Army Life of An Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman’s March to the Sea.

WILLS, Charles W. [William Tecumseh Sherman].

$975.00

Item Number: 145962

Washington, D.C: Globe Printing Company, 1906.

First edition of this autobiographical compilation of the letters and diary of the late Charles W. Wills; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of C. W. Wills. P.T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front flyleaf and ownership signature to the front pastedown. In very good condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Charles W. Wills was a member of the Fifteenth Army Corps who responded to President Lincoln's first call for three months' volunteers. As Captain of the One Hundred and Third Infantry, Wills was appointed the successor of Major Willlison after the Major's resignation. His letters and diary were compiled and published by his sister in 1906 as "a story of courage, endurance, self-control and unflinching patriotism."