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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 528

Civil War. Bigelow, Major John: The Peach Orchard - Gettysburg-July 2, 1863-Explained by Official Reports and Maps-An Appeal. With Supplement. Minneapolis, Kimball-Storer Co., 1910. 8vo, gilt title on red cloth covers, a number of maps, some folding, 62 & 57pp. First Edition. A captain in the 9th Mass. Battery at the time, Bigelow outlines the fighting in the Peach Orchard and Trostle field on the second day of battle. He wrote this important work as an appeal to have Trostle Lane renamed Hunt Avenue in honor of General Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery, 1862-1865. Fine.

Estimate
$90 to $120