Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (Signed First Edition)

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 1885 date on title page, etc. 

SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON SLIP OF PAPER 
        "Oct. 29th 1873 / David D. Porter / Admiral U.S.N."

Original cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt.

Frontispiece.

357 pages + ads.

Very Good+. Tight and square binding; pages very clean; covers clean; very little wear to covers; one of the best available on the market, most would grade it Near Fine. 

A beautiful example of an important title by the Civil War Admiral, very scarce, especially with signature. 

David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 - February 13, 1891) was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War.

Porter began naval service as a midshipman at the age of 10 years under his father, Commodore David Porter, on the frigate USS John Adams. For the remainder of his life, he was associated with the sea. Porter served in the Mexican War in the attack on the fort at the City of Vera Cruz. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was part of a plan to hold Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, Florida, for the Union; its execution disrupted the effort to relieve the garrison at Fort Sumter, leading to Sumter's fall. Porter commanded an independent flotilla of mortar boats at the capture of New Orleans. Later, he was advanced to the rank of (acting) rear admiral in command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which cooperated with the army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign. After the fall of Vicksburg, he led the naval forces in the difficult Red River Campaign in Louisiana. Late in 1864, Porter was transferred from the interior to the Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war.

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