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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Tall 8vo, 135 pgs., frontis portrait. Original brown cloth with gilt decorations and gilt name on cover. Signed Compliments of the author on front blank preliminary page. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing and soiling to covers; spine ends with minor rubbing; gilt is bright. Interior is clean and tight. Now with clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Andrew Jonathan Alexander was born to a wealthy and influential family in Woodford County, Kentucky on November 21, 1833. In St. Louis at the outbreak of the war, he was commissioned in the Regiment of Mounted Rifles as a first lieutenant on July 26, 1861, and was assigned to serve on the staff of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. Alexander was appointed assistant adjutant general, serving first with McClellan, and later with Maj. Gen. George Stoneman. He received brevets for gallantry for the 1862 Peninsula Campaign for leading various scouting expeditions with the Union cavalry and reconnaissance services before and during the Battle of Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign, and other engagements, eventually receiving a brevet to brigadier general of volunteers, dated March 13, 1865. On September 13, 1863, he was promoted to captain in the 3rd U. S. Cavalry (the successor designation of the Regiment of Mounted Rifles). Alexander served on Stoneman s staff with Capt. Myles W. Keogh, a dashing Irish soldier of fortune who had loyally served Brig. Gen. John Buford until Buford s untimely death on December 16, 1863. Alexander and Keogh developed a very close and lasting friendship that lasted until Keogh s untimely death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 (Keogh and Alexander rest in the same cemetery in Auburn, NY). Alexander joined Wilson as his chief of staff. Wilson, nominally Sherman s chief of cavalry, was in the process of assembling a 15,000-man all-cavalry army that became a mounted juggernaut that served as the prototype for modern cavalry. After the war Alexander was appointed senior major of the newly formed 8th U. S. Cavalry and settled with his family at Camp McDowell, Arizona. Commanding the Subdistrict of the Verde, Alexander scouted regularly against Apache Indians and contended with fights among residents of nearby settlements. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Cavalry on March 20, 1879, being posted to Montana Territory. Maj. Gen. James Harrison Wilson wrote of him, Those who had the fortune to know him during the war will readily recall and bear witness to his superb figure, his stately carriage, his bright, flashing blue eyes, his flowing beard as tawny as a lion s mane, his splendid shoulders, his almost unequalled horsemanship…Standing over six feet in height, he was trim and commanding a figure as it was ever my good fortune to behold. (Preface pg 5-6). DORN II 1616. HOWES W526: Services in the Rebellion and in Indian wars from 1866 to 1880. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1024001
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