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biographical tribute to a poet soldier , Joseph Kent Gibbons, . Includes some of Gibbons' poems as well as a survey of his life. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: H. Holland with Respects of P. L. Buell. Blue pebbled cloth over beveled boards, all edges gilt, gilt front cover lettering, frontis portrait, 48 pages plus nearly as many pages of publisher's ads. Edges rubbed and a bit faded, good hinges, sound text block, pages age-toned with some foxing (advertisements neither), otherwise clean.

Gibbons was born in Granville, MA in 1840 and would later fight for the Union and eventually died of disease in 1862

Excerpt:
"The Great American Conflict condensed the history of ages into four years. Its history will never be written, never fully understood. Here and there some splendid name evinced its power and won immortality; but every regiment, every company, had its hero. There were marching in the ranks of the great army of the Republic men of genius and of culture. In a single company there might be sound men who could build and run a locomotive, who could edit a newspaper, teach a department in college, manage a commercial establishment, or conduct a cause successfully in a court."