The Sergeant's Memorial

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1864. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (16cm). Blindstamped brown publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine, all edges red; brown coated endpapers; 242pp; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. A stable copy, mildly rubbed and lightly spine-sunned, with slight wear to corners: Very Good.

Thompson (1819-1879) was a notable abolitionist and Congregationalist minister in New York City, a founding member of the Union League, and founder of The Independent. This work is a profile of his son, who fought with the Union Army and died before the end of the Civil War. [63931].