Fourth Cavalry United States Army
Fort Meade, SD: [No publisher], 1930.
History of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment, nicknamed "Quarterhorse." 33 pp. plus 20 typewritten leaves tipped to stubs at rear, originally written by James W. Foley and typed by his son Edgar Shryock Foley, whose notes in blue ink appear throughout the text. Bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight slant to spine, light wear to covers; binding firm. A personalized copy of a scarce publication. The supplementary pages comprise a correction to the text, three "letters to the editor" of which one is a short memoir, and a single leaf from an additional personal account. James. W. Foley (1845 - 1917) left his Pennsylvania farm at the age of seventeen to fight in the Civil War. He joined the Fourth Cavalry at the war's end and was sent to Texas to fight in the Indian Wars. In the 1870s Foley and his young family were transferred the Territory of Dakota, where they remained after Foley resigned from the army in 1883. The eldest son, Edgar Shryock Foley (1870 - 1963) moved to Portland, Oregon in 1910. This book comes from the estate of his grandson Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., a Portland lawyer.
Price: $600