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1892 · 03028 — New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Signed by Other. US HISTORY. William Wesley Woollen 1828-1902. "William McKee Dunn Brigadier-General U. S. A.: A Memoir Signed by McKee Dunn Kastner." New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York 1892. Signed in ink on front flyleaf by a likely family member. First edition for private circulation. English language. Hardcover with navy cloth boards titled gilt on spine. Machined laid paper with cut gilt top edge and machined deckled edges to rest. Rare nonfiction biography of Civil War Union general with black-and-white frontispiece portrait etching and appendix of extracts from Dunn's speeches judicial decisions and correspondence. 8vo. 8 x 5 1/4 inches. 13 oz. 6 156 pp. This copy is complete but in need of conservation. Bottom of boards discolored. Bottom and top of spine rubbed. Binding broken along bottom half and along gutter of back endpapers. Some minor staining. Toned. Table of contents leaf detached but present. Text clean. Acceptable to Poor. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 247864679 5629293 1403905989. LoC: 08012847. "Dunn December 12 1814 – July 24 1887 was a US Representative from Indiana from 1859 to 1863 and Brigadier-General Judge Advocate General of the US Army from 1875 to 1881. Dunn studied at Bloomington attended Yale served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war and was then elected to Congress. During his time in the Indiana State Legislature and in Congress he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery in the West and some of his anti-slavery speeches are included herein. This elusive privately printed volume was produced in a small edition. Missed by Broadfoot Nevins etc. The other two copies available in the trade are in the $1200 range. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York hardcover