The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of the Army of the Cumberland; The Army of the Tennessee; The Army of the Ohio; and the Army of Georgia.
Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1869. Hardcover. Small 4to. Emerald green pebble-grain blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering and medallion over bevel-edged boards. 339pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, tissue-guarded full page steel engravings and chromolithographed plates. Very good. Quite minor edgewear only; internally tight and near fine. Item #44746
A handsome first edition of this early G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) volume, and an especially choice presentation copy at that: Inner flyleaf is boldly inscribed and signed in brown ink: "Genl Mahlon D Manson / From his Comrade / Nate Kimball / 1869." Nathan Kimball (1822-98) was a brevet major general who served the Union Army with distinction during the Civil War, an Indiana politician, congressman and lieutenant governor and that state's first statewide G.A.R. commander. He is listed in a "List of Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland" on page 314. Manson (1820-95) was also a Hoosier, a brigadier general who also served Indiana in Congress and as lieutenant governor. His tiny (1½" X 1/8") printed "Mahlon D. Manson" ownership slip is affixed to front pastedown. A superb and unusual copy in exceptional condition, presented by one Union general to another.
Price: $400.00