Author: HINMAN, Wilbur F.
Title: Corporal Si Klegg and His "Pard. " How They Lived and Talked, and What They Did and Suffered, While Fighting for the Flag
Description: Cleveland, York Publishing Company, 1993. Hardcover. Illustrations by George V. Coffin. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 706pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Fine/very good. Jacket a tad rubbed and edgeworn, with chip on rear panel, but complete and attractive; ownership name/address inkstamp on front pastedown. Tight and nice facsimile reprint of this thick 1887 fiction by the decorated officer with the 65th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1841-1905) who penned the highly-regarded "Story of the Sherman Brigade" (1897) and clearly knew whereof he spoke. Its popularity prompted another soldier/author, John McElroy (1846-1929), to write the Civil War novel "Si Klegg: His Transformation from a Raw Recruit to a Veteran" (1910). .

Keywords: Civil War


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