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Other Civil War and Reconstruction Offerings

• Frederick Douglass Celebrates His Return to America a Free Man, and Reunion with His Family, While Telling of His Treatment During the Voyage
• Very Early State Department Printing of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and William Seward’s Cover Letter, Sent to American Minister in Argentina
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission

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• Rare Houston Texas Newspapers: the Juneteenth Order Freeing Slaves, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Much More
• George F. Root’s Autograph Sheet Music for “The Battle-Cry of Freedom!”
• Civil War “The Union Forever” Flag Made by Philadelphia Sailmaker, ca. 1861
• Grant’s Infamous General Order 11 Expelling Jews—and Lincoln’s Revocation of it
• Great Report on the Hunt for Lincoln’s Assassin and Claim for Reward by Irish War Hero
• South Carolina’s Reconstruction Governor’s Copy of Reconstruction Acts, Including Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
• J.E.B. Stuart Writes to Legendary Confederate Spy Laura Ratcliffe
• A Union Officer’s Commission, and Field Report from
  the 17th Connecticut Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
• An Eloquent Farewell to His Troops from a Massachusetts General Who Marched to the Sea with Sherman and Fought in the Civil War’s Last Battle
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• Miscegenation, or the Millennium of Abolitionism – Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election
• Vibrant Print of Fifteenth Amendment Celebrations
• “STAND BY THE LAW!” Working Class Arguments for Peace in New York City in Wake of Draft Riots
• The Dreadful Dred Scott Decision, First Edition with Added Illustrations
• 1865 General Orders,
  Including Many Regarding Lincoln’s Assassination
• The Gettysburg Address – November 20, 1863 Rare First Day Printing by “Lincoln’s Dog” John Forney in the Philadelphia Press
• Hand-Made Union Patriotic and Religious Song Book
• Report of Attacks on Forts Walker and Beauregard
• “Separating the Loyal from the Disloyal”
  in Reconstruction North Carolina
• Campaign Document Uses Civil War’s Costs Against President Johnson
• First Federal Occupation of Winchester Broadside
• Beauregard’s Thanks for Donation for
  “our gallant soldiers now battling manfully for our rights & our Independence…”
• On the Day He was Promoted to Rear Admiral, Farragut Writes from His Flagship During the Bombardment of Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Autograph Book Kept by a Jewish Former U.S. and Future Confederate Naval Officer Imprisoned at Fort Warren, Signed by Dozens of Fellow Political and Military Prisoners
• Edwin Stanton ALS Prelude to Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase
  Insists on Proper Funding for Soldiers
• Currier & Ives Cartoon Mocks Stephen Douglas for Campaigning in 1860
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• A Day After Grant’s Capture of Fort Henry, Confederate General Lovell Weakens New Orleans in a Futile Attempt to Shore Up Fort Donelson
• Scathingly Anti-British Broadside Heralds Daniel Webster
• “Copperheads Vigorously Prosecuting Peace: Is it the Peace YOU Want?”
• Abraham Lincoln: Large 1861 Inauguration Chromolithograph
• Celebrating a Report of McClellan’s Death
• Confederate Governor of Kentucky Seeks Prominent Louisville Editor’s Support for Secession in the Summer of 1861
• Civil War Hero David Dixon Porter Expresses Support for the Chinese in a Time of Hostility
• Illustrator Frank Leslie Publishes Fanciful Grand Reception of Civil War Notables as a Subscription Premium
• President Andrew Johnson’s Copy of “New-York Daily Tribune” Detailing Proposed Regulations for Alaska
• South Carolina Impressment Agent Negotiates With General Beauregard for the Release of Slaves to their Masters
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• On the Day of the First Battle of Bull Run,
  Confederate Ordnance Chief Josiah Gorgas Orders
  Equipment for 100,000 Troops
• Unique Sea Mosses Book Sold at the New York Metropolitan Fair to Benefit Sick and Wounded Union Troops
• 161 Young Men of Providence, R.I. Found “Loyal League” Pledged to Support the Union
• Fourth of July Oration from Massachusetts on Eve of the Civil War
• Opposing the Confederate Draft
• Slavery Divides New York Legislature in 1844
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
  the Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln and Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Senator Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana 1859 speech supporting acquisition of Cuba
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• “I thought Cump would advise you as to the movements here…”
• A Fighting Vermont Regiment Summary of Actions after Gettysburg, July 5-13, 1863
• A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• The Defense in Ex parte Milligan Argues That Even During War the Federal Government Can’t Use Military Trials Where Civilian Courts Are Operative
• “The Christian Banner” – Pro-Confederate Paper From Union-Occupied Fredericksburg
• The Drafter of the 14th Amendment Quotes
  Abolitionist Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
• Union Volunteers Refreshment Saloon
• Admiral Porter Reluctantly Turns Down General Sherman’s Invitation to a “Grand Reunion” in Chicago; and Sherman Reads These Excerpts to the Veterans
• Returning the Western World to Blockade Duty to Squeeze the Confederacy
• Prior to 1864 presidential election, McClellan’s former groomsman tries to even the field
• Congressmen Order Copies of Senator Jacob Collamer’s Speech on Bleeding Kansas
• Requesting Another Battery of Artillery During the Siege of Yorktown
• Clothing the 1st Vermont Cavalry in the Civil War
• The Nation Mourns
• The Success of Black Troops At Petersburg, Virginia, Under Butler
• “The Excursion of the Bought Nominations”
  Showing Balloon “Union League”
• “The Slave Sale, or Come Who Bids?” Abolitionist Sheet Music
• Lincoln’s Vice President Talks Local Politics
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• “Black Republican” Salt River Ticket
• Responding to Grant’s Postwar Request for a Report of Guns Captured at Fort Donelson, His First Success
• 1864 Campaign Blames McClellan’s Failures on Lincoln, Comparing the President’s Treatment of McClellan and Grant
• Creating Two New Civil War Military Departments
• Naval Commander Who Prevented Filibustering Expedition against Mexico, and Then Captured Slave Ships and Freed over 1,350 Slaves
• Future Hero of Little Round Top Advises a Friend on Getting a Leave of Absence
• Civil War Veteran in Maryland Predicts the War Will End Soon
• Patriotic Poem by Gov. John A. Andrew
• A Georgia Man Writes from Frederic City, Maryland, Hoping to Liberate Some ‘greenies’ from the “Hamites or the ‘freedmen’” Celebrating Passage of the “dirty 15th Amendment”
• A New York Soldier’s Affidavit Allowing
  a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election
• Civil War Song Sheet: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Illinois Governor Richard Yates’ Fourth of July Address at the End of Civil War – Unhappy that the Nation Would not Execute Jefferson Davis
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Evacuating Elizabeth City and Leaving Nothing for the Rebels, to the Dismay of Freedpeople and Unionists
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• The Massacre at Fort Pillow
• Unusual Caricatures of Southern Aristocrats by Union Soldier on Letter to Parents
• Board of Engineers to Review Sea Coast Fortifications, Including New York
• Lincoln, the War, and Emancipation
• Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac

Other Gilded Age (1876 - c.1900) Offerings

• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• “Poverty or Prosperity?” McKinley & Hobart 1896 Presidential Campaign Rare Huge Jugate Poster
• Civil War Hero David Dixon Porter Expresses Support for the Chinese in a Time of Hostility

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• Excluding Chinese Immigration: President Chester Arthur Orders Seal Affixed to His Angell Treaty Proclamation
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Rear Admiral Schley on his Recent Victory over
  the Spanish Fleet in the Battle of Santiago Bay
• A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
• Fantastic Spanish-American War Predictions by Navy Admiral from 1896
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
• “Let Us Have Faith that Right Makes Might…”
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• Henry Du Pont Signed Stock Certificate
• Secretary of State Evarts Accepts Invitation to Protestant Episcopal Convention: “The Bishops I think should be au gratin and the laymen chilled”
• Civil War Veteran School Board Chair Cautions Teacher to Discipline Carefully
• Carrie Chapman Catt Signed 1899 Receipt to Fellow Suffragette Harriet Taylor Upton
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer