MEADE\'S HEADQUARTERS - FIRST EDITION 1922 - LETTERS OF COLONEL LYMAN - CIVIL WAR
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MEADE\'S HEADQUARTERS - FIRST EDITION 1922 - LETTERS OF COLONEL LYMAN - CIVIL WAR:
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MEADE\'S HEADQUARTERS
1863-1865
LETTERS OF COLONEL THEODORE LYMAN
FROM THE WILDERNESS TO APPOMATTOX
SELECTED AND EDITED BY GEORGE R. AGASSIZ
FIRST EDITION
NEAR FINE CONDITION
Clean, Sharp, Solidly Bound, Antique Book
Excellent Observations for a Colonel at Mead\'s Headquarters
Illustrated with16 Full Page Portraits on Coated Stock and 13 Maps Drawn by Colonel Lyman
PUBLISHED BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, BOSTON, IN 1922
\"The poignant and constantly quoted letters of a volunteer aide necessary for any study of the Army of the Potomac in the last eighteen months of the war.\" – Civil War Books
This wonderful, first edition book constitutes an excellent history General George Meade\'s headquarters during the Civil War. The book includes excellent context and history and also presents the letters and observations of Colonel Theodor Lyman who served at Meade\'s headquarters.
Lyman was a founding member and underwriter of Harvard\'s Museum of Comparative Anatomy. Lyman first met future major-general General Meade in 1856 while conducting research on starfish in Florida. Lieutenant Meade was there overseeing construction of lighthouses for the Army Corps of Engineers. They became friends and corresponded frequently prior to the Civil War.
Lyman served on the staff of Major General Meade as aide-de-camp with a commission as Lieutenant Colonel from Governor Andrew of Massachusetts. Lyman followed Meade until the end of the war from September 2, 1863, to April 20, 1865. During this time, he served as headquarters archivist. He also put his life on the line carrying Flags of truce through hostile lines at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg. His published letters and notebooks establish him as the preeminent recorder of events and personalities within the headquarters of Army of the Potomac. He was a companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion.
After the war, he was a state Fish Commissioner, after wards a federal commissioner, and one of the first scientists to advocate the widespread use of fish ladders, known then as \"fishways.\" He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, and an overseer of Harvard University. He was also active in the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts.
THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
This wonderful, first edition book in in excellent condition. Bound in gray covers with navy blue spine that has navy blue lettering on a pasteboard on the spine, the book is clean and solidly bound throughout. The exterior is clean and free of any bumping, and has light rubbing and edge wear. The interior is in excellent condition and there isn\'t a mark in the book, except for a tiny name and date written in the corner of the front, inside cover. The pages are bright white and clean and are free of any writing, underlining, smudging or foxing. The book has no pasteboards, stamps or other markings and it is not an ex-library book. The binding is solid throughout the book. It has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The book contains portraits of key leaders and battle maps drawn by the author. An excellent, first edition book on General Meade\'s Headquarters.
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