Hastings, Hugh. Third Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, 1897. New York and Albany: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1898. First Edition. [4271]
Blue cloth, NYS seal in gilt on front, small 1"2 tear top of backstrip, old stains/discoloration to binding, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, "Crown Point Chapel Library" ink stamps on end papers. 1158 pp., extensive index, many plates, folding maps, chromo frontispiece of the colors of the 137th Infantry. Front board a bit wobbly; top page corners bumped in about half of the volume. Fair. Hardcover.
The papers in this volume are generally regarding NYS in the Civil War, with First Infantry Affair of the War of the Rebellion; A Brilliant Capture [Battle of Golding's Farm, VA]; The Sixty-ninth Regiment at Fredericksburg; The Eighty-ninth Infantry at Fredericksburg; Unappreciated Services of the Engineers [New York regiments at Gettysburg and Chancellorsville]; The Sabine Pass Expedition; The Lost Colors of the Seventh Heavy Artillery; The One Hundred and Sixty-ninth at Fort Fisher; The Last Fight in Tennessee; From Wauhatchie to the Capture of Savannah.
There are also sections on Colonial Records, and Colonial Muster-rolls from 1686 to 1775.
