1861 ELMER ELLSWORTH. Autograph of First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War! Ephemera

1861 ELMER ELLSWORTH. Autograph of First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War! EphemeraVery rare original autograph on Union envelope of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, who would become the first well known casualty of the Civil War. Elmer Ellsworth (1837 1861) was an important young leader in the run up to the Civil War in New York. He volunteered to muster troops from his home town of Rockford and was the signatory on the muster roles. His leadership was cut short on May 24, 1861 when he became the first Union soldier killed in the Civil

Pursuit with a ship’s Bible

combining more historically based approaches to interpretation with futurist concerns

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Eleven pamphlets with not a single one of them on the market at any price

Exceptionally rare group of addresses by four important English puritans written to the  Scottish Covenanters who had just adopted the Solemn League and Covenant asking for their support and assistance during the English Civil War in resistance of the Crown

London: Central Tract Depot

it is telling that the only time he ever entered into the public fray in such a dramatic way was on the issue of believers' baptism

Third Edition

*The Uses and Advantages of Poetry

very slight bow at corners

also includes a 1912 newspaper clipping on a young girl miraculously healed from a public newspaper in London

He exhibited his works in and around London and was represented in galleries