ARMY LIFE A PRIVATE'S REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR. (20th Maine Regimental History)

SUBTITLED: By Rev. Theodore Gerrish, late a member of the 20th Maine Vols. With an introduction by Josiah H. Drummond. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 372 pgs. Frontis portrait, additional portraits and illustrations, and 8 maps. Original decorative covers with gilt title and design; gilt titled spine. CONDITON DESCRIPTION: Covers and spine ends are rubbed and with stained lower corner; rear cover spotted. Interior with contemporary inked signature of former owner, pgs 141-142 missing, pg 143 stained; else clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: One of the best narratives of a private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Gerrish, of the famous 20th Maine Infantry, provides vivid details of what he saw and felt during those days of camp, march, bivouac, battlefield and hospital, often in minute detail. It possesses great interest and value; includes comments on Grant, Meade, Hooker, Joshua Chamberlain, and others with whom he came in contact. REFERENCES: DORN ME 125; NEVINS I pg 93: "Often quoted, these memoirs of service in the Army of the Potomac are nevertheless fraught with errors and relatively limited observances."; COULTER 182: "The reminiscences in a simpler form first appeared in the Republican Journal of Belfast, Maine, Gerrish was a member of the Twentieth Maine Volunteers, who got into the fighting first at the Battle of Antietam. Thereafter he was at Gettysburg and in the Virginia campaigns of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and in Grant’s drive against Richmond in the Summer of 1864.". …