A printed order establishing the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia on July 31, 1863. 4 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. A single sheet folded to make four pages. Two works redacted in ink; rear panel tanned. Generally good. With the pencil signature of Lieut. Bradford D. Davol, a textile executive, who briefly.....
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First Edition. An influential and controversial study of John Brown's participation in the violence in Bleeding Kansas in 1856. Malin was critical of Brown and attempted in this book to separate fact from myth. Brown's biographer Stephen Oates wrote, "While I have learned a great deal from Malin about the.....
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Later printing. The title continues: "A full and accurate account of the secret journey into the heart of the Confederacy, the capture of a railway train in a Confederate camp, the terrible chase that followed, and the subsequent fortunes of the leader and his party." An expanded and rewritten account.....
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First Edition. The history of a Confederate regiment that "fought through a wide area of western service in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Georgia. Among the actions the regiment participated in were the Tullahoma campaign, Chickamauga, Wheeler's raid, Mossy Creek, the Atlanta campaign, and Franklin and Nashville. The work reflects a......
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First Edition. One of the best accounts of antebellum Texas, written as a series of letters about life in the slave states, commissioned for the New York Times. This is the second of three volumes (issued separately) in Olmsted's "Our Slave States" series. While not a radical, Olmsted, in sending.....
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One of the best accounts of antebellum Texas, written as a series of letters about life in the slave states, commissioned for the New York Times. This is the second of three volumes (issued separately) in Olmsted's "Our Slave States" series. While not a radical, Olmsted, in sending a copy.....
Price: $850
First Edition. A notable association copy of this Civil War study, inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson to paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould with a fascinating reference to their shared intellectual interests. McPherson reframes the Civil War as a revolutionary movement, examining how the conflict fundamentally transformed American society and.....
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First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....
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Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....
Price: $6,000
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First Edition. A scarce Japanese history of the US Civil War published just as Japanese immigration to the United States began to increase rapidly. Nineteenth-century Japanese books on the United States are uncommon, especially those written by Japanese authors, rather than missionaries or translated from English. These books help explain.....
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First Edition. An argument against a law prohibiting giving aid to fugitive slaves, offered as a way to mollify the Southern states then in the process of seceding from the union. "Have we not done enough?... Must we pass additional [laws]...? Laws which, if carried out in their spirit would.....
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An order from the Union Army in charge of New Orleans implementing new rules for enslaved people held in the jail. At the time of the Union occupation of New Orleans, slaves could be imprisoned for committing crimes, but their enslavers could also hire them out to the municipal work.....
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First Edition. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly (formerly the House of Representatives, prior to the.....
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First Edition. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure, particularly the Florida railroad, Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative.....
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A collection of tracts, including Wilkie's scarce report on the Iowa First in the opening months of the Civil War (a classic of war journalism written by an embedded newspaper reporter); two Copperhead (pro-slavery Democrats) pieces—the speeches of Clement Vallandingham and a pamphlet supporting the Dred Scott decision; Gen. Justus.....
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First Edition. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that bringing newly enslaved people to the US from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and put enslavement of Africans within the economic.....
Price: $450
