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