Providence, Providence Press Company, 1885. A 76-page illustrated personal narrative of the raising of the flag at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, four years and a day after it was lowered and removed in surrender by Major Robert Anderson in April, 1861, in the first battle of the Civil War. In the intervening years, the flag was repeatedly auctioned and re-donated to be auctioned to raise funds for the Union army. At the conclusion of the war, on April 14, 1865, the 33-star flag was restored to Fort Sumter by Anderson himself, with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher orating. That evening, President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre. Spicer's account was read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society in February, 1884. This copy is inscribed by Spicer: "A.G. Utley, with the compliments of the Author." We have found record of an A.G. Utley having attended Brown University, in Providence, also the place of publication. Bound in faux alligator stiff cardstock covers with a Japanese style sewn binding. A near fine copy. [#036403] SOLD