Single volume of “HARDEE’S RIFLE AND LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS” in good condition. The spine is chipped and the covers are worn but the volume is holding together. All the plates but one appears to be complete. Both front and rear signatures are holding well. Interior has some dirt and light foxing.

Just inside the front cover in period pencil is “CHARLES PATTERSON STEWARTS” in three lines while the page opposite as a pencil inscription in a different hand that reads “C. L. NIGHTINGALE, QUINCY, MASS.”

No information was found on Charles P. Stewart other than he lived in Massachusetts and was born in 1844.

Charles L. Nightingale enlisted as a Private in Company H, 29^th Massachusetts on January 1, 1862. At the time he was a 21 year old printer living in Quincy. The regiment was assigned to Newport News, Va. where they witnessed the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The regiment went through McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign with the 2^nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac. After that they were engaged at Antietam and were with the 9^th Corps at Fredericksburg. The regiment went west with the Corps and served at Vicksburg till the surrender and was then sent to Knoxville, Tennessee where it participated in the successful defense of Fort Sanders. On January 1, 1864 Private Nightingale re-enlisted and was sent home on furlough. Rejoining the regiment in May of 1864 the 29^th was sent to Petersburg where they were active in the assault of June 17^th. They were involved in the fight for Fort Stedman in March of 1865. After the surrender of Lee Private Nightingale was mustered out on July 29, 1865.

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