first edition Hardcover
1907 · New York
by Tremain, Henry Edwin (compiled by)
New York: Bonnell, Silver & Co, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo. xii, [1], 322 pages. Violet cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Sunning to the spine. Contents concern the political divide between the North and South covering Nullification, Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, African Americans, Jim Crow, State laws, and more. Several reprints of the Negro University Press edition of this book in OCLC. Unclear how many institutions have the 1907 first edition. Scarce, first edition. This particular copy was offered by the Heritage Auction Company (HA slip inside the book) in 2014 (unsold). Henry Edwin Tremain was a Union Brevet Brigadier General, Civil War CMOH recipient. Served as an Aide to 5 different Union Generals (most notably Gen. Daniel E. Sickles). He was awarded the Medal of Honor for voluntarily riding between two Union brigades who were mistakenly firing upon each other and stopping them, at the Battle of Resaca (findagrave dot com). (Inventory #: 16727)