The Diary of a Line Officer

Published by [Privately Printed], New York, 1906

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Twelvemo, [2], 117pp. Publisher's brown cloth, title in gilt on the front cover. Frontispiece portrait of the author, with light foxing to tissue cover. Bookplate of American historian and author Peter Cozzens on the front pastedown. (Nevins I, p. 64) (Dornbusch I, 20.) This copy is signed on the front free endpaper: "With the compliments of A.C. Brown." Nevins describes "Diary of a Line Officer" as a short and strictly factual account of Grant's 1864 campaign against Richmond. It is based on the wartime diary Brown kept in the field, with the perspective of a company commander with limited knowledge of the broader movements around him. Brown served as captain of Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. After extended duty defending Washington, his company joined the Army of the Potomac for the 1864 campaign and served through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and the opening operations before Petersburg. Brown also records his service with the artillery at Petersburg, before a sunstroke ended his active military service in August 1864.…

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Title
The Diary of a Line Officer
Author
Brown, Augustus C.
Publisher
[Privately Printed], New York
Publication year
1906
Condition
Near fine
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Binding
Cloth
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The signed first edition of The Diary of a Line Officer by Captain Augustus Cleveland Brown.
Edition
First Edition.
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