MEADE, George Gordon

MEADE, GEORGE GORDON - (1815 - 1872) - Union Major General who rose from command of a Brigade to head the Army of The Potomac - best known for defeating Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Depite his successes during the Overland Campaign, The Siege of Petersburg and Appomatax Courthouse - Meade would forever be overshadowed by the direct supervision of the General in Chief, U.S. Grant. Outstanding and historically important A.L.S., 8vo. 1p. Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, 11:30 A.M. October 11, 1864, to Lieutenant General, Ulysses S. Grant, concerning events at Petersburg, in full: "Nothing un-usual has occurred on my lines during the past 24 hours, beyond picket firing and occasional interchange of artillery shots on the Jerusalem plank road. Deserters yesterday stated that Maj. Gen. Whiting with 10,000 men from North Carolina was at Stoney Creek. I have directed General Gregg to send a reconnoitering party in that direction to endeaver to ascertain something positive about this." This A.L.S. was initially described as being an autograph draft of a telegram sent by Meade to Grant concerning events at Petersburg, however, this is not the case. According to The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, June 1, to Aug. 15, 1865, by U.S. Grant and John Y. Simon, General Meade sent Grant the initial telegram on October 10, 1864 at 12:10 PM. The telegram, for the most-part, is the same as the A.L.S. except that the former ends with the statement "No indications of movements by the enemy reported either by deserters or signal officers". The A.L.S. we offer is an update that is neither in the Official Records nor the papers of U.S. Grant. The A.L.S expresses Meades concerns about General Whiting being at Stoney Creek with 10,000 North Carolina troops but as far as we can ascertain it is most likely that General Whiting was in the peaceful military district of Wilmington North Carolina. Also, it appears that through some confusion several high ranking Union Generals, upon hearing of the death of Confederate $2250 General John Gregg, on October 7, 1864, at Petersburg - actually thought it was Union General David M. Gregg, also at Petersburg, who Meade had given the resposibility of verifying the whereabouts of General Whiting! Perhaps Meade thought twice and discarded the update! Attached to a 12" X 6 1/2" cardboard mount and inserted into a gold frame to 13 1/2" X 7 1/2". Usual folds - otherwise very good condition. 2250.00

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"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Worlds of Jesse Helms

HELMS, Jesse

Durham: North Carolina Independent, (1984), Ed. by Grace Nordhoff, Research by Ruth Ziegler. Illus. by Michael Kuczynski. Oblong 32mo. Wraps. 114 p . 1st ed. Name at top edge of title page; else very good.

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"AND HE HATH SOWN."

WILLIAMS, Jonathan.

(broadside). Reprinted from Pairidaeza on the occasion of the author's reading at North Carolina Wesleyan College, 23 November, 1983. This is one of 500 copies not numbered, but signed by the author "for wild times" (8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in).

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"GALLANTRY UNSURPASSED": PROCEEDINGS OF A DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR A MONUMENT TO THE 26TH NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT, GETTYSBURG NAT

Davis, Archie K.

Chapel Hill, NC:: North Caroliniana Society ,, 1985 1st edition, stapled grey wraps, 18 pages Limited to 500 signed copies. Limited to 500 signed copies. Paperback. Fine..

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"Man over Money": The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism

PALMER, Bruce

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (1980), xviii, 311 p . 1st ed. Fine in d. w.

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"ON THE CAUSES OF OUR NATIONAL TROUBLES." A SERMON, DELIVERED IN ST. JAMES' CHURCH, WILMINGTON, N.C., BY THE RIGHT REV. THOMAS A

Atkinson, Thomas Rev.:

Wilmington:: Printed at the "Herald" Book and Job Office,, 1861 15, [1 blank] pp. Bound into modern buckram [small gum label on front board]. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, a couple of institutional marks. Light toning, light edge wear, Good+. Thomas Atkinson [1807-1881], the third Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, passionately warns of the horrors of war: "Not theatrical war; not war as painted by poets and novelists, glorious in pride...but war in its stern reality, war as it empties villages, and fills hospitals, and crowds cemeteries..." A strong Unionist, Atkinson disliked slavery and had freed his own slaves; but he also disliked dogmatic abolitionists who demonized slaveholders. Opposing secession, he nevertheless put the Episcopal Church of North Carolina in the service of the Confederacy. After the War, Atkinson tried to make North Carolina a model for relations with the freedmen. He put black clergymen in charge of black Episcopal churches, and opened a school for blacks near Raleigh, now called St. Augustine's College. Crandall 4125 [4] [but noting that this was possibly printed before secession]. P&W 8014 [5]. Thornton 447. OCLC 11806073 [5].

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"Organized Labor Faces the 1980's

HOBBY, Wilbur, President, North Carolina AFL - CIO

Chelsea, Mass.: Massachusetts Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1979, Interview by Rich Koritz, President, Mass. T.U.E.L. Wraps. 18 p . Fighting Worker Labor Series #3.

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"The Cleft Roots"

OWEN, Guy

In "St. Andrews Review: A Twice-Yearly Magazine of the Arts and Humanities". Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring & Summer, 1971) . Fine.

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"The Fist" and "After Reading an Anthology of Southern Poetry." In "Florida Poetry and..."

OWEN, Guy

Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer, 1968) . About fine.

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"The Green Stallion" and "The Legacy." In "Epos"

OWEN, Guy

Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall, 1959), Fine.

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"THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. " AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TWO LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-CAROLINA.

Pinckney, Henry L.:

Raleigh:: 1836 30pp, disbound, tanned and foxed. Good+ to Very Good.  Pinckney was the son of Charles Pinckney, and the editor of the Charleston Mercury. He was also Mayor of Charleston and a Calhoun State-Rights man in the U.S. Congress. But he earned the enmity of Calhoun and his fellow South Carolinians when he authored the "gag rule," laying on the table without referral (instead of rejecting outright) all petitions for the abolition of slavery. Here he counsels reverence for the rights of the States, but a deep attachment to the Union as well. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 62904. AI 39624. Thornton 10769.

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"WHO'S GONNA COVER 'EM UP?!": CHAPEL HILL UNCOVERED, 1950-1985.

Giduz, Roland.

Chapel Hill:: Citizen Publishing,, 1985 1st edition, blue cloth, 210pp. Presentation copy. Presentation copy. Hardcover. Near Fine, Dust Jacket..

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'76: One World and The Cantos of Ezra Pound.

Read, Forrest.

The University of North Carolina Press,, 1981. 476pp. Fine / Fine dj.

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'Neath the Haze of the Smokies.

HUNTLEY, Catherine Pulliam.

[Edwardsville, IL]: [Fourkids Press], 1992. Small 4to. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 232pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Single archivally closed (on verso) edge tear on rear jacket panel. First edition, limited to 500 copies numbered by Huntley (this #225) -- this copy also beautifully inscribed and signed by Huntley in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "To Ellie / With best Wishes / Catherine Pulliam Huntley / January 1993." Homespun memoir about about growing up on a Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina in the early 20th century. Rather uncommon.

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'OUR DAILY BREAD': A BOOK OF FAVORITE RECIPES HOLY INFANT CHURCH, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.

Holy Infant Community.

Circulation Service, 1982. 84 pp plus index and kitchen information. Pages clean and intact. Fine.

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(SP)UTTERANCE: DRAWINGS AND POEMS.

Smith, Mark.

Laurinburg, NC:: Curveship Press,, 1976 1st edition, 16mo, black folded wrap, (18) unbound pages. Wrap lightly creased & faded along edges. Signed. Limited to 300 copies. Signed. Limited to 300 copies. Paperback. Very Good, folded brown paper Envelope..

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(SP)UTTERANCE: DRAWINGS AND POEMS.

Smith, Mark.

Laurinburg, NC:: Curveship Press,, 1976 1st edition, 16mo, black folded wrap, (18) unbound pages. Paperback. Review Copy. Paperback. Review Copy. Paperback. Very Good, folded brown paper Envelope has come unglued, but is solid..

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100 COURTHOUSES: A REPORT ON NORTH CAROLINA JUDICIAL FACILITIES. 2 Volumes.

Burns, Robert P. (Project Director).

Raleigh, NC:: School of Design, North Carolina State University,, 1978 1st edition, quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 227 + 645 pages. Books are in good to very good condition, with foxing and scuffing on the covers (more heavily on Volume II) and on the end papers; bindings are tight, and pages are clean. Paperback. Good+..

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100 YEARS, 100 MEN.

Crittenden, Christopher, et al (editors).

Raleigh, NC:: Edwards & Broughton Co.,, 1971 Beige cloth, 448 pages. This book is in great shape; spine tips & corners lightly bumped, textblock edges lightly foxed, publisher's sticker to front pastedown, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, but otherwise clean & bright internally with a strong binding. Dust Jacket spine tips & corners lightly worn, short closed tear to spine head, panels lightly rubbed & soiled, fore edge of flaps lightly creased, now protected in a mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good, Dust Jacket Good+..

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1763 TAX LIST OF BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

Campbell, Wanda (compiler).

No place:: no publisher,, 1960 1st edition, quarto, blue cloth spine, title leaf + (1) + 5 typed leaves; published sometime in the 1960s. Label taped to bottom front, glue stain to inside rear cover, owner's stamps. Paperback. Very Good..

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