[Item #49298] A Communication Addressed to the Hon. S.W. Downs, United States Senate, noticing a libelous and deceitful publication, entitled, "Statement of facts relating to the claim of Jas. W. Schaumburg to be restored to the Army;" signed by R.H. Chilton, J.W.T. Gardiner, and John Love, officers of the U.S. Army, intended to prejudice honorable Senators against the character of the First Lieutenant Schaumburg, by malicious perversion and false representations: which is most respectfully submitted to them, in refutation of the same. James W. SCHAUMBURG.

A Communication Addressed to the Hon. S.W. Downs, United States Senate, noticing a libelous and deceitful publication, entitled, "Statement of facts relating to the claim of Jas. W. Schaumburg to be restored to the Army;" signed by R.H. Chilton, J.W.T. Gardiner, and John Love, officers of the U.S. Army, intended to prejudice honorable Senators against the character of the First Lieutenant Schaumburg, by malicious perversion and false representations: which is most respectfully submitted to them, in refutation of the same

Philadelphia: Vallee and Lampas, 1852. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 147pp. Light soil, faint verticle folds, else Very Good and sound. Extensive and vitriolic statement by one of the longest serving dragoon officers, many times court martialed, who, a year following the publication of this tract, shot and seriously wounded one of his creditors in a Washington City hotel (Will and John Gorenfeld, "Kearny's Dragoons Out West" (2016), pp. 93-5). SABIN 77519.

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