[Rarebooks] FS: 1862 Funeral for Battle of Antietam Casualty

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Townsend, Rev. P. "A SERMON PREACHED OCTOBER 26, AT STAFFORD SPRINGS, AT
THE FUNERAL OF JAMES W. BROOKS, OF CO. I, 16th REGIMENT CONNECTICUT
VOLUNTEERS, Who Died October 11th, from Wounds Received at the Battle of
Antietam, September 17th, 1862"

Palmer, Mass.: G.M. Fisk & Company: 1862.

Made up of volunteers from Hartford and surrounding towns, the 16th
Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry mustered into service in August,
1862. Within three weeks, without even having been trained how to load
their guns, they were tossed into the bloody maelstrom of the Battle of
Antietam as part of Harland’s 2nd Brigade of Burnside’s 9th Corps. Posted
on the extreme left of the Union lines they were ordered to cross the
lower bridge at Snavely's Ford and found themselves in a corn field, were
they were raked with fire by Gregg’s veteran brigade of South Carolinians
from A. P. Hill's Corps. In only a few minutes almost 200 men fell,
including Private Brooks. The Rev. Townsend was pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. A poignant reminder of
a famous battle.

Softcover. 5.75"x8.75", 18 pages; publisher's printed light yellow covers;
covers with some soil and spotting, top corner creased and thumbed, a
little internal spotting. [09601] $75.00

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