PASTORAL LETTER FROM THE BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY OF THE CHURCH IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. DELIVERED BEFORE THE GENERAL COUNCIL, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, AUGUSTA, SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1862 by [Confederate Imprint] - 1862

Richmond, [Virginia]: Adjutant & Inspector General's Office, January 1, 1862. First Edition. 8vo, single sheet folded to form 4 pages. Addendum in manuscript appended at the bottom of page 4. Parrish & Willingham/ Confederate Imprints 2429.
Old folds, moderate edge wear (including short tears), foxed & age toned, couple of small old ink stains, otherwise Good or better.
"The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That a bounty of fifty dollars be and the same is hereby granted to all Privates, Musicians and Non-commissioned Officers in the Provisional Army, who shall serve continuously for three years, or for the war."
The manuscript annotation expands the directive to accommodate transportation expenses: "Note,The commutation (?) of the soldiers (sic) transportation is to be estimated by ascertaining as accurately as possible the actual cost of his transportation to the place of enlistment or enrollment and back.Rail Road rates 2 cents per mile, Stage & Steamboat rates to be… Read More

Mobile, (AL): S. H. Goetzel & Co., 33 Dauphin Street, 1863. First edition. Original printed tan stiff paper wrappers, stapled (some old staining and toning). 8vo. 125 pp. A book length poem. Contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. Text evenly browned, as usual, a very good copy. Parrish & Willingham 6313. Confederate Belles-Lettres 29.

Charlotte, NC: E. H. Britton, 1863. Second edition (of this issue). Double-folio. (2) pp. Prints brief notes concerning a blockade runner in Charleston, skirmishes near Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Franklin, Virginia, and a report on the Battle of Williamsburg that took place four months earlier, etc., ads for various goods and services, a prospectus for the Charleston Mercury, and an ad for NEGRO MEN for farm work, etc. Folded. Uniformly browned, else very good.

[Richmond, VA?, 1864. 6, [2 blank] pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Light dusting, light wear, Good+ or so. Attorney General George Davis recommends "a more general distribution of the laws" and appends the 'Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing...Oct. 26, 1864', on the costs of doing so. Parrish & Willingham 1676.

Augusta, GA: Blackmar & Bro, 1864. One of "The Exotics: Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil.". 4to. (3) pp. Title page printed in green ("B. Duncan & Co. Lith Coilumbia S.C."). Parrish & Willingham 7309. Printed self-wrappers. Foxed, else very good. (627).

[Richmond, VA]: House of Representatives, May 4, 1864. First edition, House Doc. No. 30. 8vo. (1) pp. In part: "Whereas, the present war waged by the Government of the United States upon the Government, people, and property of the Confederate States, is without precedent in its atrocity and unchristian character ... Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That now that our presumptuous enemy treads on our soil, in heavy numbers and menacing attitude, we bid him a proud and scornful defiance ... our people will evince a patriotism and endurance as great as the occasion and as prolonged as the conflict ... [and] record our full confidence in the patriotism and ability of President Davis ... as the pilot to carry us through the present stormy struggle for liberty." Approved Dec. 16, 1863 and signed in type at the end "R.J. Townes, Secretary of State." "Rebel Archives" stamp, else very good.

[Raleigh, 1862. 8pp. 24mo. Self-wrappers. Minor toning, else fine. Noted as "No. 115" above the caption title, this pamphlet was apparently one of a series of religious allegorical publications. The General Tract Agency was perhaps the earliest Confederate tract publisher during the Civil War, established in mid-1861 by an interdenominational group in Raleigh. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 8756. CRANDALL 4689.

Richmond, [VA]: James E. Goode, 1864. 14 cm. 15pp. Brown printed wrappers stitched. Parish & Willingham 8662.

Winchester, Virginia: [Robert H. Gallaher], "Friday Morning, February 14, 1862." Folio newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 24 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.
Old folds, lightly browned & foxed, tiny losses at fold intersects, brief youthful scribblings in ink & pencil in the margins, old ink signature in the top margin of page one & small rubber stamped mark in the bottom margin of page one, otherwise very good.
Contents include: Military Forces of the State;Federal Account of the Partial Destruction of Harper's Ferry; $20 Reward for Deserters from Company A; Strasburg Extension; Head Quarters Department of Northern Virginia, General Orders

(Richmond, VA): Senate Bill No. 155, Jan. 5, 1865. 8vo. 3 pp. 58 numbered lines to the bill which raises the pay and makes other adjustments for women working in a variety of areas: clerks, matrons and nurses in hospitals, seamstresses making military clothing, those "engaged in making or preparing cartridges of other munitions of war, and others. Parrish & Willingham 407. Original printed self-wrappers (Rebel Archives stamp at head of title, blank area at base of integral leaf clipped, uniform toning. Very good.