Charles C Jr Jones / Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery During 1st 1867

Description: Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery During The Confederate Struggle for Independence Author: Jones, Charles C. Jr. (Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C.S.A.) Title: Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery During The Confederate Struggle for Independence Publication: Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1867 Edition: First Edition Description: Formerly owned by Union Officer Medical Director Wm. T. Hord U.S. Naval Asylum Philadelphia Pa. Hardcover. Octavo. [1], viii, 9-240 pages. Illustrated with 3 maps. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. This copy has been restored and in fair condition only. Original cloth spine laid back down onto newer cloth. Cream paper end sheets added front and in back covering the priginal floral end sheets. The original front blank end sheet with the previous owner inscription is vertically split on the paper and detached. Cracks in the gutter with some pages starting to loosen. Text block mostly secure Several upper page corner tips are chipped. A bit of light soil in the gutters of a few pages. The folding map "Sketch of the Battlefield of Ocean Pond, 1864" is complete but is split at the folds with closed tears to the brittle paper (fair only). Fair condition only. An association copy. Signature of "W. J. Hord" located on the front detached blank end sheet. A label on the front paste down reads - "Medical Director Wm. T. Hord U.S. Naval Asylum Philadelphia Pa." Beneath his signature is a note - "see page 150." (There is also a later photograph portrait of William Taliaferro Hord removed from some other book and placed inside). On pages 150-154 is correspondence from Jno. F. Wheaton to the author Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr. titled "Head Quarters, Chatham Artillery, Advanced Lines, James Island, July 20th, 1863." Wheaton summarized the action that took place on July 16, 17 at Secessionville regarding an attack on Union gunboats. One of the gunboats was named "The Pawnee". William Hord, the previous owner, was on the Pawnee and writes in the right margin on page 151: "The "Pawnee" was struck fifty odd times but only our men were killed & about a dozen wounded - W T Hord." There is another old ink note which appears to be written in another hand stating - "Medical Director Wm. T. Hord participated in this engagement." No other notes, names, or written marks in the book. Howes J 197; Nevins I p.115; In Tall Cotton. Fair. An extract taken from Find A Grave dot com:Biography of William Taliaferro Hordauthored by his son, Reverend Arnold Harris Hord, 1913William Taliaferro Hord, to whom this biography is dedicated, was born March 3,1832. He was the son of Judge Francis Triplett Hord (1797-1869), the grandson of Captain Elias Hord (1773-1821), an officer in the War of 1812, the great grandson of Jesse Hord (1749-1814) and the great great grandfather of Thomas Hord I (1701-1766). He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853: entered the United States Navy as Assistant Surgeon in 1854: went to the Mediterranean and served on the frigate "Saranac", visiting Smyrna, Constantinople and the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He was promoted to Past Assistant Surgeon April, 1859, and was attached to various vessels until the Civil War, when he was order home from the Pacific Squadron and commissioned as Surgeon, in August of 1861. He was a Volunteer Aide on the staff of General William Nelson from the battle of Pittsburg Landing to the evacuation of the Corinth, Mississippi, by General Beauregard. He served also on the steam sloop "Pawnee" of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and participated in several engagements while attached to this vessel. During the year 1863 the "Pawnee" was severely damaged by an explosion of a torpedo. He was detached from the "Pawnee" and ordered to the "Wabash" August 10,1863, and while on this vessel participated in all operations against Charleston under General Gilmore and Admirals Dupont and Dahlgren. On August 31, 1864 he was placed in command of the Medical Headquarters of Mississippi fleet at Mound City, Illinois. On November 8, 1865 he was ordered to the "U.S.S. Monongahela" and was wrecked November 18,1867, in the famous earthquake and tidal wave at Santa Croix, West Indies, the "Monongahela" being almost entirely destroyed. Seller ID: 32900 Subject: Civil War David A. Hamilton Americana Books Tucker, Georgia Americana Books has been in business since 1993. We are active members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association (GABA). 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