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THE FREDERICKSBURG ARTILLERY THE VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL HISTORIES SERIES BY ROBERT K. KRICK SIGNED TWICE AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR FIRST EDITION LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1000 PUBLISHED; THIS IS NUMBER 716 MINT CONDITION Sharp, Bright, Clean, Pristine-Condition Book Handsome Cover Design with Virginia Regimental Histories Series Seal Loaded with Wonderful Illustrations and Photos Contains Complete Unit Rosters with information of Individual Soldiers HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED BY H.E. HOWARD, INC., LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, IN 1986 Out-of-Print Book This wonderful, limited edition, numbered, First Edition book is is signed twice and inscribed by the author. The artillery company which became the Fredericksburg Artillery organized in its namesake city on January 19, 1861. Dozens of young men paid an initiation fee to join the new unit; not many months later, sizable bounties were required to induce enlistments. The company spent the war’s first winter in relative quiet along the line of the Potomac not far from home, then in the spring of 1862 moved with Johnston’s army to the Peninsula and the environs of Richmond. At Eacho’s Farm, just east of the capital city, the Fredericksburg Artillery fought its first action on May 24, 1862. Although the green gunners were stunned by “such a sight of carnage,” they soon forgot that tiny affair in the wake of heavy fighting during the Seven days and in the Second Manassas campaign, during which the battery was heavily engaged, with loss, at Warrenton Sprints on August 24. The Fredericksburg Artillery fought in twenty-four engagements, including every major battle of the Army of Northern Virginia beginning with the Seven Days. It fired from four consecutive major position spread over many miles at Chancellorsville, and delivered one of the first rounds at Gettysburg. The battery’s bloodiest single day was August 21, 1864, at Reams’ Station, where three men were killed and at least six other wounded. Seventy-nine men surrendered with the company at Appomattox – almost one-third of the number who served during the entire war, and fully two-thirds of the normal full-strength complement. Two hundred and sixty-seven men served with the Fredericksburg Artillery all told. Fifty –seven of them (21%) were casualties, and twenty-seven of them (1%) died during the war. THIS BOOK IS IN MINT CONDITION Out-of-print, this first edition book is in pristine condition and is signed twice by the author and is inscribed by him as well. Only 1000 copies of this book were printed; this is number 716. The book is in excellent condition. The book is part of The Virginia Civil War Regimental Histories Series and is handsomely published in Confederate gray, cloth covers with bright, gold-gilded lettering and the image of the seal of the series on the cover. The book has no wear. The pages are clean, bright-white, and don’t have a mark on them. There is no smudging or foxing and the pages are in excellent condition. The author’s signatures are strong and clear. The binding is fine throughout the book. The book contains wonderful illustrations and maps and provides detailed unit rosters with descriptions of individual soldier records of service. The book has an inscription and signature by the author on the front end page and another signature on the special, first edition pages. An excellent, signed, first edition book.

THE FREDERICKSBURG ARTILLERY

THE VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL HISTORIES SERIES

BY ROBERT K. KRICK   

SIGNED TWICE AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
FIRST EDITION
LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1000 PUBLISHED; THIS IS NUMBER 716
MINT CONDITION

Sharp, Bright, Clean, Pristine-Condition Book
Handsome Cover Design with Virginia Regimental Histories Series Seal
Loaded with Wonderful Illustrations and Photos
Contains Complete Unit Rosters with information of Individual Soldiers

HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED BY H.E. HOWARD, INC., LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, IN 1986
Out-of-Print Book

This wonderful, limited edition, numbered, First Edition book is is signed twice and inscribed by the author. The artillery company which became the Fredericksburg Artillery organized in its namesake city on January 19, 1861.  Dozens of young men paid an initiation fee to join the new unit; not many months later, sizable bounties were required to induce enlistments. 

The company spent the war’s first winter in relative quiet along the line of the Potomac not far from home, then in the spring of 1862 moved with Johnston’s army to the Peninsula and the environs of Richmond.  At Eacho’s Farm, just east of the capital city, the Fredericksburg Artillery fought its first action on May 24, 1862.  Although the green gunners were stunned by “such a sight of carnage,” they soon forgot that tiny affair in the wake of heavy fighting during the Seven days and in the Second Manassas campaign, during which the battery was heavily engaged, with loss, at Warrenton Sprints on August 24.

The Fredericksburg Artillery fought in twenty-four engagements, including every major battle of the Army of Northern Virginia beginning with the Seven Days.  It fired from four consecutive major position spread over many miles at Chancellorsville, and delivered one of the first rounds at Gettysburg.  The battery’s bloodiest single day was August 21, 1864, at Reams’ Station, where three men were killed and at least six other wounded. Seventy-nine men surrendered with the company at Appomattox – almost one-third of the number who served during the entire war, and fully two-thirds of the normal full-strength complement.

Two hundred and sixty-seven men served with the Fredericksburg Artillery all told.  Fifty –seven of them (21%) were casualties, and twenty-seven of them (1%) died during the war.

THIS BOOK IS IN MINT CONDITION

Out-of-print, this first edition book is in pristine condition and is signed twice by the author and is inscribed by him as well.  Only 1000 copies of this book were printed; this is number 716. The book is in excellent condition. The book is part of The Virginia Civil War Regimental Histories Series and is handsomely published in Confederate gray, cloth covers with bright, gold-gilded lettering and the image of the seal of the series on the cover.  The book has no wear. The pages are clean, bright-white, and don’t have a mark on them. There is no smudging or foxing and the pages are in excellent condition. The author’s signatures are strong and clear.  The binding is fine throughout the book. The book contains wonderful illustrations and maps and provides detailed unit rosters with descriptions of individual soldier records of service.  The book has an inscription and signature by the author on the front end page and another signature on the special, first edition pages. An excellent, signed, first edition book.  
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