MY STORY OF THE WAR: A WOMAN'S
NARRATIVE OF FOUR YEARS OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE -Worthington &
Co., Hartford 1889 -VERY GOOD Condition - Bright Red Boards with Gilt Embossing - Minor
exterior and corner wear - Clean and Tight Interior - previous owner faint name stamp inside
boards - Numerous steel engravings and color plates of Battle Flags - Nevins says of this
"Well-known, valuable reminiscences; especially good for accounts of military hospitals and
relief work" - This book also provides interesting details of the Chicago Mercantile Battery with
diary quotations from several diaries of that unit that were in Mary Livermore's possession
following the war - including engraved plates of the battery - This Copy Includes Mary
Livermore's SIGNATURE on tipped in Card - $375
HISTORY OF THE FIFTH REGIMENT RHODE
ISLAND HEAVY ARTILLERY DURING THREE YEARS AND A HALF OF SERVICE IN
NORTH CAROLINA - JANUARY 1862 - JUNE 1865 - Snow and Farnham,
Providence RI 1892 - 1st Edition - VERY FINE Condition in Dark Brown Cloth with Bright Gilt
title on spine and 5th Rhode Island Artillery Emblem on Cover - Clean and unblemished Interior
- 382pp - Rosters - Photos - Index - Union Bookshelf (UBS) # 206 - Frontis of Colonel Henry
Sisson (Very small taped tear in upper blank corner) - 47 illustrations and portraits, including
four maps (twofold-outs) - Protected by a clear acid-free mylar cover - $450
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF
THE
REBELLION 1861-1866 - Burr Printing, NY 1895 - FINE Condition -
-Minor chip to top spine edge - Inscribed and Signed by the Author - recollections while assigned
to Gen. Wool's command in Norfolk, VA during the 1st year of the war - $250
THE FIFTEENTH OHIO VOLUNTEERS AND ITS
CAMPAIGNS 1861-1865 - Columbus, Ohio 1916 -1st Edition -NEAR FINE Condition -
1st Edition Printing - Original Dark Blue Cloth with Nice Bright Gilt Title on Spine - Light wear
to corners - 796 pages with corrections page at rear - one of Fox's Fighting 300, this unit fought
at many battles including Shiloh, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca,
Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville - $395
HISTORY OF THE SERVICE OF
THE THIRD OHIO VETERAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY IN THE WAR FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF THE UNION FROM 1861-1865 - Toledo 1910 - Scarce 1st
Edition - In FINE Condition - Clean and Tight Interior - title on spine is difficult to read - 296pp
with Rosters - Inscription on fep in red ink "Grampa Augusta House was in Comapny G...." - The
3rd Ohio Cavalry fought at Stones River, Chickamauga, Shelbyville, Kennesaw Mountain
Atlanta,
Franklin, Selma and Macon where they helped capture Jefferson Davis - $350
THE TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT OF IOWA
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. A NARRATIVE OF ITS EXPERIENCE IN ACTIVE SERVICE,
INCLUDING A MILITARY RECORD OF EACH OFFICER, NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICER, AND PRIVATE SOLDIER OF THE ORGANIZATION -Milwaukee - King,
Fowle & Co. 1891 -1st Edition - FINE Condition - Lightly bumped at corners and spine ends -
Bright Gilt Title on Spine and Front Board - The author served as Unit Adjutant - 232pp - 12
Maps (Includes one fold-out) - Contains SIGNATURE and Inscription on FEP from Private
Henry G. Porter of Co K - listed at rear of book - This was apparently donated to a library by
Porter in 1918 and contains a typed thank-you letter from the library to him pasted down inside
the front cover, indicating that it may have later been returned to him - $495
RECITS DE GUERRE, L'INVASION 1870 - 1871
(DESSINS PAR L. MARCHETTI ET ALFRED PARIS) - Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Rue
Chaptal, Paris (1892) - FINE Condition - Folio Size 14 x 12 Inches - In 3/4 Red Morocco with
Marbled Boards - 245pp - Clean and Tight with Gilt Top Edge and Silk Pagemark String - Bright
Gilt title on Raised Band Spine - Illustrated with 158 engravings and drawings by L. Marchetti
and Alfred Paris - Includes 19 colored plates - Four Double Spreads - many highly detailed Black
and White Drawings including Eight Double Spreads - A Classic Account of the Franco-Prussian
War - $295
CAMPAIGNS OF THE ARMY OF
NORTHERN
VIRGINIA INCLUDING THE JACKSON VALLEY CAMPAIGN 1861-1865 -
Richmond 1928 - Scarce 1st Edition - NEAR FINE Condition - Light Discoloring to Boards -
167pp -
Fold-Out Maps - Personal
observations of the author who served in the 2nd Company of the Richmond Howitzers - $325
A HISTORY OF CO. A, FIRST
OHIO CAVALRY
1861-1865 - A MEMORIAL VOLUME - Washington Courthouse, Ohio 1898 - Scarce
1st edition - VERY FINE Condition (the cleanest copy of this we've seen) - 219pp plus errata -
Photos - Bright and Clean Interior - Solid Hinges - The author was a Bugler with the Unit - The
Unit fought in Maryland and Virginia - $595
EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER -
Pittsburgh 1892 - Scarce 1st edition - VERY FINE Condition - Bright and Clean in Green Cloth
with Gilt 1849 on Front Board - Believed to be one of only 50 copies printed - 390pp - Frontis of
Author plus 13 Illustrations (All Present) - Sylvester Marvin bookplate inside front board -
includes laid-in presentation slip to Marvin from Author - Marvin was one of the Founders of the
National Biscuit Company - - This copy does not include the later issued blue-print map and
extra portrait - (Howes J173; Graff 2229; Streeter Sale 3198; Kurutz 364a; Cowan p316; Mintz
261) - $1800
THE LAST NINETY DAYS OF THE WAR IN
NORTH CAROLINA - Watchman Publishing, NY 1866 -VERY GOOD Condition -
Scarce 1st edition in Blue Cloth - Bright Gilt Title on Spine - Wear to corners and spine ends -
287pp - Publisher's Ads at rear - Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University
of North Carolina in 1895, Cornelia Spencer was known as the Chapel Hill Correspondent for the
North Carolina Presbyterian and first wrote these stories for the New York Watchman - she
writes '...our little girls still held their regular meetings for knitting soldiers' socks, all
unconscious of the final crash so near, while the peach trees were all abloom, and spring was
putting on all her bravery.' - $295
BETHEL TO SHARPSBURG: NORTH CAROLINA
IN
THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES - Raleigh 1926 - 2 Vol Set - Scarce 1st Edition -
FINE Condition - Clean with Bright Boards and Spine Lettering - Son of the Confederate
General
known for asking Jeff Davis to relieve Bragg following the battle of Chickamauga, Hill authored
the North Carolina volume of the Confederate Military History, Hill died after completing some
21 chapters of this work and his manuscript ends with Chapter 22 on the Maryland Campaign -
$375
A NARRATIVE OF SERVICE
WITH THE THIRD
WISCONSIN INFANTRY - Madison 1912 - 1st Edition - NEAR FINE Condition (with
normal
darkening to cream colored spine) - 197pp - Index - This unit served in XII Corps and was one of
Fox's "Fighting 300" - $225
HISTORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY-FIFTH REGIMENT
PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 1862-1863 - Lippincott, Philadelphia 1906 - FINE
Condition - 1st Edition - Photos - Rosters - Chronology of Events - Organized at Harrisburg in
August 1862, the 125th Pennsylvania fought in the Maryland Campaign, Antietam, Maryland
Heights, Burnside's Mud March, and Chancellorsville - $250
NARRATIVE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS
- D. Appleton, NY 1874 - FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Solid Endpapers - Light wear at
edges and epine ends - Bright Clean Illustrated Boards - An increasingly difficult find in anything
but poor shape - Frontis of Johnston - Fold Out Maps - Steel Engraved Portraits - Nevins calls
this "One of the earliest Confederate reminiscences; strongly partisan, anti-Davis, and defensive
in tome..." - *CBS (A "Confederate Bookshelf" Title) - *In Tall Cotton #101 - $450
ONE HUNDRED YEARS WITH
THE STATE
FENCIBLES - A HISTORY OF THE INFANTRY CORPS, INFANTRY BATTALION AND
OLD GUARD STATE FENCIBLES 1813-1913 - Philadelphia 1913 - FINE Condition -
Bright Covers and Spine - Clean and Tight Interior - 435 pp plus Muster Rolls, Index, and
Manual of Arms - Photos - $250
HISTORY OF THE 45TH
REGIMENT,
MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA (The Cadet Regiment) - Wallace Spooner,
Boston 1908 - VERY FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Bright Spine and Boards with 18th Army
Corps Emblem on Cover - Photos - Rosters - Name/Address list from 1908 - Details actions of
the regiment in North Carolina during the war - Previous owner bookplate inside front board -
$295
BACK "IN WAR TIMES" -
HISTORY OF THE 144TH
REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY - Horace Bailey, Unadila NY
1903 - VERY FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Presentation copy Inscribed "Mr & Mrs F. L.
Norton With Kindest regards of the Publisher Horace E. Bailey and SIGNED by him and dated
July 1903 by Bailey was a Lieutenant in Company H of the unit from January 1864 till June
1865 - a Clean Bright Copy - 378pp - Maps, Index, Rosters and Photos - This regiment was from
Delaware County, New York. - $375
THE SEVENTIETH INDIANA
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION - Indianapolis 1900 - 1st Edition - FINE
Condition - 372pp - Gilt Top Edge - Photos - Rosters - This copy belonged to private James M.
Wills of Co. "C" who served from 1862 to 1865 - and bears a lengthy SIGNED inscription to his
daughter on fep - reads in part "...that our free America might remain as one nation with but
one Flag - the Stars and Stripes - as given to us by our forefathers at great cost..." -
Organized in
Indianapolis in 1862, the 70th Indiana served in Tennessee, the Battle of Atlanta, Resaca, New
Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Savannah and North Carolina - $450
RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL REEFER -
Constable & Co - London 1918 - FINE Condition - Story of the CSS Georgia - Raider of the
Confederacy - Nevins calls this "A colorful autobiography of an ubiquitous and observant
youngster; much useful information on the Confederate Naval School" - $225
NEW YORK AT GETTYSBURG
- Lyons Company, Albany 1900 - 1st Edition - FINE Condition - 3 Volume Set in 3/4
leather with Gilt Top Edge - We originally purchased this set from the estate of Charles
Sonnenberg of Cape Town, South Africa some years ago and it has finally come home again -
Sonnenberg was a German Immigrant who served under General Dan Sickles at Gettysburg and
returned to Cape Town following the war - he came back for various reunions with his old
comrades - This Set is BOLDLY SIGNED and INSCRIBED by General Sickles (Chairman of
the
NY Monuments Commission) - "To Charles Sonnenberg with Regards of his Friend and
Comrade
- Sept 30, 1903" - Beautiful Full-Page Illustrations - Rosters - Index - $3500
ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITH
THE FIFTH
CAVALRY - Van Nostrand 1883 - FINE Condition - Quite Scarce 1st Edition in Gilt
Decorated Blue Cloth - 705pp plus Errata - Includes 4 Original Steel-Engraved Portraits of Maj
Gen Emory, Maj Gen George Thomas, Maj Gen Merritt, Brig Gen Albert S. Johnson - Bright
Clean Exterior - Bottom Corners bumped - Clean and Tight Interior with minor foxing - Covers
period from 1855 to 1883 including unit service in the Civil War and Reconstruction, as well as
operations in Texas, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska in the Indian Campaigns - This unit and its
companies was variously commanded by many Union and Confederate notable officers including
R.E. Lee, Phil Sheridan and George A. Custer. Includes detailed officer biographies and rosters
in addition to unit statistics - $995
HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY
- New York 1887 - FINE Condition - Scarce 1887 1st edition - Hardcover Beautifully
Bound in 3/4 Calfskin - With Blindstamp of Dr Donald Bickers, noted Georgia Neurosurgeon,
Surgeon for the Georgia SCV, and Founder of the Southern Cultural Foundation - 50 Percent of
the Proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the Southern Cultural Foundation - 824pp -
Index - Illustrated - All 74 Illustrations Present - Unopened pages - $450
MEMORIES OF THE WAR - Toledo, OH
1923 - 1st Edition - 238pp - FINE Condition - Brigadier General Sherwood was an editor and
mayor before the war and started as a Private in the 14th Ohio - after the war he went on to serve
as a judge and U.S. Congressman - This copy nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED by General
Sherwood - Illustrated - $225
FOUR YEARS WITH GENERAL LEE
-
Appleton & Co. NY 1878 - FINE Condition Hardcover in Green Cloth - Bright Title on Spine
and front Board - 199pp - Taylor was Adjutant-General for the Army of Northern Virginia who
served with credit in both the eastern and western theaters - *CBS (A "Confederate Bookshelf"
Title) - This copy belonged to Dr. George W. Fish who served as Surgeon with the 4th Michigan
Cavalry (Wilson's Cavalry Corps) Dr. Fish served from July 26, 1862 until Aug. 15, 1865 - This
copy bears his Signature (Geo W. Fish, MD) in pencil on the front end paper - $495
HISTORY OF THE FIRST MAINE
CAVALRY
1861-1865 - Boston 1887 - Scarce 1st edition - 735pp - Photos - Rosters - Illustrations -
FINE Condition with Marbled Page Edges - Beautifully rebound in Half Leather with Raised
Bands on Spine and Original Cavalry Seal on Front Board - dampstaining to bottom of last 100
pages or so - not affecting text - This unit suffered the highest casualty rates of any Union
Cavalry regiment with 15 Officers and 159 Enlisted killed or mortally wounded with an
additional 344 men dying of disease. - $595
HISTORY OF THE
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS - Washington 1897 -
1st Edition - VERY FINE Condition - Exceptionally Clean and Bright - Previous owner
bookplate inside front cover - Illustrated - Photos - Rosters - Nevins says of this "Written from
the adjutant's viewpoint, this full history of a year's duty in Louisiana also contains over twoscore
sketches and drawings." - $375
HISTORY OF THE
NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT.
ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY FROM ORGANIZATION TO MUSTER OUT.
STATISTICS COMPILED BY ARRON DUNBAR, SERGANT, COMPANY . "B" -
Blakely Printing Co., Chicago, 1898 -1st Edition - FINE Condition with light soiling to exterior -
441pages - Profusely Illustrated - Original Maroon Cloth with Black Lettering on Cover and Gilt
Title on Spine - This copy belonged to First Lieutenant Harrison I. Davis and contains a SIGNED
Gift Inscription from him on the FEP - noted in pencil below is his date and time of death - "Feb
1st 1925 - Sunday AM" - He has a full biography with photos in the book - $595
UNDER THE MALTESE CROSS: ANTIETAM TO APPOMATTOX, THE
LOYAL UPRISING IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 1961-1865 - CAMPAIGNS 155TH PA
VOLUNTEERS, NARRATED BY THE RANK AND FILE - Akron, Ohio 1910 - 1st
Edition - NEAR FINE Condition - Clean and Interior - Hinges barely starting - Increasingly
SCARCE Regimental - $525
VERMONT IN THE GREAT REBELLION:
CONTAINING HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - Claremont 1869 -
First Edition - NEAR FINE Condition - Officer Rosters - $225
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