1924

Minnigh, Luther W., fl. 1905-1924

Pamphlet

Title: Gettysburg: What they did here

Title continues, "The Standard Historical Guide Book on 'Gettysburg' with Numerous Maps and Illustrations." Covers battle plans and marches, various headquarters, and details of the three days' battle. Describes the Soldiers' National Cemetery and includes a roster of the Union and Confederate armies. Lists casualty statistics from each regiment, monuments, markers, and tablets surrounding Gettysburg. Reminiscences in poetry and prose.

GLC00267.259

circa 1865

Pamphlet

Title: The life, campaigns and public services of Lieut. General Grant

Biography of Ulysses S. Grant "With a full history of his Life, Campaigns, and battles, and his Orders, Reports, and Correspondence with the War Department and the President in relation to them, from the time he first took the field in this war, until the present time. With a portrait of General Grant, and other Illustrative engravings." Published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers.

GLC00267.260

1927

Gray, John C., 1839-1915

Book

Title: War letters, 1862-1865, of John Chipman Gray Major, Judge Advocate and John Codman Ropes Historian of the War with portraits.

Published by the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Note behind cover: "I Nevins 97: "unique" / Union Bookshelf 36."

GLC00267.261

1890

Hedley, Fenwick Y., fl. 1884-1890

Book

Title: Marching through Georgia...

Title continues: "Pen-Pictures of Every-Day Life in General Sherman's Army, from the Beginning of the Atlanta Campaign Until the Close of the War." Written by Hedley, who was adjutant of the 32nd Illinois Infantry and Member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Illustrated by F.L. Stoddard. Published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co. at 407-425 Dearborn Street in Chicago. Was copyrighted by Hedley in 1884. Contains 28 illustrations throughout. Divided into 49 chapters and covers the years 1862-1865. Covers battles at Forts Henry and Donnelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga…

GLC00267.262

1866

Higginson, Thomas W., 1823-1911

Header Record

Title: Harvard memorial biographies

Edited by Higginson. Published by Sever and Francis. Page opposite inside cover of Vol. II signed by E.L. Motte. Biographies of Harvard students and graduates killed in the Civil War.

GLC00267.263

1903

Gue, Benjamin F., 1828-1904

Book

Title: History of the Iowa... Volume II. The Civil War

II Nevins 150. Complete in itself as a history of Iowa in the Civil War.

GLC00267.266

1951

Korn, Bertram W., 1918-1979

Book

Title: American Jewry and the Civil War

I Nevins 9.

GLC00267.268

1934-35

Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953

Header Record

Title: R. E. Lee: A biography

Howes F350. The standard biography of Lee. V. 3-4 are first editions.

GLC00267.269

1904

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Book

Title: Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee

Written by his son. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York.

GLC00267.270

1909

Page, Thomas N., 1853-1922

Book

Title: Robert E. Lee the southerner

GLC00267.271

1886

Long, A.L., 1827-1891

Book

Title: Memoirs of Robert E. Lee

Title continues "His Military and Personal History embracing a large amount of information heretofore unpublished...together with incidents relating to his private life subsequent to the war." Published by J. M. Stoddart & Company, New York and B.F. Johnson and Co., Richmond, Virginia. Long served as military secretary to General Lee.

GLC00267.272

1904

Leonard, Albert C., fl. 1904

Book

Title: The Boys in blue of 1861-1865, a condensed history worthy of preserving

I Nevins 196, Dornbusch (Penn.) 181, Coulter 290.

GLC00267.273

1928

Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927

Header Record

Title: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858

Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press Cambridge of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Details the life of Abraham Lincoln. Divided into sections based on time and location. Beveridge meant this work to be a companion to his book, The Life of John Marshall, where he chronicles the history of the United States through the life of a historical figure. With both works, Beveridge covers the history of America from colonial days to the end of the Civil War. In volume one, the first two pages are glued together at the bottom, and the right edge of the first four pages in the…

GLC00267.274

1928

Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927

Book

Title: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 ["manuscript edition" - expanded]

Howes B408aa. Limited "manuscript" edition

GLC00267.275

November 1910

Newton, Joseph Fort, 1876-1950

Book

Title: Lincoln and Herndon

Published by The Torch Press. Dedicated "To Josephine Kate "The Blessed Baby" with love and joy." Written as a "study of [Lincoln and William H. Herndon's] personal and political fellowship..." Describes the relationship between Lincoln and Herndon both in the field of law and in politics. Gives a brief biography of Herndon. Includes selected letters of Herndon. Green cover with stamped lettering and design on the spine and front cover. Sewn binding.

GLC00267.277

circa 1909

Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947

Pamphlet

Title: Abraham Lincoln in contemporary caricature

GLC00267.278

1945

Randall, J .G. (James Garfield), 1881-1953

Header Record

Title: Lincoln the president: Springfield to Gettysburg

First two volumes of a four volume set. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc. in Binghampton, New York. Dedicated "To Ruth, whose unfailing help and interest illumined the labor of these pages." Details the life of Lincoln from his birth and time growing up in Springfield, Illinois to his speech at Gettysburg. In volume one, the right edges of chapter fourteen are uncut. Red cover with gold stamped lettering on the spine and front cover. Sewn binding.

GLC00267.279

1896

Book

Title: The Story of one regiment: The Eleventh Maine infantry volunteers...

I Nevins 127, Dornbusch 73, Union bookshelf 136.

GLC00267.280

1921

McKim, Randolph H., 1842-1920

Book

Title: A Soldier's recollections: Leaves from the diary of a young Confederate...

I Nevins 126, Coulter 311 cites the first edition. 2nd Maryland Infantry Also published in London, Bombay, and Calcutta

GLC00267.281

1862

Massachusetts General Court, fl. 1862

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings in the Legislature of Massachusetts, upon the Act of the State of Maryland appropriating seven thousand dollars for the families of those belonging to the sixth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, who were killed or disabled by wounds received in the riot at Baltimore April 19th, 1861.

Published by Wright and Potter. Includes Massachusetts Mayor John Albion Andrew's statement requesting the Maryland General Assembly to inform the Massachusetts General Court of action taken regarding relief of Massachusetts soldiers slain or disabled in the Baltimore Riot. Contains acts passed in Maryland and Massachusetts for relief of these soldiers and their families.

GLC00267.282

1884

Book

Title: History of the thirty-fifth regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, 1862-1865

I Nevins 129, Dornbusch 305, Union bookshelf 150.

GLC00267.283

1868-1871

Schouler, William, 1814-1872

Header Record

Title: A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War

Written by Schouler as the former Adjutant General of Massachusetts. Two volume history. First volume published 1868, second volume 1871. First volume has 670 pages and the second volume has 711 pages. First volume published by E.P. Dutton & Co. and second volume published by the author at 39 Kilby Street in Boston. Both volumes stereotyped in Cambridge, Massachusetts by John Wilson and Son. First volume dedicated to Levi Lincoln and second to Harrison Gray Otis. Engraving of Governor John A. Andrews opposite the title page of first volume. Preface of first volume says "that one…

GLC00267.284

December 31, 1861

Schouler, William, 1814-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Annual report of the Adjutant-General, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with reports from the Quartermaster-General, Surgeon-General, Commissary-General, and Master of Ordnance

Adjutant General Schouler submitted his report along with the reports of the Quartermaster General, Surgeon General, Commissary General, and Master of Ordnance to Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew. All the reports contain an update on the department, sometimes with pertinent correspondence, and various financial statements. Pages 1-91 contains the report of Schouler. Next is the report of Surgeon General William J. Dale, which is paginated 1-15 (with charts and tables on page 8-15). Next is the report of the Master of Ordinance Charles Amory, which is paginated 1-21 (with charts and…

GLC00267.285

04 July 1863

McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

Printed document

Title: [General orders number 20, congratulating soldiers for their performance in the Battle of Vicksburg]

McPherson, Commander of the 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, declares: "With tireless energy, with sleepless vigilance, by night and by day, with battery and with rifle pit, with trench and mine, you made your sure approaches, until overcome by fatigue, and driven to despair in the attempt to oppose your irresistible progress, the whole garrison of over thirty thousand men with all their arms and munitions of war, have, on this, the anniversary of our NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE surrendered to the invincible troops of the ARMY of the TENNESSEE."

GLC00267.286

1899

Book

Title: Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865. Volume II Official reports...

Second edition.

GLC00267.288