Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BROWNSVILLE RIOTS.) Summary Discharge or Mustering Out of Regiments or Companies. Map and photographic illustrations. 8vo, original sheep, lightly rubbed, front joint starting. 59th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc. 155. Washington, 1907

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Transcript of the government account of what is referred to as the "Brownsville Affray." The incident involved Black troops from the 25th Infantry who were thought to have shot up the town, causing the death of one person and the wounding of two others. President Theodore Roosevelt had the entire regiment discharged.<