HISTORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT New York Volunteers (U.S. Infantry) in the late Civil War (128th New York Inf. Regimental History)

Hanaburgh, David H.

Verlag: Press of Enterprise Publishing Co. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1894

Beschreibung

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xv,280 pgs, frontis folding plan of Camp Millington, illustration, portrait plates. Muster out roll 220-270. Original decorative gray cloth with gilt design and gilt titled cover. Bookplate of the Illinois State Commandery of the Loyal Legion. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing to edges, spine numbers removed, else gilt is bright. Interior has bookplate on front endpaper, else pages are clean and tight. The large folding panoramic plate of Camp Millington is near fine with no defects. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 128th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "Old Steady," was a volunteer regiment from Dutchess and Columbia Counties in upstate New York. The regiment left the State September 5, 1862 and initially served near Baltimore, Md. From December, 1862 the 128th was in the 1st Brigade, Sherman's Division, Department of the Gulf, from January, 1863. It remained with the 19th Corps until transferred to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Corps, from April 2, 1865. It was honorably discharged and mustered out July 12, 1865, at Savannah, Ga. During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 2 officers, 41 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 20 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 3 officers, 203 enlisted men; total, 5 officers, 264 enlisted men; aggregate, 269; of whom 41 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy. Quite scare with RareBook Hub only noting one copy in 1921 being offered for sale or cataloged for an auction; LiveAuctioneers with no reference to it. REFERENCES: DORN: NY#531; NEVINS I pg. 99: "Based on the re-worked journal of Lt. B.T. Benson; an above-average study of the regiment's service in Louisiana and Virginia". REED / MULLINS #172. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0124098

Bibliografische Details

Titel: HISTORY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH...

Verlag: Press of Enterprise Publishing Co. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1894

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition