GRACEY, S[amuel] L[evis].

Annals of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry

Item #82386

(PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENTAL). GRACEY, S[amuel] L[evis]. Annals of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry. [Phila.]: Published for the Officers of the regiment by E.H. Butler & Co., 1868. 1st ed. 371, [1, errata] pp. Folding map. Orig. cloth-backed boards. T.e.g. Boards rubbed, edgewear, else very good. One of 500 numbered copies, this being no. 496. Presentation inscription: "Mrs. P. L. Negley - from her sincere friend Chas. L. Leiper.' Charles Leiper (1842-1899) was a Philadelphian who entered the Union Army in 1861 as a first lieutenant in the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and is mentioned frequently in the pages of the Annals. He was wounded twice during the war, and ended as major of the regiment. He appears frequently in the pages of this "day-by-day chronicle of campaigning in Virginia." - Nevins I, p. 96. Dornbusch I, PA-53. After the war Leiper "lived in Chester and was a noted baseball player, along with his brother Callender `Cal' Irvine Leiper. He was a paper-maker in Funkstown, MD in 1870. By 1880 he was a manufacturer of cotton goods in Philadelphia and later owned a yarn brokerage." - Antietam on the Web.

Price: $450.00