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[DURYÉE, Abram (1815-1890), his copy]. PORTER, Charles T. Review of The Mexican War, Embracing the Causes of the War, the Responsibility of Its Commencement… Auburn, NY: Alden & Parsons, 1849. 8vo. 220, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's full bluish-green cloth, boards decoratively stamped in blind, spine decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt (spine a bit sunned, some edgewear, soiling to spine and boards, endleaves and text foxed, skewed). Good. FIRST EDITION, CIVIL WAR BRIGADIER GENERAL ABRAM DURYÉE'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON THE FP. Presentation bookplate from The Seventh Regiment Military Library to General Duryée, dated December 1881 on the fp. next to Duryée's signature. An excellent association. Duryée was a Union Brigadier General during the Civil War, commander of one of the most famous “Zouave" regiments, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. He fought in Big Bethel, Battle of Cedar Mountain, Second Battle of Bull Run, and Antietam (he had been wounded several times). After the war, he became the New York City Police Commissioner (his tenure there was controversial, as he led the brutal suppression of labor protestors in Tompkins Square Park in 1874).