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Records of Living Officers of the United States Army. Philadelphia: L. R. Hamersly & Co., 1884. First edition. 478 pages, followed by 16 pages of advertisements. Original brown cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine.
An uncommon and historically valuable nineteenth-century reference work documenting the careers and military service of living officers of the United States Army as of 1884, less than two decades after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
The volume provides biographical and military service records of United States Army officers, including information on appointments, promotions, ranks, assignments, and military careers. Of particular interest are the many officers whose service extended through the Civil War and into the postwar Regular Army.
Published during a significant transitional period in American military history, the work offers valuable contemporary documentation of the officer corps during the Reconstruction era and the Indian Wars of the American West. It is a useful primary reference for Civil War researchers, military historians, genealogists, and collectors of nineteenth-century American military biography and United States Army history.
