[Black Regiments of the Civil War] Luis F. Emilio

History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865 [Cover title: A Brave Black Regiment]

Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. Very Good -. Item #48036

Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected, with Appendix upon Treatment of Colored Prisoners of War. Octavo; publisher's black cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain; xvi, 452pp.; frontispiece with tissue guard; photographs; nine maps (five single-page and two folding) all present though Charleston map at page 224 detached. Ex-library though with minimal external markings: discard stamps to edges of text block and preliminaries and institutional bookplate to front free endpaper. Boards worn with chipping and minor fraying to edges; binding sound; gift inscription in pencil to front pastedown from a Major D.T. Remington dated 1909. Pages toned but unmarked; a Good to Very Good copy. 

The expanded edition of an important regimental history of one of the first African American regiments raised after the Emancipation Proclamation--the unit's brave charge at Fort Wagner the same year was a Confederate victory, but the boldness and valor of the Union soldiers prompted wide-spread Black enlistment, a key tactical advantage for the North. Depicted in the 1989 film Glory; both the first and this expanded edition uncommon in retail. .

Price: $2,000.00