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[LATE INDIAN WARS]. PACH, G.W. (1848-1904), photographer. US Military Academy year book for the Class of 1875, containing photographs of notable officers, professors, and cadets, incl. Little Bighorn casualty James G. Sturgis. New York: 1875. 
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[LATE INDIAN WARS]. PACH, G.W. (1848-1904), photographer. US Military Academy year book for the Class of 1875, containing photographs of notable officers, professors, and cadets, incl. Little Bighorn casualty James G. Sturgis. New York: 1875. 

Oblong folio album (11 x 14 in.) 280 x 355 mm. 105 albumen photographs, incl. 83 individual portraits, 4 x 5 3/4 in., or smaller, and 22 views, 9 x 7 1/2 in., or smaller, of campus, weaponry, drilling, staff and students, each mounted recto to album pages, with original paper guards (toning, occasional spotting, prints very good condition overall; some toning, corner and edge wear to mounts). New York: G.W. Pach, 1875. Full embossed morocco gilt, gilt title to front board "Class of '75 U.S.M.A." with saber and Latin motto; gilt spine title "'75 Class Album U.S.M.A." (covers and spine detached, surface wear including scuffing and loss to extremities). 

Each subject is identified in period penciled notation on album page, many notations including rank and position at West Point.

Professors/instructors include: General Thomas Ruger. -- General Emory Upton. -- Captain Robert H. Hall. -- Major Alfred Mordecai. -- Professor Robert Heir. -- Professor John Forsyth. -- Professor Henry Lane Kendrick. -- Professor Albert Church. -- Professor P. DeJano. -- Professor P.S. Michie. -- Professor J.B. Wheeler. -- Major and Professor Asa B. Gardner. -- Captain Gerard(?) M.C. -- Major Bernard J.D. Irwin, Surgeon, first recipient of the Medal of Honor for February 1861 actions taken during the Apache Wars. -- Captain Oswald Ernst. -- Captain A.M. Miller. -- Captain William A. Rafferty. -- Captain J.M.K. Davis. -- Lieutenant Russell (possibly Francis S.K. Russell). -- 1st Lieutenant David Lyle. -- 1st Lieutenant John Stretch. -- Lieutenant Marshall. --2nd Lieutenant G(?)B. Davis. -- 1st Lieutenant Shale(?). -- Lieutenant T.H. Barbour. --Lieutenant Pratt. --2nd Lieutenant Wyeth. -- Lieutenant S.M. Mills. -- Lieutenant Heath. -- Lieutenant Baker. -- Lieutenant Thompson. -- Lieutenant Taylor. -- Lieutenant W.P. Duval. -- Lieutenant Denison. -- Lieutenant Hood. -- Lieutenant Otto Heyne. -- Professor Schlitchler. -- "General" Louis Bentz, the bugler.

Graduating cadets include: Smith S. Leach. -- William Baird. -- Samuel A. Cherry, served on the western frontier, killed by one of his own soldiers within six years of graduating. --  Robert P.P. Wainwright. -- Charles W. Williams. -- William A. Simpson. -- Alexander Rodgers. -- Thomas F. Davis. -- Myron W. Howe. -- Eli D. Hoyle. -- James M. Jones. -- George B. Backus. -- Joseph H. Gustin. --  William A. Mann. -- Willard Young. -- Charles A. Tingle. -- Edwin P. Andrus. -- George R. Smith. -- George L. Scott. -- Edwin B. Bolton. --  John M. Baldwin. --  Erasmus M. Weaver. -- John G. Ballance. -- Timothy A. Touey. -- James R. McAuliffe. -- Robert K. Evans. -- Stanton A. Mason. -- Cummings (?). -- Lotus Niles. -- Francis E. Eltonhead. -- Dan C. Kingman. -- Tasker H. Bliss. --  James C. Bush. -- Thomas S. McCaleb. -- Arthur L. Wagner. -- Victor H. Bridgman. -- James G. Sturgis, Cavalry­man, killed at Little Bighorn a year after graduating. -- John P. Jefferson. -- Henry D. Huntington.-- Charles H. Clark. -- James B. Goe. -- William N. Dykman. -- Elbert Wheeler. -- Eugene Griffin.

[With:] Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the US Military Academy, West Point, NY. New York: John F. Baldwin, printer, June 1872 (toning, corner and edge wear to paper wrappers). 

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