HISTORY OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE
Book Details + Condition: Benson Printing Company (Nashville, TN). First Edition, 1920. Hardcover measuring 12.5" x 10". 340 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. This copy was originally owned and signed by a soldier of the Brigade, Corporal Lewis G. Ellis, Company D of the 105th Ammunition Train. Edited by William J. Bacon, the work details the World War I service of the 55th Field Artillery Brigade. It covers the Brigade's mobilization, training, and combat operations in France, including contributions from the 105th Ammunition Train, the 105th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, the 115th Field Artillery, the 114th Field Artillery, 113th Field Artillery, and the 105th Trench Mortar Battery.
Firm binding; heavy wear to boards, with rubbing, discoloration and darkening; rubbed corners and edges; chafed spine ends; foxing to first and last few pages; a few worn pages; interior is clean and free of markings, save signature of original owner (along with a few of his notes to pages), a soldier of the Brigade, Corporal Lewis G. Ellis - Company D of the 105th Ammunition Train. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
