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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Autograph; 82 pages; Royal blue cloth, top edges gilt. Black and white frontispiece photo with tissue guard, black and white photos and illustrations. Inscribed on ffep: "Presented by / Mrs. William Francis Bartlett to / Alice White Burbank / (Mrs. James Brattle Burbank ) / 1904 // General Bartlett was a descendant / of William White of Haverhill, Mass." The husbands of these two women were contemporaries residing in Pittsfield, MA. -- General James Brattle Burbank (1840-1928) and General William Frances Bartlett (1840-1876). A listing of all the events surrounding the construction and placement of the statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett which was cast in bronze by Daniel Chester French and resides in the Massachusetts State House. This is the official program for the dedication of the statue of Major General William Francis Bartlett. The book presents the official resolutions, and the orders of the Governor's Council. It presents the oratory addresses of veterans and dignitaries, a biography of General Barlett, the program, prayers, and tributes made during the ceremony. In addition there is manuscript material laid-in including Muster-Out documents for Edward Peters White brother of Alice Goodrich White Burbank (one complete, but in pieces, the other only half there); a letter from Julia, wife of General James Brattle Burbank (good condition); a 1905 telegram to Alice White Burbank announcing the death of her father John White (good condition); a letter to James Brattle Burbank from his sister "Kate" Catharine Burbank (18401908) which mentions hearing Booker T. Washington give a talk on Tuskeegee (good condition); and a note about Edward P. White (partial). PROVENANCE: Mary Agnes Pomeroy Bartlett (1841-1909) was the wife of Major General William Francis Bartlett (1840 1876) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, thereafter he became an executive in the iron industry in Massachusetts. Bartlett interupted his studies at Harvard College to enlist as a private serving with the Union Army during the Civil War. Agnes Pomeroy might have been introduced to William F Bartlett through their mutual acquaintance, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. around the time Bartlett was commissioned captain in a new regiment then formingthe 20th Massachusetts Infantryand given command of Company I, known as the "Harvard Regiment" because many of its young officers, including Bartlett, were Harvard students or recent graduates. By the end of the war, he had risen to the grade of brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers and was awarded the honorary grade of brevet major general, U.S. Volunteers. He successively commanded two regiments, a brigade and a division. Over the course of the war, he was wounded four times. Alice Goodrich White Burbank (1848-1930) was the wife of Brigadier General James Brattle Burbank, a veteran of both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During the American Civil War, Burbank began his military service as First Lieutenant in the 20th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry in November 1862 and was promoted to Brevet Major by March 1863 for his gallant conduct in the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia. He then resigned from the Volunteers and enlisted in the U.S. Army serving in the 3rd U. S. Artillery for the remainder of the War. In the 1880s and 1890s he was an officer with the 5th U.S. Artillery and later the Artillery Corps.; Signed by Notable Personage, Related.