THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF THE HONORABLE MAJ. GEN. SAMUEL ELBERT OF GEORGIA
by Jones, Charles Colcock Jr
Price: $250.00
- Bookseller: McGowan Book Co., Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: STOCK010573I
- Publisher: Riverside Press,
- Place: Cambridge:
- Date published: 1887.
Book Description
Cambridge:: Riverside Press,. 1887.. 48 pp. . First edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine, largely uncut copy. Elbert, an orphan, prospered in mercantile pursuits and as an Indian trader. He was captain of a grenadier company prior to the Revolution. A staunch patriot, Elbert served on the Council of Safety and in the first Provincial Congress of Georgia in 1775. He was commissioned (1776) lieut.- colonel of the first Continental regiment raised in Georgia. Col. Elbert participated in two Florida expeditions: gallantly commanded the Georgia Line at the fall of Savannah (1778); was captured by the British at Briar Creek (1779). He later took part in the Yorktown campaign. GEPHART 13281. DeRENNE p.859. Scarce. .
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