Sam Davis: A True Story of a Young Confederate Soldier Who Was Hanged After Capture Because He Would Not Betray a Secret of His Commander by Hamil, Dr. Howard M - 1959

Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1863 IN FAIR CONDITION. Engraved frontis intact, 120pp, bound in brown, blind stamped cloth. Corner wear on covers, wear to top/heel of backstrip, lacks free endpapers, pencil notation inside back cover, which has been crossed out, interior foxing. By the Author of Elfie Grafton, wrotten for the Mass. S. S. Society. CIVIL WAR FICTION.

"THE KNIGHTLY SOLDIER" - A Biography of Major Henry Ward Camp; Tenth Conn. Vols. by H. Clay Trumbull. 1865 1st Edition; Nichols and Noyes; Boston. "A Record of College, Field, and Prison." The book contains a frontispiece portrait of Camp, as well as 4 illustrated plates; also included is the "Description of Plates" sheet.From the Preface:"This book is not an attempt to prove that Henry Camp was brave, accomplished, and upright in all the course of his beautiful life here, or that he was fully prepared for the future to which God so early called him. It simply shows him as he was, grouping the memorial sketches of those who knew him best in the various relations of student, soldier, and Christian; with copious extracts from his own letters, written in all the freedom of family correspondence."The chapter are as follows:I. Childhood and SchooldaysII. College LifeIII. Teacher - Law-Student - SoldierIV. Roanoke and NewberneV. Camp-Life and CampaigningVI. The First Charleston ExpeditionVII. James Island… Read More

* Manual of bayonet exercise: prepared for the use of the army of the United States. Printed by Order of the War Department, Published by J.B Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia (1861) authored by George B. McClellan, Capt.1st Regt, Cavalry, U.S.A.......Dark brown leather covered boards with gilt titling on spine are good boards do have some minor chipping at corners and spine. Gilt titling is readable but has some fading. Spine is tight with no tearing at hinges. Pages are good but have minor tanning at edges. Illustrations of Bayonet fighting positions are ok, some have faded a bit but all appear to be viewable. Overall a good copy of a rare civil war manual, and if you want to really get good at this I'd start with some ballroom dancing lessons to get light on your feet, a video camera so you can critique your movements, Xerox some of the send paper fold out sheets in the back with the positions and make yourself some flash cards, after you master this you can take up fencing, any level of mastering a… Read More

H.W. Bolton, Chicago, IL, 1892. Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. 219 pp with b/w illustrations. Pages 91-96 have three-inch tears from fore edge, but intact and readable. Text block yellowing typical of age, no discernable foxing. No prior owner attribution or evidence of being a library copy. This book is a rare compilation of anecdotes of members of the 16th Maine Volunteers during the U. S. Civil War.

[Civil War] Fairbanks, Charles. The American Conflict as seen from a European Point of View. A Lecture Delivered at St. Johnsbury, Vt., June 4, 1863. Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery. 1863. Tan printed wraps. 24 cm. 44 pp. Age toning. Light stains. Very good.
Sabin Americana 23664. In Texas apparently only UT-Austin and UT-Arlington hold copies. Fairbanks had been in London and reports the European attitude towards the war.

Austin: Ericson, 2003. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Reprint of the first edition published in 1912. Gray cloth with white titles on spine and upper board. Corner bumped. 902pp., photographic reproductions, and in addition to the alphabetical memoirs of each soldier there are also these documents: Chronological List of Engagements by States, Constitution of the Confederate States and Members of the Provisional and Regular Congress of the Confederate States. Clean, no names, no writing. 4to gray cloth. A much needed and enormous undertaking. Contains 2,006 entries. BASIC TEXAS 223 -"Predominantly Texans, common soldier recollections, delightful insights into the life of the soldier." NEVINS II-248.

[Civil War] [Texas] Gideon Welles. General Order, No. 55. [Washington, D.C.?]: [publisher not identified] May 24, 1865. White printed wraps. 21 cm. One sheet folded into four leaves, printing on first two only. Two small holes in margin, not affecting the text, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings for this order. Signed in type: Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Andrew Johnson, President and W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. Announcement of the order by President Johnson to end the naval blockade against foreign commerce, except in the ports of Galveston, Lasalle, Brazos de Santiago (Port Isabel) and Brownsville, Texas. "All such offenders will be held and dealt with as pirates." Although Lee had surrendered in April 1865, the Confederate armies in Texas had not surrendered, hence the U. S. naval blockade on Texas ports needed to be maintained.

[Civil War] Ten Clipped Civil War Covers Featuring Pro-Union and Anti-Confederate Images. [No publication information] [Circa 1861-1865] Each clipped portion of a civil war cover (envelope) is approximately 8 x14 cm. Some age toning and light stains. Colors are vibrant. They do not appear to have been mailed. Very good.
Although done by private companies, these patriotic envelopes served as propaganda for the Union and were purchased by those on the home front to send to their loved ones serving in the war or by those serving in the war. These feature various images including American flags. Cannon. Dogs and Cats among others. Would make a great display.

[Texas] [Civil War] S. H. Darcy. Autograph letter, signed. La Grange, Texas. June 4, 1863. To Mrs. Jones. One page. 8 x 10.5 in. Black ink on blue paper. Approximately 250 words.
La Grange, Texas, the county seat of Fayette County, was untouched by fighting during the Civil War. This letter gives an interesting view of the home front in 1863. A long discussion on getting a quantity of sugar, which would have been scarce and which "cost me by the hogshead 1 dollar a pound" but will let her have a pound for "less than 1 dollar and 25 cents." Mentions someone who traveled to Arkansas and saw her sister, indicating that the war had not yet disrupted travel of that sort. In addition, a number of Confederate militia companies were organized at La Grange. The letter writer indicates that a friend had a letter from "Wink" who says "they are ordered to the Rio grande." Civil war material of this type from La Grange is uncommon.

[Civil War] Three Union Civil War Letters. [Circa 1861-63] Two home front letters, one with a colorful Union letter head; one mentioning the draft; with a letter from a soldier at Fort Scott about the death of his former girlfriend.
The first letter has a colorful letterhead The Young Volunteer "Bully for You" depicting a soldier with saber, in front of a canon with an American Flag. Weston [Mass.?] August 6, 1861. News of home, travel. The second letter is from a young woman on a farm to her Aunt. She discusses the draft, so probably 1863. She is happy her Uncle was not drafted. She also notes "they have not drafted here yet. They will in a few days. They have been waiting until they get the wheat threshed." The third letter is from a soldier at Fort Scott, Virginia to his mother. It has the envelope postmarked Alexandria Virginia Aug. 4, 1863. He explains he tried to get a furlough to come home, apparently because his former girlfriend died, but messed up the paperwork. Interesting group about life… Read More