KEEP UP GOOD COURAGE: A Yankee Family and the Civil War; The Correspondence of Cpl. Lewis Q. Smith of Sandwich, New Hampshire, Fourteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-1865. Edited with copious notes and a preface by Alan Fraser Houston. Portsmouth New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall, Publisher LLC, 2006. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by Houston, an historian and author, to the half-title page. Illustrated with maps, facsimile letters, figure drawings, portraits, and photographs. A large group of one-hundred-twenty letters, half of which are the soldiers letters with detailed military records and life experiences in a wide variety of states and locations, and the other half of correspondence is from family members in New Hampshire. Fine, crisp, tight and unread in green linen with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, green-and-yellow headband and tail-band, green end-papers; in a fine dust jacket. Octavo; 337 pages; end-notes; bibliography; and index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!