Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). No separate wrapper present. More about Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, No. 1210 Chestnut Street,...

Paperback. 20p. Softcover in original wrappers. 23cm. Later vertical crease. Stamp on front cover "From Board of Publication of the Union League of Philadelphia" More about Is the South Ready for Restoration?

Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1863. Paperback. 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Vertical crease. Creasing, chipping and dog-earing on outer corners on back cover and most text leaves. Prooeedings of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association. More about Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, On Tuesday Evening,...

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, n.d. [1863]. Hardcover. 8p. Recent marbled boards. Original wrapper bound in. 23cm. The first six pages of this item also appeared separately in 1863 as an eight-page pamphlet titled "General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers." Banks' statement and Boker's poem were added to... More about Washington and Jackson on Negro Soldiers. Gen Banks on the Bravery of Negro Troops. Poem -- the...

Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 8p. No separate wrapper. 23cm. Unevenly browned. Issued to urge the use of African American soldiers in the Union army. More about General Washington and General Jackson on Negro Soldiers

New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, (c. 1863). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 plates (including frontis portrait of the deceased), 216p. Recent quarterbinding. 15cm. A father's loving memoir full of Christian sentiment for a son who sickened and died in Beaufort, South Carolina while serving as... More about The Young Quartermaster. The Life and Death of Lieut. L. M. Bingham, of the First South Carolina...

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, 1863. 1st ed. Paperback. 24o. Softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 24cm. Former owner's name on front cover which is a bit ragged along right edge. Ex lib. ("Brookline Public Library" stamps or embossed (or both) on cover, title-page and one other leaf). Contents sound. A.... More about The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee

Baltimore: N. Murray, Pulication Agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, index, 176, (10)p. Original green cloth. 24cm. Cover slightly scuffed. A mob tried to prevent the 6th Massachusetts Militia from passing through the streets of Baltimore to the railroad station on their way to Washington. Four members... More about Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. 1st ed. Hardcover. xvi, 380p. Modern quarterbinding. 19cm. Contents sound with a modest stain in top margin in last third of text. Pioneering effort to produce a military history of African Americans. It is mostly devoted to African American participation in the Civil War, but... More about The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. 1st ed. Hardcover. xvi, 380p. Original green cloth. 20cm. Endpapers browned, partially detached (with some paper tape reinforcement, and quite brittle, lacking a corner. Contents moderately browned (also some spotting) and rather tender (edges brittle). A rather elusive book. Pioneering effort to produce a military... More about The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity

Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1898. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, ill, photos (all portraits), index, ix, 343p. Original red cloth. 23cm. Modest cover soil. Backstrip darkened. No jacket. An uncommon Civil War Regimental. This regiment, consisted of three battalions. Its name was changed to 8th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery on... More about The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored,) in the War to Preserve the Union,...

Boston: George Coolidge and Bradley, Dalton & Co., (c. 1852, but surely 1862). Hardcover. [12]. 431, [20]p. Original cloth. 14cm. Modest foxing. A few pencil notes on monthly Memoranda pages. Page numbering skips from 80 to 181 and later from 303 to 395 (on a single page) so the actual... More about The Boston Almanac for the Year 1863

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xii, 337p. Original black cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket slightly soiled. More about The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865