Product Description
BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xx, 554, (3) pgs, portrait plates, illustrations, 2 maps.
Original brown gilt and blind stamped cloth, gilt titled cover and spine.
CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to edges and spine ends; Gilt bright.
Interior with some age toning but clean and tight.
With clear, mylar wrapper.
CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, organized in October 1861, named themselves the Yates Phalanx as an honor to the then Illinois Governor, Richard Yates.
The Thirty-ninth was one of the few Illinois Regiments to fight primarily in the Eastern theatre.
Its engagements included the Battle of Winchester; Siege of Fort Wagner; Battle of Drewry's Bluff; Siege of Petersburg; & Appomattox Campaign REFERENCE: DORN 185; NEVINS pg 69: "A good study, based one the accounts of several soldiers, and not too encumbered by dramatics"
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