July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
During the Mine Explosion on July 30, 1864 at Petersburg, the only Union success of the day was when the 43rd USCT captured 200 Confederate prisoners and two stands of colors. Book “Advanced-Guard, Outpost, and Detachment Service of Troops, with the Essential Principles of Strategy, and Grand Tactics for the use of Officers and the Militia and Volunteers.” by D.H. Mahan, Professor of Military and Civil Engineering, and of the Art of War in the United States Military Academy, 1864, with fine stencil on interior of front cover “MAJOR HORACE BUMSTEAD 43D U.S.C.T.” Missing cover at spine, else about very good condition. Horace Bumstead (1841-1919) Congregationalist minister and educator. During the Civil War, Bumstead was commissioned as a Major for the 43rd regiment of the United States Colored Troops, a post he occupied from April 1864 to December 1865. In 1875, Bumstead joined the facultry of Atlanta University as an instructor of Natural Science and went on to serve as the school’s second president from 1888 to 1907.
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