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First edition. First edition. Illustrated with 6 mounted photographic portraits, and 7 color-printed illustrations of the homes, lithographed by Bingham & Dodd of Hartford. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This book is remarkable for its extraordinarily early mounted photographs of actual veterans of the American Revolution. Hillard produced it during the Civil War to inspire patriotic sentiments by providing verbal and visual portraits of the experienced old veterans. The persons photographed are Samuel Downing, Daniel Waldo, Lemuel Cook, Alexander Millener, William Hutchings, and Adam Link. The colored lithographs show their homes. An additional chapter on James Barham is unillustrated as he could not be found, although there was no record of his death. Hillard did not include the final surviving Revolutionary War veteran, Daniel Frederick Bakeman (1759-1869), because as of 1864 he had never applied for a pension. He was finally enrolled after Congress passed a special act on February 14, 1867, granting Bakeman a pension of $500 per year. This copy is without the facsimile letter from Edward Everett which is sometimes found with the book. "The photographs were made uniformly under makeshift circumstances as would have been required if the photographs were made in situ while Hillard visited each for a personal interview" (Truthful Lens). Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred, no. 100; Sabin 31817; Howes H490; Goldschmidt, The Truthful Lens, p. 86; Bennett, p. 56; McGrath, pp. 114-115, 132-33 Publisher's half morocco and cloth boards, rebacked with a portion of the original spine laid down, endpapers renewed Illustrated with 6 mounted photographic portraits, and 7 color-printed illustrations of the homes, lithographed by Bingham & Dodd of Hartford. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo.