REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR (8th & 13th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental History)

SUBTITLED: Compiled From the War Correspondence of Colonial William P. Lyon and from personal letters and diary of Mrs. Adelia C. Lyon. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 274 pgs., frontis portrait, plans, portrait plates. Original blue cloth with gilt title cover and spine. Inscribed by authors. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are rubbed on edges and spine ends; gilt bright. Light shelf soiling. Interior is clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: William Lyon mustered into as Captain Co. K for the 8th Wisconsin, August 7, 1861, as Colonel 13th Wisconsin, August 1862 and mustered out, September 1865. After the war, he was an important judge, including serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. REFERENCES: DORNBUSCH Wi 92; COULTER 303 “Letters and parts of the author’s diary, with letters of Mrs. Lyon from the South, make up the body of this narrative. There is no clear continuity of Colonel Lyon’s travels, but the areas of his chief activities are easily inferred…served first in Missouri in 1861, and marched out of St. Louis to Pilot Knob and Greenville in the southeastern part of the state. Later movements were taken from Memphis to west Tennessee and northern Mississippi, to Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, into Kentucky, and back to Tennessee by way of Nashville…At the end of the war…he was sent to Texas by steamer down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico to Matagorda Bay…The narrative is largely about military matters, with occasional comments on the country and people. He was especially interested in the abnormalities of Texas, detesting everything there except the climate.” MULLIN/REED pg. 67.…