The History of Fuller's Ohio Brigade 1861-1865 Its Great March, with Roster Portraits, Battle Maps and Biographies

Cleveland: Press of A J Watt, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Quarto. 2-623 pages. Illustrated with maps, portraits and sketches. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt regiment numbers and illustration on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Former institutional book with removed label on the spine, rubbed out numbers on the spine, and removed labels from the front and rear paste downs. Floral end sheets. Appears front blank end paper not bound in. Page numbering starts at 2 with no removed pages. Light shelf wear to the covers. Front hinge cracked and cover loose. Inscription on the blank verso of the right front flyleaf reads, "C. C. Swift from D, Auld Jr Dec 25th 1909."

Nevins I page 159 - "A dependable brigade history, though too much was borrowed from the Official Records; Smith was the creator of the legendary "Bill Arp."

[Note: Charles H. Smith who created Bill Arp was actually from Lawrenceville, Georgia. According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia Charles H. Smith first signed the name Bill Arp in a letter in 1861. Charles H. Smith (Bill Arp) died in 1903 before this book was published]. (Inventory #: 32899)