356.
Civil War Letter. December 1861. Harper's Ferry, VA.
Advancing Towards Leesburg…

"We are about to make another advance towards Leesburg the infantry has been filing along all day and we are waiting on the artillery to start. I was out with a scouting party the other day to the place where we had the skirmish and found there was eight rebels killed. The country people gathered them up and buryed them, some of them had friends living close by." "It is the opinion here the war cannot last long."

Reid Camp Pierpont December 1861

50/100     SOLD: $92.00

357.
Civil War Letter. Martinsburg, VA. October 1863.
Philosophies on Death

Three page letter from which the following has been excerpted: "There was a lieutenant & we came in contact & exchanged a couple of shots at each other with our pistols when he began to think of number one & started for the mountain. I brought my carbine to bear upon the horse & fired. The horse fell to his knees. Mr. Lieutenant naturally came to the conclusion that the next shot was intended for him & came running back with his hands up hollering I'll surrender I'll surrender.
When we are at home in peace & quietness it frequently falls our lot to gaze on the dead body of some one whose soul have taken its flight. Perhaps a friend or a stranger but let it chance to be either there is no one but must give a moment for consideration & perhaps drop a tear but in this cruel war how different- every one trying to be first to strike a death stroke to some poor gray back & then smile at him weltering in his blood."

Martinsburg, VA October 1863

200/300     SOLD: $115.00

358.
Civil War Letter. May 1863. Winchester, VA.
Bushwhackers.

"We have been out on two reconnaisance since I wrote you last we was very successful on the first scout the official report was 9 rebs killed and several wounded & 25 prisoners. We left Winchester in the morning about daylight with about 600 cavalry, part of the 13th Pa. Cav[alry]; Our scout or guide that we had with us took the man out that belonged to the house in the first place. The man that lived therewas his uncle. He took him out in the yard and called his wife to the door & told her that he wanted here to see him die. Says he you know that he is a bushwhacker & that he shot my father that was his own brother. The woman run in between them he shot her through the arm & killed him. That's the way that bushwhackers is served."

D.O. Kelly Winchester, VA May 1863

100/200     SOLD: $212.75

359. Albaugh, William A., Hugh Benet, and Edward N. Simmons
Confederate Handguns

Grey cloth w/image of Confederate soldier on front and pictorial endpapers

Riling and Lentz Philadelphia 1963 First Edition

Quarto

30/60     SOLD: $58.65

360. Bigelow, John Jr.
The Campaign of Chancellorsville.

Recent burgundy buckram. With fold-out maps and plans. Additional 8 maps in pocket at back cover, approx. 39 in all.

Morningside House Dayton ca. 1970

Quarto

100/200     SOLD: $57.50

361. Blay & Donald.
Two Pictorial Profiles on Civil War.

Blay, John S. THE CIVIL WAR: A PICTORIAL PROFILE. New York: 1958. In Slipcase. Donald, David. DIVIDED WE FOUGHT: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR 1861-1865. New York: 1961.

25/50     SOLD: $23.00

362. Cadwallader & Porter.
War Correspondent's and General's Military Experiences With Grant.

Cadwallader, Sylvanus. THREE YEARS WITH GRANT: AS RECALLED BY WAR CORRESPONDENT SYLVANUS CADWALLADER. New York: 1955.
Porter, General Horace. CAMPAIGNING WITH GRANT. New York: 1897.

25/45     SOLD: $46.00

363. D.O. Kelly
Civil War Letter. Martinsburg, VA. September 1863.
Surprising Major Gilmor.

"We have a scout out now of about two hundred. They went in the direction of new town. I have no doubt but that they will find something as Major Gilmor is in that section with a lot of rebel cavalry. The intention is to surprise them."

Martinsburg, VA September 1863

50/100     SOLD: $46.00

364. D.O. Kelly
Civil War Letter. September 1861. Washington, D.C.
D.O. Kelly of the 12th Penna Cav

"I belong to the regiment that belong to Manassas when the rebbles came in on them about three weeks ago. There was three or four companies that fought valiantly and the balance retreated without firing a gun, I belong to a reg that takes care of number one. If there is any chance of running they will never be taken." " I heard of the first Penna cavalry the reg that Will Reid belongs. They are out about 5 miles at halls Cross roads. I am going over to see Will tomorrow if they are there yet. That is said to be the best reg in the service. I would like to belong to that reg. but I am to be promoted whenever I get this reg that I belong to Capt Jenkins is to be my Capt and there is no better man in the world."

Washington September 1861

50/100     SOLD: $155.25

365. Davis, Dumond, Wise, Wyatt-Brown.
Four Books on the Civil War.

Dwight Lowell Dumond, PH.D. THE SECESSION MOVEMENT. New York:1973..
Burke Davis. THE LONG SURRENDER. New York:1985.
Stephen R. Wise. LIFELINE OF THE CONFEDERACEY: BLOCKADE RUNNING DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Columbia:1988.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown. YANKEE SAINTS AND SOUTHERN SINNERS. Baton Rouge:1985.

50/100     SOLD: $57.50