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 and an eagle at bottom. Covers and spine are heavily worn at edges and faded throughout. Cloth of both covers have moderate to heavy surface dirt. Binding is good.

Interior runs 559 pages with index. Manual was printed in 1861 in Philadelphia. Some pages have light foxing but nothing major. Pages have discolored some from age.

Written on the page edges in period ink in block letters is “COL. A. C. HARDING” over “83^RD REG. ILL. VOL.”

Abner C. Harding was born in East Hampton, Middlesex County, Conn., Feb. 10, 1807.  He attended the Hamilton, N. Y. Academy, was subsequently admitted to the bar and practiced law for some time in Oneida County, N. Y., moving then to Warren County, Ill., where he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession for fifteen years. He was a member of the Illinois constitutional convention in 1848, served in the legislature, 1848-50, and for the ten years prior to the Civil War was engaged in railway enterprises.  Enlisting in the 83rd Ill. infantry as a private in 1862, but was soon appointed colonel, was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers for bravery at Fort Donelson, and in 1863 had command at Murfreesboro, Tenn until his resignation on June 3, 1863.  He was then a representative in the 39th and 40th Congresses, 1865-69, and after that devoted his attention principally to the promotion of railway enterprises in Illinois.  He endowed a professorship in Monmouth College and gave generously to other educational institutions.  Gen. Harding died in Monmouth, Ill., July 19, 1874 and is buried there in Monmouth Cemetery.   [AD][ph:L]

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