n 1894 the State of Connecticut placed a memorial on the battleground of Antietam. During that dedication Dr. Mayer read a poem called Antietam which he wrote and is offered for sale here, SIGNED by him. Among his touching words are these: “To my brave and faithful comrades, whose individual history, endurance, sufferings and loyal devotion in campaigns, in hospital and in prison, no one had better opportunities to know.” At the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history (more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers wounded, killed, and missing), Dr. Mayer, (called “the most versatile soldier in the war between the states”) was a surgeon in the famous Hartford regiment who converted a farmhouse into a fi eld hospital and attended to his patients. In addition to his medical skills, Nathan Mayer became a poet, novelist, columnist, and dramatic and music critic. “Dr. Mayer’s novel Differences (1867), which gives an informative account of Jewish life and commerce in the North as well as the South during and after the Civil War, is the fi rst American Jewish novel that has a claim to literary quality and seriousness.”
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303.484 |
| Nationality |
American |
| Pub Place |
Hartford CN |
| Height x Width |
9.4
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Mayer, Nathan. Antietam. A Poem Ready By Surgeon Nathan Mayer October 11,
1894 at The Dedication of a Monument By the Sixteenth Connecticut Where They
Fought at Antietam, September 17, 1862. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case,
Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1894. F First Edition, H Hard Cover, 8vo - over
7¾" - 9¾" tall, Good.
Memorial to the 204 members of the Sixteenth Regiment, Connecticut
Volunteers who were killed or wounded at the Battle of Antietam during the
Civil War. Includes photographs of the monument and the poem's author. Light
blue and white cloth lettered and embellished with a symbol of the 16th
Regiment on the front cover. Covers spotted, little wear, pages very clean
and free from names or other markings..
Price: $ 145.00
Similar copy signed $1600
Mayer, Nathan A Poem Read by Surgeon Nathan Mayer
MAYER, Nathan. A Poem Read by Surgeon Nathan Mayer October 11, 1894 at The Dedication of a Monumentby the Sixteenth Connecticut where They Fought at Antietam September 17, 1862. Original decorative cloth ( soiled) and decorative interior. good condition. In 1894 the State of Connecticut placed a memorial on the battleground of Antietam. During that dedication Dr. Mayer read a poem called Antietam Among his touching words are these: “To my brave and faithful comrades, whose individual history, endurance, sufferings and loyal devotion in campaigns, in hospital and in prison, no one had better opportunities to know.” At the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history (more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers wounded, killed, and missing), Dr. Mayer, (called “the most versatile soldier in the war between the states”) was a surgeon in the famous Hartford regiment who converted a farmhouse into a fi eld hospital and attended to his patients. In addition to his medical skills, Nathan Mayer became a poet, novelist, columnist, and dramatic and music critic. “Dr. Mayer’s novel Differences (1867), which gives an informative account of Jewish life and commerce in the North as well as the South during and after the Civil War, is the fi rst American Jewish novel that has a claim to literary quality and seriousness.”
