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New York Monuments Commission. In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum. J. B. Lyon Company, 1904. First Edition. - A first edition commemorative military history volume titled In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum, 1826-1894, published in Albany, New York, by the J. B. Lyon Company in 1904. The work was prepared under the supervision of the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. This quarto-sized volume is bound in the original grey cloth boards, featuring a black and gilt-stamped title label to the front cover and the gilt-embossed seal of the State of New York. The title page credits the publication to the authority of the State of New York. The interior contains floral-patterned endpapers and a frontispiece portrait of Major General Slocum accompanied by a printed facsimile signature. The text block includes numerous full-page black-and-white photographic plates of Civil War battlefield monuments and at least one significant color-lithographed fold-out map detailing troop movements at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, dated November 24, 1863. This copy includes a contemporary presentation stamp on the front endpaper that reads: Compliments Wm. S. Mason, Librarian to the Senate. It is an ex-library specimen from the Spellman Library at Marist College, displaying a library barcode on the rear board, a library pocket and card on the rear endpaper, and various institutional stamps and handwritten call numbers on the preliminary pages. This copy is in poor to fair condition. The original cloth binding shows heavy shelf wear, with significant fraying and loss to the cloth at the spine ends and corners. The binding is broken, with the spine strip partially detached from the text block and the hinges starting to pull. Internal pages exhibit mild age-toning and occasional light foxing. Institutional library markings are present as noted in the description, including stamps, labels, and a barcode. The fold-out map and photographic plates appear intact but may show minor creasing at the edges.