A SKETCH OF THE CHARLESTON LIGHT DRAGOONS, FROM THE EARLIEST FORMATION OF THE CORPS. PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION OF THE COMPANY
Charleston, South Carolina: Lucas, Richardson & Co, 1888. 97pp. Original printed front wrapper, illustrated with dragoon on horseback [faded, edge-chipped, spine eroded]. Stitched. Faded signature at head of front wrapper "James Macbride, Charleston Light DragoonC.K. 4th S.C. Cavalry" [chip at fore-edge of wrap takes some of inscription]. Text lightly foxed, with contemporary pencil inscriptions adjacent to roster lists, noting soldiers dead, wounded, or missing. Page 97, a list of names found on the Monument, lacks a large piece of the fore-edge [loss of a word or two from caption title for the monument; the names listed on monument are intact]. First few leaves chipped at top outside corner. Good.
A regimental history of the Charleston Light Dragoons, focusing on the Civil War through the regiment's final surrender in Bentonville, North Carolina, in late April 1865, but beginning with its organization in the early 1730s. The unit, composed of Charleston's elite group of planters, merchants, and politicos, was actively engaged in the campaigns of the Carolinas, and to some extent in Virginia during the Civil War. II Dornbusch 881. IV Turnbull 260. Item #100291
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