Sergeant Larson, 4th Cav.

JAMES LARSON

Publication: Southern Literary Institute, 1935, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 300 numbered copies, and the type from which they were printed has been re-melted. This is copy number 126. Signed by Larson's daughter, Annie Larson Blum, who contributed the Foreword, and is responsible for the printing of her deceased father's memoirs. Blue cloth, gold stamping on front cover and spine, [18], 326 pp., frontis. [portrait], foreword, illustrated. Much on the Texas frontier, Indian fighting, J.E.B. Stuart and John Sedgewick, Bent's Fort, the Santa Fe Trail, the Civil War, San Antonio, Camp Verde, etc. Larson spent over 7 years in the army, serving for 4 years in the Union army and participating in much of the fighting during the Tennessee campaigns, and finally retiring in October, 1867. A well written and interesting first-hand account. A prime work on this cavalry and missed by almost all the standard bibliographies. "Larson joined the army in 1860, and served in the West until joining the Civil War. Fort Laramie, Riley, Fettermen, Bent's Fort, Santa Fe, etc."-Tim Phelps. Some light tanning to edges of text block and the outer edge of the first few pages, else a fine, bright, tight copy of this very scarce biography.

Inventory Number: 52268