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The Federal Government Responds to Its Greatest Challenge
C3-189. [BOUND VOLUME]. APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, [Dec. 3 to March 4], 1863. [Complete volume of 243 pages, quarto size, published at Washington, D.C., by Blair & Rives]
15 Numbers of 16pp each. The Appendix was pirnted weekly on Saturday, as the summary of the week's events in Congress. It contains official state documents, reports, speeches, and new laws, giving a full accounting of the activities of the 37th Congress in its 3rd session.
This historic run begins with Issue No. 1 of Dec. 3 containing the full text of the "MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES," signed in type ABRAHAM LINCOLN, his magnificent second State of the Union Address in which he recounts the war's events and principles, race relations, emancipation, and so much more. (Full text is online here) He ends with the immortal phrase "Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves... The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ..In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth."
Annual reports of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury, and others follow, full accounting of the year's military successes and losses, financing the great struggle, etc., along with the major speeches and the new laws passed at the session, which include arming of African American men in the U.S. Army, a new Mint for Nevada at Carson City, the first Internal Revenue Act, authorization of the first U.S. paper money, and much more. Many hours of historical reading on the new nation being born out of the ashes of the old republic.
Condition is very fine internally in marbled three-quarter leather boards. Spine crudely taped, ought to be rebound . . . 68.00

The Stars and Bars Again Over New Orleans!
C3-192. [SINGLE ISSUE]. HARPER'S WEEKLY, August 25, 1866. [Complete issue of 16 pages, large quarto size, published at New York, by Harper Brothers & Co.]
The great New Orleans race riot is depicted in grim detail in this historic issue. Cover, unreconstructed rebels gun down loyal men holding the stars and stripes under a flag of truce. Two more pages of the bloody affray show the violent clashes of loyal men and rebels, murdering defenseless blacks Enraged coverage in this Radical Republican journal is quite dramatic, and lays blame for the disaster on the beleaguered President Johnson, and his policies of reconciliation with the beaten south. Lots more, powerful issue. extra domestic postage for this issue is 45¢
Condition is nice clean fine condition, carefully removed from a bound annual volume . . . 25.00

Ho! For the War
C3-201. [SINGLE ISSUE]. THE NORTHAMPTON FREE PRESS, June 14, 1861. [Complete issue of 4 pages, folio size, published at Northampton, Mass., by Henry M. Burt]
"THE DEPARTURE OF THE NORTHAMPTON SOLDIERS" splendid detailed account of the ceremonies as the local volunteers prepare to embark for the south. Very detailed reporting touches the heart, for no one in those innocent early months knew what a hideous nightmare od death and destruction awaited the disunited nation. Decked in their fine new uniforms the men (all here named) assemble in the town square and receive the town's blessings and honors. Also in the issue is a good account of the Battle of Big Bethel. Much of the frontpage is taken up with detailed reporting of "THE LAST HOURS AND BURIAL OF [STEPHEN] DOUGLAS," Lincoln's old rival, who passed at just 48 years of age, and at the supreme moment of crisis when his leadership was needed in the divided nation he served so vigorously.
Condition is very fine . . . 12.50

Rare Singlesheet War Extra
C3-203. [TWO ISSUES]. THE TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE Regular and Extra Editions of April 8, 1862. [Complete issues of 4 and 2 pages, respectively, folio size, published at Taunton, Mass., by Ide & Hall]
The news of a new battle near Yorktown, in McClellan's mighty but doomed Peninsular campaign, occasions the printing of this special "THIRD EDITION" Extra, hours after the daily edition has gone to press. It reprises Page two of the earlier edition, with the columns shifted to accommodate the new reports, and on verso are the ads form that morning's Page Three. Most unusual format paper, reminiscent of the emergency editions from the Confederacy.
WITH the regular edition, which is packed with news of the often overlooked but vital early U.S. victories at Island Number Ten and the Newbern campaign. It's not hard to imagine how the residents of Taunton must have eagerly assembled at the newspaper office, by torchlight, to get this latest information on the war effort, for newspapers were the sole means of mass communication in that long vanished America. RARE Civil War journalism history survivor, few extras were preserved in bound volumes from which most surviving newspapers are taken. My scan depcits the frontpage of the Extra, with Page Two of the regular edition below.
Condition of both complete newspapers is choice clean very fine. . . 48.00

Claiming Their Unpaid Bounty
C3-213. [DOCUMENT]. BOUNTY CLAIM AFFIDAVIT , 1869 to 1871. [singlesheet, folio size, various places in Kentucky]
I have found a small group of these interesting military documents from Reconstruction era, being sworn affidavits by men in postwar service in the south, claiming non-receipt of their enlistment bounties. Entirely handwritten on lined paper which looks like sheets taken from a regimental day book, each man's affidavit is detailed as to his regiment and enlistment date and other vital statistics, and is witnessed and notarized. Unusual memento.
Condition is very fine. Each . . . 12.50

The Lost $100
C3-214. [DOCUMENT]. LOST CHECK CLAIM AFFIDAVIT , 1868 to 1870. [singlesheet, folio size, various places in Arkansas]
These forms, similar to the above, are requests for duplicate bonus checks to be issued to Union veterans during Reconstruction service, where the originals had become lost. Each details the man and his unit and enlistment date and other particulars, and features the blind embossed seal of the Circuit Court. Unusual item from a state whose ephemera is quite elusive. Entirely handwritten on lined ledger-style sheets.
Condition is very fine. Each. . . 15.00

Yankee Reprint of the Acts of Rebel Lawmakers!
C3-488. [PAMPHLET]. THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA...1864 - 1865, printed 1866. [40 + v, 112 + xvi pages, octavo size, published at Columbia, South Carolina, by Julian Selby]
This rare imprint was printed by the Yankee occupation after the war's end, as all but 25 copies of the 1864 session record were destroyed in the burning of Columbia after Sherman's arrival in the Spring of 1865. These final acts of the rebel state legislature give a grim portrait of the last year of life in the domed Confederacy, while the Acts of the 1865 Assembly vividly show the new order imposed on the heart of secession country. Most striking perhaps are the acts regarding "persons of color", at last recognizing their fundamental rights as human beings, together with the new laws aimed at the former enemies of the United States. Extremely uncommon. Sabin 87673.
Condition is fine, with front wrap, untrimmed, lacks final leaf of the 1865 index, little pencil graffiti, edge soiling. . . . 75.00

A Very Unusual Civil War Soldier Extra Pay Check
C3-489. State of Vermont Treasury Check, NP., 186_. [Montpelier, Vermont, ca. 1861, 3" x 8½" size] This check was printed for the state of Vermont to provide "extra Pay" to Vermont men who have "gone into the service of the United States on requisition of the Governor of this State" to fight the southern rebellion. It is a monthly award of $7.00, amounting to nearly a 50% raise over the federal army pay of $13.00. A handsome vignette of a warrior Liberty enhances this lovely document. Condition is virtually mint, as issued, never used. . . . 8.95   View Scan

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