Author: GREELY, MAJOR-GENERAL A. W. (ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON)
Title: Reminiscences of Adventure and Service : A Record of Sixty-Five Years
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 356 pages: 6 x 8.5 in.: 2: KB#017037: Dark Red boards, with Gilt Lettering on front and spine have slightly worn corners and spine tips. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for small wormhole at top corner of first few pages), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Contains frontispiece and sixteen additional full-page black & white photograph illustrations. "Raised by hard-working and enlightened parents in the classical tradition of a New England whaling town, and educated in the public schools, Greely early acquired a foundation in such stern Yankee virtues as honor, piety, industry, and love of country. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was too young for service, but by chalking the number "18" on the soles of his shoes he could truthfully say that he was "over eighteen," and was sworn in as a private foot soldier. Serving with gallantry amid great hardships, and several times wounded, he rose through the ranks to a commission. He saw final war service in command of Negro troops in New Orleans where, following the surrender, he remained for the early years of the Reconstruction.": B&W Photographs. Very Good with no Dust Jacket .

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