VINCENT, George E. (editor)

THEODORE W. MILLER, ROUGH RIDER, HIS DIARY AS A SOLDIER TOGETHER WITH THE STORY OF HIS LIFE

Akron, Ohio: Privately printed, 1899. First edition. 8vo. Frontis. (portrait of Miller), xii, 179 pp., in text illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt stamped titles on the front cover and spine, top page edges gilt. Some wear to edges. Note in ink on fly leaf: "This book, containing the card of Mrs. Lewis Miller (his mother) received May 12, 1900. [signed with initials] A St. B" (?), [card no longer present]. Theodore Miller was shot through the lungs in the attack on San Juan Hill and shortly after died. Miller graduated from Yale, other comments by the the editor give some idea of social class of men that were part of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Item #66944

Price: $100.00