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STINE, J.H.
History of the Army of Potomac.
Second Edition. This copy inscribed on the verso of the portrait, "With the Compliments of the Author to a personal friend, Mr. Robert Furlong, Sacramento, Ca. Very sincerely yours, J.H. Stine, Washington, Aug. 15, 1906." And subsequently "To Frank F. Armstrong, Robert Furlong." Robert Furlong was Chief of the Department of Education for the State of California, and Atkinson a veteran of the War; "Mr. Atkinson has the honor of having been one of the first men to go to the defense of the Union in the Civil war. He was living at Baltimore when the war broke out, where he had belonged to a crack military company for some time and was already a finished soldier in drill and knowledge of tactics, and six days after Fort Sumter was fired upon he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Second New York Volunteers, under Colonel Thomas B. Van Buren. The regiment went into camp near Washington, and took the field early. Mr. Atkinson saw much hard service during the early part of the war, and at the battle of Antietam he was wounded by a shot through the left lung. He was confined by this dangerous wound in the hospital for eight months, and was honorably discharged in 1863. He later served in the quartermaster's department in General Sigel's division." [Home Biographical Record of Crawford, Co., Kansas.] Loosely inserted 1p. ALS from Stine to Furlong on the stationery of the United States Historical Society, sending this copy and explaining that this "... is the only work where the historian was assisted by the Generals who planned and fought the battles in the history of the World, and for that reason some school officials are using it as a reader..." Also 1p, printed flyer reprinting commendations from the press, the Secretary of State and various combatant generals on the publication of the book.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind decoration to the boards. Half-tone portrait frontispiece and 68 other half-tone portraits. Light marginal browning, else very good, the cloth a little rubbed.
