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The United States Service Magazine (1865 & 1866) - : Volumes IV & V - 7 Bound Issues

The United States Service Magazine (1865 & 1866) -

The United States Service Magazine (1865 & 1866): Volumes IV & V - 7 Bound Issues

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
This is a bound volume of 7 issues of "The United States Service Magazine" for July to December, 1865 and January, 1866. The issues are loaded with amazing CIVIL WAR content and contain numerous maps, illustrations and 2 engraved portraits. Volume IV has a Table of Contents at the front. Three-quarter leather binding with marbled covers. "The United States Service Magazine rigorously examined the war through the double lens of military science and military history. The pro-Union periodical featured articles on ordnance and strategy in addition to recent developments on the battlefield and the history of warfare. The journal supplemented its military content with the standard fare of poems, short stories and book reviews."

The following 7 issues are bound within the book:
VOLUME IV - July to December, 1865 (Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
VOLUME V - January, 1866 (Number 1)

Here are some examples of interesting content: The Dying Rebel Boy; The Pen and the Sword; The Horse-Marine's Story; Official Intelligence; Retaliation in War; The Soldier's Mother (poem); Sheridan's Mode of Fighting; Homeward March of the Sixth Corps; Sketches of Army Life; The Yankee as a Fighter; Soldier and Suffrage ; The Militia; Systems of Fortification Discussed and Compared; Reminiscences of the War; A Fragment of a Lost Journal...and much more.

Condition:
Wear to the leather at the corners the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are mostly clean, though the front end paper and pastedown and the pages up to page 1 have some foxing. There is also some foxing on the plate near the end of the book, and a few pages that precede it. The last 15 pages at the back (81-96 of volume V) have a light stain at the upper-outer corner.
  • Bookseller CraigsClassics US (US)
  • Format/Binding Three-quarter Leather
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Charles B. Richardson
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1865
  • Keywords united states service magazine, civil war, army, navy, militia, armed forces, war rebellion, union confederate army, abraham lincoln, ulysses grant, robert lee, jefferson davis, north south, blue grey gray, gettysburg