SABRE STROKES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DRAGOONS IN THE WAR OF 1861-1865 ; Interspersed with Personal Reminiscences. (7th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regimental History)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, viii, (9)-264 pgs, folding map. Decorative cover on embossed and black and gold gilt on brown cloth, gold gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to edges, corners, and spine ends. gilt bright. Front endpaper with bookplate of historian Peter Cozzens; another former owner with inked stamp on black preliminary and pg. vii; Interior folding map is complete and no tears; else pages are clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: History of the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry which was formed in 1861 and remained active to the end of the war, including participation in the capture of Jefferson Davis, including first-hand accounts of Davis' attempt to escape by wearing women's clothing. The regiment fought in the middle Tennessee campaigns and later the Atlanta campaign. Recognized as one of the Fox 300 units, this is a fine and scarce regimental history based on personal reminiscences. Mr. Dornblaser was a Civil War veteran, serving with the Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry under his uncle, Captain Israel Schaeffer, and served with General Turchin and later on the escort of General Crook in the Chickamagua campaign. During the last year of the war, he was commissary sergeant, and took part in the capture of Jefferson Davis. REFERENCES: FOX 300; DORN I PA #61; COULTER 128: "Dornblaser wrote this narrative almost twenty years after the war, 'principally from memory' but somewhat from diaries and letters of the war period. He indicated no bitterness against the Confederates, and showed no relish for freeing the slaves."; NEVINS; I pg. 82: Contrary to its flamboyant title, this narrative of cavalry operations in the Deep South is a factual, reliable account by an obviously fair-minded soldier. . N° de ref. del artículo 0224012

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