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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. first edition, 333 pages, photos, navy cloth over boards with gilt titles. Edges worn, spine darkened and ends frayed, inner hinges split, pages slightly age toned. Memoir of a Union soldier during the Civil War. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12mo, 333, (i) pgs, frontispiece portrait, 20 plates from photographs and sketches. Original blue cloth with gilt titled cover and spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are well rubbed and worn on corners, spine ends and edges. Some soiling and light staining; gilt is bright. Interior pages are age-toned, else clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENT DESCRIPTION: The author wrote another work on his experiences with the 24th New Jersey Infantry, Awhile with the Blue (1898). Borton was a private in the regiment. This work is a revised and enlarged edition with new features (author's Note to Reader). The 24th New Jersey, as a nine-month regiment, was formed in September 1862 at Camp Cadwallader, Beverly, New Jersey. They served in Washington, D.C. and in Northern Virginia, and participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville before mustering on in June of 1863. REFERENCES: DORN NJ81; NEVINS I pg 61: "A more elaborate account of wartime by this New Jersey soldier; too manufactured and shallow to be of great significance.".

Original Cloth. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 333pp; frontispiece portrait, 20 plates from photographs and sketches. Edges of boards rubbed. 7.75" x 5.25" Borton served with the 24th New Jersey volunteers. This book centers on the Fredericksburg campaign [Nevins, Civil War Books, I:61]. Sketch of service with the 9th New Jersey Infantry [Nicholson, 92].