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Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Softcover. 2019, 1st edition, 1st printing. Quarto (8.5x11"), glued binding, illustrated glossy wrappers; viii + 198 pages, profusely illustrated with B&W photographs, portraits, reproductions of documents, and 4 color plates; includes Preface, Prologue, Diary, Epilogue, and 14 Appendices of supporting materials. The Old Army Press, Fort Collins, Colorado. ISBN: 978-0-88342-900-6. CONDITION: NEW. CONTENT: This unique book reproduces all pages from the 1865 diary of Private F.R. Baker, with a typed transcription of each day's entry on the same page. It records Baker's candid and contemporaneous observations as a member of an elite unit formed to guard Presidents Lincoln and Johnson during the momentous events of the last months of the Civil War. Baker writes of guarding Lincoln as he lay wounded in the Petersen House, and on to guarding Lincoln's body as it was viewed by thousands; about attending the trials of Union General Benjamin Butler, the infamous Henry Wirz, Confederate commander of Andersonville Prison, and even the trial of the conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln. "How fortunate for historians these events and others are included in his diary and fleshed out by the careful research of the editors." - Michael Koury, Publisher. …