1869 · Philadlephia
by Smith, Edward Parmelee
Philadlephia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869. Octavo. The first edition of this work was published in 1868 under the title Incidents Among Shot and Shell. The title was changed and reissued the following year under the present title ... "a more peaceful title". 512 pages, index, illustrations. This copy is inscribed by William Grant to his brother, James. William Grant is described in the book on page 37 of attending to a man at Fairfax Station: " I was busy removing the bloody garments from a Union soldier. In his pocket I found a small book: I discovered a [New] Testament". It goes on to note that it had belonged to a North Carolina soldier, who was severely wounded and crying out for water. He gave the dying soldier water who took out his Testament and said: "I have no way to thank you for this, but give you the thing I love best of all--my precious Testament." Later on page 32 it notes how Mr. James Grant was also on a battlefield among the sick and dying. He writes: "While moving around .... the wounded of Gen. Sedgwick's Division on the night after Antietam....he helped Lt. Anthony Morin of the 90th Pennsylvania Regiment. He notes that Lt. Morin lay unattended in the makeshift hospital for two days but he did not complain. James Grant took matters into his own hand on the third day, washed the wound, applied his own care, and in a few days, Lt. Morin was able to travel to Philadelphia. He also tells of others after Antietam. Bound in brown cloth centrally stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in blind, dark brown endpapers, a few spots of bubbling to cloth, internally clean and bright. [Nevins-p. 135].
(Inventory #: 026080)