townsend general e d (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration on spine and front board. Contains the bookplate and stamp of the Library of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, otherwise in very good condition. Small pasted bookseller's stamp from Estes and Lauriat, New and Old Books, Boston. Tan floral pastedowns. Spine has light wear to edges and hinges. Very minor spotting and tanning to pages. Contents include recollections of the defense of Washington; the surrender of Augusta Arsenal, Georgia; Robert E. Lee in Arlington Heights; the neutrality of Kentucky; the battle of Bull Run; service in the Adjutant-General's office; Army of the Potomac commanders; President Lincoln; General Frank Blair; Shenandoah Valley; Savannah; medals and corps badges, Confederate flags; Fort Sumter; the funeral of President Lincoln; General Scott's views; a colloquy with African-American ministers and former slaves; military commissions, and much more. Hardcover, good condition. 287 pages plus publisher's list, 12mo.

x+184pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy in slipcase. With many illustrations.

Zustand: Good. Prospectus. 4to. One folded sheet. [This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself].

Single sheet of lined paper, 9.5 x 7.5 in., 2 pp., approx. 220 words. A manuscript copy, in a clerical hand, signed [secretarial] by E.D. Townsend. Blind embossed stamp of the Capitol building and "Congress P & P" in upper left corner, docketed on the second page. Old fold lines, short separation along one fold. General Order No. 171 consisted of five parts, regulating the care and disposition of officer's horses. The first section requires that a departing officer turn in his horse for remuneration for not more than he paid for it. The second section states that he cannot sell a horse provided for him and the third and fourth refer to orders to transport horses at the public expense. Finally, officers who apply for transfers can not transport their horse from one department to another. The published versions of the General Orders were nearly all issued by Assistant A.G. Townsend, Adjutant Generals Office of the War Dept. in Washington, DC. Edward Davis Townsend (1817-1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from West Point in 1837. He served in the artillery during the Seminole War, and then on the northern frontier. Townsend joined the Adjutant General's Department in 1852, serving first on the Pacific coast, then in Washington DC during the Civil War. Townsend was charged with gathering and organizing many of the government documents into an official record of the war, a project that lasted well beyond his lifetime, taking some forty years to complete. [see his obituary in the New York Times, May 12, 1893, and Alan & Barbara Aimone's book "A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War," (Shippensburg, PA: 1993)].