Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(CIVIL WAR.) Hoadley, John Chipman; editor. Memorial of Henry Sanford Gansevoort. Several plates. 4to, contemporary morocco gilt, moderate wear at extremities; later inscription on flyleaf. Boston, 1875

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first edition. The collected letters of Col. Gansevoort, a cousin of Herman Melville. He served in the 5th U.S. Artillery at Antietam and Second Bull Run during the war, and later commanded a fort at Pensacola. Nevins I:105.