Sketch of the Fifty-Eighth Regiment (Infantry), North Carolina Troops [cover title]
first edition
1901 · Lenoir, NC
by HARPER, G.W.F.
Lenoir, NC: The author, 1901. First edition. 8vo. 23 pp. Two portrait plates, picturing 12 members of the unit. The author served as a company commander in the regiment through most of the war; the 58th lost almost half of its effectives, killed and wounded, at Chickamauga, and played a prominent role in the final victory at Bentonville. Dornbusch II, 835. Not in Nevins or Broadfoot. OCLC locates five copies (New York Historical Society, Duke, Texas-Austin, Columbia, Huntington). Original printed gray front wrapper (remargined), rear wrapper replaced to style. Some old staining through upper margin, most leaves remargined at top edge or corners (not affecting text). A presentable copy of a rare North Carolina unit history, with professional restoration. (2464). (Inventory #: 55930)