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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12 mo, vii, (9)-256 pgs, frontis, portrait plates. Library rebinding in green cloth with gilt titled and numbered spine; named library stamped on spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light wear to edges and spine ends. Interior has "cancelled" stamp on endpaper, pocket removed from front endpaper, title page with library identification stamp (Berkeley Public Library). Interior pages are age-toned, else clean and solid. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: It's not to often to find a war narrative written by such a young soldier. The author enlisted into Co. H, 2nd NY Heavy artillery, as the drummer boy. His company captain, C.L.Smith writes in a letter the author quotes: "I recall you as but a child going with me to a real war where you were to spend years of your young life with your little drum. But my dear boy, it did good service, real genuine war service. I remember you were the first drummer boy the 2d New York had, and I am proud to know that my own little drummer boy marched at the head of the regiment in every campaign down to Appomattox and beat the last tattoo for the regiment at Hart's Island, New York Harbor, after nearly four years of service." REFERENCES: DORN NY 14; NEVINS I pg 132: "Miller was only twelve when war began, and teenage exuberance colored his later remembrances of service in Virginia.". …