Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover spotting. Upper right corner darkened on a few leaves, the darkest of which is also clipped at the tip. Moderate vertical crease. Pictorial image of the school on the front cover. The school... More about Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, No. 1210 Chestnut Street,...

Rome, GA: Fletcher Smith, Printer, [1892]. Broadsheet. 21cm. x 20cm. Printed on both sides on thin pink paper. Minor chipping and wear along page edges. One side is devoted to claims under the newly enacted Indian War Soldiers' Pension Bill under which qualified soldiers or their widows could receive a.... More about Pensions! Pensions! Money for United States Soldiers their Widows and Children; Indian War...

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: A. G. Brown & Co., 1880. New edition. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), xvi, 380p. plus (2)p. publisher's advertisements for two of Brown's other books. Original dark cloth. 19cm. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Pioneering effort to produce a military history of African Americans. Largely focused on African American participation... More about The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. 1st ed. Hardcover. xvi, 380p. Original maroon cloth. 20cm. Modest uneven cover fading. Plain endpapers browned and rather fragile. Front endpaper split along hinge. Pioneering effort to produce a military history of African-Americans. It is mostly devoted to African American participation in the Civil War... More about The Negro in the American Rebellion; His Heroism and His Fidelity

2 1/2 page Letter (on a singled lightly-ruled 8 x 10 inch sheet folded to form four pages). Later folds, probably for mailing in a small envelope. Austin writes that he wants to attend the Free School for applicants seeking commands in colored troops. He asks Benjamin to send him... More about Austin [no last name] to brother Benjamin [no last name]. Dated March 27, 1864 at Gettysville, Va

Single sheet folded to form four pages, 20 x 26 cm., as folded. Written in a neat hand although there were quite a few words that we didn't decipher. Corey devotes the first three pages of this letter to reporting on the unpleasant voyage to New Orleans which featured two... More about Civil War Soldier's Letter Dated February 28, 1863 and sent from New Orleans to His Brother back...