AUGUSTUS PEABODY GARDNER: MAJOR UNITED STATES NATIONAL GUARD 1865-1918

GARDNER, Constance

Published by Privately Printed At The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1919

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Very Good (covers nice & bright with small rubbed spot; contents clean & tight. 8vo., black boards, stamped in gilt; 26 pages First Edition. Signed presentation from Constance Gardner on the front endpaper: "W.W. Lufkin from Constance Gardner. January 1919." A scarce book. W.W. Lufkin was Collector for the Port of Boston for the U.S. Customs Service. Augustus Peabody Gardner [1865-1918) was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and the son-in-law statesman of Henry Cabot Lodge. On June 14, 1892, Gardner married Constance Lodge, the author of this book. Gardner served in the Spanish-American War and fought at the Battle of Coamo. He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1899 and as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress. Shortly after the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, Gardner resigned from Congress to enter the army on May 24, 1917, as a colonel in the Adjutant General's Department. Desiring combat duty, he requested and accepted a demotion to the rank of major on December 8, 1917. He was then placed in command of the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry, 31st Division at Camp Wheeler in Georgia. Gardner died of pneumonia while on active duty on January 14, 1918. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery and, in 1923, he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious service during World War I.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AUGUSTUS PEABODY GARDNER: MAJOR UNITED STATES NATIONAL GUARD 1865-1918
• Publisher: Privately Printed At The Riverside Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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