[4], 531 pp. (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Limited to approximately fifty copies, privately printed for the family, none of which were for sale. The first 48 pages are concerned with the conquest of California. Du Pont commanded the Atlantic blockading forces against the Confederacy during the first two years of the war. Scarce. Cowan p. 843; Eberstadt 135:181; Howes D-589; Nevins I p. 223; Tutorow 4098.