Minty and the Cavalry: A History of Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies
Harrisburg, PA. Edwin K. Meyers, Printer and Binder, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xxxi, [1], 1-550, [4] pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration of a flag and rifle on the front board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eleven plates (One of the plates called for is missing, but there is no evidence of its removal. It is possible that this copy was accidentally bound without it). All maps that are called for are present. Howes V-10. General David Sloane Stanley fought for the Union Army, and saw action in Kentucky and Tennesse, among other places. He later fought against several Native American tribes in the latter nineteenth-century, during the U.S. Government's campaign to displace Native peoples from their homes. Very Good+. Item #000012281
Some surface-rubbing to the cloth, otherwise a sharp example.
Price: $175.00