Volume is titled “REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES 1861” and is dated 1861. The book is bound in blue cloth with an embossed spread-winged eagle with sunburst and stars at center surrounded by geometric designs. This decoration is on both front and back covers. Spine has title in worn gold with “1861” and eagle at bottom. Covers and spine are heavily worn and faded throughout. Binding is good.

Interior runs 559 pages with index and is a readable copy. Some pages have light staining but nothing major. Pages have discolored some from age but all are present. Last two are torn.

Inside front cover has a strong period ink inscription that reads “LIEUT. THOS. A. FLEMING / CO. F, 12^TH REG. VA. VOLS.” Research shows Lieutenant Fleming was actually in the 12^th WEST Virginia Volunteers. The opposite page has a large pencil inscription that reads “G. W. HACKNEY / WINCHESTER VA. / JUNE 21^ST 1863.” Research has shown that George W. Hackney served as a Sergeant in Company K, 48^th Virginia Infantry and later died at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864. Another page has a pencil inscription that reads “JULY THE 3^RD 1863 / GETTYSBURG P.A. / HARD FIGHTING PROGR / ESSING THIS MORNING / HEAVY CANNONADING IN / THE EVENING + INF / ANTRY FIGHTING.” Handwriting is similar to that found on the page with Sergeant Hackney’s name.

This volume was found along the Confederate retreat route from Gettysburg near the town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania and was displayed for years in an historical society museum near there. With the book is a 28 page oversized pamphlet titled “FIFTEEN DAYS UNDER THE CONFEDERATE FLAG” printed in 1963 and is about the Waynesboro area during the battle of Gettysburg. The pamphlet mentions the debris left behind by the moving armies after the battle and how residents picked up much of the material.

Thomas Albert Fleming was born in 1835. He was commissioned a 1^st Lieutenant in Company F, 12^th West Virginia Infantry on August 18, 1862. The regiment was heavily engaged at the 2^nd Battle of Winchester June 13-15, 1863. (It was sometime during that action that the volume offered here was lost only to be picked up by George Hackney of the 48^th Virginia on the 21^st.) Fleming continued to serve with his regiment being promoted to Captain of Company B on February 18, 1865 and was mustered out on June 16, 1865 at Burkesville, Va.  He died on March 7, 1903 and is buried in Fleming Cemetery, Fairmont, West Virginia.

George W. Hackney was born in Virginia about 1832. Records show that he was married in 1857 to a Catherine Gilmer. At the time of his enlistment Hackney was described as being 26 years old, 5’ 9” tall with dark eyes, dark hair and a dark complexion. By occupation he was a farmer. Hackney enlisted as a 3^rd Sergeant in Company K, 48^th Virginia Infantry on June 25, 1861. Records show him absent without leave from December 24, 1861 to April 30, 1862. On May 10, 1862 he was detailed as a ward-master in a hospital where he was recovering from debility. He returned to the regiment at Winchester on June 7, 1862. Records are not entirely clear but he seems to have been attached to the hospital of the 2^nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He died on May 12, 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House.

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