Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment

John Gregory Bishop Adams

 Boston : Wright & Potter, 1899

Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with gilt lettering. 23 cm. Top edge gilt. viii, 186 pages, frontispiece portrait.  Clean, unmarked pages.   A "personal narrative of action in the Eastern theater; after the author's capture at Cold Harbor, the work becomes a typical, prejudiced prison account." Nevins I, p. 49.   

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. Early bookplate of the Oxford Club, Lynn, MA.