1885. · New York
by Williams, Ellen
New York: Published for the Author by Fowler & Wells Company, 1885.. [4],178pp. Lacking frontispiece portrait and 8pp. of publisher's advertisements. Original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Covers lightly soiled, spine lightly faded and soiled, extremities lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Final forty pages bound out of order but all present. Good. Lacking frontis portrait and 8pp. of publisher's advertisements. A personal account, privately printed, by the wife of a bugler about the Civil War campaigns on the Plains and in the Rockies, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, including a unit roster for the Second Colorado Cavalry Regiment on pages 161-176. About half of the men of the Second Colorado had been miners before the war, and the regiment included a single member each of the Choctaw and Cherokee nations. Mrs. Williams and her two young sons were ordered to remain in Santa Fe early in the war, and she describes the hardships of life there and the fears of Confederate attacks. In the Spring of 1863 they were relocated to Fort Lyons in southeastern Colorado. Much of the text is a detailed history of the actions of the Second Colorado in Missouri, Colorado, and elsewhere, giving an interesting view of the little-known southwestern campaigns of the Civil War. This copy lacks the frontispiece portrait of the author. HOWES W452, "aa." GRAFF 4676. NEVINS I, p.178. NICHOLSON, p.928. WYNAR 466. DORNBUSCH II:166. EBERSTADT 138:171.
(Inventory #: WRCAM51658)