[CIVIL WAR]. A Large Group of Volumes on the Civil War, Many Signed By Military and Related Figures. [U.S.]: v.p., ca. 1840s-1900s. A large group of approximately 30 volumes on the Civil War, many signed by authors and related military figures, including:

BLEDSOE, Albert Taylor (1809-1877). An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will. Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1845. 8vo. 234, [4, ads] pp. Brown cloth stamped blind and lettered gilt to spine. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BLEDSOE. Bledsoe was a graduate of West Point with Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, and later a Confederate officer. After the war he founded The Southern Review and became a prominent architect of "The Lost Cause," authoring impassioned defenses of slavery. This copy is inscribed in pencil "To Wm Hamilton Holly With the Regards of the Author." 

DYER, Elisha (1811-1890). A Summer's Travel to Find a German Home. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1864. 8vo. 245 pp. Textured blue cloth lettered gold to spine. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED "BY THE AUTHOR." Dyer, the author, was a Civil War General and later Governor of Rhode Island.

[OGELSBY, Richard (1824-1899)]. History of Macon County, Illinois. Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough & Co., 1880. 4to. Illustrated. [253] pp. 1/8 brown leather and cloth stamped gilt. THE PERSONAL COPY OF RICHARD OGLESBY, WITH ANNOTATIONS ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Ogelsby served as a major general in the Civil War and later as both Illinois Governor and Senator. This volume contains Ogelsby's bookplate and handwritten annotations, including on such figures as Abraham Lincoln. 

PREBLE, George Henry (1816-1885). Statues of the Naval Library and Institute, Navy Yard, Charlestown Mass....Boston: J. E. Farwell & Co., 1867. 8vo.  36 pp. Sewn printed wrapper (wrappers absent). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE HENRY PREBLE ON THE TITLE PAGE.

Other signatories include Confederate Col. William Lightfoot Visscher, Alonso F. Hill of the 8th Penn. Reserves, Union General J. Watts DePeyster, Union General Frederick Townsend, Union Brigadier General Charles Francis Adams, Union Colonel James Grant Wilson, Union Sergeant Major John G. Brown of the 55th Illinois, Henry Pleasants, Union Brigadier General Charles H. Taylor of the 28th Mass., Union First Lieutenant John Joyce, Union Colonel Martin Welker, Union Lieutenant Colonel William Brooke Rawle of the 3rd and 5th Penn. Cavalry, Union Captain John Jacob Bierer, Confederate Captain William Lowndes Calhoun of the 42nd Georgia Infantry, Union Brigadier General John Johnson, Confederate Captain David Todd Gilliam, Union Major General St. Clair Mulholland, Union Colonel and Major General William A. Nichols, and Confederate veteran George Cary Eggleston.

Soiling and toning, chipping, rubbing, and edge wear; ownership inscriptions and bookplates; binding separation, broken hinges, corners bumped and cloth fraying, paper loss and loss to boards, boards detached, missing leaves. Condition varies. Sold as-is. Fair to good.