glazier william captain (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. 450 pages, illustrations, frontis. dec. blue cloth with gilt emblems and lettering, minor edge wear, minor soiling, small owner label, 1884 owner name, very light foxing. Contains chapters on Custer, (Little Big Horn, Civil War, Washita, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse.) Sherman, Sheridan, Fremont, Sam Houston, McClellan, Hooker, Grant, Phil Kearny and many others. O'Keefe 937.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Brown publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & black, binding has light edge-wear, is tight, but has a speckled stain front and back. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, we tightened the end paper hinges with pH neutral binder's paste. Fine steel-engraved portrait of the author with printed signature and tissue guard, 8 additional wood-engraved plates of battle scenes. 417 clean pp., a few leaves with worming in the top margin. Title continues: Embracing A Record of the Privations, Heroic Deeds, and Glorious Triumphs of the Soldiers of the Republic. Illustrated."I have endeavored in 'Battles for the Union,' to present in the most concise and simple form the great contests in the war for the preservation of the Republic of the United States. Should my late comrades in arms consider my pictures faithful, I shall feel more than compensated for the effort I have made to commemorate their glorious deeds." - Preface.Captain Willard Worcester Glazier was born in 1841, at Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. He served through the Civil War in the New York Cavalry, and was twice taken prisoner by the Confederates. After the war he continued his adventures, once being captured by hostile Indians in the Wyoming Territory and managing to escape with his life. "In 1876 he went on horseback from Boston to San Francisco, was captured by hostile Indians in Wyoming Territory and escaped. In 1881 he traversed the entire length of the Mississippi in a canoe." from Allibone (1893).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 450 pgs, illus, frontis. dec. blue cloth with gilt emblems and lettering. Contains chapters on Custer, (Little Big Horn, Civil War, Washita, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse.) Sherman, Sheridan, Fremont, Sam Houston, McClellan, Hooker, Grant, Phil Kearny and many others.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later Printing. VG/0/later printing. A firmly bound, clean copy with not much wear at all. Maroon cloth cover has embellishment (flower sprig) with title in gilt. Small loss of cloth on front side of spine. Wear on all tips of boards. Rubbing at bottom of spine, loss of cloth at very top of spine. Interior has no writing or soiling. An occasional spot of foxing. 422 pages, plus and advertisment to sell this book by subscription(salesmen wanted). List of principal Confederate prison camps and their location. Appendix contains the Name, Rank, Regiment, and Post office Address of the Officers who were imprrisoned at Richmond, Daville, Macon Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlottte, Raleigh, and Goldsborough, 1864 and 1865. Pages have remained relatively white, and are not brittle. Black and white illustrations. Comes to you in an acid free archival document bag.