![Item #3834 Rosa. A Slave Girl from New Orleans [caption title]. Abolition, Photography, Rosina Downs](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3834.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761972197)
New York: S. Tackaberry, [1864]. Carte de visite photograph, 3.25 x 2 inches, on a slightly larger printed mount. Minor soiling and spotting, light edge wear. One of a series of CDVs featuring recently freed slaves produced in 1863-64 as part of a fundraising effort in the American South. This.....
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. xvi, 452pp., plus frontispiece and numerous additional illustrations, including nine maps (five single-page and two folding). Original deep blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Ex-Shirley Public Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, and paper remnants on rear.....
Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the.....
New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between.....
Rock Island, IL: L.M. Haverstick, Printer, Union Job Rooms, [ca. January 18, 1867]. Broadside, 24 x 18 inches. Old folds, minor creasing, a few small chips, short closed tear to left edge near the "B" in "Babcock's," faint circular dampstain in center, minor scattered foxing. Withal, very good condition. A.....
[Indianapolis, IN]: July 22, 1861. Broadside, 16.75 x 8.5 inches, on newsprint, printed in three columns. Old folds, moderate foxing and toning, some creasing. Overall very good. An informative newspaper extra from Indianapolis printing recent dispatches about very early Civil War activity from Washington D.C., Kansas City, New York, and.....
[Various locations in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC: 1862-1864]. Occasionally soiled, foxed, and toned. Minor closed tears along old folds. One letter separated along central horizontal fold. Overall very good. An extensive archive of approximately ninety letters, consisting of sixty-four letters from Dr. Charles T. Simpers (occasionally signed "Sempers") to.....
[Near New Madrid], Missouri: March 16, 1862. [4]pp., on patriotic stationery headed "The War for the Union" with a vignette of McClellan on horseback above his quote, "Stand by me, and I'll stand by you." Old folds, a few small tape repairs to folds, minor dust soiling. Overall about very.....
Brownsville, TX: April 4, 1863. [2]pp. Old mailing folds, moderate foxing and toning. Overall about very good. An interesting letter from Samuel Gallatin, a Confederate soldier stationed in far south Texas during the middle of the Civil War. Gallatin writes that there is not much going on, but his categorization.....
![Item #5062 [Manuscript Document Involving a Writ of Habeas Corpus in Late-Confederate Texas]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5062.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762002465)
March 14, 1865. [2]pp. on a folio sheet. Old folds, some abrading in the margins, minor edge wear. A Confederate Texas legal document in which Judge A.D. McGinnis of the "2nd Judicial District" orders those parties holding William L. Carter to report to court for a hearing on a matter.....
[Mainly South Carolina, but also Massachusetts and Florida: 1863-1865]. Fifteen autograph letters, signed, totaling approximately fifty-six pages, and about 7,000 words. Original mailing folds, minor overall wear. An insightful collection of original correspondence from Joshua Giddings Dodge, written to his brother-in-law Samuel Douglas Wilson, with information on family business matters.....
Richmond, Va. February 2, 1864. Autograph document, signed, [1]p., folio, on blue paper. Old folds, minor wear. [with:] Two autograph letters, signed, by De Voss, Richmond, Va., totaling [6]pp. [and with:] Autograph letter, signed, by William Bradley, Assessor, Richmond, Va., [2]pp. Mailing folds, minor wear. A collection of manuscript documents.....
[N.p., but most likely Newark, N.J. 1864]. Letterpress broadside, printed in two columns, 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds, small chip to top outer margin, two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of.....
[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying and chipping to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862.....
![Item #12675 Some Light Upon a Chariton County Episode of '64 [wrapper title]. Missouri, Louis...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12675.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761969024)
[N.p., but likely Brunswick, Mo: n.d., likely 1892]. 13pp. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Minor rubbing to title, minor edge wear. Small ownership label on inside front wrapper. Very good. Louis Benecke's defense against accusations involving the murder of a Missouri Bushwhacker during the Civil War. On August 8, 1864, William.....
Bangor, Me. March 11, 1866. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet, docketed on verso of second leaf. Original folds, very short split along one fold line, light wear. An enthralling political letter authored by John Appleton, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, who was writing to noted Maine Senator William Pitt.....
Quincy, FL: January 1, 1864. [1]p. of manuscript, docketed on verso. Old crease, minor staining. Very good. A short but impactful and somewhat unusual document memorializing the inheritance of a young slave named "Anderson aged about twenty years" from a Florida estate in the penultimate year of the Civil War.....
Marshall, Tx: October 18, 1861. [2]pp., on an unusually tall folio sheet measuring 20 x 7.5 inches, and totaling about 700 words. Old folds, minor foxing and soiling, a few small areas of loss at crossroads costing a few words. Good condition. An interesting correspondence from Civil War-era Texas. The.....
[Richmond, Va.]: January 19, 1865. 3pp., printed on a single folded sheet. Minor toning and wear. A defiant screed issued by the Confederate House of Representative in January 1865, printing eight resolutions by the Texas Legislature passed in November 1864 to be presented to the President of the Confederate States.....
[Morrison, WI: ca. January 26, 1867]. Broadside, 26.75 x 20.25 inches, printed on thin paper. Old folds, some creasing, edges occasionally a bit frayed with a few small nicks or tears, a couple of minor losses along folds. Overall very good condition. A striking and seemingly unique surviving broadside advertising.....