The Civil War
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The Civil War
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1861 Engraved Document
Signed by President Abraham Lincoln
Splendid Lincoln Civil War document appointing Albert Hartsuff as "Assistant Surgeon," countersigned by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, with fragile paper seal present, beautifully matted and framed with a large engraved portrait of Lincoln. $17,000. | More...
Two 1861 Autograph Letters
Signed by Clara Barton
Wonderful autograph letter signed by Clara Barton written during the Civil War, expressing concern for her brother who was still in the South, evoking Lincoln, John Brown, slavery and secessionists, together with a related autograph letter draft by Barton. $12,500. | More...
"Shoulder Strap" set of Civil War memoirs
Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, and others
Complete Shoulder Strap set of seven Civil War histories printed by Twain's publishing house in its short-lived but impressive decade of operation, featuring Grant's Memoirs (1885-6), McClellan's Own Story (1887), Crawford's Genesis of the Civil War (1887), Custer's Tenting on the Plains (1889), Hancock's Reminiscences (1887), Sheridan's Personal Memoirs (1888), Sherman's Memoirs (1892)—as well as Adam Badeau's biography Grant in Peace (1888), not published by Webster but in a binding uniform with the rest of the set—each volume with the trademark gilt-decorated "shoulder strap" on the spine. $9200. | More...
History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865. [A Brave Black Regiment.]
Luis F. Emilio

First edition of a history of "one of the first black fighting units to see action in the field"—illustrated with 20 photographic plates (including frontispiece) and nine maps (two folding), in original gilt-stamped cloth. $3000. | More...
Proclamation of Emancipation
Abraham Lincoln

Original large calligraphic portrait lithograph of Abraham Lincoln created from the text of the Emancipation Proclamation, with portions of the text highlighted to create a portrait of Lincoln clearly visible within the text, designed by W.H. Pratt. $3800. | More...

The Platforms
Abraham Lincoln

First broadside side-by-side publication of the Democratic and Republican platforms for 1864 election year (Lincoln v. McClellan), clearly referencing slavery as the cause of the Civil War. $3500. | More...
My Story of the War
Mary Livermore

First edition of Livermore's influential history of the life-saving efforts of women volunteers and army nurses in the Civil War, with 18 full-page steel-engraved illustrations, including eight striking chromolithographs of Civil War flags, a handsome copy in original gilt-stamped cloth. $850. | More...
The Draft Riots in New York, July 1863
David M. Barnes

First edition, issued same year as the deadly July 1863 "Draft Riots," featuring over 100 pages of eyewitness reports and testimony that appeared in the New York Times, together in book form for the first time, a terrifying account of white mobs stoning, lynching, burning and murdering Black victims, including an infant and a nine-year-old boy, destroying over 50 buildings and leaving the city a "noticeably white domain" after many Black New Yorkers fled, an especially rare copy in original wrappers. $5800. | More...
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