About this Item
BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, viii, 353 pgs, frontis portrait, portrait plates. Original brown cloth. October, 1867 inked signature of Abby J. Hubbard on front free endpaper (wife of Congressman John Henry Hubbard of Litchfield, Conn). CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Original covers and edges worn and repaired on spine, top of spine chipped; spine faded. Interior is clean and tight. Old newspaper article on rear endpaper relating to the first reunion of the regiment in 1894. Also signature clipped manuscript note concerning presenting his wartime sword for display. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 13th Connecticut Infantry Regiment was organized at New Haven, Connecticut, mustered in for a three-year enlistment on January 7, 1862, under the command of Colonel Henry Warner Birge. Ultimately the Thirteenth operated primarily in the Lower Mississippi Valley, its most notable actions the bloody Union assaults and subsequent siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, from May to July 1863. The regiment then participated in the Union s abortive Red River campaign in early 1864. Following a brief veteran's furlough back home in the summer of 1864 the regiment was ordered to join General Sheridan s forces in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Thirteenth last saw heavy action at Opequan and Winchester, Virginia, in September. The three-year enlistment period for most of the men ended in December, the remaining troops being sent to Savannah, Georgia and, later, Newbern, North Carolina, at the war's end. The 13th Connecticut Infantry mustered out of service April 25, 1866, at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The author states that this work is largely drawn from his diary he carried during the war. This is a fine, highly regarded history, with a nice association and story. Rarely offered for sale. REFERENCES: DORN CN #52; NEVINS pg. 162: "A member of that small group of superb unit histories; excellent for events in the Trans-Mississippi theater." MULLINS / REED 88: "This is one of the finest Federal unit histories. The Thirteenth Connecticut saw service with the Nineteenth Army Corps in the Department of the Gulf and with the Army of the Shenandoah Valley later in the war.".
Seller Inventory # 0124002
Contact seller
Report this item
