THE HISTORY OF THE NINTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, Second Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, June 1861 June 1864 (9th Massachusetts Regimental History)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xii, 543 pgs. Unit roster (427)-542. Original blind stamped blue cloth with gilt titled spine. Errata slip pasted in at pg 485. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor rubbing to spine ends, else clean and bright. Interior has shamrock-themed (blank) bookplate on front endpaper, else pages are clean and tight. With clear, mylar sleeve. Really nice copy in collector's condition. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 9th Massachusetts Infantry, also known as "The Fighting Ninth", participated in several key battles during the war and is identified as one of the Fox 300 Fighting Regiments. When the Civil War erupted, more than 1,000 Irish Americans formed the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, the first of the state s ethnic regiments. This history of the regiment by Daniel Macnamara, who served as its commissary sergeant and rose to become regimental quartermaster. The regiment was engaged at Hanover Court House, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, Wilderness, Spotsylvania and other battles on the Peninsula and with the Fifth Corps. REFERENCES: DORN MASS #149; FOX 300 pg. 157 "An Irish regiment, whose gallant service unmanly fields attested the oft-acknowledged valor of the Irish soldier."; NEVINS I pg., 127: An even more embellished history than the one conceived thirty-five earlier by the same author. N° de ref. del artículo 0124037

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