![Manuscript compilation of official reports for the Battle of Port Gibson.]. George Francis...](/pictures/thumb/5491_1.jpg?v=1563205789)
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.....
![Letter of the Wife of a Union Soldier Apparently From Maine, On the Ravages of the Civil War.]....](/pictures/thumb/5485_1.jpg?v=1563205676)
A moving Civil War letter by the wife of a Union soldier apparently from Maine, referencing the horrors of the battlefield and her fears for the life of her husband Charlie who was apparently serving in the Maine 1st Regiment. Writing to her “Friend Julia,” aged fourteen and living in.....
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.....