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1902 · Best.-Nr. 14388 — Chicago: The Henneberry Company Printers 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 88pp. illustrated. A fine fresh copy in the publisher's handsome burgundy cloth with only the slighttest rubbing to the corners and spine ends. Contents clean and sound. A collection of reports histories and speeches relating to this independent battery organized and paid for by the Chicago Board of Trade. They are notable for being the only "flying artillery" unit in the Civil War on either side having attached mobile cannons to chariots which were pulled by horses and could be moved quickly. They saw action at Stones River Chickamauga and in the Atlanta Campaign among other places. The Introduction notes that most of the records relating to the unit were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and most of the reminiscenes herein are taken from the deliberate reconciliation between then-living soldiers' reminiscences and those records which surived from Federal archives. As such a critical surviving document of this regiment's history. Rare with just one well-performing auction appearance in the past half century. Dornbusch I Illinois 17; Not in Nevins; Not in Howes. (The Henneberry Company, Printers) hardcover