American Civil War
Medical surgeons field kit used during the Civil war by the Confederate army. Plaque on top reads “Found in an Abandoned Confederate Field Hospital off the Hagerstown Road, July 6, 1863”. This was during the Confederate retreat in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. Produced in Munich Germany by Herman Katsch. In solid condition. Rare. B
Price: $3500.00
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Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the Black pariahs of the Northwest. Fascinating insight into how blacks were treated in the Northwest and the resentment to emancipation in those States. “Illinois, Indiana and Iowa wanted nothing to do with black people, slave or free, and enacted laws to bar them from their states”. Interesting to note that “Lincoln did not think that whites could live in harmony and his plan was to resettle blacks to Central America”. Text on reverse.
Price: $30.00
Original proclamation by Henry Crapo, Governor of Michigan, dated June 14, 1865, thanking the soldiers and citizens of Michigan for their courage and sacrifice during the Civil War. 24x44cm. Pasted onto cardboard, it split at one point but is whole, with minor loss on one or two lines. B
Price: $100.00
Fact card produced in 1993 by Atlas Editions about the Freedmen’s Bureau. Headed by Major General Oliver O. Howard (after which Howard University was named), the Bureau became the only guardian of civil rights the former slaves could turn to. However, “the agency became the pawn of the corrupt Radical Republican government and was used to maintain control of the states occupied by federal troops”. Congress discontinued the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1872. Text on reverse. B
Price: $30.00