Memoirs and History of Capt. F. W. Alexander's Baltimore Battery of Light Artillery, U.S.V.
by [Civil War]. WILD, Frederick W
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About This Item
Baltimore, Loch Raven, Maryland: Press of the Maryland School for Boys, 1912. First edition. 8vo, [8] & [9] - 232 pages plus frontis & 10 plates Original green cloth letered in gilt on the spine. Dornbusch/ Military Bibliography of the Civil War II: 486
Brief wear including slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, hinge cracked at the Dedication page (still secure), light foxing mostly at or adjacent to plates, otherwise Very Good
The author served in Alexander's Battery, was captured & imprisoned at Libby in Richmond, Virginia, & later taught at the Maryland School for Boys, a storied reform school.
"Telling the story of what they saw and experienced in the Great Civil War for the Union." ~from the Dedication page
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- Title
- Memoirs and History of Capt. F. W. Alexander's Baltimore Battery of Light Artillery, U.S.V.
- Author
- [Civil War]. WILD, Frederick W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Loch Raven, Md., Press of the Maryland School for Boys
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1912
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Union, Baltimore, Maryland, Regimental History, Maryland Training School for Boys, Reform School
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Military History; American History;
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