Volume is titled “REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES 1861 WITH A FULL INDEX.” The book is bound in a 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 a stronger eagle at bottom. Covers and spine are worn at edges and faded throughout. Cloth of both covers have light surface dirt. Binding is good.

Interior runs 559 pages with index and is a good readable copy. Manual was printed in 1861 in Philadelphia. Some pages have light foxing but nothing major. Pages have discolored some from age. All pages present.

Inside front cover has a period ink inscription that reads “JOHN ROBERTS / CAPT. 3D INFY. N.J. VOLS.” The same inscription is repeated on the facing page with the initials “J. R.” in pencil at the top of the page. Between the penciled initials and the ink inscription there is another name written very lightly in pencil and with time it could be made out.

John Roberts was commissioned a 1^st Lieutenant in Company A, 3^rd New Jersey Infantry on May 22, 1861 and was promoted to Captain of Company G on November 8, 1861. He served in that capacity until he resigned on August 5, 1863.

The 3^rd New Jersey was part of the famous New Jersey Brigade in the 6^th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. During Roberts’s time with the regiment it saw action on the Peninsula at Williamsburg, Gaines’ Mill and Charles City Crossroads. It was also engaged at 2^nd Bull Run, Crampton’s Gap, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

Nothing else is known about the Captain.  [ad]

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