![Item #5192 [Oath of Office Document for Constable John Gillespie in Late-Confederate Alabama]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5192.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733504042)
Moulton, Al. N.H. White, 1865. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 6 x 7.5 inches, docketed on verso. Old folds, minor toning. An interesting relic from late-Confederate Alabama in which Constable John Gillespie solemnly swears that he has "neither given, accepted, or knowingly carried a challenge in writing or otherwise, to..... More
Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, 1863. 37pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Light chipping and small tears, spine partially perished. Text lightly toned. A report against the Metropolitan Police Force, describing unlawful arrests made by the police in New York City during the Civil War. Among these charges, incidents of which are..... More
[Nashville: 1861]. Small broadside, approximately 11 x 7.25 inches. Creased along lower edge; ink burn causing a dime-size paper loss at upper right, slightly affecting border, plus a few additional stray ink marks. Later, faint pencil annotations on blank verso. Moderate tanning and dust soiling. A scarce Confederate carrier's address..... More
[Canton, Oh.]: 1866. Broadside, 16 x 12 inches. Printed in two columns within an ornate border. Light wear and toning, a few scuffs to paper not affecting text. First and only printing of this New Year's carrier's address issued by the Ohio Staats-Zeitung in Canton, Ohio. Kaufman & Luft ran..... More
New Berne, N.C. 1864. Twenty printed general orders, totaling [24]pp. Original plain or lined paper single or folded sheets. Minor overall wear, some dust-soiling, especially to final order. A collection of twenty Union general orders issued in North Carolina during the penultimate year of the Civil War. The orders run..... More
![Item #6361 [Autograph Letter, Signed, from a Soldier to Miss Lizzie Frazee Back Home]. Civil War,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6361.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774285384)
Brownsville, Al. April 20, 1864. [4]pp. Quarto. Old folds, light wear and soiling. In a legible hand. With original envelope. A letter written by a Union soldier stationed in Alabama to a friend back home in Missouri. Signed only as "Jo", the letter is quite familiar and written to Elizabeth..... More
West Point, Ga. May 13, 1865. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, docketed on verso. Old folds, minor loss at one crossfold, some archival reinforcements along fold lines, minor creasing and edge wear. A late Oath of Allegiance sworn by Private William M. Lewis, Company F of the 8th Confederate Texas..... More
[Various locations: 1861-1865]. Forty letters, approximately [96]pp. Many with original envelopes. Light wear and soiling, old folds. In a legible hand. Together with twelve additional family letters and two military commissions. A wonderful archive of correspondence written home from the Confederate lines by William Henry Tabb of the 14th Mississippi..... More
![Item #5112 [Manuscript Amnesty Oath from Mississippi Following the Civil War]. Civil War,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5112.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722282327)
Tishomingo County, Ms. November 3, 1865. [1]p. of manuscript on a folio sheet. Old folds, minor wear and soiling. A manuscript true copy of a loyalty oath taken by Thomas B. Kerr of Tishomingo County, Mississippi following the end of the Civil War. The oath itself reads: "I do solemnly..... More
Fort Kearny, Ne. October 28, 1862. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet of lined paper. Light wear and toning, old folds. An interesting manuscript letter written by Dr. George Lorin Miller (1839-1920), a leading Nebraska pioneer and instrumental figure in establishing Fort Kearny. Miller also served as the fort's sutler..... More
![Item #5113 [Texas Amnesty Oath Taken by Johann Mergenthal Following the End of the Civil War]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5113.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722282327)
New Braunfels, Tx. October 28, 1865. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Top third neatly detached along horizontal fold line, old folds, with minor losses along fold lines, not affecting text, minor edge wear. A rare loyalty oath from postwar Texas, affirming that Johann Mergenthal of Comal..... More
Washington DC: 1867. [8],411,[1],[1]pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, leather label on front cover stamped in gilt. Spine mostly perished, with three portions of original spine (which include the gilt-stamped spine titles) re-attached with cello tape. Corners worn, mild rubbing. Both boards also holding by cello tape. Internally..... More
[N.p., likely Springfield, Il. ca. January 8, 1877]. Three long galley leaves, each approximately 6.5 x 19 inches and printed on rectos only, with numerous pencil emendations. Old folds and creases, numerous chips and tears to margins, pervasive wrinkling, making reading a bit challenging at times, but with no loss..... More
[N.p. ca. 1866-1868]. Broadside, 25.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in eight columns. Old folds, a bit frayed at the edges, short closed tear at bottom affecting a few words, minor loss in five columns along one fold line. An unrecorded broadside printing of Indiana Senator Oliver P. Morton's speech on..... More
[St. Louis: 1876]. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor toning, a few shallow edge chips. A rare statement by the embattled Democratic Party reaffirming its commitment to "Republican Self-Government" and the Constitution in the run-up to the controversial Election of 1876, but ultimately a document which contradicts its own..... More
![Item #4629 The Replevin Law of 1861. Natchez Courier Extra...July 22, 1865 [caption title]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4629.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708712358)
Natchez, Ms. July 22, 1865. Broadside, 13.75 x 9.5 inches. Printed in three columns. Moderate toning and foxing, old folds, couple of small tears expertly repaired on verso, two tape remnants at top edge likely from previous matting. A very rare newspaper extra printing the first civilian law in Occupied..... More
Sioux City: 1878. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of..... More
[San Antonio]: February 2, 1861. Broadside on silk, 19.5 x 14 inches. Expertly cleaned and restored. Previously folded, with some creasing still visible. Moderate staining and a few small holes and separations aided by conservation. Scattered contemporary manuscript notations. An exceptionally rare Texas secession broadside, executed on silk satin in San Antonio in..... More
![Item #6465 Elector Certificate and Oath [caption title]. Texas, Reconstruction](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6465.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778781993)
New Orleans: Peter O'Donnell, [1867]. Broadsheet, approximately 11 x 9 inches. Previously folded. Some wear along old folds, pinhole-sized losses in right margin, not affecting text. A few nicks a very short tears at edges. Some soiling in upper right quadrant, otherwise light toning. An interesting broadsheet form used for..... More
Albermarle County, Va. January 12, 1861. 3pp., on a small bifolium. Light wear at edges. Some toning and dust soiling. Minor foxing along gutter. An interesting, pre-secession Virginia imprint, in which over five hundred citizens of Albermarle County nominate politicians William Cabell Rives and Valentine Southall to be their representatives..... More