Description
First edition of The Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry by Samuel Merrill. Octavo, [6], 372pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, title with star on front cover. Light edge wear, occasional wear to boards, scuff mark on spine. Frontispiece portrait of President Benjamin Harrison with facsimile signature below. Remnants of bookplate affixed to front end paper. Marking in ball-point pen on copyright page, not affecting text. A nice copy of this scarce work on the Civil War.
Comments: Following the call by President Abraham Lincoln for new recruits to the Union Army, Colonel Benjamin Harrison got the approval of Indiana Governor Oliver Morton to raise a regiment. He recruited volunteers from northern Indiana to serve in the newly commissioned 70th Indiana. After Harrison’s service during the Civil War, he ran for the governorship of Indiana and then served as the Senator from Indiana. In 1888, he was nominated by the Republican Party for president of the United States, taking office in 1889. He was defeated for a second term in 1892 by Grover Cleveland.
