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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Herman Melville.
American History, 1493-1859 (Module II: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era, 1860-1945 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil war.
- Military history.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York: [publisher not identified], 1866.
- Summary:
- Inscribed on initial blank facing the title page: "Major Edward Y. Lansing from H. Melville. As a souvenir of his soldier hospitality at the cavalry camp in the Virginia woods, April 1864." Also inscribed by Lansing in pencil on page 187 above the poem "The Scout toward Aldis": "Major Edwin Y. Lansing's cavalry camp in the Virginia woods, April 1864." In April, 1864 Melville and his brother obtained a pass to visit the front to search for their cousin, Colonel Henry Gansevoort. Melville met Lansing in a scouting party he and his brother accompanied, and experienced a brief skirmish with the enemy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages) and index.
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