2nd NEW HAMPHIRE MARKED 1862 COPY OF MCCLELLAN’S BAYONET MANUAL

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McClellan authored this training manual on the use of the bayonet while a brevet Captain in the US Corps of Engineers in the early 1850s and copyrighted in 1852. Essentially a translation of a French manual, the system of exercises was officially adopted by the US Army on Jan. 2, 1862. This is good copy printed in 1862 by Lippincott in Philadelphia and would make a good addition to a collection of manuals typical of those acquired by new officers in the early years of the Civil War trying to learn the “art of war” and train their equally inexperienced men.

This bears a colored pencil inscription reading “2nd NH Vols / Co I” on the reverse of the flyleaf and “P.R.R.M. Sattes” at top of the title page. The 2nd New Hampshire was a fighting regiment in the Army of the Potomac, mustering in in June 1861, seeing action at Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, Pope’s Virginia Campaign and 2nd Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and other engagements, losing 15 officers and 163 in killed or mortally wounded alone. Enough veterans reenlisted to keep the regiment in the field in 1864 and it ended up the longest serving Union regiment, mustering out only in December 1865.

Phillip R.R.M. Sattes was the first superintendent of the national cemetery at Florence S.C., the site of a Confederate prison camp established after the fall of Atlanta in 1864. Some 12,000 Union prisoners were gathered there from other prisons to keep them away from Sherman’s forces. About 3,000 of them died there in the six months of the camp’s operation. The original prison cemetery there was designated a national cemetery in 1865 with a superintendent appointed by the Secretary of War. Sattes was purportedly a twice-wounded veteran of the 1st Kentucky (U.S.) We find a “Richard Sattens” in that unit, probably him listed under a middle name and misread last name, who was mustered out for disability in July 1862 in Alabama. In the 1890s we find him as a clerk in the Adjutant General’s office in Washington, born in Ohio and appointed from that state, and listed as “Phillip R.R.M. Sattes.”

The book is in good condition, with some wear and stains to the covers and minor foxing inside. There is a tear on the inner edge of the flyleaf. The book is otherwise intact. 111 pages of text followed by an index and 24 four plates.  [sr][ph:L]

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