Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer. War with Mexico, in the Years 1846-7-8
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First printing. Cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. xii, 521 pages.
John R. Kenly had just been admitted to the bar in Baltimore when the War with Mexico broke out. He raised a company of volunteers and led them into battle as a captain in the Baltimore-Washington Battalion. This is his excellent first-hand account of these experiences.
Kenly would later serve in the Union army during the Civil War as a colonel in the 1st Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry.
This copy of Kenly's important memoir is inscribed and signed by his sister, Martha E. Kenly, in 1893.
A few light extremity rubs. Binding sound. Fine. Bound in green cloth over boards with dark brown endpapers. Gilt-stamped titles to spine, upper board with border rules and ornamental device in black, lower board stamped in blind.
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