HAM CHAMBERLAYNE-VIRGINIAN-CONFEDERATE ARTILLERY OFFICER LETTERS AND PAPERS, NEW

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HAM CHAMBERLAYNE – VIRGINIAN,
LETTERS AND PAPERS OF THE ARTILLERY OFFICER
IN THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE,
1861-1865,
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND INDEX BY HIS SON C.G. CHAMBERLAYNE,
BY JOHN HAMPDEN CHAMBERLAYN;
brand new, unread, pristine condition book.
MINT CONDITION DUST JACKET,
in the original, publisher's shrink wrap AND
PUBLISHED BY BROADFOOT PUBLISHING, WILMINGTON, DE IN 1992
LATTERS AND PAPERS by a young Virginia aristocrat who served long and faithfully in a Richmond artillery battery
[
“Charmingly candid letters of considerable interest” – In Tall Cotton];
Well educated at the University of Virginia, and practicing law in Richmond, Chamberlayne enlisted as a Private in Company F, of the 21
st
Virginia Infantry Regiment.  The company had been formed as militia in Richmond in 1859 and operated in defense of Richmond throughout the summer, then in the mountains of Western Virginia through the rest of the year. In 1862 he transferred, as Sergeant to the Purcell Artillery: an elite outfit soon to be commanded by William Pegram, another former Company F soldier.  In June of that year he was commissioned Lieutenant and appointed Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Colonel R. L. Walker in command of the Corps Artillery, but from the Seven Days through the Maryland Campaign he was detached to General A.P. Hill’s staff as Aide-de-Camp. He fought at Harper’s Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and was captured in combat at Gettysburg in July 1863 and imprisoned at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, and Point Lookout, Maryland. Released in 1864, he was promoted to Captain and commanded an artillery battery in the Army of northern Virginia from July until the end of the War in April 1865, fighting in the Wilderness, at Gaines Mill