William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.reeseco.com Bulletin 28: The Civil War Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War: A Great Monument of American Photography 1. Gardner, Alexander: GARDNER’S PHOTO- GRAPHIC SKETCH BOOK OF THE WAR. Washington. [1865]. Two volumes. [53]; [53]pp. of text and 100 original albumen silver print photographs (each approximately 7 x 9 inches), each mounted on card within a lithographed frame with letterpress caption; each image accompanied by a page of letterpress description. Oblong folio. Original pub- lisher’s black morocco, tooled in gilt. Ownership ink stamp of Edward Weston on front flyleaf. Some minor scattered soiling. Very good. In half black morocco clamshell cases. Perhaps the most famous American photographically illustrated book, Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War contains 100 large format albumen photographs of some of the most graphic scenes of the Civil War. The photographs form an unequaled pictorial record of the war, spanning the length of the conflict, from the aftermath of action at Centerville and Manassas in 1862, to the dedication of the monument at Bull Run in June 1865. Gardner and his staff of photographers grimly documented the terrain of the battles (Bull Run, Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Gettysburg, etc.), encampments, headquarters of the troops, officers and enlisted men, soldiers in drill formation and in the field under fire, and the ruins and dead soldiers left in the countryside after the battles. $200,000. An Extremely Rare Battlefield Map: The Quartermaster General’s Copy 2. Lindenkohl, Adolph: Nicholson, W.L.: MOUNTAIN REGION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE. [Washington. 1863]. Single sheet, 21 x 39 inches; folded to 5½ x 4½ inches. Trimmed to the neatline; segmented and mounted on linen between original cardboard covers. Original title trimmed from top and pasted to front board. Roads highlighted in orange pencil. Minor wear and toning, one small separation at fold. Contemporary ownership inscription on verso. Very good. Map of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, printed for the use of the U.S. Army in the field. This copy was used during the Chattanooga Campaign by General Mont- Two key figures in the Coast Survey effort during the war gomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army. On were Henry Lindenkohl and his brother, Adolph, who were the verso of the map is penciled: “Gen. Meigs / Chattanooga / responsible for actually drawing many of the field maps. Born Dec. 1863.” Contemporary notations on the map note the dates on in Germany, the Lindenkohls emigrated to the U.S. as teenag- which Chattanooga and the surrounding ridges were captured, in ers and became American citizens. Together they made a huge November 1863, and blue Union flags dot the map from Knoxville contribution to the war effort through their superb cartographic south to Chattanooga, showing Union conquests and fortifica- work, and each devoted the remainder of his life to the Survey. tions. The circulation of these maps, which were made by the U.S. A fantastic Civil War association with contemporary annota- Coast Survey specifically for the war, was controlled, and only tions that bring the immediacy of the war to the foreground, on a officers with the rank of major or higher were supposed to control war map of great rarity. $9500. copies. As a result, they are rare today. Commission Signed by Lincoln and Stanton 3. Lincoln, Abraham: [PRINTED BROADSIDE, SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, APPOINTING ARTHUR B. CARPENTER 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. Carpen- ter to the rank of first lieutenant in the Nineteenth Regi- ment 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. Important Manuscript Archive of a Prominent Texan Opposed to Secession 4. Smyth, George Washington: [ARCHIVE OF PAPERS BELONGING TO TEXAS POLITICIAN GEORGE WASHINGTON SMYTH, WITH MATERIAL ON SECESSION AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION]. [Various locations in Texas]. 1860-1869. Various manuscripts, totaling [168]pp. (about 32,000 words). Some light wear and soiling. One letter with some loss to lower corner. Overall, very good. With the original leather portfolio, heavily worn. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A highly important archive of manuscripts by George Washington Smyth, spanning the Civil War period and almost entirely devoted to slavery and secession. It consists of four lengthy papers or speeches, several letters, a manuscript commonplace collection contain- ing excerpts from congressional speeches, and several manuscripts relating to Smyth’s son. The long papers, devoted to issues of the Constitution, States’ Rights, and secession, are of great interest. During the 1830s, Smyth (1803–66) served as a land surveyor, land commissioner, and the first judge of Bevil Municipality. He was elected to the Convention of 1836 and was ing a member of the Confederacy, Texas parted with no portion of her sovereignty, but one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Following the Revolution, merely changed the agent through whom she should exercise some of the powers apper- Smyth was appointed to the boundary commission by Texas President Mirabeau Lamar taining to it.’ I deny the truth of the proposition here enumerated, and allege; that in to determine the location of the Texas-Mexico border. He served one term in the U.S. becoming a member of the Union, Texas parted with her sovereignty to the full extent House of Representatives in 1853-55. Despite his opposition to secession, he remained embraced in the second clause of the sixth Article of the Constitution, but no further.” loyal to Texas during the war, and some of his sons served in the Confederate Army. He proceeds on a lengthy legal treatise (58pp., about 14,000 words) on the validity and The most significant manuscript in the papers is Smyth’s speech dated Wednesday, authority of the U.S. Constitution and the illegality of the secession of Texas. Texas July 4, 1860, in which he argues against the Democratic State Convention’s Galveston seceded on Feb. 1, 1861. platform of April 1860, which aimed at Texan secession from the Union: “In the second A full description of the archive is available on request. $15,000. resolution of the platform adopted at Galveston, we find this declaration. ‘That in becom- A Rare Civil War Army Map Made for Field Use 5. Lindenkohl, Henry: MILITARY MAP OF SOUTH-WESTERN VIRGINIA & NORTH CAROLINA. [Washington. 1865]. 30½ x 31¼ inches, folded to 5½ x 7¾ inches. Backed with linen and mounted between contem- porary marbled card covers, printed paper label. Light soiling and minor wear. Very good. One in a series of maps drawn by Henry Lin- denkohl for the U.S. Coast Survey. With the beginning of the Civil War the U.S. Army found itself scrambling to obtain adequate field maps for military operations in the South. The most established cartographic branch of the government, the Coast Survey, was pressed into service to provide these maps, some with a coastal component but mainly for landlocked locations. The cartographers of the Coast Sur- vey reviewed all of the existing cartography available, but also drew on military and scout- ing reports and covert agents to assemble the most detailed maps possible, including places, roads, railroads, and natural features. Brothers Henry and Adolph Lindenkohl made a huge contribution to the war effort through their superb cartographic work, pro- ducing and revising maps of different theatres of operations through 1865. $7500. Scenes in Baltimore 6. [Maryland]: [Baltimore]: [COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FOUR CIVIL WAR-ERA PICTORIAL ENVELOPES SHOWING MILITARY ENCAMPMENTS IN BALTIMORE]. [New York. ca. 1861–1865]. Twenty-four envelopes, approximately 3 x 5½ inches. A few envelopes with minor soiling or wear. Very good overall. Collection of twenty-four envelopes showing eight different locations in Baltimore, racks; five envelopes showing Fort Marshall; and three envelopes depicting the Battery Maryland, decorated with full lithographic and stencil color or metallic inks. The views at Stewart’s Place. The views are a combination of colored and uncolored. Though only illustrated are: one envelope showing the Washington Monument in Baltimore; two three are signed by Charles Magnus as publisher, Magnus published around 700 patriotic views of Fort McHenry; four illustrations of Belger Barracks; three envelopes showing envelopes during the Civil War, depicting various views and locales. Rare, ephemeral, Camp Chesebrough; two views of Fort Federal Hill; four illustrations of La Fayette Bar- and interesting. $2250. Loyal Kentuckians Attack the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s Actions as Unconstitutional in January 1863 7. [Kentucky]: DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN - TION [caption title]. [Frankfort? 1863]. Broadside, 12½ x 11 inches. Old fold lines. Minor foxing. Very good. A remarkable broadside, printing the resolutions of the 1863 Kentucky Democratic Party Convention, which convened to elect the governor and other state offi- cials, but which also herein prints resolutions declar- ing the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional. The resolution reads, in part: “. . . The history of the present administration of the Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, tend- ing directly to the overthrow of State authority and State institutions. . . .” The resolution then proceeds in a long list of grievances directed at President Lincoln, charging him with violating nearly every part of the Bill of Rights. It also states point blank: “consequently, the proposition made by Abraham Lincoln, for [Ken- tucky] to emancipate her slaves, is hereby rejected.” The Emancipation Proclamation only emancipated slaves in area in active rebellion against the U.S., and hence had no immediate impact on loyal residents of Kentucky. No one doubted, however, that its ultimate result would be the final abolition of slavery. Ironically, slaves in the border states of Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware had to wait the longest to be freed, by the 13th Amendment on Dec. 18, 1865. $8500. Goin’ Up the River to New Orleans 8. [Civil War Manuscript Map]: BOMBARDMENT OF FORTS JACKSON & ST. PHILIP [manuscript title]. [Louisiana. 1862?]. Manuscript 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 sissippi from the south and attacked forts Jackson and St. Philip beginning in mid-April, the Union Navy bombardment of forts Jackson and St. Philip on the lower Mississippi as depicted on this map. Porter’s mortars bombarded the forts for several days, and early River, days before Admiral David Farragut took the integral port of New Orleans. Most on the morning of April 24, Farragut’s fleet attempted to ram through the Confederate of the Confederacy’s defenses on the Mississippi were located north of New Orleans, blockades and past the forts. Farragut was successful, and arrived at New Orleans the with only forts Jackson and St. Philip defending the city from the south. In early 1862 a next day. This map appears to have been drawn by a Confederate sailor or soldier, and, Union fleet commanded by Farragut and supported by David Porter sailed up the Mis- though undated, seems to have been drawn shortly after the battle. $3500. An Important Archive of the Civil War on the Mississippi 9. Ross, Henry W.: [EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY QUARTERMASTER’S OFFICE, AS WELL AS PERSONAL LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS]. [Various places in Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi, and Louisiana]. 1861-1863. 135 manuscript documents and printed documents with manuscript accomplishment; approximately fifty letters and other documents (ca. [350]pp. total), plus three earlier copy books. Mostly quarto and folio. Some documents with a small tears at folds or edges, but generally in very good condition. A fine archive of documents relating to the Union Army Quartermaster’s Office, autograph letters signed, and diary entries, all written by Henry W. Ross of the 4th Wiscon- sin Volunteer Cavalry. The bulk of the archive consists of lists of stores, statements of transfer of stores, receipts for delivery of munitions and supplies, monthly returns of public animals, ordnance office property returns, returns from the office of Commissary General of Subsistence, and three brief account books. Henry W. Ross served as lieutenant and then captain in the 4th Wisconsin Volun- teers and Cavalry. His service took him to New Orleans where he witnessed the taking of that city by Farragut, to Vicksburg where a siege was laid, and then back to New Orleans where he served in the Quartermaster’s Office. He writes in a lively and articulate style, reporting news, rumors, and stories of life in camp and in the city of New Orleans. The archive is but they were not allowed the pleasure, fancy fighting not being the style down here.” rich with personal detail and humor, interspersed with news and details of the war. Several comments on slavery are also included in Ross’ letters, reflecting his views and Writing on April 29, 1862, he describes the surrender of New Orleans to Commodore those of others. On Oct. 26, 1862 he notes that “even many strong anti-slavery men from Farragut: “In the meantime Commodore Farigut [sic] sailed up to New Orleans & saw New England look at the Institution differently than they used to—not that the evils of the Mayor, who surrendered the city, asking 18 hours to arrange his terms of surrender slavery are any less than they supposed . . . but we are all getting better acquainted with which was granted. The commander of the forts also seeing that they were completely the ‘everlasting negro.’” surrounded & cut off & that the army was going to New Orleans independent of them A wonderful archive of correspondence and military documents, recording important surrendered unconditionally on the 28th inst. They had offered to surrender before if actions and events in the Union campaigns in the South. A full description is available they could be allowed to march out with their whole force, their rebel flag floating etc. upon request. $15,000. “Memo re Matter of Jeff Davis”: The Independent Counsel’s Fees 10. Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“RICH. H. DANA JR.”), FROM RICHARD H. DANA, Jr. TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER 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 Rich- ard 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 gen- eral for Massachusetts, a post he filled with distinction. “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 dropping all charges of high treason against Davis” (ANB), and his view prevailed: the indicted for treason in May 1866, but preparations dragged on amid constitutional con- prosecution was dropped, and Andrew Johnson’s amnesty on Christmas 1868 included cerns. The trial, finally set for late March 1868, was again postponed. The memorandum Davis. His position was unpopular, however, and it cost him politically later on. details Dana’s work on the indictments and his review of the evidence. “Dana proposed $5000. Rare Series of Civil War Chromolithographs by Winslow Homer 11. [Homer, Winslow]: [LIFE IN CAMP]. [Boston: 1864]. Twenty-four chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches. Tipped into two album leaves. Light foxing and soiling. Images quite clean and colors bright. Near fine. Winslow Homer’s second series of lithographs from his formative Civil War period, and terful innovator in printing technology, in 1863 he was young and unknown and full of a defining moment in his career as a printmaker. This series follows Homer’s seminal ideas of what might be marketable. Homer, gaining fame but unhappy with the crude dis- Campaign Sketches (1863) and furthers the artist’s talent for communicating the war tortions of his work in Harper’s Weekly, probably jumped at the chance to create graphic experience on an intimate and personal level. Like Homer’s previous Campaign Sketches, images in which he could control the medium. Prang and Homer decided to issue the Life Life in Camp was published by the energetic Boston lithographer, Louis Prang. Though in Camp series as a holiday gift item for 1864. The images were most commonly issued in Prang later became famous as the greatest chromolithographer in America and a mas- two twelve-card sets. $37,500. Superb Military Map of Southern Virginia 12. Lindenkohl, Adolph: MILITARY MAP OF SOUTH-EASTERN VIRGINIA. Washington. 1864. Map, 19 x 30½ inches. Printed in blue and black, matted. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. An important military map showing the area around Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, Brothers Henry and Adolph Lindenkohl made a huge contribution to the war effort all the way to the Chesapeake Bay, and including the Northern Neck and the country as through their superb cartographic work, producing and revising maps of different the- far south as Norfolk. Richmond has been ringed with concentric circles, printed in blue, atres of operations through 1865. spaced five miles apart to show the distance from the city. Compiled by the U.S. Coast By the time this was executed, Grant had pushed southward in the bitter fighting of Survey and dated June 1864, this is one of a series of maps drawn up by the Survey in the summer of 1864, and the noose had tightened around Richmond and Petersburg. their quest to provide accurate maps to commanders in the field. $3500. Wonderful Sketches of a Civil War Prison 13. [Civil War]: [Tennessee]: [TWO MANUSCRIPT SKETCHES OF A UNION PRISON IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, DRAWN BY A CONFEDERATE PRISONER]. [Nashville. ca. 1864]. 3pp. on two sheets. Folio. Light soiling. Tear to bottom of one sheet, remains of old tape repair. Very good. Interesting pen and ink drawings on lined paper showing two different views of the right hand shed is the scaffold for hanging guerillas.” The second drawing shows the grounds of the Union penitentiary at Nashville, Tennessee, with a note indicating they remainder of the prison grounds, with the walled yard on the left side. A Union officer were drawn by a Rebel prisoner. The first drawing has extensive manuscript notes has annotated the drawings, indicating where his mess and quarters are, as well as the extending to the back of the sheet. The text reads, in part: “This was drawn by a Rebel identity of some of the buildings. On the second drawing this note in manuscript: “The prisoner. This is the interior walls of the yard where we keep the Rebel prisoners; those man that drafted those is the name at the bottom of the page. He is quite an old man in you see are Rebels the man you see upon the wall is one of the sentinels. The large build- consequence of the extream age and frailty of the man I have allowed him to stay in my ing in the rear is the state prison we use for the officers in charge there being three of us. office.” $4000. The remainder we use for the night confinement. Those pines you see laying under the Famed Civil War Etchings 14. [Volck, Adelbert J.]: CONFEDERATE WAR ETCHINGS. [Philadelphia? 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 done in the 1880s; the label on the cover indicates that this is no. 69 of 100 copies printed. etchings, reissuing work that first appeared in the original first and second series issued The etchings vary between rather idealized southern scenes, such as Stonewall Jackson by subscription between 1861 and 1864. The first edition or series of Civil War etchings leading his men in prayer, to vicious and vitriolic attacks on the North (a white being by Volck, which contained thirty etchings, was suppressed because its content bordered sacrificed on an altar labeled “Negro Worship”). It is due to the inclusion of images such on treason. A second series was issued sometime after the first, but before the end of the as the latter one, that it is easy to see why they were deemed treasonable. The sketches war, bringing the total number of etchings to forty-five; however, all of these wartime are superbly executed and often reproduced in modern histories of the Civil War. issues are rare to the point of extinction, and none have appeared on the market in mod- $3000. ern times. This set is the reissue as described by Howes, generally thought to have been A Wartime Map of the Carolinas for the Use of Union Armies 15. [Civil War]: [North Carolina]: [South Carolina]: NORTH CAROLINA & SOUTH CAROLINA. [Washington]. 1865. Single sheet, 25 x 36 inches, folded to 5 x 7 inches. Map backed with linen and mounted in contemporary cardboard covers, printed paper label. Covers lightly worn at edges. Minor soiling. Very good. In a half morocco box. An important map of the Carolinas, probably issued at the beginning of 1865, for the the strategic military features of the Carolinas. The map was issued backed on linen and use of the Union armies. At this point various sections of the coast were held by the folded down to “Saddle Bag” size for easy transport and use in the field. Drawn by A. Union, and Sherman, who had reached Savannah at Christmas, 1864, was poised to Lindenkohl and lithographed by Charles G. Krebs, the map was issued by the U.S. Coast attack Charleston and Columbia. This highly detailed map, drawn from various sources Survey. Scarce. $9500. (including what seems to have been a manuscript map by Arnold Guyot), emphasizes A Slave Sale Broadside During the Civil War 16. [Slave Sale Broadside]: ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE! WILL BE SOLD, BEFORE THE COURT-HOUSE DOOR IN CALHOUN, GORDON COUNTY, GEO., . . . THE LAND & NEGROES BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF BRIAN GREER, DECEASED. [Atlanta]. Nov. 1, 1862. Broadside, 15½ x 10¾ inches. Old folds and wrinkles. Sheet tanned and a bit foxed, some wear at 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 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 Lin- coln’s order declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate states. 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. A Massive Pictorial Record of the War 17. [Civil War]: HARPER’S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION [Volumes 5–9]. New York. 1861–1865. Five volumes. Illus. Large, thick folio. Attractively bound in burgundy cloth, red leather label Occasional leaves with closed tears and/or edge wear. Overall very good. These volumes of Harper’s Weekly constitute a remarkable illustrated record of the Civil Lincoln’s assassination and funeral, and all the major battles. “The most popular periodi- War for the duration of the conflict, full of firsthand accounts of battles, political news, cal of its day and valuable for a study of any aspect of the war; the illustrations are unsur- and wonderful engravings and maps (some folding), nearly all relating to the war. Most passed”—Nevins. With much on the campaigns in Florida early in the war. famous among these are the many illustrations by Winslow Homer, who worked for the $6500. magazine in the first years of the war. Included is ample reporting of Sherman’s march, Trying to Evade the 14th Amendment in Georgia 18. [14th Amendment]: [Georgia]: [Supreme Court]: Jenkins, Charles J.: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE STATE OF GEORGIA AGAINST ULYSSES S. GRANT, GEORGE G. MEADE, THOMAS H. RUGER AND CHARLES F. ROCKWELL. BILL. [with:] [HANDWRITTEN SUMMONS AND TESTIMONY CERTIFYING THE BILL IS A TRUE COPY FROM THE CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT]. [with:] [TWO LETTERS WRITTEN BY GOV. CHARLES JENKINS CONCERNING THE CASE, TO GEN. THOMAS RUGER AND TO THE GENERALS NAMED IN THE CASE]. New York. 1868. 10pp. pamphlet plus two manuscript letters and two documents totaling [7]pp. Some old fold lines, minor soiling. Very good plus. In a half morocco box. A fascinating collection of Reconstruction documents, highlighting the protest felt by Southern states against the federal government. This remarkable archive illustrates the efforts of the elected governor of Georgia to evade, in 1867, the 14th Amendment by absconding with State funds, and later to seek relief from the Supreme Court by suing the Army generals charged with enforcing Reconstruction, particularly in Georgia. It includes printed and manuscript documents surrounding the case of The State of Georgia v. Ulysses S. Grant, et al., brought by Gov. Charles Jenkins of Georgia, including the original manuscript document serving Acting Georgia Gov. General Thomas Ruger in the case, a copy of the printed Supreme Court complaint annotated by Ruger, and letters from Jenkins to Ruger and to the four generals he named in the suit; all of these are Ruger’s copies. In 1867 the State of Georgia called for a constitutional convention in order to rewrite the state consti- tution to extend the right to vote to black males. The 14th Amendment, in the process of being ratified by the States, extended citizenship and the right to vote to all males twenty-one or older, and the Recon- struction legislature of Georgia intended to recognize this. Gov. Jenkins, an outspoken opponent of the 14th Amendment who had tried to persuade the Supreme Court to issue an injunction against the Recon- struction Act, was ordered by Gen. George Meade—then mil- itary commander of Georgia— to pay $40,000 from the state coffers to fund the convention. Jenkins refused, and both he and state treasurer John Jones were removed from office by Meade. Both men fled the state and took with them $400,000 from the state trea- sury, which they deposited in a bank in New York. Believing he was wrongly and illegally ousted, Jenkins filed a bill with the U.S. Supreme Court in the name of the State of Georgia against Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade, Thomas H. Ruger, and Charles F. Rockwell, alleging that they had illegally seized not only the Governor’s office, but a “valuable railroad beginning in Atlanta . . . which was laid out and built entirely by the complainant,” as well as other state property. $8500. A Remarkable Union Army Field Map, Printed for Sherman’s Operations in Georgia 19. Merrill, William E.: [Georgia]: MAP OF NORTHERN GEORGIA, MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPT. W.E. MERRILL. . . . Chattanooga. May 2, 1864. Lithographed map, 39 x 35¼ inches, mounted in twenty-four sections on linen; folded to 10½ x 7 inches. Original card covers, printed paper label. Covers moderately worn. Light foxing and wear. Very good. In a folding morocco box. As soon as Chattanooga was taken, Sherman’s chief topographical engineer, Capt. William E. Merrill, “the most innovative and conscientious exponent of mapping during the Civil War,” began to compile a map of north- west Georgia. Merrill had his own complete establish- ment for map production: a printing press, lithographic presses, and draftsmen. Equally important, Merrill’s assistant, Sgt. N. Finnegan, developed an extraordinary body of intelligence, drawing on spies, prisoners, refu- gees, peddlers, itinerant preachers, and scouts—what Merrill called “his motley crew.” 200 copies were pro- duced, mounted on linen for field use, and distributed to field commanders down to the brigade level. In five months Merrill and his men had produced a remarkably accurate map—the best ever made—of country that lay mostly behind enemy lines. The Merrill map was a criti- cal aid to Sherman’s campaigns in Georgia. Conveying the latest in Union military intelligence and combining new and existing information, it would have guided Sherman and his officers through eight months of the hardest-fought campaigning of the entire Civil War. A triumph of coordinated intelligence and map-making, it is one of the most remarkable cartographic productions of the Civil War. Indeed, it might be called the “Holster Atlas” of the Georgia campaign. $25,000. Prang’s Magnificent Civil War Series 20. Prang, Louis: [COMPLETE SET OF EIGHTEEN CIVIL WAR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS SHOWING SCENES OF THE WAR]. Boston. 1886. Eighteen chromolithographs, individually matted, each approximately 14¾ x 21½ inches. Without the published text. Very good. In a brown cloth clamshell case, gilt morocco label. Specifically designed with war veterans and their descendants in mind, Prang com- War lithographs are some of the most interesting pictures of the Civil War. They have missioned and published these chromolithographs to considerable popular success. been neglected for so many years that there are not a great number in circulation and The images, which depict some of the most famous battles of the war, ignited a wave these are not usually found in good condition. It is not known how many of the chromos of nostalgia and patriotism across the country. They are among the Civil War images were printed but there must have been many thousands. Today they are ranked high with most often reproduced in modern times to illustrate the war. They were displayed at the collectors of Civil War memorabilia”—McClinton. A beautiful suite of prints, memori- World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, to wide acclaim. “These Prang Civil alizing the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history. $27,500. Detailed Field Map for the Union Army in Northern Mississippi and Alabama 21. Lindenkohl, Adolph: NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA. [Washington]. 1864. Single sheet, 25 x 34 inches. Old fold lines; some wear and minor loss at folds, neatly reinforced and repaired with tissue on verso. A few small tears at edges, minor soiling. Very good. A highly detailed map of the northern half of Mississippi and Alabama, showing the into service to provide these maps, some with a coastal component, but mainly for land- border with Tennessee and all points south to Vicksburg and Montgomery, produced locked locations. to support the operations of the Union Army there in 1864. This is one of several maps Brothers Henry and Adolph Lindenkohl made a huge contribution to the war effort compiled by the U.S. Coast Survey in an attempt to adequately map the South during through their superb cartographic work, producing and revising maps of different the- the Civil War for military purposes. At a loss for adequate field maps during the war, the atres of operations through 1865. $5500. most established cartographic branch of the government, the Coast Survey, was pressed Landmark Color Plate Medical Work 22. [Barnes, Joseph K., editor]: THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HISTORY Second issue of the first part, and first issue of the second and third parts. “The horrors of OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. . . . Washington. 1875–1888. Six volumes. the Civil War provided surgeons with a multitude of complicated cases. This vast work, Illustrated with dozens of plates, many of which are fine chromolithographs of in six bulky volumes, attempted to quantify the medical knowledge so painfully gained, Civil War wounds. Thick, heavy quarto. Original green cloth, spines gilt. Bindings extensively illustrating case histories with chromolithographic plates. The set marked edgeworn, spine ends frayed. Hinges weak on most volumes, rear hinge broken on the first major government subsidy in publishing medical research, the only such official Medical volume of first part and front hinge broken on Medical volume of third part. study to rival the expenditure made for exploration surveys of the era”—Reese. Barnes Generally clean internally. A good set. was surgeon general. A landmark in medical illustration. $2500. Letter from the “Angel of the Battlefields” 23. 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 Lin- coln 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). The eighty-eight-year-old replies, praising the volume: “Again, that book should not be holden by the ‘Likes a one’, a mere lightening [sic] 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.” 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. Incredible Civil War Map of Virginia, Produced by the Corps of Topographical Engineers for Use by Union Officers in the Field 24. [Civil War]: [Whipple, Amiel W.]: COPY OF AN UNFINISHED MAP OF A PORTION OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF NORTH EASTERN VIRGINIA AND FORT MONROE COMPILED IN THE BUREAU OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS WAR DEPARTMENT FROM THE BEST AND LATEST AUTHORITIES. . . . Washington. August 1861. Sun printed (i.e. photozincographed) map after the original manuscript, routes of railroads, and canals handcolored, 44 x 51½ inches, dissected into twenty-four sections and linen-backed as issued. Manuscript annotations in pencil [by J.J. Young?]. In a blue morocco-backed box. Provenance: Family descendants of Amiel Weeks Whipple. A rare and important map of Virginia, produced early in the Civil War. A statement on the map cites the U.S. Coast surveys and the Boye map of Virginia as sources, in addition to surveys conducted by the Corps of Topo- graphical Engineers. Although not named as the car- tographer, the present map can be attributed to Amiel Weeks Whipple. During the 1850s, Whipple became one of the most accomplished surveyors in the Corps of Top- ographical Engineers, leading explorations for the trans- continental railroad. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Whipple was immediately ordered to report to the Chief of Topographical Engineers in Washington. This map was completed within a month of the first major battle of the war, the Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861. That this map was done specifically for use in the field is suggested by the hurried process thin sheet coated with a saturated potassium bichromate solution and transferred to a of its production. Rather than taking the time to have the map lithographed or engraved, zinc plate, coated in ink and put through a press. a sun print process was used to duplicate the original manuscript. Sun prints, also called The present copy descended in the family of Whipple and includes a manuscript pre- photozincography, were developed in Great Britain in the mid-19th century to reproduce sentation below the cartouche: “To accompany letter to / dated Bureau of Topogl. Eng.s maps created during the Ordnance Survey. In this photographic process a negative is Augt 1861.” The name of the recipient is not filled in, suggesting that Whipple kept this made of the original using a wet plate collodion method, which is then exposed onto a copy for himself. $17,500. A Set of War Department General Orders, 1861–63, with the Emancipation Proclamation 25. [Civil War]: [Lincoln, Abraham]: [COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 400 GENERAL ORDERS FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT DURING THE CIVIL WAR, INCLUDING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL GENERAL ORDERS FROM THE NAVY DEPARTMENT]. Washington. 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 Jan. 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 Jan. 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, promo- tions, casualties, and pay; provisioning and supplying; the formation of military departments; courts-martial; and army medical directives. Several orders from the navy are also represented, including one abolishing forever the naval ration of spirituous liquors. $5000. A Confederate Map Printed in Richmond 26. Paterson, James T.: KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. Richmond. [ca. 1863]. Map, 18½ x 23½ inches. Old folds. Some light soiling and wear. A few small tears at edges, minor separation at some folds. About very good. A rare map of Kentucky and Tennessee, published in Confederate Virginia. The map Paterson appear in Parrish & Willingham, this map is not recorded in that bibliography. shows the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as the southern border regions OCLC locates only one copy, at the University of North Carolina. Old fold lines would of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and the northern border areas of Georgia and Alabama. seem to indicate that this map may have been issued as a folding map, though no covers Three inset vignettes show the Confederate Navy yard at Memphis, the Entrance to or wrappers are present. Rare and interesting. $4000. Mammoth Cave, and the State House in Nashville. Though several other maps by James A Manuscript Map of Nashville During the Civil War 27. [Civil War]: [Tennessee]: [MANUSCRIPT MAP OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, DRAWN BY A UNION SOLDIER]. [Np, but likely Nashville. ca. 1862]. 13½ x 16 inches, framed to 19 x 23 inches. Old fold lines. Some loss to upper edge, affecting two words of title. Two tears on left side repaired with older tape. Small loss to lower edge and left side, not affecting image. Light foxing and soiling. Very good. Handsome map of Nashville drawn by a Union soldier, show- ing the Cumberland River at the bottom of the sheet, with the city rising above it. The text at the top reads: “Sketch of Central portion of Nashville, Ten.—the shaded part shows the business portion of the City—Popula- tion about 30,000. Capitol is over 100 feet above the River at High Water—& at low water 50 feet more.” A further note at the bot- tom of the sheet indicates that the artist came to town by riverboat: “The Princess landed us at point marked A, Feb. 27 1862.” Nashville fell to the Union in February 1862 and General buildings, including “Rebel Qrmaster,” “Buell’s HdQrs,” “Top’ Engr’ HdQrs,” the Buell set up his headquarters there, which is indicated on the map. The carefully inked Polk house and the tomb of James K. Polk, “Jno. Bell’s,” a restaurant, and a “Big Hotel grid shows the city streets, squares, and important buildings—the city hall, state capi- unfinished” at the corner of Church and Cherry streets. The Cumberland River has been tol, courthouse, post office, and railroad depot are all labeled. Likewise, several other colored in blue watercolor. A striking and evocative map. $6000. One of the Greatest Graphic Representations of the Civil War 28. Forbes, Edwin: LIFE STUDIES OF THE GREAT ARMY. New York. 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 cam- his original drawings (which were mainly pen and ink wash). The forty plates contain paigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Although Forbes portrays battle scenes, fifty-nine scenes, since some plates have two or three scenes, and one has five. A table of he was much more interested in depicting the everyday life of the private soldier in camp contents appears on the inside of the front board, while each plate has a more lengthy tex- and on the march. Typically, his scenes include such topics as “Washing Day,” the camp tual gloss as well. The front board proclaims that the publication was sold “to subscribers cook, vendors of supplies to soldiers, picket duty, and other incidents of camp life. A only.” It divides the plates into ten parts, so it would seem that the publication was issued number of other illustrations show life on the march, fording streams, the supply train, over a period of time, although all plates are dated 1876. $4000. and the like. All of the plates are etchings, evidently executed by Forbes himself from A Remarkable Archive of the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, with Original Manuscript Notes of One of the Participants 29. [Civil War]: [Hampton Roads Peace Conference]: [Campbell, John A.]: [ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE HAMPTON ROADS PEACE CONFERENCE, AT WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOUGHT AN END TO THE CIVIL WAR IN EARLY FEBRUARY 1865]. [Various places in Virginia, and Washington, D.C. January–February, 1865]. Eleven manuscript items totaling some [28]pp., plus additional printed items. One item with some closed tears along splits, repaired in a few instances. Some very minor wear, but on the whole in near fine condition. In a cloth slipcase, gilt morocco labels. A significant group of letters and other documents relating to the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, a confiden- tial meeting between Abraham Lincoln and Confederate leaders, held on board a steamship in Hampton Roads, Virginia on Feb. 3, 1865. The documents in this collec- The U.S. was represented at the Conference by President Lincoln and Secretary of tion describe the genesis and proceedings of the conference, adding depth to our knowl- State William Seward, while the Confederate States of America were represented by edge of this significant instance of Civil War diplomatic negotiations. Especially impor- Vice President Alexander Stephens, former Confederate Secretary of State and current tant is the lengthy memorandum of Confederate negotiator John A. Campbell, giving a Virginia Senator Robert M.T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell, firsthand report on the proceedings of the conference. Campbell’s account is particularly who had formerly been an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. By the winter valuable since it was agreed that the conference would be informal, and that there would of 1864–65 many in the North and the South longed for peace, but the conference was be no formal notes of the proceedings. Also of importance are the letters showing the doomed to failure by Lincoln’s refusal to treat with the Confederate States of America as roles played by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in literally bringing the two sides together, and a sovereign nation, and by the Confederacy’s refusal to negotiate with the U.S. on any by Major Thomas Eckert (head of the Telegraph Office in the War Department) as Lin- other basis. coln’s personal emissary to the Confederate Commissioners. A detailed inventory is available on request. $100,000. The Elephant and the Donkey 30. [Civil War]: JEFF. SEES THE ELEPHANT [caption title]. Hartford. [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 graphically clever designs are very different from those published by other American likely the first instance in which an elephant and a donkey were used to symbolize com- lithographers during the war. The Kellogg prints are today quite rare, but they are well peting political entities in the U.S. The phrase “seeing the elephant” gained popularity worth bringing into the limelight”—Lane. Lane notes a total of nine recorded Civil War during the Gold Rush and meant “seeing it all.” In this instance, Jefferson Davis and the cartoons issued by the Kelloggs, all of them incorporating animals into the image. Not in Confederacy see the full array of Union might. Though the Kelloggs share the imprint Reilly’s catalogue of American political prints in the Library of Congress. Not in Nelly, with George Whiting of New York, the print is very clearly the work of the Kellogg Holzer and Boritt’s studies of prints depicting the Union and the Confederacy. OCLC brothers. “During the war, [the Kelloggs] produced a series of remarkable prints that locates only a single copy, at the American Antiquarian Society. $3500. have received little attention. These colorful cartoons with delightful animal figures in Manuscript Civil War Map of Vicksburg Near the End of the Siege, 1863 31. [Civil War]: Workman, James T.: MAP OF VICKSBURG AND VICINITY [manuscript title]. [Np. nd, but ca. 1863]. Manuscript map, 14 x 19 inches. Old folds. Some small loss at folds, evidence of older repairs present. Minor soiling. About very good. Framed. Manuscript map of the bat- tlefield at Vicksburg and the camp of the 114th Illinois Infantry as of June 18, 1863, drawn by Lieut. James T. Workman, a member of the regiment. The map indicates the movements of armies and skirmishes, including where Sherman’s corps crossed the Big Black River on May 18, 1863, and both Sherman and McPherson’s route to Mill Springs. In the lower right corner Work- man notes the flags indicate where battles were fought. Sites include Jackson, Ray- mond and “Bayou.” In the lower left corner he notes: “The 114th Ills. left Duck Pt May 2nd, 1863 and marches as the figures denote; performing a march of 200 miles in 17 May 19th to 31st, losing in killed and wounded 16 men. The figures will show the present days and in the mean time was engaged in the Battle of Jackson and destroyed 10 miles Camp of the 114th, June 18th.” Two weeks later the Confederate forces at Vicksburg sur- of R. Road. The Regt. was engaged in front of the rebels works around V[icksbur]g from rendered, on July 4, 1863. A handsome and detailed map. $7500. The Confederate Constitution in Its Final Draft 32. [Confederate Constitution]: CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA [caption title]. [Montgomery, Al. March 9, 1861]. 29 galley proof leaves measuring 14 x 8½ inches, printed on recto only. Several instances of manuscript corrections. String-tied at top edge. Minor edge wear, a bit of light soiling on the first and final leaves. Horizontal fold. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt. As in 1787, when the original thirteen states wove themselves into the United States through a constitution, the South wove itself into a Confederacy by creating their own constitution. The present document is the final draft of the permanent Confederate Con- stitution, finalized by the drafting committee on March 9, 1861 and approved by the Provisional Congress two days later. It is one of “100 copies ordered to be printed” of the final draft of the Confederate Constitution, printed for the use of the Committee on Constitution, with lines numbered and spaces added between lines to facilitate editing. As such, the present copy contains numerous manuscript corrections and additions. It is a striking document in its similarities to—and differences from—the United States Constitution, a subject that has been much studied by recent scholarship. In fact, the goal of the Confederate Congress was to create a document that took the best parts of the Federal Constitution, but tried to eliminate its perceived weaknesses. Several of the provisions of the federal Bill of Rights were also incorporated into the Confederate Con- stitution, including the right to keep and bear arms, protection from unreasonable search and seizure, the right to trial by jury and against excessive bail, etc. Of the present final draft of the Confederate Constitution, only five copies are known. The great expert on Confederate imprints, Richard Harwell, wrote: “The Constitution of the new government is an inevitable selection for . . . Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting. It is the truly representative document of the deliberations at Montgomery and a succinct demonstration of the political faith of the South in 1861, significant not only for its devia- tions from the old Constitution but also for its general adherence to it.” $175,000.

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