Search Results: CIVIL WAR from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Ann Arbor, Michigan:: University of Michigan,.. Not illustrated. 2 volumes, spiral-bound galleys; 11 5 inches; pink stiff wrappers with title “Anti Slavery Movement” in ball-point on front covers Stapled to the inside of the front cover of Part One is the publisher’s précis of the book. Laid in is a short letter dated March 21, 1961, from Paul M. Angle, the Director of the Chicago Historical Society to the Rev. William S. Warford, at one time the Chaplain of the Illinois Statehouse: “Dear Bill. . .I am sending you a set of proofs of Dwight L. Dumond’s Anti-Slavery Movement. Keep these to yourself for awhile [sic] since the book is not scheduled for publication until fall.”This white historian’s best known work; he was in the History Department of the University of Michigan and when he retired after thirty-five years. He remained active after his retirement teaching at Howard University. and in 1965/66 and in 1968/69 he taught American Institutions at Colgate.He was in… Read More

Columbus, Miss.: Headquaters, 1895. . Handbill, 11 x 5 1/2 inches Two copies only located, one at Virginia Historical and one at the University of South Caroline which came from a scrapbook put together by Col. Benjamin Franklin Eshleman (1830-1909) a West Point graduate, born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Louisiana as a child and fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War. The scrap book was a gift of Jack and Mindy Castles; Mr. Castle's grandfather having married a daughter of Eshleman. This copy has been digitized. The handbill contains a plea to Confederate Veterans to contribute to a fund for a memorial in Richmond: Battle "As well said by Comrade Rouss: "The mementos of the struggle of the South...are scattered broadcast over the country. Should they not be collected and provision be made for their preservation....Then as our ranks are being rapidly thinnned by the Scythe of Time, let the comparatively few of us that remain at once take the matter in hand and… Read More

Baltimre: Murphy & Co., Printers, 1861. . 8vo, modern gray plain wrappers; paper slightly browned; unopened. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 39872.LeGrand (1814Ð 28 December 1861), a believer in secession by Maryland argues against Johnson's desire to save the Union at any cost, even to force the South "into slavish submission." He equates South Carolina's resistance to oppression to "the great congress of the colonies in 1774." LeGrand's political career was as follows: a member of the House of Delegates, Baltimore City, 1839-41. Speaker of the House, 1841. Maryland secretary of state, 1842-44. Associate Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, 1844-1851. Chief Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1851-61. Defeated for reelection to the court in 1861 by a Unionist candidate, Silas Morris Cochran of Baltimore City, after publishing an open letter to the Baltimore Sun of January 14, 1861, calling on the state to secede from the Union.… Read More

Orange, N.J.: The Evening Mail Publishing House, 1888. . 8vo, bright royal blue publisher's cloth, spine, gilt and somewhat darkened, minor wear to head and tail; bookplate of the Massachusetts Historical Society on the front pastedown. In August 1862 Toombs enlisted as a sergeant in Company F, 13th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry , and served for the next three year of the war, participating in the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburgand the Battles around Atlanta. He was in "The March to the Sea" and the Campaign in the Carolinas. He was discharged on June 8, 1865. After the war, he became a newspaperman in Orange and Newark, New Jersey. In 1878 he published the first regimental history of his unit, titled "Reminisces of the War: Comprising a Detailed Account of the Experiences of the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers in Camp, on the March and in Battle" (reprinted in 1994). In 1888he published the present work, which took… Read More