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Garnett Library: Rare Books Collection

Rare Books Collection
Donated by Dr. Stanton Morrison

A Cidevant Calvary Officer. (1833). Army reform; a practical method of reducing the army estimates a million, without diminution of its numerical force; exhibiting the sinecures and pluralities held by general officers; abolition of flogging; together with an insight into the patronage, privileges, and allowances bestowed on the household troops. London: Printed for J. Rodwell.

A Citizen of Boston. (1825). A particular account of the Battle of Bunker, or Breed’s Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Company. Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf.

A Citizen of New-York. (1834). A retrospect of the Boston tea-party with a memoir of George R. T. Hewes, a survivor of the little band of patriots who drowned the tea in Boston Harbour in 1773. New York: S.S. Bliss.

A Civilian. (1829). Sketches of naval life, with notices of men, manners and scenery, on the shores of the Mediterranean, in a series of letters from the Brandywine and Constitution frigates in two volumes. New Haven: Hezekiah Howe.

An Officer of the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. (1900). Sketches of the campaign in northern Mexico in eighteen hundred forty-six and seven. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Anderson, Robert. (1911). An artillery officer in the Mexican War 1846-1847; letters of Robert Anderson, captain 3rd artillery, U.S.A. with a prefatory word by his daughter Eba Anderson Lawton. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press.

Arnold, Isaac. (1897). Life of Benedict Arnold: his patriotism and his treason. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company.

Atherton, William. (1842). Narrative of the suffering & defeat of the north-western army under General Winchester; massacre of the prisoners; sixteen months imprisonment of the writer and others with the Indians and British. Frankfort, Kentucky: A. G. Hodges.

Austin, James T. (1828-1829). The life of Elbridge Gerry, with contemporary letters, to the close of the American revolution. Volumes 1 and 2. Boston: Wells and Lilly.

Bean, Theodore W. (1876). Washington at Valley Forge one hundred years ago, or the footprints of the revolution. Norristown, PA: Shreiner (First edition).

Bisbee, William Henry. (1931). Through four American wars: The impressions and experiences of Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee as told to his grandson William Haymond Bisbee. Boston: Meador Publishing Company.

Brodhead, John Romeyn. (1854). Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New-York; Procured in Holland, England and France by John Romeyn Brodhead, ESQ. Volume IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company.

Brooke, John R. (1900). Civil report of Major General John R. Brooke, U.S. Army, military governor, island of Cuba. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Bryce, J., et al. (1900). Briton and Boer: both sides of the South African question. New York: The MacMillan Company.

Butler, James. (1816). American bravery displayed in the capture of fourteen hundred vessels of war and commerce, since the declaration of war by the President. Carlisle: Printed by George Phillips.

Carter, T.F. (1896). A narrative of the Boer War: its causes and results. London: J.C. Juta and Company, 1896 (New edition).

Carter, T.F. (1900). A narrative of the Boer War: its causes and results. London: J.C. Juta and Company (Third edition).

Charters, Warrett Wallace. (1913). On teaching the common branches: a textbook for teachers of rural and graded schools. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (Personal book of Dr. Stanton Morrison’s father, a school teacher

Coxe, Daniel, Esq. (1776). A description of the English Province of Carolana [sic] by the Spaniards call’d Florida and by the French La Louisiane [sic]; as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi [sic]; the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water and the parts adjacent [Including a map of Carolana and the River Meschacebe]. London: Printed for B. Crowse in St. Paul’s Church-Yard (1976 facsimile of 1722 edition).

Dalrymple, John. (1790). Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last parliament of Charles II till the capture of the French and Spanish fleets at Vigo. 3 volumes. London: Strahan.

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1847). The seaman’s friend; containing a treatise on practical seamanship with plates, a dictionary of sea terms; customs and usages of the merchant service; laws relating to the practical duties of master and mariners. Boston: Thomas Groom (By the author of Two years before the mast).

Davis, Paris M. (1829). An authentick [sic] history of the late war between the United States and Great Britain with a full account of every battle by sea and land; the massacre at the River Raisin; the destruction of the city of Washington, D.C.; the Treaty of Peace in 1815. Ithaca: Mack & Andrus (First edition; title on spine: Late War).

Description and rules for the management of the Springfield rifle, carbine, and army revolvers, caliber 45. (1898). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

Doyle, J.A. (1907). The English in America: The middle colonies. London: Longmans, Green and Company

Draper, Lyman C. (1881). King’s Mountain and its heroes: history of the battle of King’s Mountain, October 7th, 1789, and the events which led to it with steel portraits, maps and plans. Cincinnati: Thomason (First edition).

Emory, William Hernsley. (1848). Notes of a military reconnaissance [sic] from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. Washington, D.C.: Wendell and Van Benthuysen.

Exiles in Virginia with observations on the conduct of the Friends during the Revolutionary War comprising the official papers of the government relating to the period 1777-1778. (1848). Philadelphia: C. Sherman (First edition).

Farrelly, M.J. (1900). The settlement after the war in South Africa. New York: MacMillan Company.

Fay, Herman A. (1817). Collection of the official accounts in detail of all the battlesfought by sea and land between the navy and army of the United States and the navy and army of Great Britain during the years 1812, 13, 14 & 15. New York: E. Conrad (First Edition).

Franklin, S. R. (1898). Memories of a rear-admiral who has served for more than half a century in the navy of the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers.

Garrett, Edmund. (1897). The story of an African crisis being the truth about the Jameson raid and Johannesburg revolt of 1896 told with the assistance of the leading actors in the drama. Westminster: Archibald.

Gibbes, R. W. (1853). Documentary history of the American Revolution consisting of letters and papers relating to the contest for liberty chiefly in South Carolina in 1781 and 1782; from originals in possession of the editor and from other sources. Columbia: Banner Steam-Power Press (First edition; first of two volumes).

Hales, A.G. (1900). Campaign pictures of the war in South Africa 1899-1900: letters from the front. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd.

Hall, Tom. (1899). The fun and fighting of the Rough Riders. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.

Hemment, John C. (1898). Canon and camera: sea and land battles of the Spanish-American war in Cuba, camp life, and the return of the soldiers. New York: D. Appleton and Co.

Howe, William. (1890). General Sir William Howe’s orderly book at Charlestown, Boston and Halifax June 17, 1775 to 1776, 26 May to which is added the official abridgement of General Howe’s correspondence with the English government during the siege of Boston. London: Stevens and Brown.

Hunt, I. L. (1943). American military government of occupied Germany, 1918-1920: Report of the officer in charge of civil affairs, third army and American forces in Germany. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office (First edition).

International Engineering Congress (1893: Chicago). Division of Military Engineering. (1894). Operations of the Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers held in Chicago last August under the auspices of the World’s congress auxiliary of the Columbian exposition. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Ireland, Alleyn. (1905). The Far Eastern Tropics studies in the administration of tropical dependencies. Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federal Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Philippine Islands. Boston: Houghton.

Jamison, James Carson. (1909). With Walker in Nicaragua, or Reminiscences of an officer of the American phalanx. Columbia, MO: Stephens.

Johnson, Walter. (1844). A report to the Navy department of the United States on American coals applicable to steam navigation and to other purposes. Washington: Gales and Seaton.

Jones, Jo. Seawel. (1834). A Defence [sic] of the revolutionary history of the State of North Carolina from the aspersions of Mr. Jefferson. Boston: Charles Bowen. Raleigh: Turner and Hughes (On spine: North Carolina Revolutionary History).

Kapp, Friedrich. (1859). The life of Frederick William von Steuben, major general in the revolutionary war. New York: Mason.

Leake, Isaac Q. (1857). Memoir of the life and times of general John Lamb; an officer of the revolution, who commanded the post at West Point at the time of Arnold’s defection, and his correspondence with Washington, Clinton, Patrick Henry, and other distinguished men of his time. Albany: John Munsell.

Lee, Charles. (1793). Memoirs of the life of the late Charles Lee, esq.: lieutenant-colonel of the forty-fourth regiment; colonel in the Portuguese service; major-general and aid de camp to the King of Poland, and second in command in the service of the United States of America during the revolution; to which are added, his political and military essays; also, letters to and from many distinguished characters, both in Europe and America. New York: T. Allen.

Lee, Henry. (1827). Memoirs of the war in the southern department of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Peter Force.

Lee, Richard Henry. (1825). Memoir of the life of Richard Henry Lee and his correspondence with the mos distinguished men in America and Europe, illustrative of the events of the American Revolution. Volumes 1 and 2. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea.

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. (1906). Calendar of correspondence of George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army with the Continental Congress. Prepared from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress by John C. Fitzpatrick, Division of manuscripts. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office (On Spine: Washington Papers 1 Correspondence with the Continental Congress).

Library of Congress. Manuscripts Division. (1915). Calendar of correspondence of George Washington, commander in chief of the Continental Army with the officers … / prepared from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress by John C. Fitzpatrick, Division of manuscripts. 4 volumes. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. (On Spine: Washington Papers 2 Correspondence with the officers Vol. 1 1775-1778 June 17 October 19 pages 1-802; Vol. 2 1778-1780 October 19 December 9 pages 803-1634; Vol. 3 1780-1784 December 01 January 4 pages 1634-2460; Vol. 4 Index).

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. (1901). Calendar of correspondence of Washington, Manuscripts in the Library of Congress, compiled by Herbert Friedenwald, Division of manuscripts. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

Lowell, John. (1812). Mr. Madison’s War. A dispassionate inquiry into the reasons alleged by Mr. Madison for declaring an offensive and ruinous war against Great-Britain together with some suggestions as a peaceable and constitutional mode of averting that dreadful calamity. By a New-England Farmer. Hanover, N.H.: Charles Spear.

Lowell, John. (1812). Perpetual war, the policy of Mr. Madison, being a candid examination of his late message to Congress, so far as respects the following topicks [sic]….viz. the pretended negotiations for peace…..the important and interesting subject of a conscript militia….and the establishment of an immense standing army of guards and spies, under the name of a local volunteer force. By a New-England Farmer. Boston: Chester Stebbins.

Mahan, A.T. (1900). The war in South Africa: A narrative of the Anglo-Boer War from the beginning of hostilities to the fall of Pretoria. New York: Peter Fenellon Collier & Son.

Marcy, Rudolph B. (1866). Thirty years of army life on the border; comprising descriptions of the Indian nomads of the plains; explorations of new territory; a trip across the Rocky Mountains in the winter; descriptions of the habits of different animals found in the west, and the methods of hunting them; with incidents in the life of different frontier men. New York: Harper.

Marshall, John. (1804-1807). The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States; compiled under the inspection of the honourable Bushrod Washington, from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased relative, and now in possession of the author. Five volumes. Philadelphia: Wayne (First edition).

Miles, General Nelson A. (1897). Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or from New England to the Golden Gate, and the story of his Indian campaigns with the comments on the exploration, development, and progress of our great western empire. Chicago: Werner.

Millet, Frank D. (1858). Expedition to the Philippines. New York: Harper.

Moore, George H. (1860). The treason of Charles Lee, major general, second in command in the American army of the Revolution. New York: Scribner.

Mulvaney, Charles Pelham. (1886). The history of the north-west rebellion of 1885: comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the war; of the various engagements with the Indians and half-breeds, of the heroic deeds performed by officers and men, and of touching scenes in the field, camp, and the cabin; including a history of the Indian tribes of north-western Canada, their numbers, modes of living, habits, customs, religious rites and ceremonies, with thrilling narratives of captures, imprisonment, massacres, and hair-breadth escapes of white settlers, etc. Toronto: A. H. Hovey.

Pringle, John. (1765). Observations on the diseases of the army by John Pringle, physician in ordinary to her majesty, the fifth edition corrected. London: Printed for A. Millar, D. Wilson, in the Strand; T. Durham, at Charing Cross, next [to] the Mews-gate, near St. Martin’s Church.

Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction of the secretary of war in 1853-4, according to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854 and August 5, 1854. (1855). Volume 1.Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson.

Reynolds, J. N. (1835). Voyage of the United States frigate Potomac, under the command of commodore John Downes, during the circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Russell, H. John. (1814). Instructions for the drill, and the method of performing eighteen maneuvres. Philadelphia: M. Carey and M. Thomas.

Ryerson, Egerton. (1880). The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816. Volumes I and II. Toronto: Williams Briggs, James Campbell & Son, and Willing & Williamson.

Scott, Winfield. (1864). Memoirs of lieut.-general Scott, LL. D. written by himself. Two volumes. New York: Sheldon (First editions in full leather bindings).

Seventy-Six Society. Papers relating to public events in Massachusetts preceding the American Revolution. (n.d.). Philadelphia: for the author by T. K. and P. G. Collins (First edition).

Seward, Frederick. (1916). Reminiscences of a war-time statesman and diplomat 1830-1915. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press.

Smiles, Samuel. [1888]. Self help: with illustrations of character, conduct, and perseverance. New York: William L. Allison Company (Personal book of Dr. Stanton Morrison’s father, a school teacher).

Stone, Edwin Martin. (1897). The invasion of Canada in1775: including the journal of captain Simeon Thayer, describing the perils and sufferings of the army under colonel Benedict Arnold, in its march through the wilderness to Quebec, with notes and appendix. Providence RI: Knowles, Anthony & Co.

Temple, William. (1700). Memoirs of what past [sic] in Christendom, from the war begun 1672 to the peace concluded 1697. London: R. Chiswell.

Thomson, John Lewis. (1818). Historical sketches of the late war between the United States and Great Britain. Philadelphia: Desilver.

Trevelyan, George Otto. (1889). The American Revolution, Part I. 1766-1776. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. (Second Edition).

United States. Army. Ordinance Dept. (1856). Reports of experiments with small arms for the military service, by officers of the Ordnance department, U. S. Army. Washington, DC: A.O.P. Nicholsen.

United States. Calvary School, Fort Riley, Kan. (1906). The army horse in accident and disease: a manual prepared for the use of students of the training school for farriers and horseshoers by the Training School Instructors. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.

Wells, William. (1856). Walker’s expedition to Nicaragua; A history of the Central American War; and the Sonora and Kinney expeditions, including all the recent diplomatic correspondence, together with a new and accurate map of Central America, and a memoir and portrait of General William Walker. New York: Stringer.

Wilson, H.W. (1901). With the flag to Pretoria: A history of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume I. London: Harmsworth Brothers, Limited.

Wilson, H.W. (1901). With the flag to Pretoria: a history of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Volume II. London: Harmsworth Brothers, Limited.

Wilson, Robert Anderson. (1859). A new history of the conquest of Mexico in which Las Casas’ denunciations of the popular historians of that war are fully vindicated. Philadelphia: James Challen & Son.

Wood, William Maxwell. (1859). Frankwei: or, the San Jacinto in the seas of India, China and Japan. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Worcester, Noah. (1815). A solemn review of the custom of war; showing that war is the effect of popular delusion, and proposing a remedy. Cambridge: Hillard.