US Civil War Union Army General Alexander Hays 1st Ed. 1919 Gettysburg Pickett

  
We are offering LIFE AND LETTERS OF ALEXANDER HAYS, BREVET COLONEL UNITED STATES ARMY, BRIGADIER GENERAL AND BREVET MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. Edited and Arranged With Notes and Contemporary History By George Thornton Fleming, from Data Compiled By Gilbert Adams Hays; Publisher Not Identified. This book is hard-bound in green cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine.

The covers show some light scuffing and soiling, edge-wear, and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The contents are bright and generally clean with illustrations, but also with some light scattered foxing to a few pages near the illustrations.

There is a previous owner inscription at the top of the front free end-page which states, Compliments of David Shields, Lieutenant / Personal Aide-de-camp to General Alexander Hays. David Shields, along with General Hays were part of "dragging the rebel flag" at Gettysburg after Pickett's Charge. This book is scarce in the trade. Graduated from West Point in 1844.

Served with LANE'S BRIGADE IN MEXICO. TO CALIFORNIA, LEAVING INDEPENDENCE, MAY, 1850.

Others, & providing an account. THE BOOK (572 pages) IS DEVOTED TO HIS CIVIL WAR SERVICE DRAWN FROM HIS.

He was killed at the Wilderness. Everything we sell is Returnable for any reason. We only ask for prompt notification, within 14 days.

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• Year Printed: 1919
• Topic: US Civil War, Union Gen. Alexander Hays, Shields
• Binding: Hardcover
• Author: George Thornton Fleming; Gilbert Adams Hays
• Subject: Life and Letters of Alexander Hays, Brevet Colonel
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Publisher: (Publisher Not Identified)
• Place of Publication: Pittsburgh, PA.
• Special Attributes: Signed/Inscribed By Lt.