Subject: Reconstruction

Billhead from M. Cohen's business in Uniontown, Alabama, dated February 13, 1871. This receipt documents the sale of materials and edging. Notably, the billhead advertises "Yankee Notions," offering insight into commercial activity in the Reconstruction-era South.

A commercial letter written by E. W. Moise on September 15, 1866, concerning the collection of a debt. The letter was sent from Tuskegee, Alabama to Sumter, South Carolina. The letter provides biographical information about Moise, detailing his military service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and his post-war career in South Carolina.

Letter dated March 13, 1882, from Squire Taliaferro of Danville, Virginia, to State Senator W.T. James in Richmond, Virginia. Taliaferro seeks the position of Penitentiary Guard. The second page includes a letter of recommendation highlighting Taliaferro's influence among Danville's Black community, signed by prominent Readjuster leaders including J.B. Raulston, E.W. Barksdale, John Blackwell, John A. Smith, R.L. Cohen, and Wm. H. Pleasants.

Membership certificate for W. N. Hendren of the Berkley Democratic Club, dated October 24, 1892. The certificate features signatures from Jefferson M. Levy, Chairman of the Virginia League of Democratic Clubs, and Chauncy F. Black, President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs. It includes the mottoes "Home Rule" and "No Force Bill" and a lithograph of Monticello. Printed by A. Hoen & Co. Lith., Baltimore.

Sworn statement of allegiance to the Confederate States of America by G. Lewinson, witnessed by A. J. Walker, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Montgomery County, Alabama, August 27, 1862. The document includes the text of the oath and notes that it differs from the oath for military service. The document also includes brief biographical information about A. J. Walker.

This professionally rebound hardcover book, published in 1872 by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., contains the report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. The report, made to the two Houses of Congress on February 19, 1872, and ordered to be printed, details investigations into post-Civil War violence and conditions in Southern states. The first hundred pages focus extensively on Ku Klux Klan activities, including violence and threats. The book also includes state-by-state reports on the treatment of African Americans in the years immediately following the Civil War. This is a first printing; the complete report was eventually published in 15 volumes, but this volume stands alone. The report may contain information related to Samuel Fleishman, either his report or details of his murder by the KKK.