Published by D. Van Norstrand, New York, 1863. Owner inscription, [upside down} in front eps, in ragged pencil: Joseph Collins / Huntersville/ PA///Jos. Collins / Capt. of Co A / 149^th P.B.V.   279 pp., 3.5”x  5.25. In blind stamped brown buckram w/ gilt spine lettering. Exhibits wear and the extremities and left front cover margin. Spine chipped head and foot. Else good minus / fair plus.

Joseph Collins enlisted as a Private, drafted into Co. “A”, 149^th Pennsylvania, 8/15/1862/ and was mustered out 6/24/1865. Attached to the Army of the Potomac, the 149^th PA was attached to the 1^st Corps from Chancellorsville on, participating in the Battle of Gettysburg [First day’s fight, July 1, 1863] and in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns through the end of the year. In March 1864 it was transferred to the 5^th Corps with which it served through Grant’s 1864 “Overland Campaign” and on through Hatcher’s Run, February 1865. Ordered to Baltimore and to the Draft Rendezvous in Elmira, NY, mustering out 5/6/1865. During service it lost 164 men killed and mortally wounded, and 172 by disease for a total of 336. In protective sleeve.  [jp[ph:L]

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