CIVIL WAR FORT SUMTER MAJOR-GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY JOHN C ROBINSON GETTYSBURG

Description: Major-General Abner Doubleday and Brevet Major-General John C. Robinson in the Civil War In Memoriam: Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 and John Cleveland Robinson 1817-1897Published by J. B. Lyon Co. for New York Monuments Commission, State of New York, Albany, NY, 1918. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner’s signatures to ffep, small tear to front hinge, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 4to, 141 pages, burgundy cloth, gilt titling to spine and front board with NY state seal in gilt. Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.Loc: GL1-4StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackCIVIL WAR FORT SUMTER MAJOR-GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY JOHN C ROBINSON GETTYSBURG Major-General Abner Doubleday and Brevet Major-General John C. Robinson in the Civil War In Memoriam: Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 and John Cleveland Robinson 1817-1897Published by J. B. Lyon Co. for New York Monuments Commission, State of New York, Albany, NY, 1918. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner’s signatures to ffep, small tear to front hinge, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 4to, 141 pages, burgundy cloth, gilt titling to spine and front board with NY state seal in gilt. Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.Loc: GL1-4

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