Item #100285 History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops. George C. Underwood.
History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops
History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops
History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops
History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops

History of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of the North Carolina Troops

Goldsboro, North Carolina: Nash Brothers, Book and Job Printers, 1901. 122, 6pp. Soft cover with the simple front grey wrapper detached but present; lacks the rear wrapper. Some of the grey paper on the spine is chipped or peeled away. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf, "Genl. C. Irvine Walker / compliments of / the Author." Another signature beneath this is "W. H. S. Burgwyn." This front flyleaf is creased down the middle. The text block is sound, and the text is generally clean.

The pamphlet was signed and inscribed to Cornelius Irvine Walker (1842-1927) of Charleston, South Carolina. He was with the 10th Regiment of South Carolina volunteers and authored several books on the Civil War. William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn (1845-1913), originally from what is now Vance County, North Carolina. Early in the War he was with the Thirty-Fifth North Carolina Regiment and later became assistant adjutant general of Thomas L. Clingman's brigade (1864). He was wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor and again at the assault on Fort Harrison. Illustrated. Not in Thornton. Quite scarce.

HOWES U-13, "aa." Dornbusch II:803. Nevins I, p.171. Underwood was Assistant Surgeon in the 26th North Carolina Infantry. He includes much information about the role played by North Carolina troops at Gettysburg. Item #100285

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