v, 138 pp. This work also found with a final 8 pp (index?) Portrait frontispiece. 9x5½, period sheep with modern leather lettering pieces, original front wrapper laid in, back wrapper bound in. First Edition.

"A detailed and valuable account of a unit raised in Maryland that compiled a long and distinguished combat service in Virginia, South Carolina, and on the Mexican border" (Nevins/Robertson/Wiley, p. 209). There is included a roll of all the enlisted men in the Seventh. About 200,000 African-Americans served the Union, mostly freedmen from the South.