The War in the Crimea. Events of Our Own Time Series

Hamley, General Sir Edward

Scribner & Welford, 1890

[Edmund / Truman Smith Family Copy.] Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. A few spots on the cover. Army Navy Club bookplate. vi pages, 1 leaf, 312 pages, including maps, plans, frontispiece portrait. "Events of our own time" series. 

Interesting provenance: This volume was from the library of Truman Smith.  Colonel Truman Smith (1893-1970), was personal advisor to General George C. Marshall.  Yale class of 1915.  Awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Service Medal.  The volume was owned by his father, Captain Edmund Dickinson Smith.  E.D. Smith (1857-1900), was killed in the Spanish American War in Sogod Island, Cebu, Philippines.  Smith was the son of Senator Truman Smith of CT.    Captain Smith's hand written tag, "No. 193, Fort Mackinac, Michigan, Dec. 20th, 1890, E.D. Smith, 1" Lieut 19" Inf."