War Memories of an Army Chaplain by Trumbull, H. Clay - 1898

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First Edition. Octavo. half-title, frontispiece, 421pp. Formerly Chaplain of the tenth regiment of Connecticut volunteers, later Chaplain of the Society of the Army of the James, Chaplain of the Department of Connecticut of the Grand Army of the Republic, Chaplain of the Massachusetts Commander and of the Pennsylvania Commander of the Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and Chaplain-in-Chief of the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Trumbull writes of wounded soldiers, influence of the home mail, devotion to the flag, deserters, desertions and the their execution, prison experiences, seeing slavery and emancipation and more. Bound in blue-gray pictorial cloth accented in green, white and black, lettering back, pictorial spine, lettering gilt, decorated in silver, loss of front free endpaper, front hinge somewhat fragile, one signature slightly sprung. A good copy.