A revealing gathering of receipts, payroll sheets, vouchers, and other documents spanning four years of operation at Fort St. Philip—a location of immense strategic importance to New Orleans—and including a large payroll sheet listing the names, terms of service, and compensation for over thirty enslaved laborers, as well as the.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside detailing three bloody days in the final stages of the Modoc War, printed in Salt Lake City from a series of dispatches sent to San Francisco by U.S. troops pursuing Captain Jack (Kintpuash) and his comrades through the “Lava Beds” of northern California. Vivid updates from.....
First edition of this Revolutionary War diary and orderly book, shedding light onto the militia experience at Winter Hill during the Siege of Boston and around Lake Champlain during one of the first naval engagements of American independence. Jonathan Burton was born in Middleton, Massachusetts in 1741, and first served.....
An appealing and apparently unrecorded Capewell Horse Nail Company advertising calendar featuring an illustration of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders charging into battle with their sabers drawn, a dashing figure seemingly representing Roosevelt himself prominent in the foreground. This topical advertisement was issued shortly after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War—when.....
A handsome broadside on silk commemorating in image and verse the heroism of Captain James Lawrence, published in the wake of his death during the War of 1812. Born in New Jersey to a Loyalist family, Capt. James Lawrence, Esq. (1781–1813) enlisted in the U.S. Navy while still a teenager.....
A rare certificate of service relating to the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre which saw a frontier volunteer party undertake a treacherous winter expedition to pursue the hostile Sioux, guard against further attacks upon settlers, bury the dead, and attempt to recover four female hostages seized by the Indians. .....
A detailed muster roll for Company G of the 64th Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry while stationed in the vicinity of Vidalia, Louisiana, with content relating to illness, death, desertion and female servants. This document lists the company’s three white officers and eighty-six Black privates, in addition to eight deceased.....
An apparently unrecorded circular detailing the Court Martial of an African American soldier (and former Virginia slave) who was convicted of three charges and executed by firing squad. As specified here, Private Samuel Mapp of the 10th U.S. Colored Troops, Co. D was charged with mutiny, disobedience of orders, and.....
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.....