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.