Garden, Alexander:

ANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TALENTS AND VIRTUES OF THE HEROES AND PATRIOTS, WHO ACTED THE MOST CONSPICUOUS PARTS THEREIN. BY ALEXANDER GARDEN, OF LEE'S LEGION. SECOND SERIES.

Charleston [S.C.]: Printed by A.E. Miller, 1828. ix, [2], [1 blank], 240pp. With the errata leaf. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine [light rubbing]. Widely scattered light foxing. Very Good. Bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., on front pastedown.

Alexander Garden was a soldier in Lee's Legion, under Light Horse Harry Lee, during the Revolutionary War. He was also aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene. Born in Charleston, he was educated at the University of Glasgow. He returned to America in 1780 to join the Revolution, as a member of Lee's Legion. He was an officer in the Society of the Cincinnati.
The first series was published in 1822 under the title, "Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War." This is the first edition of the second series. Garden dedicates this series to Major-General Thomas Pinckney, "President General of the Society of the Cincinnati." His dedication is dated October 12, 1828. His Series begins with the "Petition of the native Americans residing in London, to His Britannic Majesty, in 1774", and is followed by the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Other chapters treat his experiences in the War, his observations, and interesting comments on various Revolutionary figures, including Washington, Lee, La Fayette, and others less well-known.
Joel Davis Madden, Jr., left Princeton University in 1905 and moved west to make his fortune in the railroad industry. He went on to become an executive with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and died suddenly in 1928 at the age of 41.
FIRST EDITION. Howes G61 'aa'. II Turnbull 178. Sabin 26598. Item #38903

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