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Manuscripts from the soldiers who fought the bloodiest war ever fought on American soil - the Civil War.

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Manuscripts (78)

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Rare Union Soldier's Account Of Ambush Resulting In Death Of Jewish Colonel Marcus Spiegel

Autograph Letter Signed

Elaborate Civil War Corps Badges Belonging to Jewish Officer Aaron Lazarus

Historical artifacts

Jewish Officer Ferdinand Levy Recruits a Soldier into the Famed Les Enfants Perdu Regiment

Document Signed

Original Photo of Civil War Medal-of-Honor Winners Including Four Jewish Recipients

Civil War Leave Of Absence Document For Jewish Soldier Sgt. Solomon B. Kauffman

Superlative Battlefield Letter From Bermuda Hundred

1861 Col. Max Friedman Cameroon Dragoons Patriotic Cover

Lincoln Appoints Jewish Officer, E.M. Joel, to Serve on General Blair’s Staff

Pair of American Dueling Pistols Presented to General Edward Salomon by the Citizens of Cook County, Illinois in 1867

Robert E. Lee's Famous Letter Declining to Furlough, As a Rule, Jewish Confederate Troops for the High Holidays

Ten-Cent Henry Rice Sutler Coin

50 Cent Civil War Sutler Token of Jewish Sutler and Abraham Lincoln Friend, Henry Rice

Abraham Lincoln Queries the Surgeon General of the Army About an Appointment

Autograph Endorsement Signed

Three Days Before He is Assassinated, Abraham Lincoln Orders the Discharge of a Sickly Boy from the Army

Autograph Note Signed

Carte-de-Visite of Abolitionist Crusader Rabbi David Einhorn

Carte de Visite

Millard Fillmore on Civil War: Abolitionists Pervert Cause and Lincoln Tempts Tyranny

Abraham Lincoln Exercises Clemency: "Let This Boy Be Discharged"

General Benjamin Butler: The Jews "Betrayed Their Savior & Also Have Betrayed Us"

Civil War 25-Cent Sutler Token From L. Goldheim of J.E.B Stuart's 1st Virginia Cavalry

H.C. Corbin, Who Established Policy of Religious Furloughs for Jewish Soldiers, Postbellum Army Documents

An Early Civil War Treatise on Gunshot Wounds By Surgeon General P.J. Horowitz

Autograph Document Signed

Jewish Confederate Hero Alexander Hart Grants Leave to Officers During a Brief Lull in the Civil War

Simon Wolf's Original Contract For the Book "The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier, and Citizen"

"Doomed to the Gallows" By Public Opinion, James Buchanan Says History Will Vindicate Him

At the behest of President Lincoln, General Grant Decline's Lee's Suggestion of Armistice Negotiations

Benjamin Mordecai, Jewish Benefactor of Confederate Cause Honored by the Famed Palmetto Riflemen

Jewish Civil War Union Surgeon Morris Asch Rules on Another Surgeon's Exorbitant Bill

Abraham Lincoln Appoints Henry Ernest Goodman as Surgeon of Civil War Union Volunteer Army

In Refusing a Parole, Lincoln Notes That Federal Prisoners Are Being "Frozen and Starved" in Libby Prison

Jewish Colonel Max Friedman Certifies an Enlistment into the Cameron Dragoons

Union Soldier After Gettysburg: "We Will Whip Lee's Army So That He Will Not be Fit to Do Anything More"

Jewish Confederates: Letter Regarding Benjamin Mordecai's Support of a Commission for Jacob Valentine

General Meade: Lee is Just 15 Miles Away and "May at Any Time Force Action on Us.”

Abraham Lincoln's Appointment of Benjamin F. Isherwood, the Creator of the Steam Navy

Abraham Lincoln's Order That Sparked the New York City Draft Riots of 1863

Abraham Lincoln Reacts to Attempted Jail-Break of Confederate POWs on Johnson Island

Oliver Wendell Holmes: At Fort Stevens, Abraham Lincoln Was Forced to Duck From Enemy Fire

Statesman, Political Exile, Attorney, and Queen's Counsel, Judah Benjamin Arranges a Meeting

Robert E. Lee, Charmingly, and Piously, Responds to a Young Girl's Gift of Socks in 1865

American Civil War Union General George B. McClellan's Antisemitic Letter

A Union Officer in the Field Describes the Reaction to News of Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

Dr. Jacob Da Silva Solis Cohen Certifies the 1864 Death of a "Contraband" in Philadelphia

A Rare Artifact Associated With 1862 Battlefield Passover Seder: A G.W. Forbes Civil War Sutler's Token

Fresh From His Capture of Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Grant Reports From Gettysburg: "Meade Whipped Lee Badly"

Lincoln Asks General Grant as a Friend, for a Favor: Find a Place for His Son, Robert, on His Staff

Lincoln is "Not in a Sentimental Mood" Having Heard Reports of the Bloody Battle of the Wilderness

Alexander Hart's Civil War Sword and Scabbard, Presented Upon His Promotion to Captain

William Tecumseh Sherman Vents Anti-Semitic Prejudices, Discusses Runaway Slaves, & Sketches Total War

Letter From Gettysburg Battlefield, July 4th, 1863: Union Soldier Hopes "This Battle Will End the War"

Dr. Jacob de Silva Solis Cohen: A Scarce Civil War Autograph

Jewish General Edward S. Salomon Accepts an Invitation to Meet With His Old Comrades-in-Arms

"I Will Take Care of Myself," Abraham Lincoln Wires Stanton as He Follows the Troops

"Occident" Subscriber Begs Rabbi Leeser to Write Abraham Lincoln and Convince Him to Stop the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln: A December 8 Oath of Allegiance

Ulysses S. Grant Tries to Lose the Anti-Semite Label Engendered to Him by His Infamous “Jew Order”

Former President Franklin Pierce Defends Himself Against Treason Charges Brought by William H. Seward

President Abraham Lincoln Appoints Jewish West Pointer Alfred Mordecai Jr. Second Lieutenant

Abraham Lincoln Suggests Suffrage for Some Louisiana Blacks: The "Very Intelligent" and Union Veterans

Abraham Lincoln Swears That He Shall Not Retract or Modify the Emancipation Proclamation

Autograph Quotation Signed

Abraham Lincoln's Check to His Son, Robert Lincoln, to Equip Him For Service Under Grant

Check Signed

Contemporary Copy of Chase's Letter to Abraham Lincoln in Support of General Hunter's Emancipation Order

Letter Signed

A Fateful Appointment: Abraham Lincoln Makes William T. Sherman a General

Lincoln Would be Glad to See General Milroy but knows "...He Wishes to Ask for What I Have Not to Give"

The Day He Dies, Lincoln Writes a Pass to Richmond for Wife of the Doctor Who Would Attend His Death-Bed

"All is Over and Lincoln Elected," John Tyler Writes, "As Confidence Between Man and Man is Giving Way"

"Union is Dissolved!" - South Carolina Secession Ordinance Poster

Harper's Weekly With Illustrated Story About Five Union Soldiers, Including a Jew, Executed for Desertion

Excessively Rare "Rice and Byers" One Dollar Sutler Token from Fort Sill in the Indian Territory

Franklin Pierce on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the Prelude to Civil War

An Anti-Copperhead Broadside Denouncing Former President Franklin Pierce as a Traitor

Buchanan Approves Abraham Lincoln’s Ordering Fremont to Rescind His Emancipation Proclamation

Account of Execution of Deserters at Beverly Ford Mentions Rabbi Praying With One of the Condemned Men

Breathtaking Detailed Eyewitness Account of the Execution of Deserters at Beverly Ford

Lincoln Interjects Himself Into a Case of Two Jewish Merchants Charged With Selling Goods to Blockaders

John Tyler, as President of the 1861 Washington Peace Convention, Certifies a Vermont Delegate

John Tyler, as President of the 1861 Washington Peace Convention, Certifies a Delegate From Massachusetts

Millard Fillmore Asks Lincoln for a Favor; On the Back of the Letter, Lincoln Takes Steps to Oblige Him

Millard Fillmore On the Fugitive Slave and Kansas-Nebraska Acts: "You Can Not Reason With Fanaticism"

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