![Item #44821 [Autograph Letter Signed] From a Union Soldier Stationed at Seneca Creek in the Fall...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44821.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677606605)
Seneca Creek, [MD]: 1862. [4] pp. Bifolium. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. October 13th, 1862, from "Charley", who tells his father about what his life has been like in Seneca Creek, Maryland, where he expects his Company will be stationed for some time. The previous Friday, they had marched to Edwards..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Garnett Bowditch Adrain (1815-1878) was a New Brunswick attorney who served two terms in Congress from 1857 to 1861. Here, in opposing the Buchanan administration's candidate for Speaker of the House, T. S. Bocock of Virginia..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1860. 8 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy. Sabin 912. LCP. Afro-Americana 252. More
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers; Anson D.F. Randolph, 1863. 16 pp.; 16 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. Later printing & first edition. This issue of Loyal Publication Society, No. 17 is one of three variants. Good copies, 17 with detached and chipped front wrapper; 13 lacking its..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1874. 23 pp.; 43 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. 43d Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. 229, including part 2. OCLC locates 6 print copies of part 1 and 1 of part 2. Very good copies with light soiling; first..... More
[Philadelphia]: n.p., 1899. 10 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy. "Read before the American Philosophical Society, October 20, 1899." Institutional stamp on first leaf, gift slip tipped into rear wrapper, from Henry Carey Baird, March 14, 1900. Alexander Williams Biddle (1819-1899), grandson Clement Biddle, was an officer in..... More
![Item #44400 [ALS] Capt. of USS Sloop Pawnee Instructs Sailor to See to those leaving the Service...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44400.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1644607687)
Port Royal, [SC]: 1864. [1] pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Letter instructs the officer Geo L? to "...tak[e] charge of the detachment of men whose terms of service have expired, transfer them for passage North in the USS Vermont. You will also report your arrival to to Capt Wm..... More
Washington, D.C. Union Congressional Committee, 1864. 15 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Abridgement of edition published by D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1864. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, soiling on wrappers, edgeworn, with mail fold. Sabin 3483n. More
![Item #44593 [Autograph Letter Signed] Civil War Soldier Writes to His Brother From the Trenches...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44593.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677606603)
VA: 1864. [3] pp. Bifolium. 7 x 4.5 inches. Dated July 9th, 1864. O.D.P. [no name given] writes to his brother, Albert, beginning "In the Trenches Near The Appomattox River" telling him of the woes of keeping paper and stamps handy; and joking about his inability to swim, "Tell Frank..... More
n.p. n.p., 1856. 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Philemon Bliss (1813-1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, a Missouri Supreme Court justice, and later Dean of the Law School for the University of Missouri. Here he demolishes quite adroitly, the..... More
Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1875. 23 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. More
Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1866. 7 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, lower edge worn, mail fold. More
n.p. n.p., [1913]. 12 pp. Illus. with 9 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. String-tied paper wrappers. First edition. Edwin Franklin Brown (1823-1902) served in the civil war and was later in charge of soldier's homes nationwide. A fine copy. More
Hartford: J.R. Hawley & Co., State Printers, 1861. 18 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. William A. Buckingham (1804-1875) won the election as governor in 1860, narrowly defeating Thomas Seymour. "The New Haven Register" expressed the concern of the Republicans and abolitionists when it declared "A nation is waiting in..... More
Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1856. 7 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Edges worn else very good. Sabin 9065n. LCP. Afro-Americana 1789. Dumond p. 33. More
Washington [D.C.]: John H. Cunningham, Printer, 1874. 48 pp. 8vo. Stitched. First edition. Contested elections in Louisiana. A very good unopened copy, wrappers soiled, mail fold. More
![Item #44625 [Autograph Document Signed] Report of Board of Inspection Pursuant to Special Orders...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44625.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677604868)
City Point, VA: 1864. [3 pp.]. Bifolium. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. On June 18, 1864, Grant ordered Brevet Major General Rufus Ingalls, his Chief Quarter-master General of the Army of the Potomac, to prepare a massive supply depot at City Point, Virginia, just 20 miles from Richmond, capable of supporting..... More
![Item #46101 [Archive] Large Collection of Letters Pertaining to the Civil War Round Table of New...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682089752)
New York; Northridge, CA: 1950-1972. 52 items. Mostly 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Mostly typed letters signed by radio broadcasting pioneer and First president of Broadcast Music Inc, (BMI) Carl Haverlin (1899-1985), who was also a renowned authority on Abraham Lincoln & the Civil War, the majority concerning the Civil..... More
Springfield: Daily State Register Job Print, 1868. 25 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy. Inscribed on front wrapper "Compl. of plaintiff." President Lincoln signed into law a temporary income tax to help finance the Civil War. William Springer, an Illinois lawyer, refused to pay on earnings from..... More
![Item #45858 Poll-Book October Election. Companies [wrapper title] [for Company H, of the Two...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1682089731)
[Pennsylvania?]: 1864. 16 pp. 16 x 12 inches. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. "Poll-book of the election, held on the Second Tuesday of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty four by the qualified electors of Lancaster County State of Pennsylvania, being in actual Military Service, under..... More
![Item #31861 Circular[s]: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31861.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1643740982)
[St. Paul]: [Commandery of the State of Minnesota], 1885-1922. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, begun in Philadelphia in 1865, was modeled on the Society of the Cincinnati, and formed to protect the republic amid rumors of a plot to destroy..... More
![Item #44302 [Print] The Spirit of the Union. Lo! on high the glorious form, of Washington lights...](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44302.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1644607686)
[New York]: E. Dechaux, [1860]. 32 x 22.5 cm. image and text on 35 x 25 cm. sheet. Hand-colored Lithograph. 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inch sheet. Portrait of George Washington suspended in the clouds, with Capital buildings in the background above, and his grave and Mt. Vernon at the..... More
[Philadelphia]: Ringwalt & Brown, Printers, n.d. [circa 1863]. 8 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Anonymous piece calling for national unity especially in Pennsylvania. OCLC locates ten copies. Not at AAS. A very good copy with sunned wrappers. Sabin 42566. Samuel J. May Anti-slavery Collection: 34907118. More
[Washington, D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1858. 99 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. 35th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 85. Four page introduction followed by Claiborne's report. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean fresh copy. More
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p. [Buell & Blanchard], 1860. 15 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. A response to Albert G. Brown's speech: Protection to Slave Property in the Territories. Not in Blockson, Work, Dumond, or LCP. Afro-Americana. Removed from a large volume else a very good copy. Sabin 13266n. More