[CIVIL WAR]. Civil War military standards, tactics, and regulations. 19 works in 19 volumes, incl. title signed by MOH recipient R.N. Batchelder.

Official Army Register for January, 1887. Washington: Published by order of the Secretary of War, 1887. Front pastedown signed by Medal of Honor recipient Richard Napoleon Batchelder, "R.N. Batchelder, Lt. Col. Q.M. Dept., March 16/87."

[With:] General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force. Adjutant General's Office. 1861. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. Title page inscribed, "John C. Henshaw, Judge Advocate Genl. Department of the South." -- Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Title page with ink stamp identified to "H.L. Pierson, Jr. Adjt. 141 N.Y.S.V." Front free endpaper inscribed, "Henry L. Pierson, Jr. Adjutant, 141st Regt. NY Vols., Elmira, Sept. 15th, 1862. -- SCOTT, Colonel H.L. Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions; Information on Raising and Keeping Troops; Actual Service...New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1861. Front free endpaper identified to "Henry A. Ellis, US Army." Rebound in half buckram and marbled boards with gilt spine. -- Regulations for the Government of the United States Navy. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. Front free endpaper identified to "Sailmaker William O. Howell (?), US Navy." -- MAIZE, William R. Official Army Register for 1866. Washington: 1866. -- General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force. Adjutant General's Office. 1863. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864. Front free endpaper inscribed, "Head Qus. 4th Iowa Cavy, Rec'd. Feby. 25th, 1865, Scott." -- MARMONT, Marshal. The Spirit of Military Institutions; or Essential Principles of the Art of War. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. -- UPTON, Emory. Infantry Tactics Double and Single Rank. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1879. -- PATTEN, George. Patten's Army Manual: containing Instructions for Officers in the Preparation of Rolls, Returns and Accounts required of Regimental and Company Commanders...New York: J.W. Fortune, 1864. Front free endpaper identified to "Charles M. Kennedy, Lt. Col., Army of the United States, 1946." -- Instructions for Making Quarterly Returns of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, as Prescribed by the General Regulations of the Army...Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. Front free end paper inscribed, "Property of Company 'F' 4th Iowa Cav." Half title page with period inscription, "Adjutant's Office, 4th Iowa Cavalry Camp, near Vicksburg, Mississippi, June 4th 1863. Compliments Edward Ketcham, T.J. Zollars Capt." -- O'BRIEN, Thomas & DIEFENDORF, Oliver. General Orders of the War Department, Embracing the Years 1861, 1862 & 1863. Vol. II. New York: Derby & Miller, 1864. Title page inscribed, "J. Whitney, 3d US Infantry." -- SCOTT, Colonel H.L. Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions; Information on Raising and Keeping Troops; Actual Service...New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864. Title page identified to "J. Whitney" (significant wear and loss to spine).

[Also with:] KAUTZ, August V. Customs of Service for Officers of the Army as Derived from Law and Regulations and Practised in the United States Army... Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1868. Front free endpaper with ink stamp of David Wilder, August 1872, with penciled presentation information that is difficult to discern. -- MYER, Albert J. A Manual of Signals: For the Use of Signal Officers in the Field...New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1872. -- Revised United States Army Regulations of 1861. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. Front pastedown inscribed, "Cary H. Fay (?), Recd. Dec. 10th 1863." -- Register: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 1865-1906. -- BOND, Colonel O.J. The Story of the Citadel. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1936. -- WRIGHT, Marcus J. General Officers of the Confederate Army. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1911.

Together, 19 works in 19 volumes, many identified to Civil War soldiers.

Property from the Estate of Amelia and Aubrey Abramson, Sunnyvale, California