Civil War-Bravest 500-Medal Of Honor-1891HC-1st-Rare

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The Bravest Five Hundred of '61 - Their Noble Deeds Described By Themselves, Together with an Account of Some Gallant Exploits of Our Soldiers in Indian Warfare. How the Medal of Honor Was Won. Compiled by Theo. F. Rodenbough, Brevet Brigadier General U.S.A., 1891. 496 page hardcover book, first edition, illustrations, map, appendices, including list of Medal of Honor recipients "for distinguished service during the war of the rebellion" with name, rank, company, organization, action and reason.

Ex-library copy - War Department Library - with usual markings; cover has been taped around the spine, cover barely hanging on but pages are still bound, inside of front cover is taped, no hanging or missing pages, old newspaper articles glued to last two blank pages, articles about Charles Tanner, Delaware Volunteers. Photos & illustrations. Inside pages are in good condition, could be rebound, no mildew or smell, all in all a good copy of an old & very scarce book.

Contains a chapter written by Elizabeth Custer on Tom Custer. Covers the accounts of his receiving the Medal Of Honor two times, and his fatal end. Charles King and the Apache Wars, The Little Big Horn fight and Custer, Little Wolf, and Civil War Medal of Honor winners individual stories (Sergeant John Merritt, First Minnesota Infantry; Sergeant Edward Browne, Sixty-Second N.Y. Infantry; Major William Hincks, Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry; Corporal John Weeks, 152D N.Y. Volunteer Infantry; Lieut. Thomas Parke Gere, Fifth Minnesota Infantry; Corporal Patrick Monaghan, Forty-Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry; Lieutenant Josiah Curtis, Twelfth West Virginia Infantry; Captain Harvey Munsell, Ninety-Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry; Major John Terry, Twenty-Third Mass. Infantry; Plus Many More) .
Illustrations or photos of - Sergeant Merritt, Sergeant Browne, Sergeant Luty, Major Hincks, Corporal Weeks, Lieut. Fasnacht, Lieut. Gere, Private Dunlavy, Corporal Monaghan, Captain Anderson, Lieut. Riddell, Lieut. Curtis, Lieut. Norton, Capt. Munsell, Major Terry, Sergeant Cook, Captain Greig, Payne the Assassin, Col. Tom Custer, Sergeant Nihill, Private Evans, Little Wolf & Captors, Sergeant Lewis, Major Thornburgh, Josephine Meeker, Sergeant Fegan, Devil's Den, At Close Quarters, Company Kitchen, Sheridan's Cav'ry Badge, Gettysburg Belle, Relieving Wounded, Cavalry Charge, A Pack-Mule, Assault on Fort Saunders, Marching to Gettysburg, Scout Chapman's Heroism, Confederate Colors & Captors, Ginley's Last Shot, Fort Phil Kearney, Plus Lots More.

Some of the Medal of Honor recepients in the book - Robert Ammerman; Lester Archer; Charles Anderson; Andrew Apple; Robert Buffum; William Bensinger; Chester Bowen; Philip Baybutt; Terrence Begley; Michael Burk; Elijah Bacon; J. Bradbury; Clarence Buck; Charles Blucher; James Bronson; Powhatan Beaty; Thomas Belcher; Richard Bowey; Henry Barnum; Dennis Buckley; Thomas Box; Hugh Boon; Henry Bonebrake; Orren Bennett; Lewis Brest; Milton Blickensderfer; Edgar Bras; Andrew Bringle; Horatio Birdsall; Edward Bebb; John Creed; Ulric Crocker; James Cumpston; John Clopp; James Congdon; Albert Clapp; Thomas Custer; Ovila Cayer; Charles Copp; Orlando Caruana; James Dunlavy; Warren Dockham; Charles Dolloff; Hiram Delavie; Christopher Flynn; Benjamin Falls; Augustine Flanagan; Albert Fernald; Charles Fasnacht; Joseph Follett; Charles Gould; Patrick Ginley; Nathaniel Gwynne; John Gaunt; George Grube; Richard Gosson; Charles Goheen; Martin Hawkins; Ira Hough; William Hinks; Solomon Hotenstine; Henry Hardenbergh; Abram Haring; William Houlton; John Havron; Benjamin Jellison; Francis Judje; Thomas Kelly; John Kindig; Luther Kaltenbach; Andrew Kuder; Samuel Kenyon; John Keough; Jacob Koogle; Augustus Kauss; Peter Kappesser; Henry Kline; Cyrus Lower; William Ludgate; George Lucas; William Laing; George Love; George Ladd; Franklin Lutes; Aaron Lanfare; John Lilley.
Harry Mandy; Thomas Murphy; Albert Marsh; Jeremiah Mahoney; Patrick Monaghan; Henry Mattingly; Patrick McEnroe; Bernard McCarren; Charles McCleary; Walter McWhorton; Samuel McElhany; Nineveh McKeen; Francis McMillan; George McKee; Thomas McGraw; Joseph McCauslin; Samuel McConnell; George McDonald; John McVeane; Robert Nevers; Edwin Neville; John Opel; Timothy O'Connor; Peter O'Brion; Jacob Orth; Jacob Parrott; William Pittenger; George Plowman; James Peirsol; James Pardun; Thomas Plunkett; Patrick Pentzer; Matthew Quay; William Reddick; Daniel Reigle; Lewis Rounds; Oliver Rood; Stephen Rought; Henry Rowe; John Ricksecker; Rudolph Riddell; Alfred Ransbottom; Charles Reeder; George Robie; John Shililng; James Sweeney; John Schellenburger; John Schiller; Ebenezer Skellie; Edwin Savacool; Amzi Shahand; Joseph Sova; Christian Streile; Charles Schorn; George Schmal; George Shopp; Joseph Stickels; Charles Swan; Charles Shambaugh; Robert Storr; Timothy Spillane; Samuel Slavens; Charles Seston; Martin Schwenk; John Tweedale; Charles Tanner; George Tyrrell; Charles Taggart; Allan Tucker; Charles Titus; Andrew Tibbets; William Tilton; Jacob Tucker; Michael Urell; Edward Vanwinkle; Charles Veal; John Wainwright; John Wollam; John Walsh; William Westerhold; George Welch; William Winegar; Henry Warfel; John Weeks; Frank Whitman; Plus Lots, Lots More.

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Hardcover

1st Edition

Military & War

1891

Wars Involving US

Civil War (1861-65)