| Object ID |
2004.0010.003 |
| Accession# |
2004.0009 |
| Object Name |
Book |
| Title |
Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War |
| Summary |
An illustrated book of battle scenes and leaders of the American Civil War. Brown leather cover, gold embossed, purple cloth interior, marbled green/brown. Includes the original order card inside. Edited by Louis Shepheard Mast, introduction by Joseph B. Carr, illustrated 1861-1865. |
| Call# |
973.7 LES |
| Publish date |
1896 |
| Search Terms |
Civil War
American Civil War
Battles |
| Phys Desc |
Brown leather cover, gold embossed, purple cloth interior, marbled green/ brown |
| Collection |
Library |
| People |
Grant, Ulysses S.
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Lee, Robert E.
Custer, George Armstrong |
| Subjects |
Leadership
Battlefields |
| Author |
Leslie, Frank |
| Catalog date |
07/22/2004 |
| Classification |
War |
| Home Location |
G.A.R. Hall Museum |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
The three books were given to Robert L. Hunker, the Museum and Foundation founder by Joseph Rinella in 2004. Rinella was an associate involved with Robert L. Hunker's country estate Gully Ridge House and farm and gave the books as payment for unpaid rent. Joseph Rinella, a special duty nurse, was given the books by his patient, Glenn Cassidy, whom he nursed for six months in 2002. Cassidy had Parkinson's Disease and lived with his ex-wife on the northwest side of Canton. His relationship to Robert A. Cassidy and the donor are unknown.
In the one book is a letter from General Grant to Robert A. Cassidy. Robert L. Hunker took the book to his friend Ronda Russell, owner of the Antique Emporium in Peninsula and an educated Civil War buff and Roundtable activist to evaluate. Question: Who is Robert A. Cassidy? Ms. Russell was getting nowhere with her research on Cassidy when Peninsula resident and friend Jean Burda came in to Russell's Antique Emporium with a part of this collection wrapped in a green silk scarf. She asked Ronda to evaluate and dispose of them. She said they belonged to her grandfather, Robert A. Cassidy who fought in the Civil War and lived in Canton.
Here was the answer to the identity of Robert A. Cassidy!
Mrs. Burda and Ronda asked Mr. G. Paul Huff, Civil War researcher, collector, and expert to evaluate which he did.
See the Robert A. Cassidy Collection. |
| Pub Place |
New York |
| Publisher |
Mrs. Frank Leslie |
| Recfrom |
Hunker Collection |
| Year Range from |
1861 |
| Year range to |
1865 |
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