Journal of the Twentieth Annual Session of the National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic, San Francisco, California.

[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.

Journal of the Twentieth Annual Session of the National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic, San Francisco, California.

First Edition of the Journal of the Twentieth Annual Session of the Encampment Army of the Republic, San Francisco, California; Inscribed by Commander in Chief S.S. Burdett to General William Tecumseh Sherman

Washington: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1886.

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First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles and military insignia, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Commander in Chief S. S. Burdett. General Sherman and his son’s bookplates to the front pastedown. Presentation copy, inscribed to General Sherman, "To General William T. Sherman. With Respect and Sincere Admiration of S. S. Burdett Past Commander in Chief G. A. R." In near fine condition. General Sherman’s library was inherited by his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, who transferred the library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he died. Eleanor was the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Swinfin Burdett was a U.S. Representative from Missouri who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. He was Commander in chief of the fraternal organization The Grand Army of the Republic from 1885 to 1886, supporting and advocating for Union Army veterans. Of Grand Army Reunions, General William Tecumseh Sherman explained that "the object [of the reunion] is purely social, and designed to preserve the memories of war, and to cherish the friendships formed during that period of our national history." General Sherman loved army reunions, typically eschewing the uniform and insignia of his high rank, preferring to wear a Grand Army of the Republic hat like everyone else (Katharine Burton, Three Generations, 1947, p. 216).