Product Description
BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xiv, 624 pgs.
, frontis and photo illustrations and portraits.
Unit roster.
Violet blue cloth embossed in blind on front cover, gilt titled spine.
Ex-Lib with stamps from Peavey Memorial Library, Eastport, Maine.
CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor shelf rubbing, light wear to spine ends.
Interior with library ink stamps on front endpapers, preliminary page, and donation stamp on title page from Harry L.
Harrington; glue residue on rear free end sheet; else interior is clean and tight.
With clear mylar wrapper.
CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 15th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Concord, New Hampshire, October 1862, and mustered in for nine months' service.
The regiment left New Hampshire for New York City November 13, 1862; then sailed for New Orleans, Louisiana, December 19, arriving December 26, and was assigned to the Dept.
of the Gulf.
It participated in several battles including the siege and capture of Port Hudson where they took part in both combat and laborious siege duties.
Also participated in the Battle of Baton Rouge and the Battle of Fort Bislan which was part of the larger campaign to capture New Orleans and control the bayous of Louisiana.
REFERENCES: DORNBUSCH NH 65; NEVIS I pg.
125 "A photograph-laden study that is half statistical and half narrative; several primary sources were used in the diary-like presentation; the 15th New Hampshire spent its one year of service in Louisiana.
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