Addresses - Drinking Usages. [Civil War & Temperence]
first edition Hardcover
1861 · Boston
Boston: Massachusetts Temperance Society, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Rev. B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) DeCosta was a noted NE minister, abolitionist and temperance supporter. Laid in letter and signed personal card. Letter on Union letterhead [color top-piece with flags, eagle, "UNION" and a banner reading "Constitution of the United States of America"), dated Nov. 25, 1861, makes reference to their time in the "Virginia Campaign"...doubly interesting as the VC is now thought of as revolving around the (truncated)