Vol.2, Iss.8: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

4/15/2011

150th Anniversary of the Civil War

150 years ago, the country erupted into our only Civil War. It pitted brother against brother, family against family, state against state, with a death toll that has never been repeated. At University Archives, we have a huge, diverse offering of Civil War related materials. Here are just a few samplings:

Please visit the University Archives website to access our inventory, with over 20,000 items available for purchase.

Name	[Robert E. Lee]	ID#	52309
Headline	Confederate Captain James Mitchel’s contemporary copy of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Farewell to His Troops with an 1862 Confederate Muster Roll of his Virginia Company.
Date	1862, 1865	Price
Place	Virginia	$2,500.00

Name	Abraham Lincoln	ID#	51813
Headline	“I know nothing of the gentleman or his case ... I merely submit to the Provost Marshal General” writes Lincoln as he forwards a letter from a Kentuckian who claims he “was summarily dismissed from a clerkship” in September because he supposedly “made a very lengthy speech, very vituperative of the administration and the government at the McClellan ratification meeting...” – Lincoln easily defeated McClellan in the November 8, 1864 presidential election.
Date	December 7, 1864	Price
Place	[Washington, D.C.]	$10,000.00

Name	Ulysses S. Grant	ID#	50807
Headline	From Union War Headquarters at City Point, Virginia, Grant signs a Carte-de-Visite in October, 1864, during the siege of Petersburg.
Date	October 1864	Price
Place	n.p.	$7,500.00

Name	[Jefferson Davis]	ID#	51444
Headline	General Nelson A. Miles, in command of Fort Monroe, reports that “the prisoner ‘Davis’ is feeling quite comfortable this morning ... I do not think it possible for him to escape, even if the sentinels are taken out of the front room, he will still be under two locks, aside from the Guard in front of his cell.”
Date	August 22, 1865	Price
Place	Fort Monroe, Virginia	$4,500.00

Name	Civil War	ID#	38101
Headline	Rare, partially printed Alabama parole of a Confederate soldier.
Date	May 14, 1865	Price
Place	Gainsville, Ala.	$1,900.00

Name	Gettysburg	ID#	52632
Headline	First Published Map of the Battle of Gettysburg, a month before Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address!
Date	[October 1863]	Price
Place	Gettysburg	$12,000.00

Name	William T. Sherman	ID#	37402
Headline	Amazing eleven page archive of four letters from Sherman on Ulysses S. Grant.
Date	1888-1890	Price
Place	New York	$9,000.00

Name	Joseph G. Totten	ID#	34114
Headline	Interesting archive of Joseph Totten, Chief of Engineers for the U. S. Army for 25 years, complete with hand-drawn schematics of military architecture.
Date	1855	Price
Place	n.p	$3,000.00

Name	Slavery	ID#	51745
Headline	Wrought iron slave shackle with original key.
Date	Circa 1840s	Price
Place	[South Carolina]	$4,000.00

Name	Civil War	ID#	51738
Headline	Enlisting because “when Fort Sumter was fired upon” his “blood began to boil,” a New Jersey private writes to his mother about the Battle of Gaines Mill, coming “out of the battle unharmed but with the rest of his noble regt were prisoners of war in the hands of the rebels and so were marched into Richmond the capital of the Southern Confederacy...” – includes wooden spoon and ring he carved in Danville prison
Date	1863-1864	Price
Place	Danville Prison and elsewhere	$1,900.00

Name	Civil War	ID#	52637
Headline	A fine set of letters spanning the crucial years of the Civil War with significant interest in southern politics and medicine.
Date	1831-1951	Price
Place	Georgia	$1,300.00

Name	James Longstreet Elihu Root	ID#	53591
Headline	Calling President William McKinley “the most beloved Executive that the country has known,” Confederate General Longstreet asks him for the appointment of his son to Captain of a staff corps – six months later, Secretary of War Elihu Root, now serving under President Theodore Roosevelt, replies to a later letter that “as all of the staff appointments have been made, I regret it will not be possible to give your request in behalf of your son favorable consideration…”
Date	April 27, 1901	Price
Place	Washington, D.C.	$1,200.00

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Vol.2, Iss.8: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

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