[Rarebooks] FS:Earliest history of a Kentucky Union regiment?

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      [CIVIL WAR]  Speed, Capt. Thomas.  "Story of a Regiment.  History 
of the Twelfth Kentucky Infantry From Its Organization to the War's 
Close.  A Regiment Which Participated in Eight Campaigns and Kept Its 
Veteran Organization."  Included in The Commercial Supplement 
newspaper.  [Louisville, KY, February 5, 1882].
      Single sheet newspaper measuring 29 by 21 1/2 inches, printed in 
nine columns; folded several times with some wear at the folds and some 
archival repairs to the horizontal center folds on the verso, including 
some slight loss of text at the center where the two main folds meet, 
and the loss of a few letters in four other spots; larger section of 
text missing from the right-hand column, which related "Turf News" and 
is unrelated to Capt. Speed's history; some overall browning and some 
chipping to the blank edges.  A good copy.
      This article, which occupies eight of the nine columns on the 
obverse, is actually the substance of a paper delivered by Capt. Speed 
at the regular meeting of the Federal Historical Society of Kentucky, 
and it is likely the first printed history of this regiment (which 
fought for the Union).  Speed, who served as 1st Lieutenant of the 
regiment and was later made Captain, went on to compile and publish The 
Union Regiments of Kentucky in 1897.
      The Louisville Commercial was in existence from 1869 to 1902.  A 
scarce piece and a "must-have" for the regimental collector.

$150 plus shipping.

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