Festus A Poem
Previous owner(s) Civil War association Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1849.
Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo. [1], 416 pages. Brown cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the covers. Gilt title on the spine. Cloth is chipped base of the spine, lightly worn head of the spine with a small split lower spine. Cloth is worn and chipped on the corners. Light spotting and fading to the covers. Light toning and scattered foxing to the text. Inscription written on the yellow front paste down reads "Lieut. Cramer Burt U.S. Navy No 21. Col". Under this inscription is the previous owner's name "E. R. Parry". E. R. Parry also written top of the right front flyleaf. On the front blank end sheet is a gift inscription "Lieut. C. Burt U.S. Navy to E.R. Parry Major U.S. Army". An asterisk in pencil is located to the left of the gift inscription and the explanation provided below - "Purser on the Cumberland sunk by Merrimack During the Rebellion of 1861" Good. Item #19017
Records were found for Cramer Burt in the "Complete Army and Navy Register of the United States of America, from 1776 to 1887"; in "Yonkers in the Rebellion of 1861-1865"; and in "Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 35". From the Army and Navy Register the record reads "Cramer Burt, Purser, 1 June 1861. Retired list 15 September 1863. Died 1869." Note: the year the Union Cumberland ship was sunk by the Merrimack in 1862 not 1861 as stated on the front blank end paper.
From Bucks County Pa Gen web:
Major Edward Randolph PARRY, late of the United States army, died at his residence, New Hope, in this county, on the 13th of April, 1874, and was buried on the the 16th, at Friends' Solebury burying ground. He was a son of the late Oliver PARRY of Philadelphia, and was born at New Hope, July 27, 1832, In May, 1861, he entered the army as first lieutenant in the 11th United States Infantry, and served throughout the war, with great credit. In 1864 he was made captain in the 11th; afterwards transferred to the 20th, and on reorganization of the army was promoted to a majorality for gallant service. He was in the terrible fighting along the line of the Weldon railroad, and before Petersburg, Virginia, commanding his regiment in several actions. In 1865 he was assistant general of the regular brigade, Army of Potomac, and served upon the staff of General Winthrop when he was killed. At Lee's surrender he was attached to army headquarters, In 1868 Major PARRY commanded Forts Philip and Jackson, at mouth of Mississippi river, and Fort Ripley in Minnesota in 1869. He resigned on account of ill heath in 1871. Major PARRY was the grandson of Major Edward RANDOLPH, who served from the beginning to the end of the Revolutionary war.
Price: $250.00