- Cadwallader Washburn, Union Major General, 2 nd Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, A Tramp Abroad, Twain, Mark, Chatto and Windus, 1881. Hardcover. Condition: Good/Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Chatto and Windus (1881). First English edition hardcover edition of this illustrated version of Twain's 'A Tramp Abroad' (some sellers confuse this work with More Tramps Abroad which was originally published in the USA as 'Following the Equator'. Markings to gilt embossed decorative deep-red boards, most noticebale on rear. Spine is frayed at tail, frayed and chipped at head. Binding loose and open at signature at p 496. Test block generally unmarked. Inscription in pencil at front 'Presented to Cyrus Woodman by his friend and former partner Cad Washburn at Philadelphia this 17th Dec. 1881. On leaving for home.' Woodman and Washburn were Mainers who emigrated to Wisconsin where they were very influential. Washburn was a Wisconsin Congressman, Governor and found the mill that begat General Mills. Washburn served in the Union Army during the Civil War, becoming colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, on February 6, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers on July 16, 1862; and major general on November 29, 1862. Washburn had the honor of having his appointment document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. At one point Ulysses S. Grant called Washburn "one of the best administrative officers we have." He commanded the cavalry of the XIII Corps in the opening stages of Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign. Once siege operations had begun against the city of Vicksburg and Grant called for all available forces, Washburn led a detachment of the XVI Corps during the siege of Vicksburg. He commanded the 1st Division in the XIII Corps in Nathanial P. Banks' operations along the Texas Coast leading the expedition against Fort Esperanza in November 1863. For the rest of the war he served in administrative capacities in Mississippi and Tennessee. While commanding Union forces in Memphis, he was the target of an unsuccessful raid led by Nathan B. Forrest to kidnap him and other Union generals. He left the Union Army on May 25, 1865.