RE-COVERED ORIGINAL 1909 EDITION OF THE HISTORY OF THE 40TH NEW YORK INFANTRY

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Title page reads “HISTORY OF THE FORTIETH (MOZART) REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS, WHICH WAS COMPOSED OF FOUR COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK, FOUR COMPANIES FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND TWO COMPANIES FROM PENNSYLVANIA” by Sergeant Fred C. Floyd and published by F. H. Gilson Company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1909.

Hardcover is nicely bound in blue cloth with the title and author in gold on the spine. Front cover is embossed with the regimental membership badge. Covers are the original while the cloth tape on the spine and endpapers have been replaced.

Volume meas. approx. 6.00 x 9.00 inches and runs approx. 469 pages with index.

Binding is excellent and the interior is clean though the title page is starting to work itself loose. Interior has 55 black & white photographs of members of the regiment along with 28 miscellaneous other photographs.

The 40th New York Infantry was organized in Yonkers on July 1, 1861 under the auspices of the Union Defense Committee of New York city, and under special authority from the War Department. Originally it was known as the United States Constitution Guard, recruited in New York city by Col. John S. Cocks, of which the Second Zouaves, an incomplete organization, formed part; at the solicitation of the Mozart Hall Committee, it accepted the designation Mozart Regiment.

The 40th served all its time with the Army of the Potomac being apart of that army’s 3rd Corps until its dissolution in March of 1864 when it became part of the 2nd Corps until mustered out. The regiment saw action in all the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula to Sailor’s Creek and Appomattox losing 32 officers and 398 enlisted men killed, died of wounds and disease in addition to many more who were wounded and survived.

Truly a hard fought regiment.  [AD] [PH:L]

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