Author: (ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE)
Title: Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of Tennessee, at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Held at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, August 13th and 14th, 1884
Description: Cincinnati, The Society, 1893. Hardcover. Small 4to. Emerald green blind-embossed pebble-grained cloth over beveled boards with gilt lettering and decorations. 486pp, (14pp). Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, floral endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear; front inner hinge expertly, archivally strengthened -- else text block bright and pristine. Tight and attractive first edition of this reunion series, here containing reports for the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th proceedings. This sharp copy (with gilt as bright as the day published) bears on front flyleaf the huge ownership signature: "D.B. Henderson / Dubuque Iowa." David B. Henderson (1840-1906) served Congress as U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1883 to 1903 and as Speaker of the House from 1899 to 1903 -- more importantly, he served valiantly in the Union army from 1861 to 1864, getting shot in the neck at the Battle of Fort Donelson and losing a foot and part of a leg in the Second Battle of Corinth, both in 1862. Membership roster near the close lists Henderson as a member. The 14 pages of Society officers from its inception in 1865 until 1878 is an incredible "Who's Who" of the military mighty (Generals John Rawlins, John A. Logan, O.O. Howar, G.M. Dodge, William T. Sherman, John Pope, etc.). Quite unusual. .

Keywords: Civil War


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