From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with Personal Reminiscences.
1906122593New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1906. First edition of Union Major-General Newton Martin Curtis's memoirs; lengthily inscribed by him to American Civil War nursing pioneer Clara Barton. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel illustrated with four tissue-guarded engraved portraits including frontispiece of Major-General Curtis. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Presented to Miss Clara Barton in grateful appreciation of her careful supervision of hospitals and devoted attention to the disabled soldiers of the Civil War. Newton Marin Curtis Christmas 1906." The recipient Clara Barton took the lead in developing a program to care for soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. At the time of the inscription Barton had just resigned from her position as president of the American Red Cross and was working on her autobiography The Story of My Childhood which was published in 1907. An exceptional association. Newton Martin Curtis was a Union officer during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. On May 15 1861 Curtis volunteered in the Union Army as a captain in Company G of the 16th New York Infantry. He fought in the Peninsula Campaign and was wounded in a minor engagement at West Point Virginia. On October 23 1862 he transferred to the 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry serving as lieutenant colonel until his promotion to colonel on January 21 1865. As commander of the 142nd New York Infantry he fought in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of May 1864. He took command of the 1st Brigade 2nd Division X Corps during the Siege of Petersburg. Curtis received a brevet promotion to brigadier general on October 28 1864 for his actions at the Battle of New Market Heights. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
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