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Sullivan Ballou First Noticed

 

(CIVIL WAR). SHEA, JOHN GILMARY (Editor). The Fallen Brave: a Biographical Memorial of the American Officers Who Have Given Their Lives for the Preservation of the Union. With Eight Portraits on Steel, by J.A. O'Neill. New York: Charles B. Richardson & Co., 1861. 1st ed. 4to. 224 pp. Vignette title leaf. Orig. cloth, slightly loose at inner hinges. Frontis. detached, but present. A very attractive volume. $250.00

 

Contains 23 biographical notices of Union officers dead early in the war, including E.E. Ellsworth, Theodore Winthrop (by George W. Curtis), and Sullivan Ballou, about half written by the editor, Shea. The Rhode Islander, Sullivan Ballou, has lately found fame as one of the superb letter writers-home on Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS series on the Civil War. On the front pastedown is the ink signature of the Rhode Island historian S.G. Arnold, dated Feb. 1862.