Member of the Grant Army of the Republic muses on Civil War and post war happenings;

Presentation copy Very good in brown cloth w/gilt lettering

While enrolled in Gettysburg College, J. Howard Wert participated in UGRR activities as a member of the college's Beta Delta fraternity. Some members of the fraternity happened upon a fugitive in the middle 1850's, hid him and forwarded him to Quaker activists at York Springs. They continued to help fugitives, widening their circle to other trusted fraternity members, probably until the war began. Their hiding place was an artificial cave on Culp's Hill. A custodian at the college, John "Jack" Hopkins, often notified them of newly-arrived fugitives.



Poems of Camp and Hearth. By J. Howard Wert, Author of "Gettysburg Monuments." Harrisburg, 1887. First edition.

6 3/4 x 4 1/2". 176 pages. Text clean, binding has light wear, generally very good.

The war poems include a section sub-titled "Legends of Gettysburg."

Wert, Lieutenant in the 209 Penna Volunteers and later Professor of history, put together one of the greatest early collections of Civil War relics. He died in 1920. This is a very scarce Civil War book.