A Treatise on the Camp and March

A Treatise on the Camp and March - Inventory Number: HIS 274

Identified copy to Benjamin H. Lane of the 149th Pennsylvania Bucktails who suffered massive casualties at the battle of Gettysburg. The volume is Connected the Construction of Field Works and Military Bridges, with an Appendix of Artillery Ranges, etc., for Use of Volunteers and Militia in the United States. By Henry D. Grafton, Captain First Regiment U.S. Artillery. Boston: Fetridge and Company, 1854. Original 83-page volume with advertisements, in its original gilt-embossed cloth binding, identified to Benjamin H. Lane, veteran of the 149th Pennsylvania “Bucktails.” Lane’s personal bookplate, “Library of Benjamin H. Lane”, appears on the front pastedown. The 149th Pennsylvania was heavily engaged at Gettysburg, suffering massive casualties in the defense of McPherson’s Ridge on July 1, 1863. After the war, Lane served as a Baptist minister and common school teacher in several states before his death in Massachusetts. His widow Jennie received a pension in 1897. 

This volume is accompanied by extensive archival research on Lane’s life and military service. An outstanding, identified pre-war military manual tied to a soldier of one of the most celebrated Pennsylvania regiments of the Civil War.

 Inventory Number: HIS 274