Item #026049 Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States; (New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office).
Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States; (New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office).
Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States; (New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office).

Register of Commissioned Officers of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States; (New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office).

Jersey City, NJ: John P. Lyon (printer), 1863. Octavo. Item #026049

584pp. Tipped in is letter from the Adjutant-General of New Jersey to Col. John P. Nicholson, dated Dec. 30, 1875. John Page Nicholson, of course, was the Chairman of the Gettysburg National Military Park from 1893 to 1922. Born in 1842 in Philadelphia, he learned the trade of book-binding and enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Within a year, he rose to 1st Lt. His unit served at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Kenesaw Mountains and Gettysburg. After the war he became the leading force in Pennsylvania to memorialized the battlefield. In 1893 he published Pennsylvania at Gettysburg and was in that same year chosen as the Chairman of the Gettysburg National Park Commission. In 1895 they turned over the park's roads, lands and assets to the United States war Department and Gettysburg National Military Park. It was established through an act of Congress through the work of General Dan Sickles. In this letter from Adjutant-General Stryker, he is assured that besides information of New Jersey Officers, he is planning an item to be published in 1876. Bound in ¾ green pebble grained morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, raised bands, compartments and bands ruled in gilt, lettering and top edge gilt. Light damp stain to outer margin of first two leaves. A very nice copy without foxing, names or plates.

Price: $275.00