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Four "Old Times" Booklets in one:
"Book No. 3420"
from the Library of
"Captain A. W. Corliss"
"Dec. 23, 1880."



Description
This hard bound book contains four soft cover publications of
"'Old Times'" Office, Yarmouth, Maine,"
Captain Corliss's own publishing banner.
He used to list these publications for sale on the rear cover of
his quarterly, "Old Times" for the price of only $.25 cents each.
The four publications are listed as follows:

Publication Title Publication Author Date
"Captain Walter Gendall, of
North Yarmouth, Maine.
A Biographical Sketch,"
27 pages.
See the Gendall Monument.
"by Doctor Charles E. Banks." "1880,"
This biography of Capt. Walter Gendall by Dr. Charles E. Banks was the lead article in the July, 1880 issue of Old Times. It documents Gendall's life and his 1688 death at the mouth of North Yarmouth's Royall River that began the Indian War known as King William's War. The biography was so important that Captain Corliss published the entire 37 pages without his usual serialization in addition to this separate pamphlet edition.
"The Mitchell Family of
North Yarmouth, Maine."
9 pages.
"William Mitchell Sargent." "1878."
"The Weare Family, of
Hampton, New Hampshire, and
North Yarmouth, Maine."
8 pages.
"William M. Sargent." "1879"
"History of the Seventh Squadron
Rhode Island Cavalry."
11 pages.
Includes an etching of Major Corliss.
"By a Member."
Major Augustus W. Corliss
per The Library of Congress.
"1862"
"Old Times" reprint:
"1879"
The following quotation from "The Bloodiest Day. The Battle of Antietam." is about the 7th Squadron of the Rhode Island Cavalry in describing the Federal breakout from Harpers Ferry on September 14th, 1862:
"....Toward the rear, Major Augustus W. Corliss addressed his 7th Squadron Rhode Island Cavalry, an outfit dubbed the 'college cavaliers' because almost all of the members were three-month volunteers from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and Norwich University in Vermont. Corliss told them that by the next morning they would be free men, prisoners or dead -- 'in Pennsylvania, on the way to Richmond or in Hell.'..."1
1. The Bloodiest Day. The Battle of Antietam, Ronald H. Bailey et al, Time Life Books, 1984, Rev. 1985.

We are pricing book number 3420 at $349.00.
It is our considered belief that Corliss's copy is an only copy.


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