COPPÉE’S FIELD MANUAL OF COURTS-MARTIAL IDENTIFIED TO LT. OMAR P. CRAM, 2ND MARYLAND VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

COPPÉE’S FIELD MANUAL OF COURTS-MARTIAL IDENTIFIED TO LT. OMAR P. CRAM, 2ND MARYLAND VOLUNTEER INFANTRY

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A pocket-sized hardcover, Field Manual of Courts-Martial by Captain Henry Coppée, late instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1863). The original blue-green cloth boards carry a blind-stamped federal eagle-and-shield motif within a ruled border, with the title gilt-lettered on the spine, "COPPÉE'S FIELD MANUAL OF COURTS-MARTIAL." Measures 4 x 6 inches. The front free endpaper bears the period ink ownership inscription of the original officer-owner:

"2nd Lieut. Omer P. Cram / Co. A / 2d Md. V.I."

The book is solidly identified to Omer P. Cram of the 2nd Maryland Volunteer Infantry (US). Notably, the rank he recorded — 2nd Lieutenant — ties directly to the 1863 publication date: Cram was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 3/10/1863, exactly the moment a newly minted officer would have acquired a working reference on military legal procedure.

Cram's documented service is exceptional for a single-volume association. He enlisted 7/13/1861 as a Sergeant in the 2nd Maryland, was wounded at Second Bull Run on 8/30/1862, and rose steadily through the officer ranks — 2nd Lieutenant (1863), Captain (10/24/1864), and Brevet Major (4/2/1865), the brevet earned "before Petersburg, Virginia, for gallant and meritorious service." He mustered out 7/17/1865 at Alexandria, Virginia. The 2nd Maryland was a hard-fighting regiment, and Cram's record — a combat wound and a battlefield brevet bracketing nearly four full years of service — places this manual in the hands of a genuine fighting officer.

A clean, attractive, and confidently identified piece of Civil War officer ephemera. (Service record per civilwardata.com & fold3.com. )  [ss][ph:L]

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