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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 536

Civil War. (Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hicks): The Fighting Quakers. New York, Lockwood L. Doty, 1866. 12mo, gilt pictorial, red cloth board cover, photos of Edward Hallock Ketcham and John Townsend Ketcham, with "Words Spoken at the Burial" at the Friends' Burial Ground, Milton, NY, by Rev. O.B. Frothingham, 116pp. Inscribed by their mother on front endpaper: "To Dr. R. H. Tuthill from his friend Martha T.Ketcham". The story of two Quaker brothers and their cousin who perished in the Civil War: Lt. Edward H. Ketcham (born in Milton, Ulster Co., NY - 120th New York Infantry) killed at Gettysburg, 1863; Lt. John T. Ketcham (born in Jericho, L.I. - 4th NY Cavalry), captured at Raccoon Ford, died in Libby Prison, 1863; and Capt. Nehemiah Hallock Mann (4th NY Cavalry) killed near Front Royal, 1864. Some light page stains, light cover crinkling, very clean and intact contents, Very Good.

Estimate
$90 to $120