[CIVIL WAR]. LEE, James K. The Volunteer's Hand Book: Containing...Hardee's Infantry Tactics. 1861.
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[CIVIL WAR]. LEE, James K. The Volunteer's Hand Book: Containing...Hardee's Infantry Tactics. 1861.
The Volunteer's Hand Book: Containing an Abridgment of Hardee's Infantry Tactics, Adapted to the Use of the Percussion Musket in Squad and Company Exercises, Manual of Arms for Riflemen and United States Army Regulations as to Parades, Reviews, Inspections, Guard Mounting, &c. Raleigh: Printed at the Inst. for the Deaf & Dumb & the Blind, 1861. First edition. 16mo, approx. 4 x 6 in. 96, [ii] pp. Original publisher's plain, paper-backed limp cloth wraps (wear, soiling, scattered surface loss and insect damage to cloth wrappers, chipping and loss to edges; text pages toned, some damp stained, some with chipping to edges). Parrish & Willingham 4906. Front free endpaper identified in pencil to "Capt. Harris C.S.A."
Author James Kendall Lee (1829-1861) was a Virginia lawyer who was appointed as lieutenant of the 1st Regiment of Virginia infantry. He died at the battle of Bull Run on 18 July 1861.
A scarcely encountered true first edition possibly printed before the secession of North Carolina. RARE: Research indicates only 2 other copies of this edition have appeared at auction in the last 50 years.
[With:] McCarthy, Carlton. Contributions to a History of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion. Pamphlets 1-3. Carlton McCarthy & Co. and J.W. Randolph & English: Richmond, Virginia, 1883-1886.
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