The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of The Army of the Cumberland; The Army of the Tennessee; The Army of the Ohio; and The Army of Georgia.

[WILLIAM T. SHERMAN],.

$8,800.00

Item Number: 145742

Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1869.

First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Small quarto, bound in full deluxe red morocco stamped in blind with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt centerpiece, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Sherman, illustrated with tissue-guarded portraits and drawings of society badges. General Sherman and his son’s bookplates to the front pastedown. Inscribed on the front flyleaf to General Sherman, “Respectfully Presented to W.T. Sherman General of the United States Army with the Compliments of the Chicago Executive Committee Chicago Dec 20, 1869.” In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities. General Sheman’s library was inherited by Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he died. Eleanor was the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. An exceptional associaton.

Of Grand Army Reunions, General William Tecumseh Sherman explained that "the object [of the reunion] is purely social, and designed to preserve the memories of war, and to cherish the friendships formed during that period of our national history." General Sherman loved army reunions, typically eschewing the uniform and insignia of his high rank, preferring to wear a Grand Army of the Republic hat like everyone else (Katharine Burton, Three Generations, 1947, p. 216).