1865 CIVIL WAR. Bible Presented to Mustering Sergeant who Survived Brutal Gettysburg Battle, &c. Preaching Roxbury Dec 29

Roxbury Dec 29

after a forced march

of Massachusetts

4pp of specimen print of a Judeo-German Bible produced by A

James's Church

1865 CIVIL WAR. Bible Presented to Mustering Sergeant who Survived Brutal Gettysburg Battle, &c. Preaching Roxbury Dec 29A wonderful little item, presumably presented to Sergeant Bill [William] Whaland by the Sanitary Commission when he mustered out from the 121st Pennsylvania Infantry in June of 1865. His particular unit was a storied one, and one that suffered massive casualties throughout the War. William H. Whaland was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. When the Civil War erupted in April of 1861, he did not immediately enlist apparently because of family needs arising