Leather bound volume titled “A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT DAY” by Charles A. Goodrich and published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1849.

The volume runs 712 pages, meas. approx. 5.00 x 8.00 inches with heavily worn covers and a spine that has been reinforced with black cloth. The reinforcement holds the front cover in place while the back cover is holding on its own. The cloth is old enough that it too is beginning to split.

Inside the front cover is an ink stenciled name that reads “R. W. FARRAND” over “CO. A.” The next blank page has a period pencil inscription of “ROMANZO W. FARRAND, SOUTHFIELD MICHIGAN, OAKLAND CO., OCT. 28^th 1857.”

Romanzo W. Farrand served in Company A, 5^th Michigan Cavalry. He was born in New York in 1830 and at some point, moved to Michigan. He is listed as being 30 years old and living in Southfield, Michigan when he enlisted as a corporal in Company A, 5^th Michigan Cavalry on August 18, 1862. He was mustered in at Pontiac.

According to the Michigan Adjutant Generals report Corporal Farrand entered Harper Hospital in Detroit on June 21, 1865 and was discharged on the 25^th. Without his records it is impossible to know if he was present at Gettysburg, but the only absence recorded in the available records is the one mentioned in June of 1865.

Mr. Farrand returned to his home after the war where he worked as a carpenter. He died on October 1, 1894 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan.

The 5^th Michigan Cavalry was raised in August of 1862. They served in the District of Washington, D.C. until assigned to the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in June of 1863 where they were put under the command of newly appointed Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer and made their fame as part of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade.

The regiment fought in 131 battles and skirmishes to include Hanover, Gettysburg, Buckland’s Mills, Wilderness, Todd’s Tavern, Yellow Tavern. Trevilian Station, Winchester, Cedar Creek and the Appomattox Campaign just to name a few.  [ad] [ph:L]

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