Title page reads “THE HARDTACK REGIMENT. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORT OF THE 154^TH REGIMENT NEW YORK STATE INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS” by Mark H. Dunkelman and Michael J. Winey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 1981.

Hardcover is nicely bound in a gray/blue cloth with the title in white on the spine. Covers are excellent and in like new condition as is the illustrated dustjacket which is wrapped in Mylar.

Volume meas. approx. 6.00 x 9.25 inches and runs approx. 211 pages with roster and index.

Binding is excellent and the interior is super clean. Text is profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of members of the regiment.

The 154^th New York was organized September 24, 1862 and served its time in the 11^th and 20^th Corps of the Union Army. The regiment is well-known for its Gettysburg service as one of its members was Sergeant Amos Humiston who became famous when his dead body was found on the corner of York and Stratton Streets. When found Humiston was holding a photograph of his three children. Copies of the children’s photograph were made and printed in newspapers around the country which eventually brought about the identification of Humiston’s body and at the same time making his children famous. A monument now stands on Stratton St in Gettysburg not far from where Humiston’s lifeless body was found. Another reason for the regiments fame is a large mural painted by author Mark H. Dunkelman on the side of a building near where the regiments monument on the Gettysburg battlefield stands. The painting shows the regiment in action and several of the soldier’s faces in the painting are of actual members of the regiment.

The 154^th lost heavily at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Rocky Face Ridge.    [AD] [PH:L]

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