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  Marcus Benjamin's Washington During War Time; Inscribed to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman

  BENJAMIN, Marcus [William Tecumseh Sherman].

  Washington During War Time: A Series of Papers Showing the Military, Political, and Social Phases During 1861 to 1865.

  Washington City: Committee on Literature for the Encampment, 1902.

  Official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles, frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front flyleaf. Presentaton copy, inscribed to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, "Mr. P. T. Sherman, with cordial regards. From Thomas M. Stewart, Brigadier General, U. S. Army. December 25, 1905." In very good condition with light toning to the spine and front panel, closed tear to the front free endpaper. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

  Price: $1,750.00     Item Number: 145745

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