Anderson, Edward. Camp Fire Stories: A Series of Sketches of the Union Army in the Southwest. [Chicago]: [Star Publishing Company], c.1900. No imprint; publisher's emblem on spine. [10948]
Gold publisher's cloth decorated in red & black, battle scene on front cover, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. Small private ink name stamp on the front end papers. Frontispiece illustration, viii, [2], 274 clean pages, illustrated with plates and text illustrations. Very good. Hardcover.
A collection of war stories gathered from Union soldiers as they met at the Grand Army Camp-Fires, recorded because "we old soldiers will soon be dead, and the young folks who had grown up to take our places should have let them our legacy of experience - the fun and the pathos, the drama and the tragedy - that they might know what their fathers went through in saving this country during its first internecine strife."
The author, Colonel Edward Anderson, served with the 37th Illinois Infantry Regiment and the 12th Indiana Calvary Regiment during the American Civil War. His service included brutal guerilla warfare in Kansas and in the South, and was acquitted of a courts-martial when charged with murdering prisoners. An ordained minister, he at times also served as a chaplain, including during the early post-war years of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Camp Anderson, at Michigan City, Indiana, a Union Army training camp built in 1863, was named after him.
