[Gleig, George R., attributed]:

$750 · Offered by William Reese Company

A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA; COMPRISING HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, AT BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, &c. &c. DURING THE LATE WAR. An account of some of the battles of the War of 1812, told from the British side, wrongly attributed to George Gleig. Gleig was a Scottish soldier in Wellington's 85th Light Infantry who suffered three wounds in five battles during the War of 1812. After his military career he followed his father into the Church. Gleig's collection of articles on the Peninsular War, THE SUBALTERN, was published in 1825 and may explain the question surrounding his authorship of the present work. Howes claims the work is "[a]ttributed erroneously to George R. Gleig, author of a similar work, A NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY." This is a different book, and the author is a different British officer. The author, whoever it was, was at Baltimore, Washington, and New Orleans, and gives a firsthand account of these events.

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