Price: $1,100.00

Satirical mourning card announcing death of the Confederacy, likely printed in Philadelphia immediately after the end of the Civil War, but before Lincoln's assassination. James B. Rogers was a Philadelphia printer at the time.

"Died, near the south-side rail road, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, The Southern Confederacy, aged four years. Conceived in sin, born in iniquity, nurtured by tyranny, died of a chronic attack of punch.

Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician.
U. S. Grant, Undertaker.
Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner."
N.p. [Philadelphia]: James B. Rogers, N.d. [April, 1865].

The epitaph reads: "Gentle stranger, drop a tear; the C.S.A., lies buried here: In youth it lived and prosper'd well, but like Lucifer it fell; Its body here, its soul in --- well, E'en if I knew I wouldn't tell. Rest C.S.A., from every strife, your death is better than your life; And this one line shall grace your grave – Your death gave freedom to the slave."

Few other copies known. Framed; clean; excellent condition.

	Price: $1,450.00

"Quarter Master Briscoe will furnish transportation for J.R. Blackmore 'Comssy' to Winchester and return." Dated in the month after Ashby had become Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander.

Sm. holes at intersecting folds, clear of sig.; horiz. fold passes through capitals of sig. without affect; soiling, esp. on folds and blank verso.

	Price: $650.00

Henry Ward Beecher was, perhaps, 19th century America’s most influential preacher. His fiery sermons made him New York’s number one tourist attraction. He was a favorite of the lecture circuit, and his pronouncements on the issues of the day, from the pulpit and with the pen, were highly influential. As much an anti-slavery stalwart as his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe (the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin), the charismatic and controversial Beecher (he thought Lincoln acted too slowly toward emancipation), also spoke passionately in favor of women’s suffrage, and on such topics as presidential politics, the tabloid press, and Darwinism.

This image captures the energetic force that Beecher was. He is shown in nearly full length, in hat and coat, looking imperiously to his left.

6” diagonal tear across the top of the photograph just goes through the brim of his hat, and a less evident 5-½” crease almost halfway across; else very good, bright, bold.

	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: $875.00

Benjamin writes a note of recommendation for his former law clerk.

A clean, readable, 4-line document w/ out header. Sig. bold and clear; doc. clean and unchipped. Handsome and scarce.

	Price: $1,400.00

He attained the rank from exploits at Five Forks.

On a small slip of paper, uniformly browned. Probably penned just as the war ended.

	Price: $2,750.00

Chamberlain writes on this small calling card, "Dear sir, I think I will take 'The Battle of Gettysburg' for Monday evening, 14th. / Truly yours…" It is most uncommon, but quite desirable, to see Chamberlain's signature on a note himself mentioning his most famous engagement.

Lt. pencil marks; clean document; no folds; very good.

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	Price: $8,500.00

On July 1, 1863, with their home state invaded, the men of the Pennsylvania Reserves listened to this inspiring order from their commander.

Crawford declared, in part:
"You have once again been called to the field… If you would hail the prospect of active service at any time with delight how much more now. Our native state is invaded by the ruthless hordes of plunderers… To-day within a few hours we shall tread the soil of the Keystone. The eyes of all will be upon us. To us they will look with anxious hearts for relief. Let the sight of our mountains, and our native plains, fire our hearts and nerve your arms for the hour of battle. We strike for all that can be dear to man… [L]et us pledge to each other today, never to cease until we drive the enemy from our country, our Constitution and our peace forever from our soil."

If President Lincoln heard this inspirational speech he surely would have suffered the same exasperated fury he experienced a few days later when Crawford's fellow Pennsylvanian, George Gordon Meade, congratulated the Army of the Potomac for driving the enemy from "our soil," of Pennsylvania.
"My God," Lincoln exclaimed, "Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil."

The attached page is docketed with remark "Address to the troops on entering Penna before Gettysburg." On July 1, 1863 there were nine regiments of Pennsylvania Reserve infantry under Crawford's command, indicating the approximate number of these orders produced. Not in O.R.

A very clean document, folded twice as usual, but with no associated loss; slightly more discolored along right margin, probably from being bound in to an order book.

	Price: $1,850.00 (Net to all)

Colonel DeTrobriand was an expatriate French aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who supported the Union. 

Here he writes to the Adjutant General of New York to complain that his Garde Lafayette (55th NY) is badly under-equipped.  After thanking the state for a delivery of red cloth for his Zouaves, he complains bitterly of the lack of gaiters in an impressive overstatement “… in decency’s name, with what are they to cover their calves or to preserve their tibias from the exposure to the cold air?  Since their pants don’t come any lower than under the knee and their shoes don’t come any higher than their foot.  Give, do give them something to fill the gap!!”  The good colonel then goes on to declare “I will not give up the gaiters, if I must go to the president of the United States himself!” 

A good, full letter that is amusing for its bombast, but also exhibiting DeTrobriand’s tenacious advocacy for his troops.  The seeds of his later success as a combat leader can be discerned in this letter. 

A clean letter, folded twice vertically down the center; bold hand and good penmanship; three small holes in the upper left corner where the letter has been bound with other paperwork; closing salutation written in margin of page 4; else very good.  An interesting and evocative document illustrating the important quiet period when McClellan’s Army of the Potomac was developing into the well-trained and equipped force that it eventually became. 

	Price: $1,850.00

This contemporary copy of Emmett's "Dixie" illustrates the song's instant fame during the secession crisis. Originally published in September, 1859, Emmett's minstrel song gained renown in the south after its April, 1860 debut in New Orleans. Here the lyrics are copied by hand by L. C. Coopers, signed and dated December 16, 1860, only 2 months after its release. A relic of the powerful emotions sweeping the country on the eve of secession.

On lined paper; folded 3 times horiz.; lt. ch. along left edge where torn from a book; else very good.

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	Price: $1,850.00

The five-page manuscript of Everett's patriotic April 27, 1862 speech in New York was given to the New YorkGazette for printing. In the weeks after Fort Sumter New York City was in a patriotic furor, and public addresses like Everett's beat the drum for the war and for the Union. In his lead Everett said, in part, "The great assemblage that I see around me, the simple but interesting ceremonial withwhich the flag of our country has been thrown to the breeze … all proclaiming the deep patriotic sentiment, of which that flag is the symbol and the expression. Nay, it speaks for itself. Its eloquence needs no aid from my lips, to interpret its significance. Fidelity to the Union blazes from its stars; allegiance to the Government, beneath which we live, is wrapped within its folds." The envelope is docketed "Chester Square Flag Raising / Original in Mr. Everett's / hand entirely. / April 27, 1861" .

The cover note is also in Everett's hand with his initials. Letter is clean and complete, with "Mr. Everett's Address" in pencil across the top of page 1, and with a few smudges and finger tip whorls on page 5. An historic and attractive collection.

	Price: $1,250.00

Foote (1806-1863, Union Admiral) here approves the transfer of an afflicted sailor to the Naval hospital at Portsmouth, N.H.  The sailor, Henry C. Gorman, a transfer case from the frigate U.S.S. Minnesota, suffers from “Mania,” and a series of endorsements from Navy surgeons makes his condition progressively clear as Surgeon M. G. Delany certifies that Gorman is “addicted to masturbation,” and that activity is the cause of his mania – and explains his “tumescence”, i.e. a swelling that presumably won’t go down! The document serves as Gorman’s travel pass, and is docketed “Sick Ticket / Henry C. Gorman / Served on the U.S. Ship Portsmouth / 14 June, 1858.” 

A clean document with usual horiz. folds; easily readable throughout, with no loss from chipping. 

	Price: $5,500.00

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: $2,500.00

Certificate for membership in “Jo Daviess Soldier’s Monument Association,” signed by Grant as president of the organization.  Unissued, as usual.  Handsomely engraved with four small vignettes, of Liberty, Union, and what the soldiers of the area did in civilian life, being iron miners and farriers.   Engraved at the top is a portrait of Lincoln, framed by U.S. and battle flags under a spread-winged eagle. 

Countersigned J. E. Smith, a fellow Galena, IL Civil War general, who had recommended Grant to Illinois Governor Yates as a man who ought to know how to raise a regiment.

	Price: $5,500.00

A scarce Grant pose, vignetted from the equally scarce pose of Grant as a major general, with a sword in hand. Probably taken just after the Battle of Chattanooga.  Grant cartes signed as Major General are quite uncommon, too.

This longer form of the Bishop & Campbell backmark (with the ownership statement) is quite unusual.  The light creasing of the albumen across the top, with some glue remnants, does not affect the image, but does attest to the hurried nature of producing a photograph in the field.  A bold sig w/ broad margins. 

	Price: The Pair… $10,500.00

The Grant cdv has the backmark of E. A. Anthony, New York, and was produced from a negative of Mathew Brady. That of Lee has the post-war marking of L. B. Kline, Huntingdon, PA, taken from the war-time Vannerson “Blockade” photographs.

Each bears a clear, bold signature and is in very good condition; the Grant has two clipped corners (for ease of placement in a cdv album).

	Price: $875.00

Excellent tonality and a bold signature.

	Price: $4,500.00

On June 28, 1863, with Confederate troops tramping through Pennsylvania, embattled General Joseph Hooker bade farewell to the Army of the Potomac, turning over command to General George G. Meade. General Hooker's farewell to his troops was issued as General Order Number 66, from Frederick, Maryland. This unique copy--there were perhaps only a couple dozen produced--was drafted in the field for distribution to the army, and was intended for the Artillery Brigade of the V Corps, the unit including men such as "Hazlett's Battery," who would soon fight to defend Little Round Top. The transcriber misidentified it as G.O. 65, and then corrected two mistakes in the final salutation.

A clean copy, with slight discoloration at folds; slight smearing where clerk corrected salutation; light smear at upper right hand corner. AN HISTORICAL MOMENT & DOCUMENT!

	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: $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.

	Price: $2,250.00

A full standing pose, with his left hand at the hilt of his sword.  A contemporary inked note on verso reads “taken while on the Richmond raid” (the failed attempt by Kilpatrick and Ulric Dahlgren in Feb.-Mar. 1864 to free federal POW’s in Richmond – and, perhaps, burn the city and kill Pres. Davis and his Cabinet).  His signed image is desirable and scarce.

Aged strip of “magic” tape in blank area at bottom of verso; sig. appears to be partly written over an original slight smudge (caused perhaps when the print was affixed to the mount); insignificant short vert. bend through sig.; lt. mount wear.  The print is a trifle light and has a hint of spotting. 

	Price: $15,500.00

This copy of Lee’s famous farewell to his troops at Appomattox descended through the family of Joseph Milhon of Kansas City, Missouri, who enlisted in Frederick County (VA) with the 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Company A (aka Richardson’s Battalion) in 1861.  This battalion was used as Scouts, Guides, and Couriers.  Organized as two companies, it was later increased to four and attached to General Headquarters, ANV, serving as General R. E. Lee’s personal cavalry escort.  The unit participated in every engagement at which Lee was present, from Fredericksburg to Appomattox.  On April 9, 1865, it contained 1 officer and 80 men. Major John H. Richardson was in command.

	Price: $1,200.00

Known as “Black Jack” because of his hair and black eyes and his swarthy complexion, Logan was considered one of the Union’s finest combat generals. 

A vignetted pose in uniform.

	Price: $1,250.00

Signed as President of the New Orleans & North Eastern Rail Road Company, certifying that George Ingram 'is entitled to Five Shares' of stock for the R.R. 

Interestingly, Ingram happened to also be Secretary of the R.R. and signs it himself.  But in a red ink across the face of the document is written 'Cancelled.'

Unaccomplished printing on the verso, two engravings, and a fine blind stamp also grace the document. 

Excellent. 

	Price: $2,500.00

As regional superintendent of the military railroad, McPherson certifies that James W. Rodgers is entitled to $90 for "one month's services as road master on the Memphis & Charleston RR…"

Rodgers has a receipt form at the foot of the doc., accomplished by McPherson, which incorporates the second sig. McPherson is exceedingly scarce to find signing in this capacity.

Fine.

	Price: $195.00

This one page extra of the Marietta (Ohio) Intelligencer vividly illustrates the uprising of Unionist sentiment in one northern town in the wake of the attack on Fort Sumter.

The editor reports not only that loyal sentiment is on the rise, but that anti-government expressions are being suppressed, noticing that his competitors “who were chuckling over the success of the rebels on Sunday morning, it is said… no longer give utterance to their treasonable thoughts.” He also notes with satisfaction the report that a mob has destroyed the Democratic Dayton Enquirer because it printed an article penned by Clement Vallandigham. The paper also champions the Lincoln administration’s call for 75,000 militia, noting the quota in regiments for each state.

A fascinating news sheet, giving real-time reporting on any number of personalities and events that earned prominent places in history. A great example that all history was once today’s headlines.

Very good condition for a quickly produced, ephemeral news extra; vertical and horizontal fold lines, with very light loss along the creases; light water stains; two tears repaired by tape on the verso.

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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: $1,500.00

Pleasonton orders Smith, chief of staff to General Judson Kilpatrick, to inform his boss of some changes of plans on the morning of the movement of the Army of the Potomac that resulted in a handy little victory at Rappahannock Station. Pleasonton writes "Instead of the former orders to Gen. Kilpatrick, - Direct him to move up to Kelly's Ford on this side of the Rappahannock and cross in rear of Gen. French's force and post himself in communication on the left of that command. I will send these orders by and aid at once." Kilpatrick complied with his directions, drove enemy cavalry from Stevensburg, Virginia, and stayed in that position until the next day (O.R., Seri 1, Vol. 29, Pt. 2, p.430). This note, however, is not in the O.R.

Note in pencil is stained and spotted on the front; light chipping of extremtiies with very slight loss, and light loss at horizontal fold, with slight loss to phrase "and cross in rear." Else very good.

	Price: $450.00

Probably post-war, breach loading.

Missing ramrod and one band, splitting of stock.

Good looking display piece, at a good price.

	Price: $675.00

This smoothbore percussion "Springfield" musket represents a typical pre-war infantry weapon, popular at the beginning of the Civil War until replaced by better rifle-muskets. Typically fired a 60 caliber round ball wrapped with three buckshot.

Very light chipping of stock; metal covered in gold-colored post-war finish; else very good.

	Price: $1,500.00

Whitney made about 40,000 of these sturdy 58 caliber muskets. Several Connecticut regiments used variants.

Several small nails in stock shaking loose; stock splitting at plate, and at muzzle with slight loss; usual tarnish & light rust; else very good.

	Price: $3,250.00

Rice writes the A.G. to recommend Major E. B. Knox for the position of Lieutenant Colonel in the 44th NY. He mentions that Knox is well suited to command any regiment, and that his appointment would not conflict with the Conscription Act, adding that the regiment, at that time, had over 600 rank and file present. Rice commanded the "Ellsworth's Avengers" regiment at Gettysburg, where they helped defend Little Round top with Joshua L. Chamberlain's 20h Maine, as part of Col. Strong Vincent's brigade. Appointed brigadier general on Aug. 17, 1863, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania May 10, 1864.

Rice's signature is bold & un-crowded. Rice also signs on docket. Three folds, 1 just beginning to separate. Bright signature on a clean document. Desirable with important associations.

	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: $1,100.00

"To the Office of the U.S. Army / I commend to your polite notice Major Cullen, formerly Inspector of Indian Affairs in Wisconsin and Minnesota, who now goes to Montana on business of his own.
Any kindness and attention shown him will be esteemed a favor by myself."

William J. Cullen was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern Superintendency during the Buchanan Administration, and commanded the "Cullen Guards", a volunteer mounted regiment, during the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in 1862.

On lined 4p "Head Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi" stationary, 8" x 10", written only on first page; three horizontal folds, two vertical folds; lt. browning, esp. on fourth page; lt. tears at top & bottom of vertical folds, not effecting text; else v.g.

	Price: $475.00

The print, "From A Photograph" and with a facsimile signature, depicts "Uncle Billy" late in life, in full dress uniform with epaulets, sash, and GAR medal.

A bold, excellent presentation!

	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: $2,500.00

An important find! Tillson reports to his commander, General Irvin McDowell, through McDowell's chief of staff, Colonel Edmund Schriver, regarding the participation of Union artillery in three actions comprising the 2nd Manassas campaign.

This report does not appear in the Official Records. Actions covered include Rappahannock Station (August 22, 25, 1862), Brawner's Farm (August 28, 1862), and 2nd Manassas (August 29-30, 1862). Tillson reports in great detail, adding significant primary information on famous and dramatic battles. His batteries, including Campbell's Battery B, 4th U.S. (Antietam) and Hall's 2nd Maine (1st day at Gettysburg) fought closely with the famous Iron Brigade at Brawner's Farm. His batteries also suffered terribly during Longstreet's famous attack on Pope's army, August 30, 1862. Tillson was later promoted to brigadier general, and served in the Western Theater. This important, and previously unknown, report adds significantly to our understanding of Pope's crucial and ill-fated campaign.

Evidence of tearing at left extremity indicates that this was removed from an order book; holes at tops indicate inclusion in spindle book; usual toning; written in very neat hand; very good.

	Price: $1,750.00

He calls for “a few more able-bodied recruits to fill up the company,” because his unit had already been accepted by the government for the “duration of the War.”   

The company, also called the “Flushing Battery” completed its organization in November, 1861, and served some time in the defenses of Washington.  In August of 1862, designated Battery L, 2nd New York Light Artillery, the battery took the field as part of John Pope’s army, and saw their first battle at Cedar Mountain, Virginia.  Later designated 34th Independent Battery Light Artillery they served through the war with Burnside’s IX Corps. 

Robinson makes a fascinating explicit appeal to the general community of Flushing to support the battery (beyond just providing recruits) since it “will be the only corps at the Seat of War representing the Town and the County.”  He clearly relied on the Golden Cord that connected Civil War units to their communities of origin.  Before the war ended seven of Flushing’s artillerists fell in battle and fourteen more died of disease. 

An uncommonly clean copy; well-preserved with light discoloring near the bottom; a stamp on the verso from the New York Bureau of Military Statistics (July 2, 1866) shows through lightly, and suggests the cause for the uncommonly fine state of preservation.  This copy was, perhaps, submitted to the State by Captain Robinson for archival purposes and never posted. 

An uncommonly vivid artifact of the first year of the war.

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	Price: $725.00

History meets Hollywood!  This book sold more than 300,000 copiesin ten years, helped popularize the historical novel as a literary form, and was twice made into spectacular films.   A true classic by this Renaissance man, who might have saved Washington, D.C. from capture at the battle of Monocacy, and who was a judge at the trial of the Lincoln murder conspirators (while drawing portraits of the criminals).  This edition has stills of scenes and charactersfrom the play.

Wallace's inscription reads "I beg you to believe me most truly and always your sincere friend" Lew Wallace/New York/Dec. 14 1903.

(Visit the Rare Book Section for another edition, signed by the actor who played Messala in the 1925 production).

Minor edge wear, minor head and tailband wear, blistering on back board, small tear on blank flysheet, minor water staining on some pages, does not interfere with text. Very pretty and bright!

	Price:$18,500.00

Sweney – a Philadelphia lawyer – most likely reported the news that Pennsylvania Congressman John Hickman (1810-1875) was switching party allegiance and joining the Republicans.  Hickman had been elected in 1854 as an anti-Lecompton Democrat.  But with the fracturing of that party into Southern and Northern factions in 1860, he was one of numerous anti-slavery-extension Northern Democrats who became a Republican.  As President, Lincoln rewarded Sweney with an appointment as an Internal Revenue assessor.  [Basler, Supplement One, 1-:56]  

Excellent example with strong, bold ink writing; usual folds; lt. dusting on verso. 

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In full:  This morning Mrs. [caret] Moore and her daughter Miss. Jane B. Moore, both noted for their philanthropic labor among our sick and wounded soldiers, have done me the honor of a call, and for which I am grateful(.)”  Perhaps cut from an autograph album presented by the Moores to Lincoln for a sentiment when they visited the president in his office.

Both mother and daughter were battlefield nurses, exposed to frontline fire.  In a 1910 letter, written by Jane B. Moore Bristor, the daughter wrote, “As I have entered my seventieth year and am an invalid from exposure and wounds received upon the battle fields of the Rebellion, where with my mother I worked to relieve the wounded….”  Evidently a shrewd business woman, she boasted, “I have made in twenty years more than three times what was left me by my mother, besides giving away about thirty thousand dollars….”  She received a pension for her war service in the 1890s and was an activist on behalf of temperance and woman’s suffrage.

	Price: $395.00

Wills writes on the cusp of Lincoln’s first inauguration, “I am a northern man and also a strong Lincoln.  I had no vote but I was out with a company of Wide Awakes, and was a member of the company.”  Wills also talks of girls, friends, and other matters. 

A fragile letter, separating at the center fold; lt. stains; yet very good overall. 

	Price: $475.00

All Lincoln related items from California are scarce and quite desirable – not enough to go around!

	Price: $475.00

Bearing a nice device of the U.S. flag planted on a globe (“Our Country”) sailing on water.

	Price: $575.00

In full: "The enclosed (not present) is authoritative - that is I can say privately it has rec[eived]d the sanction of the president since it was spoken. But it appears on its face to be the speech of a friend & from public facts so that no other facts need be stated to make it an _____. / In haste yours truly / M. Blair / Wash. Apr 14.62". I

t would be interesting to know which pamphlet expressing the administrations views by other means.

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Ellsworth and the Cadets published this small pamphlet to promote their drill team, and to challenge other militia companies to the contests of precision that made the Chicago company famous.  The attractive orange calling card indicates the company’s sponsorship of a debutante ball, and bears Ellsworth’s initials on the back.

Pamphlet w/ lt. fox & lt. ch. extrems; card w/ lt. ch. at upper left corner; else very good. The pair

	Price: $9,500.00

Boyle was serving at this time as military governor of Kentucky.  Margaret Preston, wife of Confederate General William Preston, was an intimate girlhood friend of Mary; she probably wished to pass through the Union lines in order to see her husband.  Abraham Lincoln sent a telegram at the same time, giving authority to Boyle to issue the pass.  [WORKS, Vol. VIII, 13.] 

Blue lined paper; small inner tear repaired crudely on the verso; irregular left margin.  [In Turner, LIFE AND LETTERS, pg.131]

	Price: $3,850.00

Captain Alexander H. Todd (1839-1862), Mary's half brother, had been killed while fighting for the Confederates at Baton Rouge. According to the Official Records of the War, he was mortally wounded in a friendly fire incident before dawn on August 5, 1862, and died 2 weeks later.  Triplett was a friend of Alex and served in the same Confederate unit, the 1st Kentucky (CSA) Cavalry.

After a discussion of Helm’s horses, for which Triplett seems to be responsible, he informs Helm (himself killed at Chickamauga the following year) that “Lt. A. H. Todd has pay due him from 1ST July…amounting to $157.50…I sold Alex’ horse for ($350) Three hundred and fifty dollars.  I hold Alex’ note for ($119) One hundred nineteen dollars and I paid three dollars for digging his grave…If I can get the no. of the three pistols Alex  bought near Selma I think I could get his pistol.  The numbers are in his Memo book…I will on the next page make a statement as to where Alex’ body now rests that it may if desired be removed to Ky. if that Land shall hereafter be free.  I hope you may soon recover and again be at the head of whatever column I may be with.  By best regards to all related to my deceased friend / George W. Triplett of Davis County Ky”

Triplett then takes the entire third page writing:  “First Lieutenant. / Alexander H. Todd was killed near Baton Rouge on the 5th day of Aug 1862.  His remains were buried the same evening on the farm of Wm Pratt 4-1/2 miles from Baton Rouge on the Greensburg Road.  Mr. Pratt was formerly from Scott Co. Ky.  Alex’s grave is very near a pleasant tree in the plum orchard.  The head of the grave is just (12) Twelve feet N.E. of a white oak marked A H Todd.  The grave is also about 30 steps East of the Stalls & Barns. / [hand-drawn map] / The above will enable the family to find the exact spot. / and signed as above

	Price: SOLD

Large Portrait of Booth on the back page, with a lengthy article on him and his temperament.  Many articles inside, like “The Beard Question.”

	Price: $1,350.00

A cream-colored card bearing Boston Corbett's signature.

Minor stain, "983" in red at base--both easily matted out; Verso has pencil notes, including "(Hopkins Collection)". V.g.

	Price: $875.00

A beautiful example in excellent condition.

	Price: $225.00

Pages 2 and 3 of every issue contain editorials and articles giving "facts and rumors" about the assassination, Gov. Seward's condition, Payne's arrest, Booth's guilt, the obsequies (incl. an account of the capital funeral), and public mourning and reaction (one item tells of a man mobbed and fired for declaring the news of Lincoln's murder the "best he had heard for four years").

Removed from a bound vol.; some marg./fold wear, toning, sm. tears, but overall v.g.

	Price: $475.00

Extensive coverage on all aspects of the assassination, its aftermath, and the personalities involved. Among other items noted: the text of Edwin Booth's letter lamenting the crime and his brother's probable involvement; a detailed account of the New York funeral; news of the chase, and finally the death of John Wilkes Booth at Garrett's farm.

Foxing, edge/fold wear and various sm. faults, but fundamentally all quite good.

	Price: SOLD

Neither Hesler nor Mary Lincoln liked this image, though Lincoln called it “a very true one.”  Hence, there are only two period salt prints extant, the true “life” prints coming directly off the original glass negative; and only two period albumens taken from the salt print!

The original negative was a quarter-plate size; the present albumen print has been reduced from that.

Most likely this was made for campaign purposes during Lincoln’s 1860 presidential run.  Supporters would have given the image out to someone who might help Lincoln’s nomination for the Republican Party, even though it was an unflattering portrait of their candidate.

	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: $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.