Cloyd Bryner, Bugle Echoes: The Story of Illinois 47th, 1st ed.

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Cloyd Bryner’s Bugle Echoes is a fine work of memoir hiding as a regimental history. Bryner, whose Abraham Lincoln in Peoria places him among the most important sources on Lincoln’s early political career, served with the 47th Illinois, a regiment representing his hometown of Peoria.

Bryner does a fine job of describing his military life and his comrades as he documents the 47th Illinois’ service from the siege and battle of Corinth, the Vicksburg Campaign and fighting in Mississippi and Alabama. As part of the famous “Eagle Brigade” – their comrades of the 8th Wisconsin had a pet bald eagle called “Old Abe” – they were part of the most intense campaigns of the war in the west.

Light foxing; owner’s signature from 1905; lightly bumped; else very good. Tight hinges.

Bryner, Cloyd. BUGLE ECHOES: THE STORY OF ILLINOIS 47th. Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros, 1905. 1st edition, 262p., frontispiece, illustration (Dornbusch-201).