A manuscript pass authorizing two men to join the forces defending Fort Ticonderoga, issued less than two months prior to the siege of the Fort (2–6 July 1777) by British General John Burgoyne during the Saratoga Campaign. The pass reads in its entirety: Norwich [Mass.] 20th of May 1777 by Virtue.....
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A compelling brigade battlefield report composed in the immediate wake of the Battle of Port Gibson (Mississippi, 1 May ‘63), an assault that set the stage for Grant’s pivotal siege of Vicksburg; the eight reports of Army of the Tennessee regiments and batteries chronicle extensive combat; the capture of Confederate.....
A fascinating document issued by an army captain serving in the Northwest Territory who attempts here to procure a soldier’s back-rations after the formerly-captured soldier was released by Native Americans in a prisoner exchange. One “A. Prior” certifies here that one of his former soldiers, Thomas Stephenson, was a prisoner.....
An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former’s novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885–1957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia Bailey.....
An evocative muster-out roll for the 96th U.S. Colored Infantry, Co. K, which was raised in New Orleans in 1863 and whose service extended until January 1866, discharging a total of eighty-two men from duty and including information on the service of forty-four additional Black privates who either deserted, died.....
An important dos-à-dos manuscript comprising the personal and governmental ledger of a long-standing governor of the Connecticut Colony, and, in a different and earlier hand, a technical treatise on fortifications—together providing an extraordinarily granular portrait of material life, legislative expenses, and defensive concerns in colonial America. This unusual manuscript comprises.....