Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1857.

United States. War Department; Davis, Jeff - Secretary of War

Harper and Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, New York, 1857

[Confederate Ownership] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Some wear, chips to cover.   xxv, 457, 21 pages; 20 cm. Contemporary signature of Aquila Talbot Ridgely, Assistant Surgeon.  Ridgely had served with the U.S. Army in various western exhibitions, including the First Sioux War and at Ft. Riley in Kansas.  "Surgeon Ridgely was born in Maryland and resigned June 23, 1861, to join the Confederate forces as a surgeon."