Item #24707 The Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. A History Compiled from Diaries and Official Reports. Edwin E. Marvin, Third Captain of F. Company.

The Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. A History Compiled from Diaries and Official Reports

Published for the Reunion Association of the Regiment Hartford: Press of Wiley, Waterman & Eaton, 1889.

First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 394 pages, [64] pages "Official Record", [1]. Blue cloth hardcover with red star on the front cover. Gilt lettered title on the spine. Light edge wear to the cloth head and base of the spine and on the corners. Some of the pages are creased in the upper corners. Presentation inscription written on the front blank end sheet - "Presented to Admiral Foote Post June 4-1898 by Comrade Luzerne Barner." Regimental roster located in back.

Nevins I page 128 - "Marvin confessed to using State and Federal sources for this history, but the work also possesses a surprising amount of diary excerpts by members of the regiment." Good. Item #24707

Price: $175.00

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