Description
Signed limited edition of the Memoirs Of Major General Frank D. Baldwin, by his wife, Alice Blackwood Baldwin.
Octavo, xv, [3], 204pp, [4]. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt. Floral endpapers, top edge gilt. Complete with frontispiece portrait and nine illustrated plates. Top corner with a bumped edge. Internally fine. Lacking the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
(Howes, B58) (Graff, 144) (Dustin 284)
This copy is signed by Alice Blackwood Baldwin on the front free endpaper.
Major General Frank D. Baldwin (1842-1923) was one of only 19 individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice, earning the distinction for separate acts of valor during the Civil War and the Indian Wars. Baldwin began his military service in 1861 with the 19th Michigan Infantry, notably leading a countercharge at the Battle of Peachtree Creek in 1864, where he captured two Confederate officers and a regimental guidon. His second Medal of Honor was awarded for a daring 1874 rescue mission at McClellan’s Creek, Texas, where he led an attack against a numerically superior Native American force to save two young girls from captivity. Baldwin also served in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, eventually retiring as a major general in 1906. During World War I, he served as Adjutant General of the Colorado National Guard.
