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Antique Books 2

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Civil War, Prisoner Of War Autograph Book, Point Lookout Prison, Maryland
The autograph book of Carrie C. Morfit, Baltimore, Maryland

This small, 6 by 3.75”, 82-page book, contains the autographs and annotations of approximately 157 Confederate company grade officers held prisoner at Point Lookout, Maryland. Many of the names are those of officers captured at Cheshire, Ohio while serving in General John Hunt Morgan’s division. During this fruitless “raid”, which occurred July 2 – 26th, 1863, most of Morgan’s force was captured, killed or reported missing. There are also the names of officers who were captured at Shiloh in 1862, as well as Gettysburg, Spotsylvania Court House, Petersburg and places in between.
In spite of the miserable conditions they were subjected to, the remarkable spirit of these men shines through in their short messages:

W. Kendall, 1st Lieut., Co.A, 3rd Ky Cav. From Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas had a wife and 3 children “...from whom I have not heard since the 18th of Jan 1863: but am content knowing that they are in the hands of Him by whose aid we expect eventually to succeed in the present struggle for independence...”

Benj. J. Lancaster, Lieut., Co. K, 8th Ky Cav. From Lebanon, Kentucky:
“...When the war is o’er
And not before
Will I go home
Base cowards shrink
Fools stop to think
Till Freedom is gone”

John D. Boyan, 1st Lieut., Co. A, 6th Regt. Ky Cav. From Danville, Boyle Co. Ky.
“...I am twenty six years at age unmarried, but hope soon to see the independence of my country recognized, peace established when I can ask some fair one to accompany me along the remaining portion of life’s journey.”

Francis A Boyle, 1st Lt & Adjt, 32 N.C. I. From Plymouth, N.C.
“There are three things that I desire with an exceeding longing – a Sword, a Wife, and my Freedom”

There is even a note that may clear up how Miss Morfit, a lady living in Baltimore, came to be in possession of this wonderful little book.

Lieutenant Bills of the 32nd Miss. Vol. Regt. Wrote:
“...was captured near Lafayette, Ga on the 10th of Sept / ’63 while on picket – Have been a beneficiary of the generous kindness of the many lady friends of Confed. [sic] Prisoners and feel truly grateful.”

Many, on both sides, regarded Baltimore as a Southern city and there were many living there who sympathized with the Confederate cause. Perhaps Miss Carrie C. Morfit was one of them.

$9,500

MH5-10

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US Infantry & Rifle Tactics Complete, 1861, Hardee’s Tactics, Standard War Dept. Manual
J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia
A good primer to understanding the Civil War military experience

(5.5 by 3.5 by 1.5”)

$195

110-767

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Previous Offerings or Gone to New Homes

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Books, Civil War Related
Sold separately

From left to right: Book, 14th Regiment, Connecticut Volume Infantry 1906 - SOLD 647-154	Book, The Life of General Phillip Sheridan Burr and Hutton, 1888 - SOLD	Book, New Hampshire in the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865 Waite, 1870 Claremont, New Hampshire - SOLD	Book, Recollections of a Private Goss - SOLD
Book, War Lyrics and other Poems Brownell, 1866 - SOLD	Book, The Sixth Mass Regiment Hanson, 1865 Cambridge Press - SOLD 647-142	Book, Prison Pen Captures and Escapes Missing title page - SOLD	Book, Andersonville Diary List of Escaped and Dead Ransom, 1881 - SOLD 647-157
Book, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army Edmonds - SOLD	Book, Massachusetts in the Rebellion Headley - SOLD	Book, My Story of War, etc. Mary Livermore Hartford, 1889 - SOLD	Book, History of the Forty Second Regiment, Mass Volume Boston, 1886 - SOLD
Book, Sketches and Echoes, 1861 to 1865 King, Richardson, 1880 - SOLD	Book, Life and Death in Rebel Prisons 1867 - SOLD 647-146	Book, Parson Brownlow's Book, Secession Phil, 1862 - SOLD	Book, Birds Eye View of our Civil War Dodge Students Edition Boston, 1911 - SOLD
Book, Bullet and Shell as the Soldier Saw It William, 1882 - SOLD

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Infantry Drill Regulations
United States Army
Special Edition
Copyright 1891 - SOLD

Soft cover, faded blue covers, owner's name inscribed on cover and title page, cover soiled and creased, good to very good.

110-336 - SOLD

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Infantry Tactics by Brigadier General Silas Casey, Vol. I
1862 - SOLD

Green cloth cover, front and back with blind stamped eagle, spine with gold lettering, lightly inscribed in pencil "A. W. Eames / Aug 1866 / Leicester Mass."
Condition: flyleaf diagram has tear in one fold and foxing on front and back cover pages otherwise very good, volume I only.
Dimensions: 5.25 by 3.75-inches.

110-329 - SOLD

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1854 Book Signed By Union General Hiram Berdan
Inventor, crack rifleman, creator of two Civil War Sharp Shooter regiments - SOLD

Hiram S. Berdan Autograph, Commander of Berdan's Sharpshooters - Copy of The Works of Washington Irving, Volume IX, 1854, signed on inside of end paper "H. Berdan." The inside cover page has a Francis Marion Crawford bookplate; Marion Crawford was a very popular American author who married Hiram Berdan's daughter Elizabeth in 1884. Hiram S. Berdan (1824 - 1893) was a millionaire who formed a unit of expert marksmen that became famous as "Berdan's Sharpshooters" during the Civil War. Berdan's autograph is uncommon.

110-289 - SOLD

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