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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 555

Civil War. Norton, Oliver Willcox: The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, Gettysburg July 2, 1863. New York; The Neale Publishing Co, 1913. First edition. Small 8vo, hard cover with original narrative jacket, 350pp. As a company bugler with the 83rd Pennsylvania, Norton is credited with creating "Taps" when he played a variation of a Scottish tattoo in 1862. This is his eyewitness account of this part of the Battle of Gettysburg. Purple stamp "Book From O.W. Norton 813 Masonic Temple, Chicago, Ill." Front endpaper. Ex-libris Lutheran Seminary Library Gettysburg. Jacket splitting but all there, About Fine.

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