Search Results: Titles starting with I from Old South Books

Washington City: Government Printing Office, 1863. First. Wraps. Just good, but all there./No Jacket. Manual with different cover title than title page. Used to keep track of personnel and to get them separated from service. Rare manual, not seen by other dealers and collectors. Signed by Lt. Owen Francis, 57th Ohio Volunteers on the front wrap and on the title page.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1861. Unknown. Stiff wraps. Very good condition for a manual likely carried in the field. Slight loss of top of spine. Unusual pattern of something left on front glue down that does not affect anything else. Overall very nice./No Jacket. May contain as many as 88 plates according to the new part IV of Dornbusch. Actually plates are numbered, but there are two #83s and 87 is the end, hence 88 total. The officers putting together the info were Captain William French, Captain William Barry, and Bvt Major Henry J. Hunt. At least two of these men went on to big things during the War. Full of illustrations and tables. BOOK SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY FIRST SARGEANT L.F. ROOT, 2ND LIGHT BATTERY, ??? MILITIA, 1862. Not in Nevins. Dornbusch IV-11588.

Washington City: War Department, 1861. 1861 Edition. Wraps. Overall VG.. This a special copy as it once belonged to Lt. Henry Baldwin, Battery M, 5th Artillery (Regular Army). He was cited on numerous occasions for his bravery, copies of some of the reports are with the book. He fought all through the Eastern Campaigns, may have been captured at Cedar Creek while wounded. He died 11/8/1864 after having his arm amputated. His signature and unit appears on the cover of the book.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864. First. HB. Tear to cover, stain at lower left front wrap. Otherwise VG./No Jacket. A rare manual designed for those in the War Department to keep records. Looks like the clerk's manual with different forms. Can't be too many of these out there. War Dated.

Washington City: Government Printing Office, 1862. 1862 War dated. Stiff boards Manual. Binding rough with spots worn through. Can't read the spine, however, the interior is VG+./No Jacket. Great attribution. Book came from the estate of Colonel Hans Mattson, the last commanding officer of the 3rd Minnesota. They had the distinction of being captured intact at Murfreesborough by General Forrest. The unit never lived it down. Inscribed in front with "Commanding Officer, Fort Halleck, Columbus, KY.".

Government Printing Office, 1864. 1864 Edition. HB. Very nice copy./No Jacket. Inscribed on the ffep byCapt. E. Little, Co. H, 159th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. First. HB. Boards and gold lettering sound. Hinges starting but holding. Early female inscription and drawing on ffep./No jacket.. An historic account of a famous Massachusetts fighting regiment. A Fox 300 regiment. Written soon after the War when memories were fresh. Roster. Author served in the regiment.