drummond mary edward (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. A small collection of three heirlooms from the Drummond family. The first, and most important, is Mary Ann Dixon's friendship album dating from the mid-1850s. Small quarto. Measuring 7½" x 9". Illustrated with a few engraved plates. It contains approximately 50 manuscript entries, several of which include scrapbook ephemera, and one full-page drawing. Lacking the original binding and perhaps a few small pieces of ephemera, the text block is shaken with a few loose leaves and overall soiling. Fair only with the manuscript entries of poetry and prose fully legible throughout; together with many attractive pieces of printed and color illuminated ephemera, including color die cuts, hand lettered and colored paper lace, a pencil sketch of a mounted gentleman taking a woman over a stone wall, and an early invitation from Edward Drummond to the May Festival Ball, dating from their courtship in 1857. Born in Maine, Edward Drummond had moved to Savannah in 1854, where he established himself working in a commission business. After his marriage to Mary in 1860, and the birth of their son, he gave his loyalty to the Southern cause during the war. His brother-in-law, William Daniel Dixon, an officer of the Republican Blues, or Company "C" of the 1st George Infantry, convinced Drummond to enlist for the position of quartermaster sergeant on the regimental staff of the 1st Georgia in August of 1861. Known as a "Confederate Yankee" Drummond served with distinction throughout the war: he had been taken prisoner during the siege of Fort Pulaski, was exchanged and rejoined the 1st George infantry, serving in the Savannah area as Chief of Commissary. In 1864 he was promoted to Captain and saw a good deal of action during the Atlanta Campaign and elsewhere. As General Sherman's armies approached Drummond fought at the Battle of Jonesboro, and at the last major engagement against Sherman at Bentonville, North Carolina (March, 1865). Both Drummond and his brother-in-law William Dixon survived the war and returned home to Savanah. The scrapbook is a quarto volume measuring 8 ¼" x 11", bound in half cloth and marbled paper over boards, with "Mark Twain's Adhesive Scrapbook" paper label on the front pastedown. The album likely belonged to Drummond's half-sister Sadie (b. 1864), with her ink name stamp on an internal leaf. The album contains newspaper clippings (most dating from the mid-1880s, including some dating back to the 1860s), together with several pieces of printed and color lithographic ephemera, including die cuts, paper lace, and cloth. It also is fair only with both boards detached, the spine is shaken with a few loose and detached leaves. Also included is a printed book: *Savannah* compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project in Georgia (WPA), 1937. Inscribed on front fly leaf ("from Mother & your buddie Helen"), with an explanatory note written underneath: "Mother" above is grandmother Helen Coburn Drummond. "Helen" - Helen Fay Drummond. Very good. A scarce survival from the Drummond home in Savannah, which was subject to a fire and demolished in the 1950s. Reference: *A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine* (2004).