Glazier, Captain William. Battles for the Union : comprising Descriptions of many of the most Stubbornly Contested Battles in the War of the Great Rebellion, together with Incidents and Reminiscences of the Camp, the March, and the Skirmish Line. Hartford, Conn.: Gilman & Company, 1878. [12028]
Brown publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & black, binding has light edge-wear, is tight, but has a speckled stain front and back. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, we tightened the end paper hinges with pH neutral binder's paste. Fine steel-engraved portrait of the author with printed signature and tissue guard, 8 additional wood-engraved plates of battle scenes. 417 clean pp., a few leaves with worming in the top margin. Good. Hardcover.
Title continues: Embracing A Record of the Privations, Heroic Deeds, and Glorious Triumphs of the Soldiers of the Republic. Illustrated.
"I have endeavored in 'Battles for the Union,' to present in the most concise and simple form the great contests in the war for the preservation of the Republic of the United States. Should my late comrades in arms consider my pictures faithful, I shall feel more than compensated for the effort I have made to commemorate their glorious deeds." - Preface.
Captain Willard Worcester Glazier was born in 1841, at Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. He served through the Civil War in the New York Cavalry, and was twice taken prisoner by the Confederates. After the war he continued his adventures, once being captured by hostile Indians in the Wyoming Territory and managing to escape with his life. “In 1876 he went on horseback from Boston to San Francisco, was captured by hostile Indians in Wyoming Territory and escaped. In 1881 he traversed the entire length of the Mississippi in a canoe.” – from Allibone (1893).
