[North America. Signed] The Battle of Bull Run

(a letter to an English friend.) by J.G. Barnard, with five maps. New York, D. van Nostrand, 1862. 124,(12) pp. 5 folding maps. 4to, in orig. red cloth with gilt title. Copy signed by John Barnard, to Senator Grimes.

*J.G. Barnard was Brigadier General of the Volunteers during the American Civil War; Senator Grimes was one of the statesmen enjoying a picknick directly besides the Battle of Bull Run. When the soldiers retreated and ran alongside the senators, he was only barely able to save himself and swore to never visit a battle again.