Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., State Printer, 1906. First edition. Octavo (22.5 cm); 297 pp; frontis, illus. Navy blue cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt titling to front board. Pages all clean and unmarked. Includes black & white photographic portraits. Only two copies found in OCLC; none in the trade. More
Butternut and Blue, 1984. Limited ed. Octavo (23 cm); red stapled wrappers stamped in gilt; 62 pp.; 5 maps, one folding and laid in. Hand-numbered '70' of 400 copies. A facsimile of the scarce original edition privately published by Major John Bigelow in 1910. A Fine copy. More
Richmond, Va. The, 1907. First edition. Slim 12mo. Half blue, half grey ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; 102 pp.; frontispiece + one illustrative plate executed by the author's daughter, Mildred. A love story set in the post-Civil War South concerning the titular Kitty Dixon, "a Yankee girl in old Virginia... More
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo; marbled wrappers printed in red; vii, 123 pp. A collection of letters from middle and upper middle class denizens of Athens to their loved ones fighting for the Confederacy. Very slight wear to wrapper edges, but Near Fine. More
Deerfield Beach, FL: Betty Bugbee Cusack. Limited ed. 4to.; glossy, photo-illustrated wrappers, 112 pp., facsimile documents. One of 500 copies. A collection of documents and correspondence related to the debt owed by the federal government to Massachusetts for services rendered during the Civil War. Assembled by Massachusetts businessman, William C.... More
Leesburg, Virginia: Civil War Centennial Commission of Loudoun County, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1961. First edition. Octavo; perfectbound, illustrated wrappers; 80 pp.; maps, illustrations, photographs. A book commissioned by the Civil War Centennial Commission of Loudon County as a Civil War guidebook to the County and in celebration of the state’s... More
Washington, D. C.: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1985. First edition. 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, xvii, 124 pp., illus, photographs. From the Foreword: “Thomas Owen’s letters and diary reveal the life and duties of a volunteer Engineer who served as a sergeant and company-grade..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Libraries, 1962. Octavo; plain, stapled wrappers; 57 pp.; frontispiece of Fraser, one illustration. A long introduction contextualizing Col. Fraser's imprisonment at C.S.M Prison in Columbia before reprinting his petition. Some light foxing to wrappers, but about Near Fine. More
Bangor, Maine: Published by the author, 1896. First edition. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; viii, 182 p.; nine color maps in rear printed on thick stock. A detailed account of the Battle of Chancellorsville and exoneration of the Eleventh Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Some browning to spine and... More
[Savannah]: The Civil War Centennial Commission of Savannah and Chatham County, 1961. First edition. Octavo; perfectbound, plain white wrappers printed in blue; 57 pp.; photographs, illustrations. SIGNED by the author to ffep. An historical account of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry of Savannah, GA, during the Civil War. Appendices include various... More
Wendell, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1984. First edition. 4to; perfectbound wrappers, ix, 195 pp, photographs. The letters of Iowan George Sidenbender Richardson to family and friends throughout the course of the Civil War. A Fine copy. More
Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1981. First edition. Tall 4to.; grey cloth boards; 96 pp. The author has performed a thankless task in assembling the names of 3,872 Confederate Northern Virginia soldiers killed at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, which he estimates is approximately 85% complete. Tables at the front tabulate by... More
[Philadelphia?]: The War Library and Museum of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1950. First edition. 8vo; stapled cream wrappers printed in black, 15 pp, map. "This unusually interesting account of the Battle of Gettysburg was read by Companion Honorable Grover C. Ladner at the... More
Gettysburg Compiler Print, ©1906. 12mo.; red pictorial wrappers printed in black; 95, [11] pp.; plates. A well-preserved copy of a title usually seen in shabby condition. The author provides an account of the Battle of Gettysburg and situates it within the great battles of modern times. Presumably published to capitalize... More
West Point, New York: United States Military Academy, 1979. First edition. Octavo; stapled, illustrated wrappers; 62 pp.; illustrations, photographs. An interesting history of the French Zouaves with a special consideration of their uniforms and accoutrements. A Near Fine copy with mailing label to rear wrapper. More
Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, Printers, 1862. Presumed first edition, although it was also published the same year by the printer, J. Campbell. 23 cm; 23, [1] pp. This scarce pamphlet was published at the behest of noted Philadelphian, Richard Vaux, and contains an 1861 letter from Dr. Benjamin Rush's... More
[Chewsville, Maryland]: Published by the author?, [1978]. First edition. 8vo.; perfect-bound, photo-illustrated wrappers, v, [1], 71 pp., photographs, maps. SIGNED by the author on title page. An account of Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Antietam, “telling why he came, how he arrived, and what he did during those eventful days when... More
Southern University Press, 1969. Second printing. 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, iv, [2], 51 pp., maps, photographs, illustrations. Charles O’Connell’s journal is the “story of his wartime service on the famed Confederate ram ‘Tennessee’ and his imprisonment after her capture at the Battle of Mobile Bay.” Private Charles Brother’s journal concerns his..... More
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1979. 4to.; perfect-bound, illustrated wrappers, 149 pp., illus. A special issue of “The Atlanta Historical Bulletin” on the personal perspective of Atlanta in the Civil War, which was also a major 1979 exhibition of the Atlanta Historical Society. Includes, “Life at the Crossroads of the Confederacy... More
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