TEN YEARS IN THE RANKS U. S. ARMY

by Augustus Meyers

$600 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New York: Stirling Press, 1914. 8vo. 356 pp. Original gray cloth. Title and author stamped in gilt on spine, with title stamped in gilt on front board with white maltese cross beneath symbol. Front hinge cracked. A fine presentation copy to James B. Fiske of a scarce book. Meyers describes his journey to Fort Lookout. Having joined the army enlisting in the 2nd Infantry at 12 years and eight months. At fourteen he arrived on the Dakota frontier and gives a

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