John t farnham (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, tight binding; hard cover and dust jacket show very minor corner wear; well-kept. 335pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. A fine, resh, unread, as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 335 pp. Illustrated with photographs and period reproductions. John Tyler Farnham, the eldest of seven children, was born in Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York on March 25, 1842 (he was named for the incumbent President John Tyler). He worked in various jobs in the newspaper business until enlisting in August, 1862 as a member of sharpshooter Company 6. Farnham wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent some 50 articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. Together, these described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, hospitals, a clerkship at the Iron Brigade headquarters and at the War Department. He befriended freed slaves, teaching them to read and write, and built them a school. He met Lincoln and campaigned for him in 1864 and acquired a blood-stained cuff taken from the President's body. Farnham was always frail and sickly and commanders noted that he was too weak to sustain extended campaigns. Farnham died of tuberculosis in 1869.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine Condition. Fine Condition. [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR] Inscribed and dated by the author to the previous owner's on the title page by John Loring in big broad strokes. Introduction by John C. Moore. Postscript. Index. Includes an invitation to an event for the author laid-in. Book. …