including: Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso, by Brevet Lt. Col. J. E. Johnston et al, Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850, bound in brown cloth with blindstamped cover; History of the Conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847, two volumes (complete); Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845; Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition by George Wilkins Kendall, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844, two volumes (complete); The Covode Investigation, Report No. 648, House of Representatives, ordered printed June 16, 1860; Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics by Brevet Lieut. Col. W. J. Hardee, Louisville, KY: J. W. Tompkins & Co., 1861, volume II only

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