- Moses H Clift, Confederate Colonel, 36 th Tennessee Infantry -A MORTAL ANTIPATHY. First Opening of The New Portfolio Holmes, Oliver Wendell - Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [printed by] the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1885. [4], 307 pages, plus [1] page ad for author's works at front and 13 page publisher's catalog at rear. Original dark green cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gold. Top edge gilt; dark gray coated endpapers. [19.9 cm.] Spine cocked, moderately rubbed with light wear to corners, small marginal chips and tears to two leaves, in no way affecting text, still good plus. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Elsie Verner" listed at $1.50 in the initial ads, etc. This copy from the library of distinguished Confederate veteran and Tennessee lawyer, Moses Haney Clift (1836-1911), with an inscription on the front flyleaf “M.H. Clift, Chattanooga, Tenn., Xmas, 1885." Moses H. Clift was a native of Hamilton County, Tennessee. He fought at Fort Donelson, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga, and later in the battles for Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the Carolinas campaign. He served on the staff of Gen. Dibrell from Aug., 1863, and was noted for bravery in reconnaissance missions. After Chattanooga he was offered a generalship by General Braxton Bragg, but he declined. "Gallantry on the field of battle was the cause of every promotion in rank which he received. His service covered almost the entire field of the Confederacy, from the Mississippi Valley to the Carolinas, and when he surrendered at Washington, Georgia, he was in the troops accompanying President Davis as escort. He was wounded at Fort Donelson and at Cassville and Waynesborough . It was at Fort Donelson where it is said a Federal officer offered a reward of five thousand dollars for the capture of Colonel Clift. General Joseph Wheeler wrote: `Major Clift served with me during the war, and probably won greater distinction than any other officer of his grade'." --Hale and Merritt, "A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans," vol. 8, pp. 2498-2502. His father, Col. William Clift fought on the other side of the war as a Union soldier. Maj. Clift fought in twenty-five battles and received three injuries. After the war, Clift was an attorney in Chattanooga, who served as president or director of various industrial and mining concerns, and played a prominent role in the economic recovery of the city. His second wife was Florence Virginia nee Parrott (b. 1858-1924), a leading figure in the Tennessee U.D.C. - William Lowndes Calhoun, Confederate Captain, Company K, 42 nd Georgia Infantry, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia - Story of the Confederate States; or History of the War for Southern Independence by Derry, Joseph T, Richmond: B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xvi, 17-472 pages, [1]. Frontispiece photograph of the author. Illustrated with photographs, sketches, and maps. Gray cloth hard cover with black borders and silver stamped title and flag illustration on the front cover. Floral end papers. Light shelf wear to the cloth binding. Hinges lightly cracked. Verso of the right front flyleaf and preceding preliminary page are browned. Previous owner inscription "W. L. Calhoun, Atlanta, Ga" written on the front paste down. A later inscription written in pencil on the verso of the right front flyleaf - "This book purchased from Mr. Wm. Lowndes Calhoun's daughter Mrs. Emma Calhoun Connally 1943." William Lowndes Calhoun was the son of Civil War Mayor James Calhoun. William Calhoun was a Confederate officer and later the Mayor of Atlanta 1879-1881. Nevins II page 172 (about the book itself) - "Neo-Confederate propaganda that is virtually worthless as history. About Calhoun from Wikipedia: “In March 1862, Calhoun enlisted in the Confederate States Army and was commissioned as captain of Company K of the 42nd Georgia Infantry. He served in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then in the Vicksburg Campaign, where he and his regiment were surrendered by John C. Pemberton on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged, Calhoun served in the Atlanta Campaign and was wounded at the Battle of Resaca. After his recovery, he served in the Army of Tennessee under General Hood in Tennessee. Returning to Atlanta after the war, he served in the state legislature from 1872 to 1876 and, following in his late father's footsteps, was elected Mayor of Atlanta in 1879. During his term of service, he inaugurated the city's street paving system. A member of the Democratic Party, Calhoun is the first in a string of Democrat mayors that lasts to the present day. - George Cary Eggleston, Confederate Soldier – Master of Warlock, first edition, cloth hardcover, authored by George Cary Eggleston and signed by Eggleston on an inserted presentation slip. From Wikipedia: American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837–1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections." He coined the term champagne socialist in his 1906 book 'Blind Alleys' in which a character distinguishes the 'beer socialist' who "wants everybody to come down to his low standards of living" and the 'champagne socialist' who "wants everybody to be equal on the higher plane that suits him, utterly ignoring the fact that there is not enough champagne, green turtle and truffles to go round". He also served as an editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s. His boyhood home at Vevay, Indiana, known as the Edward and George Cary Eggleston House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. - John Joyce, Union “Colonel” 24 th Kentucky Infantry Regiment: Robert Burns authored and signed by John Joyce. From Wikipedia: On September 29, 1861, Joyce enlisted as a private in the Union Army's Company I, 24th Kentucky Infantry Regiment at Olympian Springs, a hotel and resort near Owingsville, Kentucky. On December 1, 1861, Joyce was promoted to orderly sergeant of Company I. Joyce was promoted to second lieutenant on March 22, 1862, and promoted to first lieutenant for gallantry at the Battle of Shiloh on May 30, 1862. Joyce was present at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, and was assigned as regimental adjutant on September 1, 1862. On November 25, 1863, Joyce was at the Siege of Knoxville. He was recommended for promotion by General Mahlon Dickerson Manson for his actions in the Battle of Resaca. On June 27, 1864, Joyce was shot in the thigh at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. He received an operation at College Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, in July 1864 and was sent to a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. In fall of 1864, Joyce applied to be a colonel. On November 4, 1864, the War Department removed Joyce from service due to his injury. Joyce was often referred to as "Colonel Joyce" but did not receive the rank. On November 1, 1866, Joyce moved to Washington, D.C. He was offered a commission in the Regular Army, but declined. Joyce joined the Internal Revenue Service and was stationed in St. Louis, Missouri. In October 1875, Joyce was imprisoned at a penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, for his part in the Whiskey Ring.[6] He was pardoned by President Rutherford B. Hayes in December 1877. He later returned to Washington, D.C. Around 1910, Joyce became a clerk for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He worked with the Treasury until his death. - James Oliver Banks, Confederate Colonel, 43 rd Mississippi Infantry - THE WORLD IN A POCKET BOOK, OR UNIVERSAL POPULAR STATISTICS; EMBRACING THE COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, REVENUE, GOVERNMENT, MANUFACTURES, POPULATION, ARMY, NAVY, RELIGIONS, PRESS, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, REMARKABLE FEATURES AND EVENTS, NAVIGATION, INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES AND GENIUS OF EVERY NATION ON THE GLOBE. AN AMPLE POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, AND GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF THE UNITED STATES; WITH THE CENSUS OF 1840, AND TABLES OF STATE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, INTEREST, USURY LAWS, &C. . . BY W.H. CRUMP. SIXTH EDITION. GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED; WITH A COPIOUS APPENDIX OF CHANGES AND EVENTS, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. i-vi, 7-203 pages. Hardcover: H 15.5cm x L 10.5cm. Original muted dull green cloth; bright gilt stamped vignette and title lettering to both front board and spine; spine frayed at ends with small cloth loss affecting flaked gilt bars; light staining and rubbing to boards with light bumping and wear at corners. Toning to edges; toning/foxing to endpapers and several initial and rear leaves with occasional light foxing to interior pages; front free endpaper recto has black ink inscription "J.O. Banks | Phila. | January 1850 | written in Mobile Feby 27'/57" (ink inscription written over and partially obscuring a pencil inscription "J.O. Banks | Tuscaloosa | Ala.") followed by red ink inscription "W.C. Banks | May 13th, 91." Front flyleaf recto has blue ink inscription "Wylie Banks | Columbus | Miss. | May 11th, 1891." Binding is firm. Still an attractive very good antiquarian copy. Pictorial title leaf (engraving credited to "J. Watt") has Philadelphia 1849 imprint of George S. Appleton only whereas successive text title leaf has dual Philadelphia and New York 1850 imprint for George Appleton and D. Appleton & Co. Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. From his obituary: “Abundant success attended the active prosecution of the doctor's profession, and the large interests of realty and other wealth forced him to relinquish his calling and confine his attention to his investments. Always a student, as the years rolled by, he accumulated a finely selected library and acquired a vast fund of information that irradiated every incident of his afterlife. When war called all Southern manhood to the colors, the young father turned from his loved ones to the forefront of battle and took his place on the firing line. He went out in the 41st Mississippi Regiment Infantry as 1st lieutenant among the first troops. Once in the thick of battle, while shell and shot were making a carnival of death about him he met and shook hands with a beloved kinsman whom he had not seen for years, bade him "God speed and goodbye" then the billowing smoke swallowed him up. Again while in business in a distant state an associate assumed large obligations in his absence that seriously embarrassed the firm. He promptly ratified the compact and securing proper extensions, discharged from his private means every dollar. Thus was his life in peace and war made luminous by that high sense of honor and devotion to duty, which makes a really great man.” - Bennett H. Young, Confederate Lieutenant / Major, 8 th Kentucky Cavalry – History of the Battle of Blue Licks (August 19, 1782) by Young, Bennett H., Side-Stapled wraps, inscribed by author at top of title page, lacks rear cover with front cover and first page present but not connected to text block, has chips to spine ends and edges of cover, slight creasing to corners of text block, and staining to cover, first page and near upper edge of title, otherwise a Poor copy as is. From Wikipedia: “Bennett Henderson Young (May 25, 1843 – February 23, 1919) was a Confederate officer who led forces in the St Albans raid (October 19, 1864), an act of terrorism during the American Civil War. As a lieutenant of the Confederate States Army, he entered Vermont from Canada and occupied the town of St. Albans. Young was 17 years old when he enlisted as a private in the Confederate 8th Kentucky Cavalry. This unit became a part of John Hunt Morgan's cavalry command. Young was captured in Morgan's Raid but fled to Canada in the fall of 1863. Young traveled back to the Confederacy via Nova Scotia and Bermuda, where he proposed Canada-based raids on the United States as a means of building the Confederate treasury and forcing the Union Army to protect their northern border as a diversion. Young was commissioned as a lieutenant and returned to Canada, where he recruited other escaped rebels to participate in the October 19, 1864, raid on St. Albans, Vermont, a quiet town 15 miles (25 km) from the Canada–US border. Young and two others checked into a local hotel on October 10, saying they had come from St. John's in Canada for a "sporting vacation." Every day, two or three more young men arrived. By October 19, there were 21 cavalrymen assembled; just before 3:00 p.m. the group simultaneously staged an armed robbery of the three banks in St. Albans. They announced that they were Confederate soldiers and stole a total of $208,000 ($3,892,000 in current dollar terms). As the banks were being robbed, eight or nine of the Confederates held the townspeople prisoner on the village green as their horses were stolen. The Confederates killed one townsperson and wounded another. Young ordered his troops to burn the town down, but the four-ounce bottles of Greek fire they had brought failed to work, and only one shed was destroyed. The raiders fled with the money into Canada, where authorities arrested them and held them in Montreal. There, the Lincoln administration retained prominent Irish-Canadian lawyer Bernard Devlin, QC, as counsel for the prosecution in the subsequent court case, which sought the raiders' extradition. The court ultimately decided that the soldiers were under military orders and that the officially neutral Canada could not extradite them to America. They were freed, but the $88,000 ($1,647,000 in current dollar terms) the raiders had on them was returned to Vermont. fter the end of the Civil War, Young was excluded from President Andrew Johnson's amnesty proclamation. He could not return home until 1868. Thus, he spent time studying law and literature in Ireland at the Queen's University of Ireland and at the University of Edinburgh. After being permitted to return to the United States, he became an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky. Young founded the first orphanage for black children in Louisville, a school for blind students, and did pro bono work for people experiencing poverty. He also worked as a railroad officer as President of the Louisville Southern Railroad, author. Young also served on the board of trustees of the Confederate Veteran. In 1876, Young was selected by Governor McCreary to represent Kentucky at the Paris Exposition. In 1878, Young joined the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky as a financier to the institution. Young became president of the society after the death of Dr. Stuart Robinson. In 1899, Young represented a formerly enslaved person, George Dinning, in a case against the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1890 and 1908, Young helped create the Louisville Free Public Library. In 1913, Young was elected commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, which he held until his retirement in 1916, where he was made "honorary commander- in-chief for life."
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Auction Highlights Include A Once in a Lifetime Collection of Civil War Generals and Presidential Signed Books Featuring Notable Names Such As Union Commanding General William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General John Adams Dix, Union Major General James A. Garfield, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate Major General John Cabell Breckinridge, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Union General Philip H. Sheridan, US Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Foreign Presidents and Chancellors, First Ladies, Kennedy's, and More, Postcards, Real Photo Postcards, Catalogs, Maps, Photographs, Tin Types, WW2 Ephemera, Road Maps, Matchbooks, Photo Negatives, Valentines, Military Handbooks, Magazines, Books, Scrapbooks, Victorian Tradecards, Pin Up Girls, Circus Ephemera, Barnum and Bailey Antique Circus Books and Magazines, Stereoviews, 1st Day Covers, Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Greetings, Leather, Hollywood, and Much Much More.
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Prior to the Sale
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Liability
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Local buyers may choose to pick up items instead of being shipped.
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We use Shipping Saint shipping software. After your items are paid for you will receive an email and text message regarding the shipping costs. This will be under the Shipping Saint company. Once your shipping costs have been paid and your shipping label has been printed you will receive one last message with your tracking number.
If you are out-of-state, we will automatically ship your items out to you unless you tell us otherwise.
Some of our auctions are located off-site and as such, pick-ups will be held on certain days at the off-site auction location. If an off-site auction occurs and you would like your items shipped to you, you must be willing to pay the transportation lot fee associated with bringing your items back to our gallery for shipping. The Transportation lot fee will be added to your invoice and the cost varies depending on the size per lot.
Pick-up times are Tuesday through Friday 10-5, and Saturday by appointment only if necessary. You do need to schedule an appointment to pick up your items. An email and text will be sent out to schedule a day and time to come in.
Storage Fees – Any items left at the gallery for more than 30 days following the sale will incur storage fees at a rate of $5.00 per lot, per day (this rate applies to all items regardless of size or value). Storage fees will begin on the 11th day regardless of payment status. Items remaining at our gallery 30 days after the auction date will be considered abandoned and may be consigned to a future auction without additional notice to the purchaser.