A WAIF OF THE WAR; or the History of the Seventy-Fifth Illinois Infantry, embracing The Entire Campaigns of the Army of the Cumberland (Illinois Regimental History)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, vii, (17) - 241, (i) pgs, errata. Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: New cloth and new endpapers, binding is clean, tight and well done. Internal pages are age toned, else clean and tight. Contemporary pencilled name, J. or G. A. Shondy of Rochelle, Ill. (John A. Shondy was a Sgt. in Co. K). CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Very scarce unit history and a pre-fire Chicago imprint. The 75th was engaged in numerous battles including the Battle of Stone's River; Siege of Chattanooga; Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; Battle of Jonesboro; Battle of Franklin; and Battle of Nashville. Very scare and desirable pre-fire imprint and Illinois Regimental history. REFERENCES: DORN Ill #273; NEVINS I pg 82: "Dodge was not even a member of the unit hereof he wrote; still, his personal experiences as a soldier in the Western theater have some merit." COULTER #127: "In 1862 Dodge left Chicago for Louisville to help stop Bragg's invasion of Kentucky.Dodge was not a member of the regiment whose history he writes, but he was in the same army, and his rather meager observations and comments on conditions in the Confederacy are valid travel material.". N° de ref. del artículo 1022049

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