- Ebenezer Hannaford, Union Lieutenant, 6 th Ohio Volunteer - The Story of a Regiment: A History of the Campaigns, and Associations in the Field, of the Sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Army by Hannaford, E. Exlibrary, usual marks and pocket; marbled boards and endpapers with heavily worn leather corners, cloth tape covers spine; titles printed on spine; both cover hinges split, mended with tape inside covers; covers very heavily worn; binding remains solid; internally very good; endpapers torn, front endpaper fragile and missing and inch or so of leading edge; otherwise, pages have only very small edge tears or chips at corners; some foxing throughout; small damp stain in top margins; appendix lists members of the regiment. Volume signed by author on Dedication page. Union Civil War Officer. A native of England, he emigrated to America and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Civil War, he answered President Lincoln's call for volunteers and enlisted to serve in the Union Army. Hannaford was mustered into the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry when the regiment was formed in April of 1861. He eventually became Corporal. He returned to Cincinnati after the regiment was mustered out in 1864 and received a commission as Adjutant Lieutenant with the 197th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in April of 1865. He wrote several articles of his unit's course during the war and had a couple of them published in Harper's Magazine in 1863 and 1864. He published a few books after the war about his time in the service including: "The Story of a Regiment, Campaigns and Associations of the 6th Ohio Regiment (1868)" and the "Last Survivor (1904)." He died at his residence in Springfield, Ohio in 1905. - Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Union Brigadier General, 78 th Ohio Infantry Regiment - Letter of Union brigadier general who led a division in Atlanta and in Sherman's March to the Sea. A.L.S. on his personal letterhead, 1p. 8vo., Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1882. In part: ‘...I got...your telegram of last evening. I immediately telegraphed the Secretary of War...Do you know how Gen. [?] stands affected toward Pope...I would be more than glad to see Gen Pope succeed...' Sold with an A.L.S., 1p. 8vo., [n.p., n.d.], forwarding a recommendation of promotion to Robert Sinclair to Robert T. Lincoln. Two pieces, very good. From Wikipedia: At the beginning of the Civil War, Leggett served as a volunteer on the staff of his friend, Major General George B. McClellan in western Virginia. He helped raise the 78th Ohio Infantry Regiment and was commissioned as its colonel in January 1862. He commanded his regiment at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Corinth. In November 1862, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and participated in the Vicksburg Campaign, suffering a painful wound. After he recovered, Leggett commanded the 3rd Division of the XVII Corps during the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea. He was brevetted major general of volunteers in July 1864, and was commissioned as a major general a year later. His last action was in the Carolinas Campaign during the spring of 1865. - Martin Welker, Union Colonel, Ohio Volunteer Militia, Aide De Camp to General Jacob Dolson Cox and Governor of Ohio, Judge Advocate General of the Ohio Militia, and remarkably, a PRIVATE later in the war with the 188 th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Representative from Ohio, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio with Salmon P. Chase, President of the Ohio Senate – Farm Life In Central Ohio Sixty Years Ago, by Martin Welker, Hinges cracked and beginning to separate from book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, 1892. Bound in dark red publisher's cloth with debossed ornamentation and lettering in black. Spine is plain red. All edges red stain. Illustrated with engravings and ornate initials in black and white throughout. From Wikipedia: “With the outbreak of the American Civil War, on May 14, 1861, Welker was appointed judge-advocate of the second brigade of the Ohio Volunteer Militia at rank of major, and served with General Jacob Dolson Cox. Welker was appointed as an aide-de-camp, with rank of colonel to the Governor of Ohio on August 10, 1861. He then served as Judge Advocate General of the State of Ohio for the balance of 1861, and was the superintendent of drafting under Governor David Tod, commencing August 15, 1862. He served as assistant adjutant general in 1862. Welker enlisted on February 16, 1865 in the Union Army as a private in Company I, 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out September