RARE MAPS OF THE BORDERLANDS
64. CARTER, William H. From Yorktown to
Santiago with the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Baltimore: Lord
Baltimore Press, 1900. [vii] [1] 317 pp., illustrations.
8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Gilt title on
spine faded. Front hinge broken (easily repaired). Moderate
wear but still a near fine copy for this book. Signed on
the front inside paste-down: "Wm Hemsley Emory."
First
edition. Graff 614. Munk (Alliott), p. 39. Nicholson,
p. 139. The plates are by Remington, Larned, Zogbaum, and
others. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators
(Remington) 461 and (Zogbaum) 24. Pingenot: Admiral
Emory was a nephew of Willim Helmsley Emory, who originally
organized the Six Cavalry. The unit served with Phil
Sheridan to the end of the Civil War. At the close of the
war, the regiment was ordered to Texas, then after serving
in Texas, to Arizona, New Mexico, and ultimately the Plains
and the entire Rocky Mountain region. Carter describes the
regiment’s experiences in great detail. In a
succeeding work, the author states that the greater part of
this edition was destroyed by a Baltimore fire. Not in
Howes or Nevins. A fine work and a little-known military
rarity.
($150-300)