‎Guerre‎

‎Malik; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC‎

‎Public Diplomacy Cultural Diplomacy: The Debate Over USIA‎

‎PN. New. 1988. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 782127

‎AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL‎

‎Work Measurement: The Controversy over Military Standard 1567A‎

‎PN. New. 1986. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 776085

‎[MAXIMILIAN I OF BAVARIA] / [THIRTY YEARS WAR] / STENGEL, Georg‎

‎Gloria Bellica Serenissimi et Potentissimi Principis Maximilliani .‎

‎Ingolstadii: Ex officina typographica G. Haenlini 1623. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to 27 x 17.5 cm. 17 ff. 388 pp. recte 386 7 ff. with misnumbered pages at pp. 203-06 243-46 and 260-71 1 full-page engraving 20 x 15.5 the platemark. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin raised bands boards beveled somewhat scuffed clasps missing. Blue edges small hole repaired on half title and engraving ownership inscription of Andechs Abbey on title page minor browning in some quires. An excellent and unsophisticated copy. First edition of a rare volume of prose and verse glorifying the military exploits of the Prince-Elector Kurfürst of Bavaria Maximilian I 1572-1651 by members of the University of Ingolstadt as compiled by the Jesuit philosopher-theologian Georg Stengel 1584-1651. The Gloria Bellica is an important witness to the intertwining of princely power university politics and religious sectarianism at the onset of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. Published in the year of Maximilian's elevation to Prince-Elector 1623 the book seems to have been an attempt by faculty at Ingolstadt to secure his favor. The increasingly Jesuitical university would be frequently imperiled during the flux of the war and quickly identified Maximilian himself educated by Jesuits as an important military protector. Maximilian's central role in the German Catholic League had been essential in checking the power of the Protestant Union. The volume is especially notable for its full-page prefatory engraving executed by the Augsburg artist Daniel Manasser a highly detailed and elaborate allegory charting Maximilian's martial rise and the praise conferred on him from various secular and sacred sources. Merchants clerics Liberal Arts herself and a throng of lesser citizens crowd together to salute Maximilian as he rides upward on the back of Pegasus toward the Olympian gods reclining in the empyrean; the demigod Hercules mediates between heaven and earth while battling Nessus and the Lernaean Hydra. Flanking Maximilian's ascent are 8 groups from whom he receives "Gloria": his enemies his commanders and soldiers muses and scientists hometown Bavaria the Catholic League the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I the pope and church and indeed Mary Christ and the saints. The text of the Gloria Bellica is arranged as a fuller version of this scheme with 20 chapters each detailing a source Maximilian's glory. OCLC identifies U.S. copies at Harvard Trinity CT Georgetown and Chicago. VD 17 23:231047E; De Backer/S. and VII 1550 32; Lentner 3774; Pfister I 4297; Mario Praz Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 1975 pp. 503-04. <br/> <br/> Ex officina typographica G. Haenlini hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 5340

‎US Marines U S‎

‎FLEET MARINE FORCE PACIFIC: THIRD MARINE DIVISION YEARBOOK 1953-54‎

‎<p>This is a rare excellent copy of the 1953-54 yearbook of the occupying Marines in 1950s Japan. The War had not been over long and enthusiasm for the tasks that remained is visible in these pages augmented by thousands of photos. Some slight rubbing on corners but overall excellent condition with impressive embossent on front cover of the Pacific Rim.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Taylor Yearbooks hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : biblio1355

‎Journal Of The Society Of World War L Aero Historians‎

‎CROSS & COCKADE - the Society of World War I Aero Historians; Volume 24/ #1 #2 #3; #4 1983‎

‎4 vols. 1983. Near Fine. First Edition. Softcover. Glossy pictorial softcovers. First editions. Books are in near fine condition crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Historic photos color illustrations and crew info as well as technical specs throughout. 4tos; 4to 11" - 13" tall . paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 95753

‎Journal Of The Society Of World War L Aero Historians‎

‎CROSS & COCKADE - the Society of World War I Aero Historians; Volume 23/ #1 #2 #3; #4; 1982‎

‎4 vols. 1982. Near Fine. First Edition. Softcover. Glossy pictorial softcovers. First editions. Books are in near fine condition crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Historic photos color illustrations and crew info as well as technical specs throughout. 4tos; 4to 11" - 13" tall . paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 95752

‎(PATRIOTIC COVERS -- CIVIL WAR)‎

‎Collection of "U.S. Naval Expedition" Patriotic Envelopes‎

‎12 covers each 5½" X 3" New York NY n.y. Near fine. Unused and with faintest of age toning only and original gum present. Exceptional complete set printed entirely in brown ink by Charles Magnus at 12 Frankfort Street in New York. Undated although Steven R. Boyd in his "Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers" dates it to August 1861. While most of the dozen feature naval ships prominently in the middle ground or foreground often with groups of soldiers not sailors! in various activities only two covers actually depicts naval battles at sea and the final three covers depict infantry soldiers battling with no apparent nautical references whatsoever. A fascinating grouping seldom found complete and in uniform outstanding condition. unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 45239

‎JOHNSON, Robert Underwood, and BUEL, Clarence Clough (editors)‎

‎Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers Based upon "The Century War Series.‎

‎Secaucus NJ: Castle Books n.y. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Grey leatherette spines with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards pictorial dust jackets. xxii 750pp; xx 760pp; xx 752pp; xx 829pp. Frontispieces numerous illustrations maps. Very good/very good. Faintest of edgewear; third volume only lacks dust jacket. Tight attractive reprint set of this mammoth compilation first published by The Century Company in 1887-88 described by James I. Robertson Jr. as "Opinionated and rationalizing memoirs by high-ranking officers on both sides which make this work one of the most quoted in Civil War literature." This reprint titles the first volume "The Opening Battles" the second volume "The Struggle Intensifies" the third volume "The Tide Shifts" and the fourth volume "Retreat with Honor." Undated but likely late 1980s. NEVINS I 55. Castle Books hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 41492

‎WILEY, Bell Irvin‎

‎The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union -- The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy‎

‎Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1971. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jackets. 454pp 444pp. Frontispieces. Good plus/very good. Jackets slightly edgeworn with large chip on second volume at head of spine; both book spines a bit rubbed and lightly soiled and bottom page edges somewhat darkened. A tight and decent reprint edition of these classic 1952 Billy Yank and 1943 Johnny Reb texts which James I. Robertson Jr. in the Nevins bibliography rightfully calls "the encyclopedia for army life of the men in blue" and "equally authoritative work for the men in gray." Contains a choice autograph addition from Wiley 1906-80: Tipped to the front flyleaf of "Billy Yank" is a Typed Document Signed 1p 7¼" X 10½" Atlanta GA n.d. 5 December 1970 penned on verso in recipient's hand. Near fine. On letterhead of "The National Historical Society" listing Wiley as Chairman this letter is his annual mimeographed Christmas letter sent to friends and family a lengthy detailed single-spaced recording of the year's events: Trips across the country and overseas his wife's health issues etc. all quite interesting. On the generic "Dear Friends" opening Wiley crosses out "Friends" and pens "Arnold above this and at the letter's close he boldly signs "Bell" in blue ballpoint. Along the blank top margin he adds a handwritten postscript to recipient Arnold F. Gates 1914-93 noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar: "I enjoy your book column in Lincoln Herald. Congratulations on the well deserved degree! Hope our paths will cross again! Bell." A fairly nice set of these classics bearing a unique and interesting author letter. NEVINS I 178. Doubleday & Company hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42146

‎WARD, Geoffrey C‎

‎The Civil War: An Illustrated History‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. xix 425pp. Numerous illustrations some color color maps pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Miniscule ownership signature on copyright page. First edition. Extensively illustrated narrative of the war organized chronologically. "Based on a documentary filmscript by Geoffrey C. Ward Ric Burns and Ken Burns" this is the superbly-illustrated companion guide to Ken Burns' groundbreaking Civil War miniseries. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42250 ISBN : 0394562852 9780394562858

‎DALGETY, George S‎

‎The Presidents and the Civil War‎

‎Chicago: Civil War Round Table 1950. Paperback. Small 4to. Limp black cloth spine and stiff grey wrappers. 65pp rectos only. Very good. Outer wrappers only a bit age toned and lightly soiled with couple of small edge chips. First edition tight and decent. Publication No. 4 of the famed Chicago branch the first in the country of the Civil War Round Table limited to 300 copies -- this copy signed by Dalgety on the title page in blue ballpoint. An unusual study of the writings of every president between George Washington and James Buchanan on the subject of civil war. A rather homespun production typed and mimeographed -- and definitely uncommon. Civil War Round Table paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42441

‎TILBERG, Frederick‎

‎Gettysburg National Military Park Pennsylvania‎

‎Washington DC: National Park Service 1962. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Numerous illustrations maps. Near fine. Revised edition No. 9 in the "Historical Handbook Series" a concise and handy guide first published in 1954 -- and this copy with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inside front wrapper is aa Autograph Note Signed from Tilberg 1p 8" X 11" Gettysburg PA 18 March 1965. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates 1914-93 noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar. Very good. Faint original folds. On blue-printed letterhead of "Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania" bearing typed corrections of name/addresses of the president and secretary Tilberg presents -- this letterhead! "Here is a current letter head. We will be printing new stationery soon. Headquarters are at Gettysburg and nearly always the president is from here." Handsomely penned in black ballpoint. Tilberg 1896-1979 was a noted National Park Service historian. National Park Service paperback‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42644

‎GLAZIER, Willard‎

‎Heroes of Three Wars: Comprising a Series of Biographical Sketches of the most Distinguished Soldiers of the War of the Revolution the War with Mexico and the War for the Union who have contributed by their valor to establish and perpetuate the Republic of the United States‎

‎Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers 1880. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind- and black-ruled cloth over bevelled boards with ornate gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. 450pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece 15 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Bit of light spotting near bottom of front board; ownership signature/date on brown front pastedown thus barely visible. A bright and handsome early printing of this 1878 text internally fine and with elaborate giltstamping bold and crisp. Hubbard Brothers hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42803

‎(CIVIL WAR / MAP)‎

‎Commemorative Map: Campaigns of the Civil War -- Centennial Edition‎

‎Maplewood NJ: C.S. Hammond & Co 1963. Small 4to folded as issued -- opens to 38" x 26". Heavy glossy stock. Near fine. Superb bright map from this American map producer -- other than original folds none weakened as pristine as it gets. An appealing information-packed full color map of the eastern third of the U.S. featuring pictorial representations of the major battles and accompanying texts color arrows highlighting major troop movements etc. -- and about the border portraits of the major Union and Confederate generals the major flags for each side etc. At lower right it's noted "Published in co-operation with the Civil War Centennial Commission" and bearing the printed signature of that august organization's executive director Karl S. Betts. Interestingly accompanying this map is a Typed Letter Signed from Betts 1p 8" X 11" Washington DC 2 June 1960. Addressed to Arnold Gates 1914-93 noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar. Near fine. On "Civil War Centennial Commission" letterhead Betts notes he looks forward to a meeting with Gates and others -- probably regarding the New York Civil War Round Table of which Gates was officer. Signed simply "Karl" in blue ballpoint. KARL S. BETTS 1892-1962 was a noted Maryland public relations executive and the influential first president of this commemorative organization. C.S. Hammond & Co unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 42999

‎JOHNSTON, Mary‎

‎Cease Firing‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1912. Hardcover. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with white lettering and blue decorative and pictorial stamping. 457pp 3pp ads. Color frontispiece 3 full-page color plates map endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. A tight quite nice first edition of this highly-regarded Civil War fiction with bright and sharp Wyeth color plates. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 38475

‎SCOTT, James KP K P‎

‎The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg‎

‎Harrisburg PA: The Telegraph Press 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Red buckram with gilt lettering pictorial dust jacket. xi 301pp. Frontispiece illustrations maps. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed with spine sunned; inner hinge starting but expertly archivally and discreetly strengthened thus tight. An attractive first edition by this colonel with the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry -- "A survivor" notes the title page "of a regiment with a monument on the base-line of the defense at the Angle with its name inscribed on the pedestal at the High Water Mark." Warren W. Hassler Jr. gives it this mixed review: "A rambling poorly organized yet accurate story of the first day's fight at Gettysburg with maps and terrain photographs." Interesting nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf reads: "To / Carl Tolpo / Creator of Barrington's / Lincoln Sculpture / with kindest regards / John HD Blanke / village trustee / Barrington Ill / Dec. 16 1958." Carl Tolpo 1901-76 was a noted sculptor and painter best remembered for his Lincoln statuary; a resident of Barrington at this time his Lincoln statue stands on the grounds of Barrington High School. NEVINS I 43. The Telegraph Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 38632

‎WELCHER, Frank J‎

‎The Union Army 1861-1865: Organization and Operations -- Volume I: The Eastern Theater‎

‎Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth pictorial dust jackets. xv 1065pp. Fine/near fine. Volume I jacket spine faintly sunned. Second printing tight and pristine of the first volume only of this set -- an exhaustive reference source covering the Eastern Theater of the war including succinct descriptions of the military divisions battles and campaigns. Indiana University Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 38816 ISBN : 0253364531 9780253364531

‎YOUNG, Bennett H‎

‎Confederate Wizards of the Saddle: Being Reminiscences and Observations of One Who Rode With Morgan‎

‎Dayton: Morningside Bookshop 1979. Hardcover. New introduction by E.B. Long. Small 4to. Red paper over boards with white lettering. xxii 633pp 5pp ads. Illustrations maps. Fine. A tight and pristine facsimile reprint Facsimile 48 of the 1914 first edition reviewed by James I. Robertson Jr. as "A necessary source for any study of Confederate cavalry operations in Kentucky and Tennessee." This copy bears fine autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from E.B. "Pete" Long 1919-81 1p 8½" X 11" Laramie WY 1978 January 11. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates 1914-93. Near fine. On "University of Wyoming" letterhead Long commiserates at length with his friend about the Lincoln book "The Lincoln Conspiracy" whose outrageous untruths and inaccuracies had the serious Lincoln scholarly community up in arms -- so much so that Gates long-time literary editor of the "Lincoln Herald" resigned his position there in protest since the publisher of the Herald Lincoln Memorial University gave the authors of this "expose" honorary degrees! Reads in part: "Just when we thought that The Lincoln Herald was under capable hands Gerald McMurtry is gone and you have been forced to resign. It is a sad day. How the people at LMU could have given honorary degrees to the so-called authors of this trash is more than I can fathom. I saw Ralph Newman in Chicago this November and I can only describe his attitude toward their actions as 'furious.' It is all inexplicable disheartening and discouraging. To try for historical accuracy to have principles to follow good historical methodology is quite beyond these charlatans who turn out such profitable junk." Signed simply "Pete" in blue ballpoint. NEVINS I 183. Morningside Bookshop hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 38907

‎PHILLIPS, Charles, and AXELROD, Alan‎

‎My Brother's Face: Portraits of the Civil War in Photographs Diaries and Letters‎

‎San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1993. Hardcover. Foreword by Brian C. Pohanka. Wide small 4to. Black paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 153pp. Extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight and superb first edition -- and signed large and bold by both authors in black fineline on the half-title page. Chronicle Books hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 39002 ISBN : 0811803864 9780811803861

‎LONG, EB E B‎

‎The Saints and the Union: Utah Territory during the Civil War‎

‎Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth dust jacket. xiii 310pp. Illustrations map map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition tight and superb of this study showing how "While the Civil War raged in the East the Mormons in Utah Territory zealously continued to guard their cultural identity and church practices from federal control." The half-title is inscribed and signed boldly by the author in blue ballpoint: "Inscribed for Charles Wesselhoeft / a fine student of / our past. / Best Wishes / E.B. 'Pete' Long / Chicago / March 1981." Wesselhoeft 1917-2002 was a noted member of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago. This inscription though dated simply "March" actually dates to Monday March 30: the day before Long's death at the age of 61. Long had attended a Civil War Round Club meeting that night -- at which event this book which was officially released that same day was signed and inscribed -- the only book signing held for this title. For this reason signed copies rarely surface -- only the second time we've encountered one having handled dozens of unsigned copies. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Long's wife Barbara 1p 5 3/4" X 7½" Laramie WY 1981 August 18. Same recipient. On pale grey letterhead she pens a gracious thank-you. In part: ". I have been inundated by over 400 letters & have had to resort to answering them alphabetically -- otherwise I couldn't keep track of who had been answered. I sometimes still have trouble believing it's true -- It hasn't been easy but I can here Pete telling me to be brave and carry on & try to make a meaningful life along. It is difficult to find that meaning but I am trying -- I still feel as if I'm existing in a strange & terrible dream." With original envelope. DORNBUSCH IV 2104. EICHER 953. University of Illinois Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 39056 ISBN : 0252008219 9780252008214

‎ANGLE, Paul M‎

‎A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years‎

‎Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. 242pp. Extensive illustrations map endpapers. Very good. Binding rather edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Ownership signature on front pastedown of Ralph Gordon noted medical book and military history collector. Tight and decent later printing of this well-illustrated overview by the well-known Illinois and Civil War historian 1901-75 with a fine autograph addition: Tipped to the inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Angle 1p 8½" X 11" Springfield IL 1945 April 19. Addressed to Ralph G Newman founder of Chicago's famed Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Very good. On "Illinois State Historical Library" letterhead which cites him as state historian Angle thanks the bookseller cryptically for some list noting: "In this instance Sickles really must have made a killing. If you ever find out who the original purchaser was I'd like to know." Signed simply "Paul" in blue ink. Sickles would be a reference to infamous Abraham Lincoln forger Harry Dayton Sickles who along with Eugene "Pinny" Field II was blanketing the country with forged autograph items of Lincoln and other historical figures. Doubleday & Company hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 39186

‎RAAB, James W‎

‎W.W. Loring: Florida's Forgotten General‎

‎Manhattan KS: Sunflower University Press 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth pictorial dust jacket. xii 263pp. Illustrations maps. Fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition -- signed boldly by Raab in blue ballpoint on the title page and with modern sepia-tone postcard portrait of Loring and his Florida cemetery plot laid in. Rather uncommon. Sunflower University Press hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 39487 ISBN : 0897452100 9780897452106

‎TUTTLE, John W‎

‎The Union the Civil War and John W. Tuttle: A Kentucky Captain's Account‎

‎Frankfort: The Kentucky Historical Society 1980. Hardcover. Edited by Hambleton Tapp and James C. Klotter. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xvi 298pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Fine. A tight and pristine first edition of this account by an officer with the Third Kentucky Infantry Regiment -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to the inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from Tapp 1p 8½" X 11" Lexington KY 1958 July 10. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates 1914-93 noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar. On "Kentucky Civil War Round Table" letterhead Tapp writes this fellow Civil War Round Table officer Gates was long a fixture of the New York City group to ask help in lining up speakers. Signed boldly in full in blue ballpoint. Very good. Original mailing folds. Tapp 1922-92 was a noted and prolific author and editor of Kentucky histories as well as chairman of the Kentucky Civil War Centennial Commission. The Kentucky Historical Society hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 40125 ISBN : 0916968081 9780916968083

‎KEILY, Daniel J (1829-67)‎

‎Autograph Note Signed‎

‎This Union officer served on the staff of Brigadier General James Shields whose troops faced Stonewall Jackson's Confederate troops in the Shenandoah Valley in June 1862 and later commanded the Second Louisiana Regiment Cavalry; he was a good friend of famed Irish soldier Miles W. Keogh 1840-76 killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn who served under him in the Papal Army during the Italian rebellion in 1860 and who fought with him in the Battle of Port Republic; he's reported to have become enamored with famed Southern spy "Belle" Boyd" at one point and to have unwittingly revealed military secrets to her. Outstanding pencilled ANS 2pp recto and verso heavy stock 4" X 2½" card "Conrad's Bridge" Virginia n.d. ca. early June 1862. Addressed to "General" probably James Shields. Very good. Lightly age toned.In this remarkable small report Keily reports in a small tight but fairly legible hand to his commander that "Col. Carroll moves his comm'd. at p.m. and will push on as rapidly as possible some cannonading heard this morning in the direction of Harrisonburg I would respectfully submit that if the Infantry did not move rapidly enough to carry out your views at Wainesborough before Jacksons arrival there a reconnaisance composed of cavalry conducted cautiously might attain the object with a good Guide which we have procured I would be glad to undertake it -- respectfully" and signs off adding his rank "Capt. A.D.C" beneath. A rather light challenging to transcribe postscript reads "P.S. Just received information from a reliable source that Jackson has --- --- --- Train on the --- Pt. Republic Road." It's difficult to precisely date Keily's note but General Shields did write General McDowell on June 4 1862 that "Colonel Carroll. after a forced night's march reached Conrad's Bridge this morning at 5 o'clock which bridge he found burned" -- which likely dates Keily's letter from this date or shortly after. Whether Shields took Keily up on his offer to lead a cavalry reconnaissance is unclear. Shields 1810-79 is perhaps best remembered as the Illinois politician who almost fought a duel with Abraham Lincoln in 1842; he's also the only person in American history to serve as U.S. senator from three different states Illinois Minnesota and Missouri; as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War his lackluster performance as commander of the 2nd Division of the V Corps in the Army of the Potomac during the crucial Valley Campaign caused him to resign his commission. On June 9th the Battle of Port Republic took place a costly Confederate victory in which Jackson's 6000 troops faced off 3500 Union troops losing just over 800 men to the Union's loss of just over 1000 men -- a battle at which Keily himself was severely wounded in the face while leading a charge of Ohio cavalry up a hill into a barrage of Confederate artillery fire. The following year after painful recuperation Keily ended up on the staff of General Charles P. Stone in New Orleans recruiting cavalry troops in that occupied state. Late in the war he was court-martialed for "conduct unbecoming an officer" but the charges were shown false and by the end of the war he was brevetted a brigadier general. Keily died from yellow fever in Louisiana at age 38 shortly after the war's end making his autograph material quite scarce -- and a choice war-date item such as this most desirable. This remarkable war-date communication sheds interesting light on Shields as commander during the disastrous Valley Campaign. unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 40474

‎MILLER, William J, and POHANKA, Brian C‎

‎An Illustrated History of the Civil War: Images of an American Tragedy‎

‎Alexandria: Time Life 2000. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Burgundy paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 454pp. Extensive illustrations some color pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Tight handsome first edition of this hefty history -- and best of all it bears a nice autograph addition: Tipped opposite the half-title page is the 1989 heavy stock membership card 3½" X 2¼" of a respected Chicago Civil War collector for the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites signed boldly in black ballpoint by Pohanka. Pohanka 1955-2005 co-author of this volume was a noted and prolific Civil War historian and author as well as president of this organization. Time Life hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 33470 ISBN : 073703162X 9780737031621