Search Results: Titles starting with H from Adam Weinberger Books

1894. [AFRICAN AMERICANA - 54TH MASSACHUSETTS]. EMILIO, Luis F. (1844-1918). History of the Fifty-FourthRegiment or Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865. Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894.  8vo. 20 plates, 7 maps and plans, 2 folding maps  Publisher's black cloth gilt, wear to edges and rubbing to spine with wear to head and foot of spine, a few minor soiling marks internally. EXTREMELY RARE SECOND EDITION of the book "A Brave Black Regiment"  but actually more important and RARER than the 1891 First diue to the new chapter (Appendix) included not in the 1891 edition on the treatment of African American Prisoners of War .   Last copy art auction in 2023 of the 1891 sold for $4000 The Book details the storied journey of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the North's inaugural African American regiment during the Civil War. Renowned for their valiant effort in attacking Battery Wagner, the unit counted among its ranks two sons of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and William Carney, the… Read More