909. 7TH RHODE ISLAND HISTORY NOTEBOOK A unique post-war notebook compiled by an unnamed author for a pending regimental history to be written on career of the service of the 7th Rhode Island Volunteers during the Civil War. The book, hardbound totaling approximately 60pp., measuring 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", contains nearly one hundred names and brief biographies of veterans from the 7th Rhode Island. Almost all of the entries have something interesting to say about the soldier in question. Some of the more intriguing entries, in part: "...Corporal Andrew V. Howland... left sick at Pleasant Valley, Md...Comrade C. H. Perkins says - I think Howland was killed by the steam cars bear Primrose station in Smithfield...Josephus Franklin...Died of Typhoid fever at `Camp Mud' Va., Nov. 29, 1862...John D. Whipple...severely wounded in wrist while stationed before Petersburg and sent to Hospital July 1st 1864...want particulars of his being wounded...what was going on? A fight or was it a wild shot that came into camp and struck you as other were struck about that time...Benjamin K. Austin, Co. A killed Spotsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864. Bullet entered left lung...a sister...wrote up his general sketch for me and sent it to me for the History...Timothy Butler, Co. E...on an evening when we were at Lexington, Ky...Butler was full of Ky. whiskey [and] attempted to pass a 48 P. V. guard. He got a bayonet prick in abdomen...never again reported to regiment..." Much more interesting content. Overall very good with some looseness at the spine. $200-300