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 1861 HANDBOOK FOR THE WAR.
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3/8" x 4 5/8". Original wraps. 24pp. Wholesale Office, Boston 1861.
Illustrated front cover. " Describing the military terms in use in the
United States service and giving a list of the forts and ships belonging to the
United States, together with a particular description of the more important
ones". Light crease on front cover, 1" separation along spine,
o/w fine. (Cw.401); $125.
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 NEW
YORK ZOAUVE. Cdv photograph, 4" x 2 1/2". Full standing view
of Civil War Zoauve. O.A. Hollenbeck, photographer, Oneida, N.Y. backmark. The
t/l tip (1/16") of the image is missing, o/w a fine view, w/ vg tonality
and contrast. (Cw.31); $650.
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QUANTRILL RAID ON LAWRENCE. Lot of (2) includes: New York Daily
Tribune, Aug 22, 1863. 8pp complete. 1/2 col headline "Rebel Vandalism in
Kansas. From bound volume (spine show where it was sewn), paper exhibits some
light foxing, moderate soiling along edge,o/w G. Also included is the Sept
5, 1863 Harper's Weekly with an account and full page woodcut of the destruction
of Lawrence by Quantrill. Other woodcut's include centerfold of the bombardment
of Ft. Wagner and Sumter in Charleston Harbor. (Cw. 714). $185.
In a ferocious assault on the pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas, in 1863,
William Quantrill's Confederate guerilla's- Frank James among them- slaughtered
150 civilian men and boys, set homes abaze, then got drunk amid the ruins. The
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 SHERMAN'S
LETTER TO ATLANTA. Carte de visite. 4' x 2 3/8". Very unusual cdv
of the text of General Sherman's letter to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta,
refusing to allow the women and children to remain in the city. Also has inset
photo of Sherman. though very small, all text is legible. Published by Daguerre
Manufa. Co., N.Y. VG+ cond. (Cw.45); $pending
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 HIGGINSON. THOMAS WENTWORTH.
Carte de visite. 4 1/4" x 2 1/2". Prior to the war, was a pastor,
author , and an outspoken opponent of slavery. During the war, he became captain
of the 51st Mass regt, and later made colonel of the 1st South Carolina
volunteers (later called the 33rd U.S. Colored troops), the first regiment of
freed slaves mustered into national service. Post war, clean sharp waist up
view; Warrens's , Mass photographer's bakmark. (Cw.06); $165.
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 ROBERT
E. LEE'S RESIDENCE. From Brady's Album Gallery No. 384
paste on label on verso. 1862 copyright by Barnard and Gibson. Image Fine, small
portion of back label skinned with loss of LL in gallery.(Cw.68)$225.
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 LASHED
TO THE MAST- FARRAGUT.
Sheet music. 13 " x 10 ". 7pp. 1867 . A scarce title,
however exhibits moderate to heavy foxing and staining, split spine, o/w
Gd complete. (Cw.555); $65.
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 McCLELLAN,
GEORGE B. Carte
de visite.4"
x 2 3/8". Scarce cdv of McClellan and staff. An able administrator, a good
organizer, and a popular leader, George B. McClellan had one flaw that ruined
his career as a general. He was reluctant to fight.
Ran
for president in
the election of 1864, lost as he carried only three states--New Jersey,
Kentucky, and Delaware. 1862 Brady copyright on bottom of mount; Anthony/ Brady
backmark. Very slight staining above and below image, else Vg-f.(Cw.13);
$295.
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One
of the big problems on the home front was the large group of Northerners who
opposed the war. These copperheads, as they were called, organized secret
societies such as the Knights of the Golden Circle. Certainly the most prominent
of these men was , Clement Laird
Vallandigham. They sought
to embarrass the government by discouraging enlistments, opposing the draft, and
even helping Confederate prisoners to escape. Copperheads became influential in
the Democratic party and in the elections of 1862 scored important victories in
Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.
Clement Vallandigham was born in Ohio, 1820. and was a member of
the state legislature before being elected to the United States House of
Representatives, where he served from 1857 to 1863. Vallandigham was a prominent
member of the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, a group of Northerners who
opposed the American Civil War. He also became commander of the secret, antiwar
organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. In 1863
Vallandigham was arrested and convicted of harboring treasonable sentiments. He
was banished by Lincoln to the Confederacy but returned to Ohio in 1864.
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 VALLANDIGHAM,
CLEMENT LAIRD. Carte de visite. 4" x 2 3/8". C.D. Fredricks,
N.Y. backamark. slight soiling, corners clipped, else VG.
(Cw.80)$120.
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A
LIFE OF CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM. Vallandigham, James L.
Turnbull
Brothers Baltimore 1872 1st 8vo G/- NDJ. Original leather boards show
wear,, respined. 573pp, Steel engraving frontispc of Vallandigham. Written by
his brother, a hard to come by title, overall a good tight volume.
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 WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK.
Stereoview. Yellow mount, 3 1/4" x 7". E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Prominent Portraits. No. 2106 Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. Scarce
stereo, however exhibits foxing and moderate soiling and wear. Small paper
affixed to bottom right of mount with manuscript . (Cw.85); $250.
After the resignation of Darius N. Couch, May 22, 1863, Hancock assumed
command of the II Corps. July 1, 1863, Hancock and his II Corps were in Maryland
when Major General George Gordon Meade, now commanding the Army of the Potomac,
sent Hancock to Gettysburg to take command of the field. At 3:30 PM, on July 1,
1863, Hancock arrived at East Cemetery Hill, just outside of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania and went to work establishing the Union battle line that would be
known as the "Fish Hook." Over the next two days, Winfield Scott
Hancock would play a significant role in the fighting at Gettysburg. On the
third day, General Meade placed Hancock in command of the I and III Corps along
with his own II Corps. Hancock was now commanding three fifths of the Army of
the Potomac at Gettysburg. During the famed Pickett's Charge Hancock was
severely wounded (a wound that would bother him the rest of his life). The
Battle of Gettysburg was over and the Union victory would prove to be the result
of the leadership of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. Three years later on
April 21, 1866, Hancock would receive the thanks of Congress for his "skill
and heroic valor" during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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 GOVERNEUR WARREN.
Stereoview. Yellow
mount, 3 1/4" x 7". E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Prominent
Portraits. No. 2185? Major General Governeur K. Warren. Scarce stereo, however
exhibits foxing and moderate soiling and wear. Small paper affixed to bottom
right of mount with manuscript td. (Cw.84); $250.
Promoted to brigadier general on September 26, 1862, he served as chief
engineer of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg. Although he did not command
troops at Gettysburg, his advice to Maj. Gen. George Sykes' corps is credited
with having helped divert disaster for the Union. Warren was promoted to major
general to rank from May 3, 1863, and later led the V Corps in the Overland
Campaign of 1864.
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 THE
CHILDREN OF THE BATTLE FIELD. Sheet music, 13 1/4" x 10 1/4"
55 pp complete. Illustrated lithograph cover of the orphaned children of Amos
Humison of the 154th N.Y. Volunteers. Full story on the first page of how ,
after the Battle of Gettysburg, a dead soldier was found on the battlefield
holding an ambrotype of three children. The soldier's name was a mystery; and
copies of the photograph was circulated on hopes of locating the family, and in
the same time, sales of the photograph would aid in the support and education of
those children. After some time, the widow was indeed found. The net
proceeds of this music were also reserved for the support of the
children. A scarce and desirable item, overall fine cond. (Cw.503);
$245.
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During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate armies were modeled
similarly , that of state volunteer militia units organized around a body of
regulars from the U.S. Army. After the enthusiasm for war on both sides
wore off after the bloody campaigns of 1861 and 1862,, the states
attempted to keep their original regiments up to strength and to create new
units by offering bounties . When neither voluntary enlistment (nor the
state compulsory service) produced the number of men needed, both the North and
the South resorted to a federal draft. The southern Congress enacted a draft in
1862. The U.S. Congress passed a militia law that same year and started a draft
the next year through the Enrollment Act of 1863. Voluntary enlistments
were credited against the district quotas, with selection of the remainder by
lot. The federal system continued the policy of being able to hiring a
substitute or paying fees instead of service. Resentment against the economic
imbalance of the state system raged into violence when those inequities were
continued and expanded under the federal draft. Bitter opposition to the draft
continued through the rest of the war.
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 NEW
YORK STATE BOUNTY BOND. 6 3/4" x 11 3/4" 1865 Civil War
State of New York $1000 Bond. "Payment Of Bounties To
Volunteers." Features the raised seal of the Comptroller's Office of The
State Of New York, along with a beautifully done vignette of lady liberty, with
soaring eagle over her shoulder. Very Good to condition, slash cancelled marks.
(Cw.218); $95.
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 ESSEX
COUNTY VOLUNTEER WAR BOND. 9
1/2" x 7 3/4 two page (bi-fold) bond for the town of Newcomb to raise funds
for the payment for bounties. Fine cond. (Cw. 429); $165.
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One of my favorite avenues of collecting the Civil War is the music it
produced, and more specifically the sheet music, in which numerous covers were
graced with stone lithographs. In his 1966 classic Lincoln and
the Music of the Civil War, Kenneth A. Bernard calls the War Between the
States a musical war. "In camp and hospital they sang -- sentimental
songs and ballads, comic songs and patriotic numbers....The songs were better
than rations or medicine." By Bernard's count, "...during the first
year [of the war] alone, an estimated two thousand compositions were produced,
and by the end of the war more music had been created, played, and sung than
during all our other wars combined. More of the music of the era has endured
than from any other period in our history." For more of the music of the
Civil war, visit the web site for music history of the Civil
War Preservation Trust.
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 MARCH
OF THE 41ST REGIMENT- ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC.
13 " x 10 1/4". 5pp. 1862. Good stone litho of Colonel
Chickering of the 41st Mass Volunteers. it. Trimmed on bottom affecting
copyright notice, from bound volume show binding marks along spine, o/w Fine complete.
(Cw.512); $125.
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 GEN. BIDWELL ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC.
13 1/2" x 10 1/4". 5pp. 1864. "Funeral March. To the Memory of
the lamented General D. Bidwell". Nice waist up stone litho portrait. Small
stain on the left margin, from bound volume show binding marks along spine, o/w
VG complete. (Cw.509); $125.
Bidwell was commissioned colonel of the 48th N. Y. infantry, served with it
through the Peninsular campaign, and during the Seven Days, battles was in
command of a brigade, continuing in charge from Harrison's landing to Washington
and up to the time of the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, when he
resumed command of his regiment. Col. Bidwell took a prominent part in the
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, commanded a brigade at
Gettysburg, and when Gen. Grant took command of the armies in Virginia was again
placed in charge of a brigade, participating in all the battles near Petersburg.
He was commissioned brigadier- general of volunteers in July, 1864, and served
with honor in all the battles in the Shenandoah valley, under Gen. Sheridan, up
to the battle of Cedar creek, in which engagement he was killed.
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 CONFEDERATE SHEET MUSIC. "To
the Friends of Southern Independence. God and Our Rights. 1861.13" x 10
1/4", Published by Blackmar & Bro., New Orleans. A rare title, and a
southern imprint. From bound volume showing minor binding marks along spine. (Cw.
523); $225.
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 THE
DRUMMER BOY OF SHILOH- ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC.
13 1/4 " x 10 1/2". 5pp., complete. 1863. Stone litho
scene at Shiloh.
Exhibits light foxing on cover , a bit heavier internally, from bound volume show binding marks along spine,
overall
VG complete. (Cw.551); $195.
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 CIVIL
WAR ERA GUN POWDER LABEL. 6"
circular paper label with great graphic of a broadside view of a cannon, along
with surrounding text . A bit of discoloration, unused, overall fine cond. (Cw.
433); $125.
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From the outset of
the Civil War, patriotic themes began to appear on envelopes illustrating
various scenes, portraits, and sentiments. It is estimated that at least 200
different publishers and printers produced these covers, albums could be bought
during the war in which to mount the envelopes. Curiously, the collecting of
Civil War patriotic covers actually began during the war. It is believes that
between 7,500 and 10,000 different designs exist. For those interested in
further information on this subject, a recommended book is “The Catalog of
Union Civil War Patriotic Covers” by William R. Weiss.
All are postally
unused, measure app. 3 1/4" x 5 1/2". Though I have a small number of
these covers, I have tried to list some that are more graphically
appealing.
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PATRIOTIC COVER -
LOVE ONE ANOTHER - Illustrated Patriotic Envelope. Exhibits light handling and wear,
some remnants of having been mounted on back, vertical indentation, very
handsome cover. (Cw.364); $35.
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1861 HANDBOOK FOR THE WAR.
NEW
YORK ZOAUVE
SHERMAN'S
LETTER TO ATLANTA.
HIGGINSON. THOMAS WENTWORTH
U.S. GRANT. Carte de visite. General U.S. Grant.
ROBERT
E. LEE'S RESIDENCE. 
LASHED
TO THE MAST- FARRAGUT
McCLELLAN,
GEORGE B.
VALLANDIGHAM,
CLEMENT LAIRD.
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK
GOVERNEUR WARREN.
THE
CHILDREN OF THE BATTLE FIELD.
1864
TOWN OF CALLICOON NEW YORK VOLUNTEER BOUNTY FUND
NEW
YORK STATE BOUNTY BOND.
ESSEX
COUNTY VOLUNTEER WAR BOND
GEN.
CONCORAN'S RELEASE MARCH- ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC
SONG
OF A THOUSAND YEARS- COLOR ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC
MAJOR GEN. SHERIDAN GRAND VICTORY MARCH
GEN. BIDWELL ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC
CONFEDERATE SHEET MUSIC
THE
DRUMMER BOY OF SHILOH- ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC
CIVIL
WAR ERA GUN POWDER LABEL
PATRIOTIC COVER -
REMEMBER ELLSWORTH
PATRIOTIC COVER -
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
PATRIOTIC COVER -
ELLSWORTH
PATRIOTIC COVER -
LARGE FLAG
PATRIOTIC COVER -
CANNON EAGLE AND FLAGS