Civil War Political Pamphlet Collection.

DODGE, W.C.; Andrew Johnson; Henry J. Raymond; et al.

$12,500.00

Item Number: 135127

Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft. Octavo, 52 volumes, original wrappers. The collection includes first editions of: Memorial to the Hon. Secretary of War, or, How to Strengthen our Army and Crush the Rebellion, with a Saving of Life and Treasure [Dodge, W.C. Washington DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. From the collection of James W. Grimes (1816-1872), Governor of Iowa and United States Senator from Iowa with his ownership inscription]; Correspondence between John H. Gilmer and Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury [Richmond: V.L. Fore, 1869]; The Constitutionality and Rightfulness of Secession. Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States [Johnson, Andrew. 1860]; Rebel Brag and British Bluster [Owls-Glass. New York: The American News Company, 1865. Sabin 58028]; Southern Hatred of the American Government, the People of the North, and Free Institutions [Garrison, William Lloyd. Boston: R.F. Wallcut, 1862. Sabin 88363]; The Rebellion and Our Foreign Relations. Remarks of Henry J. Raymond, Speaker of the Assembly, on the Conduct of our Foreign Affairs and the Action and Disposition of European Powers. [Raymond, Henry Jay. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1862]; A Brief Plea for an Ambulance System for the Army of the United States, as Drawn from the Extra Sufferings of the Late Lieut. Bowditch and a Wounded Comrade [Bowditch, Henry I. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863]; and 45 others mostly first editions. In good condition. Library stamps to most volumes. A rare and extensive collection offering unique insight into the lives and opinions of Civil War era Americans.

The American Civil War remains one of the most studied and written about episodes in the history of the United States as well as the subject of cultural and historiographical debate. The result of decades of political unrest over the status of slavery, the war began when Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 United States presidential election and an initial seven southern slave states declared their secession from the country to form the Confederacy. After four years of bloody battles ,the war effectively ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Among the earliest American wars to use industrial warfare, in total, the Civil War left between 620,000 and 750,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties. It remains the deadliest military conflict in American history.