NATIONAL MILITARY APPRECIATION MONTH

May is National Military Appreciation Month. And one way we can truly appreciate this country's current and past military personnel is to better understand what they experienced while serving their country.

These four Bullis books relate the personal experiences of military personnel in the mid-1800s and early 1900s:

My Story of the War: 

A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience 

as a Nurse in the Union Army, and in relief work at home,

in hospitals, camps, and at the front during the war of rebellion.

With anecdotes, pathetic incidents,and thrilling reminiscences portraying 

the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war.

By Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Published by A. D. Worthington and Company, Hartford, 1888

The Autobiography of a Veteran, 1807-1883

By Conte Enrico Moroso della Rocca

Published by Macmillan, New York, 1898

My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre,

With An Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"

By Frances  Courtney Carrington

Published by Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1910

A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War

By George John Younghusband

Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1917

Even though the month of May is set aside for us to show appreciation to our military personnel, any day or month is appropriate to do so. Therefore, feel free to stop by anytime during the year the to spend some time with one or more of these books.  

And on behalf of the Bullis family, we say a sincere thanks to all of you who have served, or are serving, in our military.

GIFT BOOKS

Need some last-minute holiday gifts to put under your tree? Have you thought about completing your shopping list with books?

We've found several books in the Bullis Collection that were presented as holiday gifts. Here they are for your consideration. And we've included the inscriptions that were written inside, in graceful longhand.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

"Christmas 1904 from Louisa Fisher"

Old Kaskia Days by Elizabeth Holbrook.

"From Mrs. E. G. Matlock to Mr. Wm. Don Maus, Christmas, 1898"

Historic Towns of New England by Lyman Powell.

"To Helen from Mother Henry, Christmas 1901"

The Poems Sacred, Passionate and Humorous by N. P. Willis

"To my dear brother William from Emma, Christmas 1871"

Farm Legends by Will Carleton

"A Christmas present to Asher Freeman at the age of 61 years by his granddaughter,

Florance Freeman, dau. of Linus and Myra Freeman at the age of 2 1/2 years.

At Middleport, Niagara Co. NY, December 25, 1875

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

"A. R. Bullis

Mr. S. Ni from M. E. Cooley

Xmas 1898"

A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War by G. J. Younghusband

"Frederick T. Teet

Auburn NY

Xmas 1917"

The Wolf Boy of China by Wm. Dalton

"Francis Granger

No. 250 w. 57th St. N Y City

Xmas 1886"

May we also suggest that you jot a little note to the recipient inside the book? And be sure to date it, too, for the benefit of readers a hundred years from now.