HISTORY OF COMPANY G, NINTH S. C. REGIMENT, INFANTRY, S. C. ARMY AND OF COMPANY E, SIXTH S. C. REGIMENT, INFANTRY, S. C. ARMY. PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE SURVIVORS OF THESE COMPANIES. BY JAMES LIDE COKER, FORMERLY MAJOR SIXTH S. C. Vs. INFANTRY.
Charleston: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1899. 210pp, as issued. Publisher's gray cloth [light soil], front board and spine stamped in gilt (spine dulled]. Inner front hinge cracked but boards firm. Mild occasional foxing. Very Good.
This first edition of this rare South Carolina regimental history. Coker dedicates it "to the descendants of those who loved, and fought to establish the Confederate States of America. 'No nation rose so white and fair / Or fell so pure of crimes'."
During Coker's Confederate service, he fought at First and Second Manassas, the Battle at Malvern Hill, Harper's Ferry, and Antietam. His military career ended at Chickamauga in October 1863, when he was wounded and became a prisoner of war. After the War Coker [1837-1918] founded the Sonoco Products Company and was noted for his philanthropy.
Howes, who rated this 'aa' for scarcity in the early 1960s, says only 150 copies were printed.
Howes C554aa. II Dornbusch 912. IV Turnbull 394. Not in Nevins, LCP. Item #40662
Price: $1,500.00