Author: Pennell, Joseph Stanley,
Title: The History of Rome Hanks.
Description: NY, Scribners, 1944. 1st Colophon. VG in G DJ. Record of young Lee Harrington's ancestors, chief among them his heroic great-grandfather Rome Hanks, as recreated by Lee. from what he saw and was told. Men and women of both north and south who lived and fought through the Civil War and then struggled for a livelihood in the impoverished South or the little towns of the West. All the memories are from Thomas Wagnal, formerly surgeon in the 117th Iowa, and heroic Romulus Hanks, Captain in the 117th, cheated of advancement by the politician Clilnt Belton. Tanning to edges of binding and DJ.

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