![[Mexican War soldier’s letter on the Battle of Cerro Gordo.]. William Dorrance, J.](/pictures/thumb/4593_1.jpg?v=1528844229)
A Mexican American war letter by a U.S. Corporal reporting on the Battle of Cerro Gordo, reflecting both his relief at having survived and his uncertainly about the future. Corporal William Dorrance, of the 7th U.S. Infantry Co. Division, writes home to his uncle Captain John Moulton in Windham, Connecticut...
![[The Assam Rifles Securing the Frontier, 1954–55.]. K. S. RAI, Lt. Col.](/pictures/thumb/4500_1.jpg?v=1522248754)
Three typescript field reports, documenting pacification missions by the Indian Army in the frontier regions of Nagaland, Kameng, and Subansiri, 1954–55, illustrated with original photographs and manuscript maps. Offered here is a fascinating collection combining Lt. Rai’s journals with his formal field reports documenting the geography, ethnography and social-political...
A fascinating manuscript of Dakota phrases and vocabulary recorded by a Civil War veteran stationed at Fort Rice in Dakota Territory where interactions with the Sioux people were frequent. A veteran of several Wisconsin Infantries, Capt. William Boardman Reed saw action as part of William Sherman’s famed “Iron Brigade”...
![[Novelist Kenneth Roberts’ Correspondence With an Authority On Haitian History For His Novel Lydia Bailey.]. Kenneth Roberts, John H. Craige.](/pictures/thumb/4462_1.jpg?v=1522355825)
An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former’s novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885–1957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia...