THE STORY OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT, MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY: WHENCE IT CAME, WHERE IT WENT, WHAT IT SAW, AND WHAT IT DID.
Boston: C.W. Calkins, 1880. 8vo. 260 pp. Contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco, gilt, and marbled boards, gilt spine title, t.e.g., by the Rose Bindery, Boston. Fine copy. Item #41219
First edition. Inscribed by the author, "The first copy / to my wife / May 13, 1880. / F.J.P." The unit, commanded by Parker through 1862, was engaged on the Peninsula and at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and around Petersburg. Coulter TRAVELS 365: "Mainly interested in army life and other military matters." Nevins I, p. 142: "A typical unit history." Not in Eicher.
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