Search Results: records of the 24th independent battery by merrill j w

US: J. O. Seymour, Kennard & Hay, 1870. Hardcover. Good +. Brick red cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine and front board. Gilt decorative band to spine and black decorative rule to boards. Scattered soiling and foxing to pages throughout particularly at margins, and dampstain to map at page 208. Text block is soiled with moderate shelf wear and black markings scattered to all edges. Boards are soiled particularly at edges with dampstain to top edge of front board. Soiling, rubbing, bumping and fraying to cloth at edges, corners and ends of spine. Sunning to spine. Binding is tight and square.

Perry, NY: Ladies' Cemetery Association, 1870. First. Hard Bound. Rear hinge repaired, rest VG-./None. A rather morbid publisher, but the book has numerous lists of those who died in prisons, on the battle field and those wounded who died at home. The book contains not only a roster for the 24th, but also lists those from Perry who served in other units. THIS HISTORY CONTAINS A BRIEF AND VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF AN ATTEMPT TO USE ROCKETS INSTEAD OF STANDARD ARTILLERY. TWO COMPANIES FORMED A BATTALION AND UNDERWENT TRAINING BY A BRITISH "ROCKET SCIENTIST." DIDN'T WORK OUT, HOWEVER, BUT NON-THE-LESS AN INTERESTING TALE. Dornbusch I-NY-61. Nevins I-130.

1870. (NEW YORK REGIMENTAL). MERRILL, J. W., comp. Records of the 24th Independent Battery, N.Y. Light Artillery, U.S.A. Perry, NY: Published for the Ladies' Cemetery Association of Perry, N.Y., 1870. 1st ed. 280;22pp. Plates, map. Orig. cloth. A fine copy. Nevins I, p.130. Includes biographical Sketches of unit members and details of imprisonment of unit at Andersonville. With a gift inscription for two member of the Ladies' Cemetery Association on front free endpaper and a copy of a letter from the widow of Capt. Aaron Lester Cady about his service in the regiment.