Author: ROACH, HARRY (EDITOR)
Title: Military Images Magazine: Volume V Number 1, July-August 1983
Description: Whitehall, PA, Harry Roach. 1983. Stapled Wraps, 4to over 9¾" 12" Tall. Ill.: Black and White Photos. Historical Periodical, Preserving the visual history of the American fighting man, 1839-1939; Textblock is very clean and tight; Light sunning down the spine; address label on back cover; otherwise in very good condition. 32p.; Cover Photo: Previously unpublished image of James Longstreet as a brigadier general - a carte-de-visite copy of an ambrotype; Other articles include: The Fight for Devil's Den: 124th New York vs. 1st Texas Infantry, by Robert A. Braun; The Death of "French Mary": the final installment of the Marie Tepe soap opera, by Marie Varrelman Melchiori; The Hanging of William Johnson, an excerpt by William Frassanito; Quentin Roosevelt's Last Flight: a vignette from the First World War, by Charles Worman; Uniforms: M1872 Foot Artillery Shako: a rarely-photographed item of military headgear, by Robert Borrell, Sr.; The Siege of Vicksburg: An eyewitness account, edited by Dorothy Murphy; Weapons: Billinghurst-Requa Gun: a rare photo of the first machine gun used in combat, by Ken Baumann. Very Good+.

Keywords: Historic Military Photography, Civil War Photography, American Military Photographic History, American Civil War History, American Civil War Photographs Civil War American History/Americana Black and White Photos


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