Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Tributes to Theodore Parker, Comprising the Exercises at the Music Hall on Sunday, June 17, 1860; With the Proceedings of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention at the Melodeon, May 31. 1860. Issued months before Abraham Lincoln’s election and the outbreak of the Civil War, this 1860 pamphlet.....
[Slavery and Emancipation][Civil War] Autographed document regarding the Contraband Fund, 20 February 1863, constitutes material evidence of the Union Army’s fiscal administration of aid to self-emancipated African Americans during the Civil War. Created in Washington, DC at a moment when federal emancipation policy was shifting from military necessity to structured.....
[Civil War][African American Military][USCT] Scarce documentation regarding the “final statements” of Black soldier Private James Jones, Co. C, 77th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1864. This document concerns the settlement of accounts for a deceased enlisted man serving in a regiment formed from Louisiana’s Corps d’Afrique. The 77th United States.....
[US Colored Troops] [Civil War] Roll of Honor government publications issued by the United States Quartermaster General’s Office between 1866 and 1867 record the names and burial locations of Union soldiers who died in service during the American Civil War. These volumes document the sacrifice of both white and African.....
[Civil War] [Military] Owned by a Union soldier, named "R. Whitcomb", and later picked up by a Confederate soldier, Capt Brooks, in the Battle of Bull Run - the first major battle of the Civil War. Civil War infantry handbook two volumes. Hardee, William J. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics.....
[Civil War] [Black Military] [Slavery] [Virginia] Confederate government imprint documenting one of the clearest bureaucratic efforts to formalize the use of enslaved labor in direct support of the Confederate war effort at the very moment of institutional collapse. Issued in Richmond, Virginia in January 1865 and printed by the Confederate.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Boston Hymn” (1863), printed in the February 1863 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, constitutes one of the earliest periodical appearances of his poetic response to President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and stands as a direct literary intervention in the political crisis of slavery and civil war. Written at.....
Logan, Miles. Volunteer Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing, 1865, documents the military service, labor assignment, and compensation of an African American soldier in the 11th Regiment United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War. Enlisted at Fort Smith, Arkansas on 28 December 1863 at approximately eighteen years.....
[Lincoln, Abraham]. [African Troops] Scarce U.S. Senate executive document transmitting a message from Abraham Lincoln and accompanying State Department correspondence concerning the French deployment of Black troops to Mexico during the American Civil War. Issued by the 37th Congress (3rd Session) in February 1863, the report reflects the convergence of.....
Lincoln, Abraham. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates, 1860, printed record of the seven public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign, a pivotal series of political confrontations over slavery and the future of the United States. The debates addressed the expansion of slavery.....
Lincoln, Abraham. Late Civil War portrait of Abraham Lincoln derived from a February 1865 photograph taken during the final months of the American Civil War. The image records Lincoln near the conclusion of the conflict that preserved the Union and ended legal slavery in the United States. Created shortly before.....
Disabled veterans’ care from the Civil War through the post World War I period documented through three periodicals and one pamphlet showing a clear shift from municipal and household relief toward organized rehabilitation, vocational retraining, supervised recreation, and contested compensation. The 1866 Massachusetts pamphlet records state aid in the language.....
Howard, Percy. The Barbarities of the Rebels as Shown in Their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded and Prisoners; In Their Outrages Upon Union Men; In the Murder of Negroes, and in Their Unmanly Conduct Throughout the Rebellion, 1863, a wartime polemic that documents and publicizes Confederate violence against Union soldiers.....
Grant, Ulysses S. ferrotype campaign token, 1868, documents the translation of Civil War military leadership into electoral authority during the first presidential contest of the Reconstruction era. Produced for Grant’s successful presidential campaign, the token situates the former commanding general of Union forces within a rapidly expanding culture of political.....
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Howe, Julia Ward autograph letter signed, late nineteenth century, documents her active leadership within the women’s suffrage movement and records the demands placed upon prominent reform figures engaged in national advocacy. Howe, widely known for authoring “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” during the Civil War and later a central.....
Brady, Mathew. Carte-de-visite entitled “Group – Princes’ Servants,” circa 1861. Issued as part of Brady’s Album Gallery series, the image depicts four adult men posed together in an outdoor camp setting during the opening phase of the American Civil War, when photographic studios expanded production to meet growing public demand.....
Lincoln, Abraham, Union Presidential Ticket, November 8, 1864, documents Civil War electoral mobilization through a printed county ballot listing national, state, and local Union candidates during the only United States presidential election held while the nation was actively at war with itself. The ticket records the Union Party electoral system.....
Rollins, James S. Negro Soldiers is an 1863 congressional speech documenting Union wartime debate over African American military service, emancipation, and the political limits of border-state Unionism. Delivered in the House of Representatives on February 2, 1863, the speech records opposition to Black combat service from a Missouri Unionist who.....
Barnard, George N. Battery No. 4 Near Yorktown, 1862, documents Union siege artillery operations during the Peninsula Campaign, providing visual evidence of large-scale military engineering and heavy ordnance deployment under General George B. McClellan’s command. The photograph supports research into Civil War siege warfare, artillery technology, and the logistical systems.....
Autograph pay voucher for 1st Lieutenant Terrence Reilley, a white Union officer in the 4th U.S. Artillery Regiment, dated May 31, 1865, that allocates pay for his Black servant. Includes handwritten certification of service and expenses, during the final months of the Civil War. Two pages, partially printed with manuscript.....
Democratic National Committee campaign pamphlet issued in New York in 1856, defining the presidential contest through a racialized opposition between “Black Republicanism” and Democratic claims to law, order, majority rule, and popular sovereignty. Published during the first presidential election contested by the Republican Party, it presents the Kansas conflict as.....
The National Anti-Slavery Standard, February 29, 1868 issue four days after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Andrew Johnson, covering the Reconstruction government, Black suffrage, and federal enforcement in the South. Articles include “The President Impeached!”, stating that Johnson had become “the chief disturbing force since the surrender of.....
Stereopticon slide of Ford Theater. Full color stereoview, 6 x 3", “Old Theater Where Lincoln Was Assassinated, Washington, D.C.” This is a later view of the Ford Theater, adapted from a photograph of the time period when the slide was made. Printed descriptive remarks on reverse. Minor wear on edges.....
Carte de Visite of Abraham Lincoln, with Patriotic scenes and scene of freed slaves. Lazier of Syracuse, New York, back imprint, 2.5 x 4 ". In excellent condition.
A large Civil War 3/4 plate tintype, measures 5" x 7", of a Navy chaplain in full uniform with his sword pulled out of his rapier and in his hand. He has his dress uniform chapeaux with feathers on his head and a white sash with a chaplain medal in.....
