Published by The Tenth New York Cavalry Association, Washington, DC, 1913. Front eps owner by Lucious Perry Hills: 172 pp., maps, ills. Gold glazed cloth, 6.25 x 9.25”, w/black cover lettering and cavalry illustration. Exhibits slight wear at the extremities and very slight soiling. Else VG plus.

Lucius Perry Hills was an 18 year old resident of Hamburg, NY, who enlisted into Co. “E”, 10^th NY Cavalry on 10/5/1861, and was mustered out 10/18/1864. In this volume he contributes on page 26 a poem titled “The Yank and The Reb”.  Hills died in Atlanta in 1914 and is buried in Marietta National Cemetery.

"Hills, Lucius Perry, lawyer, poet, elocutionist, was born June 16, 1844, in Bennigton, N.Y. At age of seventeen he enlisted in the tenth regiment New York cavalry and served three years in the civil war. In 1871 he graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; and since 1875 has practiced his profession in Atlanta, Ga. . . . [A]s a poet humorist of Georgia has given successful elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the United States."

[Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 482 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)]

An excellent NY Regimental and 1913 Gettysburg reunion collectible. Scarce.  [JP/LD]

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