(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) George M Dennett History of the Ninth

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) George M. Dennett. History of the Ninth U.S.C. Troops. Frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln. [7]-148 pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, wear and dampstaining to the top inch; a few early inked memoranda, faint dampstaining, lacking front free endpaper and rear flyleaf; bookplate, inked stamps, circulation card, and cancel stamp of Lehigh University. Philadelphia, 1866

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The roster and concise history of the 9th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, written by its Lieutenant Colonel and sometime commander shortly after they were mustered out. Although its publication date is given as 1866, it includes material through 30 December 1866. The regiment's lieutenant colonel Samuel C. Armstrong went on to launch what became the Hampton Institute. The regiment was at the Siege of Petersburg, the Battle of Fair Oaks, and the occupation of Richmond, then were stationed in Texas for a year after the war. This volume names all of the regiment's enlisted men, their date and place of enlistment, and usually their date and place of death or discharge. Only one other traced at auction, in a Swann sale, 30 March 2017, lot 401.