Price: $2,750.00

A striking display piece, all the more intriguing because the artwork most probably was accomplished by Davis's daughter Varina Anne, who is known to have painted similar items.

Born in the Confederate White House, the "First Daughter of the Confederacy," Varina Anne, wrote several novels before her death in 1898 at age 34.

Clean, with some overall toning, but of very fine appearance; 6-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches (sight), museum mounted; framed in a brown wood frame 11-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches.

	Price: $1,850.00

A bust portrait in uniform, showing Sherman with his face slightly to his right and looking off in that direction. 

Fine sig. on the image, with his post war rank.

	Price: $650.00

In this remarkable autobiography, Ronald Reagan presents a definitive personal account of his historic presidency. With uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit, he tells the story of his life -- public and private -- and reveals the events that shaped his reluctant candidacy and the decision-making process that led to his first nomination; the unseen dangers of Gorbachev's first visit to America; startling facts about top-secret meetings involving heads of state; his frustrations with Congress; and his relationships with the members of his Cabinet.

Here are the behind-the-scenes details of the great themes and dramatic crises marking Reagan's eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, and his unprecedented personal diplomacy with major foreign leaders. His narrative is full of new insights and often surprising revelations regarding his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his family -- and the enduring love between him and his wife Nancy.

An American Life is an inspiring American success story, a brilliant self-portrait, and a compelling and significant work of history.

Signed on bookplate, minor edge wear to dj.

	Price: $17.50

The Civil War was the first "modern war." Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Abraham Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation.

An eager student of technology, Lincoln (the only president to hold a patent) had to learn to use the power of electronic messages. Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails tells a big story within a small compass. By paying close attention to Lincoln's "lightning messages," we see a great leader adapt to a new medium. No reader of this work of history will be able to miss the contemporary parallels. Watching Lincoln carefully word his messages—and follow up on those words with the right actions—offers a striking example for those who spend their days tapping out notes on computers and Blackberries. An elegant work of history, Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails is an instructive example of timeless leadership lessons.

As new; dust jacket. Inscribed to previous owner.

	Price: $2,450.00

A full FDR signature beneath a handsome, full-colored lithographic portrait of the White House.

Originally bound into a 1936 Democratic convention subscriber’s book, this is one of the most attractive presentations of any presidential signature.

	Price: $475.00

These "Wild Riders" opened the ball at the Battle of Mill Springs. It was the beginning of a long and distinguished career for the Kentucky Unionists. "Tarrant's narrative, based on wartime documents, clear memory, and good judgment, is the best account by a member of a Kentucky unit in Federal service". - Nevins.

Presentation copy to historian Stephen Z. Starr by Kentucky Civil War RoundTable, with Starr's bookplate; lightly scuffed boards with light fraying of extremities; lightly shaken front hinge; else very good. Scarce regimental and great cavalry piece.

	Price: $875.00

Excellent tonality and a bold signature.

	Price: $1,500.00

This short note on letterhead certifies that William Baker was employed by Cody’s show (as a “cavalryman”), and that he did a satisfactory job.

Clean letter w/ 2 vert and 1 horiz folds; type lt. faded; sig. v. lt. faded but still clear; else v.g.

	Price: $27.95 (paperback edition)

Available for the first time in paperback, this reprint contains a large map detailing the theater of operations of the Army of the Cumberland.

"At the heart of the book is McKinney's analysis of Thomas' leadership of the Army of the Cumberland, a role the author believes he was long preparing. Each phase of McKinney is correct in describing the Army of the Cumberland as an army of many talents. Many modern talents that is."-From the Introduction by John S. Peterson.

Of this work, The Courier's Blake Magner, says, "McKinney has done exhaustive research, it is excellent."

	Price: $325.00

An oft-reprinted work on the 20th Maine; a primary source for Michael Shaara's novel Killer Angels.

Light foxing; bright and tight with unusually brilliant gilt lettering. Scarce in 1st edition.

	Price: $2,850.00

Senator Kennedy replies to a constituent who has complained about the impending downsizing at the famous Springfield Armory. He quotes from a protest he has sent to the Secretary of Defense, saying in part, “The great reservoir of skills in the Springfield Armory as evidenced by the superlative achievement of that installation during periods of national emergency should obviously not be dissipated to the detriment of our national defense potential.”

Near fine condition; light soiling on left side.

	Price: SOLD

The original handout given to those who attended the ceremonies dedicating the cemetery and hearing Lincoln give his “few appropriate remarks.” Signed in type by Lincoln’s old Illinois friend, Ward H. Lamon, as Marshall in Chief. Unusually scarce, being on a thin, blue paper.

Very good, though a few wrinkles (could be flattened) and a tape stain on the lower right-hand corner.

	Price: $1,850.00

Sigs are bold and strong, carte de viste is trimmed with chip to lowere right corner.

Scanned through the glass; much clearer in person.

	Price: $115.00

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Library publishes Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece in a new boxed set including three hardcovers and a new trade paperback, American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic Civil War: A Narrative, edited by and with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and including essays by Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others.

Random House publisher Bennett Cerf commissioned southern novelist Shelby Foote to write a short, one-volume history of the American Civil War. Thirty years and a million and a half words later—every word having been written out longhand with nib pens dipped into ink—Foote published the third and final volume of what has become the classic narrative of that epic war.

As he approached the end of the final volume, Foote recounted this scene in a letter to his friend, the novelist Walker Percy: “I killed Lincoln last week—Saturday, at noon. While I was doing it (he had his chest arched up, holding his last breath to let it out) some halfassed doctor came to the door with vols I and II under his arm, wanting me to autograph them for his son for Xmas. I was in such a state of shock, I not only let him in; I even signed the goddam books, a thing I seldom do. Then I turned back and killed him and had Stanton say, ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’ A strange feeling, though. I have another 70-odd pages to go, and I have a fear they’ll be like Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Christ, what a man. It’s been a great thing getting to know him as he was, rather than as he has come to be—a sort of TV image of himself, with a ghost alongside.”

A selection of these letters, along with essays by Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Julia Reed, Robert Loomis, Donald Graham, John M. McCardell, Jr., and Jay Tolson, are included in American Homer, the bonus paperback book available only in the Modern Library boxed set of The Civil War.

Shelby Foote’s tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history—a war that lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have ever lived through—begins with Jefferson Davis’s resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln’s departure from Springfield for the national capital. It is these two leaders, whose lives continually touch on the great chain of events throughout the story, who are only the first of scores of exciting personalities that in effect make The Civil War a multiple biography set against the crisis of an age.

	Price: $1,850.00

A bust portrait in uniform, showing Sherman with his face slightly to his right and looking off in that direction. 

Fine sig. on the image, with his post war rank.

	Price: $795.00

On February 28, 1958, James J. Fuld wrote to President Eisenhower, suggesting that “it would be a nice custom if the Presidents would send joint Greetings to their successors, so that each successor, as he becomes President, would receive a joint Greeting signed by his predecessors,” and going on to describe how such a tradition could be implemented, including a proposed sample ‘greeting form’ for each president to sign before he left office.

Eisenhower replies “Thank you for your interesting suggestion. I shall not discard it, but my immediate reaction is that since the idea was not started with our first President, it would be presumptuous of me to initiate such a procedure. However, I shall discuss the matter with some of my colleagues.”

Includes copy of Fuld’s letter and sample signature form.

	Price: $2,850.00

Senator Kennedy replies to a constituent who has complained about the impending downsizing at the famous Springfield Armory. He quotes from a protest he has sent to the Secretary of Defense, saying in part, “The great reservoir of skills in the Springfield Armory as evidenced by the superlative achievement of that installation during periods of national emergency should obviously not be dissipated to the detriment of our national defense potential.”

Near fine condition; light soiling on left side.

	Price: $575.00

Kurz and Allison produced a large number of prints of battles and other historic action scenes during the 1880s.  They were known for their vibrant colors, though not for any historical accuracy. 

Light chipping at extremities with minor loss (covered by matting), and a light, repaired tear in lower left hand corner; else very good.  The colors remain bright in this action-filled print.

	Price: $28.95

As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.

1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents’ faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal. It set Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.

The book introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Adam Goodheart takes us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the mouth of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at this moment of ultimate crisis and decision.

Signed.

	Price: $2,700.00

A clear, handsome signature as President. These commissions actually signed by Johnson have become increasingly uncommon, as he stopped signing and used a stamp on most commission commencing soon after this one was signed.

Excellent; usual folds.

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	Price: $2,850.00

The former president, his brother, his former Attorney General (Wickersham), and the President of Harvard (Lowell) each wrote a series of articles, printed in various newspapers across the country, in support of the Senate approving the Treaty of Versailles, and thereby having the United States joining Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. The brainchild of Lowell, a progressive and internationalist, and modeled after The Federalist Papers, these pieces were each originally published anonymously in May and June of 1919, under the title “The Covenanter” (referring to the League Covenant); then published here in book form shortly thereafter, “In order that the reader may be enabled to judge readily for himself how far the meaning of the provisions has been correctly understood, and the conclusions rightly drawn” (p.vi). 

There were 27 such “letters” in all, each examining a specific article or aspect of joining the League: 13 by Lowell, 5 by Henry Taft, 5 by Wickersham, and 4 by William H. Taft.  Even though penned by members from the opposition party, these essays, unlike the The Federalist Papers, didn’t do the job. 

Insect damage along ft. hng. approx. ½ down ft. cov. & at foot of sp.; ch. at head of sp.; ft. hng. shaken; lt. soil. exteriors; lt. fox. throughout; else v.g. In a sturdy blue, custom-made clamshell box.  Not only an uncommon title, but the scarcest of Taft’s books to find signed.

	Price: $32.50

McFeely is a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Grant: A Biography (2002).

Here he has assembled a "scrapbook" of drawings, photos, and paintings that illuminate various stages of Grant's personal and public life. They are accompanied by text that focuses on specific aspects of his character and career. There are interesting, and sometimes surprisingly critical, passages revealing Grant's successes and shortcomings in dealing with emancipated slaves. The section on his relationship with his wife, Julia, illustrates just how firm and passionate a relationship they maintained over decades. The drawings and photos covering his world travels after his presidency convey a sense of a man cut adrift from the centers of power that he had learned to enjoy.

Readers who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the man and his times should read McFeely's earlier biography, but this is a useful look at various aspects of Grant's life.

	Price: $125.00

Thanking him for a picture he sent.

	Price: $18,750.00

Jackson wrote this cheerful personal note shortly after suppressing the “Rockingham Rebellion” near Swift Run Gap. The Confederate government had trouble enforcing their wide-ranging conscription law during the Spring of 1862, and Jackson was not bashful about doing his part to get every Virginian into uniform, by force when necessary.

“I must report that our governor and his aid failed to come and pay me a visit. Hope you will try it again. Much obliged for the arms. The insurgents who congregated along the Blue Ridge I am thankful to say have through God’s helping been pretty much disposed of. Only one of [them] was killed. Col. J. R. Jones of the 33rd. had charge of the expedition. / Very truly your friend / T. J. Jackson.

Framed with contemporary engraving, not examined out of frame, photograph is through the glass; much nicer in person!

	Price: $4,500.00

An elaborate memorial published in Boston by Richard Briggs and William Allen, the proprietors of the U.S. Instantaneous Photographic Company. '

Images depict family members, Grant's house, the train carrying the coffin from Mount McGregor to New York, the procession in Albany, the temporary tomb in Riverside Park, various regiments marching to New York (including a view of State Street, Boston), the laying in state, army camps in Riverside Park, navy ships in the Hudson River, several views of the funeral procession in New York City including Fifth Avenue, floral tributes at the tomb, and crowds gathered there.

The firm produced several versions of the present album, with varying numbers of prints, for display in hotel lobbies on nouveau, custom-made cast iron display stands (not presen

	Price: $795.00

On February 28, 1958, James J. Fuld wrote to President Eisenhower, suggesting that “it would be a nice custom if the Presidents would send joint Greetings to their successors, so that each successor, as he becomes President, would receive a joint Greeting signed by his predecessors,” and going on to describe how such a tradition could be implemented, including a proposed sample ‘greeting form’ for each president to sign before he left office.

Eisenhower replies “Thank you for your interesting suggestion. I shall not discard it, but my immediate reaction is that since the idea was not started with our first President, it would be presumptuous of me to initiate such a procedure. However, I shall discuss the matter with some of my colleagues.”

Includes copy of Fuld’s letter and sample signature form.

	Price: $3,850.00

A retouched image, originally from the Brady studio, showing Johnson in the famous "Brady chair." Probably taken--and signed--while President.

Signed in the narrow, bottom margin, very neat and clear, with only the "h" slightly underinked. Deep rich-toned print; mount exceptionally crisp and clean. Hinged mounted on dark brown mat in brown and bronze wood frame. A superior example

	Price: $4,500.00

Ray illustrated some of the most popular comic books of the 1930s – 1970s, including Superman, Batman and Robin and G.I. Combat, all for D.C. Comics. An expert in historical uniforms, Ray illustrated a number of historical booklets, such as interpretive pieces for Fort Henry, Fort Niagara, and Fort Ticonderoga, as well as the Alamo and the battle of Antietam.

This work, apparently intended for the magazine Civil War Times Illustrated, reinterprets a scene from the July 22, 1864 battle of Atlanta , drawn from the popular Cyclorama, in Atlanta. In the background is the Troup Hurt house, site of the breakthrough of the Union line by Confederates under Brigadier General Arthur Manigault – pictured in the foreground. In the middle-distance Union troops of General John A. Logan’s XV Corps counterattack to re-establish their line.

Fine condition, with borders unpainted accept for, interestingly Confederate figures emerging from the unfinished border as Michelangelo’s figures were “freed” from the stone.

	Price: 14,500.00

The diploma of “A.S. Scott of Handy County”, one of the 85 VMI cadets who, along with their artillery instructor “Old Jack”, witnessed the hanging of John Brown at Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1859. 

It is signed by the entire VMI faculty, including William Gilham, Commandant of Cadets & Professor of Infantry Tactics, who would go on publish the following year Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the United States, which became the standard for the training of Confederate regiments.  Less than two years after they both signed this document, Jackson would press charges against Gilham for neglect of duty while serving under Jackson in the Valley, ultimately resulting in sending Gilham back to VMI.  Other signatures of note on the diploma, under “Board of Visiters”, include such future Civil War luminaries as Philip St. Geo. Cocke and “John Letcher / Governor of Virginia”, the first of Virginia’s two Civil War governors.

An amazing piece of Americana, covering both the coming of war and the war to come.

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	Price: $250.00

Presented to Governor Adlai Stevenson, “To a courageous man admired by millions; ‘Let none falter who thinks he is right’ – November 11, 1952”. Includes banquet menu for the celebration of the 105th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth on February 12, 1914.

Half leather, tightly bound; usual wear; very clean.

	Price: $75.00

America’s greatest president, who rose to power in the country’s greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation’s wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many times, but never by a man who himself sought the office of president and contemplated the awesome responsibilities that come with it.

George S. McGovern—a Midwesterner, former U.S. senator, presidential candidate, veteran, and historian by training—offers his unique insight into our sixteenth president. He shows how Lincoln sometimes went astray, particularly in his restrictions on civil liberties, but also how he adjusted his sights and transformed the Civil War from a political dispute to a moral crusade. McGovern’s account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.

Near Fine, Signed.

This book is part of Holt's The American Presidents Series, edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Sean Wilentz.

	Price: $85.00

It was the crime of the nineteenth century, and it led to the most notorious trial in American history.

On April 14, 1865, the president of the United States went to the theatre. The rest of the story barely needs retelling. On that night John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln and soon the murderer was hunted down and killed by federal troops.

But the story of the Lincoln assassination does not end with the slain president's state funeral and the death of his killer. In Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, An Illustrated History, James Swanson and Daniel Weinberg resurrect these events by presenting an unprecedented visual record of almost 300 color illustrations of contemporary photographs, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts--many hitherto unpublished.

The book is not a complete or definitive history of the Lincoln murder. Instead it is about what happened after the assassination and the hunt for the conspirators. It is the first illustrated history of the arrest, trial, and execution of the assassins. The authors report not only what happened, but how what happened was reported to the American people, illustrating the events through the prism of 19th-century American popular culture.

Highlights include original albumen prints, cartes de visite, stereo cards, reward posters for the conspirators, the trial transcripts, the manuscript order for execution, and the seminal series of photographs by the famed Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner of the conspirators in prison and during their execution.

In the most important series of American historical photos ever made, Gardner, who obtained special permission from the War Department to record the scene, photographed the awaiting scaffold; the condemned on the scaffold as they listened to the sentence of death read aloud to them and as they were bound, hooded, and fitted with nooses; and the conspirators hanging in death. The authors have tracked down examples of all of Gardner's photos in the series, including the shocking and rarely seen image of the conspirators taken moments after the trap was sprung while they were still alive, swinging through the air in their death struggle.

Other highlights will be the large number of quotations from contemporary newspapers and eyewitness accounts, allowing the reader to experience the trial and execution of Lincoln's assassins in the same way that Americans alive in 1865 experienced them. In many ways, this book is a history of the customs and practices of journalism, publishing, and photography at the close of the Civil War.

Hardcover, with dust jacket, 9 1/2 x 11 5/8, 160 pages.

THE FIRST EDITION IS ALMOST SOLD OUT!

Copies signed by Daniel Weinberg are offered exclusively through this book shop. It's a great gift for yourself or anyone interested in American history, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, crime, assassination, 19th-century photographic portraiture, and the history of American photojournalism.

	Price: $1,500.00

Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," Scott served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history. Many historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his forty-seven-year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to defeat the Confederacy. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army for twenty years, longer than any other holder of the office.

This vivid engraving of Scott made during the Civil War features a fine, bold signature of the hero of Chippewa, and Lundy's Lane, and Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec.

Bold and clear signature, even browning through middle section, minor foxing, not examined outside of frame.

	Price: $12,500.00

 “In one of John Rogers’ notebooks there are descriptions, analyzed carefully, of famous portraits of George Washington, together with many measurements of the head and figure. There are also little sketches and notations regarding the uniforms and accoutrements known to have been worn (by him). All this but confirms our knowledge of the care which was taken by John Rogers in perfecting the details of his sculpture.” – ROGERS GROUPS by Mr. & Mrs. Chetwood Smith.

Rogers’ statuary was displayed in a place of honor in the Victorian home, often in a bay-window, since they were “equally rewarding” whether viewed from the front or rear. Over a hundred thousand of the various sculptures were reported to have been sold by this self-taught artist.

In excellent and sparking condition. The first we have ever seen on the market!!

	Price: Net...$1,350.00

In full: "Accept my thanks for your kind telegram of the 7th inst. The manner of my nomination was more gratifying than the fact itself."

At this time, Garfield was elected by the Ohio legislature to succeed Allen Thurman as Senator; on Jan. 10 th, the Milwaukee Sentinel wrote that he “is exceptionally clean for a man who has been engaged for twenty years in active politics.” Thanking you for your kindness.”

Excellent; bold in a finely written script; 2 soft fold lines, one through the sig.

	Price: $24.95

Will Shakespeare, actor and author of popular plays, becomes embroiled in treason when English noblemen pressure him to write a play calculated to stir the people to rebellion. Meanwhile, Lope de Vega, a Don Juanish Spanish playwright, is under orders to sniff out treason and heresy, and he commands Will to write a play praising the Spanish monarch. What ensues is a suspenseful and fascinating tale of intrigue, loyalty and betrayal, and cultural conflict.

Caught between two masters, Shakespeare can do nothing less than his best work for both-even though his lively imagination and inquiring intelligence constantly cause him personal and ethical challenges. The details of daily life and characters who reflect the cultural attitudes of a different time draw readers in. But more than that, the plot, people, and narrative devices would be comfortable in any of the Bard's plays: clowns and jesters, high and low comedy, a twin motif, and, perhaps most important, the dialogue-they all have a convincing Shakespearean ring.

This complex tour de force brings his work and times to life, and readers who are carried along will feel, like the hero in the end, well rewarded and well satisfied.

	Price: $3,250.00

Best known for his brilliantly colored and energetic images, Neiman is one of the most popular and widely recognized American artists, having studied and then taught at the Art Institute, Chicago.

This work was initially commissioned as an oil painting, which is now housed in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. It was based on a study of Lincoln photographic images and biographical literature and married to Neiman’s unique perspective. Neiman faithfully captures the strength and intensity which Lincoln exudes in Anthony Berger’s image taken at Brady’s Washington Gallery on Tuesday, February 9, 1864 (Ostendorf #91).

For this serigraph, twenty-six screens were meticulously hand-cut and each color individually applied, to faithfully capture the tonal values of the original work. Though vividly colored, there remains a 19th century feeling to this exceptional work.

	Price: $875.00

“I have your letter of November 30 th, and notice your suggestion of willingness to serve on the Inter State Commerce Commission. The number of applications is large and most of the gentlemen who have been named are men of character and influence. I am glad you are philosopher enough to understand that in a matter of this court I can only wait until the applications are all in and then address myself to them in a judicial way to decide what appointment, on the whole, ought to be made…When you were on the bench you were never compelled to punish a man unless you found him unworthy – (guilty); but unfortunately I am every day compelled to inflict disappointments upon those who I highly esteem and who are worthy of regard and recognition.”

Lightly soiled and foxed, with three folding creases, one horizontal, two vertical, but not effecting legibility at all.

	Price: $875.00

"Olmstead recorded his memorable impressions of the South and slavery in the fateful decade between the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert national disunion, and Lincoln's election as
President, which precipitated it. His writings do more than reveal a little-known chapter in the life of a world famous architect. Far more important, they present a uniquely candid and realistic picture of the pre-Civil War South. The Cotton Kingdom is the nearest thing posterity has to an exact transcription of a civilization which time has tinted with hues of romantic legend. Olmsted's account, in other words, is an indispensable work in the process of recapturing the American past."
--- Arthur M. Schlesinger.

Scarce & Important Americana! Bds. lt. scuff. & soil., but bright; lt. fray. at extrems, lt. bump.; ft. hng. cracked, vol. 1; lt. fox., esp. vol. 1; else v.g., in custom clamshell box.

	Price: $275.00

Large format, 20th century reprint photograph of the hearse used to transport Abraham Lincoln's body through the streets of Springfield, IL. Loaned to Springfield by the people of St. Louis, MO, the hearse was trimmed in gold, silver, and crystals.

Printed on heavy stock. Made from original photograph produced by S.M. Fassett in 1865. Fassett photographed Abraham Lincoln in 1859.

Three corners creased, minor roughness to two edges, bottom edge unevenly trimmed, minor, even soiling--none of which encroaches on the image.

	Price: $7,500.00

These letters from Sickles to Hooker detail a scouting mission by African American agents in Sickles' employ.

In one letter, Sickles writes that the scouts have returned, "all but one – and I fear he was shot by the enemy's pickets last night." One survivor, "Jim – a very intelligent and reliable man…" reports that the scouts went as far as Fredericksburg (about 13 miles from Sickles' position in lower Maryland), that the Confederates there were entrenching and expecting a big battle, and that prominent Confederate families of Fredericksburg, including the family of D. H. Maury, were preparing to evacuate.

Another report, a copy in Sickles' hand and dated one hour earlier, gives detailed intelligence gained from contrabands picked up by the Navy that accurately indicates a Confederate withdrawal from positions near Aquia Creek. In the O.R. (Series 1, Vol. VI, p.756) General Hooker reports the information up the chain of command on the same day, borrowing some of Sickles' language verbatim.

These are very intriguing and historically valuable letters, revealing an example of the use of freedmen by the Union Army, as both passive sources of general intelligence and as active (combatant) agents used in scouting behind enemy lines; this well before Emancipation was being seriously considered by Union authorities. That the conservative Democrat Sickles' made such ready use of these assets – he directs in a margin note that his agent "Jim" should be paid a whopping $100.00 for his service – seems strange. Yet Sickles, like U.S. Grant, was a pragmatic soldier, willing to use any means available to gain advantage over his enemy.

The envelope shows light foxing with some loss where it was torn open; letters clean and readable with no lossThe letter marked "copy" is, nevertheless, in Sickles' hand with a genuine signature, albeit written in more haste than the other.

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	Price: $1,500.00

In this broadside the "Women of Maryland," meaning the Secessionist leaning women of Maryland, appeal to Winfield Scott to stop the war before it fully begins. They call the pacifist mission of women "holy work," and they seem to hope that Scott will refuse his duty of commanding the Union armies. They call out various Confederate leaders by name for worshipful praise, including Lee, Beauregard, and Davis.

This is a compelling piece of propaganda, drawn up by southern women in the desperate hope of stopping the war, just two weeks before First Bull Run changed everything.

Lt. fox w/ lt. folds.; horiz. and vert. folds lightly mar text; old tape repair on the verso; else v.g.

	Price: $3,850.00

Markland held the position of Special Agent of the Post Office Department of the Army, and such was Grant's "mail man."  This pass gave Markland permission to go anywhere in Union lines to make deliveries, with the direction that "The Quarter Master's Department will furnish … transportation on all military roads and on chartered steamboats in Government service."  The vellum document, grandly printed, was no simple pass, but a free ticket to go anywhere in the army to complete his task, including full passage on the purpose-built military railroads surrounding Petersburg.  Grant mentions Markland and his mission in his Memoirs, and Carl Sandburg describes an emotional interaction between Markland and President Lincoln in late 1864.  Markland visited the White House before embarking on a journey to make contact with General W. T. Sherman's army, which had lately been "lost" from the rest of the country while marching through Georgia.  A misty-eyed Lincoln asked Markland to say to Sherman "God bless him, and God bless his army.  That is as much as I can say, and more than I can write."  This document might easily have accompanied Markland on that mission, carrying long-delayed letters from home to Sherman's soldiers. 

Usual toning; light foxing, including very faint spots over Grant's signature; else near fine.  A beautiful and particularly historic document considering the crucial mission it facilitated. 

	Price: $3,950.00

A handsome sepia-toned photograph showing Clemens from the waist up.

Inscription and signature dark; image is crisp with a bold tonality.

	Price: $29.95

In this Lincoln Prize-winning effort Elizabeth Brown Pryor has uncovered important documents in both private and public collections that give a stunning personal account of Robert E. Lee’s military ability, his beliefs, and his time. Pryor presents dozens of these previously unpublished letters in their entirely, using them as departure points for a series of surprising “historical excursions” that shed new light on every aspect of Lee, telling his life story with an innovative blend of analysis, historiography, and rich period detail Through them we are able to look across time at Lee’s troubled childhood, the hardening of his anti-abolitionist views, his celebrated but controversial battlefield performance, and his final wrenching years.

As Pryor’s exhaustive research shows, Robert E. Lee had no premonition of fame, nor saw himself as a tragic, heroic figure, and as a result is letters are remarkably open. The Robert E. Lee who emerges in these pages is more complex and contradictory --- and far more fascinating --- than the familiar stone icon.

As new; dust jacket.

Signed on bookplate.

	Price: $875.00

A beautiful example in excellent condition.

	Price: $2,750.00

The photo is a vignetted bust image w/ evident retouching, showing Beauregard in a soft-collared uniform coat, which does not seem to bear any collar insignia.
The print is on a plain white mount w/o any credit or markings. Image pale, but clear; a couple of very light surface abrasions are barely detectable.

V.g.; a rare Confederate war-dated photo w/ nice sig., dated a little over a month before Beauregard would face Butler, Gillmore, and W.F. Smith at Drewry's Bluff.

	Price: $75.00

As one of the most critical figures of Civil War diplomacy, as well as politics in the nineteenth-century, William Henry Seward holds an important role in the period.  Befitting his subject's importance, Glyndon Van Deusen's large biography tries to examine the many facets and contradictions of the man's character.  In particular, Van Deusen looks at Seward's foreign policy directives during the War, and shows a figure whose passion and energy created a legacy that far outlasted his time in office.

At times, it is difficult to understand Seward the man. Where possible, the author is critical of Seward's decision-making and reasoning.  In the end, though, Van Deusen cannot help but be overwhelmed by Seward's expert handling of Civil War diplomacy and his many other traits.  He campaigns for the Secretary's preeminent place in the course of American foreign relations long after Seward left the State Department.  Beyond that, Seward defies characterization, and Van Deusen has written a lengthy yet readable analysis of the man's life.

dj has minor spine darkening, minor edge wear and soiling, small tear, else excellent; book is tight and clean, with only a small brown spot on the top edge of the last few pages.

	Price: $325.00

Very good; rough lower edge; sm. tear in margin.

	Price: $125.00

Part of the WEBSTER'S COMPLETE "SHOULDER STRAP" SET OF UNION GENERALS' MEMOIRS. This famous collection from Chas. L. Webster & Co., originally pushed by Samuel Clemens.

General Sheridan was a close associate of Grant during the Civil War, and was instrumental in Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Sheridan's career is marked by his rapid rise through the ranks and extremely harsh tactics as a general. These two volumes are his personal memoirs; his own insights into some of the bloodiest battles in history.

Corner wear, head and tail band wear, and minor shaking to both, broken hinge in volume 1, volume 2 a bit tender, Even browning on engraving and surrounding pages in volume 2, else very good.

	Price: $19,500.00

THE 2 GUARDS AND 9 STICKS of the fan are of cast aluminum, a product then only 10-years old and considered a precious metal. The sticks are enhanced with medallions supported by American eagles, terminating in the form of a star. The Guards are unique, being made for Central American women to us for defense: one guard conceals a 4” blade, which can be slid back out of sight or pressed forward if needed; while at the base, a small container with a hinged top was for concealing poison. THE MEDALLIONS were to have, on both sides, photographs of reigning queens of Europe (Holland can still be seen over one oval). THE 3” LITHOGRAPHED AND PAINTED PAPER FAN-LEAF, on the recto, has a painted portrait of Lincoln, surrounded by angels and cherubs, two columns topped by American eagles, and photographic reproductions of a Spanish song w/ music, “Cancion a Abraham Lincoln.” On the verso are 5 scenes: of Booth conspiring with others; shooting Lincoln; the stage of Ford’s Theatre during the performance of “Our American Cousin;” Booth escaping on horseback; and his death in the burning Garrett barn. Small images of demons surround these scenes. At the ends are scenes of the “Monitor and Merimac” and of Richmond burning, “ 3 April 1865.” WORTH NOTING are the eagles on the recto holding banners inscribed “The patent plated fan” (the Cuban maker had bought the rights from an American firm); and a series of devils that provide separating elements between the oval assassination scenes.

As far as Victorian mourning items, this is one of the most lovely display pieces found. In character, composition, and technique the lithographs on both sides convey not even the faintest suggestion of European taste; but are, indeed, distinctively American and could almost have emerged from the presses of Currier and Ives. There is a long tradition of producing women's fans with American presidents or patriotic themes as subject matter, beginning with a French-made fan celebrating Thomas Jefferson's 1801 Inauguration. In terms of its elaborate construction, beautiful and detailed vignettes, and superb condition, this is surely the finest example of this genre which we have encountered. Simply magnificent.

In excellent, bright condition, with only a few small unobtrusive tears. An extremely scarce and desirable momento of our 16th president’s death, and the emotion engendered.

	Price: $1,200.00

A three-color, mid-19th century print featuring the presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk. Each presidential portrait is in a stylized round vignette, with two-color stars surrounding each one. The center panel features a brief biography of Washington, a reproduction of John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence print--including a key to the signers--and brief biographies of the presidents featured in the print.

Moderate speckling, minor tears and chipping at edges, one 5 inch tear bottom center, else very good. Photographed through the wrapping --colors are brighter in person.

	Price: $375.00

The scarce paper edition of this far-fetched yet intriguing and entertaining account of Booth’s escape from Garrett’s farm and subsequent friendship with the author.

Wrappers intact(!) minor edge chipping, soiled, tape on spine; usual browning of pages.

This design represents the homes on the only property Lincoln ever owned; his home in Springfield, IL, where he, Mary and his children lived before moving to Washington, and the Lincoln Farm near Charleston, IL. Lincoln owned and maintained the farm for his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln after the death of his father, Thomas.

This is the fourth in the series depicting aspects of Lincoln's life. This design represents Lincoln's time as President. A very early U.S. Capitol is shown in the right corner; also features the Old Soldier's Home.

"Making the Unobtainable Obtainable"

ONLY ORIGINAL METHODS were used in producing this remarkable image. This daguerreotype is the equivalent of any produced in the mid-1850s, the high point of daguerrean activity. The original daguerreotype is lost, but a fine, clear negative of the original image remains. [Provenance: King Hostick Collection.] Through the skills of Mike Robinson, today's foremost Daguerrian artist, this exciting duplicate daguerreotype has been produced.

THIS IS THE CLOSEST ONE CAN GET TO AN ORIGINAL

AN ORIGINAL CANNOT BE HAD, since a daguerreotype is unique. However, because our old negative was taken directly of the original daguerreotype, we can offer this image to collectors in the original form for the first time since the photo was taken. There is much in the image that this photograph will reveal which could not be seen in later copies: the outdoor coarseness of Lincoln's skin; his penetrating eyes; and a crispness of detail not offered anywhere else. The back of the daguerreotype has been carefully inscribed so that future generations will not believe it was produced in 1858. The brass mat is stamped with the edition number and no more will ever be produced.

OUR GUARANTEE: Only traditional materials and methods were used in the making of this daguerreotype! You will be delighted by the image or your money back.

• Placed in a Thermoplastic "Union" Case patterned after a Victorian Textured, Central Oval Design with a
  decorative border and burnished gilt hinges.
• Housed under a numbered Oval Brass Mat bordered by a red velvet mat preserver.
• Opposite an embossed Decorative Velvet Pad with an original, charming decorative "photographer with his camera" design.
• Guaranteed indistinguishable from a 19th century image!

	Price: $525.00

A jape at the expense of the "fair sex," evidently written by some pseudo-misogynist but based on a real incident (one which may have left legal traces, if the text is true to circumstance).

The verses tell of a group of young women, the "Damned Hard Cases," who spurn the fellows and "get a sleigh, fast nags & oysters / Whiskey to make them high & boisterous" and have a Bacchanalian night, "Screaming all the way to steady Wauwatosa...Now since this time, somewhat ashamed / (One horse you know was badly lamed / And the owner, too, has brought a suit) / These Damned Hard Cases by repute / Finding suits will come whatever course they take / Prefer a lover 's suit, to any other make, / And so they now extend their hands / Hope soon to be in Wedlock's holy bands / Joined to those they once did so deride / When the Damned Hard Cases took a silly ride." The accompanying sketch shows about a dozen females in blue cloaks and bonnets with red mufflers, riding in a sledge labelled "D.H.C." One woman stands, diriving a pair of ribby horses; another stands holding a bottle a loft (as the wind carries away her bonnet).

Placards are visible among the rest, reading "Womans Rights," "Celibacy," "Opposition to Male Men," "No Beaux" and "Old Maids Forever." In the far distance is a sketchy group labelled "Police" who are apparent ly in hot pursuit. A transcript of the poem is available, download it here.

Mss. toned a long right edge, w/slight roughness, but both pieces basically very good. An amusing pair.

	Price: $1,850.00

An original, printed, textile (silk?) flag from the 1900 GAR Encampment in Chicago, IL.

Red, white and blue, printed on white fabric, 1/16th inch finished border. Design element features: border corners are impressions of the four fraternal organizational badges, border consists of the 25 corps badges used during the Civil War, surrounding the American flag.

Pressure mounted to blue backing, minor stains, minor corner holes, tear in lower fourth, repair accomplished with cellophane tape. Minor chipping to frame.

	Price: $50.00

The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. The publication of Eye of the Storm first brought his memoir to light, accompanied by a sample of his artwork. Now, with 300 more watercolors, sketches, maps, and diagrams, his artistic legacy can be appreciated on its own terms - an achievement equal in magnitude to his writings, and unsurpassed by any other Civil War soldier-artist.

Images from the Storm presents the best of Sneden's art throughout his odyssey of combat, capture, imprisonment, and deliverance, a pictorial record of the war that puts the viewer in the shoes of a Union soldier as nothing else can. He sketched the camps and surroundings of the Union army, the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, the approach of the army to within sight of the church spires of Richmond, and the tumultuous fighting retreat of the Seven Days' battles. He drew dozens of maps and sketched daily life around Washington before his capture in autumn 1863. For the next 13 months Sneden was a prisoner of the Confederacy, and drew some of the most astonishing images of life and suffering in Andersonville.

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	Price: $3,250.00

The portion of the document remaining reads, “Approved: The stores within condemned will be deposed of as recommended by the Inspector,” which Hill boldly signs in his usual “squished” hand.

Handsomely and archivally framed, with a heavily retouched cdv photo in uniform, under double matting and rule lines.

(Scanned through the glass, brighter in person)

	Price: $27,500.00

From the Lost Original Daguerreotype by J. C. F. Polycarpus Von Schneidau; (Chicago: October 1854). Then fashioned into an Ambrotype by Samuel G. Alschular, (Chicago: July, 1858). The ambrotype is in the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Springfield; and the other existing image, a faded salt print (probably made by Alschular), is at the Chicago History Museum. In fact, only two other 19th century images exist, in the form of cabinet cards.

Lincoln visited Chicago on October 27th and 28th of 1854 and spoke out against the possible extension of slavery resulting from the Kansas/Nebraska Act. It is logical that on October 27th, either before or after this important Chicago speech, Lincoln had the opportunity to have a photograph taken while in the company of George Schneider, who had invited Lincoln to speak and was the publisher of the German Whig newspaper, Illinois Staats Zeitung -- probably the original newspaper Lincoln is holding.

Many historians were misled by the newspaper that Lincoln holds in the photo. The words “PRESS AND TRIBUNE” clearly appear in it. The Chicago Press and Tribune was first published under that name on July 1, 1858 and the masthead was only used by until March 17, 1859. The newspaper heading type was added on the negative from which the salt print and the ninth plate ambrotype were made. The middle word “AND” is larger than the other names, and the entire title “PRESS AND TRIBUNE” is placed too low on the paper, conveniently positioned so that Lincoln’s fingers did not cover the masthead.

Probably George Schneider himself allowed the words to be changed at Joseph Medill’s request, for the Chicago Press and Tribune had the most to gain. Publisher Medill was a firm supporter of Lincoln in his quest for a Senate seat (and later for President), along with fellow anti-slavery publisher Schneider. In a clever marketing tactic, Joseph Medill most likely hoped to capitalize on the famous Lincoln holding the Tribune during the upcoming campaign for the Senate.

See the next listing for a more affordable option.

	Price: $150.00

This digital print was derived directly from a Samuel Alschuler ambrotype taken off the original, lost daguerreotype. (See above).

Using modern production and toning methods, and archivally printed on 100% cotton paper with pigment ink, this is the finest reproduction of this image available. Lincoln originally posed with an anti-slavery newspaper; but in 1858, the Chicago Press & Tribune’s masthead was stripped onto the ambrotype. The Press and Tribune is very clear on the photo, and is clearly evident on the click-thru.

This is a great example of Tribune owner, Joseph Medill's marketing genius.

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	Price: $4,600.00

As governor of Texas, Houston orders that the state Treasurer transfer money from the “contingency fund of the Executive to that of the Attorney General, and take his receipt for the same.” On the verso, writing from the “Treasurers Office,” Attorney General J. W. Tennell writes acknowledging the receipt of “one Hundred Dollars in Exchequer Bills as within specified.”

Excellent with bold ink writing; lt. fold lines and lt. show-through. A fine example.

	Price: $150.00

TOLL OF OFFICE O-116

Originally taken on February 5, 1865, this photo clearly shows the toll of four long years of Civil War.

Because it is derived from a period glass negative, this print is more detailed than any reproduction we have ever seen. It is only one or two generations away from the original photographic rendering. Other modern versions are, at minimum, four generations away. Every subsequent generation loses some of the detail. In our photograph one clearly sees the pencil and spectacles in Lincoln's fidgety hands; his almost ethereal smile; one sees both books with incredible clarity.

This photograph is from a series of reprints, encompasses Lincoln from 1854 and his re-entry into politics to stop the nationalization of slavery through his penultimate image as a care-worn, war-time president. Incuded with this series is a single image of the left side of this stereoview.

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In 1856, after having a second story added to the Springfield home, Mary Lincoln purchased over $1,300 of furnishing, including this double bed. Most likely, the bed was used by one of the Lincoln children, and one can readily imagine Abraham or Mary sitting on the edge, reading a story or soothing a fever.

Upon Lincoln’s election as President, the Lincolns prepared to move to Washington. They sold and gave away several pieces of furnishing to friends and neighbors. This bed was given to their African American servant, Mariah Bartlett Vance (1819-1904). She also received other furniture and relics, two now on display in the Lincoln Home, Springfield, belonging to The National Park Service: a wash stand and a linen chest, now standing in their original places.

Mariah Vance began working for the Lincolns in 1850. She was cook, housekeeper, laundress and governess for the children for ten years, until 1860. (Literary Digest, Aug. 14, 1926) Her husband, Henry, was a handyman who occasionally did work for the Lincolns. Henry was an escaped slave who made it north in the Underground Railway. The bed remained in Mariah’s possession until she was 85 years old, when she gave it to her friend and biographer, Ada L. Sutton. Mariah Vance was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, in a plot paid for by the Lincoln family.

This is one of the most extensively documented Lincoln relics, with an unbroken line of provenance. It is believed to be the only piece of Lincoln family furniture still in a private collection.

	Price: $49.95

It is a rare day when something novel is published about Abraham Lincoln’s life and works. Yet 20,000 volumes later, Mr. Lincoln’s Book is an unknown story.

As the Debates moved across Illinois, Lincoln saved the newspaper accounts of the contest, pasting these columns into a scrapbook. This scrapbook (perhaps two—as a New York newspaper hinted at in 1860) eventually became the Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 … It became a political tract used widely during the 1860 presidential campaign.

Lincoln, a popular politician was deeply thankful for the support of his friends, neighbors, and colleagues. He was pleased to sign or give copies of the book to his most active supporters. These became treasured mementoes to all who received them. The political best seller helped carry the dejected debater of 1858 to the Executive Mansion a mere two years later.

Here for the first time is a detailed narrative account of the book’s publication, focusing on Lincoln’s personal involvement in the process. Leroy unites the full story line with original correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and photos and illustrations of the day.

 This is the first census of all known signed copies of the Debates which, under David Leroy, has grown to a total of 42 copies. The recipient’s role in Lincoln ’s life is documented, as is the book’s provenance and present location.

Profusely illustrated with photos of many of the inscriptions, the book details the publishing history of a book Lincoln so ardently wished to see printed—perhaps his only claim to authorship of his own book.

Included is a CD containing other correspondence leading to the publication.

David joined us at Virtual Book Signing™. Watch the program.

	Price: $1,850.00

The World's Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in America, was actually held in 1893. Creating the Fair was an enormous task. The scope and size of the undertaking forced the commission to push the opening day back from late 1892 to May, 1893. Of course, the delay only heightened anticipation.

This charming souvenir, a wooden box designed to look like a stage, is bordered with lithographic images of a theater interior. The marquee reads "WORLD'S FAIR." The sides and top are covered with period illustrations of images associated with the Fair: Christopher Columbus on top, The Chicago Masonic Temple on one side, a stylized list of Presidents of the United States on the other.

Inside is a hand-colored lithographic scroll on two rollers, with two turned wooden knobs on the bottom. Turning the knobs advances the scroll in the cut-out, displaying the various scenes in sequence. The panoramic scroll contains 22 different images, some of World Columbian Expo sites, including Miner's Building; the Womens' Building; U.S. Man of War; Government Building, Manufacturing and Liberal Arts; Gallery of the Arts and many more. The remaining panels feature images of the U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents from George Washington to Benjamin Harrison.

Theater in somewhat rough condition; moderate edge chipping and overlall browning. Scroll has a tape repair between the Agricultural Building and the Fine Arts Building images. In a sense, the condition is a secondary concern—it was not meant to survive, so it is pretty spectacular that it is even still around!

	Price: $275.00

Light wear of dust jacket; else very good. Signed.

Easton Press edition also available for $200.00

	Price: $29.95

The fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.

An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of blacks who fought at Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend, Olustee, Fort Pillow, Petersburg, Saltville, and Nashville. Among the other topics are the recruitment of African American troops in the Mississippi Valley; the U.S. Colored Cavalry; the military leadership of Colonels Thomas Higginson, James Montgomery, and Robert Shaw; and the black troops who occupied postwar Charleston.

Collectively, these essays probe the broad military, political, and social significance of black soldiers’ armed service. Contributors include Anne J. Bailey, Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Lawrence Lee Hewitt, William Glenn Robertson, and Noah Andre Trudeau.

As new.

	Price: $37.95

In this first biography of the general in more than twenty years, Miller offers a new, original perspective, directly challenging those historians who have pointed to Hood’s perceived personality flaws, his alleged abuse of painkillers, and other unsubstantiated claims as proof of his incompetence as a military leader. This book takes into account Hood’s entire life—as a student at West Point, his meteoric rise and fall as a soldier and Civil War commander, and his career as a successful postwar businessman. In many ways, Hood represents a typical southern man, consumed by personal and societal definitions of manhood that were threatened by amputation and preserved and reconstructed by Civil War memory. Miller consults an extensive variety of sources, explaining not only what Hood did but also the environment in which he lived and how it affected him.

What emerges is a more nuanced, balanced portrait, unfettered by the one-sided perceptions of previous historical narratives. It gives Hood the fair treatment he has been denied for far too long. By looking at Hood’s formative years, his wartime experiences, and his postwar struggles to preserve his good name, this book opens up a provocative new perspective on the life of this controversial figure.

Signed.

	Price: $39.95

Ambitious and outspoken, John Pope was one of the most controversial figures to hold high command during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and in the American West. General John Pope: A Life for the Nation is the first full biography of this much maligned figure who played crucial roles in both the Eastern and the Western Theaters of the Civil War.

Renowned Civil War scholar Peter Cozzens has mined Pope's own memoirs and a wealth of other primary sources to provide a complete picture of this gifted strategist. Uncovering new information about Pope's pre- and postwar career and his path to power, Cozzens delineates the political environment that surrounded Pope and provided the context for his actions.

Cozzens examines Pope's early career first as commander of the Army of the Mississippi and then as leader of a hastily formed Army of Virginia against Robert E. Lee. After his famous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Pope was sent to the frontier. There he held important commands on the western plains over the next twenty-four years, all the while struggling to clear his reputation of the events at Second Bull Run. A principal architect of the Red River War, which broke the resistance of the Southern Plains Indians, Pope espoused humanitarian treatment of subjugated tribes and was recognized as one of the army's leading authorities on Indian affairs.

In place of the simplistic caricature that has satisfied most historians, Cozzens has crafted an accurate, humane, balanced portrait of a complex man involved with the most complex issues of his day. A monumental work on a long-neglected figure, General John Pope offers a fresh look at a key nineteenth-century military leader as well as the most detailed analysis available of Federal leadership during the Second Bull Run campaign.

	Price: Net...$2,850.00

Johnson asks Gideon Welles about an appointment to the “Naval School ” for a fellow Tennessean: “…You will please inform me if there is a vacancy from the first Congressional District of Tennessee.”

V.g.; vert. fold.

	Price: $125.00

Thanking him for a picture he sent.

	Price: $30.00

Marc Egnal takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles, and contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.

Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade along east-west lines. Meanwhile, in the South, soil exhaustion, concerns about the country’s westward expansion, and growing ties between the Upper South and the free states led many cotton planters to contemplate secession. The war that ensued was truly a “clash of extremes.”

Sweeping from the 1820s through Reconstruction and filled with colorful portraits of leading individuals, Clash of Extremes emphasizes economics while giving careful consideration to social conflicts, ideology, and the rise of the antislavery movement. The result is a bold reinterpretation that will challenge the way we think about the Civil War.

Signed.

Watch Dr. Egnal on Virtual Book Signing.

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	Price: $1,750.00

An avid fisherman, Hoover was also a conservationist. Herein he extols the virtues of fishing, but concludes with a protest against over-fishing (“We must have more fish in proportion to water”) and gives a proposed solution.

Excellent, in its original glassine covering. More scarce than its numbers would imply, especially signed!

	Price: $29.95

William Townsend (1890-1964) was an author, lawyer, Lincoln scholar, speaker, and lifelong president of the Kentucky Civil War Round Table. A lifetime defender of the downtrodden, Townsend always had a clear idea of right and wrong, and would staunchly defend his position, even in the face of extreme opposition. He could also spin a rich tale, and often said that he would "never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

One of Townsend's greatest joys was speaking about Kentucky legend Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903). A fiery mix of brains, temper and nerve, Clay was born into a slave-owning family and spent his lifetime opposing slavery and working for its end. Clay was also a lawyer, duelist, publisher, and a Lincoln appointee as ambassador to Russia. Highly skilled with a knife, Clay's famous pearl-handled Bowie knife was still with him, under his pillow, even as he exhaled his last breath.

Here is Townsend's famous address on Clay before a meeting of the Civil War Round Table in Chicago during the fall of 1952. Recorded without his prior knowledge, this lecture has been widely acclaimed for its droll humor, satire, and historical value. This has been called one of the greatest addresses of the 20th century.

Available for the first time on CD, Townsend's knowledge and "feel" for Clay are brought to life once again. For a sample of this important lecture, click here.

	Price: $175.00

Alexander Gardner, as Photographer to the Army of the Potomac, was asked to come aboard and take the first photographs of the alleged conspirators.

Taken as a stereo-view, this view and those he took of the other alleged conspirators, were some of the earliest mug shots ever created.

Under the watchful eye of a U.S. Marine Corps guard, Powell helpfully assumed a variety of poses for Gardner. Here he is seen dressed in the clothing he wore the night he attacked Secretary of State William Seward, as Booth was shooting Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. The solid bar handcuffs that he is wearing were to keep his hands apart.

This hand-crafted 8 x 10 modern photograph was derived from the original collodion glass plate negative and is toned to match the period. Printed on a special black and white receptive acid-free paper.

The clarity here is superb!

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	Price:Net... $3,500.00

Printed on verso of a piece of wallpaper bearing an almost abstract stenciled design (in grays/ green/ blue) of horses and riders racing by marshy ground. Most of the paper’s 4 columns report late movements of the Army of Northern Virginia; other items quote a Chicago Tribune report that Gen. Sherman had a leg amputated; note Copperhead activity in Indiana which can’t “be very encouraging to old Abe”; and call Grant’s men “poor dolts” in discussing the failed attack and undermining of the city’s works a few days’ before. A very short item mentions Lincoln’s pardon of a “young ‘rebel’ named Compton, arrested as a spy,” and sentenced to hang at Fort Monroe; while a bit of defiant humor tells of a young lady in the city who had her bonnet and clothes destroyed by a Parrott shell and thus “‘had good grounds for demanding re-dress.’”

When Vicksburg fell a week later, Union troops occupied the Citizen office and printed their own wallpaper issue with a victory note. Only a handful of wallpaper issues were made; all are very rare.

Overall light staining, with a few larger, darker stains; considerable fold wear w/ tiny losses, affecting bits of text and the vertical gutter fold; neatly tissued on the design side, encapsulated, and double-glazed in a simple brown-wood frame w/ brass corners.

	Price: $2,450.00

A full FDR signature beneath a handsome, full-colored lithographic portrait of the White House.

Originally bound into a 1936 Democratic convention subscriber’s book, this is one of the most attractive presentations of any presidential signature.

	Price: $25.95

The electrifying story of Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama, the Confederate raider that destroyed Union ocean shipping and took more prizes than any other raider in naval history.

In July, 1862, Semmes received orders to take command of a secret new British-built steam warship, the Alabama. At its helm, he would become the most hated and feared man in ports up and down the Union coast—and a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority and depth, and with a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox tells the story of Captain Semmes's remarkable wartime exploits. From vicious naval battles off the coast of France, to plundering the cargo of Union ships in the Caribbean, this is a thrilling tale of an often overlooked chapter of the Civil War.

as new.

	Price: $25,000.00

Housed in an 1865 period frame, with mourning ribbons setting off the ambrotype at the corners. The entire is in a specially designed purple velvet box, which also houses half of the original gutta purcha case for the image, with its cover glass and brass matt.

An image popularized on campaign ribbons and campaign button ferrotypes during the 1860 presidential campaign. Probably obtained during the campaign and then, after the assassination, removed from the half-case and switched to the frame. Mourning ribbons were added and the whole reverently hung on the wall as a memorial to the fallen leader.

A powerful reminder of the emotions Mr. Lincoln’s murder engendered.

	Price: $875.00

“I have your letter of November 30 th, and notice your suggestion of willingness to serve on the Inter State Commerce Commission. The number of applications is large and most of the gentlemen who have been named are men of character and influence. I am glad you are philosopher enough to understand that in a matter of this court I can only wait until the applications are all in and then address myself to them in a judicial way to decide what appointment, on the whole, ought to be made…When you were on the bench you were never compelled to punish a man unless you found him unworthy – (guilty); but unfortunately I am every day compelled to inflict disappointments upon those who I highly esteem and who are worthy of regard and recognition.”

Lightly soiled and foxed, with three folding creases, one horizontal, two vertical, but not effecting legibility at all.

	Price: $1,500.00

A drill team championship pin, in honor of one who won many such drills. Hand-painted; “N.Y.F(ire). Zouaves” on the side.

Of stamped brass with details highlighted in red, white, and blue paint.

Very good, minor chipping to paint.

	Price: $5,500.00

This handsome broadside sports a beautiful image of Liberty holding a union shield and “liberty cap” on a pole, sitting next to an American eagle with spread wings. Below is the full Republican platform as adopted in the “Wigwam” convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president. Beginning with “The Republican Party” and “Its Fundamental Principles,” 17 short, titled paragraphs cover the various issues of the platform, including: State Sovereignty; the Democratic party’s Sectionalism and Extravagance and Corruption; Popular Sovereignty; the Admission of Kansas; and the African Slave Trade. Since Whigs made up much of the new Republican Party, the platform also covered issues important to them: Encouragement of American Industry; Free Homesteads; River and Harbor Improvements; and A Pacific Railroad.

Excellent and of fresh appearance; folds; some v. lt. wrinkling; two small stains at the bottom edge. Quite scarce; not listed in Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 1851-1871.

	Price: $50.00

Mr. Sears is one of our finest and most provocative Civil War historians today; and certainly his writing style will spoil you. This study of Lee’s most dramatic and decisive victory has taken its place beside Bigelow’s as the definitive work on the battle, owing to Sears’ use of new sources, including personal accounts of soldiers on both sides.

Out of Print in cloth. Excellent; d.j.

	Price: $475.00

20 issues, June 30th – November 17th, 1860. Intro. By Stewart W. McClelland. Facsimile reproduction of the complete file of this rare newspaper which was issued to further the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency.

Very good.

	Price: $1,850.00

A black-bordered handbill listing the order of the funeral procession, starting with various military regiments, followed by the hearse, various representatives and senators, military leaders (e.g. Grant and Farragut), family members, President Andrew Johnson and his cabinet, clergy, and more. “Citizens and Strangers” bring up the rear.

V.g.+