Report of the Secretary of War; Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress At the Beginning of the Second Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress Volume I

Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, 1876

About this Item

Full brown leather boards. Two paste-down leather labels (one red, one dark green) with gilt title. Ex-library labels on bottom of spine. Bumped corners and heavily rubbed edges with spine fraying and flaking. Gutters cracked but otherwise binding is tight. Foxing on endpapers due to leather. One endpaper missing. Nine plates with color illustrations of articles of uniform clothing for officers of the Army. All plates are in very good condition but all have small 1/2" tears at bottom of each plate. Also, included are four larger b&w fold-out maps and illustrations showing the improvement plans for the South Pass of the Mississippi River at the Gulf of Mexico. The first fold-out map has a 51/4" tear at the bottom, a 4" tear at top (both tears starting from the stub of the book) and a 2" fold tear near the right corner. The second fold-out has a 1" tear at the top. The third fold-out is in very good condition. The fourth fold-out has a 3/4" tear from the stub. Content of large fold-outs is complete. This is the first Congressional report to mention the Battle of Little Big Horn. Pages 439-487 and 498-518 contain the detailed reports related to the Battle of Little Big Horn and the events leading up to and following the battle. Included are reports from Major Marcus Reno, and Captain Frederick Benteen, General Nelson Miles, Colonel W. B. Hazen, Major Orlando H. Moore, Colonel John Gibbon, Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, and others. Scarce, with three copies found on OCLC as of January 2017. Terry 454. Reno 476. Benteen 479. ; Vol. 1; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 518 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Report of the Secretary of War; Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress At the Beginning of the Second Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress Volume I
• Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington
• Publication Date: 1876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket