[Rarebooks] fs: 3 on Civil War, American Revolution

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Coburn, Frank Warren. THE BATTLE OF APRIL 19, 1775, in Lexington, Concord, 
Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Lexington; published by the author: 1912.

The first serious study of the April 19th battles to include extensive 
material on the battles in Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown 
as well as Lexington and Concord. The author based his narrative "upon 
official reports, sworn statements, diaries, letters, and narratives of 
participants and witnesses; upon accounts of local historians and national 
orators; and, in a few cases, upon tradition, if such seemed authentic and 
trustworthy". Working with facts, however, can be a tricky business, as 
Coburn explains- "I am sorry to say, that in more than one instance, I have 
found even the sworn statements at variances with each other. I am 
satisfied that the authors did not intend to mislead in any way, but simply 
tried to tell to others what appeared to them. Their mental excitement 
naturally added a little of that vivid coloring noticeable in most war 
narratives of a personal nature. My work has been to harmonize and simplify 
these, and to extract simply the truth". A new edition was published in 
1922. Hardcover. 5.5"x8.5", xvi + 171 pages, plus 6 maps, 4 plates and 3 
portraits; publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles; a few spots, a little 
soil, but overall a very nice, bright copy. [05781] $85.00

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Coco, Gregory A. (ed.0. THROUGH BLOOD AND FIRE. The Civil War Letters of 
Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865.

Gettysburg; Gregory A. Coco: 1982. Limited to 300 copies.

The wartime letters of Massachusetts-born, Harvard educated Charles Mills. 
Mills joined in 1862, was wounded at Antietam and invalided out of the 
Army, but managed to get back in and was acting as an adjutant to General 
Humphreys when he was killed by a solid shot in Virginia on March 31, 1865, 
just a few days before the war ended. Hardcover. 7"x10", 280 pages, b/w 
illustrations, dj; jacket lightly rubbed. [06359] $100.00

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Knox, Rev. Charles E., et al. THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the Marriage of 
John J. Knox and Sarah Ann Knox, October 7th, 1873 [with] SKETCH OF THE 
LIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN J. KNOX WILLIAMS, oldest grandson of John J. and Sarah 
A. Knox, Who Fell in Defence of His Country at the Battle of Chapin's Farm, 
September 29-30, 1864.

New York; Printed by Edward O. Jenkins for private circulation: [1875].

An interesting Victorian/Civil War item. The first part of the book 
describes, in great detail, the week-long 60th Anniversary festivities of 
the Knox's of Knoxboro, New York. The second portion is a history prepared 
for, and read at, the event, describing the Civil War service and death of 
their eldest grandson, Captain John Knox Williams. In August, 1862, 
Williams joined the newly-formed 117th New York, and served over the next 
2+ years in the defenses at Washington, on the Peninsula, on Folly Island 
(part of the bombardment of Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S.C.), and at 
City Point and Petersburg. The tale of his services with the Union Army is 
told largely in his own words, and takes up 60 pages of the book.

Hardcover. 5.5"x8.5", 107 pages, several line illustrations, genealogical 
tree; original green cloth with gilt diamond device and title on the front 
cover; some cover rubbing and wear, spine head chipped, rear inner hinge 
reglued, front inner hinge partially reglued; short closed tear at the base 
of the genealogical tree; ex-institutional with a bookplate neatly removed 
and several old blindstamps. [06325] $175.00

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