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Full plate hand-painted tintype photograph of African-American Sergeant William H. Carney and his wife Susannah Carney. 7.25” x 10”. Carved on the back: “Sgt. Wm. Carney, 54th Mass. Vols. 1900” (the date may be 1901). The Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) officially authorized recruiting black soldiers for the first time.....
Walker is the first woman in the U.S. to practice as a surgeon and remains the only woman to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor. Very scarce and important autograph letter signed, 1 page. 1896. 3.75" x 5.25". Verso is blank. In pencil, she writes: “Yours in every noble cause.....
Cowden, Col. Robert. 59th U.S.C Infantry. First edition rare regimental history of an African-American Civil War unit, 293 pp. Ohio, 1883. This work spans the organization's history, from training to how they were deployed in battles throughout the South, primarily in Tennessee against Confederates led by Nathan Bedford Forrest. Alongside.....
[ First African American troops in the CIVIL WAR]. WILSON, James (b. ca 1845). Partly printed volunteer enlistment document, 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, later 79th USCT. Fort Smith, AR, November 25th 1863. 7 3/4" x 10 5/8" in. partly printed document , docketed on verso. This partly printed form, printed.....
Civil War tintype of an African American cavalryman, likely taken in the field. 2 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. Circa 1864-5. Seated subject wears a kepi with indecipherable device and infantry jacket with sleeve embroidery. Among the US Colored Troops, cavalrymen were especially rare with just two regiments, the 9th.....
U.S. Colored Troops Archive. After the US War Dept. issued General Order 143, allowing Black men to enlist in the Civil War, an estimated 185,000 free and enslaved African American soldiers joined the service. This greatly expanded the military's size and quieted discourse voiced by white soldiers that were angry.....
[African American- CIVIL WAR.] John G. Foster. Order from the Department of the South for a draft for "all able-bodied colored men." General Orders No. 119. Hilton Head, SC, 16 August 1863. 2 pages, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, signed in type by Foster as Major General, and also.....
[US Colored Troops] As recorded here, and confirmed by HDS and other military records, This former slave enlisted in July 1863 at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana as a private and was mustered into Company B of the 49th USCT. The 49th USCT fought at the battle of Milliken's Bend just before.....
[Emancipation Proclamation]. New York Times. Vol. XII, No. 3519. Saturday, January 3, 1863. Four sheets, eight pages. 21 x 15 ½”. Printed on page 5. On January 1, 1863, as the US was entering its third year of bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing “all.....
[African American Troops] Reading: New York Gallery, c. 1880. Cabinet card Photograph measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches on larger mount. An unusual cabinet card showing civil war veterans together toasting, with an African-American former military man in the foreground wearing medals on his jacket likely collected at Grand Army.....
Partly printed railroad pass for Benjamin Scott on his way to enlist with a "Col[ored] Reg[iment]. Columbus, OH, 10 August 1863. Visible 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. - completed in manuscript for "Ben. Scott + one other" for a rail journey on the C+M Rail Road from Youngstown to.....
Portrait of an African American 25th Infantry sharpshooter. 3 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. Silver gelatin photograph on cardstock mount. Circa early 20th century. Verso bears several indecipherable pencil inscriptions. The featured African American sergeant wears a sharpshooter badge, in the shape of the cross on his chest, along with.....
[African American CIVIL WAR]. Photograph of Union Army Civil War soldiers with fled African American "contraband" servers. GARDNER & GIBSON, photographers. Washington, DC: 1862. 3 5/8" x 2 3/4" albumen photograph on 6" x 4 1/2". Cardstock mount. Credit to Gardner & Gibson in lower margin of mount. An outdoor.....
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Certificate issued to a Memphis man who hired a Black substitute to avoid the draft. 2 pages, each about 10 x 8 inches, signed by various officers; folds, minor wear. Memphis, TN, 28 January and 15 February 1865. In March 1863, U.S. Congress passed the Enrollment Act authorizing.....
Hand-colored albumen photograph representing an allegorical carte-de-visite of Emancipation. 1863. Published by "John Sowle, 14 Summer St., Boston." Illustration by George Gardner Fish. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches on photographer's mount. Lady Liberty brandishes the Emancipation Proclamation, while two scantily clad enslaved people wrap her in the American flag.....
[Civil War African American troops] Reports on the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Fort Pillow Massacre Returned Prisoners. House of Representatives: 1864. 38th Congress, 1st session. First edition. Bound in green boards with gold letters. 6 x 9.25 inches. The Fort Pillow Massacre occurred on April 12, 1864.....
LINCOLN, Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Published by Columbus Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. First edition, third issue as identified by a number 2 on page 13, and publishers.....
Archive of documents related to Mr. Edward E. Johnson (ca 1824- ca 1901), assistant to the Reverend Horace James, Superintendent of Negro Affairs in North Carolina. Approximately 38 items, spanning ca 1844-1873, associated with the life and military career of Edward E. Johnson. The earliest documents in the collection (13.....
Wilmer, L. Allison. History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-65, 2 volumes. Press of Guggenheimer, Weil & Co. Baltimore, MD. 1898, 1899. First Edition. Quarto. Volume one bound in 3/4 leather over maroon boards, 834 pp. 9" x 11". Volume two rebound in black modern cloth, 285 pp.....
Sherman, John. Speech by Hon. John Sherman of Ohio on Emancipation as a Compensation for Military Service Rendered by Slaves, Delivered in the Senate of the United States. McGill and Witherow: Washington D.C, February 2, 1864. 16 pages. 5.5" x 9.5" inches. John Sherman was an antislavery senator, Secretary of.....
[Civil War] Hand-colored albumen photograph of a vivandiere. This is a scarce large image in an antique oval frame measuring 11.5 x 13.5 inches. Studio portrait of a young lady wearing a red, white, and blue vivandiere's costume with patriotic crown, one hand holding an American flag. Vivandiere were woman.....
[AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY] A group of four African American soldiers sit at the mouth of an earthen bomb-shelter, while one man below stands over a large pot making coffee, 1864. On the Lines Before Petersburg, Va., 1864. Hartford, CT: The War Photograph & Exposition Co., ca 1864. About 6 1/4.....
Abraham Lincoln. "The Gettysburg Address” contained in “Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery, Together with the Accompanying Documents, as reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 31, 1864." Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers, State Printers, 1864. Lincoln’s famous speech was originally.....
[SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION] Autographed document regarding the Contraband Fund. Washington, DC, 20 February 1863. 2 pages, folio, 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 in., on Head Quarters Provost Marshall's Office letterhead. Signed by Henry B. Todd. A precursor to the Freedmen's Bureau, which was not established until 1865, the Contraband Fund.....
Howe, Julia Ward. Autograph quote signed. Influential women’s suffragist, abolitionist, and poet Julia Ward Howe handwrites this verse of kindness from one of her poems. She writes, “then spoke the angel of mothers / To me, in gentle tone: / “Be kind to the children of others, / and thus.....