Author: Frank Aretas Haskell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1957; reprint The Riverside Press, 1958
Binding: hardcover
Condition: fine/G
Price: $25.00ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00135
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Description:
Edited with introduction by Bruce Catton.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: good. Cover has minor shelf wear head and tail of spine; slight rubbing to corners. Jacket has small chips, tears head and tail of spine; rubbing, chipping to wraps. Octavo; xx + 169 pp. Third printing stated. Blue lettering on dark gray cloth boards; blue endpapers; deckle foredge. Three line-drawn maps of the Gettysburg battlefield. Binding, hinges tight; clean, bright copy; no markings.
Author was born in Vermont in 1828, moved to Wisconsin; there enlisted in the Union army in 1861. He spent much of the war on staff of Gen. John Gibbon. At Gettysburg, Gibbon was divisional commander at center of Union line; thus Haskell was in dense fighting, especially on day three during Pickett’s Charge. Fortuitously he wrote his account of the battle within two weeks afterward; thus this first-hand and timely description of Gettysburg is considered more reliable than other accounts that were not recorded until years afterward. Haskell was killed in action leading 36th Wisconsin Infantry at Cold Harbor, 3 June 1864.
