first edition
1869 · New York | Newark, N. J.
by J. Watts De Peyster
New York | Newark, N. J.: Rice and Gage, Publishers | Bliss & Co, 1869. First Edition. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; in terra-cotta pebbled cloth, with a gilt vignette of General Kearny in the center of the upper board; xii, 512 pages, with plates, portraits and an intext map; with an additional illustrated title page; two leaves have minor corner loss, not affecting text.~~On the front pastedown is the signature of one "John J. Heigh" dated December of 1869.~~The account is given mixed comments in the Nevins bibliography: on the one hand it is considered there to an "uncritical ‘memorial'"; on the other and it is noted that it "contains many excerpts from pertinent documents". ~~ (Nevins II, 52). Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 298287)