A Famous Civil War Memoir and Artillery Monograph, annotated by the author: William Miller Owen (1834-1893; Brigadier-General, Louisiana National Guard, 1880), In Camp and Battle / with the / Washington Artillery / of / New Orleans / A Narrative / of Events During the Late Civil War from Bull Run / to Appomattox and Spanish Fort / Compiled by the Adjutant from his Diary and from Authentic / Documents and Orders / Illustrated with Maps and Engravings / ... / by / William Miller Owen / First Lieutenant and Adjutant B[attalion]. W[ashington]. A[rtillery] Boston, Ticknor & Co. [Press of Rockwell & Churchill], copyright 1885, "All rights reserved." First edition (first of three printings). Author's master copy. Large octavo (22.3 cm.), rebound in heavy boards covered with thick buckram, surfaced to resemble dark red morocco; spine gilt-stamped with short title and author's name, IN / CAMP / AND / BATTLE / WITH THE / WASHINGTON / ARTILLERY / Wm. M. Owen Initial leaves with half-title (for whose decorative badge see below; reverse blank) + title (reverse with copyright) + xviii pp. (dedication [reverse blank], here bound as pp. [i-ii] [though intended for vii-viii]; preface, pp. iii-vi, including acknowledgements, p. v, and testimonials, pp. v-vi; leaf with omitted pp. [vii-viii] [intended for dedication & blank reverse] here replaced with unnumbered sheet containing publisher's undated advertising prospectus for "Third Edition" [more correctly a third printing], with further testimonials, that leaf now loose at this fold, and trimmed below standard page size; contents, pp. ix-xiv; list of illustrations and maps, p. xv) + 467 numbered pp. (text, 1-432; Addenda, [1] "Popular Camp Songs of the Washington / Artillery", pp. 433-435; [2] "Muster-Roll of the Washington Artillery / of the Army of Northern Virginia from / May 27, 1861, to April 8, 1865", pp. 436-464; and [3] "Memories of 'Try Us'." [i. e., list of the 60 battles and engagements of the battalion], p. 465; "Roll of Honor. / Killed and Died in Service", pp. 466-467); + 8 unnumbered interleaves of three-color maps, especially drawn from Owen's field sketches by William Joseph Hardee II of New Orleans, of battlefield details (printed in black for the topography, red for C.S.A., and blue for U.S.A. positions); + 4 unnumbered interleaves of photo-engraved illustrative plates, with rice-paper shields: "Camp Louisiana [at Mitchell's Ford on Bull Run], July 25, 1861" signed with initials by Allen C. Redwood (Asheville, 1844-1922), printed by "McFee Co[mpany]. Cin[cinnati] (same printer for all 4 plates); "The Artillery Duel," similarly signed; "Forming Line of Battle-Artillery and Skirmishers Engaged," signed with initials by William Ludlow Sheppard (Richmond 1833- 27 March 1912); and "Tout Perdu," signed with initials by John Adams Elder (Fredericksburg 3 February 1833- 24 February 1895), these 4 prints credited as after "original drawings ... of War Scenes ... in [the] possession [of] Capt. Fred M. Colston, of Baltimore, Md., formerly Ordnance Officer of Col. Alexander's Battalion Artillery, A[rmy of]. N[orthern]. V[irginia]." (p. v). With pasted-in, or loose, interleaved sheets, cards, and slips of special interest: (1) Following flyleaf, and preceding half-title (which is imprinted in black with a reproduction of the badge of the battalion-a roaring lion's head, enframed with a garland of oak leaves, bound by a ribbon inscribed with the motto "Try Us", encircled by a buckled strap inscribed "BATTALION WASHINGTON ARTILLERY", all superimposed upon two crossed cannon-barrels): pasted-in sheet with author's dedication of this volume, inscribed in brown ink: "To my dearly loved Son / Allison Owen, / with the hope that he / may be spared, in his / day & generation, participat[ion (trimmed)] / in any such events as / are recorded in this / book by the Author, / His Father / New Orleans La. / July 24th 1887". (2) Between pp. 46 and 47, small pasted-in slip, reverse blank, obverse inscribed in sepia ink in the author's hand, "McDowell's Force / 3 divisions in the fight. 18,592 / 24 pieces of Artillery / Total Army / 5 divisions of 35,000 men" [Another line formerly inscribed below, but trimmed during the rebinding.] (3) Between pp. 70 and 71, loose bookmark-size slip of oxidized wood-pulp paper (with acid-stains on adjacent pages marking its position), inscribed in brown ink in the author's hand, "Fred / 1319 / Gunpry[?] / 10,000 Fr", the latter line in blue ink. (Several other such blank slips [all uninscribed] removed to prevent further staining, but included in a separate envelope with this lot.) (4) Between pp. 326 and 327, small pasted-in slip of accounting paper, reverse blank, obverse (slightly trimmed during rebinding) inscribed in sepia ink in the author's hand, "May 4 '64. Gen. Grant opens the last / campaign and crosses the / Rapidan. Lee immediately / attacks him at the Wilderness. / [May] 12 ['64.] Fighting at Spottsylvania C. H. / [May] 24 ['64.] [Fighting at] North Anna River. / [May] 30 ['64.] Both Armies at Cold Harbor / near Richmond." (5) On blank lower portion of p. 398, pasted-in large business-card at center, imprinted: "Longstreet, Owen & Co., / Cotton Factors / and / General Commission Merchants, / No. 37 Union Street, / New Orleans. [and, in smaller type across top,] Gen. James Longstreet, / Alabama. W. M. Owen, / New Orleans. Edward Owen, / New Orleans." Card undated (but Fall/Winter 1865). (6) Pasted-in between pp. 398 and 399, a photographically (?) reproduced letter of Robert E. Lee to the preceding partners (addressed to "Longstreet, Owen & Co., New Orleans"), written by the General from Lexington, Virginia, on 26 January 1866, and signed "with great affection / Your obt Serv.t / R E Lee". (7) Small ivory-surfaced personal visiting-card, imprinted "Allison Owen." Detached, now set in front of dedication inscription at flyleaf. Book was further supplemented during rebinding with multiple pasted-in end papers and colophon leaves of heavy card stock, inserted by the recipient (the son of the author, Allison Owen, 1869-1951) to serve as scrapbook leaves for newspaper clippings: On the right leaf of the front endpapers, two clippings of military interest from unnamed newspapers, the first dated in the hand of the author, William Miller Owen: "September 26[,] 1888", describing the unveiling of a Confederate Monument in the cemetery at Staunton, Virginia, presided over by the author's intimate friend, since his resignation from West Point for the First Manassas campaign throughout the duration of the war, General Thomas H. Rosser, U.S.A. (see e.g. notices of him on pp. 16, 25, 43-44, 65, 76, 443); and the second headed "The Future of Armies / Lord Wolseley in Fortnightly Review." Both clippings were evidently pinned to the obverse of the flyleaf by the author, then later transferred to the heavier endpaper attached to the same leaf. On the blank reverse of p. 467 (the unmarked former last page of the book), two pasted-in newspaper clippings with obituaries of the author, inserted by his son: the first, inscribed in the hand of Allison Owen "[New Orleans] Daily States, Jan 10th '93", complete in one column; the second, preceded by a pasted-in heading from "The Daily Picayune, Wednesday morning, Jan. 11 [1893]", and with a line-engraved portrait of "General William Miller Owen" as headpiece, is interrupted at the foot of the column inserted here; its continuation (formerly directly opposite, on the first of 4 further colophon pages added in stiff card) now appears on the second such interleaved card-sheet, all 4 of which have been removed from the back of the book, and inserted between pp. 52 and 53. Those 9 sides (1 on p. [468], the other 8 on the 4 interleaved card-sheets formerly following it) are filled with at least 10 formerly pasted-in articles of obituary notices from New Orleans and New York daily papers, some of less than one column, most of multiple columns. The most recent organizer or rebinder (an heir of Allison Owen's?), however, has scrambled the order of the interleaved card-sheets, so that the obituary articles still adhering to their cards are in random order, their texts frequently interrupted by other notices; 4 of the full-length columns of newsprint (intended for both sides of one of the interleaved card-sheets, whose surface retains their outlines, but is now empty) have come unpasted, and are interleaved loose between the last card-sheets.