Item #304766 Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowas Indians. [Volume #5 in:] Personal Narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion. George Pettis.

Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowas Indians. [Volume #5 in:] Personal Narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion.

Providence: Sidney H. Rider, 1878-1879.

Price: $1,250.00


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First 10 numbers. 10 vols. 8vo. Blue and grey printed wrappers. Fine.

Item #304766

1. The First Campaign of the Second Rhode Island Infantry. By E.[lisha]H.[unt] Rhodes.
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (1842-1917) was a soldier in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War and later from 1879 to 1893, Rhodes served as a Brigadier General in command of the Rhode Island State Militia.
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3. Reminiscences of Service in the First Rhode Island Cavalry. By Capt. George N. Bliss. 32 pp.
4. My First Cruise at Sea and the Loss of the Iron-Clad Monitor. By Frank B. Butts.
5. Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowas Indians by George H. Pettis. Howes P. 270 'aa" 44 pp.
First Edition. Original edition of this graphic account of the battle, by the California lieutenant who commanded the two howitzers which were largely influential in securing victory over the Indians. Pettis, as commanding officer of Company K, California Volunteers, marched to Arizona and New Mexico in the summer of 1862 with the "California Column" of the tough Colonel (later General) J. H. Carleton, and continued in active service in New Mexico for the better part of three years. He participated in Kit Carson's Kiowa and Comanche campaign of November and December, 1864, and was in action in the celebrated fight at Adobe Wells. Quite scarce, the last copy appearing in the auction records, sold 1976 until PBA in 2014. Rader 2656.
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9. Personal Incidents in the Early Campaign of the Third Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers by Edwin Metcalf.
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