The Second Rhode Island Regiment: A Narrative of Military Operations In Which the Regiment was Engaged From the Beginning to the End of the War For the Union

Providence: Valpey, Angell and Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 633 pages, [2]. Frontispiece engraving of Col. John S. Slocum. MAP IS MISSING. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover. The brown right front flyleaf is detached and chipped on the edges. The front and rear hinges are cracked. Cloth is edge worn head and base of the spine. Foxing to the end papers. Contents include a roster in back.

Association copy. Previous owner name "W Irving Ellis Melrose Mass" written on the right front flyleaf and on the front blank end sheet which is chipped on the edges. A note written in pencil at the top of the contents page reads "My father William Irving Ellis name on 440 page Second Lieutenant Company F. See page 59 also page 145." A fair copy missing the map.

Nevins I page 82.