David F Ritchie (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. New / As New. Second Printing / Schroeder Publications Edition (2012; explicit copyright statement and full number line 10 to 1 on copyright page). Uncirculated publisher archive inventory direct from Schroeder Publications. Octavo (approx. 9.0 x 6.0 inches); [vi], 134 pp. Bound in publisher's original heavy card stock wrappers with front panel reproducing a 19th-century engraving of a Federal artillery crew in action; rear panel features an excerpt from Ritchie's wartime writing and an archival CDV portrait of Captain Ritchie from the Patrick A. Schroeder Collection. Illustrated with archival portraits, contemporary battle maps, operational battery sketches, detailed chapter annotations, biographical roster data, and comprehensive index. A pristine, unread copy with sharp corners, an uncreased spine, tight binding, and immaculate leaves throughout. Retains the original $19.99 publisher price intact above the rear barcode. Compiled and edited by Norman L. Ritchie, Four Years in the First New York Light Artillery preserves the candid wartime journals, battlefield dispatches, and personal letters of Captain David Francis Ritchie (1840-1899) of Battery C and Battery H, 1st New York Light Artillery. Mustered in late 1861, Ritchie served continuously throughout the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, directing artillery fire through the Peninsula Campaign, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Overland Campaign, and the Siege of Petersburg. Ritchie's articulate letters offer an intimate, smoke-filled view of battery tactics, the logistical horrors of hauling caissons and guns through Virginia mud, artillery counter-battery duels, and the internal politics of the Union artillery reserve. An essential primary-source monograph for New York artillery collections, battery-level tactical studies, and Eastern Theater operational research. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. VERY GOOD softcover, no marks in text; a very clean, apparently unread copy. Book.

Booklet. Condition: Near fine. Unpaginated. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Staplebound. A few small spots to covers. Accompanied an exhibition held at Toronto Heliconian Club and D. & J. Richie Ltd April - May 1985.

RITCHIE, David F. Four Years in the First New York Light Artillery: The Papers of David F. Ritchie. Edited by Norman L. Ritchie. Hamilton, NY: Edmonston Publishing, [1997]. 1st ed. vii,257pp. Portraits, maps. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Dornbusch IV: 4369.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 182 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.