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(CIVIL WAR.) Baker, Lafayette C.
To Arms! To Arms! 100 Dollars Bounty!
Letterpress broadside, 9
1
/
2
x 7
3
/
4
inches, with engraved illustration of a cavalry soldier on
horseback; folds, apparently detached from another sheet on left edge.
[Washington, DC, circa June 1863]
[800/1,200]
A recruiting broadside for what became the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry or “Baker’s
Rangers,” a shadowy unit which hunted down deserters and Confederate subversives in the
capital region. Prospective members were recruited for “special duty, to act in conjunction with
the present National Detective Police in the execution of such Special Orders as may from time
to time be issued by the Colonel commanding.” The “peculiar service for which this Battalion
is organized” required that the applicants be “sober, honest, intelligent, able bodied young men”
and expert horsemen. Members were to be provided with “the best and fleetest horses” and
Henry repeating rifles. In other words, this was not your great-grandfather’s regiment. No other
copies traced in OCLC or elsewhere.
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(CIVIL WAR.)
The Captivity of General Corcoran.
4 plates including
engraved second title. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, minor wear and soiling, moderate
foxing.
Philadelphia, 1862
[200/300]
Michael Corcoran was one of the Irish-American heroes of the war. Nevins page I:189.
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(CIVIL WAR.) Grand Army of the Republic.
Complimentary Camp Fire of
Judson Kilpatrick Post . . . at Brommer’s Union Park.
Illustrated broadside, 18
3
/
4
x
12 inches; reinforced with archival tape on verso, advertising a “Summernight’s Festival”
featuring a variety of games, most notably a “Best Lady Shot” contest among “wives or
daughters of Comrades.”
[New York], 16 September 1886
[200/300]
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