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SUBTITLED: From its organization at Camp Curtain, Harrisburg, Pa., in 1861, to its being mustered out of the United States service at Alexandria, Va., July 25th, 1865. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xx, (9)-703 pgs portrait plates; Unit roster 622-689. Finely rebound in green leather, gilt spine, raised bands, and leather corners with marbled papers and new endpapers. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: The newer binding is clean and fine. Interior pages are age-toned otherwise clean and tight. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author enlisted as Private, Company I, 51st Pennsylvania Infantry on 28 September in Harrisburg. He was appointed Corporal and then First Sergeant. He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and reenlisted on 1 January 1864. He was appointed regimental Commissary Sergeant, and was commissioned Captain, Company I on 2 December 1864. The regiment was attached to Reno's Brigade, Burnside's North Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April 1862 and later to the IX Corps, Army of the Potomac. In early1863, it was transferred to the Army of the Ohio and then the Army of the Tennessee to August 1863, and Army of the Ohio to April 1864. Following they were reassigned to the Army of the Potomac and were mustered out July 27, 1865. The regiment is identified as one of the FOX 300 Fighting Regiment; they had engagements at Roanoke Island, New Bern, Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, the Jackson and Knoxville Expeditions, Rapidan Campaign, Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign, among others. This is a handsomely bound copy of an exceptionally good and important Pennsylvania regimental history. Quite scarce and not often offered for sale; RareBook Hub only noting 3 copies since 1945, and none since 1982. REFERENCES: DORN PA #175 Price list of United States clothing, camp and garrison equipage as charged the 51st regt. For the year, 1865. ; COULTER 366: "This account is almost as much a travel narrative as a regimental history and is therefore one of the best commentaries on wartime conditions in the South. It was based on copious daily notes which the author made throughout the war and also contains verbatim many letters the author wrote to newspapers from the scenes of military operations. Parker was not carried into extreme statements by over-zealous patriotic exuberance, but was frank in his observations whether they discredited Federal troops or favored the Confederacy. The account is especially valuable because his travels were extensive."; NEVINS I pg. A narrative of exceptional quality and based on the author s extensive daily notes; the regiment saw action in both major theaters. MULLINS/REED #196. N° de ref. del artículo 0224018
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