Volume is a 1906 copy of “LETTERS FROM A SURGEON OF THE CIVIL WAR” by Martha Derby Perry who was the wife of Surgeon John G. Perry of the 20^th Massachusetts Infantry.

Book is hardbound with blue cloth covers. Title is done in gold on the cover and spine. Cover is also decorated with a 2^nd Corps badge done in gold. Spine is badly work with a good sized chip missing from the top. Front and back boards show edge wear. Inside front signature is heavily worn causing several of the first few pages to come loose.

Volume meas. approx. 8.25 x 5.50 inches and runs 225 pages with 8 black and white photographs.

An online biography of Dr. Perry reads as follows:

“Perry was educated at Harvard Medical School, Boston 1863 and became a surgeon in New York in 1863, before enlisting in the army as an assistant surgeon. While in the army he badly broke his leg in a fall from his horse and was told by another surgeon that it needed to be amputated. He said no to the Surgeon and signed his own discharge papers to travel home. When he arrived home, there was no one to set his leg, so he set it himself with the help of his brother in law.

After he had partially recovered and completed his medical degree, he returned to active duty on crutches. On his arrival he was required to be inspected by the surgeon-general, so he hid his crutches under the stairs, and managed with great difficulty to walk across the room without them. Perry was commissioned an officer in the 20^th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 14 April 1863 and mustered out, on or about 10 August 1864.

He returned to medicine after the Civil War and walked on his leg until his death in 1926. The Perry's lived in Boston at least until 1864 then moved to Manhattan. The 1870 census shows them in New York Ward 21, District 17, New York, New York.”

Book is a good reading copy. [ad] [ph:L]

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