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The Civil War

From John Brown to Jefferson Davis, our catalog brings together exciting letters, documents & artifacts of the Civil War including letters from Lee, Grant & other Generals, a rare Gettysburg map, Lincoln documents and Confederate/Union medical kits.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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1 African-American Union Sailor
2 African-American Union Solider Holding Rifle
3 Opposing Lincoln from the Senate Floor
4 Bishop of MD Instructs Clergy to Pray for the President, & for America: Maryland is admitted and declared by the Legislature and Governor of the State, to be at this time one of the United States of America
5 An Unsympathetic Report on the Oberlin Sit-In
6 Charles Sumner on the Barbarism of Slavery
7 William Seward Writes to Benjamin Franklin’s Great-Grandson on Improving Fortunes of the Union
8 A Surgeon in the Union Army of the Tennessee
9 Confederate Home Front Journal – Started by a Soldier, Taken up by His Mother after He Dies, and Continued with Her Husband’s Georgia Militia Service During Sherman’s March
10 Four Civil War Special Orders Signed by Gen. Townsend & Capt. Abbott
11 Newspapers from Union-Occupied South Carolina
12 Charles Sumner Writes to a Fellow Abolitionist
13 Promoting Future Civil War Generals... including upgrades in rank for Grant, Pickett and Beauregard!
14 A Veteran’s Tribute to Sherman’s March to the Sea “We stormed the wild hills of Resaca.”
15 Dance to the Sound of the Guns! Fort Sumter in Sheet Music
16 Patriotic Post – 15 Pages of Union Envelopes with National Motifs
17 A Massive Signed Presentation Photograph of a Union General
18 Senate Debate on Jefferson Davis’s Army Pension
19 A Broadside Critical of Andrew Johnson’s Southern Sympathies
20 McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
21 Dred Scott Supreme Court Ruling
22 Urgent Call for Last Confederates to Lay Down Their Arms
23 “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal” in Reconstruction North Carolina
24 “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
25 Col. Isaac Shepard Authorizes Recruitment of 1st Mississippi Regt. African Descent (Former Slaves)
26 Looking into the Welfare of “the contrabands [slaves] in this district…”
27 Battle of Gettysburg – 17th CT Regt. Field Report
28 Caring for the Wounded by the Citizens of Clarksville, TN
29 “Battle of Prairie Grove”: Report of Confederate General
30 “To The Memory of Abraham Lincoln”
31 South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
32 “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper Issued in Union-Occupied Fredericksburg
33 While Still a U.S. Army Officer, Future Confederate General William Hardee Schemes to Acquire Guns for Georgia
34 1865 Orders for Military Division of West Mississippi, Including Kirby Smith’s Surrender, Colored Troops, Reconstruction
35 The Black “Robin Hood” in Civil War North Carolina
36 E. Kirby Smith Reacts to News of the “protracted and desperate fighting” Between Grant and Lee in Virginia
37 Recognition of Promotion to Medical Director of Hindman’s Corps in the Army of Tennessee
38 New York Draft Riots: “A Great Fraud”
39 John Adams Dix Implores Confederates to Cease Attacking Union-held Insane Asylum in Williamsburg
40 General Hardee’s “Views” on the Need to Evacuate Corinth, Accepted by Beauregard
41 D.H. Hill Identifies Roanoke Island as the “weakest point” in North Carolina
42 Authorizing Supplies for Virginia State Forces Three Weeks after Secession
43 “War is upon us!” - Rare Confederate Call to Arms in Western Virginia
44 Commodore Tattnall Decides to Resign from U.S. Navy to Fight for Georgia
45 Civil War Bulletproof Vest Advertisement
46 Salmon Chase Explains Civil War Finances to Editor Horace Greeley and the Wider Public
47 “My strongest hope of ultimate success arises from the belief that by this war slavery is to be forever crushed & put away”
48 Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
49 John Dix: "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."
50 Lincoln Convenes Cabinet to Discuss Compensated Emancipation: First Presidential Proposal for Abolition
51 Chester Whitman: Confederates “have been repulsed with great slaughter”
52 Warning about a Runaway Slave Girl Who May Create Trouble
53 21st Georgia Cavalry Soldier Orders his Slave Whipped
54 John A. Andrew - Patriotic Poem
55 Ordnance Returns for the Atlanta Campaign
56 Jefferson Davis’ Hope for a Future Union Based on Confederate Principles
57 Sherman Praises New Jersey Troops for Saving His Life
58 Andrew Johnson Proclamation Offering Rewards for Lincoln’s Assassins
59 The Re-Raising of the United States Flag Ceremony at Fort Sumter
60 Cultures Clash as North meets South
61 Instructions to Commander of Commerce Raider C.S.S. Tallahassee
62 Maps from Sherman's Army
63 Civil War Logistics
64 The U.S. Navy Bombardment of Fort Sumter
65 The Gettysburg Address
66 General Hooker’s Note in His Copy of The Battle of Gettysburg
67 Road to Gettysburg: Letter from 2nd Cavalry Union Soldier
68 James Clay Rice, a Soon-to-be Hero of Gettysburg, Lobbies for Promotions
69 Jefferson Davis The Difference Between an “expression of an intent, and a promise”
70 Senior Officer on the Seven Days’ Battle
71 General Charles Hamilton during the Peninsula Campaign
72 Abraham Lincoln Signed Military Commission
73 Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss and Abolitionist Resentment towards McClellan
74 Judah Benjamin Sends Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
75 Francis Pickens’ Gratitude for Georgia’s Support During Defense of Charleston Harbor
76 Edwin M. Stanton Sees Secession as Inevitable
77 Naval Commander Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1400 Slaves
78 Union Flag Flown over Richmond on the Day of Union Occupation
79 Robert E. Lee “The Marble Man” in Bronze
80 Civil War Field Surgeon’s Kit
81 Confederate Physician’s Medical Saddle Bag
82 Harper's Weekly and the Civil War
83 Sherman Attacks the Church, Reflects on Mortality, and Mentions the 1886 Princeton-Yale Football Game
84 Jefferson and Varina Davis
85 Confederate Spy Belle Boyd
86 Invitation to the Re-Raising of the Union Flag Above Fort Sumter
87 The Chickamauga Campaign--Braxton Bragg's Battlefield Orders
88 An Intriguing Report to the Governor of South Carolina On the Status of Refugee Slaves
89 Last Edition of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen
90 First-Day Printing of the Gettysburg Address
91 Alexander Gardner’s “A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep”
92 Alexander Gardner’s “Harvest of Death”
93 Lincoln Denies Blocking Distinguished Veteran's Promotion
94 Lee Holds off Meade’s Advancing Army after Gettysburg
95 Grant Closes in on Vicksburg
96 Lincoln Cast of Metal from the USS Cumberland
97 Rare Battle Map and Account, Fort Donelson, 1862
98 Robert E. Lee Warns Governor Pickens: "The Enemy Far Outnumbers Any Force We Can Bring against It in the Field"
99 General Sickles / Lincoln Dictator Dispute
100 82nd U.S. Colored Infantry Muster Roll
101 Lincoln: "Come Back to the Truths that are in the Declaration of Independence..."
102 John Brown Plans his “Mighty Conquest"
103 Rare Gettysburg Battlefield Map Published in 1863
104 General Meade’s Victory Message - Printed on the Field at Gettysburg
105 Defending Philadelphia from Lee’s Invading Army
106 A Future Congressman’s Daring Escape from Slavery
107 Sherman's Capture of Atlanta
108 University of Virginia Diploma of Charles Marshall, Lee’s Aide-De-Camp