46 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “The Mystic Chords Of Memory, Stretching From Every Battlefield, And Patriot Grave, To Every Living Heart And Hearthstone” 58LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address of the President of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861. Washington, March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound; pp. 10, custom clamshell box. $8800 Rare second printing of Lincoln’s important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. On the morning of March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was escorted with little fanfare to his inauguration. On the platform erected at the Capitol’s east portico, “Lincoln put on a pair of steel-bowed spectacles and began reading his inaugural address in a clear, high-pitched voice that carried well out to the crowd of 25,000. The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the South of his pledge not to interfere with slavery, but he firmly rejected secession—the Union was ‘unbroken.’ Finally he issued a grave warning: ‘In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war… Abraham Lincoln was resolved to be President of the whole Union” (Bruce Catton). Monaghan 102. A fine copy. 59CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence. The Passing of the Armies. An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac. New York and London, 1915. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt. $4500 Scarce first edition of “one of the finest accounts of a campaign penned” by a Union soldier (Eicher), with frontispiece and full-page portrait of Chamberlain, along with three color-outlined maps (two folding). Passing of the Armies by Union General Chamberlain is a “stellar work of Civil War history—a classic… one of the finest accounts of a campaign penned” by a Union soldier: vital in its “clear and precise recording of the final campaign of the war, from the last days of fighting at the Petersburg front… [to] the surrender at Appomattox” (Eicher 146). As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson notes, “by war’s end, Chamberlain had fought in 20 battles and numerous skirmishes. He led his troops from the front, never asking them to go where he would not go…. Few Civil War soldiers could match this record.” Especially powerful is Chamberlain’s record of the “climactic 12 days that ended at Appomattox on Palm Sunday 1865, and of the aftermath leading up to the Grand Review of the Union Armies” (Introduction, 1993 edition). Dornbusch I:37. Interior near-fine, beautifully bound. “A Stellar Work Of Civil War History—A Classic”
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