THE STORY OF OUR REGIMENT: A HISTORY OF THE 148TH PENNSYLVANIA VOLS. Written by the Comrades (Pennsylvania Regimental History)

Muffly, Adjt. J. W. editor

Verlag: The Kenyon Printing & Mfg Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1904, 1904

Beschreibung

BOOK DESCRIPTION: Tall 8vo, 1096 pgs, list of survivors, full statistics including company rosters, causality lists, index to engravings. Original decorative cloth with red and gold gilt and with gilt titled cover and spine; floral endpapers. Chapters identified by their authors. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Near fine with minor shelf rubbing and soiling; gilt is very bright. Interior has former owner's inked name on title pages, else is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: This is a fine and detailed history of a regiment that saw significant combat during the war; here in excellent condition. The 148th Pennsylvania was with the Army of the Potomac, and engaged in their actions from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg to Appomattox. The editor lists 38 engagements from 1863 to the end of the war, and the regiment was present at the official surrender by General Robert E. Lee's Confederate troops at Appomattox Court House on April 12, 1865. They lost 12 officers and 198 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 183 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. They later participated in the Presidential Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac in Washington, DC, on May 22-23, 1865. Interestingly, part of the regiment was armed with breech-loading rifles during the Siege of Petersburg in October, 1864. Recognized as a FOX 300 Fighting Regiment. REFERENCE: DORN PA 343; NEVINS I, 134: "Teeming with personal incidents and commentaries, this thick study is an extraordinary source for the Chancellorsville-Appomattox campaigns; one of the best histories ever compiled." FOX 300 pg 302. MULLINS/REED #62: "The author relied on personal incidents and commentaries to produce a regimental history that is widely consulted and highly regarded. The regiment was in the Second Corps, Army of rthe Potomac. It certainly belongs in any list of the best Union histories.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0524006

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE STORY OF OUR REGIMENT: A HISTORY OF THE ...

Verlag: The Kenyon Printing & Mfg Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1904

Erscheinungsdatum: 1904

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition