History of the the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the American Civil War 1861-1865
Association copy Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1905.
First Edition. Hardcover. Thick quarto. [1], xxxvi, 614 pages, [2]. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph of Brigadier and Brevet-Major General William W. Averill, folding maps, photograph views, and portraits. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. The rear hinge is slightly cracked. Light foxing to the verso of the right front flyleaf and to the recto of the frontispiece photograph. Interior text is very clean. Contents include a roster.
This copy has several notes written in pencil and an inscription that takes up the complete right front flyleaf. Pencil inscription "From Auntie Helen Christmas 1956" written top of the front paste down. Below this inscription is a list of 32 marked pages regarding the service of Colonel Samuel W. Owen and Major Howard Edmonds (both officers photograph portraits are located in the book). The inscription on the right front flyleaf reads - "Dear Charles (III) Your old Auntie would like you to have this book. The pages marked are a brief, official record of your Great Grandfather part in the Civil War. He was a wonderful man I knew him and loved him very much. [signed] Major Howard Edmunds Col. 3rd Pa. Cavalry." Written on the front blank end sheet is a note - "Col. Samuel Owen was your great grandmothers Father." The illustration on preliminary page iv shows 4 soldiers playing "Reveille" with an arrow pointing to one the soldiers with the statement "Major Edmonds he looked like this! 1861". Pencil remarks are made in the text with some short passages underlined.
Nevins I page 143 - "An exceptionally full, day by day chronicle of the regiment first commanded by William W. Averill; indispensable for an insight into Eastern cavalry operations throughout the four years of war." Good. Item #32898
Price: $300.00