MARCELLUS HARTLEY A BRIEF MEMOIR 1903 1st Edition
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Double your traffic. MARCELLUS HARTLEY : A Brief Memoir. New York: Privately printed by Robert L. Gerry, 1903. 8vo, 1st edition, hardcover, 149 pages. The book is in fair condition with rubbing to leather spine and edges. Original 3/4 leather with green marbled boards and end papers, and raised bands on spine with titles in gold. 149 deckle-edged pages including 6 pristine, inlaid black & white photographs with titled tissue-guards Marcellus hartley was a founder of the firm of Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, suppliers of military and sporting goods. One of the most interesting periods of Mr. Hartley’s career was the time in which he procured arms and equipment for the troops during the opening months of the Civil War. Summoned by Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton during the early days of the civil war, he had been commissioned a brigadier general by President Lincoln, in charge of arms ammunition procurement. Hartley set sail for europe, and succeeded in contracting with weapons manufacturers in England, France and Germany. Outbidding his southern adversaries, he made millions of dollars' worth of purchases on behalf of the Union. Hartley took advantage of many personal contacts made during the war when he later founded the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, which produced the prototype of the modern shell cartridge, incorporated
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