAY 6 P.M., JULY 3, 1862. EXTRA. A DISPATCH FROM GENERAL McCLEL- LAN, DATED WEDNESDAY, 5:30 P.M. THE ARMY SAFE IN CAMP!! ON JAMES RIVER. Janesville [Wi.]: Janesville Daily Gazette, July 3, 1862. Broadside, 6 x 4½ inches. Old creases. Minor stains, otherwise clean. A very good copy.

An unrecorded Civil War broadside publicizing a dispatch from Union General George B. McClellan following The Seven Days’ Battles, which occurred between June 26 and July 2, 1862. In the course of that week Union and Confederate forces fought a series of battles in five different locales. At the end of these engagements the Confederates withdrew to Richmond. In his dispatch, a special to the Janesville Daily Gazette, McClellan states that he had succeeded in getting his army safely onto the bank of the James River. The General places the events in the best light possible, stating: “we had a severe battle, Tuesday, and that we beat the enemy badly, the men even fighting better than before; that the men are in good spirits, and that reinforcements have arrived from Washington. This being official, is a great relief to the gloomy feeling caused by this morning’s dispatch.” Although most of the battles in the Seven Days can be considered Union victories, the overall outcome of the campaign was still not particularly successful for the Union, due to McClellan’s weaknesses as a commander in the field. Afterwards, the Union’s Peninsular Campaign was abandoned and the majority of McClellan’s men were transferred to John Pope’s army in Northern Virginia. $600. Army Field Press Newspaper: Only Known Copy of Only Known Issue

35. [Civil War]: THE NEWS-LETTER. VOL. 1. OTTERVILLE. MO., JAN. 27, 1862. No. 1. [caption title]. [with:] [AN INDIANA SOL- DIER’S AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, DATED JANUARY 31, 1861, INSCRIBED ON BLANK PAGES]. Otterville, Mo. January 27, 1862. [2]pp. printed in three columns; [2]pp. inscribed. On light blue paper. Bifolium, with recto of first leaf and verso of second leaf printed; blank internal pages inscribed in contemporary ink. Early folds, with minor separations. One-inch closed tear in lower margin, and separation in outer margins, both repaired with cellophane tape. Manuscript ink heavily faded. Overall very good.

A fascinating and unrecorded Civil War field press publication, inscribed on its internal blank pages with a soldier’s autograph letter home. The News-letter was printed at the U.S. encampment in Otterville, Missouri to serve as both a camp newspaper and soldiers’ stationery. This first and only known issue begins with the following explanation:

The design of a letter [s]heet is not new. In the early history of California, John Phoenix [George H. Derby] issued a similar publication with great success. It is our design to publish it once a week. It shall be made as interesting as circumstances and our ability will warrant, and at the small price charged for it every soldier can mail home the “News-letter.’” Price 5 cents each.

The paper, edited by J.K. Davisson of the 24th Indiana Volunteers, prints officers’ names for the 24th and 26th Indiana Volunteers; a pair of poems; camp news; and a spoof of a high-etiquette military orders manual, entitled “The New Hardee” (“Oblige me now by casting your visual organs to the front....Allow me to suggest the propriety of your coming to arms...”). The paper’s frequently tongue-in-cheek reports of news in and around Otterville provide an uncommon insight into both camp life and soldiers’ humor during the war. In the early weeks of 1862, the Indiana infantry at Otterville were digging massive trenches to protect an important local railroad bridge from Confederate guerilla attacks. One soldier, William Smith, writes home to Indiana in the two blank internal pages of this copy of The News-letter, discussing the entrenchments, stating his general misery over the war and predictions that it soon will end, and admonishing his brothers not to consider enlisting.

[I]t would have been beter for me as far as my health is concerned if...I had stayed at home[.] Brothers you say you are going to inlist you must not think hard of it because I partialy called you cowards becaus I do not think you are any more than myself for to tell the truth I do not want to take Secesh [?]ills any more than any one els and if you know when you are both well off you will stay at home and never go to war[.] [ J]ust wait until...I see you again and tell you what I have seen and done since I have been a Soldier and if you wish to do the same you may try it[.] I intend to come home as soon as the war is over....

The letter is dated January 31, 1862 at the “Camp near Oterville.” A full transcrip- tion of the letter is available upon request. $2500.

36. [Civil War]: THE OLD BULL DOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK. New York: Currier & Ives, 1864. Uncolored lithograph, 13½ x 17¾ inches. One vertical and three horizontal folds. Closed splits along three of the folds, and a closed tear in the lower margin (but with no paper loss). Small Masonic label affixed below the imprint. Two tiny holes in the center of the image. A few small stains on the recto, some mounting residue on the verso. A fair copy, but the image is clean. Matted.

A rare and fascinating political print from the Civil War, satirizing the presidential ambitions and courage of George McClellan, highlighting the growing reputation and national standing of Ulysses S. Grant, and showing cowering Confederate leaders. The print shows a bulldog representing Grant – he has three stars on his shoulder and wears a collar reading Lieutenant General – sitting on the tracks of the “Weldon Railroad.” The Weldon road was a major Confederate supply route connecting Petersburg, Virginia to North Carolina. At the far end of the route is a dog house representing Richmond, inhabited by Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and P.G.T. Beauregard, as well as a number of frightened dogs. Davis tells Grant, “you ain’t got this kennel yet old fellow!” and Grant replies, “I’m bound to take it.” Grant had failed to take the Weldon railroad in June 1864, but by that August the railroad was permanently under Union control, and Richmond was threatened. On the left side of the image is a diminutive General George McClellan, who was running against Lincoln as the Democratic candidate for president in 1864. Mc- Clellan pusillanimously asks Lincoln to call off Grant, lest he “hurt those other dogs.” Lincoln stands between Grant and McClellan, and chastises “Little Mac,” reminding him that the rebel leaders are “the same pack of curs that chased you aboard of the gunboat two years ago...,” an allusion to McClellan’s disappointing performance at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862, and his failure to capture Rich- mond during his Peninsular Campaign. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the American Antiquarian Society; there are also copies at the Library of Congress and the Lincoln Museum. A rare Civil War political print, and one that clearly demonstrates the growing reputation of Grant, which would help sweep him into the White House in 1868. REILLY, AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS, 1766-1876, 1864-18. WEITENKAMPF, p.142. WILSON, LINCOLN IN CARICATURE, pp.294-95. NEELY & HOLZER, THE UNION IMAGE, pp.169, 175; figure 87. CURRIER & IVES CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 4939. PETERS, CURRIER & IVES 1665. OCLC 191120049. $850. 37. [Civil War Broadside]: [Missouri]: HEADQUARTERS 2d SUB- DISTRICT OF ST. LOUIS DISTRICT, CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., OCTOBER 1st, 1864. SPECIAL ORDER No. 124. COL. HENRY J. DEAL, COMMANDING THE MISSISSIPPI COUNTY REGI- MENT OF E.M.M., WILL CALL HIS SAID REGIMENT INTO SERVICE IMMEDIATELY...[caption title]. [Missouri. 1864]. Broad- side, approximately 10¾ x 7¾ inches. Light dampstain covering the right two-thirds of the broadside, light wear, else very good. Mounted on cardboard and matted in a modern wood frame.

An unrecorded special orders broadside calling into service members of the En- rolled Missouri Militia in Mississippi County during the Civil War. The Enrolled Missouri Militia was organized in 1862 as a compulsory part-time militia for Missouri men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five loyal to the Union and not otherwise engaged in military service. The militia served principally to guard garrisons and infrastructure and free the volunteer Missouri State Militia to fight bands of pro-Confederate guerillas. The special orders are signed here in print by Lieut. Col. Cmdg. H.M. Hiller, Lieut. L.E. Irwin, “A.A.A. Genl.,” Col. Comdg. Henry J. Deal, and Adjutant George M. Keyser. A rare and interesting piece of Civil War ephemera from the beleaguered border state of Missouri. $1500.

Goin’ Up the River to New Orleans

38. [Civil War Manuscript Map]: BOMBARDMENT OF FORTS JACKSON & St. PHILIP [manuscript title]. [Louisiana. 1862?]. Manu- script map on a sheet of blue paper, 14 x 8½ inches. Drawn on the verso of a legal form carrying a printed date of 1859. Old folds. Small closed tear near top edge of map, not affecting image. Small stain in right edge, a few light smudges. Near fine.

An interesting, informative, and well-executed contemporary manuscript map, showing the Union Navy bombardment of forts Jackson and St. Philip on the lower Mississippi River, days before Admiral David Farragut took New Orleans. New Orleans was of the utmost importance during the Civil War, and its capture by Union forces was a huge strategic and psychological blow to the Confederacy. Most of the Confederacy’s defenses on the Mississippi were located north of New Orleans, with only forts Jackson and St. Philip defending the city from the south. Those two forts were located about forty miles above the mouth of the Mississippi and seventy miles south of New Orleans. In early 1862 it was clear that the Union was going to attempt to capture New Orleans, as they moved toward the city from the north and the south. A Union fleet commanded by Farragut and supported by David Porter sailed up the Mississippi from the south and attacked forts Jackson and St. Philip beginning in mid-April, as depicted on this map. Porter’s mortars bombarded the forts for several days, and early on the morning of April 24 Farra- gut’s fleet attempted to ram through the Confederate blockades and past the forts. Farragut was successful, and arrived at New Orleans the next day. This map appears to have been drawn by a Confederate sailor or soldier. It is signed “C.H.” beside the manuscript title. The map is oriented with the east at the top and the north to the left side of the map, and shows a long stretch of the Mississippi bending between the two forts. Two points on the river are marked to show the position of the Iron Clad battery “Louisiana” on the river – the location where Confederate General Johnson Kelly Duncan desired to place it, and its position “when the enemy passed up the river.” At the northern end of the Mississippi is shown the location of the “C.S. River Fleet,” with the “enemy’s gunboats” and Porter’s flotilla located on the southern end of the river. The position of six Union mortar boats on the first day of the engagement is also shown. The locations of several batteries are shown on the shore, as is the “Quarantine Station and Hos- pital” at the north end, “occupied by the land forces of the U.S. the day the fleet passed up the River.” Though undated, this map seems to have been drawn shortly after the battle. The map is drawn on the verso of a legal form carrying a printed date of 1859, and with the printed name of W.O. Denégre, Assistant City Attorney (the name and title have been crossed out in manuscript). Denégre was Assistant City Attorney of New Orleans from 1858 to 1860, when he became City Attorney. On this side of the sheet has also been pasted a contemporary newspaper clipping discussing the fate of the Confederate ram, Manassas, during the battle. $3500.

Civil War Panorama, with Explanatory Leaf in Chinese

39. [Civil War Panorama]: [San Francisco]: THE MOST REALISTIC WAR-SCENE EVER PRODUCED. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG CORNER MARKET AND TENTH STS. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. San Francisco: J.R. Brodie & Co., [ca. 1890]. [49]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, insect damage at edges. Internally clean. Overall, very good.

A rare promotional for the Battle of Gettysburg panorama and museum, located at the corner of Market and Tenth streets in San Francisco. This pamphlet is em- blematic of the great popularity of panoramas in the 19th century. The museum was open daily except Sunday, from 9a.m. to 11p.m., and admission was fifty cents for adults, half that for children. The panorama, it is claimed, was based on careful study of the battle, and measured four hundred feet long by fifty feet wide. The promoters assert that “our presentation of the Battle of Gettysburg is so lifelike that any one who examines it, and listens to our explanatory lecture, goes away with a clear and correct knowledge of this important conflict of arms.” The text goes on to give a detailed history of the battle, and rosters of officers who participated. The conclusion of the text contains brief descriptions of the panorama in French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Chinese. The verso of the front wrapper contains an illustration of the attractive building that housed the museum. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the California State Library, though that copy appears to lack the page of descriptive text in Chinese. Rare. OCLC 645246701. $750.

Jeff Davis Celebrated in Baltimore

40. [Civil War Sheet Music]: Toulmin, Alfred F.: MOST RESPECTFUL- LY DEDICATED TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. CON- FEDERACY MARCH [caption title]. Baltimore: Published by George Willig, [1861]. Title-leaf (with lithographic portrait of Jefferson Davis), plus five pages of musical score. Dbd. Early ink bookseller’s stamp in lower outer corner of title-leaf. Very good.

An interesting example of the strong pro-Confederate sentiment in Baltimore, this piano march glorifying Jefferson Davis and the C.S.A. was published in Baltimore in the first year of the Civil War, probably in the period between Davis’ election and the actual outbreak of hostilities in the spring of 1861. The titlepage contains a large, handsome lithographic portrait of Confederate President Davis. The music was written by Alfred F. Toulmin of the Patapsco Institute in Ellicott City, Maryland. OCLC locates only three copies, at the University of Alabama, Duke, and the Library of Virginia. This copy bears the ink stamp of A&S Nordheimer of Montreal, a prominent 19th-century dealer in sheet music and musical instruments. Rare, and an interesting example of pro-Confederate sentiment in Maryland. OCLC 19550242. $2000.

41. Clarke, H.C.: DIARY OF THE WAR FOR SEPARATION, A DAI- LY CHRONICLE OF THE PRINCIPLE EVENTS AND HISTORY OF THE PRESENT REVOLUTION, TO WHICH IS ADDED NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE GREAT BATTLES INCLUDING WALKER’S NARRATIVE OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. [Augusta, Ga.: Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1862]. 191pp. Modern half morocco and cloth. Old ex-lib. ink stamp on titlepage and another leaf. Somewhat dust soiled. Else very good.

A revealing account of the war by the leading wartime printer of Vicksburg, Missis- sippi. The Diary... covers the period through Jan. 2, 1863, thus the actual printing date for this title must have been after 1862. The copyright notice and the standard bibliographies list this book as having been printed in 1862, and Howes calls it “another issue,” after an 1862 edition of fifty-six pages. The book includes accounts of the battles of Shiloh, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Corinth, Cedar Run, and the first battle on Manassas Plains. In addition to his journal of the war and the battle accounts, Clarke includes a general history of the “old” Union before the war, with an interesting discussion of abolitionism in the North. HOWES C454. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 11. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4768. NEVINS II, p.215. $4500.

Item 41.

42. [Colt, Samuel]: ARMSMEAR: THE HOME, THE ARM, AND THE ARMORY OF SAMUEL COLT. A MEMORIAL. New York. 1866. 399pp. Maps and plates. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter gilt morocco and pebbled cloth. Some negligible edge rubbing, else near fine.

This elaborate memorial volume is a tribute to the famous gun designer and manu- facturer, Samuel Colt, prepared after his death by his widow. Besides describing the grounds of the Colt estate in Hartford, it contains a great deal of information relating to Colt’s career, the development of his business and of his famous revolver, which played such a central role in shaping the West. This work was also issued in a simple cloth binding. HOWES C618, “b.” $2250.

Huge Wall Map

43. Colton, G.W., and Phelps & Watson: GENERAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH PROVINCES, MEXICO, THE WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA WITH PART OF NEW GRANADA AND VENEZUELA. [with:] G. WOOLWORTH COLTON’S NEW COUNTY MAP OF THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH CANADA etc. New York: Phelps & Watson, 1862. Wall map, 47 x 43 inches, full period color. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth, on contemporary rollers. A few creases and a bit of expected tanning. Very good.

A curious wall map, being a combination of two maps drawn by G.W. Colton and published by Phelps & Watson. The depiction of Virginia is significant on this map. Issued between the time when delegates from western Virginia declared independence from the state, but before West Virginia was admitted into the Union, it shows Vir- ginia with its full pre-Civil War boundary. It is also noteworthy that Virginia was included at all in a map of the “northeastern United States” issued during the Civil War. The upper half shows a map of the entire United States, the southern portion of Canada, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the tip of Venezuela. All the territories and states of the United States are shown, and no distinction is made between Confederate and Union states. The lower half contains Colton’s more detailed county map of the American northeast, with Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri in the south, and Kansas and the Nebraska and Dakota territories in the west. The entire map is bordered in a grapevine motif with engravings of the U.S. capitol, Mount Vernon, Willamette Falls, Oregon, and the Connecticut River Valley in the corners, and four obelisk-shaped monuments in the vertical borders. It also includes a table of distances within the United States and internationally, as well as tables of “Square Miles and Population of the United States” and “Population of the Slave States for 1850 and 1860.” Not in Phillips’ Maps or Wheat. RUMSEY 718. $3500.

44. [Compromise of 1850]: [after Matteson, Tompkins H.]: UNION. New York: Published by William Pate, 1852. Engraving with etching and mezzotint, 22½ x 28½ inches (visible dimensions). Matted and framed. Fine.

A handsome and scarce American political print, depicting the major figures in American politics of the antebellum era. The focus of the image is the “Great Tri- umvirate” of the era: Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. Calhoun had died two years before this print was published, and Clay and Webster would pass before the end of the year; but this print, engraved after a painting by Tompkins H. Matteson, brings them together with an array of notable American politicians in a celebration of the tentative national stability achieved by the Compromise of 1850. The central standing figure is John Calhoun, who actually opposed the Com- promise and died before its passage. Both the Whig and the Democratic parties, however, had formally endorsed the Compromise in their respective party platforms leading up to the 1852 election. Calhoun is shown with a quill pen in one hand, the other hand resting on a copy of the Constitution. Daniel Webster also lays a hand on the Constitution, which sits under a bust of George Washington. Henry Clay sits in a chair to Calhoun’s left. Also depicted in the image are Gen. Win- field Scott, the hero of the Mexican War; the great explorer and future presidential candidate, John C. Fremont; Stephen A. Douglas; Lewis Cass; President Millard Fillmore (who holds a shield); Speaker of the House Howell Cobb; Thomas Hart Benton; former Secretary of State John Clayton; Attorney General John Crittenden; Sen. Sam Houston of Texas; and others. We are able to locate only two copies of this engraving, at the Library of Con- gress and the American Antiquarian Society. A handsome print, depicting the most important politicians of mid-19th-century America and commemorating a Union that was on the road to dissolution. REILLY, AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS, 1766-1876, 1852-7. The Lincoln Image, pp.68-69. OCLC 466639232. $1250.

45. [Confederate Bond]: [$5 ARKANSAS WAR BOND]. Little Rock: J.D. Butler, Print., 1861. One bond, approximately 5½ x 8½ inches in total size (including margins), comprising certificate (approximately 3¼ x 8 inches, not including margins) and nine of ten attached coupons (each approximately ¾ x 1¾ inches). Printed in red and blue and stamped in black, with “11646” inscribed in ink on the certificate and each coupon. Certificate signed twice in manuscript. One coupon excised, else fine.

A most unusual Confederate war bond issued by the state of Arkansas. Only one coupon has been clipped, possibly indicating early default. “The State of Arkansas Five Years After 1st July, 1861, promises to pay ~~~ J.W. McConanghy ~~~ or Bearer Five Dollars, with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum, payable at the Treasury on the 1st of January and July of each year. This will be receivable at par for State Revenue, for Lands, and any debt due the State, in her own right, or as Trustee. August 17th. 1861. Countersigned W.R. Miller, Auditor. O’Barham Treas....” A rare and attractive display piece. $500.

46. [Confederate Imprint]: CELEBRATION OF THE SEVENTY- FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHATHAM ARTILLERY OF SAVANNAH. MAY 1, 1861. PUBLISHED IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE CORPS.... Savan- nah: John M. Cooper and Company, 1861. 65pp. Original wrappers bound into later half cloth and marbled boards. Old stamp on titlepage, else generally very good.

This booklet is actually a history of the Chatham Artillery regiment. The text of the historical oration by Charles C. Jones appears on pages 9-62. A scarce Confederate imprint, of which Parrish & Willingham locate sixteen copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4763. DORNBUSCH II:209. $1250.

47. [Confederate Imprint]: RULES AND ARTICLES FOR THE GOV- ERNMENT OF THE ARMY OF VIRGINIA. Richmond. 1861. 29pp. Half morocco and marbled boards. Lower forecorner of title-leaf and first two text leaves gnawed, text unaffected. Old stamp on titlepage. Tanned. Overall a fair copy.

Rules governing conduct, organization, and supplying of the army of Virginia. “Pos- sibly printed before the secession of Virginia” – Parrish & Willingham. Fourteen copies located by Parrish & Willingham. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4375. $650.

Lee’s Proclamation to the Citizens of Maryland, 1862

48. [Confederate Imprint]: [Lee, Robert E.] HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY N. VA....TO THE PEOPLE OF MARLAND [sic].... “Near Frederick Town” [Md.]. Sept. 8, 1862. Broadside, approximately 6 x 7½ inches. Printed on ruled paper. Early folds, with minor separations repaired on verso in archival tape. Some wear and light soiling. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

The rare first state of the extremely rare handbill issued by Robert E. Lee during the Maryland campaign of 1862. Lee’s broadside letter, issued with hopes of gaining new army recruits, announces the intention of the Confederate forces to free the people of Maryland from Union rule. The main text reads as follows:

It is right that you should know the purpose that has brought the army under my command within the limits of your State, so far as that purpose concerns yourselves. The people of the Confederate States have long watched with the deepest sympathy the wrongs and outrages that have been inflicted upon the citizens of a Commonwealth, allied to the States of the South by the strongest social, political and commercial ties. They have seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right, and reduced to the condition of a conquered Province. Under the pretence of supporting the Constitution, but in violation of its most valuable provisions, your citizens have been arrested and imprisoned upon no charge, and contrary to all forms of law...freedom of the press and of speech has been suppressed; words have been declared offences by an arbitrary decree of the Federal Executive, and citizens ordered to be tried by a military commission for what they may dare to speak. Believing that the people of Maryland possessed a spirit too lofty to submit to such a government, the people of the South have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore independence and sovereignty to your State. In obedience to this wish, our Army has come among you, and is prepared to assist you with the power of its arms in regaining the rights of which you have been despoiled. This, citizens of Maryland, is our mission, so far as you are concerned. No constraint upon your free will is intended – no intimidation will be allowed. Within the limits of this Army at least, Marylanders shall once more enjoy their ancient freedom of thought and speech. We know no enemies among you, and will protect all of every opinion. It is for you to decide your destiny, freely and without constraint. This army will respect your choice, whatever it may be, and while the Southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will. [Signed in print by Lee]

This printed handbill is a significant rarity and is present here in its first state with the misspelling of Maryland (“Marland”) in the heading. When the misspelling was detected, the type was reset and the handbill reprinted. It is assumed that a few copies printed with the mistake were given to officers for use as writing paper (an example of this involving a different handbill has recently been seen at auction). Only one institutional copy of the first issue of the handbill is known, at the Virginia Historical Society. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 1236. $12,500.

49. [Confederate Imprint]: [REGULATIONS FOR] THE ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. AUTHORIZED EDITION. 1862. Richmond. 1862. xxii,[blank leaf ],420pp. plus plate. Old marbled boards detached, spine perished. Upper 20% of titlepage clipped off, obliterating first two words in title. Old stamp on titlepage and a few other leaves. Else internally sound and good.

Regulations governing every aspect of the Confederate army, indexed. Parrish & Willingham locate only six copies of this Richmond edition (there was another Richmond edition and an Atlanta issue, both printed the same year). PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2362. $600.

50. [Confederate Imprint]: TANNHAUSER; OR, THE BATTLE OF THE BARDS. A POEM. By Neville Temple and Edward Trevor [pseudonyms]. Mobile: S..H. Goetzel & Co. 1863. 125pp. Contemporary stiff printed wrappers. Minute wear to extremities. Minor tanning. Contem- porary ownership signature on verso of front wrapper. Very good.

An odd literary flowering in the embattled Confederacy. Parrish & Willingham attribute actual authorship to Julian H.C. Fane and Edward R. Bulwer-Lytton. S.H. Goetzel produced a number of fictional works during the war, including issues of Dickens’ Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. All Confederate literature is quite scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6313. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 29. CRANDALL 3138. $500.

51. [Confederate Imprint]: Matthews, James M., editor: BY AUTHOR- ITY OF CONGRESS. THE STATUTES AT LARGE OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE INSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 8, 1861, TO ITS TERMINATION, FEBRUARY 18, 1862, INCLUSIVE.... Richmond: R.M. Smith, 1864. xv,[1],411,[1],xlviii pp. Original printed wrappers. Minute toning. Old institutional stamp on front wrapper and titlepage. Overall internally bright and clean. Near fine.

An essential source for the formation of the Confederacy. Pages 290-411 give the text of treaties which Albert Pike secured from the Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw, Seminole, Comanches of the Prairies, Osage, Seneca and Shawnee, Quapaw, and Cherokee Indian tribes. Arranged chronologically, with an extensive subject index. HOWES C674 (ref ). PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 29. $650. 52. [Confederate Imprint]: THE CONFEDERATE STATES ALMA- NAC, AND REPOSITORY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. FOR THE YEAR 1864.... Mobile. [1864]. First series, third volume. 119pp. plus advertisement. Original printed front wrapper; rear wrapper detached, chipped, and laid in. Spine perished. Moderate wear to extremities. Light tanning. Good.

Includes accounts of major battles during the war, statistics for those killed or wounded, and prints the constitution of the Confederate States. This edition is not in listed in Sabin. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5290. $500.

53. [Confederate Imprint]: Lester, W.W., and William J. Bromwell [comps]: A DIGEST OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL LAWS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, FROM THE COMMENCE- MENT OF THE PROVISIONAL CONGRESS TO THE END OF THE FIRST CONGRESS UNDER THE PERMANENT CONSTI- TUTION. Columbia: Evans and Cogswell, 1864. 329,[1]pp. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Edges rather frayed. Small old stamp on verso of title-leaf. Some light but persistent dampstaining. A good copy.

An important compilation of Confederate military law, compiled by a captain in the quartermaster-general’s office and an attorney from the Confederate Department of State. Covers the range of military and naval regulations, from pay and rations, to employment of Blacks, salaries, arms and munitions, and the like. Sets forth the duties of sharp-shooters, pikemen, musicians, cooks, storekeepers, chaplains, etc. The section on maritime law covers privateers and prizes. Indexed. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 44. $650.

54. [Confederate Imprint]: GENERAL ORDERS FROM ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL’S OFFICE, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY, FROM JANUARY, 1862, TO DECEMBER, 1863, IN TWO SERIES. PREPARED FROM FILES OF HEAD-QUAR- TERS, DEPARTMENT OF S.C., GA., AND FLA. WITH FULL INDEXES. Columbia: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1864. xlvii,[1],159,lix,[1],276pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Small old rubberstamp on titlepage and several text leaves, tanned, else very good.

A wealth of Confederate General Orders, covering 1862-63, with a few from the period from January to March 1854, recording logistical and ordinance information for the use of officers. “The work is very handsomely executed and we recommend it to the public and to the officers of the army especially, as a most valuable publication” – Southern Literary Messenger XXXVI (1864), p.318. An essential volume for any serious Confederate collection. Parrish & Willingham locate forty copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2424. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 19. $1250.

55. [Confederate Imprint]: Stewart, K.J., Rev.: A GEOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS. Richmond, Va. 1864. viii,223pp. plus maps (some folding, some tinted). 12mo. Original maroon cloth, gilt stamped cover. Spine sunned, else fine.

Includes chapters on the manufactures, history, produce, flora, and fauna of the Confederate states, as well as a chapter covering their geographical descriptions. The maps, originally printed in England, do not recognize the Confederacy. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 7923. $550.

56. [Confederate Imprint]: JOSEPH II. AND HIS COURT. AN HIS- TORICAL NOVEL, by L. Muhlback [pseudonym].... Mobile. 1864. Four volumes. 240; 240; 139; 152pp. First two volumes with original printed wallpaper wrappers bound into later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, ornate gilt spine, black gilt morocco labels. Some tears in wrappers repaired on verso with no loss, light foxing. Third volume in gathered signatures. Light tanning. Fourth volume in original printed wrappers. Wrappers heavily worn, moderate tanning. Overall a very good set. All housed in a clamshell box.

A complete offering of this “historical” novel published in the Confederate South, written by Frau Clara Mundt under the pseudonym of “L. Muhlback,” and translated from the original German by Adelaide DeV. Chaudron. All fiction published in the Confederacy is scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6437. OWEN, p.858. $850.

57. [Confederate Imprint]: Ould, Robert: OFFICIAL CORRESPON- DENCE BETWEEN THE AGENTS OF EXCHANGE, TOGETH- ER WITH MR. OULD’S REPORT. Richmond: Sentinel Job Office, 1864. [2],[63]-149pp. Half antique calf and marbled boards. Old stamp on titlepage and a few other leaves, somewhat tanned, else very good.

Ould was the Confederate agent for prisoner exchanges. This report prints the correspondence between Ould and federal agents regarding the detention of non- combatants by the North, the exchange of officers between the two sides, and papers relating to the confinement of Gen. John H. Morgan in the penitentiary in Colum- bus, Ohio. Twenty-one copies of this report are located by Parrish & Willingham. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2463. $1250.

58. [Confederate Imprint]: PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT OF IN- QUIRY, RELATIVE TO THE FALL OF NEW ORLEANS. Rich- mond: R.M. Smith, Public Printer, 1864. 206pp. Dbd. Tanned, some foxing. Still quite good.

A scarce Confederate report on the investigation into the Union capture of New Orleans in April 1862. The proceedings were held at a court of inquiry in Jackson, Mississippi. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2355. HOWES N89, “aa.” $850.

59. [Currier & Ives]: BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, VA. DECR. 13th, 1862 [caption title]. New York. 1862. Lithograph, approximately 8 x 12½ inches, on a sheet 10 x 13 inches. Light toning and dampstaining. Sheet slightly trimmed, not affecting image or text. Contemporary hand coloring. Good.

Currier & Ives lithograph depicting the Union onslaught at the Battle of Freder- icksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. Attacking entrenched Confederate soldiers on the heights beyond the city, the Union Army took tremendous casualties and eventually retreated, ending the campaign to reach Confederate capital of Richmond. The image depicts the many ranks of the Union Army attacking through the smoke of the field; dead and wounded soldiers litter the foreground. The text beneath the image reads:

This battle shows with what undaunted courage, the lion-hearted Army of the Potomac always meets its foes. After forcing the passage of the Rappahannock on the 11th, in the face of the murderous fire from concealed rebels; and taking possession of Fredericksburg on the 12th; on the morning of the 13th it rushed with desperate valor on the intrenchments of the enemy, and thousands of its dead and dying, tell of the fearful strife which raged, till night put an end to the carnage. Though driven back by an intrenched and hidden foe, the soldiers of the North are still as ready to meet the traitors of the South as in their days of proudest victory.

PETERS, CURRIER & IVES 840. CURRIER & IVES, CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 450. $600.

“I have tried to make Europe understand the magnitude of the strife”

60. D’Orleans, Louis Albert Phillippe: [SEVEN AUTOGRAPH LET- TERS, SIGNED, FROM LOUIS ALBERT PHILLIPPE D’ORLEANS TO HIS PHILADELPHIA PUBLISHERS, PORTER AND COATES, RELATING TO HIS History of the Civil War (1874 – 1888)]. [Vari- ous places]. June 1875 – July 1894. [17]pp. total. Very good.

Louis Philippe Albert d’Orléans, Comte de Paris (1838-94), was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of the French. He became heir-apparent to the throne, when his father, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe, died in a carriage accident in 1842. After an unsuccessful attempt to secure him on the throne, Philippe fled to America with his brother, where he volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He served on the staff of Major General George McClellan for almost a year. His history of that war, written in French and translated into English in an abridged version by the Philadelphia publisher, Coates, is still considered a standard reference work. The letters are:

1) June 1875: “The necessities of an early publication of the translation of my History of the Civil War...prevented me from revising...I must leave upon Mr. Tasistro the responsibility...but his ability is a sufficient guarantee...it has...been agreed... to grant...the exclusive copyright in England...and, in America, the right of giving out your edition as the only one authorized by myself. My history has been written rather for the instruction of the European public than for transatlantic readers...if I have been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal...feeling against anybody...I have tried to make Europe understand the magnitude of the strife...to perpetuate the memory of the...glory of the American soldier, without distinction between the blue and grey coats.” 2) Nov. 11, 1875: “Since the two first volumes of my History of the American Civil War have been published, several mistakes, unavoidable in such a work, have been pointed out to me. I have corrected these errors in my copy in view of a second edition and I think it due to you and to my translator to give you the benefit of these corrections. I herewith enclose a paper upon which I have transcribed the whole of the corrections...I wish the American edition to contain as few errors as possible. I have seen that M. Coppée is to revise that edition; if so you could apply to a more competent writer for such a task.” [The list of corrections is not present.] 3) Dec. 31, 1875: “...I would be very grateful to you to end me...the most important reviews...I quite approve your putting my shield on the binding....” 4) April 20, 1878: “...as it points out several blemishes in the translation of my history of the Civil War, I think that it is better to put it under your eyes, not in order that it should reach Mr. Tasistro who may be hurt by those critics, but so that these blemishes may be wiped off in a future edition and avoided in the translation of next volumes.” 5) April 14, 1890: “...the news that my son had been sent to a penitentiary altered my plans. I could not travel for my enjoyment...while he was treated as a... criminal....I returned at once to Europe...to be at least nearer to the prisoner....” His young son, the duc d’Orléans, had been imprisoned for violating banishment. 6) Aug. 9, 1880: “I intend to pay a visit to the United States...it is my purpose to study with my son the Duc d’Orléans the field of battle of the Civil War...send me two copies of Swinton’s History of the Army of the Potomac and some maps....” 7) July 20, 1894: “...my great historical work on the American Civil War...makes hardly any progress...the duties which I have assumed with the effective leader- ship of the Royalist party in France take every day a greater part of the time... my health has been since a few months impaired...it is very painful for me to make such a confession. But...it is impossible for me to tell when I shall...be able to give a new volume to my editors....”

This last letter is from England, where he was in exile. He died a few weeks later. With a letter, signed by G.W. McCrary, dated Sept. 8, 1879, informing publisher Coates that a report in the case of Gen. Fitz John Porter has been sent to him to be transmitted to the Comte de Paris; and an a.l.s. of Nov. 29, 1890 by Daniel Sickles (general in the Union Army), in praise of the Comte’s History. $2000.

“Memo in Matter of Jeff Davis”: The Independent Counsel’s Fees

61. Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“RICH. H. DANA JR.”), FROM RICHARD H. DANA, Jr. TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES UN- DER ANDREW JOHNSON, WILLIAM EVARTS, ENCLOSING A MEMORANDUM OF DANA’S WORK, THE CASE, FEES, AND EXPENSES IN THE JEFFERSON DAVIS CASE]. Boston. June 16, 1869. [2]pp. on single sheet of his legal stationery, enclosing a one-page “Memo re Matter of Jeff Davis.” 12mo. and quarto. Old folds, slight soiling, else fine. With original mailing envelope.

A remarkable document from Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast (1840), written at the pinnacle of his second career as a lawyer. In 1861, President Lincoln appointed Dana U.S. attorney general for Massachusetts, a post he filled with distinction. Arguing before the Supreme Court, he defended the legality of seizing enemy vessels by Union forces. He then served two terms in the Massachusetts state legislature. “During part of this time (1867-1868) [Dana] was retained by the law department of President Andrew Johnson’s administration to recommend treatment of Jefferson Davis, the defeated president of the former Confederate states” (ANB), who was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Davis was indicted for treason in May 1866, but preparations dragged on amid constitutional concerns. The trial, finally set for late March 1868, was again postponed. The memorandum details Dana’s work on the indictments and his review of the evidence. “Dana proposed dropping all charges of high treason against Davis” (ANB), and his view prevailed: the prosecution was dropped, and Andrew Johnson’s amnesty on Christmas 1868 included Davis. Dana’s position was unpopular with radical politicians, and there was considerable political cost to Dana: he was defeated in a run for Congress in 1868, and when President Grant appointed him minister to England, the nomination was blocked in the Senate. Here, in this letter of the moment, Dana writes to Evarts, Andrew Johnson’s Attorney General, and enclosing an extraordinary memorandum of his work.

My dear Evarts – I am glad your attention is turned to the fees in the Jef- ferson Davis case. As I have taken a house in Boston, and shall have some outlays and greater rent, I wish to get my fees in that case if you think I am entitled to more. I will tell you what I did, and wish for you to tell me frankly whether you think I am entitled to more than I have received, and if so, what sum you think it would be proper for me to charge. My relations with the Att. General are such that I feel bound to be peculiarly careful....I enclose a Memorandum.

Dana encloses his very interesting Memorandum, entitled “Memo re Matter of Jeff Davis,” which begins, “1867 Oct. 25. Retained by Att. Gen. as part of the counsel,” and ends, “Dec. 10. Court at Richmond – Argued the question under the 14th Amendment.” $5000.

62. [Davis, Mary Elizabeth]: THE BRITISH PARTIZAN: A TALE OF THE OLDEN TIME. Macon: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864. 157pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight wear and chipping along spine. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

First Confederate edition, after the first appearance in book form in 1839 published under the author’s maiden name, M.E. Moragne. Most copies of the 1839 edition were purportedly destroyed in a flood. This romantic tale, set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, originally appeared as a serial in the Augusta Mirror. A lovely sample of Confederate literature, in the original wrappers. DE RENNE II, p.664. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6293. OCLC 6118554. $1750.

63. Davis, Varina Anne: Davis, Jefferson: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM VARINA DAVIS, ENCLOSING A CARD SIGNED BY HER FATHER, JEFFERSON DAVIS]. Beauvoir, Ms. Feb. 10, 1887. [2]pp. plus autographed card. Lightly stained at bottom corner, minor soiling otherwise. Very good.

Letter written by Varina Anne Davis, “Daughter of the Confederacy,” to “Mrs. Coxe,” enclosing a souvenir autograph card signed by her father, Jefferson Davis. Varina Anne Davis (1864-98) was born in the last year of the Civil War, to Jeffer- son Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. She became an author and an advocate for Confederate veterans, earning her the title, “Daughter of the Confederacy.” She writes: “Dear Mrs. Coxe, Enclosed you will find a card sub- scribed by my father. I only wish I could give you something more individual and expressive of himself, for I am sure you love him, from your kind expressions, both in your work and when I had the pleasure of seeing you and making the promise which I now fulfil.” $600.

A Woman on the Missouri-Kansas Border at the End of the Civil War

64. Dodge, Mary Burton: [GROUP OF FOUR AUTOGRAPH LET- TERS, SIGNED, FROM MARY BURTON DODGE TO A COUS- IN, DESCRIBING CONDITIONS IN MISSOURI DURING THE CIVIL WAR, BORDER WARFARE, AND THE ACTIVITIES OF JAYHAWKERS AND BUSHWHACKERS]. Little Osage, Mo. March 1, 1863 – January 25, 1866. Four manuscript letters on folded sheets, [16]pp. total. Old folds. Very light wear and soiling. Near fine.

A very interesting group of four autograph letters, signed, giving one woman’s view of the ravages of the Civil War in Missouri, especially the vicious guerrilla fighting that characterized the region. The letters are by Mary Burton Dodge, and were sent to her cousin in the East, “Mrs. Johonnot.” Mrs. Dodge’s letters are filled with information regarding guerrilla attacks by irregular troops of Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers, and the fear and misery left in their wake. Mrs. Dodge was a supporter of the Union cause, but the letters reveal her anger and frustration with pro-Union Kansas Jayhawkers who stole livestock indiscriminately. The letters provide an excellent snapshot of life in contested territory during the Civil War, from the point of view of an intelligent, thoughtful woman. The earliest letter, dated March 1, 1863, is full of the fear and uncertainty that pervaded the area in the midst of the Civil War:

The hopes and fears which by turns fill our minds as one thing after another transpires – our neighborhood is not happy & united as it once was....Kansas Jayhawkers have taken from some the last hoof of horses or oxen they had others are left with some poor pony they thought too poor to steal. They took from us two head that was so poor & sick we thought no one could drive them. So you can see that poor bleeding Kansas is getting sick on what they steal from Missouri. Next comes the Federal troops who steal & destroy the property that they think belongs to those who favor secesh [sic], & there has not a few suffered around us but in other neighborhoods in the country it has been far worse. The next comes the Bushwhackers a thieving murdering gang that is more to be dreaded than any others because they are harder to be hunted out & there are so many to feed & hide them.

Mrs. Dodge’s letter of January 23, 1865 begins by discussing Confederate General Sterling Price’s raid through Missouri and Kansas, which occurred the previous fall:

[Mrs. Modrel’s] husband was taken from his home by Price in his raid through here, with but an hour or so’s notice, and has not been heard from since. To my knowledge, she knows not whether he is dead or alive. Price beat a hasty retreat through this part of Missouri without doing any mischief in this neighborhood – five hundred of his men were taken prisoners & pass’d by here on their way to prison. Gen. Marmaduke & Cabell & a number of pieces of artillery were taken by our troops. There has not been no bushwhackers about here since the raid. Jayhawks from Kansas are kept out only by the force that is kept at Fort Curtis or Ball Town. These troops we fear will be removed should these be removed & Kansas troops placed here it is not hard to predict what will be the issue. Were it not that an Allwise Ruler & disposer is at the head of our National affairs, we might well despair. Our southern news is flattering. The Federal troops are gaining ground & we hope soon to hear of the downfall of the Southern Confederacy.

The letter of March 26, 1865 carries renewed fears of raids and no end to the war:

Many are in the firm belief that Price will make another raid this Spring....We see not now but we shall hereafter why these trials are sent upon us. Our war troubles are not ended & the prospect for a speedy end is not very flattering. What oceans of blood has been shed & the thousands of precious live that have been given a sacrifice to this wicked Rebellion!

The final letter, dated January 25, 1866, gives a view of Missouri in the immediate aftermath of the war:

There are a good many changes taking place there. The country is filling up with strangers but things have quieted down. The most of those who left here in the excitement have & are returning believing a home in Mo. is the best place yet. I know of no suffering or want for any of the necessaries of life. The blacks that were taken from Mo. are more than anxious to get back & just beg those they know to let them come home with them & let them work for their victuals & clothes. Everything is high it is almost impossible to hire a days work done. I have been troubled the most to get wood hauled & milling done.

A fine collection of letters from a perceptive and informed woman correspondent, providing an interesting view of Missouri during the Civil War. $2000.

65. Douglass, Frederick: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS, LIKELY TO NEW YORK ABOLI- TIONIST WILLIAM MARKS, NEGOTIATING A LECTURE INVITATION]. Rochester, N.Y. January 20, 1862. [1]p. on an 8¼ x 5-inch sheet of ruled paper. Old folds. Lightly worn and darkened around the edges. Small stain just below Douglass’ name. Crude tape repair on verso. Very good.

A brief but evocative note from famed abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, illustrative of his busy lecturing schedule and the little money he earned from his writings. Though there is no envelope with the letter, and the salutation is to “my dear sir,” the letter was almost certainly written to William Marks, an abolitionist businessman in Naples, New York, who participated in the Underground Railroad. Douglass writes that he is willing to accept Marks’ offer to speak in Naples, but asks that he be paid ten dollars for the lecture and that his travel expenses be reimbursed, as he does not make enough money from his periodical, Douglass’ Monthly. Douglass writes, in full:

My Dear Sir: I was obliged by your favour. It came in my absence and I write at once on my return to say that I shall be very glad to come to Naples and give a lecture “on the war” about the middle of Feb. provided the sum of ten dollars and my travelling expenses can be guaranteed me. My paper does not support me and I am compelled to charge something for my lectures. Please write me and let me know what you will do. Yours truly – Fred’k Douglass

William Marks (1814-79) was born in Connecticut and worked as an itinerant peddler in upstate New York. He eventually opened his own store in Naples and also established himself as an undertaker. Marks was a significant figure in the abolitionist movement, and first saw Frederick Douglass speak in 1851. According to Beth Flory, Marks invited Douglass to speak in Naples as early as 1852, which Douglass did from a platform in front of Naples’ home. Naples’ home eventually became a stop on the Underground Railroad, by which escaped slaves travelled north to freedom. Beth B. Flory, “William Marks of Naples” in The Crooked Lake Review (Summer 2003, No. 128) online. $6750.

66. Doy, John: THE THRILLING NARRATIVE OF DR. JOHN DOY, OF KANSAS; OR, SLAVERY AS IT IS, INSIDE AND OUT. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. 132pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Spine and wrappers a bit chipped; lower inch of rear wrapper and final leaf torn away, not affecting text. Lightly soiled. Good.

Second edition, after the first New York edition of the same year. A rare personal account of Kansas border hostilities in 1854. “Doy was a member of the first emigrant aid party to arrive in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, in 1854. He was born in England in 1812. About 1850 he emigrated to Canada and later moved to Rochester, New York, before coming to Kansas Territory. On Jan. 25, 1859, Doy started north from Lawrence with his team and wagon carrying some slaves to freedom north of Kansas Territory. Twelve miles north of Lawrence, Doy and his party were captured by border ruffians led by Jake Hurd, a pro-slavery man. The border ruffians took Doy to Weston, Missouri, and later to St. Joseph, Missouri. Doy was later rescued from the St. Joseph jail by a party of men from Lawrence” – Dary. GRAFF 1145. HOWES D453, “aa.” SABIN 20796 (another ed). WAGNER-CAMP 356a:2. DARY 80 (another ed). $750.

67. Draner, Jules Renard: TYPES MILITAIRES. ETATS UNIS D’AMERIQUE 1865, OFFR. DE DRAGONS. Plate 88 [caption title]. Paris. [Between 1865 and 1871]. Handcolored lithograph, 13½ x 9 inches, matted to 19 x 14 inches. A few light spots of foxing in margin, but image quite bright and clean. Minute scuff to uniform. Near fine.

Plate from Jules Renard Draner’s series of caricatures entitled Types Militaires: Galerie Militaire de Toutes les Nations, published from 1862 to 1871. Draner – which was his nom de plume – was a Belgian artist who settled in Paris. Though he undertook a career as a businessman, he never lost his zeal for drawing and caricature, and in the 1860s he undertook to satirize the world’s zest for military pomp with a series of 136 color lithographs depicting various military uniforms from around the world, including ten plates showing American uniforms. Though his drawings were executed with an eye toward entertainment and caricature, each shows accurate military dress, down to appropriate use of feathers and buttons. This image shows a Union cavalryman, freshly shaved by a grinning black man, who is decked out in bright plaid pants and has a comb stuck in his hair. The scene may be New Orleans, where Draner based at least one other plate. A commentary, perhaps not only on the pomp of military officers, but also on race relations in Civil War America. Quite lovely and highly displayable. COLAS 891. LIPPERHEIDE 3624. HILER, p.744. $500.

68. Dunlop, W.S., Major: LEE’S SHARPSHOOTERS; OR, THE FOREFRONT OF BATTLE. A STORY OF SOUTHERN VALOR THAT NEVER HAS BEEN TOLD. Little Rock. 1899. 488pp. plus portrait. Contemporary grey cloth, rebacked with modern black buckram, gilt. Minor soiling and wear to boards. Modern bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Some light toning and minor scattered foxing. About very good.

Rare southern Civil War narrative, which follows Lee’s Sharpshooters from the beginning of the campaign in Spottslyvania, May 4, 1864, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. This copy bears a presentation inscription from the author to his brother, Col. J.E. Dunlop, dated Little Rock, Aug. 10, 1899, with several ink corrections in the text also in the author’s hand. HOWES D573. DORNBUSCH III:1222. $600.

Privately Printed in a Small Edition

69. [DuPont, Samuel F.]: OFFICIAL DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF REAR ADMIRAL DU PONT, U.S. NAVY. 1846-48. 1861-63. Wilmington, De. 1883. [2],531pp. Original purple cloth, spine gilt. Cloth speckled, else near fine.

Both this work and DuPont’s Extracts from Private Journal-Letters... were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that the present volume is even rarer than its companion. The first section is devoted to dispatches sent by DuPont from Cali- fornia during the Mexican War, when he transported Fremont and his troops from Monterey to San Diego and attacked Mexican shipping in the Gulf of California. He also commanded the Atlantic blockading forces against the Confederacy for the first two years of the Civil War. EBERSTADT 132:174. HOWES D589, “b.” GARRETT, p.207. HILL 520. $2000. With Skulls on the Wrappers

70. Edgeville, Edward: CASTINE. Raleigh: Wm. B. Smith & Co., 1865. 32pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Old stamp on front wrapper, titlepage, and several text leaves. Foredge trimmed quite close, shaving a few letters from the final word in each line. Otherwise a very good copy. In a half morocco box.

A scarce Confederate romance, illustrated on the front wrapper with a macabre scene of a soldier leaning on his rifle among a sea of skulls. Styled on the titlepage, “Southern Field and Fireside Novelette 2 – New Series.” Parrish & Willingham locate twenty-eight copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6307. CONFEDERATE BELLES-LETTRES 27. $2000.

A Lovely Image of a Later Naval Hero

71. Edouart, Auguste: [SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT OF DAVID DIX- ON PORTER, SEATED AND READING A NEWSPAPER]. Wash- ington. 1841. Silhouette portrait, embellished with graphite and ink; measuring 11½ x 8½ inches, framed to 14 x 11 inches. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

Full-length silhouette portrait of Lieutenant David Dixon Porter, seated in a rocking chair with a cigar in one hand and a newspaper in the other. Auguste Edouart was a French artist who traveled extensively and specialized in silhouette portraits. As with the present piece, Edouart would cut the silhouette out of black paper; here, the figure has been placed in a drawing room setting, a newspaper cleverly cut out and placed in his hand. The portrait is signed at the bottom and dated at Washington, 1841; a manuscript note on the backboard reads: “Lieut. David D. Porter, U.S. Navy, 1841.” Porter (1813-91) was promoted to lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in March 1841, and it is possible this portrait was ordered to commemorate his promotion. Porter served in the Mexican American War, in the blockade against Vera Cruz, and later saw action in the Civil War, including the Battle of New Orleans. Porter finished his career with the rank of admiral, serving his post-war years as the head of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. $2250.

72. [Election of 1860]: OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEM- OCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, HELD IN 1860, AT CHARLESTON AND BALTIMORE. PROCEEDINGS AT CHARLESTON, APRIL 23 – MAY 3. Prepared and Published Un- der the Direction of John Parkhurst, Recording Secretary. Cleveland: Nevins’ Print, Plain Dealer Job Office, 1860. 188pp. Early 20th-century three- quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Spine lightly sunned, corners worn, hinges a bit tender. Bookplate on front pastedown. Scattered foxing and tanning. Good.

The official record of a crucially important moment in American politics, the 1860 Democratic Convention(s), at which Stephen A. Douglas won the nomination and faced Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln in the general election. The first convention was held in Charleston in late April and early May, and was a rancorous affair. Douglas led the field of nine total candidates at Charleston, over the opposition of militant Southern Democrats (so-called “Fire Eaters”). Despite the fact that fifty-seven separate ballots were held, Douglas could not secure the necessary two-thirds majority of delegates. The delegates therefore adjourned and reconvened in Baltimore in June, where the committee voted to exclude certain delegates from Louisiana and Alabama who had been disruptive in Charleston. Douglas finally secured the nomination on the second ballot in Baltimore, and went on to lose the general election to Lincoln. The present text prints all the proceedings of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions, offering a detailed picture of American politics at their most fractious. $750.

73. Emory, William H., Brevet Major General: [AUTOGRAPH LET- TER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM H. EMORY TO HENRY WIL- SON, REGARDING EMORY’S RECENT BREVET TO MAJOR GENERAL, AND HIS MILITARY RECORD DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. Winchester, Va. Jan. 15, 1864. [2]pp. manuscript letter, on a folded quarto sheet. Some smudging of ink. Near fine. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

A letter from the great western surveyor, William H. Emory, showing concern for his military reputation and his performance during the Civil War. Emory (1811-87) is best known as a surveyor and cartographer of the American West, and is particularly famed for his survey of the boundary between the United States and Mexico following the Mexican-American War. Emory graduated from West Point in 1831 and in 1838 was assigned to the Topographical Engineers. In the mid-1840s he served as principal assistant on the Northeastern Boundary Survey, determining the border between the United States and Canada, disagreement over which had long been a sore point for both nations. Emory distinguished himself in battles during the Mexican-American War, and following that conflict he was assigned to direct the survey of the new boundary between Mexico and the United States. Emory’s surveys in the Southwest, which occupied him until 1857, resulted in two landmark government reports and in a great expansion of knowledge of the southwestern United States. He then took command of a regiment in Kansas, participated in the Utah Expedition against the Mormons, and in 1861 captured the advance guard of rebellious Texas forces, which helped prevent secessionists from removing Missouri from the Union. Emory served with great distinction during the Civil War, taking part in the defenses of Washington and New Orleans, and seeing much action in Virginia, where he served under General Philip Sheridan. It is from the strategically important town of Winchester, Virginia, that Emory writes:

My dear sir, By the published list, I see my name is sent in for a Brevet of Major General without assigning for what particular service as is usual. It might be supposed from this circumstance that I had not been engaged with the enemy at all, whereas I have been in as many battles as most of the generals in the Army, and have besides the recommendations for Brevet been recom- mended in the strongest terms no less than three times for full promotion. To avoid misconception I desire to send you the enclosed copies [not included with this letter], one of which is from Gen’l. Sheridan. The others are not in my possession which I regret as one of the recommendations is from Gen’l. Grant and of a late date.

DAB VI, pp.153-54. ANB 7, pp.513-14. $600.

74. Ferrer de Couto, José: LOS NEGROS EN SUS DIVERSOS ES- TADOS Y CONDICIONES; TALES COMO SON, COMO SE SUPONE QUE SON, Y COMO DEBEN SER. New York. 1864. [3]- 310pp. Modern imitation leather, spine gilt. Foxing to titlepage; three small holes, partially affecting text and inexpertly repaired. Similar holes through next four and last three leaves. Scattered foxing; worm holes. A good, solid copy.

Rare Spanish language work printed in New York regarding the condition of blacks in America, with extensive historical background on slavery, the legal history of the issue, the current situation in America, etc., title translated as “The Negroes as They Are, As They Are Supposed to Be, and As They Ought to Be.” The author, a Spanish-born Cuban journalist, was pro-slavery. Sabin cites an English language edition, also printed in 1864, but not this Spanish language edition. This is the second edition, the first having been published the same year. SABIN 24178 (ref ). $750.

75. [Fish, Reeder McCandless]: THE GRIM CHIEFTAIN OF KAN- SAS, AND OTHER FREE-STATE MEN IN THEIR STRUGGLES AGAINST SLAVERY. SOME POLITICAL SEANCES, INCI- DENTS, INSIDE POLITICAL VIEWS AND MOVEMENTS IN THEIR CAREER. By One Who Knows. Cherryvale, Ks.: Clarion Book & Job Print, 1885. [4],145pp. 16mo. Modern marbled cloth. Very good. In a half morocco box.

This copy bears the bookplate of William Elsey Connelly and two inscriptions concerning this book and its history. In one he writes: “Topeka, Aug. 20, 1913. J.B. Abbott did not write The Grim Chieftain of Kansas. It was written by Reeder M. Fish, associate editor of ‘The Baldwin Criterion.’ Lillie K. Sherwood was the daughter of Reeder M. Fish.” A rare account of James Lane’s struggles in organizing the Free-State party in Kansas. “The most graphic and complete presentation of an era altogether the most remarkable in the history of the most important personage (i.e., James Lane) known in the early struggles of Kansas” – Preface. “Lane was, to say the least, a controversial figure; many of his actions could be criticized. Still, he had his defenders and Fish was one of them” – Graff. This is an important narrative of the bitter wars on the Kansas border preceding the Civil War. GRAFF 1327. HOWES F149, “b.” STREETER SALE 2029. EBERSTADT 133:587. $2000.

One of the Greatest Graphic Representations of the Civil War

76. Forbes, Edwin: LIFE STUDIES OF THE GREAT ARMY. New York: Harry Johnson, 1876. Forty plates. Large folio, 48 x 61 cm. Plates loose in original board portfolio; cloth boards, rebacked in later buckram. Boards scuffed, dark soiling or stains on upper part of back board. Some occasional chipping in blank margins of some plates, images not affected. In about five plates, a light and unobtrusive stain overlaps the edge of the image. Other plates with some moderate dampstains in margins of plate mounts, not affecting image at all. Portrait of U.S. Grant somewhat soiled. Otherwise the plates are very good and unfoxed. In a cloth clamshell case.

Edwin Forbes was one of the most notable illustrators of the American Civil War. From 1862 on he was a correspondent for Harper’s Weekly, producing illustrations to accompany war news. During most of this period he accompanied the Army of the Potomac on its campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Although Forbes portrays battle scenes, he was much more interested in depicting the everyday life of the private soldier in camp and on the march. Typically, his scenes include such topics as “Washing Day,” the camp cook, vendors of supplies to soldiers, picket duty, and other incidents of camp life. A number of other illustrations show life on the march, fording streams, the supply train, and the like. All of the plates are etchings, evidently executed by Forbes himself from his original drawings (which were mainly pen and ink wash). The forty plates contain fifty-nine scenes, since some plates have two or three scenes, and one has five. A table of contents appears on the inside of the front board, while each plate has a more lengthy textual gloss as well. The front board proclaims that the publication was sold “to subscribers only.” It divides the plates into ten parts, so it would seem that the publication was issued over a period of time, although all plates are dated 1876. A major graphic record of the Civil War, by one of its most notable recorders. $4000.

Fremont Campaign Medal

77. [Fremont, John C.]: [CAMPAIGN MEDAL FEATURING PRESI- DENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN C. FREMONT]. New York: Paquet, 1856. Silver medal, 2 3/8 inches in diameter. Lightly tarnished. Near fine.

A large medal featuring John C. Fremont, famed western explorer, key figure in the conquest of California, and the first presidential candidate of the Republican Party, issued for his presidential campaign in 1856. One side features a bust of Fremont, while the other features the slogan: “The Rocky Mountains echo back Fremont. The People’s choice for 1856. Constitutional Freedom.” “Chosen more for his heroic image than his political skills, he nonetheless inspired great enthusiasm in the North, while in the South he was branded a ‘Frenchman’s bastard’ and, incorrectly, a secret Roman Catholic. Although Fremont gained the majority of northern votes, he was defeated nationwide by the Democratic candidate, James Buchanan (1.8 to 1.34 million, with an electoral vote of 174 to 114). Despite the loss, his candidacy established the Republican party’s dominance in the North and set the stage for Abraham Lincoln’s victory in 1860” – ANB. ANB (online). $750.

78. [Georgia]: ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1863; ALSO, EXTRA SESSION OF 1864. Milledgeville, Ga. 1864. 174pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers stained, scuffed along lower portion of spine. Age-toned. Else very good.

Lists the variety of legislation considered by the Georgia Assembly in the third year of the Civil War, from the reorganization of the state militia to the development of a state navy. Also includes laws regulating stills and exempting from taxation cotton and other property from Confederate states. Continuously paginated, but with a separate titlepage for the extra session. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2780. DE RENNE II, p.666. $600.

79. [Gray, Horace, and John Lowell, Jr.]: A LEGAL REVIEW OF THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT, AS DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE LAW RE- PORTER FOR JUNE, 1857. Boston. 1857. 62pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped and lightly soiled; professionally backed with modern paper. Internally clean. Very good.

First separate edition of this important analysis of the landmark case, Dred Scott v. Sandford. The authors present several counter-arguments to the Court’s decision, declaring it “unworthy.” The Court’s decision, which essentially ruled that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States because they were property and not people, demonstrated the extreme pro-slavery position of the Court and helped to precipitate the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave who lived in Rock Island, Illinois and Fort Snelling, Wisconsin – both places where slavery was prohibited – sued for his freedom in 1846. The Supreme Court’s decision against Scott exacerbated feelings between the North and South and seriously diminished the Court’s credibility in the North. COHEN 11882. SABIN 78260. DUMOND, p.61. $750. Item 81.

80. [Harper’s]: MAP OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, INCLUDING RAILROADS, COUNTY TOWNS, STATE CAPITALS, COUNTY ROADS, THE SOUTHERN COAST FROM DELAWARE TO TEXAS, SHOWING THE HARBORS, INLETS, FORTS, AND POSITIONS OF BLOCKADING SHIPS...PREPARED FOR HARPER’S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. DECEMBER, 1863. [Np: Harper’s, 1863]. 22 x 31½ inches. Very good.

This is not, properly speaking, a map of the Confederate States of America since it does not include all of Virginia or Texas, and does include all of Kentucky, which had not seceded. It is, however, a very interesting pictorial account of what the Union government considered its greatest success thus far in the rebellion: the isolation of the Confederacy. General Winfield Scott’s strategy from the commencement of hostilities had been the “Anaconda Plan,” whereby the South would be commercially strangled by warships on the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf, and by the loss of the use of the Mississippi River. With the fall of Vicksburg in 1863, the Mississippi was completely in Union hands. This map emphasizes the successful implementa- tion of Scott’s plan and minimizes the numerous Union defeats, particularly those in northern Virginia. Pictured in the corners are Lincoln, Secretary of State Wil- liam Seward, Gen. Scott, and Gen. George McClellan. Though neither Scott nor McClellan was an important policymaker in the war by this time, each was still highly thought of by the general public. Apparently not in Rumsey nor Phillips’ Maps. OCLC locates only three copies. Scarce. Another edition, evidently copied from this, was later published in London (see Stephenson, Civil War Maps 37). OCLC 45605171, 43978725. $850.

A Massive Pictorial Record of Mid-19th-Century American Life

81. [Harper’s Weekly]: HARPER’S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVI- LIZATION [Volumes 1-10]. New York. 1857-1866. Ten volumes. Large, thick folio. Uniformly bound in brown cloth, red leather label. Very good.

A comprehensive run of the first decade of Harper’s Weekly, the first great illustrated American periodical, and a wonderful source for American life and “civilization,” as the title states. Famously, it constitutes a remarkable illustrated record of the Civil War for the duration of the conflict, full of firsthand accounts of battles, political news, and wonderful engravings and maps (some folding), nearly all relating to the war. Included is ample reporting of Sherman’s march, Lincoln’s assassination and funeral, and all the major battles. “The most popular periodical of its day and valuable for a study of any aspect of the war; the illustrations are unsurpassed” – Nevins. But it goes far beyond that on both sides of the conflict. A remarkable resource. NEVINS, p.15. SERVIES 4601-4615, 4696. $10,000.

Future President Defends the Rights of Black Citizens

82. Hayes, Rutherford B.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM RUTHERFORD B. HAYES TO FRIEDRICH HASSAUREK, STRONGLY DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF BLACKS AT THE ONSET OF RECONSTRUCTION]. Washington, D.C. April 8, 1866. [3]pp. manuscript letter on a folded folio sheet, docketed on the fourth page. Accompanied by a printed calling card, signed by Rutherford B. Hayes in September 1882 in Fremont, Ohio. Letter with old folds. Small splits at a few folds, with no loss. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

A powerful and ringing defense of equal rights for blacks by Rutherford B. Hayes, written a decade before he was elected president of the United States, and on the eve of his vote on the Civil Rights Bill of 1866. Hayes was an early and vocal supporter of equal rights for blacks, including voting rights. A Republican, he supported “Radical Republican” measures on behalf of freedmen, including Reconstruction, though as president he presided over the end of that program. The impetus of this letter was the debate over the Civil Rights Bill of 1866. The bill, which gave full citizenship to all persons born in the United States, regardless of race, was a cornerstone of the Reconstruction program. The Senate had passed the bill on April 6th, and the House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on it on April 9th, the day after Hayes wrote this letter. The House passed the bill on the 9th, but President Andrew Johnson vetoed it. The House and the Senate, led by “Radical Republicans,” passed it over the presidential veto. In this letter Hayes unequivocally and eloquently supports the bill, stating that he hopes that popular opinion in Ohio will come around to his thinking. He derides the supporters of “states rights” and asserts that “in behalf of the natural rights of the citizens all provisions are to be construed literally.” At the time he wrote this letter, Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93) had had a career as a lawyer in Ohio, and served in the Civil War as a major-general. In 1866 he was a congressman from Ohio, and in 1868 was elected governor of Ohio. He became president of the United States after the controversial election of 1876, in which he defeated Samuel J. Tilden. This letter was written by Hayes to Friedrich Hassaurek (1831-85), an Austrian-born journalist who was Abraham Lincoln’s ambassador to Ecuador. After the Civil War he was editor of the Cincinnati Volksblatt, and would campaign for Samuel Tilden in 1876. Hayes writes:

I had noticed your articles putting forward as our main issues our obligations 1st to the nation’s creators 2nd to the nation’s morals, and perfectly agree with the general spirit and purpose of your propositions. Nothing is more certain than that the defect of the Union Party puts in jeopardy our obligations as well to buy creditors, or to buy pensions to the disabled and to widows & orphans. We of course agree also as to taking care of Freedmen and Loyal men generally in the Rebel States. The great danger there is local oppression, depriving the individual citizens on account of color or loyalty or both, of the commonest rights. The Civil Rights Bill was intended to do something on the subject in the right direction. Pardon me for saying a few additional words on the subject. You say it is unpopular in Ohio. I know it is grossly misrepresented and greatly misunderstood in Ohio. The Commercial speaks of it as if it gave increased and unheard of rights and privileges to negroes, as if it would compel the schools to receive negro children, the hotels negro guests &c. &c. &c. Now please to note what I say. It undertakes to secure to the negro no rights which he has not enjoyed in Ohio ever since the repeal of the Black Laws in 1848-9 by the Democratic Party [this sentence underlined in the original]. No rights which Mr. [George] Pendleton in his excellent letter does not claim for him as just and wise. I am sure the sober second thought of the people will be in favor of the purpose & object of the bill. As to its constitutionality – such lawyers as Chief Justice [Salmon P.] Chase, Judge [Noah Haynes] Swayne, judges Johnston & Coffin of Ohio find no difficulty in it. A states Rights Democrat of the Breckinridge school whose views like the President have undergone no change may well and consistently doubt, and I do not question their motives, nor become “indignant” with them. But remembering the maxim that in behalf of the natural rights of the citizens all provisions are to be construed literally, I can find good foundation for all that Justice [Lyman] Trumbull claims in his admirable speech. As to details and machinery it is just like (an exact copy) many previous bench statutes. I do not think however that we shall all go up on any issue of the sort. The difficulty which separates the Administration and Congress may go to such lengths as to bring defeat. This however is not by any means a certainty. Let our friends be cool and charitable. My faith is unshaken. “The foolish notion of states rights,” as Grant calls it, a notion which finds power to protect our citizens in foreign countries but not within our own jurisdiction is not going to destroy the Union Party. The folly of en- forcing good morals in legislation – the Sunday Laws and Temperance Laws of Indiana will do us more injury, a hundred fold, than all that has been seriously proffered even in the present Congress.

An outstanding Rutherford B. Hayes letter, being a powerful and articulate statement of his views on civil rights for blacks at the dawn of Reconstruction. $7500.

83. Herrington, W.D.: THE DESERTER’S DAUGHTER. Raleigh: Wm. B. Smith & Co., 1865. 27,[5]pp. Original printed wrappers. Old stamp on front wrapper, titlepage, and several other leaves. Just about very good. In a cloth case, leather label.

A scarce Confederate novelette, styled on the titlepage as “Southern Field and Fireside Novelette, No. 3.” Herrington was a member of the Third North Carolina Cavalry and also wrote The Captain’s Bride and The Refugee’s Niece. Parrish & Willingham locate thirty copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6353. $2000.

Item 84. With the Autograph of One of the Survivors

84. Hillard, Elias B., Rev.: THE LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION. A PHOTOGRAPH OF EACH FROM LIFE, TOGETHER WITH VIEWS OF THEIR HOMES PRINTED IN COLORS. ACCOM- PANIED BY BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE MEN. Hartford: Published by N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864. 64pp. plus six original mounted photographs and six colored lithographs. Autograph of Dan- iel Waldo affixed to a larger sheet of paper laid in. 12mo. Contemporary green morocco, stamped in blind and gilt; neatly rebacked, retaining original spine. Very clean internally. A very good copy.

This book is remarkable for its extraordinarily early mounted photographs of actual veterans of the American Revolution. Hillard produced it during the Civil War to inspire patriotic sentiments by providing verbal and visual portraits of the experienced old veterans. The colored lithographs show their homes. The persons photographed are Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Mil- lener, William Hutchings, and Adam Link. An additional chapter on James Barham is unillustrated, as he could not be found, although there was no record of his death. The photographs provide a remarkable reach back in time, showing persons born in the 1750s and 1760s. “The photographs were made uniformly under makeshift circumstances as would have been required if the photographs were made in situ while Hillard visited each for a personal interview” – Goldschmidt & Naef. A truly wonderful little book. This copy does not contain a facsimile of a letter written by Edward Everett, who served as both a congressman and governor of Massachusetts, commenting on the work. The original letter was written within days of Everett’s death on Jan. 15, 1865, and the facsimile is not found in all copies. Laid into this copy is the autograph of Daniel Waldo (“aged 101”), along with a brief biographical sketch of his life. BENNETT, p.56. HOWES H490. SABIN 31871. TRUTHFUL LENS 86. McGRATH, pp.114-15, 132-33. $6500.

Among the Rarest Western Cavalry Narratives

85. Holliday, George H.: ON THE PLAINS IN ‘65...TWELVE MONTHS IN THE VOLUNTEER CAVALRY SERVICE, AMONG THE INDIANS OF NEBRASKA, COLORADO, DAKOTA, WYO- MING, AND MONTANA. THRILLING ADVENTURES, FINE SCENERY, AND HOW THE BOYS PUT IN THE TIME IN THE FAR WEST. [Wheeling, W.V.]. 1883. 97pp. Original pictorial front wrapper bound in later cloth, spine gilt. Boards and spine slightly soiled, old library shelf label on bottom inner portion of front board. Institutional bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on front pastedown. A very good copy.

This is perhaps the most interesting of all the post-Civil War narratives, privately printed and of great rarity. Holliday enlisted in the Union Army at the age of fifteen. He served in the 6th West Virginia Cavalry and was mustered out in Washington. After the Civil War he re-enlisted and his regiment was sent to the Rocky Mountains “to assist in protecting the frontier, guarding the overland stage line, running the mails through the remote Northwest, and in protecting the Government posts along the North Platte river.” The regiment travelled from Washington, D.C. to St. Louis, thence by steamer to Fort Leavenworth, and up the Missouri River to Fort Kearny. Holliday’s unit served in Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana from the summer of 1865 to the following spring, mainly based in Fort Laramie. There is some account of the Sioux Wars, hunting on the Powder River, fighting at Horseshoe Station, chasing wild horses, hunting buffalo in Wind River Valley, etc. Illustrated with a full-page wood-engraved standing portrait of the author (sporting shoulder-length hair and an army uniform), and many other illustrations in the text. “An extremely interesting story” – Graff. HOWES H596, “b.” STREETER SALE 1828. GRAFF 1936. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.182. $11,000.

Extremely Rare Series of Civil War Lithographs by Winslow Homer: The First American Artist’s Book

86. Homer, Winslow: CAMPAIGN SKETCHES. Boston: Published by L. Prang & Co., [1863]. Six lithographed plates, each measuring 14 x 11 inches (including margins). Expert minor repair to the edges of the plates. Three plates with remains of an old light stain in bottom margin, encompassing the margin but not the image. One of these (“The Baggage Train”) with slight marginal paper loss, expertly infilled and repaired. All the plates have been lightly washed and expertly backed with archival tissue. The images are clean and bright, overall in very good condition. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, with internal cloth chemise. [See front cover of this catalogue for another illustration]

This extremely rare series of lithographs by renowned American artist Winslow Homer is the artist’s first graphic publication produced to stand on its own. It is his most important published work from his formative Civil War period, and a landmark in his career as a printmaker. In 1854, Homer began his career as an apprentice for the famed Boston lithography firm of John H. Bufford, and in the course of several years there he learned the techniques of lithography which he later employed in making Campaign Sketches. Most of his published work from this period is illustrated sheet music. In 1859 he moved to New York, creating illustrations for publications such as Ballou’s Magazine and Harper’s Weekly. It was as an illustrator for the latter publication that Homer made his first contact with the Civil War. In the fall of 1861 and again in the spring of 1862, Homer joined the encampment of McClellan’s Army of the Potomac near Washington. He afterwards embarked with the troops from the port of Alexandria and spent five weeks with them on the Peninsular Campaign to reach Richmond. During this time he produced a number of sketches and watercolors which appeared in Harper’s Weekly, bringing him considerable recognition. Significantly, Homer had no control over the final images, which were rendered by Harper’s woodblock cutters from his originals. Julian Grossman, in his book on Homer and the Civil War, has demonstrated the significant changes wrought by these artisans. Little is known of Homer’s decision to publish Campaign Sketches, but it may well have been at the instigation of the energetic publisher, Louis Prang. Prang and Homer probably knew each other from the 1850s, when the lithographer was beginning in business while Homer was still apprenticing at Bufford’s. Prang later became famous as the greatest chromolithographer in America and a masterful innovator in printing technology, but he was young and unknown in 1863, full of ideas of what might be marketable. Homer, gaining fame but unhappy with the crude distortions of his work in Harper’s Weekly, probably jumped at the chance to create graphic images in which he could control the medium. Sometime near the end of 1863 he drew the images directly on lithographic stones in his New York studio. These were then transported to Boston where Prang printed them before the end of the year. In December 1863, Homer wrote Prang: “I have seen a copy of ‘Campaign Sketches.’ The cover is very neat and the pictures look better than they would in color, but why did you not get a copyright?” If the rarity of the book is an indication, one was not needed. It sold poorly, and Prang offered the work for sale as late as 1868. Homer and Prang probably originally intended a larger work, to be issued in parts, since the very rare front wrapper (not present here) stated “Part I.” The part sold for $1.50; however, this is all that was ever published. Prang and Homer col- laborated on a completely different project the following year: a series of small cards entitled Life in Camp, caricatures rather than finished large prints. Campaign Sketches focused, as much of Homer’s Civil War work did, on incidents in the daily life of soldiers, rather than battle scenes. The plates are as follow:

“The Baggage Train.” Two black men sitting on the back of a covered wagon. Wood and Dalton suggest that Homer is depicting escaped slaves (known in the Union Army as “contraband”) hitching a ride on an Army supply wagon. “The Coffee Call.” A group of soldiers waiting with empty pannikins as coffee is brewed over a campfire. “Foraging.” Three soldiers attempt to subdue a rampaging bull. As with other plates in the series, this exhibits tongue-in-cheek humor over the realities of soldiering. “The Letter for Home.” A young woman transcribes a letter dictated by an injured soldier in an army hospital. “Our Jolly Cook.” Caricature of a black army cook dancing in front of an audience of soldiers. Wood and Dalton suggest several interpretations for this image. “A Pass Time.” Four soldiers sitting on ground playing cards while several other soldiers look on.

A very good set of one of the rarest works of one of Americana’s greatest artists. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.223. ANB 11, pp.113-14. Julian Grossman, Echo of a Distant Drum, Winslow Homer and the Civil War (New York, 1974). Lloyd Goodrich, The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer (New York, 1968), reproductions of the cover and all six lithographs as plates 13-20. Peter H. Wood & Karen C.C. Dalton, Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks (Austin, 1988). Mark E. Neely & Harold Holzer, The Union Image (Chapel Hill, 2000), pp.69-72. $60,000.

Rare Series of Civil War Lithographs by Winslow Homer

87. [Homer, Winslow]: [LIFE IN CAMP]. [Boston: Published by L. Prang & Co., 1864]. Twenty-four uncolored lithographs, each 4¼ x 2½ inches, printed on three conjoined sheets. Bound accordion-style into original red cloth, stamped in blind on the front board, “Military Album 1861 to 1865,” with a wreath motif. Cloth a bit soiled and chipped along the backstrip. A bit of light soiling and a few light fox marks. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Winslow Homer’s second series of lithographs from his formative Civil War period, and a defining moment in his career as a printmaker. This series follows Homer’s seminal Campaign Sketches (1863), and furthers the artist’s talent for communicat- ing the war experience on an intimate and personal level. This set is particularly interesting for being printed on three conjoined sheets (eight illustrations to a sheet), and bound accordion style into a cloth binding. Homer’s illustrations for this series are most often encountered as individual cards, usually affixed to larger sheets. This accordion-style printing is quite unusual. The binding is stamped Military Album 1861 to 1865, but it is presumed that the illustrations were printed in 1864. Homer’s lithographs were produced in colored and uncolored versions; this set is uncolored. In 1854, Homer began his career as an apprentice for the famed Boston lithography firm of John H. Bufford, and in the course of several years there he learned the techniques of lithography which he later employed in making Life in Camp. Most of his published work from this period is illustrated sheet music. In 1859 he moved to New York, creating illustrations for publications such as Ballou’s Magazine and Harper’s Weekly. It was as an illustrator for the latter publication that Homer made his first contact with the Civil War. In the fall of 1861, and again in the spring of 1862, Homer joined the encampment of McClellan’s Army of the Potomac near Washington. He afterwards embarked with the troops from the port of Alexandria and spent five weeks with them on the Peninsular Campaign to reach Richmond. During this period he produced a number of sketches and watercolors which appeared in Harper’s Weekly, bringing him considerable recognition. Significantly, Homer had no control over the final images, which were rendered by Harper’s woodblock cutters from his originals. Julian Grossman demonstrates the significant changes wrought by these artisans in his book on Homer and the Civil War. Like Homer’s previous Campaign Sketches, Life in Camp was published by the energetic Boston lithographer, Louis Prang. Prang and Homer probably knew each other from the 1850s, when Prang was beginning in business while Homer was still apprenticing at Bufford’s. Prang later became famous as the greatest chromolithographer in America and a masterful innovator in printing technology, but he was young and unknown in 1863, and full of ideas of what might be marketable. Homer, gaining fame but unhappy with the crude distortions of his work in Harper’s Weekly, probably jumped at the chance to create graphic images in which he could control the medium. Though only the first part of Campaign Sketches was produced (a planned second part never followed), Prang and Homer decided to issue the Life in Camp series as a holiday gift item for 1864. Like Campaign Sketches, Life in Camp focuses, as much of Homer’s Civil War works do, on incidents in the daily life of soldiers, rather than battle scenes. Also like Campaign Sketches, the images were produced in lithography and chromoli- thography. It is possible that Homer, drawing on his apprenticeship as a lithographer, drew the images on stone directly himself, because a letter from him to Prang survives, from December 1863, in which he states that he has “received the stones” and “shall commence it very soon.” The images were most commonly issued in two twelve-card sets. The images are as follow:

1) “The Rifle Pit.” A Zouave soldier surrounded by gabions holds his rifle at the ready. 2) “Home on a Furlough.” A young soldier enthusiastically enjoys a ballet. 3) “The Field Barber.” A Zouave soldier administers a haircut while another looks on. 4) “The Girl He Left Behind Him.” A young woman holding a letter. 5) “In the Trenches.” A Black soldier hoisting a gabion over a trench wall. Wood & Dalton write this “back-breaking” task was assigned to black workers by both armies. The role of Blacks in the war was a favorite subject of Homer, treated in such other works as Army Teamsters, “Our Jolly Cook” from Campaign Sketches, and more. 6) “Good Bye.” A young girl kisses a soldier. 7) “Fording.” Three unhappy soldiers crossing a river with their boots suspended from their bayonets. 8) “Extra Ration.” A Zouave soldier roasting a pig. According to Neely & Holzer, this image may have been inspired by Currier & Ives’ Life in the Camp. 9) “A Deserter.” An equally unhappy Zouave soldier sits with his chin in his hands. 10) “Our Special.” A self-caricature, Homer shows himself seated on what looks like a cannon barrel, sketching away. 11) “Drummer.” A simple profile of a young drummer boy with his instrument hung from his shoulder. 12) “Teamster.” A soldier, possibly black, shown from behind, drives a wagon mule. 13) “Water Call.” A soldier dumped in the drink by his horse. 14) “Surgeons’ Call.” A soldier sitting on a box having his tongue examined by a doctor. 15) “Tossing a Blanket.” Five soldiers toss a sixth by snapping a blanket held between them. 16) “An Unwelcome Visit.” Two soldiers sleeping in a tent awakened by the intru- sion of a mule. The tips of the mule’s ears are visible at the bottom of the card, giving an indication of how they were printed. 17) “Riding on a Rail.” An unhappy soldier being carted about on a board suspended between the shoulders of two other soldiers – a form of punishment. 18) “Stuck in the Mud.” A soldier floundering on his back in a mud puddle. 19) “The Guard House.” Two soldiers being punished standing on barrels while shouldering heavy logs as mock rifles. 20) “Upset His Coffee.” Two soldiers standing over a coffee pot accidentally spilt by a third. 21) “Building Castles.” A soldier daydreaming and smoking a pipe. 22) “A Shell is Coming.” Two soldiers hiding behind a tree. 23) “Late for Roll Call.” A soldier dashing out of his tent. 24) “Hard Tack.” A caricature of a diminutive soldier chomping on an enormous piece of hard tack. A fine, uncolored set of one of the rarest works by one of America’s greatest artists. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.223-24. ANB 11, pp.113-14. Julian Grossman, Echo of a Distant Drum, Winslow Homer and the Civil War (New York, 1974). Lloyd Goodrich, The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer (New York, 1968), reproductions of the 24 images, pp.21-24. Peter H. Wood & Karen C.C. Dalton, Winslow Homer’s Images of Blacks (Austin, 1988), p.130. Mark E. Neely & Harold Holzer, The Union Image (Chapel Hill, 2000), pp.69-73. OCLC 45392562. $37,500.

88. [Hughes, W.E.]: THE JOURNAL OF A GRANDFATHER. [Saint Louis? 1912]. 239pp. plus plates. Portrait. Original cloth backed boards. Spine a touch darkened. Corners worn. Else clean, tight, and very good. In a plain cloth slipcase.

A presentation copy of this privately printed book, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper dated 1912, limited to an edition of 100 copies. Hughes gives an account of years he spent as a cowboy, ranchman, soldier, and stagecoach driver in the West. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War under Mc- Culloch, and settled in Young County, Texas. He provides a detailed description of his experiences in the cattle business, as well as a long appraisal of the cattle industry of the late 1800s in Texas; with material on a number of famous cattle- men and ranches, such as Goodnight, Kennedy, and King; and a chapter on Indian depredations, especially those committed by the Kiowas. A trove of Western Americana material. DYKES, COLLECTING RANGE LIFE LITERATURE, p.9 (“very rare”). GRAFF 2007. HOWES C856 (misplaced). $1000.

89. Huling, E.J.: REMINISCENCES OF GUNBOAT LIFE IN THE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Printed for Private Circulation, 1881. iv,86pp. 16mo. Modern half leatherette and paper boards, spine gilt. Tape repair on verso of titlepage, with no loss of text. First two and final three leaves lightly tanned. Very good.

A rare memoir, printed for private circulation, of service in the U.S. Navy’s Mis- sissippi Squadron during the Civil War. Huling offers here, for friends and family, an account of the fourteen months spent on the steamer Huntress, also known as gunboat number 58 in the Mississippi Squadron, beginning in the summer of 1864. His vessel patrolled the Mississippi from Cairo, Illinois, to Memphis, though at times they went as far south as Vicksburg. Huling provides a detailed account of the ship’s activities, including engagements with Confederate ships, smugglers, and guerilla raids on the vessel while it was docked. There is also much about the Huntress’ officers and crew, daily routine on board ship, and about the towns and cities along the river. Not in Nevins or Dornbusch, and no copies listed in recent auction records. OCLC locates only seven copies, including the Library of Congress copy (the only one listed in the NUC). Rare. HOWES H776. OCLC 12776761. $3000.

90. Irby, Richard: HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE NOTTOWAY GRAYS, AFTERWARDS COMPANY G, EIGHTEENTH VIR- GINIA REGIMENT, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA; PRE- PARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY AT THEIR FIRST RE-UNION AT BELLE- FONT CHURCH, JULY 21, 1877. Richmond: J.W. Ferguson & Son, 1878. 48,[1]pp. Three-quarter morocco and cloth. Old number on titlepage. Light soiling to outer leaves, else very good.

Scarce pamphlet containing muster rolls, anecdotes, extracts of letters, and battle accounts of the Eighteenth Virginia Regiment’s Company G, the “Nottoway Grays.” OCLC lists only microform copies. DORNBUSCH II:1013. HOWES I73. NEVINS I, p.112. $1500.

Calling for Law and Order During Reconstruction

91. [ Johnson, Andrew]: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION [caption title]. [Washington]. Sept. 9, 1867. Broadside, 14 x 8½ inches. Old folds. Some slight separation at folds. Minor soiling and a few small edge tears at bottom. Good plus.

A rare Reconstruction broadside in which President Andrew Johnson warns “all persons against obstructing or hindering in any manner whatsoever the faithful execution of the Constitution and the laws,” and orders “all officers of the Govern- ment, civil and military, to render due submission and obedience to said laws, and to the judgments and decrees of the courts of the United States, and to give all aid in their power necessary to the prompt enforcement and execution of such laws, decrees, judgments, and processes.” It is signed in type at the end by President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, and headed with a note by Treasury Secretary Hugh McCulloch. A contemporary owner has written on the verso: “9 Sept. 1867. A political dodge of President Johnson, involving false statements on his part. And a picture of Secretary McCulloch, as a political cat’s paw, moved by A.J. Dec. 1868. It seems that both the above have burned their hands in the election of Grant & that their roasted chestnuts proved to be bitter acorns.” Only two copies in OCLC, at the American Antiquarian Society and the New- York Historical Society. OCLC 61073785, 191233848. $1500.

92. Johnson, Andrew: [LETTER OF INTRODUCTION, SIGNED BY ANDREW JOHNSON, INTRODUCING SAMUEL PRITCHITT TO HON. E.A. ROLLINS]. Washington. June 19, 1867. [1]p. on “Execu- tive Mansion” stationery. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds; minor separation at edge of folds. Very minor soiling. Very good plus.

With this letter President Andrew Johnson introduces Samuel Pritchitt of Nashville to E.A. Rollins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The letter reads: “Sir, This will introduce to you Mr. Sam’l Pritchitt, of Nashville, Tenn., well known to me as a gentleman of high position and character. Any statement made by him may be fully relied upon, and I commend him to your attentions.” Johnson himself was from Tennessee, and served as military governor of that state during the Civil War. Elected vice president for Lincoln’s second term, he ascended to the presidency following Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. $2250.

93. Johnson, Reverdy: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM REVERDY JOHNSON TO JAMES W. DENVER, REGARDING JOHNSON’S EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF STEPHEN A. DOUG- LAS’ BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1860]. San Francisco. Septem- ber 26, 1860. [4]pp. manuscript letter, on a folded folio sheet. With original mailing envelope, addressed by Johnson, with a three-cent George Washington profile pressed stamp, and with a Wells Fargo inked postmark and ink stamp: “Paid / Wells, Fargo & Co. / over our California and coast routes.” Letter with old folds. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

This letter concerns the 1860 presidential election and efforts to support the campaign of Stephen A. Douglas. The letter is written from one prominent national Democrat to another. Reverdy Johnson, a former Senator and prominent lawyer, argued for the defense in the Dred Scott Case. Johnson, who started his political career as a Whig, became a Democrat and supported Stephen A. Douglas in the 1856 and 1860 presidential elections. James W. Denver was prominent in California and national politics, and would hold the rank of general during the Civil War. Johnson, who appears to have been in California in the fall of 1860 as lawyer for the New Almaden mining concern in the Bay Area, responds to a note from Denver, who had asked him to speak on Douglas’ behalf while in California. The letter reads:

My dear General, your note of the 20th inviting me “on behalf of the democracy” of your county to address a meeting of the friends of Judge Douglas in the evening Saturday was not received until yesterday, owing to my absence from the city. Had it come to me in time, however gratified I should have been to have complied with its request, I could not have complied with it because of the engrossing nature of my professional engagements. But indeed, so far as the questions which are manly involved in the contest are concerned, could I say more than I have done? A speech made by me in June last, in Boston, with the pamphlet signed “[?] Citizen” gives the public all the assistance I could render. The latter, I suppose you & our friends in this state, may have seen & a copy of the speech, I am told, will be received here within a day or two, & will appear this week in one of the papers of this place. It may do good, by having it also published in the Sacramento Union. My news from the Atlantic is favorable. How is yours?

Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876) was a noted lawyer and diplomat. Johnson, who practiced for nearly sixty years in Baltimore, became “one of the greatest lawyers of his day” (DAB), especially famed for his skill as a constitutional lawyer. His first case before the U.S. Supreme Court was Brown v. Maryland; he successfully represented Cyrus McCormick in a case pertaining to patents on his reaper; and he also presented the constitutional argument against Dred Scott in 1857, arguing that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories. “A brilliant lawyer, [Johnson] was recognized following the death of Daniel Webster as the nation’s preeminent constitutional authority in cases before the Supreme Court based on the consistency of his constitutional arguments and the extreme thoroughness with which he prepared his cases” – ANB. Johnson served in the United States Senate from 1845 to 1849, when he resigned to become attorney general in the administration of Zachary Taylor, a post he held until 1850. Johnson served again in the U.S. Senate in the 1860s, where he was influential in preventing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and was American ambassador to Great Britain in 1868 and 1869, a time of very delicate diplomatic relations with England. James William Denver (1817-92) was born in Virginia and served in the army during the Mexican War. He had a long and varied political career, serving as a member of the California State Senate in 1852-53, as California’s Secretary of State of from 1853 to 1855, and then as a U.S. Congressman from California in 1855- 57. In 1852 he engaged in a duel with newspaper editor Edward Gilbert, during which Denver killed Gilbert. Denver went on to serve as secretary and governor of Kansas Territory in 1857-58. It was while governor of Kansas Territory that land speculator William Larimer named the western Kansas town of “Denver” after him (the city would become capital of the state of Colorado). During the Civil War, Denver was a general in the Union Army. ANB 12, pp.116-18. DAB X, pp.112-14. $850.

94. Jones, Joseph: FIRST REPORT TO THE COTTON PLANTERS’ CONVENTION OF GEORGIA, ON THE AGRICULTURAL RE- SOURCES OF GEORGIA. Augusta, Ga.: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1860. xv,[1],312,[7]pp. Original red cloth, black gilt morocco label. Spine slightly worn, small chips at head and toe. Minor shelf wear. Front free endpaper, front fly leaf, and titlepage detached. Overall internally clean. Good.

An assessment of growing qualities in several Georgia counties, with a focus on shell limestone and the application of certain fertilizers. Good evidence of the magnitude of the slave-support cotton industry on the eve of war. DE RENNE II, p.610. OCLC 9726251. $500.

95. Jones, Joseph: AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF GEORGIA. ADDRESS BEFORE THE COTTON PLANTERS CONVEN- TION OF GEORGIA AT MACON, DECEMBER 13, 1860. Augusta, Ga. 1861. 13pp. printed in double-column format. Self-wrappers. Staining and soiling, several closed tears at untrimmed edges, old fold. Last leaf chipped, not affecting text. Else good.

Jones, a professor of medical chemistry at the Medical College of Georgia, and a medical doctor, strongly advocates slave labor, arguing that only Blacks can work in that tortuous climate, and that without slave labor agricultural endeavors in the South would falter. He describes the abundant resources of the state in support of his argument favoring secession, claiming that Georgia and the South would do fine on their own, that they don’t need the North. He quotes extensively from Francis Moore’s A Voyage to Georgia... (1735), as well as from William Bartram. Georgia seceded from the Union on Jan. 19, 1861. Not in De Renne. SABIN 36575. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5529. $850.

Woman in Kansas in 1856 Writes to the Governor

96. [Kansas]: Hall, Lydia P.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM LYDIA P. HALL TO GOVERNOR JOHN GEARY OF KANSAS]. [Np, but probably Lawrence, Ks.]. Nov. 10, 1856. [4]pp. on folded sheet, docketed: “Novr. 10, 1856, Lydia Hall, Answered.” Accompanied by a modern typescript of the text. Some dust soiling. Overall good.

A spirited, if somewhat rambling letter to Gov. Geary of Kansas Territory from a lady in Lawrence. Ms. Hall writes during the turbulent border war period. The point of the letter appears to revolve around a newspaper account of some incident in Kansas during the border wars. Below is a lengthy excerpt from the letter:

Gov. Geary, Dear Sir, Once more – for an explanation & apology are your due – & I hope you are patient. You gave me the title of “Esq.,” hence your letter was not put in my box & failed to reach me for nearly a week. When told at the office that such a letter was there, I claimed it at once, as in consequence of my chirography, a similar mistake has before occurred. Since that time I have usually taken the precaution in writing strangers – forgotten in this instance – of adding my name more in full. Thanks for the promptness of your reply & the spirit of courtesy that pervaded it, but then, to be called “Esq.” & upon the strength of that, to be addressed as a politician – isn’t it funny? The title spares me, but the same letter to my recognised self would have been received as proof that you had mistaken me for a “strong minded woman” or a “woman’s rights” advocate in the technical sense of those terms – & in either case, a politician. And I must say it would have been – as your letter certainly is not – very annoying...... My only object in sending you the newspaper slip – by the way, not an editorial opinion, but a report published, I am told in the official organ of the party of the writer, who witnessed & heard what he professed to narrate – was to ascertain whether as a historical account it is sufficiently true in its details, to be relied on. And that you may understand my reasons, without the shadow of a suspicion, I will tell you – what otherwise I would have kept to myself – not by way of eliciting any information you do not choose to give but simply in justification of the motive, even if the act were censurable. During the summer I commenced gathering up a few of the items of interest connected with life in Kansas as I have experienced & witnessed it for a year & a half, nearly. An attack of fever prostrated me early in Sept. & I have not since resumed my labors, any more then to be possessing myself of such facts as come within my reach. The paper sent you was the only version I had then seen of a transaction too important to be omitted, & devoid of confidence in the writer, any farther than it was for his interest to be truthful & having no means of knowing how far this might be, I adopted what seemed to me the only fair & honorable course, before making use of the report. If I erred, I trust to your clemency for pardon – confident that it will not be withheld. ...We at Lawrence are a hospitable & wholehearted people, though a combination of untoward circumstances may eclipse sometimes the exhibition of our best qualities. $1000.

A Lively Firsthand Account of an Important Bleeding Kansas Raid by a Guerilla Force of Jayhawkers

97. [Kansas]: Crawford, George A.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE A. CRAWFORD TO JAMES W. DEN- VER, GOVERNOR OF KANSAS TERRITORY, DETAILING A RAID BY MONTGOMERY’S JAYHAWKERS DURING BLEED- ING KANSAS]. Fort Scott, Kansas Territory. April 22, 1858. [2]pp. plus integral blank. Folded octavo bifolium (7¾ x 5 inches), with fine associated full-colored cover.

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created those territories with the provision that the region’s settlers would decide whether slavery would be lawful. The border state of Kansas thus became a breeding ground for anti- and pro-slavery conflict. Pro-slavery Missourians, known as border ruffians, flooded into the eastern half of the state, specifically along the Missouri River where slave-based agriculture would be feasible. Anti-slavery forces rallied, sending settlers from the North, with most coming from New England. Free state settlements were created in Topeka and Lawrence, with the border ruffians establishing their capital at Lecompton. George A. Crawford, the author of this letter, “a well known editor and public man and several times a gubernatorial candidate, was born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1827, of Scotch-Irish-German stock. After receiving an academic education and graduating from Jefferson College, he taught school in Kentucky and Mississippi, when he returned to Pennsylvania to study law. While still reading for the bar, he became editor and proprietor of the Clinton Democrat. During the early years he took an active part in politics against the Know-Nothings and in 1855 was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention. In the spring of 1857 he came to Kansas; landed at Leavenworth and accompanied Dr. Norman Eddy, United States commissioner for the sale of Indian lands, to Lawrence. Crawford, Eddy and other associates purchased 520 acres of land and organized the Fort Scott Town Company, of which Mr. Crawford was made president, a position he held for twenty years. A town was laid out and the streets were named after Mr. Crawford’s friends. He was opposed to the agitation kept up by the border factions but did not change his free-state views and several attempts were made to assassinate him” – Connelley. Writing to Kansas Territorial governor James W. Denver, Crawford gives a lively account of a raid. Although citing “Jim Denton’s gang” as the culprits, the actual marauders were James Montgomery’s band of Jayhawkers:

Yesterday some of Jim Denton’s gang from the Osage, to the number of 20, commenced robbing pro-slavery men & national free-state democrats on the Marmiton [River], above town. The Marshall & 20 men under Capt. Anderson went after them and chased them into some timber, behind a bluff from whence they fired and mortally wounded one soldier, scratched the Capt. with a ball, killed two horses and hit the Capt.’s horse in three places. The Capt. sent for 20 more men, with long guns. When they got there, however, and charged on the ravine the scamps had made their escape, leaving all sorts of plunder, which they had been carrying away. We had hoped they would have all been caught. The affair created great excitement here. It is said they notified all Pro-slavery men to leave the Marmiton. – What are we to do? The very old Nick is in the people for mischief. The great mass of the settlers are well disposed – but this organized band strikes terror to them....

Goodrich, in his 2004 work on Bleeding Kansas, War to the Knife, writes:

Led by former minister James Montgomery, a gang of nominally free-soil regulators, soon to be known as “Jayhawkers,” began robbing, flogging and sometimes killing southern settlers almost as fast as they arrived...On April 21 [1858], almost within sight of the army cantonment at Fort Scott, the Jayhawk- ers swept up the Marmaton River valley, plundering proslavery and free-soil settlers alike. When word of the raid reached town, a deputy marshal asked for and received a file of twenty dragoons to act as posse. Surprising the gang eight miles west of Fort Scott, the soldiers, armed with sabers and revolvers, quickly pressed the bandits....Without warning, the raiders wheeled and fired their weapons, striking several horses and severely wounding one of the soldiers.

This event was significant, as the soldier would die from his wounds, making him the first federal soldier to die in the Kansas violence. In addition to the letter, the cover is in fine condition and worthy of note: it includes a large “Fort Scott, K.T. / Apr 22” datestamp with Kansas Territory and matching straightline “paid” handstamp on buff cover, addressed to “His Excellency, / Gov. Denver / Lecompton, / K.T.”, with “corner card” of “Kansas Land Agency and Land Office. / George A. Crawford, Attorney & Counsellor at law / and General Land Agent, / Fort Scott, Kansas.” Connelley, Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (Topeka & Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918), Vol. III, p.1247. $4500.

Bloody Kansas

98. [Kansas-Nebraska Act]: LIBERTY, THE FAIR MAID OF KANSAS – IN THE HANDS OF THE BORDER RUFFIANS. [Philadelphia: John L. Magee, 1856]. Uncolored lithograph, 14 x 19½ inches. Toned, with irregular further darkening in the margins, not affecting image. Upper margin with several small tears, one repaired with tape on verso. About good overall. Matted.

A powerful American political print, brutally satirizing the Democratic leaders who crafted and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, one of the most controversial and divisive pieces of legislation of the antebellum era. The Kansas-Nebraska Act provided for the eventual admission of those two territories as states, and left the question of whether slavery would be allowed to local popular sovereignty, thereby nullifying the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. The main result of the legislation was to further divide the country into anti-slavery “free- soilers” (mostly in the north and represented by the emerging Republican party) and pro-slavery southerners and westerners (represented by the Democrats). Another result was the migration into Kansas (mostly from Missouri) of so-called “border ruffians” who would vote in Kansas elections in a pro-slavery manner, which they hoped would eventually bring Kansas into the Union as a slave state. Violence inevitably followed as “border ruffians” and “free-soilers” fought it out in Kansas in a sort of civil war. This print, which appeared during the presidential campaign of 1856, shows a weak and defenseless Lady Liberty, draped in an American flag, menaced by an array of Democratic politicians and begging for mercy. President Franklin Pierce, dressed in the buckskins of a border ruffian, holds a rifle, with a pistol, knife, tomahawk, and scalp in his belt. He leers at Liberty and assures her that he will protect her in the manner shown “over the left.” The left rear of the print shows the home of a settler being burned by ruffians as a helpless, mad widow looks on. Senator Lewis Cass, a longtime supporter of “popular sovereignty,” also exhibits bad intentions toward Liberty. On the far right, Senator Stephen Douglas, architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, is shown scalping a farmer. On the left James Buchanan, the Democrats’ choice to succeed Pierce, and Secretary of State William Marcy empty the pockets of another victim. Other scenes in the background show an attack on an emigrant train, attacks on defenseless men, and the shooting of a helpless woman. The implication of the print is clear: the Democratic leaders who passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act were not only responsible for the environment that led to the crimes being committed in Kansas, they were accomplices themselves. Reilly calls this print “a bitter indictment of the Democratic administration’s responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas- Nebraska Act.” Nevins and Weitenkampf call it “a savage cartoon...[that] caused many previously moderate Northerners to face the slavery issue with new deter- mination.” Reilly and others attribute the print to John Magee of Philadelphia, based on stylistic and topical similarities with other prints done by Magee in the period. OCLC locates a total of only seven copies. A powerful print, addressing the most important issue of the day. REILLY, AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS, 1766-1876, 1856-9. WEITENKAMPF, p.115. MURRELL, p.190; figure 191. NEVINS & WEITENKAMPF, pp.78-79. OCLC 191119979, 299946494, 8631862. $2500.

99. [Kansas Territory]: JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN- TATIVES OF THE TERRITORY OF KANSAS. AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATIVE AS- SEMBLY, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE TOWN OF PAWNEE, ON MONDAY, THE 2d DAY OF JULY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY- FIVE. Shawnee, M.L.S.: John T. Brady, 1855. 382,69pp. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, leather label. Binding a bit scuffed. Scattered foxing. Overall good plus.

This Kansas territorial journal records the actions of the pro-slavery faction that secured control of the legislature which ousted the Free State body, and in defiance of the governor, removed the seat of government to Shawnee. “Here in a house without roof or floor, and with more than half the members camping out in wagons and tents, midst a rainy hot season and an outbreak of Cholera they conducted the high-handed proceedings and formulated the statutes here recorded and since known to history as the ‘Bogus Laws’” – Eberstadt. “A record of the first session of House of Representatives of Kansas Territory, a body of the Pro-slavery legislature. The last 69 pages contain an appendix that includes the opinion of the Supreme Court in regard to the legality of the first session, a memorial from the territorial legislature to the President of the United States, a report of the committee on judiciary, a minority report of the judiciary committee, the resignation of Samuel D. Houston, and the rules and orders for conducting business in the House of Representatives and the joint rules for the government of the Council and House...” – Dary. A rare early Kansas imprint. DARY 10. KANSAS IMPRINTS 48. SABIN 37045. EBERSTADT 137:340. $2750.

100. [Keiley, Anthony M.]: IN VINCULIS; OR, THE PRISONER OF WAR. BEING, THE EXPERIENCE OF A REBEL IN TWO FED- ERAL PENS, INTERSPERSED WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE WAR; ANECDOTES OF SOUTHERN GENERALS etc. By a Virginia Confederate. Petersburg, Va. 1866. [2],216pp. Early 20th-century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards by Oldach. Cor- ners bit worn, obituary tipped to verso of titlepage (causing some offsetting). Overall very good and clean. From the Confederate Collection of J.R. Zim- merman, with his bookplate.

Second, enlarged edition, after the first of the previous year. A famous and highly regarded wartime account. Based on the author’s experiences in two federal prisons (Point Lookout and Elmira), after his capture at the battle near Petersburg. The first edition of this book was the last or next to last book printed in the Confederacy. Keiley, a noted journalist and lawyer, also wrote The Falling Flag, describing the Confederate retreat from Petersburg to Appomattox. A contemporary review of this work quoted by Harwell (Evening Courier for March 24, 1865) states that Keiley’s narrative “is invaluable in arriving at accurate conclusions respecting the opinions, hopes, prospects, and designs of the Northern people in their war for subjugation.... It has all the thrilling interest of a legend of romance....” HOWES K27. NEVINS I, p.195. SABIN 37169. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 50 (1st ed). CRANDALL 2637 (1st ed). IN TALL COTTON 149 (1st ed). $650.

101. Kell, John McIntosh: RECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE IN- CLUDING THE CRUISES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES STEAMERS “SUMTER” AND “ALABAMA.” Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. 307pp. Portrait frontispiece and [4]pp. of advertisements. Original pictorial cloth. Slight wear at toe of spine. Very good.

Kell, who served as Semmes’ executive officer, describes his naval adventures during the Civil War, including aboard the famous Confederate raiders, Sumter and Alabama. About half the book is devoted to pre-war naval experiences in Brazil, Okinawa, Hong Kong, and the like. “Kell’s account of brief service with the James River Squadron in 1865 is one of the best” – Nevins. A Neale Company publication. HOWES K39. KRICK 262. NEVINS II, p.227. $650.

Attacking Lincoln for Mismanagement in the 1864 Election

102. Kendall, Amos: [Lincoln, Abraham]: LETTERS EXPOSING THE MISMANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS BY ABRAHAM LIN- COLN, AND THE POLITICAL COMBINATIONS TO SECURE HIS RE-ELECTION. Washington, D.C. 1864. 46pp. Stitched as issued. Some light foxing and toning. Modern bookplate on final blank leaf. Very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. In a blue half morocco and cloth folder.

Scarce piece of anti-Lincoln campaign literature, criticizing the conduct of the war and Lincoln’s extension of suffrage to former slaves. The author, Amos Kendall, was an important political figure in the Jackson administration; during the Civil War he became involved with the Democratic Party and was highly critical of the North for giving the federal government excessive power. This is one of the last works he authored. Scarce, with only five institutional copies located. $1000.

An Important American Family Archive

103. [Kirby, Edmund]: [Kirby Family]: [ARCHIVE OF CORRESPON- DENCE AND OTHER PAPERS FROM THE KIRBY FAMILY, SPANNING THREE GENERATIONS, TWO MAJOR AMERI- CAN WARS, AND NEARLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS]. Various places, including Washington, West Point, New York, and locations in Mexico. 1788-1863. 144 letters and five official documents, detailed below. Primar- ily quarto, with a few octavo letters. Documents are larger, on folded vellum sheets. Light scattered soiling, a few small paper losses. Very good. In two custom binders and one half morocco clamshell case.

An extensive archive of correspondence from the Kirby family, spanning three generations and three major American wars, with letters from the Mexican-American War, official presidential documents, and correspondence from the Civil War. The Kirbys were a military family, with several career soldiers among them. Most of the archive relates to Edmund Kirby (1794-1849), who fought in the Mexican- American War, and includes correspondence from Kirby to his son and his wife, several of them written from the front lines of the War in Mexico. Also in the archive are letters from Edmund Kirby, the son (1840-63), written to his brother during the Civil War; and several earlier letters written to the patriarch, Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804), who fought in the American Revolution. Edmund Kirby settled his family in Brownville, New York, the ancestral home of his wife, Eliza Brown, daughter of Major General Jacob Brown, for whom the town was named. Edmund Kirby fought in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel (the certificate awarding him that rank is included in this archive) and chief of the pay department. He would return from the war but die from a disease contracted while in Mexico. The Kirbys had nine children. The archive includes eighty-two letters from Edmund Kirby to his wife, and forty-three letters from Edmund to his eldest son, Jacob Brown Kirby. It also includes thirteen letters from Edmund Kirby (1840-63) to his brother, Reynold Marvin Kirby, written during the Civil War. Edmund Kirby the younger was a second lieutenant in the Artillery who fought for the Union. He took a wound at Chancellorsville which resulted in the amputation of his leg and his eventual death. Facing his death in a Union Army hospital, he expressed concern about the welfare of his widowed mother and sisters, for whom he was the sole support; President Lincoln, who was visiting the hospital, commissioned him a brigadier general on his deathbed, assuring his family a sizable pension. Edmund Kirby the younger’s sister, Frances Kirby Smith, was the mother of General Edmund Kirby Smith, who fought for the Confederacy. Contents are as follow:

1) [Kirby, Edmund]: [Five Official Documents, Printed on Vellum; Four of Them Signed by U.S. Presidents]. 1812-1849. Four measuring 18 x 15 inches, the fifth 11 x 15 inches. Some light soiling. Very good. Five engraved documents, printed on vellum, appointing Edmund Kirby (1794-1849) to various military positions, illustrating his rise through the ranks of the U.S. Army. Four of these documents are signed by U.S. presidents: James Madison (1812), James Monroe (1825), Andrew Jackson (1832), James K. Polk (1848). The fifth document is a certificate of membership in the Aztec Club, a society for officers of the Mexican-American War. Kirby appears to have been elected posthumously, as this certificate is dated two months after his death. 2) Kirby, Edmund: [Eighty-two Letters Written by Edmund Kirby to His Wife Eliza]. Various places, including Washington, Detroit, & Mexico City. 1827-1848. Over two hundred pages. Primarily quarto. Light scattered soiling; a few small losses. Very good. Twenty-three of these letters cover the period from 1827 to 1845, and are primarily comprised of letters sent from western New York and points in the Midwest, discussing his travels and expressing his desire for home and family. He gives Eliza instructions as to the care of the farm, and relates news of business dealings and mutual acquaintances. In the 1830s, Edmund was involved in campaigns against the Indians, including the Black Hawk War. One particularly interesting letter written in September 1832 from an army camp on the bank of the Mississippi, near Rock Island, relays news of a cholera outbreak and its effect on an Indian treaty: “The business of the campaign however is drawing to a close & nothing but the distressing prevalence of our old & worst enemy, cholera, will prevent its speedy termination. Since my last we have moved our camp to the west bank of the Mississippi near the spot where the treaty is appointed to be held....It has already interfered with the arrangements for the treaty & if it continues may yet do so.” He goes on to discuss the progress of subduing the Indians: “The hostile Sacks are subdued. The Black Hawk is a prisoner & will be here probably today. The Prophet...& all their principal chiefs are also prisoners in our hands. The treaty will be held with Keeokuck, chief of the friendly Sacks, those who did not take up arms against us with the Winnebagoes....” The remainder of the letters, 54 in all, cover 1846-48, recounting Edmund’s service in the Mexican-American War. Edmund was a paymaster with the army. His correspondence, which consists of letters of about 1000 words approximately twice a month, is full of rich detail of the circumstances of the army and the occupation of Mexico. Among his correspondence are several letters written from Monterey, where Edmund was invited by General Zachary Taylor to attend the signing of the Mexican capitulation. “The conference was tedious and after all was concluded and the articles signed by the commissioners on both sides and by General Taylor, General Ampudia was an hour in fixing his name to the instrument. We had retired except Col. Davis who says that he sat fifteen minutes at a time with the pen in hand and the sweat rolling off his face in big drops.” He gallantly sends home a rose plucked from General Arista’s garden. His letters are filled with details of army life and his marches through Mexico, as well as details of Mexican life – women who smoke, fruits in the market, etc.; he often sends souvenirs home to his wife and children – ponchos, sea shells, a Mexican tent, Aztec relics, etc. Writing from Tampico on Feb. 3, 1847, he relates that General Scott is daily expected and says: “The force accumulated in the Gulph & tending towards Vera Cruz is so large that the city & castle of San Juan d’Ulloa must fall before it without any great struggles.” Camped before Vera Cruz on March 24, he relates the opening of hostilities: “Three mortar batteries were established however on the 22d instant when Captain Jos. E. Johnston was sent in with a flag & a sum- mons from the General for the surrender of the city. It was rejected in courteous but decided terms. Whereupon our batteries opened at half past four o’clock (22d) P.M. The bombardment has continued without intermission night or day to the present time.” He longs for peace and home, at one point writing: “I feel sad...I have nothing whatever to gain by remaining here.” He writes of the delays with peace and negotiations, and many other battles and engagements. Several of his letters home are written on official stationery of the Mexican Ministry of War. 3) Kirby, Edmund: [Forty-three Letters Written by Edmund Kirby to His Son, Jacob Brown Kirby]. Brownville & Washington. 1838-1844. Over eighty pages. Quarto. Some light soiling. Very good. In these letters Edmund passes along fatherly advice and news to his eldest son, Jacob Brown Kirby (1827-60), who is, part of the time, studying at West Point. Writing to Jake, he reminds him that he bears his grandfather’s name (General Jacob Brown, who fought in the War of 1812), “& should learn to emu- late his virtues, for his name will be an honor to you no longer than you honor it by striving to do all your duties properly.” In a letter dated March 22, 1838, he passes along news of the Indian Wars in Florida, including a mention of the opening actions of the Cherokee removal that would become the Trail of Tears:

I have long letters from General Eustis, Col. Lindsey, your Uncle Reynold & other officers in Florida giving sad accounts of the sufferings of the troops. The campaign is over & the war is not ended. The infantry will be left to keep the Indians in check through the summer & the artillery regiments will be sent to the upper part of Georgia & Alabama to the Cherokee country where a large army will be assembled including several thousand militia to compel the Cherokee Indians to emigrate to the west of the Mississippi. Gen. Scott will probably command this army, but I have no desire to join it & do not expect to be called upon to do so.

In the years leading up to the Mexican-American War, he discusses the annexation of Texas, and the military and political implications of the impending conflict. On the question of annexation, he writes:

The members from the Southern states will support the measure for the purpose of creating new slave states & thus gaining the ascendency for the slavery interest in the councils of the nation & because they fear that the government of Great Britain which has great influence with that of Texas will compel or induce the latter to abolish slavery. The effect of which would be to weaken the slave interest in our southern states greatly by depriving them of their best market for slaves & by affording a new place of refuge for runaway slaves from the southern plantations. The Northern members will oppose the annexation with all their might headed by that indomitable old patriot John Quincy Adams.

4) Kirby, Edmund, the younger: [Thirteen Letters Written by Edmund Kirby to His Brother, Reynold Marvin Kirby]. West Point and several other locations. 1860- 1863. Over forty-five pages. Octavo and quarto sheets. Light scattered soiling. Very good. Some letters with postal covers. Letters written by Edmund Kirby (1840-63) to his younger brother, Reynold Marvin Kirby (b. 1844), the baby of the Kirby family. Edmund’s letters begin from West Point, where he is a cadet training to be an artilleryman. Edmund discusses life at school, family affairs, and his concern for the approaching war between the states. Later he writes of life in camp, and his constant concern about his brother’s allowance and expenditures. In a letter dated Jan. 19, 1861, he writes to Reynold that he has completed his examinations, and expresses his feelings about the impending conflict:

Only one more examination and then I will don the blue and doff the grey, which I assure you I shall not be sorry to do. We are all looking anxiously for some settlement in Washington. I think that it is time that both parties saw that it is impossible for them to rule, and if they make concessions why all will be right. They are fighting for a more abstract question and it is of little moment to either which gains ascendency. I should dislike very much indeed to fight in this country yet I am determined to use my little influence for the Union. I have seen a good deal of excitement on this subject as you may suppose as we have cadets here from every part of the country.

By August 19, Edmund is writing letters from a Union army camp. Stationed along the Potomac, he writes of camp life, noting, “I have very little affection for picquet duty in December.” Among others, Edmund would later see action at the First Battle of Bull Run and Malvern Hill, before sustaining mortal wounds at Chancellorsville. Also included in this archive is a letter from Brigadier General Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac, sending condolences to Mrs. Kirby on the loss of her son. He writes: We have just learned from the newspapers of the death, from his wounds, of your son Edmund. The news has produced deep feeling throughout this army. It is seldom indeed that one so young with so little rank, and so small a command, has achieved so much....[My writing to you] will not lessen your sorrow, but it will be a melancholy satisfaction to you to know that your son is mourned by an army....

5) Tracy, Uriah: [Autograph Letter, Signed, from Uriah Tracy to Ephraim Kirby, Discussing the Work of the General Assembly]. New Haven. Oct. 16, 1788. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines. A few neat repairs at folds. Minor soiling. Very good. Letter written by Connecticut Senator Uriah Tracy to Ephraim Kirby discussing the work of the General Assembly, sitting in New Haven. “We have chosen Wm. Saml. Johnson & Oliver Ellsworth, senators, we have passed a very benevolent act relative to Africans; & have passed a very long act organizing New Congress, &c &c.” Ephraim Kirby fought in the American Revolution and served as a judge later in life. 6) [Burr, Aaron]: [Autograph Note from Aaron Burr to Ephraim Kirby, Requesting a Meeting]. [Np]. Feb. 1801. [1]p. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Burr was in a tie vote with Thomas Jefferson for the presidency, with balloting to decide the tie slated for Feb. 11th. On the 36th ballot, Feb. 17th, Jefferson was declared the victor. The note reads: “Mr. Burr will be very happy to see Mr. Kirby immediately if convenient to him – if not Mr. B. will make a point of being disengaged at any hour Mr. K. may be pleased to name.” Burr may have been seeking legal advice or simply politicking. 7) Worthington, Thomas: [Letter of Introduction Written and Signed by Thomas Worthington, for Ephraim Kirby]. Suffield. Aug. 28, 1803. [1]p. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Letter of introduction provided by U.S. Senator from Ohio Thomas Worthing- ton to Ephraim Kirby. Kirby was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as a judge in Mississippi Territory, but fell ill and died shortly after his arrival there. 8) Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.: [Autograph Letter, Signed, from Oliver Wolcott to Edmund Kirby]. Litchfield, Ct. Jan. 13, 1824. [2]pp. Old fold lines. Minor repairs. Very good. Connecticut governor Oliver Wolcott writes to Edmund Kirby, acknowledging Kirby’s fine qualities, but expressing doubt that he will be able to extend any influence to help Kirby acquire a government position.

An incredible archive of correspondence, spanning three generations, with particularly good content relating to the Mexican-American War. $45,000.

104. Lee, Charles Henry: JUDGE ADVOCATE’S VADE MECUM: EM- BRACING A GENERAL VIEW OF MILITARY LAW, AND THE PRACTICE BEFORE COURTS-MARTIAL OF THE ARMY AND NAVY, WITH AN EPITOME OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, AS APPLICABLE TO MILITARY AND NAVAL TRIALS. Richmond: West and Johnston, 1863. 251pp. Modern half morocco. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall a good plus copy.

A very scarce Confederate work of military law. A comprehensive and original treatment of military trials and law, drawing from an earlier American work published by Capt. De Hart in 1846. Actually printed by Evans & Cogswell of Charleston. Parrish & Willingham locate thirty-four copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4904. $950. Robert E. Lee Congratulates Another Future Confederate General on His Comanche Fighting

105. Lee, Robert E.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ROB- ERT E. LEE TO EARL VAN DORN, CONGRATULATING HIM ON A VICTORY OVER THE COMANCHE INDIANS]. Arlington, Va. Dec. 31, 1858. [3]pp. on a folded quarto sheet. Reinforced on verso along center fold. Near fine. In a half morocco slipcase.

A warm, congratulatory letter from Robert E. Lee to Major Earl Van Dorn, praising his comrade for his tactics and bravery in a recent fight against the Comanche in Indian Territory. Lee and Van Dorn were both assigned to the Second Cavalry, stationed at Camp Cooper, Texas and commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston (Lee was lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and Van Dorn a major). Their regiment was charged with helping to protect settlers from attacks by Apache and Comanche. Lee wrote this letter while he was on leave back in Virginia, settling the affairs of his recently deceased father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis. Lee writes from the Custis home in Arlington, which he inherited and which became his home for the rest of his life. He congratulates Van Dorn for his victory over the Comanche, and expresses concern over the injuries he received in a battle of October 1st at the Wichita Mountains in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Van Dorn was shot with arrows twice during the battle, one in his left arm and another in his right side. Lee writes, in part:

My dear Major, Ever since I heard of your victorious engagement with the Camanches [sic] at the Witchita [sic] Mts. I have been wishing to express to you my admiration at the manner in which it was accomplished, & my con- gratulations at the happy result. I was first deterred by the deep regret I felt at your wound & the uncertainty of your condition & whereabouts....I hope that you have recovered from your wound & that you will add another wreath to the laurels you have gained. In truth it was a brilliant battle, skillfully planned & gallantly executed & unparalleled in our modern Indian warfare. I sincerely congratulate you my dear Major upon its achievement & feel proud of its having been accomplished by the brave men & officers of the Regt. whom I cordially thank for the honor they have conferred upon it. I have expressed my admiration on the subject wherever I have been, & shall continue to do so.

Lee goes on to express his regrets at not having been able to return to Texas, but says that family responsibilities have kept him in Virginia. Lee served intermit- tently in Texas from 1857 to 1861, returning often to Virginia to attend to family business. The recipient of this letter, Earl Van Dorn (1820-63) was a colorful, magnetic, and controversial figure. Born in Mississippi, he graduated from West Point near the bottom of the class of 1842, which also included Abner Doubleday and James Longstreet. Van Dorn soon saw action in Indian campaigns, and was brevetted captain and major for gallantry during the Mexican-American War. In 1861, Van Dorn resigned from the Cavalry and was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, assigned to Texas. He was soon promoted to major general and made commander of the Army of the West, but lost an important battle at Pea Ridge. Transferred to the Army of Mississippi, he suffered a defeat at Corinth, before distinguishing himself by destroying some of U.S. Grant’s supply depots at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Van Dorn was killed in May 1863 by a man who ac- cused him of having illicit relations with his wife. A very good Robert E. Lee letter, to a comrade in the Indian Wars of the day, and to a fellow future Confederate general. Generals in Gray, pp.179-83; 314-15. $9500.

Robert E. Lee as Book Collector

106. Lee, Robert E.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ROBERT E. LEE TO WILLIAM H. KIRKER REGARDING THE RECEIPT OF TARLETON’S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Lexington, Va. March 26, 1869. [1]p. on ruled paper, 9¾ x 7¾ inches. One horizontal and two vertical folds. Two small sets of staple holes at left edge, else fine. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A very nice letter, entirely in Robert E. Lee’s hand and signed by him, demonstrat- ing his abiding interest in military history and in books. He writes William H. Kirker: “I am very much obliged to you for the copy of Tarleton’s History of the Campaigns of 1780-81 in the South which you have been so kind as to send me. It will serve to replace the one I formerly possessed, & will remind me continuously of your kindness.” Ironies and coincidences multiply in this brief letter. The former commander of the Army of Northern Virginia is acknowledging receipt of a history of the American Revolution in the South written by Lieut. Col. Banastre Tarleton, whose defeats greatly contributed to the British loss. One of the primary instruments of Tarleton’s defeat was Robert E. Lee’s own father, American cavalryman Gen. “Light- Horse Harry” Lee. And, of course, Lee fought over much of the same ground in Virginia. $15,000. 107. [Lincoln, Abraham]: [MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S HAND]. Springfield, Il. Aug. 17, 1850. [1] p. Manuscript on upper half of recto. Light fold lines and minor edge wear. Near fine.

A legal form executed entirely in Abraham Lincoln’s hand save for the signature. Lincoln’s script reads:

Office of the Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Illinois. August 17th, 1850. I, Turner R. King, Register of the Land Office aforesaid do hereby certify that Section N°. Twentyfive in Township N°. Twentyfour North, of Range N°. Four West of the Third Principal Meridian, was purchased entire, of the Gov- ernment of the United States, on the 2nd day of Febry. AD. 1835, by William Sampson, Jonah L. James, and John A. [?] as appears of Record in this office.

The text is followed by King’s signature. Ousted from Congress because of his unpopular opposition to the Mexican War, Lincoln returned to Illinois to resume his law practice. The present form was written during the most prosperous period of Lincoln’s career as an attorney, four years before the Kansas-Nebraska Act catapulted him back onto the political stage. ANB 13, pp.664-65. $3500.

Lincoln Replies to Douglas on Dred Scott and the Slavery Question: A Huge Advance in His Political Career

108. [Lincoln, Abraham]: SPEECH OF THE HON. ABRAM [sic] LIN- COLN, IN REPLY TO JUDGE DOUGLAS [caption title]. [Spring- field, Il. June 26, 1857]. 7pp. printed in double-column format. Quarto. Single sheet folded twice, uncut. A fine copy, with the bookplate of James Copley on the blank p.8. In a blue half morocco and cloth case.

This speech, delivered on June 26, 1857 in Springfield, Illinois, was a defining moment in Lincoln’s political career, propelling him toward his famous run for the Senate against Stephen A. Douglas the following year. It came in direct response to a speech Douglas gave two weeks earlier on Kansas and slavery, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. In it Lincoln replies to the same burning issues. A sympathetic journalist who was present wrote: “There was no rant – no fustian – no bombast, but there was something in it of more force and power than these; the heart-felt... clothed in the eternal maxims of the purest reasons.” Historians since have seen the speech as the real beginning of the Lincoln-Douglas debates during the campaign of 1858. Gerald M. Capers observed that those speeches were “...but forensic repetitions of the points they had already made....” David Herbert Donald calls Lincoln’s address “powerful,” and says that his reaction to the Dred Scott decision marked a significant turning point in his views on constitutional issues: “never again did he give deference to the ruling of the Supreme Court.” Lincoln attacked the Dred Scott decision on two bases. First, he claimed it was based on a misunderstanding of historical principles and the intentions of the Founders, asserting that the heavily Southern Supreme Court had bent the meaning of the Constitution to suit their prejudices. He noted that the Court had reversed itself on previous decisions and suggested so ill-founded an argument could not stand. Second, he argued that a decision that went so manifestly against the will of the people could not stand. Taking the opportunity to clarify his position on slavery, Lincoln rails against Douglas’ claim that those who argue blacks are covered by the Constitution “do so only because they want to vote, eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes!” Chief Justice Taney had argued in Dred Scott that those imported to be slaves, whether free or not, were not among those envisioned as “equal” in the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Lincoln refuted this, but in a qualified form which well demonstrates the evolution of his thought to this point: “I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. In some respects, she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.” Lincoln also discusses Douglas’ opinions on the Kansas question and the “Mor- mon War” in Utah. On the matter of Utah, he exposes Douglas’ favored revocation of territorial status as a ruse to attach the region to a territory where the slavery question is settled by its inhabitants. On Kansas, he continues to attack Douglas’ popular sovereignty principle, arguing that the spread of slavery westward would undermine all of the previous compromises which had held the Union together. Given almost a year before his famous “A House Divided” speech, this marked a dramatic step forward in Lincoln’s quest for the Republican Senate nomination. His considerable stage presence and coruscating oratory helped make the speech a tremendous success. The Illinois State Journal advertised copies of the speech for sale, while at least two papers (the Illinois State Chronicle and the Clinton Central Transcript) printed the text in full. This is the first issue of this separate printing, with Lincoln’s first name misspelled; Monaghan records a similar later printing, with Lincoln’s name spelled correctly in the title. This pamphlet is extremely rare in the market. The only one we know of to sell in the last twenty years is the copy the Eberstadts offered in 1964, which we later sold to a private collector. There are copies at Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown (the John Hay copy), Cornell, Clements, New York State Library, Indiana University, Illinois Historical, Newberry, and the Huntington. None of these seem to have been acquired later than 1974. This is the James Copley copy, with his bookplate. The last copy to appear at auction was at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1967. A seminal document in Lincoln’s political career. EBERSTADT 165:356. BYRD 2715. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (http:// www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln). MONAGHAN 9. OCLC 4397573. MIDLAND NOTES 101:352. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), pp.199-202. $17,500.

One of the Earliest Published Lincoln Items

109. Lincoln, Abraham: [Lincoln-Douglas Debate]: THE CAMPAIGN IN ILLINOIS. LAST JOINT DEBATE. DOUGLAS AND LINCOLN AT ALTON, ILLINOIS. Washington: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1858. 32pp. Dbd. First leaf loosening. Lightly but evenly tanned. Very good.

A rare pamphlet on the last of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, taken from the Chi- cago Daily Times of October 17, 1858. Noting it was “Printed by the Democrats,” Monaghan records this as the only contemporary separate printing of the Alton Debate. A southern Illinois town on the Mississippi River, Alton was friendly to slavery and, indeed, twenty years earlier anti-slavery editor Elijah Lovejoy was murdered there. Democrats charged that Lincoln pulled in his horns for this debate: “Lincoln, as usual, tried to suit himself to the locality and to conceal his Abolition sentiments, whilst pretending to be the friend of Henry Clay,” thus he “appears in his old character of the ‘artful dodger.’” But to Douglas’ assertion that “I would not blot out the great inalienable rights of the white men for all the negroes that ever existed,” Lincoln replied that the Negro was included in the great principles of the Declaration of Independence, and that slavery was a moral and political evil which should be barred from the Territories. Despite the fact that Lincoln lost the race for the U.S. Senate, the series of debates raised his public profile enough to make him a viable candidate for the presidential race in 1860. This is one of the earliest published Lincoln items, preceded only by a few speeches and bills from his brief service in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Illinois Legislature, and the first publication of another Lincoln-Douglas debate, in Springfield. SABIN 20692. MONAGHAN 10. $2500.

Item 110. 110. [Lincoln, Abraham]: THE RAIL CANDIDATE. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Lithograph, 13½ x 18 inches. Moderate age-toning, foxing, and soiling. Moderate browning in margins. Small closed tears and chips in margins, one moderate-size closed tear in left margin. A fair copy.

A lithograph political cartoon published by Currier & Ives commenting upon the anti-slavery plank of the 1860 Republican platform. Abraham Lincoln is shown being carried uncomfortably in the middle of a split wooden rail, an allusion to both the platform and to Lincoln’s backwood’s origins. Supporting the left end of the rail is a black man in simple working clothes who states, “Dis Nigger strong and willin’ but its awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis ere rail!!” Holding the right end of the rail is well-dressed newspaper editor and strong Lincoln supporter Horace Greeley (identified by a copy of his New York Tribune in his coat pocket). Greeley tells Lincoln, “We can prove that you have split rails & that will ensure your election to the Presidency.” Lincoln replies, “It is true I have split rails, but I begin to feel as if this rail would split me, it’s the hardest stick I ever straddled.” A finely drawn and insightful political cartoon from the 1860 election. REILLY, AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1860-31. WEITENKAMPF, POLITICAL CARI- CATURE IN THE UNITED STATES, p.123. GALE, CURRIER & IVES: A CATALOGUE RAI- SONNÉ 5478. $3000.

111. Lincoln, Abraham: TRIBUNE TRACTS. No. 4. NATIONAL POLI- TICS. SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS, DE- LIVERED AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, MONDAY, FEB. 27, 1860. [New York. 1860]. 15,[1]pp. Modern paper wrappers. Lightly soiled. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth folder, spine gilt.

Probably the first printing of Lincoln’s famous Cooper Union Speech, published by the New York Tribune, which catapulted him into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. This tract also includes the text of Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, on states’ rights, and Kansas Territorial Governor Samuel Medary’s veto of the Kansas abolition bill. MONAGHAN 50. $950.

Lincoln Visits En Route to Washington in 1861: “....making heaven ring with shouts of liberty.”

112. [Lincoln, Abraham]: Carpenter, A.B.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM A.B. CARPENTER TO HIS FAMILY, RELAT- ING THE DETAILS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S VISIT TO IN- DIANAPOLIS ON HIS WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE]. India- napolis. Feb. 12, 1861. 3pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. A few minor spots of foxing, else fine.

A splendid detailed letter from A.B. Carpenter to his parents describing President Elect Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Indianapolis on his way from Illinois to Washing- ton. Carpenter describes the grand procession that met and escorted Lincoln from the train to the Bates House hotel, noting the enthusiasm of the crowd. He writes:

Dear Parents ...I hope soon that our government will be remodeled and that weak old men, traitorous advisers, public robbers, will have no hand in our republican government. Hon. Abraham Lincoln is now in the city. He arrived at 5 o’clock this after noon, and was received by the Gov. of Indiana at the crossing of the Lafayette Road with Washington Street. He was then escorted [through the city] to the Bates House. The gun squad fired a salute of 34 guns as the train came into the city. The procession consisted of the military “big bugs” and the fire department. The city greys took the lead. They were followed by the Zouave Guards, next came the Independent Zouaves, followed by the National Guards with their band. Then came the President Elect, the gov. and other dignitaries drawn in a chariot by 4 splendid white horses, neatly trimmed with feathers and beautiful colors, and small flags. Next came a long procession of carriages and the fire department brought up the rear with their engine beautifully decorated. People thronged the streets and cheered as he passed along, making heaven ring with shouts of liberty. Mr. Lincoln was introduced and made a speech to the citizens from the balcony of the Bates House. I got a first rate chance to see and hear him. He is a fine looking man, and does not in the least resemble the representations of him that have been circulated all over the country. He is sound on the goose question, believes that it is best under all circumstances to hold the forts of the country. He receives the citizens of Indianapolis this evening and all are running mad to shake hands with him. Aunt & Charlie are going up there and the rest of us are staying at home. He starts for Cincinnati tomorrow at noon.

Carpenter continues with some personal news before noting that two local politicians, who went to Kentucky to fight a duel, have not been seen since:

There has been for a day or two past considerable excitement concerning a couple of legislators who went to Kentucky to fight a duel – Mr. Heffren (democrat) slandered and abused Mr. Moody (republican) in a speech and Moody challenged him. He accepted and choosed [sic] bowie knives. They went to Kentucky last Friday night, and have not been heard from since.

A wonderful letter describing Lincoln’s progress to assume the presidency, and the public reaction to it. $2850.

Lincoln Whips Davis in Five Rounds

113. [Lincoln, Abraham]: CHAMPIONSHIP PRIZE ENVELOPE. LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS [caption title]. New York: J.H. Tingley, 1861. Five pictorial envelopes, each measuring approximately 3 x 6 inches. Minor toning and soiling. Near fine.

Patriotic envelope covers became exceedingly popular at the outset of the Civil War, not only for use but also as collectible items. Both sides promoted their causes through this medium, and printers produced a variety of patriotic envelopes, finding a sure and easy market for profit. This complete set of five shows Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln in the boxing ring, surrounded by supporters. The envelopes progress from a cringing Davis imploring “Let me alone!” on the first cover, as the South’s supporters dwindle away – in full retreat by the third round – and Seces- sion is noted as being a mere “greasespot” by round four. The final envelope shows Lincoln and the Union victorious. This series must have been prepared very early in the war, because Winfield Scott is still shown as the primary Union general, and the setback of First Bull run does not intrude on optimism. A wonderful set of these collectible envelopes, showing an optimistic outset to the war. $3000.

“First and only contemporary printing in separate book form” of the Emancipation Proclamation

114. Lincoln, Abraham: THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPA- TION, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1st, 1863. [Boston: J.M. Forbes, December 1862]. 7pp. Miniature, measuring 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches. Original printed salmon wrappers. Lightly soiled, text lightly tanned. Very good. In a half morocco box.

According to Harvard’s recent Lincoln exhibition, “The first and only contemporary printing in separate book form of the historic act.” 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. A quotation by Alexander Stephens (“Vice President of the so-called Confederate States”) entitled “Slavery the Chief Corner-Stone” is printed on the rear wrapper. This small pamphlet was printed by John Murray Forbes in Boston for distribution by Union soldiers to blacks at the front lines, and legend has it that he printed a million copies. Its scarcity in institutions and in the market, however, would seem to belie that notion; it is among the rarest of editions of the Proclamation, no doubt because of its small size. EBERSTADT, LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 7. MONAGHAN 147. Thomas Horrocks, “Harvard’s Lincoln” in Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 19, no. 3-4, p.43. $18,500. “Restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves”: Lincoln’s Broadside Proclamation of Amnesty, 1863 The First Public Notice

115. [Lincoln, Abraham]: PROCLAMATION OF AMNESTY AND RE- CONSTRUCTION. [Washington: Government Printing Office, ca. Dec. 8, 1863]. Broadside, 12 x 19 inches, printed in two columns on wove stock. Several faint patches of foxing, four light fold lines, two tiny closed tears at intersections of folds. A splendid, wide-margined copy in near fine condition. Very scarce. [See rear cover of this catalogue for illustration]

First public notice of the Dec. 8, 1863 presidential proclamation offering amnesty to citizens of the Confederacy, providing they take an oath that they “will abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves” (i.e. the Emancipation Proclamation). Toward the close of 1863, with the Confederate Army in full retreat, discus- sions in Congress centered on how to restore the Southern states to the Union. “The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past,” announced Lincoln. Now it was the duty of Congress to ensure that all citizens in the South, regardless of race, were guaranteed the equal protection of the law. A number of competing proposals emerged from deliberations, but in the end, during his message to Congress on Dec. 8, 1863, Lincoln declared reconstruction of the South a wholly executive responsibility and “offered ‘full pardon...with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves,’ to all rebels who would take an oath of future loyalty to the Constitution and pledge to obey acts of Congress and presidential proclamations relating to slavery” (Donald, pp.470-71). Those excluded from taking the oath were the highest ranking members of the Confederacy – government officials, judges, military and naval officers above the rank of army colonel or navy lieutenant, former congressmen, and “all who have engaged in treating colored persons or white persons otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war.” Lincoln further encouraged the southern states to make provisions “in relation to the freed people of such State, which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class.” “Lincoln indicated that this was only one plan for reconstructing the rebel South, and while it was the best he could think of for now, he would gladly consider others and possibly adopt them. He might even modify his own classes of pardons, if that seemed warrantable...Afterward almost everybody but die-hard Democrats seemed happy with the plan” (Oates, p.371). This particular copy of this rare public broadside of Lincoln’s proclamation was received on Feb. 15, 1864 at Union Army headquarters in St. Augustine, Florida, where “Major Hay” (probably James H. Hay of the 2nd Florida Cavalry) was authorized to administer the oath “to such persons of that vicinity.” MONAGHAN 191 (ref ). $26,000. “Words had to complete the work of guns”: From the Day of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, Exceedingly Rare Programme for the Inauguration Ceremony of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg

116. [Lincoln, Abraham]: PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENTS AND ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, ON THE 19th OF NOVEMBER, 1863. Washington: Gideon & Pearson, [1863]. Printed bifolium, on blue paper, with the embossed oval stamp of “Rhoades & Sons, London, Commercial.” A few tiny marginal creases, else in fine condition.

Exceedingly rare original Programme of the inaugural ceremonies at Gettysburg, dated the day of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address, listing his legendary words only as “Dedicatory Remarks,” a virtually unobtainable document that begins with words that “on the 19th of November, 1863,” and notes: “The military will form in Gettysburg at 9’o’clock a.m.” Within weeks of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania governor Cur- tin and local civic leader David Wills, together with architect William Saunders, sought to honor those fallen in battle. Wills called upon Edward Everett, a figure famed for his eloquence, and invited him in late September to appear on October 23; but Everett, who devoted much research to his speeches, said he could not be ready until mid-November. Significantly, “the careful negotiations with Everett form a contrast, more surprising to us than to contemporaries, with the casual invitation to President Lincoln” that came nearly a month after that of Everett. On the evening before the dedication ceremony was to begin – a date named in this Programme of Arrangements as “the 19th of November, 1863” – Lincoln arrived by train in Gettysburg to see coffins were still stacked at the station, for only a third of the fallen soldiers had been buried. “Wills and Everett met the President and escorted him to the Wills home.” Early the next morning, as military formations described in this rare Programme began to assemble, Lincoln, still wearing a mourning band for his dead son, was joined by Secretary of State William Seward as they rode to the battle sites. This exceedingly rare and virtually unobtainable document, printed by David Wills’ committee, offers exceptional insight into that momentous day, for Lincoln’s speech is listed far below Everett’s “Oration” on the Programme. “Though we call Lincoln’s text the Gettysburg Address..., Lincoln’s contribution, labeled ‘remarks,’ was intended to make the dedication formal (somewhat like ribbon-cutting at modern ‘openings’). Lincoln was not expected to speak at length...[Yet] what should not be forgotten is that Lincoln was himself an actor...Lincoln’s text was polished, his delivery emphatic. He was interrupted by applause five times...Lincoln did for the whole Civil War what he accomplished for the single battlefield...The Civil War is, to most Americans, what Lincoln wanted it to mean. Words had to complete the work of guns...Without Lincoln’s knowing it himself, all his prior literary, intellectual and political labors had prepared him for the intellectual revolution contained in those fateful 272 words.” “Lincoln’s address...is immortal, one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom” – PMM. A most rare item of ephemera from the day of Lincoln’s address. WorldCat describes identical copies at Wisconsin Historical Society and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. WILLS, pp.24-40. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 351 (ref ). OCLC $40,000. Commission Signed by Lincoln and Stanton

117. Lincoln, Abraham: [PRINTED BROADSIDE, SIGNED BY PRESI- DENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, APPOINTING ARTHUR B. CAR- PENTER TO THE RANK OF FIRST LIEUTENANT]. Washington. July 1, 1864. Broadside, measuring 19½ x 16 inches; mounted and framed to 24¾ x 20¾ inches. Old fold lines. Minor soiling and wear. Very good.

Attractive engraved broadside, completed in manuscript and signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, appointing Arthur B. Carpenter to the rank of first lieutenant in the Nineteenth Regiment of Infantry in the Union Army. Carpenter survived the Civil War and was promoted to Captain, serving with Philip Sheridan in the Indian wars on the western frontier. With the embossed seal of the War Department and contemporary docketing near the top. Very nice and framed for display. $9000. Lincoln’s Funeral Arrangements

118. [Lincoln, Abraham]: OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS AT WASH- INGTON FOR THE FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES OF THE LATE ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO DIED AT THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, ON SATUR- DAY, THE 15th DAY OF APRIL, 1865 [caption title]. Washington. April 17, 1865. 3pp. Folded quarto sheet. A few minor creases and small edge tears. Near fine. In a half morocco box.

President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865; his body lay in state in the White House on April 18, and the funeral service took place around noon on the 19th. After the funeral itself, the official procession, the central act in the public mourning of the President’s death, accompanied Lincoln’s body from the White House to the Capitol. This program, issued by the War Department, outlines the order of the procession, listing the civilian, military, and political attendees in order of appearance. The hearse is represented by a rectangle outline of stars. The procession left the White House about two o’clock in the afternoon, marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. The first three divisions were the military escort, representing all the elements of the Army and Navy. After them came the attending clergy and Lincoln’s attending physicians, followed by the casket itself, the only wheeled vehicle in the procession, with the pall bearers to each side. Twelve Congressmen, General Grant and Admiral Farragut as heads of the Army and Navy, with two subordinates each, and Lincoln’s family and delegates from Illinois and Kentucky followed the casket. Next came government officials, ambassadors, and state officials; representatives of various organizations, delegations from col- leges, lawyers, doctors, and the press; the final group is listed here as “Citizens and Strangers.” Directions are given for the assembly of the procession, which ended at the Capitol, where Lincoln’s body again lay in state from the afternoon of the 19th until the morning of the 21st, when it was placed on the funeral train which took it back to Springfield. An important piece of Lincoln ephemera, commemorating one of the most tragic events in our nation’s history. $6000.

An Extraordinary Extra-Illustrated Set

119. [Lincoln, Abraham]: Tarbell, Ida M.: THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. DRAWN FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES AND CON- TAINING MANY SPEECHES, LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY REPRODUCTIONS FROM ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, etc. New York: Lincoln History Society, 1909. Four volumes. Extra-illustrated as noted below. Elaborately gilt red morocco, with gilt facsimile of Lincoln’s signature on upper cover, t.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Joints rubbed, else very good plus. In a cloth slipcase.

Each volume extra-illustrated with numerous portraits and with an outstanding group of inserted autographs, detailed as follow:

Vol. I:

1) Tarbell, Ida: Autograph letter, signed. Jan. 3, 1903. 2) Lincoln, Levi (attorney general in President Jefferson’s cabinet): Autograph letter, signed. Thursday, Aug. 31, [no year]. Regrets for dinner and opportunity of “meeting the President of the U.S.” Levi Lincoln was distantly related to Abraham Lincoln, sharing a common ancestor in Samuel Lincoln, who had settled in Hingham, Massachusetts in the 17th century. 3) Webster, Daniel: Autograph letter, signed, to Joseph M. Moulton. June 18, 1844. 4) Shields, James (Union major-general): Autograph letter, signed. Dec. 6, 1849.

Vol. II:

1) Winthrop, Robert (statesman): Autograph letter, signed. Nov. 28, 1876. Replying to a request for an autograph. 2) Banks, Nathaniel P. (Union major-general and statesman): Autograph letter, signed. Sat. Nov. 7, 1856. To Messrs. Little, Brown asking for copy of Mr. Adams’ work which contains the life of C.F. Adams. 3) Curtis, George William (author): Autograph letter, signed. Jan. 21, 1859. Ac- cepting a date to give a lecture about Democracy and Education. 4) Boutwell, George S. (statesman): Autograph letter, signed, to Cha. F. Crosley. Dec. 21, 1876. Praising Rutherford Hayes. 5) Schurz, Carl (Union major-general and statesman): Autograph note, signed. Jan. 3, 1870. Endorsing an autograph letter of testimonial for Chester Krum from late U.S. District Attorney John W. Noble, dated Dec. 27, 1864. 6) Stedman, Edmund Clarence (poet): Autograph letter, signed. Sept. 3, 1883. To [ J.C.] Derby, publisher, congratulating him on fifty years in publishing. 7) Colfax, Schulyer: Autograph letter, signed as Speaker of the House. Sept. 24, 1864. On the canvas, Brookston, Indiana, about exchanging prisoners.

Vol. III:

1) Seward, William H. (Lincoln’s Secretary of State): Letter, signed, to Gen. Rufus King. July 25, 1862. 2) Cameron, Simon (Lincoln’s Secretary of War): Autograph letter, signed. Feb. 11, 1830. 3) Chase, Salmon P. (Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury): Letter, signed. Oct. 8, 1864. To Capt. Wm. Howard, declining leave but accepting his eventual resignation, in order to raise a regiment. 4) Fremont, John C.: Autograph letter, signed. Jan. 16, [no year]. 5) Stanton, Edwin M.: Autograph letter, signed as Lincoln’s Secretary of War. Sept. 18, 1862. To Gov. Wm. Sprague of Rhode Island, concerning raising a regiment of sharp shooters. 6) Welles, Gideon (Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy): Autograph letter, signed. July 18, 1864. To Edward Scattergood, declining a request to be detached, but permitting a small delay in returning to the Maratanza in order to procure a new outfit. 7) McClellan, George B. (Union major-general): Autograph letter, signed. Feb. 12, 1884. Forwarding an application for admission to a home for disabled soldiers.

Vol. IV:

1) Grant, Ulysses S.: Document, signed as president. March 11, 1873. 2) Sherman, General Wm. T.: Autograph letter, signed. [nd (heading excised)]. To an unnamed colonel, acknowledging receipt of a photograph of the recipient’s son at the hand of Schuyler Colfax, and recalling their service together. 3) Davis, Jefferson (president, Confederate States): Autograph note, signed. Nov. 28, 1869. 4) Burnside, Ambrose E. (Union major-general): Autograph letter, signed. Sept. 23, 1865. 5) Dix, John A. (Union major-general): Autograph letter, signed. Nov. 21, 1846. 6) Butler, Benjamin F. (Union major-general): Autograph letter, signed. Nov. 11, 1888.

$9000.

120. [Lovell, Mansfield]: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND GENERAL LOVELL, RELATING TO THE DEFENCES OF NEW ORLEANS. Richmond: R.M. Smith, 1863. 123pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Minor spotting and dust soiling. Near fine, unopened.

A lengthy volume of correspondence between Gen. Mansfield Lovell and the War Office in Richmond regarding New Orleans’ defenses. Upon his resignation as deputy street commissioner of New York City, Lovell was made a major general in the Confederate army charged with the defense of New Orleans. His constant want of arms and men is borne out in the present correspondence, as is his desire to keep the transmissions as secret as possible. His material insufficiencies compelled him to evacuate the city, nearly guaranteeing Union control of the Mississippi. A Confederate board of inquiry judged him responsible for the loss, and he was barred from any further major command. Important background to one of the most important Union victories of the war. Quite scarce. HOWES L523, “aa.” PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2316. Generals in Gray, p.194. OCLC 5664067. $750.

Presentation Copy

121. Mahan, D.H.: AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON ADVANCED- GUARD, OUT-POST, AND DETACHMENT SERVICE OF TROOPS, AND THE MANNER OF POSTING AND HAN- DLING THEM IN PRESENCE OF AN ENEMY. New York: John Wiley, 1861. 168pp., plus six folding plates with accompanying explanatory text. 12mo. Contemporary black cloth, neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down and corner tips repaired. Small address label on front pastedown. Internally clean and fresh. Very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Hon. S.R. Curtis, with compliments of Prof. Mahan.” Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805-66) led a fascinating and eventful life. He graduated West Point in 1831, worked as a civil engineer, and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. In 1856 he was elected to Congress from Iowa and served three terms (at which time he was presumably presented with this book). In 1861 he mustered into the Union army and soon was elevated to brigadier general of volunteers. Curtis led Union forces at the celebrated victory at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and was appointed major general. He went on to command the Department of Kansas and that of the Northwest until the end of the war, after which he was appointed to negotiate treaties with the Sioux, Cheyenne, and other Plains tribes. Curtis was working on a survey of a proposed Union Pacific Railroad route when he died. This is a later edition, after the first of 1847, of Mahan’s influential and popular manual. Mahan originally composed his work as a professor at the United States Military Academy during the Mexican-American War, but its popularity was assured when both Confederate and Union officers consulted it during the Civil War (it was also reprinted in Richmond and New Orleans in 1861). Presentation copies are uncommon, especially so to such a distinguished recipient, who had occasion to use the book during the Civil War. SABIN 43862. Generals in Blue, pp.107-8. $850.

Waving the Bloody Shirt

122. [Marcy, Daniel]: [New Hampshire]: THE RECORD OF A COP- PERHEAD. HOW DANIEL MARCY HELPED THE REBELS! HIS BASE BETRAYAL OF THE STATE! [caption title]. [New Hampshire. 1876]. Broadside, 24 x 18¾ inches. Lightly creased, else very good. Archivally matted.

Daniel Marcy (1809-93) was a New Hampshire sea captain and Congressman, first elected in 1863. He ran for governor in 1874, and this broadside attacks both his voting record and his integrity, accusing him of Confederate sympathies during the Civil War, a ploy known as “waving the bloody shirt,” in effect accusing the opponent of murdering the sons of voters. The large broadside, which reads at the bottom, “Post this up in a conspicuous place,” details Marcy’s votes in Congress, which include tabling a resolution to abolish slavery; voting against punishing guerillas; voting against the appeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, and later against amending the Constitution to abolish slavery. It also includes the text of the only speech he made in Congress, which the author has labeled “Rebel Speech.” Marcy was defeated by a narrow margin in the election, losing to the Republican, Person C. Cheney. A rare and interesting piece. OCLC records only one similar item at the New Hampshire Historical Society. $750.

From the Founder of Military Mail Service, to Historian Lossing

123. Markland, A.H.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM A.H. MARKLAND TO BENSON J. LOSSING, REGARDING GEN- ERAL WALLACE, ULYSSES S. GRANT, AND THE HISTORY OF THE “MAIL SERVICE OF THE ARMY”]. April 30, 1888. 5pp. Very good.

A wonderful, lengthy letter from the man whom Grant put in charge of the military mail service during the Civil War, to the famous historian, Benjamin Lossing. Re- membering their mutual friend, General Lew Wallace (author of Ben Hur), Markland remarks: “Wallace was a soldier and a gentleman entitled to much more credit than he ever received. Grant did the best he could toward the close of his life to repair the damage done Wallace....” Markland then turns to his special subject:

About the mail service of the Army...I have ever felt grateful to you for the generous reference you made to it at a time when it was fresh in the minds of those who knew something about it. There is enough in what you said in that reference to tell future historians, and readers, that such a service existed and was known to every body else other than the historians of the Post Office Department....My pride is now that I aimed to be worthy of the confidence in me by Genl Grant, President Lincoln and the public men of their day. You said good words of me and I am sure you will have no cause from me to blush for them. It is not generally known that I am now the only man living who had the authority of the Government to go through the lines of all the Armies of the United States at will – a confidence that no sane man would forfeit. There never was but three persons who held that authority and I was the only one who exercised it. President Lincoln, as Commander in Chief had it and General Grant as commander of all the armies had it. The authority given me, written on parchment, signed by U.S. Grant, is deposited in the National Museum in this city....

The “good words” Lossing wrote in his Pictorial History of the Civil War (1868, Vol. II, p.244) were these:

At Forts Henry and Donelson was successfully begun that army mail service which was so admirably organized and so efficiently executed during the war by Colonel A. H. Markland. It was suggested to General Grant by Colonel Markland, who was the special agent of the National Post-office Department. It was immediately adopted, and was ever afterward warmly cherished by that sagacious commander; and to him is justly due much of the credit of making it practically effective in blessing the officers and soldiers of the armies of the Republic during the great struggle. The perfection of the system was exhibited even so early as at the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, and it never failed to give ample satisfaction to all, until the end of the war. The peculiar army mail-service organized under the auspices of General Grant was finally extended to all Departments, and was managed by Colonel Markland, who was made the general superintendent of the mails of the armies of the Republic.... $750.

Scarce Confederate Military Manual

124. Marmont, Auguste Frederic Louis Viesse de: THE SPIRIT OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS...WITH A NEW VERSION OF GEN- ERAL JOMINI’S CELEBRATED THIRTY-FIFTY CHAPTER, OF PART I, OF Treatise on Grand Military Operations. Columbia, S.C.: Evans & Cogswell, 1864. 278pp. Original cloth backed printed boards. Boards detached and soiled. Old stamp on titlepage and a few other leaves. Else good and generally clean. In a red cloth folding case.

A scarce Confederate military manual, comprised of translations from two classic European works on warfare, those of Marmont and Jomini. The works were translated by Frank Schaller, colonel of the 22nd Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, and dedicated by him to President Davis, “a master of the art of war.” An important Confederate book of military instruction. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4953. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 60. $1500.

125. Marshall, A.E., comp: DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEORGIA CONVENTION.... Milledgeville: Federal Union Office, 1850. 28pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, minute creasing. Contemporary ownership signature at head of front wrapper, additional signature on rear wrapper. Slight toning. Overall very good.

A useful summary of the arguments posed at the state convention called to debate the admission of California into the Union as a free state. The application of Cali- fornia to be admitted as a slave-free state touched off a massive and consequential debate throughout the Union, in time only temporarily settled by the Compromise of 1850. A good exposition of the states’ rights argument at a pivotal juncture. Scarce. Not in De Renne. OCLC locates only seven copies. SABIN 27036. OCLC 5859874. $600.

Robert E. Lee’s Aide Discusses His Strategy

126. Marshall, Charles: [LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN BY CHARLES MARSHALL, GENERAL LEE’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, DISCUSSING SOUTHERN MILITARY TAC- TICS, PARTICULARLY THE INVASION OF THE NORTHERN STATES]. Baltimore. 1877. 75pp. Together with the two letters received by Marshall, to which Marshall is responding (6pp.). Quarto. On legal stationery. Some light wear and soiling. Very good. Text with many emendations.

An extensive manuscript written by Baltimore lawyer Charles Marshall, formerly an aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert E. Lee, in which he addresses various questions posed in a letter by Philippe D’Orleans concerning Southern strategy and tactics (a copy of the D’Orleans letter is included here). On sheets of his law office stationery, Marshall writes a draft response, providing a history of the Confederate strategy in the East as seen by a staff member of the commanding general through 1863. Marshall was appointed to Lee’s personal staff in 1862 and served with him throughout the war. He was with Lee at Appomattox courthouse when the South surrendered, and drafted Lee’s terms for the occasion. Following the war Marshall resumed his law practice in Baltimore. In this document he provides valuable insight into Lee’s movements. Philippe D’Orleans, Count of Paris and Pretender to the French throne (the monarchy and empire had ended for good in 1870), served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War; he subsequently wrote a well-regarded history of the Civil War. The letter included here was written to J. William Jones, secretary of the Southern Historical Society. In it the Count calls attention to several points on which he would like clarification, presumably researching for his book, and Jones has forwarded a copy of the letter to Marshall for an answer. Marshall drafts a response to the Count’s letter, which is clear in its defense of Southern strategy. He vigorously defends the Confederate crossing of the Potomac in 1862 and 1863, developing the idea that the principal aim of the army was to protect Richmond, the capital and main supply hub. He further lays the blame for the disaster at Gettysburg primarily at the feet of J.E.B. Stuart, whose absent cavalry blinded General Lee to the enemy’s movements, though he does agree with the Count about a lack of coordinated efforts on the Confederate side during that pivotal battle. Marshall opens by saying that the Count has fallen under the spell of popular theory, rather than recognizing the truth of the situation. He writes:

I think he has fallen into the [common view?] of regarding the invasion of Maryland in 1862 and of Pennsylvania in 1863 as having been undertaken with the expectation on the part of Gen’l Lee to bring the war to an end by means of the losses he could inflict upon the enemy, or by such an occupation of his territory as would cause him to make peace. I know that political considerations induced some of the Northern [?] to represent and led the Northern people to believe that these movements were designed to establish the Confederate Army in the North, and to hold Northern territory in subjection, and ignorance caused many Northern people to accept this explanation of our campaigns beyond the Potomac, but nothing could be less accurate than this explanation of those expeditions.

He proceeds in a detailed explanation of the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia during the campaigns of 1862 and early 1863, finally arriving at the pivotal battle at Gettysburg. He writes that General Lee could easily have had all his forces at Gettysburg by June 29th, if he had so desired, but the movements of the enemy were unknown to him, thus he chose a different course of action. Marshall casts the shadow of ignominious blame over General Stuart’s cavalry:

Whether, if he had had cavalry to ascertain the real movements of the enemy, he would have crossed the mountains and struck the army of Gen’l Meade as it was hurrying up from the Potomac, stretched out as it was over a long space, or whether he would have concentrated his own forces west of the mountains and awaited the movements of his adversary it is useless to imagine. It is plain, however, that with such information as a vigilant and active cavalry... could have furnished him of the enemy’s movements, either course would have been open to Gen’l Lee.

Taken altogether, Marshall’s extensive manuscript provides us with a detailed look at the strategy of the Confederate Army under General Lee, written by one who was close to the general and a witness to decisions and actions that followed. Though some of Marshall’s papers were edited and published by Sir Frederick Maurice in 1927, this particular manuscript does not appear there. Frederick Maurice, An Aide-de-Camp of Lee (Boston, 1927). $15,000. Novel Printed in Richmond During the War

127. McCabe, James D.: THE AID-DE-CAMP; ROMANCE OF THE WAR. Richmond: W.A.J. Smith, 1863. 113,[2]pp. Part of front wrapper only (upper half lacking). Old stamp on titlepage, slight chipping along upper margin of title-leaf. Overall a good but fragile copy. In a half morocco box.

A popular Confederate romance of the war, written during the fall of 1862 and originally published in the Magnolia Weekly. All of the action takes place around the beginning of the war, including action at Bull Run. Although Parrish & Willingham locate twenty-seven copies, this Confederate imprint is scarce in the marketplace. It is one of the few novels included in Harwell’s Confederate Hundred. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 54. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6420. WRIGHT 1604. $2000.

128. McClellan, George B.: REPORT OF MAJ. GEN. GEORGE B. Mc- CLELLAN UPON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND ITS CAMPAIGNS IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND FROM JULY 26, 1861, TO NOVEMBER 7, 1862.... Chicago. 1864. 147pp. printed in double-column format. Lacks wrappers, stitched. Titlepage and a couple text leaves soiled, titlepage chipped, scattered foxing and dampstaining. Else good.

McClellan’s official report concerning his operations from July 1861 to November 1862, following the Washington edition (of 242 pages) of the same year that was issued as ...Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the Potomac.... This Chicago edition was probably a product of Mc- Clellan’s 1864 campaign for president on the Democratic ticket. It contains a good deal of information about the initial organization of the Army of the Potomac and the incidents of the Peninsula Campaign. This version of the report is apparently not listed in Nevins, and Sabin lists editions published in Boston and New York the same year, but not the present one. Ante-Fire Imprints notes only one copy, in a private collection. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 835. $650.

129. McDonald, William N.: A HISTORY OF THE LAUREL BRI- GADE ORIGINALLY THE ASHBY CAVALRY OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND CHEW’S BATTERY. [Balti- more]: Published by Mrs. Kate S. McDonald, 1907. 499pp. plus plates. Fron- tispiece portrait. Original green cloth. Slightest wear to spine ends, corners bumped. Very good.

A presentation copy, inscribed by Thomas B. Massie, Colonel 12th Virginia Cav- alry, C.S.A. “One of the most noted of early brigade histories; the author adroitly weaves his story from the 1861 formation of the 7th Virginia Cavalry to the 1865 disbandment of this mounted brigade” – Nevins. Edited by Bushrod C. Washing- ton. An extensive account. HOWES M87. NEVINS I, p.125. $1000.

130. McKinley, William: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“WM McKINLEY Jr. McK”), FROM WILLIAM McKINLEY TO HIS SISTER, ANNIE McKINLEY GARFIELD, FROM CAMP DUR- ING THE CIVIL WAR]. Camp Ewing, Va. Oct. 27, 1861. 4pp. in ink, on rectos and versos of single sheet of ruled stationery. Quarto. A few splits at old folds, some staining, mostly to final page. Else good. In a clamshell box.

A truly remarkable and intimate letter from the eighteen-year-old McKinley, written to his sister during the Civil War. McKinley, who was to become the twenty-fifth president of the United States, responds in wonderful detail to his sister’s queries about living conditions in camp:

You ask me if my immediate wants are supplied and if I am in need of clothing to make me comfortable? In answer I will say am well provided, the following is a list of my clothing. Two Blouses (coats). Two prs. Pants, Three shirts, two prs drawers, one pr Boots, one pr shoes, three prs socks, one large, heavy overcoat, three Blankets, two undershirts and last of all a pr of white mittens made by Mother’s own hands, which she in the heat of summer when I left for Camp Chase put in my Carpet sack. I tell you I would not take a fortune for them, mainly on account of their being knit by Mother, and of their present and future utility. The above believe is a correct statement of my wardrobe with the exception of a Cap, which I forgot to mention...... The question is oft asked Are not the soldiers tired of the service and anxious to return home? For my own part, when I left home I thought my country needed my services. Today I think she is in greater need of it and consequently I have no desire to return to my civil occupation, when my country is bleeding from a “thrust” made by inborn Traitors. Much as I love home and its blessed associations, my native country, the Government that gave me birth, freedom and education shall not be destroyed, if my services can assist to prevent it. What is home worth without a Government? What is life worth without freedom to enjoy it? Not once since I came into the service have I regretted that I ever volunteered, but rather been proud of it....

According to the ANB, when the Civil War broke out, “...McKinley was the first man in Poland, Ohio, to volunteer. He joined the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry, which was commanded by Rutherford B. Hayes. During the fighting at Antietam in 1862, McKinley displayed bravery in combat when he brought food and coffee to his regiment under heavy enemy fire....” Letters from the mature McKinley are not unusual; letters of this vintage, however, and with such content, are of the utmost rarity. $7500. 131. McMurray, W.J.: HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH TENNES- SEE REGIMENT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, C.S.A. Nashville. 1904. 520pp. plus numerous portrait plates, including frontis. Original cloth, spine gilt. Institutional bookplate of Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on front pastedown. Lightly worn. Very good.

A substantial Confederate regimental, containing rosters, biographical sketches, several dozen photographic portraits, and separate company histories, together with the general history for the regiment. A long discussion of “the causes of the war” and justification for secession introduces the work. The Twentieth Tennessee Infantry battled at numerous locations in the western theater, including Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Nashville. DORNBUSCH II:1024. HOWES M173. NEVINS I, p.126. $500.

Wonderful Minstrel Show Broadside

132. [Minstrel Shows]: BUCKLEY’S NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS. WHO HAVE APPEARED WITH GREAT SUCCESS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES, ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOT- LAND, WALES, MEXICO, CALIFORNIA & PRINCIPAL CIT- IES OF THE UNITED STATES. [Np, but likely New York. ca. 1850]. Lithographic poster, 26½ x 39½ inches. Backed with linen, repairing several closed tears. Lightly soiled. Very good. Archivally matted.

A huge poster advertising one of the most popular black-face minstrel troupes, Buckley’s New Orleans Serenaders. The troupe toured the British Isles from 1846 to 1848 with much success, as their poster proclaims, followed by a tour of the United States, and established themselves in New York in 1853. The poster features vignette portraits of the four Buckleys – James, Frederick, George, and Richard – and four vignettes of their travel and performances. These show, on the left, “As they appeared in California,” in a large tent; “As they appeared travelling in California,” on mules in the rain; and much more glamorous vignettes of beautiful theatres in London and Mexico City. The center of the poster shows a group of eight men in formal dress, with black faces, seated and playing instruments. A wonderful and elaborate poster for this popular group. $3000.

133. [Mississippi]: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI PASSED AT A CALLED SESSION OF THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLA- TURE.... Meridian, Ms.: J.J. Shannon & Co., 1865. 71pp. Contemporary printed wrappers. Spine nearly perished, moderate wear to wrappers. Minor foxing. Overall very good.

The laws of Mississippi passed at a special session during the final year of the Civil War, issued a month before the final collapse of the Confederacy. Laws treat the appropriation of funds for soldiers’ families, special taxes to support the war effort, and sundry mundane duties such as acts of incorporation for various parties. Scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3297. OCLC 7189433. $600.

Unrecorded Natchez Broadside, 1864

134. [Mississippi Civil War Broadside]: GENERAL ORDER! HEAD- QUARTERS, U.S. FORCES, NATCHEZ, MISS., MARCH 7, 1864. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 5. HEAREAFTER, ALL DRUGS, MED- ICINES, LIQUORS, WINES...[caption title]. [Natchez, Ms. 1864]. Broadside, 13 x 10¼ inches. Early folds. Small wine stains and contemporary ink docketing on verso, visible on recto, affecting some text. Minor soiling. Overall very good.

An unrecorded Civil War broadside from the Union occupation of Natchez in 1864, containing general orders on the regulation of drugs and alcoholic beverages. The text reads in part:

General Orders, No. 5. Hereafter, all Drugs, Medicines, Liquors, Wines, Porter, ale, &c., sold by Druggists Merchants or other parties, in the city, will only be sold (in however small quantities,) upon the approval of Surgeon A.W. Kelly....All requisitions on the Commissary depot for liquors, must be approved by Surgeon Kelly, before coming to these Headquarters. The requisitions must firstly be approved by the Surgeon of the Reg’t, or Regimental commanders. Any one violating the above order will be severely dealt with.

Signed in print by Col. A.K. Johnson and T.A. Ralston, A.A.A. Gen. Natchez was occupied by Union troops under Grant’s command from 1863 to the end of the war. A rare document, not listed in Hummel or OCLC. $1750.

An Original Thomas Nast Cartoon of Lincoln’s White House

135. Nast, Thomas: No. 2. THE SMALL WHITE HOUSE FOR THE LARGE STATESMEN [manuscript caption title]. [Np, but possibly New York. nd, but possibly ca. 1864?]. Pen and ink manuscript cartoon, on heavy card stock measuring 8½ x 10½ inches. A few small chips, particularly to corners. Tear in lower left corner; some scuffing at center of image. Minor soiling. About very good. In a grey cloth folder, gilt leather label.

An original cartoon by the father of the American political cartoon, Thomas Nast, signed by him in the lower right corner. The drawing shows the White House inhabited by sleeping giants; one man lays stretched prone along the top of the building, while a long pair of legs emerges from the front portico. Yet another pair of legs protrudes from the right side of the building, while a large set of hands and feet stick out of windows on the left side of the building. In the foreground, a black woman stands over an iron stove, cooking, with her washboard in the fountain on the lawn and a clothesline strung from the house to a post planted in the front yard. This almost certainly is a reference to Abraham Lincoln’s White House, with the famously tall President sticking out of the windows. Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was a German-born political cartoonist who made famous many iconic American images, particularly through his work for Harper’s Weekly. “Among Nast’s most notable contributions to American popular art was his creation of lasting symbols. The best known was Santa Claus, who first appeared in 1862. Nast’s Santa, a genial, rotund elf who distributed presents and good cheer, differed from the thin, ascetic precursors in European folklore, such as Père Noël or, in Bavaria, Pelze-Nicol. He became one of Nast’s favorite subjects. To represent Tammany Hall, Nast seized upon the tiger’s head used by Tweed and his associates as their emblem. In 1870 he devised the donkey to designate the Democrats, followed in 1874 with an elephant as the symbol of the Republican party” – ANB. ANB (online). $4500.

Travel and Map on the Indian Territory Frontier

136. Nicely, Wilson: THE GREAT SOUTHWEST, OR PLAIN GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS AND CAPITALISTS, EMBRACING A DE- SCRIPTION OF THE STATES OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS... WITH INCIDENTS OF TWO YEARS’ TRAVEL AND RESI- DENCE IN MISSOURI AND KANSAS.... St. Louis. 1867. 115,[9]pp. plus folding map. Original maroon cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Moderate foxing, contemporary pencil ownership signature on front pastedown. Very good.

“The work is a well-written guide containing a great deal of information. It obviously was written to promote settlement in Kansas and Missouri...half of the contents concern Kansas” – Dary. “Pages 60-105 give an account of Nicely’s travels and residence in this country over a two year period. His visits via horseback to the Cherokee Neutrals Lands, as well as his camping trip to Arkansas, are informative and interesting giving a picture of conditions there soon after the close of the Civil War” – Graff. The map shows the early development of the railroad system in Kansas, most of the settlement still in eastern Kansas, and the Cherokee Neutral Lands in southeastern Kansas unsettled. HOWES N134. GRAFF 3021. RADER 2484. SABIN 55165. DARY 112. $2250.

The Diary of a Printer During the Civil War

137. Parker, Charles S.: DAILY JOURNAL, VOL. II [MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF CHARLES S. PARKER]. [Woburn, Ma. and elsewhere]. 1860-1864, and sporadically later. 325pp. Quarto. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, paper label. Boards nearly detached and scuffed. Some leaves loose. Extra-illustrated with many clippings. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Charles Symmes Parker (1839-1928) was a printer and newspaper editor for over fifty years. Before the Civil War, when most of the diary was written, he worked as a printer in Woburn, Massachusetts, purchasing into his first paper in 1861 at the tender age of twenty-one. He writes on March 26, 1861:

Last Saturday morning I was greatly surprised at receiving an offer from Messrs. Hastings & Parker of an interest in the budget concern, and after consideration and advice have concluded to accept, buying out a third of the concern, valued at six hundred dollars...I had no thought of such a thing as going into business, not feeling satisfied that my experience and age would warrant such a step, but this offer appears so advantageous I have ventured to accept it.

Parker discusses the printing and newspaper business in various scattered passages. In June of 1861 he writes of the effect of the Civil War on business: “I went to Boston on Saturday to make arrangements for some printing for George Guild. Business in the city is very dull indeed, and the only place I visited which looked like prosperity was J.E. Farnell’s printing office, he having secured the city printing.” And later, in July: “There is little or no work to be done, but I suppose we get our fair share of what there is doing.” And in August: “Since the disaster at Bull Run, business has sunk still lower, until now it is discouraging even to look forward. The prospect is dark enough.” The diary spans June 1860 through September 1862, and then sporadically covers time between 1864 and 1923. Along with a series of rich familial details, the diary features extremely detailed commentary on local politics and the heated 1860 presidential election by a Lincoln supporter. Parker had the opportunity to meet Lincoln’s opponent, Stephen Douglas, and described him at length on August 19, 1860: “His face looks as though he has been on a ‘bender’ for a month. It bears unmistakable evidence that he loves the bottle.” In 1904, on his sixty-fifth birthday, Parker seems to have picked the volume up to retrospectively record the events of his life and times. He writes on April 11, 1904: “This is my 65th birthday and consequently this old book, intended to be a daily record of personal matters, has been neglected for nearly 38 years.” In 1874, Parker purchased the Arlington Advocate, which he edited and operated for the next fifty years. For the centennial celebration of Arlington, in 1907, he wrote and published a history of the town. He lived not only through the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, but through World War I and all points in between. With regard to the effect of the Great War on the newspaper business, he writes: “The World War into which the United States entered in 1917, made great changes in business methods of every sort, especially in the ranks of the employed. My foreman was one of the first to be called to service. The filling of this place tried my nerve. I finally secured a Mrs. Lum[?], who proved better than any man previously tried” (p.287). Parker lists the people of note whom he has had the good fortune to meet, among them many notable newspapermen, including Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, and William Cullen Bryant; the aforementioned Stephen Douglas; and President Rutherford B. Hayes, with whom he spoke at length about the evils of drink. With many clippings and extra biographical information inserted. A topical index has been added by Parker at the front of the text. Parker wrote very detailed prose in a highly legible hand. A fascinating autobiographical chronicle. $2850.

138. Pierce, Franklin: [PARTIALLY PRINTED DOCUMENT, COM- PLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED BY FRANKLIN PIERCE]. Washington. Nov. 28, 1855. [1]p., plus integral docketing leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Slight separation at horizontal center fold. Minor toning and soiling. Very good.

Signed as President, a document authorizing the Secretary of State to “affix the seal of the United States to the envelope of a letter addressed to His Majesty Dom Pedro II, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil, in reply to his announcement of the withdrawal of Mr. Moreira.” Francisco Ignacio de Carvalho Moreira was Brazilian Envoy to the United States from 1852 to 1855; this document authorizes official recognition of his withdrawal from that post in August 1855. Franklin Pierce is considered to be one of the least effective presidents in U.S. history, due in part to the fact that his administration presided over some of the most divisive years leading up to the Civil War. $750.

139. Pollard, Edward A.: THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. Richmond. 1862. 403pp. Half title. Original printed glossy orange wrappers. Chipped at spine ends, edgeworn, slightly soiled, contemporary gift inscription on front wrapper. Scattered foxing. Good. In a folding cloth box, morocco label.

A variant issue of the “corrected and improved edition,” published the same year as the first. Pollard’s popular history of the first year of the Civil War, told from the Southern perspective, went through several printings, north and south. This version in wrappers was published without illustrations or maps. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4992. NEVINS II, p.175. HOWES P499. SABIN 63855. $600.

The Last Book Published in the Confederacy

140. Pollard, Edward A.: OBSERVATIONS IN THE NORTH: EIGHT MONTHS IN PRISON AND ON PAROLE. Richmond. 1865. 142pp. Original front printed wrapper (rear lacking), disbound from larger volume and lacking spine. Some darkening and light scattered foxing. Good.

Generally considered to be the last Confederate imprint, this memoir was published in Richmond in March 1865, and many copies must have been destroyed in the burning of the city at the end of the war. Pollard was a journalist, best known for his southern history of the war. He was captured when the blockade runner he was on was seized. He was imprisoned in Fort Warren in Boston, and later paroled and allowed to travel in the city. A fascinating account. HOWES P457. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 68. IN TALL COTTON 149. PARRISH & WILL- INGHAM 4994. SWEM 14273. $750. 141. Polley, J.B.: A SOLDIER’S LETTERS TO CHARMING NELLIE. New York & Washington: The Neale Publishing Co., 1908. 317pp. plus eighteen plates. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed. About fine.

Letters by a Confederate soldier from 1862 through 1865, mostly written to a woman friend, whom he married after the war. “This volume is among the most interesting and valuable primary sources connected with the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia....It is unfortunate that this is among the more difficult of the Neale titles to locate on the rare book market” – Krick. With portraits of many of those mentioned in the letters. HOWES P466. KRICK 402. NEVINS I, p.147. $475.

Fighting Indians in the Northwest

142. Pope, John: OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM GENERAL POPE, COMMANDING MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, CONCERNING INDIAN AFFAIRS. St. Louis: Missouri Democrat Print, 1865. 30pp. Two gathered signatures, remnant of original stitching. Minor soiling on exterior pages, light vertical fold line. Near fine. In a folding half morocco box.

A rare privately printed report by the commander of the Plains Country, intended for his officers. Includes Gen. Pope’s “Plan of Operations Against the Indians of Dakota and Idaho,” and mentions the unsuccessful Powder River Campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Also included is J.F. Meline’s “Proposed Regulations for Trade with the Indians.” Wagner-Camp locates only two copies (CoD, ICN). An extremely rare and important account of Indian warfare on the Plains at the end of the Civil War. WAGNER-CAMP 421a. HOWES P477. EBERSTADT 134:328. SABIN 64114. $5500.

“The most important and ambitious work printed in the Confederacy” – Harwell

143. Porcher, Francis Peyre: RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN FIELDS AND FORESTS, MEDICAL, ECONOMICAL AND AG- RICULTURAL; BEING ALSO A MEDICAL BOTANY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES; WITH PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE USEFUL PROPERTIES OF THE TREES, PLANTS, AND SHRUBS. Charleston, S.C. 1863. xxv,[1],601pp. Original marbled boards, rebacked in paper, paper label. Light scattered foxing and toning, dampstaining to upper outer corner of first forty leaves, not affecting text, faint pencil annotations on verso of rear blank endpaper. Overall very good.

Porcher was one of the most prominent medical figures in the antebellum South, and the founder of a hospital for slaves in Charleston in 1855. His early work on medical botany and his reputation as a physician led to his appointment as surgeon- general of the Confederate States. Porcher’s book was roundly hailed in its day by Confederate boosters, and the work was commissioned by the surgeon-general of the C.S.A. It remains a thorough and impressive work on the agricultural, botanic, and economic resources of the South. “It is intended as a repertory of scientific and popular knowledge as regards the medicinal, economical, and useful properties of trees, plants, and shrubs found within the limits of the Confederate States” – Sabin. With an extensive index. According to Harwell, “This is the most important and ambitious work printed in the Confederacy.” CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 69. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6132. CRANDALL 3041. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 8168. HOWES P482, “aa.” SABIN 64157. IN TALL COTTON 150. $6000. Admiral Porter on His Critics: “...I don’t mind what these people say any more than an elephant would a mosquito...”

144. [Porter, David D.]: [HOLOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM DAVID D. PORTER TO COMMODORE GEORGE F. EM- MONS]. [with:] [PRINTED DOCUMENT, COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, APPOINTING EMMONS COMMODORE IN THE NAVY]. Washington, D.C. May 29, 1872 (letter); Jan. 13, 1869 (document). Letter: 4pp. in a secretarial hand, on folded ruled sheet. Some browning and staining. Note about Porter’s rank added in an early hand, possibly Em- mons’, at close of letter. Document: Removed, with some abrasions on right margin. Both in a half morocco drop box.

Admiral of the United States Navy David Dixon Porter (1813-91) writes, at the close of his career, to Commodore George F. Emmons, regarding administration of a naval association and his response to critics. Porter, son of Commodore Da- vid Porter, a hero of the War of 1812, made his reputation as a bold, ambitious, and somewhat divisive figure during the Civil War, and was instrumental in the Vicksburg campaign. “He never retreated from his arrogant, brash manner, and his career during these [later] years was marked by controversy and constant internecine battles within the service” (ANB). George F. Emmons (1811-84) took part in the Wilkes Expedition, served in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, and eventually achieved the rank of rear admiral. Reading, in part:

I received the paper from Philadelphia announcing acquiescence in the propo- sition which came from the Parksmith [?] U.N. branch. I do not see the use of keeping up the organization unless the officers take more interest in it. I believe every officer in Washington has practically withdrawn from the association and it involves so much writing in answering “resolutions” which had no merit in them, that personally, I shall be very glad to be relieved of the labor. I begin to have serious doubts of the possibility of forming a naval association of any kind that would be useful to the service. There is too much diversity of opinion among officers, a great deal of selfishness and a number are looking out actively for No. 1. I shall always work for the navy but intend to do it in my own fashion. As I have no axes to grind or favors to ask of any one, and occupy the only independent position in the navy, it is possibly that I may be activated for the good of the service. As to any expressions on the part of officers in regard to my course, I do not need them. I wish you would get me a copy of that “Telegraph” in which you say some- body pitches into me, and send it to me, for although I don’t mind what these people say any more than an elephant would a mosquito I like to see them. I can generally spot the writer and say him off.... $1250. 145. [Reconstruction]: RECONSTRUCTION ACTS AND ARTICLE 14th CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. [Washington. 1867]. 16pp. Half title. 12mo. Dbd. First and last leaf detached, faint vertical fold through center. Contemporary manuscript signature of Acting Assistant Adjutant Gen. Charles Cox on verso of last leaf. Good.

An interesting military edition of three Reconstruction Acts, each taking the form of a general order. The first and most important, titled An Act to Provide for the More Efficient Government of the Rebel States..., accomplished two major tasks. It divided the South, save for Tennessee, into five military districts, each of which was presided over by a military commander whose authority was nearly absolute. Second, the act established many of the conditions for readmittance to the Union, including the requirements that each state adopt a constitution in harmony with the Federal Constitution and that each state ratify the fourteenth amendment. The text of the fourteenth amendment, which passed despite President Johnson’s veto, is included. The second act provided for a general registration of all male citizens in each military district for the purposes of reestablishing a voting population. The third act reinforced the notion that the Confederate governments were illegitimate, and that any person or group perpetuating the rule of such governments was subject to the authority of the district commanders. The military printings of the Recon- struction Acts were essential for their distribution throughout the newly organized administrative districts, making the present document an important reference for early Reconstruction history. $675.

Rare Pike’s Peak Overland Guide with Important Maps

146. Redpath, James, and Richard J. Hinton: HAND-BOOK TO KAN- SAS TERRITORY AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS’ GOLD RE- GION; ACCOMPANIED BY RELIABLE MAPS AND A PRELIM- INARY TREATISE ON THE PRE-EMPTION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: J.H. Colton, 1859. 177pp. plus three maps on two folding sheets, and seven pages of ads. 16mo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine ends very slightly chipped. Maps with an occasional small separation at a cross-fold, else in excellent condition. Very clean internally. Near fine. In a cloth clamshell box, gilt morocco label.

A rare Colorado gold rush guide book with three important maps of the region. The text contains an account of the Kansas region, descriptions of the various routes, information on the gold discoveries in the Rockies, and advice on outfitting a trip to the gold fields. “Pre-emption” laws relate to land claims and are treated in an appendix. The first two maps, on one sheet and both outlined in color, are “Kansas and Nebraska” and “Nebraska and Kanzas. Showing Pikes Peak and the Gold Region.” The third map is “Military Map of Parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota by Lieut. G.K. Warren from Explorations made by him in 1855-57.” The second and third maps are particularly significant, showing Denver, Montana, and as far west as Salt Lake. “The authors were correspondents for eastern newspapers. Redpath, a rabid abolitionist, came to Kansas Territory soon after it was established. Hinton came in 1856 as a correspondent for the Boston Traveller” – Dary. Many of the advertisements at the rear are for rail routes to the Pike’s Peak gold region. The Eberstadts describe this guide book as the “original ‘Pike’s Peak or Bust’ overland guide.” WAGNER-CAMP 343. HAFEN, PIKE’S PEAK GOLD RUSH GUIDEBOOKS OF 1859, 14. GRAFF 3437. HOWES R120, “aa.” SABIN 68526. RADER 2773. STREETER SALE 2131. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 995, 996. EBERSTADT 137:522. DARY 74. $11,000. 147. Redpath, James: [PRINTED CIRCULAR LETTER INVIT- ING THE RECIPIENT, JOHN BROWN, Jr., TO SPEAK AT A FORTHCOMING MEETING ON THE SUBJECT, “HOW CAN AMERICAN SLAVERY BE ABOLISHED?”, TOGETHER WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM REDPATH TO BROWN DISCUSSING ARRANGEMENTS FOR A SPEAKING TOUR]. Boston. November 2, 1860. The manuscript letter dated November 8. [2]pp. printed circular letter plus [1]p. manuscript letter, both on a folded quarto sheet. Faint old folds. Old stain on (blank) fourth page. Very minor edge wear. Near fine.

A remarkable and rare survival of the anti-slavery movement, announcing the preparations for a meeting on the abolition of slavery, to be held on the anniversary of John Brown’s execution. This copy was sent to Brown’s eldest son, John Brown, Jr., and invites him to speak at the meeting, and also contains a manuscript letter to Brown, Jr., discussing arrangements for a speaking tour. James Redpath, a Scottish immigrant, came to the United States in the late 1840s, settling in Michigan. He soon became involved in the abolition movement, writing for anti-slavery and Free Soil periodicals. He met and interviewed John Brown in 1856, just days after the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek, and became a fervent publicist for Brown and his activities. Brown was executed in late 1859, after his failed raid on Harper’s Ferry, which he hoped would start a slave insurrection. In 1860, Redpath published a highly sympathetic biography of Brown, The Public Life of Capt. John Brown. He was also secretary of a Committee that called a meeting in Boston on December 3, 1860 to commemorate the anniversary of Brown’s execution and to consider the question, “How can American slavery be abolished?” The meeting was not meant to be simply a commemoration of Brown’s life, but to consider “our duty to the race for whom he suffered; and more especially for the unfolding of practical methods for achieving the holy object he desired to attain by his descent on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.” A fellow member of the Committee was Richard J. Hinton, the co-author with Redpath the year before of the important overland guide, Hand-Book to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains’ Gold Region, intended to assist in the settlement of Kansas and Colorado by anti-slavery New Englanders. This printed circular letter was sent to those invited to speak at the December 1859 meeting, and this particular copy was sent to John Brown’s son, John Brown, Jr. The eldest son of John Brown, he did not participate in the Harper’s Ferry raid, but was a dedicated abolitionist, and took part in activities in Kansas with his father. Not only does Redpath invite Brown, Jr. to speak at the meeting by sending him this printed circular, he adds a manuscript note to Brown, writing (in part): “My dear John – I will write you in a day or two at length. I can’t send you the materials till next week. I would like you to lecture in Canada first.” As part of his abolitionist activities, Redpath was involved in scheduling speaking tours for Brown, Jr., among others. In the late 1860s, Redpath began a speaking agency, the Boston Lyceum Bureau, also known as the Redpath Bureau, which arranged speaking tours for such progressive figures as Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Charles Sumner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others. We are unable to locate any copies of this printed circular, which was undoubt- edly printed in a small number, to be sent only to those invited to speak at the 1860 anti-slavery meeting commemorating the execution of John Brown. This copy of the circular, sent to John Brown, Jr., and with an additional manuscript note discussing a speaking tour for Brown, Jr., makes it an abolitionist item of great interest and significance. $2000.

A Southerner Who Sat It Out Elsewhere

148. [Roah, Sidney, or Sidney Root]: EXOTIC LEAVES, GATHERED BY A WANDERER. London: William Freeman, 1865. 78,[2]pp. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Binding shelfworn, front inner hinge repaired. Clean internally. A very good copy.

Apparently (though not with certitude) a presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Warmest compliments to Mrs. S. Richards Atlanta Oct. 27, 1865.” These are the scarce reminiscences of a southerner who travelled abroad during the American Civil War. Slipping through the Union blockade, he visited Nassau, Bermuda, Great Britain, Spain, Paris, and Cuba. Clark identifies the author as “Sid- ney Roah,” and OCLC uses that name for the author, as well as the name “Sidney Root.” OCLC lists a total of eight copies. Not in Smith’s American Travellers Abroad. Scarce. CLARK I:184. OCLC 33142858. $600.

A Diary in the Campaigns of 1864 and Then in Rebel Prisons

149. Roath, Emanuel D.: [Civil War]: [CIVIL WAR DIARY OF CAP- TAIN EMANUEL D. ROATH, DETAILING COMBAT ACTIONS AND LIFE IN A CONFEDERATE PRISON]. [Various places]. 1864- 1865. 160pp., approximately 16,000 words. Plus carte-de-visite of the author, a twenty-five cent currency note, and several fragmentary papers. Contemporary black morocco wallet-style binding. Extremities lightly worn. A few leaves loose. Written in a clear and highly legible hand. Very good.

An intelligent and motivated officer, Capt. Emanuel Roath kept a diary of his experiences in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, recording a year in the life of a soldier that began in the lull of winter before crashing into merciless combat, his capture, and bitter imprisonment in the heart of the South. The 107th Pennsylvania saw some of the worst the Civil War had to offer. Recruited in central Pennsylvania to serve for three years, and attached to the main body of the Army of the Potomac, they fought at Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettys- burg; they felt the full force of Confederate arms, suffering 165 casualties of the 255 men engaged at Gettysburg alone. Roath’s diary begins in winter quarters at Mitchell’s Station, Virginia in Janu- ary 1864, while he and the other veterans in the regiment were reenlisting and preparing for the month-long furlough they received as inducement. By the time the paperwork ground through and the furloughs were complete, it was mid-May before Roath rejoined his regiment, just in time for the vicious fighting of the Wilderness-Cold Harbor-Petersburg Campaigns. En route to his comrades on May 13, Roath received encouraging news of the new offensive: “encamped for the night on the hill South of the landing, drew rations, quite good news. 300 officers & several thousand private Rebels were brought in to be sent away. Gens. Johnston, Stewart & Knox were among the numbers. The news from the front are good....” From then on, the diary is a chronicle of the extreme conditions and endless combat of the brutal and grinding campaigns of 1864, and Roath provides a dense record of the Spotsylvania battle. Typical entries are brief, but get right to the point. The entry for May 18th reads: “Cannonading commenced about 5 AM by 9 Corps & 5th continued until about 10 in PM. Hard shelling. One redoubt of the enemy’s taken. We sustained some loss, moved our Brig to Warrens HQ, lay under a severe fire.” The following day he writes: “lay quick behind the entrenchments. At 4½ PM part of Ewell’s Corps Rebs made an attack on our rear to gain our train but were finally repulsed with considerable loss in killed, wounded & prisoners. At 6½ PM a charge was made on our position, driving in our pickets, but a few well regulated discharges of grape & canister drove them back. We had many wounded.” From Spottsylvania Courthouse, Roath moved to North Anna River, where his company bore the brunt of the assaults of May 23rd and 24th: “the Rebels attacked us furiously. The contest was hot but we held the field & drove them back... lay behind breast works all day. 5th Corps came in and were properly stationed. Our Pickets advanced beyond the R. Road. Captured quite a number of Prisoners, several hundred in all. The Rebs suffered severely on the 23rd... heavy cannonading on the right... threw up works.” Roath’s diary continues in similar fashion, including accounts of engagements along the Pamunkey, Totopotomoy, and Cold Harbor. There is more on the engagements at Bethesda Church and White Oak Swamp, as well as the fighting before Petersburg. Despite the ceaseless bloodshed, Roath writes: “The skirmishers of both armies by mutual agreement became quite sociable, trading & conversing together, no shots fired.” The next day he reports again that “Reb skirmishers very sociable, no firing on the skirmish line.” As the 107th settled into the trenches before Petersburg, the diary provides excellent grit on the dirt, the shelling, and death of that miserable siege, as well as an eyewitness account of the Petersburg Mine explosion on July 30th. Roath writes: “Called into ranks at 2½ AM to guard on attack, the springing of the mine at day break, which was to be the signal of attack along the whole line – the cannonading was terrible; after an hour shelling &c. a storming party advanced, charged, captured, & carried the works of the enemy...retaken by the enemy. Loss on both sides terrible. Our loss about 1500.” Then, on August 19th at Weldon Railroad, the 107th Pennsylvania was captured nearly in its entirety, Roath included. Although one of the regiment’s privates famously led an assault on his captors that liberated hundreds of men, Roath was not so lucky, and his diary offers a complete chronicle of his experiences from his capture through his imprisonment. While the entries remain brief, they offer intriguing details on the conditions of his imprisonment at Libby, Salisbury, and Danville. He writes of his capture and imprisonment:

Lay in front line near Reams Station skirmish line 2 times attacked in the enemy about 5 PM. The Rebels made an attack on our lines by a flank movement capturing the most of our Div. also a part of some others. I was captured by Maj. Hadrick of the 8th N. Carol. and moved to Petersburg – loss about 2100. [Aug. 20] Met with rain, marched across the Appomattox, searched &c and at 1 PM started for the Rail Road station about 2 or 3 miles from town for Richmond arrived there about 6½ PM. Put into Libby Prison, was thoroughly searched, money taken & a lot of private property taken...lain on floor and slept soundly in wet clothes. Once settled into Libby Prison, Roath’s diary begins with very brief records of weather, notes of other prisoners arriving, and sometimes other comments, but the entries gradually increase in length and interest as his stay extends. In October, Roath was sent to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina, where he recorded an incident in which a lieutenant from the 155th New York was shot down by a guard for stepping out of line. He notes on the same day: “Sent in request to be exchanged.” On October 19th he was removed to Danville and, as he writes, put into a large Brick building, formerly a factory: “the place looked gloomy and unpleasing, but Yankee enterprise soon changes the looks of a place.” Life at Danville seems to have been more agreeable, and he writes: “had another stove put up – had good cabbage soup for dinner, which by the way was very acceptable... passed the day in working on a ring and playing chess. One of the officers who attempted to escape from the cars to this place was recaptured and brought here. One was shot in the attempt to escape.” Roath continued his diary using extra pages at the back until the date of his exchange on Feb 17, 1865. Truly an exceptional survival, and despite the relative brevity of the entries, contains a remarkable amount of detailed information. After a superb chronicle filled with battle content from the spring campaigns of 1864 – including the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna River, Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor, Bethesda Church, White Oak Swamp, Petersburg, and Weldon Railroad – the diary includes a complete account of Roath’s experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Salisbury, and Danville prisons. Unlike many prisoners of war, Roath continued to write valuable entries as his confinement continued, and his health and morale held up far better than the average. Roath includes a careful list of twelve men in his company who were captured with him at Weldon Railroad. $7500.

150. Roden, George: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“GEORGE”), FROM GEORGE RODEN TO HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS, WHILE STATIONED IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA WITH THE 2nd NEW JERSEY INFANTRY DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. Camp Pennington, Va. June 15, 1861. 4pp. in pencil on a single folded sheet. Much faded and slightly stained, but legible.

A fine, detailed letter home by a newly enlisted soldier in the Union army, giving a vivid picture of camp life.

...I told you in my last that we were under Marching Orders well we understood last Friday that we were going the next morning at sunrise so we packed all up excepting our blankets “which we had to lie on” and stood at readiness at any moment but we didn’t get off till Sunday afternoon it was the fault of the Wagons which did not come...and finally whenever wagons hove in sight you ought to have heard the cheering. Then there was a busy scene, shouting of the Teamsters neighing of the noble horses which Uncle Samuel provided for this purpose four to each wagon, the shouting of the Officers, men running to and fro then at the word down came all the tents rolled up neatly put in the wagon with the Other equipage [sic] our knapsacks X.C. which didn’t have to carry. All done in less than half an hour and there as no camp there all had disappeared as if by magic the order was then given to fall in...the Band struck up a splendid piece of music and after forming a regimental line we marched off so goodbye to Washington...Oh! it was such a beautiful cool Sabbath morning...the band played some soul stirring music on the march that and our being relieved of our knapsacks made the march very easy the distance being only eight miles...It is a beautiful place around here we couldn’t have struck upon a finer place, it being shady and plenty of Spring water...we are encamped right down among the hills. It looks quite romantic to see the tents just peeping above and among the bushes and trees...you ought to hear the bands of the different Regt round us. It sounds so beautiful echoing among the hills our band is playing just at this moment and from my position on the slope of a hill it sounds so wildly grand coming up the rim between the hills. Oh! I can’t describe it to you....

Roden’s remarks about the food are somewhat less enthusiastic:

You want to know what kind of food we have well sometimes it is not actually fit for a hog to eat being hard crackers and a miserable apology for meat, being nothing but nasty soft greasy meat too sickening to look at much less to eat...I tell you there will be a big mess round there if they don’t give us better provisions....I want you to send me those Camphor bags and I wish you would get me a couple of those Pencils like the kind Miss Shaw uses. I can’t get ink very well and those are almost as good...I think they call them Indellable [sic] Pencils...and if you have one of those Linnen Havelocks you can send that along....

“The son of English immigrants who settled in Newark, N.J., George Roden enlisted at age twenty-one as a 1st Sergeant in Company K, 2nd New Jersey Infantry, a regiment in Gen. Phillip Kearny’s 1st Brigade. Stationed in northern Virginia during its active service in the Civil War, the 2nd New Jersey infantry was involved in several important engagements, including the Union defeat at Blackburn’s Ford in June 1861, and as a reserve regiment in the First Battle of Bull Run (or Man- nasas) on 21 July 1861, which was the first major land battle of the war. Roden left the service on 21 June 1864” – George Roden Civil War Letters to His Family. Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division, George Roden Civil War Letters to His Family (http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C1213&kw=). $750.

151. Roden, George: [AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM UNION ARMY SOLDIER GEORGE RODEN TO HIS FAMILY DISCUSSING HIS EXPERIENCES IN CAMP IN WASHING- TON, D.C. IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CIVIL WAR]. Wash- ington, D.C. July 7, 1861. Three separate letters on a single bifolium, a total of [4]pp. A total of about 1200 words. Old folds. Closed tears at several folds, with no loss of text. Good. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

A trio of letters economically written on a single sheet of folded paper by Union soldier George Roden, addressed to his parents, his brother, and his sisters. Roden’s camp was located in Washington D.C., near the Congressional cemetery, just south- east of Capitol Hill on the bank of the Anacostia River. Roden describes for his parents the recent 4th of July celebrations in the capital, including cannons fired at the nearby Navy Yard, a large parade that was received by President Lincoln and his cabinet, and a reading of the Declaration of Independence. He writes to his brother: “the report this afternoon is that we are going to march soon. That the orders have been received.” To his sisters Agnes and Lizzie he gives a description of the United States Capitol (“it is a splendid building built of white marble, the dome is not finished as yet”) and a sailing trip down the Potomac to Alexandria, Virginia. In Alexandria he visited the Marshall house, site of the recent celebrated killing of Col. Elmer Ellsworth: “there was a strong guard round it so I could not get inside, but I send you a piece of the bed tick on which he lay.” Much of the rest of the letters are taken up by reminiscences of home in New Jersey. Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division, George Roden Civil War Letters to His Family (http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C1213&kw=). $750.

By the Leading Secessionist

152. Ruffin, Edmund: AGRICULTURAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND DE- SCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF LOWER NORTH CAROLINA, AND THE SIMILAR ADJACENT LANDS. Raleigh: Printed at the Institution for the Deaf & Dumb & the Blind, 1861. 296pp. Original printed wrappers. Loss of paper on spine (stitched). Slight browning. Else a very good copy. In a folding cloth box, leather label.

An important work of southern agriculture, by the man sometimes called “the father of modern scientific agronomy.” Ruffin is best remembered today for his fervent states’ rights beliefs and his secessionist rhetoric. He was given the honor of firing the first gun on Fort Sumter in 1861. In 1865, after the war, he wrapped himself in the Confederate flag and shot himself. HOWES R492. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6140. $1500.

A Prussian Princess in the Confederacy

153. Salm-Salm, Agnes, Princess: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, BY PRINCESS AGNES SALM-SALM, REPORTING HER AD- VENTURES DURING THE CIVIL WAR]. Camp Aldie, Va. Nov. 16, 1862. 3pp. on a folded folio sheet. Quarto. Old fold lines, slight separation at some folds. Later magazine clipping tipped onto final leaf. Quite clean. Very good.

Letter written by adventuress and military heroine Princess Agnes Salm-Salm. Agnes LeClerc Joy arrived in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1861, where she met and captured the heart of Prussian Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, whom she married in August 1862. “The energetic bride immediately took charge of her husband’s career and succeeded in obtaining his appointment as colonel in the Eighth, later the Sixty-eighth, New York Infantry Regiment and eventually his commission as brigadier general. Spirited and adventuresome but soon taking interest in the plight of wounded soldiers, Agnes accompanied her husband on his tours of duty in Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia, where Felix Salm-Salm was appointed military governor of Atlanta in 1865” – ANB. She was subsequently involved in both the war in Mexico and the Franco-Prussian War. Agnes writes, in part:

My dear friend, When I had the pleasure of seeing you, I promised to write and tell how I was getting on and all my adventures. To day week I left Washington to join my husband accompanied by Col. Corwin a friend of ours and a guide. It was a very cold and rather a long ride to Gen. [Franz] Sigel’s headquarters which we found at Greenville. My husband’s regiment had left in the morning for Aldie which is twenty miles in advance. So we had to stop in a farmhouse where we were fortunate enough to procure quarters for the night, provided with a pass to Gen. Stobel’s headquarters near Hopeville Gap. We reached it at noon and proceeded after a short rest to Aldi, through the wood, having heard that some of White’s cavalry are roving about there and around to my husband’s armies.

She goes on to discuss accommodations at the camp, being relocated by various officers who desired her farmhouse room for their headquarters or lodging, and finally ending up sharing a tent with her husband, “where the indignant soldiers had made some arrangements on hearing that I was turned out. Well, now I am here gypsying in a tent, but I must say I like it very well, because I am always with my lord and master. Just now the whole cavalry, some artillery and one regiment of infantry are advancing toward Middelburg where the rebels are in force. We expect every moment a fight.” An interesting letter written by this colorful woman. A later magazine clipping about her life has been tipped to the final leaf. $850.

154. Shepley, George Foster: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY GEN. GEORGE FOSTER SHEPLEY, TO THE COMMON COUNCIL]. New Orleans. June 10, 1862. [2]pp. written on “Head Quarters Military Commandant of New Orleans” letterhead. Very good.

Shepley, a native of Maine and the son of a U.S. senator and Supreme Court chief justice, accompanied Butler’s expedition against New Orleans in 1862. On May 1, 1862, the city was captured and Butler appointed Shepley post commander in New Orleans, an office he continued to hold until the election of Gov. Michael Hahn in the spring of 1864. This is a rare official communication, issued early in Shepley’s tenure, written in a secretarial hand and boldly signed by Shepley, seeking funds for the maintenance of prisoners: “The dictates of humanity require, that these prisoners should be supplied with a proper quantity and quality of food....” Generals in Blue, pp.436-67. $1250. A Slave Sale Broadside During the Civil War

155. [Slave Sale Broadside]: ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE! WILL BE SOLD, BEFORE THE COURT-HOUSE DOOR IN CALHOUN, GORDON COUNTY, GEO.,...THE LAND & NEGROES BE- LONGING TO THE ESTATE OF BRIAN GREER, DECEASED. [Atlanta]: Southern Confederacy Job Office Print, Nov. 1, 1862. Broadside, 15½ x 10¾ inches. Old folds and wrinkles. Sheet tanned and a bit foxed, some wear around the edges. Good.

An unrecorded Confederate slave sale broadside, giving details of an 1862 auction of slaves and land in Georgia. The date of the sale was Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1862 and was held in Calhoun, Georgia, about seventy miles north of Atlanta. It is noteworthy that this sale was scheduled to take place just two months after Abraham Lincoln’s order declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate states. The text states that the land belongs to the estate of Brian Greer, and describes it thusly: “The tract of land contains six hundred and forty acres, more or less, and is situated upon the waters of Oostanaula River...the land is remarkably level, well watered, and is adapted to grain, cotton or stock.” It is noted that the Dalton and Jackson Rail Road line will soon pass nearby, and the agricultural qualities of the land are also touted. Specific details about the slaves being offered are not given, though the land is described as having “negro cabins for twenty or thirty hands.” Though no place of publication is listed, there was a “Southern Confederacy Job Office Print” in Atlanta. Not in Parrish & Willingham, nor in Hummel or on OCLC. Rare, and good evidence of the Confederacy’s continuing commerce in humans, even in the midst of the Emancipation Proclamation. $4750.

156. [Slavery]: ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY, ON THE SUBJECT OF EMANCIPATION. [Louisville, Ky. 1849]. 12pp. printed in double-column format. Gathered signatures. Outer signature sepa- rating at fold, old soiling and dampstaining, but still generally very good.

Written in anticipation of a constitutional convention scheduled to meet in August 1849, this address urges Kentuckians to help craft a new state constitution outlawing slavery. Contains extended quotes from several founders commenting on the evils of slavery. Signed in print at the end by Bland Ballard, secretary of the “Correspond- ing and Executive Committee” on Emancipation, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1849. “A strong anti-slavery tract, citing the evils of slavery in the Bluegrass State, with statistical information” – Coleman. A rare southern anti-slavery imprint. OCLC locates seven copies. COLEMAN 3003. OCLC 29465272, 29462688. $750.

Southern Rights, But Anti-Secession

157. [South Carolina]: SOUTHERN RIGHTS AND CO-OPERATION. TO THE VOTERS OF LEXINGTON DISTRICT. FELLOW CIT- IZENS...[caption title]. Lexington, S.C. 1851. Broadside, 14 x 8 inches. Old folds. Separation and wear at folds expertly repaired. Very good. Matted.

Broadside calling for voters to get to the polls to vote for candidates of the Co- operation Party, the political party opposed to secession from the Union. The authors see inevitable ruin for South Carolina if the party in favor of secession succeeds in gaining control of the state congress. The text reads:

Fellow citizens: On Monday and Tuesday next you are called upon to elect two deputies to represent th[i]s Congressional District in the Southern Congress. Our friends of the Co-operation party in the other districts, composing this Congressional District, have presented to us the names of Dr. J.J. Wardlaw, of Abbeville, and Maj. Henry Summer, of Newberry, as the candidates of the Co-operation party – the last named gentleman having been substituted, within a few days past, in the place of Capt. P.S. Brooks, whose name has been withdrawn. It is of the utmost importance, that, as far as is now practicable, the full strength of our party should be exhibited in this election. Let every voter, opposed to separate secession, attend the polls on Monday next, and give their votes for Wardlaw and Summer. In this election let us look to principles – not men. If we stand firm, and are united, we may yet save the State from the ruin which we believe must inevitably result from separate secession.

It is signed in type by L. Boozer, Isaiah Caughman, John Fox, and Samuel T. Lorick as members of the Co-operation Committee, and date Oct. 9, 1851. An interesting broadside advertising the dangers of secession ten years before the start of the Civil War. Hummel notes only one copy, at the University of South Carolina. HUMMEL 2328. $1500.

158. [South Carolina]: JOURNAL OF THE STATE CONVENTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA; TOGETHER WITH THE RESOLUTION AND ORDINANCE. Columbia. 1852. 45pp. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping, but a very good copy.

An extremely important piece which marks the path to South Carolina’s ultimate break from the Union. “Declares that this state has the right – and sufficient cause – to secede from the Federal Union and that she forebears from exercising such right only from considerations of expediency. Marks the evolution of States Rights opinion, from mild nullification to the final break” – Howes. HOWES S781, “aa.” $750.

159. [South Carolina]: REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CARO- LINA, PASSED AT THE ANNUAL SESSION OF 1861. Columbia, S.C. 1861. 357pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Lower foredge of titlepage chipped, a few small holes affecting text in two places. Some scattered foxing, but internally about very good, untrimmed and largely unopened.

An important collection of South Carolina laws and reports from the first year of the Civil War. Included are several reports assessing the financial strength of the state, and on the functioning of various schools, including the state’s military academies. Includes an index. Parrish & Willingham locate only thirteen copies, one of them incomplete. Scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3840. OCLC 23854055. $500.

160. [South Carolina]: CONVENTION DOCUMENTS. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF TWENTY-ONE, ON THE COMMUNICATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR PICKENS, TOGETHER WITH THE REPORTS OF HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS, AND OTHER PAPERS. Columbia, S.C.: R.W. Gibbes, 1862. 181pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. First leaf toned, minute foxing. Overall internally clean. Very good.

A collection of documents relative to the administration of the war in South Carolina, including some previously classified as secret. Contained in the sundry reports are disclosures on available munitions, surveys on possible routes of enemy incursion, militia and regimental numbers, and the consequences of Gov. Pickens’ move to increase the wartime powers of the state’s executive office. A compelling Confederate imprint. Scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 3758. $600.

The Elusive Limited Edition

161. Stanley, Henry Morton: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HEN- RY MORTON STANLEY...EDITED BY HIS WIFE, DOROTHY STANLEY. With Sixteen Photogravures and a Map. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., 1909. xvii,551,[1]pp. plus sixteen photogravures (including frontispiece portrait), one folding facsimile letter, and one folding map. Titlepage printed in red and black. Half title. Thick quarto. Original green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled and front cover stamped in gilt, gilt-ruled turn-ins, t.e.g. Moderate wear and minor fading to spine and extremities; minor scuffing to boards. Original printed tissue guards intact. Small ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Ex- tremely light foxing on first few leaves, else fine internally. A very good copy.

Deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley, this copy numbered 22. Containing a finely detailed, folding two-color map of central Africa, with Stanley’s routes outlined in three colors and an accompanying outline of England and Wales drawn in the same scale for land size comparison. Henry Morton Stanley, the most accomplished and celebrated 19th-century African explorer, was also one of his era’s greatest self-inventors, a feat both chronicled and extended in his posthumously published Autobiography. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1841, the illegitimate son of a housemaid in Wales. As a child, Rowlands suffered years of cruelty at the hands of his family and in the workhouse where he was raised from the age of six. In 1859, Rowlands fled to America and came under the care of a New Orleans cotton merchant named Henry Morton Stanley, who informally adopted Rowlands and gave him his name. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the younger Stanley enlisted in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he fought and was taken prisoner at Shiloh, where, to obtain his release, he enlisted in the Union Army. Soon thereafter, he became a ship’s clerk in the Union Navy and would become one of the few people to see battle from both sides of the Civil War (Hochschild, p.25). Following the war, Stanley was hired as a newspaper correspondent for the St. Louis Missouri Democrat. He was assigned to Gen. Hancock’s army in the Indian campaigns and distinguished himself with dramatic dispatches to both the Democrat and various publications on the East Coast. The entire first half of the book is devoted to Stanley’s adventures in the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars. In 1868 the New York Herald hired Stanley to cover war in Abyssinia and in 1869 sent him to find Dr. Livingstone. For the next twenty years Stanley explored and charted much of the African interior, wrote several best-selling books, and helped establish the Congo Free State of Belgian King Leopold II, setting the stage for one of the darkest chapters in the history of European imperialism. In the final years of his life, Stanley lectured widely on his adventures and defended Leopold’s massive project against international charges of mass murder and de facto slavery. During this time he also worked on his Autobiography, “as he indicates, out of a desire to make his nature and character comprehensible to the world which knew him in the day of his fame” (DAB). The book, which Stanley did not live to complete, was edited and prepared for publication by his wife, Dorothy. Nearly half the work is devoted to Stanley’s early life in Wales and America, the formative years that molded the conquering figure of international renown. “It was the American Stan- ley,” according to Constance Lindsay Skinner in the DAB, “the man who had seen the wheel-ruts of pioneer wagons on the western prairie and young sturdy towns on recent Indian battle-grounds, who looked at the Congo region and saw nothing there to daunt determined men thoroughly equipped with the means and methods of civilization.” Contemporary scholars write of Stanley and his Autobiography with a less celebratory tone, noting the excesses of his career as a Congo taskmas- ter and the various contradictory and probably fanciful elements in his memoirs (Hochschild, pp.23-25, 235). Nevertheless, Stanley’s life and his final book, here in its finest edition, stand as monuments to his era’s boldest notions of personal resolve and self-creation. DAB XVII, pp.509-13. Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). $4500.

Extra-Illustrated

162. Stansbury, Joseph, and Doctor Jonathan Odell: THE LOYAL VERS- ES OF JOSEPH STANSBURY AND DOCTOR JONATHAN ODELL; RELATING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Now first edited by Winthrop Sargent. Albany: J. Munsell, 1860. 199pp. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty plates. Small quarto. Crushed blue morocco, paneled in gilt, spine gilt, raised bands. Occasional offsetting from plates. Very good, in a lovely binding.

From an edition limited to 150 copies. Frank Cutter Deering’s copy, with his morocco bookplate. A collection of Loyalist poetry by the Philadelphian, Stansbury, and the New Jersey doctor, Odell, who served as a go-between for Arnold and André. Stansbury and Odell both served prison time for their sympathies. Number 6 in “Munsell’s Historical Series.” SABIN 90375. $750.

163. Stephens, Alexander H.: THE GREAT SPEECH OF...DELIVERED BEFORE THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE, ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MARCH 16th...TO WHICH IS ADDED EXTRACTS PROM [sic] GOV. BROWN’S MESSAGE TO THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE [caption title]. [Milledgeville. 1864]. 32pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Very good.

A thundering speech for a lost cause, with many references to the Constitution, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, etc. Stephens, who was vice president of the Confederacy, is remembered for his book on the constitutional validity of the doc- trine of state sovereignty and the right of secession, published after the war. It was met with great controversy, evoking attacks from both the North and the South. Parrish & Willingham locate only ten copies. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5915. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 88. $750. 164. Stroud, George M.: A SKETCH OF THE LAWS RELATING TO SLAVERY IN THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1827. 180pp. Contemporary boards, paper label. Moderate foxing. Later 19th-century pencil ownership signature at head of titlepage. Very good, untrimmed.

“Stroud (1795-1875) was a Philadelphia lawyer and for several years was a Judge of the District Court of Philadelphia. This work, the first substantial legal treatise on American slavery, is considered by many the best of the ante-bellum studies” – Cohen. Stroud’s work was republished in 1856, on the eve of war. Scarce. COHEN 9877. SABIN 93097. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 30732. $750.

165. [Surgeon General’s Office]: A REPORT ON AMPUTATIONS AT THE HIP-JOINT IN MILITARY SURGERY. Washington: Govern- ment Printing Office, 1867. 87,[1]pp. including in-text illustrations, plus nine plates (five of them chromolithographs). Quarto. Later cloth backed, paper covered boards. Pp.3-6 detached. Very clean and bright. Near fine.

A fascinating and detailed look at the subject of amputations at the hip joint in military surgery, a field in which experience and knowledge grew by leaps and bounds thanks to the violence of the American Civil War. The findings in this volume are culled from the detailed records of more than fifty such operations conducted during the war. Two of the illustrations depict men in their uniforms, one from the Union and one from the Confederacy. Beginning with a general history of the subject before moving on to case studies from the Civil War, this report was published as part of Joseph Barnes’ six-volume work, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. The plates were executed by Julius Bien, F. Moras, and L.N. Rosenthal. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 80 (ref ). $750.

The Early Days of Texas Secession

166. [Texas]: REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFE- TY TO THE CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS...CONTAINING THE MISSIONS TO SAN ANTO- NIO, TO RIO GRANDE, AND TO THE N.W. FRONTIER. GEN’L ROGER’S MISSION TO LOUISIANA, TO PROCURE ARMS, AND THE CONFERENCE OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE WITH THE LATE GOV. HOUSTON.... Austin. 1861. 173pp. Modern brown three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Titlepage tanned with some foxing; paper around imprint has been effaced, resulting in some small holes and the obscuring of the printer’s name. Foxing. Else very good.

This report provides a wealth of detail regarding the early days of the secession in Texas. Various reports describe in fascinating detail the handover of installations, weapons, and other military stores from Federal troops in San Antonio and other Texas locations – the wide range of “acquired” booty includes furniture, weapons, building materials, and cash. The report also details the meeting between Gover- nor Sam Houston and the “Public Safety Committee,” in which the governor was effectively forced from office. An invaluable resource for the turbulent five weeks spanning February 1861 in which the secession crisis came to a head. WINKLER 193. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4170. CRANDALL 2167. $2500.

167. [Texas]: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAN. 19, 1865...RESO- LUTIONS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, CONCERNING PEACE, RECONSTRUCTION, AND INDEPENDENCE [caption title]. [Richmond. 1865]. 3pp. Self-wrappers. Minor tanning on edges. Overall very good.

One of several stalwart resolutions made by the state of Texas in the waning days of the war, also published as a broadside by the state senate. In the present document Texas resolves that no invitation to a constitutional convention will be entertained by the state unless made to the government of the Confederate states as a whole, and that the memories of the bloody war will prevent any re-union. Quite scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4188 (ref ). $850.

Jim Crow in Delaware

168. Townsend, Samuel: TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY [caption title]. [Townsend, De.]. July 24, 1876. Broadside, 9 x 7 inches. Some light creasing. Near fine.

Tirade against the perceived disenfranchisement of the “poor white Democratic voter” in Delaware. Townsend rails against a proposed system to elect candidates for the Legislature and Levy Court by delegates, as opposed to an open election by individual ballot. He writes:

It is a damning insult to poor white Democratic voters to be opposed in this underhand manner by men who seek to lead the Democratic party for their selfish interests....The white Republicans allow the Negroes in their party to help nominate by an equal vote by ballot, and we, the white Democrats, who claim to be the descendants of Jefferson and Jackson, debar and refuse even- handed political rights and justice to the white Democratic masses.

Samuel Townsend (1812-81) was a vigorous and interesting force in Delaware politics. “In this respect historians have portrayed him original, aggressive, and public spirited, as well as a ‘cross for some Democrats to bear.’ Samuel was outspo- ken and opinionated, submitting frequent editorials to Delaware newspapers and publishing political broadsides. He attended numerous state Democratic conventions and was a delegate to the national conventions in 1848 and 1852. In 1860, he was a key player in the controversy surrounding Delaware’s delegation to the national convention in Charleston and Baltimore. Throughout the Civil War he was an avid supporter of the Union cause, but did not advocate the emancipation of slaves. During Reconstruction, Samuel helped found Delaware’s White Man’s Party, which fought to have the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments repealed. Samuel Townsend remained active in politics and business until shortly before his death on 5 December 1881. He was buried in the Friends Cemetery in Odessa, several miles north of Townsend, Delaware, which bears his name” – Townsend Family Papers. OCLC locates only one copy, at the American Antiquarian Society. Rare. OCLC 316965116. University of Delaware, Townsend Family Papers (online). $750.

The First American Military Uniform Color Plate Book

169. [United States Army]: REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM & DRESS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. JUNE, 1851. FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT AND DRAWINGS IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Philadelphia: Published by William H. Hortsmann and Sons [1851]. 13,[1]pp., plus twenty-five plates (eleven colored). Large quarto. Modern cloth, leather label. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage and first page of text. Titlepage and first five plates (all of them colored) backed at an early date with paper, with closed edge tears in the backing paper. Occasional light foxing or tanning. Very good.

A rare color plate book illustrating the uniform and dress of the United States Army. The titlepage and the plates carry the imprint of William H. Hortsmann and Sons, “military furnishers” of Philadelphia, and the plates were drawn by G.C. Humphries. The Hortsmann firm operated in Philadelphia from 1815 well into the 20th century, and was the country’s leading military outfitter. The lithography was executed by P.S. Duval, one of the leading American lithographers of his day. The attractive plates depict full-dress uniforms for artillery, infantry, riflemen, engineers, and dragoons, epaulettes, buttons, shoulder knots, caps, swords and scabbards, waist belts, chevrons, furniture for horses, and more. The text describes in detail the regulations of dress for officers and enlisted men, including members of the topographical engineers, dragoons, and cadets. Not in Bennett or McGrath (who lists only post-Civil War color plate books on Army dress). COLAS 2520. $5500.

170. [United States Military]: REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM AND DRESS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, AS ADOPTED BY GENERAL ORDERS No. 31, JUNE 12, 1851. WITH ALL THE VARIATIONS TO THE PRESENT TIME. FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT. ALSO, FOR THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS OF THE UNIT- ED STATES, AND FOR THE VOLUNTEER MILITIA OF EACH STATE. Boston. 1857. [3]-113pp. plus twenty plates (some partially colored) and [30]pp. of advertisements. Folio. Original cloth boards, neatly rebacked in morocco, gilt. Ink stamp of the Library of the First Corps of Cadets of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at bottom of titlepage. A few chips and tears in text leaves, plates with some minor edge wear. Very good.

Regulations for the uniforms of the United States Army in the mid-19th century, with large plates illustrating the different details of each uniform. The book was published by Robert Weir, styled as an “Army, Naval, and Civic Costumer” on the titlepage. It also contains pay tables, list of warships, military laws, form of review, dress parade, and tactics. The last thirty pages contain advertisements, several of them for purveyors of pianos. Only four copies listed on OCLC: American Antiquarian Society, New-York Historical Society, Smithsonian, Mariner’s Museum Library. OCLC 8912335, 58759703. $3000.

Famed Civil War Etchings

171. [Volck, Adelbert J.]: CONFEDERATE WAR ETCHINGS. [Philadel- phia? 1880s?]. Index leaf, correctly issued without titlepage, and twenty-nine line etchings on India paper, mounted on stiff larger sheets. Folio. Original brown cloth spine with boards, paper label on cover. Boards worn, corners neatly repaired. Some light scattered foxing and minor dampstaining to contents. A good set. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

The second, and earliest obtainable, edition of Volck’s famous collection of Civil War etchings, reissuing work that first appeared in the original first and second series issued by subscription between 1861 and 1864. The first edition or series of Civil War etchings by Volck was published under the name, “V. Blada,” apparently for subscribers, in a supposed edition of 200 copies, sometime during the middle of the war. That first series was entitled Sketches from the Civil War. It contained thirty etchings and was suppressed because its content bordered on treason. A second series was issued sometime after the first, but before the end of the war, bringing the total number of etchings to forty-five. However, all of these wartime issues are rare to the point of extinction, and none have appeared on the market in modern times. This set is the reissue as described by Howes, generally thought to have been done in the 1880s; the label on the cover indicates that this is no. 69 of 100 copies printed. The etchings vary between rather idealized southern scenes, such as Stonewall Jackson leading his men in prayer, to vicious and vitriolic attacks on the North (a white being sacrificed on an altar labeled “Negro Worship”). It is due to the inclu- sion of images such as the latter one, that it is easy to see why they were deemed treasonable. The sketches are superbly executed and often reproduced in modern histories of the Civil War. George McCullough Anderson, in his book on Volck, states: “The vitriolic nature of some of these drawings leaves no doubt that V. Blada felt strongly and expressed those feelings in the manner he knew best – as a non- combatant seeking to build morale and support for the cause in which he believed. His weapons were his artistic temperament and ability.” A rare group of controversial Civil War views, here in a later issue, made from the original plates. Not in Sabin or Coulter. HOWES V138, “aa.” ANDERSON, THE WORK OF ADALBERT JOHANN VOLCK, passim. $3000.

172. Waddle, Angus L.: THREE YEARS WITH THE ARMIES OF THE OHIO AND THE CUMBERLAND. Chillicothe, Ohio. 1889. 81pp. Original blue printed paper wrappers. Several chips and tears to spine. Wrappers lightly faded. Faint vertical crease. Contents quite clean. Very good.

Memoir of Angus L. Waddle, an adjutant with the 33rd Ohio Infantry during the Civil War, containing accounts of battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, including Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The 33rd Ohio was organized in August 1861 under Col. Joshua W. Sill (whose death is discussed in this work), and was attached to the Army of the Ohio and then the Army of the Cumberland. The unit saw action at the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Kennesaw Mountain, and the invasion of Atlanta. Waddle managed to survive the War from start to finish, and this work recounts his experiences over three grueling years (1861-64). NEVINS I, p.173. $750. 173. Wagner, Arthur L., Lieut.-Col.: THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION, A SYNOPSIS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ARMY IN THE SPANISH WAR, AND SOME REMARKS ON OUR MILITARY NECESSI- TIES. [Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1899]. 103pp. plus twenty-five chromolithographs. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth. Corners bumped, cloth edgeworn and spotted. Hinges weak. Internally clean and fresh.

Wagner’s lavish work contains numerous large chromolithographs depicting the history of the army of the United States from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War, with depictions of all. It also serves as a useful guide for identifying military dress throughout the first hundred years of the U.S. Army. The Werner Company of Akron, Ohio was a leading innovator in new printing technology at the end of the century. According to McGrath, the plates were created by combining the primary colors and sienna in careful mixtures, allowing far fewer color stones than would have traditionally been used. “Not only are the plates technically interesting, but three are from drawings by Henry Alexander Ogden” – McGrath. The result of this trichromatic chromolithographic technique, while somewhat blotchy in appearance, probably considerably lowered the cost of printing such a plate. Wagner’s work was published in a one-volume edition which contained forty-two plates, including seventeen of the U.S. Navy with accompanying text. It was also published in a two-volume set, with one volume for the army (as here) and one for the navy. McGRATH, pp.149, 163, 172. BENNETT, p.109. $750.

174. Walker, J.G., Major General: HEAD QUARTERS, DIST. OF TEX- AS, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6. [Houston. Feb. 23, 1865]. Broadside, 8 x 4¾ inches. Small, closed tear in upper margin. Minor foxing. Small institutional stamp (“withdrawn”) on verso. Good.

A scarce Confederate imprint, reporting the details of the attempted desertion of Private Antone Richers of Degé’s Light Battery. Richers deserted on December 10, 1864 at Galveston, Texas, but his boat capsized in trying to navigate the channel, and when he was rescued he was charged with desertion and found guilty. Richers was sentenced “to be shot to death with musketry.” If only he had waited it out a few more months.... PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 1431. $600.

175. Walton, William: THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT DAY. A RECORD OF THE FORMATION, ORGANI- ZATION, AND GENERAL EQUIPMENT OF THE LAND AND NAVAL FORCES OF THE REPUBLIC. Boston: George Barrie, [1889- 1895]. Three volumes, including supplement. 130pp., twenty-nine lithographed plates, 158 other illustrations; 38pp., fifteen lithographed plates, fifty other illustrations; a supplement of 171pp. with three black and white illustrations, 2pp. table of contents. Large folio. Elaborately gilt contemporary morocco, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Front and boards detached on first and second volumes, rear board detached on first volume. Supplement volume binding intact. Overall very good and internally clean.

Bennett describes this Imperial Japan edition as the finest version of this epic book, and Howes accords it a “b” rating. Limitation leaves at the beginning of each volume identify this set as copy number 348 of the Imperial Japan edition, which was limited to 500 sets. In the set offered here all the plates are in black and white. “The pictorial value is the display of U.S. uniforms from 1776 to 1891. The text has a little-known but very genuine importance. It contains a roster of all commissioned army and navy officers of the U.S. from the beginning up to and including the Civil War” – Bennett. HOWES W81, “b.” BENNETT, p.3. McGRATH, p.222. $1000.

“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”

176. Webster, Daniel: SPEECH OF DANIEL WEBSTER, IN REPLY TO MR. HAYNE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA: THE RESOLU- TION OFFERED BY MR. FOOT, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC LANDS, BEING UNDER CONSIDERATION. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, JANUARY 26, 1830. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1830. 76pp. 12mo. Dbd. Contemporary non-authorial presentation inscription on the front wrapper. Tanning and foxing. Good, untrimmed. In a folding cloth case.

The first edition, second issue, with “reply” spelled correctly on the titlepage, apparently printed from standing newspaper type by Gales, who was present for the speech and transcribed it as it was given. One of the most important American political speeches of the 19th century. Webster’s speech was technically a response to a bill restricting western land sales, but in reality it was prompted by South Carolina’s recently propounded theory of “nullification” – that the individual states had the authority to resist federal legislation, and to secede from the Union if the federal government used force against a state to execute its laws. The speech enunciated Webster’s theory of a united, national identity. As such, it exemplified the progress toward that identity that had been made over the previous fifty years, and foreshadowed the fractures and fis- sures that would develop over the next thirty years, culminating in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln called it “the very best speech that was ever delivered” (quoted in David Herbert Donald, Lincoln, p.270). Webster’s speech was prompted by the response to a resolution offered by Senator Samuel Foot of Connecticut, which would have limited the sale of public lands in the West. This riled western and southern senators, who contended that it curtailed western immigration, and favored the Northeast over other sections of the country. On January 19, 1830, Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave a speech on the bill that tied the question to states’ rights. Webster responded to Hayne’s remarks with brief remarks of his own the next day, using the opportunity to inject the issue of slavery and the question of nationalism versus sectionalism into the debate, which prompted a powerful reply from Hayne. This initial con- tretemps set up the occasion for the present speech, which Webster delivered to an overflowing Senate chamber on January 26th. The speech that Webster gave that day was the greatest of his career, and it is one of the most important American political speeches. Biographer Robert Remini calls it “an exalted paean of praise to personal liberty and national sovereignty,” and historian Merrill Peterson calls Webster’s exchange with Hayne “the greatest debate in the history of the Senate.” Webster, referring to a few pages of notes but speaking largely extemporaneously, began by attacking the institution of slavery, but put it on the southerners themselves to emancipate the slaves. Webster then went on to defend the Constitution as the creation of the American people, not the states: “It is, Sir, the people’s Constitution, the people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people” (a phrase echoed by Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address). In this vein, Webster contended that the Constitution was the supreme law of the law, and that the Supreme Court rendered the final decision in interpreting the Constitution. Webster went on to say that a state’s assertion of its right to nullify a federal edict might ultimately lead to civil war: “direct collision, therefore, between force and force, is the unavoidable result” of nullification. Webster concluded by saying that he did not want to know what an America beyond the Union may be like, that for him liberty and Union could coexist: “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” Robert Remini says of the speech and Webster’s conclusion: “this noble utter- ance was Webster’s supreme gift to the American people. With poetry of language, majesty of sentiment, and sublimity of thought, he embodied in his address many of the beliefs and feelings of the American people, who, for the past two decades, had experienced a surge of nationalism they had never known before. They needed to have these new emotions properly expressed in a way that would add to their pride in the nation’s glory. Webster did it for them. With this oration ‘the God- like’ became, without exaggeration, a living legend.” “The most famous American oration of the nineteenth century” – Howes. Webster invited Joseph Gales of the National Intelligencer, who was known for his shorthand expertise, to report the speech personally. Gales then prepared a readable manuscript and delivered it to Webster, who revised it for publication. Gales’ newspaper printed it in its editions of February 23, 25, and 27, 1830, and it appears that the present first edition was published by Gales and Seaton from that setting of type, as the printed text appears to be in the size and shape of newspaper columns. This is the second issue of the first edition, with the word “reply” spelled correctly on the titlepage, and with some portions of the speech reset. Included with this copy of Webster’s speech is Gales & Seaton’s printing of Robert Hayne’s “second speech,” delivered in the Senate on January 27th. Webster’s speech was immediately popular and went through dozens of printings in 1830 alone. This first printing, second issue, is quite scarce, however. A landmark American oration. HOWES W200. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5383. SABIN 102272. THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEB- STER, SPEECHES AND FORMAL WRITINGS, VOLUME 1, 1800-1833, pp.285-393. Robert Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time (New York, 1997), pp.314-34. Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (New York, 1987), pp.170-83. $1250.

177. Williams, Ellen: THREE YEARS AND A HALF IN THE ARMY; OR, HISTORY OF THE SECOND COLORADOS. New York: Pub- lished for the Author by Fowler & Wells Company, 1885. 178pp. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. A very good, tight copy. Lacks the frontispiece portrait.

A quite rare privately printed personal account by a the wife of a bugler, about the Civil War campaigns on the Plains and in the Rockies, New Mexico, Kansas, Mis- souri, and Arkansas, including a unit roster for the Second Colorado Cavalry on pages 161-176. Many of the men of the Second Colorado had been miners before the war. Mrs. Williams gives an interesting view of the little-known southwestern campaigns of the war. DORNBUSCH (Colorado) 166. EBERSTADT 138:171. HOWES W452, “aa.” GRAFF 4676. $1750.

A Novel Set in Early German Texas

178. Willrich, Georg: ERINNERUNGEN AUS TEXAS. Leipzig. 1854. Three volumes. 173,[1]; 176; 174,[2]pp. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards. Older paper labels at top of spine. Extremities lightly rubbed. Contemporary library bookplate on front pastedowns. Minor toning at edges. Near fine.

“Around 1850 the German American novel developed with the arrival of German Forty-Eighters, who were busy editing newspapers and writing fiction and nonfic- tion....Slavery repeatedly turned out to be [a] site of conflict in the predominantly antislavery novels. It also triggered the counter image of a harmonious coexistence of German immigrants and freed slaves in Georg Willrich’s Erinnerungen aus Texas (Memoirs of Texas, 1854)” – Adam. A rare and interesting German Texas novel, quite nice in original condition. HOWES W509, “aa.” RAINES, p.220. Thomas Adam, ed., Germany and the Americas (2005), p.834. $3750.

179. Winner, Septimus: THE “CONTRABAND” SCHOTTISCHE [cover title]. Philadelphia. 1861. 4pp. Folio. Disbound from larger volume, resulting in some minor loss along gutter edge. Lower right corner chipped. Light soiling and dampstaining. Good.

A nice piece of Civil War-era music by popular 19th-century songwriter Septimus Winner, featuring a cover illustration showing four “contraband” slaves gleefully tumbling about while fleeing an overseer with a whip. The piece is dedicated to General Benjamin F. Butler, who first declared captured runaway slaves to be the contraband of war, inspiring the Confiscation Act of August 1861, which permitted the seizure of any property being used to pursue actions against the Union, including slaves. Eleven copies in OCLC. OCLC 23751462, 17158927. $850.

180. Woodruff, George H.: FIFTEEN YEARS AGO: OR THE PATRI- OTISM OF WILL COUNTY, DESIGNED TO PRESERVE THE NAMES AND MEMORY OF WILL COUNTY SOLDIERS.... Jo- liet. 1876. 515,82pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Original blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Extremities worn; light wear and soiling to cloth. Bookplates on front endpapers. Minor toning. About very good.

History of the regiments of Will County, Illinois, during the Civil War. Will County is located just south of Chicago; Joliet is its county seat. Includes a listing of the name and rank of all the soldiers in the regiments concerned. The regiments generally served in the Mississippi Valley, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. Over 500 men from the county died. $750.

181. Worsham, William Johnson, and Col. C.W. Heiskell: THE OLD NINETEENTH TENNESSEE REGIMENT, C.S.A. JUNE 1861 * APRIL 1865. BY DR. W.J. WORSHAM...SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER BY COL. C.W. HEISKELL.... Knoxville: Press of the Para- gon Printing Company, 1902. [4],[7]-235pp., including several in-text plans, plus fifteen portrait plates. Publisher’s cloth, stamped in black. Institutional bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on front pastedown. Printed captions to two portraits tipped in. Cloth lightly soiled and worn, bearing light abrasion from removal of library label at foot of spine. Overall very good.

Confederate regimental of the 19th Tennessee Infantry, containing historical and biographical sketches, company rosters, photographic portraits, and plans of battle sites. The “Old Nineteenth” was perhaps the most active of Tennessee regiments, fighting in every major battle and campaign of the Army of Tennessee except the Battle of Perryville. The author, who was made Chief Musician of the regiment, called his men into line from their first roll call in 1861 to their last in May, 1865. Colonel C.W. Heiskell provides a memoir of the war in a supplementary chapter. DORNBUSCH II:1021. HOWES W681. NEVINS I, p.183. $1350.