History of the Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers

Townsend, Luther

Washington : N.T. Elliott for Hanry Johnson and Luther Townsend, 1897

Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Good binding and cover. Hardcover. Light shelf wear. Minor dampstain to rear cover, with light ruffing to bottom margin of a few of the rearmost pages. 574 pages, including plates, portrait, maps frontispiece ; 24 cm. "Written from the adjuntant's viewpoint, this full history of a year's duty in Louisiana also contains over twoscore sketches and drawings." Nevins I, p. 170. 

From the library of Richard J. Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years.