An absolutely superbly preserved "field used" copy of the ATS Almanac, likely distributed by the Christian Commission to the soldiers. The present copy is inscribed [on front and rear] by Simeon Harlow. He was mustered in 1862 with the Massachusetts 18th Infantry. He inscribes it from their time at Potomac and then from Virginia where the Massachusett's 18th were active at Manassas, Yorktown, etc., Harlow was injured, probably at Mill Run, and discharged in 1864.
Excellent content on slavery, the conduct of contraband schools for fugitive slave children, an excellent poems on slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etc.,
Anonymous. The American Tract Society's Almanac for the Year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1863: Being the Third After Bissextile, and until the Fourth of July the Eighty-Seventh Year of the Independence of the United States. Calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and Four Parallels of Latitude. Adapted for use Throughout the Country. The Astronomical Calculations by Asaph Hall, Assistant at Cambridge Observatory. Boston. Published by the American Tract Society. 1863. 60pp.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, lightly shaken, with light foxing and handled pages.
