This most desirable reference volume, now out of print, is titled “Civil War Cavalry & Artillery Sabers, A Study of United States Cavalry and Artillery Sabers, 1833 – 1865” by John Thillmann and published by Andrew Mowbray Publishers of Rhode Island in 2001. Volume meas. approx. 8¾ x 11¼ inches with 519 pages and is profusely illustrated with quality black and white photography, in addition to vivid color photos. It includes a complete index, seven appendixes, and an exhaustive bibliography.

This copy is in very good used condition and is signed by Mr. Thillmann to Mr. Tunison on the title page. The dust jacket is very good and exhibits little, if any, shelf wear.

Interior is clean and the binding is strong.

Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the “Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five-foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for “General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander”, took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.  Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues. [ad] [ph:L]

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