A History of the United States: For the Use of Schools and Academies

John Frost

Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1840

[The Development of American History: The 19th Century: Maryland Confederate Ownership] Contemporary boards. Rebacked, with renewed leather spine. Good binding and cover.  432 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.  Bookplate.  Early signature of John A. Haydon (1830 – 1902). Haydon was an important railroad engineer (self educated) and captain in the Confederate Army Corps of Engineers. He was responsible for the construction of Confederate defenses at Ft. Donelson and Fort Henry. After the war he was the chief engineer of the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad in Frederick, Maryland.  He had an interesting railroad career throughout the country.