An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect on everyday life, as mounted and bound by an early twentieth century collector. These envelopes feature a remarkably wide range of subjects: American flags; eagles; military.....
An unrecorded Confederate song-sheet published very early in the Civil War by an up-and-coming young bookseller and businessman in Jasper, Tennessee. The first of the two anonymously-authored songs printed here, “To Mr. Lincoln,” was evidently composed early in the conflict—before General Winfield Scott resigned as General-in-Chief of the Union armies.....
The stated tenth edition of this quickstep dedicated to Major Robert Anderson, the commander of Fort Sumter when it was attacked by Confederates, with a fine lithographic portrait of Anderson on the title page situated above two American flags, an eagle and serpent, and a moonlit view of the Fort.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside for a lecture delivered by a Union veteran who avenged the killer of the first slain Union serviceman of the Civil War. In May 1861, private Frank E. Brownell of the 11th Fire Zouaves arrived in Alexandria, Virginia. After the commander of the regiment, Col. Elmer.....
A general order exempting from the draft African American men already employed by the Union Army, issued by a Union General most famous for attempting to abolish slavery in several southern states prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. Issued by Major General David Hunter just under two weeks after his order.....
An unusual, hand-colored example of this handsome broadside edition of the Emancipation Proclamation designed by penmanship master Gilman R. Russell of New Hampshire and described by Eberstadt as a “highly decorative edition.” The text of the proclamation, omitting the preliminary matter, is presented here wrapping around a central full-length portrait.....
A Charles Magnus broadside featuring a narrative of Gen. Hugh J. Kilpatrick’s assault on Richmond (conducted in tandem with Col. Ulric Dahlgren), and a chronology of the major events of the Civil War. The first part of this broadside, entitled “Mirror of Events 1861–62–63–64,” records events of the war up.....
A rare broadside consisting of a list of the killed of the Twenty-Fourth Michigan Infantry (AKA the Iron Brigade), providing the date and place of decease, and featuring a note soliciting further information about the circumstances of the deaths of these soldiers for a future publication on the regiment’s history.....