American Historical Ephemera & Photography

NEW YORK Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1900. 3 volumes. 4to. Five folding maps in envelopes on interior boards, plates. (Some toning, occasional offsetting.) Publisher's illustrated light blue cloth gilt (some soiling, some fading, wear to extremities). Provenance: George E. Thompson IV (blindstamp).
 
[With:] NEW YORK. Abstract of General Orders and Proceedings of the Fifty-third Annual Encampment Department of New York, G.A.R. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1919. -- Journal of the Forty-fifth National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic. Rochester, New York August 24 and 25. Boston: Griffith-Stillings Press, 1911. -- History of Jefferson County, New York. With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1878. -- SMITH, H. Perry, editor. History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1884. Volume II only (of 2). -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo and 4to, in publisher's bindings, condition generally good.

[Also with:] Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois. In Memoriam. Companion John Joseph Abercrombie. Chicago: N.p., 1920. 5 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. pamphlet (toned edges). 

A Loyal Legion memorial program for John Joseph Abercrombie, Jr. who enlisted on 12 January 1863 at Camp Bliss, VA as a 2nd lieutenant and was commissioned into Co. G of the 127th New York Infantry on 30 January. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on 1 March 1865 and was mustered out on 30 June 1865 at Charleston, SC. He was a member of GAR Post #5 (George H. Thomas) in Chicago.