Philippine Insurrection (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. green cloth cover shows minor wear, edgewear, rubbing, and soiling. pages tanned.

Thick 8vo. xv, [3], 700 pp. Frontisp., numerous photos, plates, tables. Full leather publisher's binding, red, black & gilt morocco spine labels (minor bumping, some minor scuffing & wear, rebacked, inner hinges renewed), still VG- copy, w/ presentation slip from Governor Theodore Thurston Geer (1851-1924), who served as governor of Oregon from 1899-1903, and was the 1st native Oregonian to hold the office, and Eric Anderson, brother to Sergeant Harry Anderson of Portland, who served w/ the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry, 2nd Regiment, Company E, during the Insurrection. First edition of this unit history of the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. The 2nd Oregon fought in five campaigns, and 42 battles, engagements, and skirmishes through 1899, with 16 killed in action, 48 of related wounds, and 88 wounded in action.…

Oblong 8vo. One albumen photo sized 5.8 x 4 in. mounted on 6.5 x 4.25 in. beige-coloured studio board, pencil MS caption on verso, rounded corners, a.e.g. (minor shelfwear), still VG bright image. This original albumen cabinet card photograph vividly portrays the results of the artillery shelling and fighting by U.S. expeditionary against Aguinaldo's forces in the Philippines during the first five days of the Philippine Insurrection. The battle was fought in San Roque by Battery D, of the 1st Battalion California Heavy Artillery, who fought alongside the 51st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The units had been stationed in the Philippines since late 1898 to protect the Spanish Naval Shipyard taken by the Americans in 1898 next to Fort San Felipe.…

12mo. [2], 33, [1] pp. Self-printed blue-tinted colour-illustrated softcovers, lettering & flag in red & blue on front & back covers (minor sunning to fore-edges, toning), still VG copy. First edition of this scarce regimental history of the Second Regiment which was mustered in April, 1898 and served through August, 1899, in the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. The 2nd Regiment fought in all five campaigns, 42 battles, engagements, and skirmishes through 1899, and the Chaplain Gilbert has listed biographical specifics on all, including those who mustered out and remained to work in The Philippines.…