A memoir of Colonel Cromwell Pearce, of Chester County, with an account of his ancestry.  The volume contains a sketch of the distinguished services rendered by him as a colonel of the 16th Regiment of the United States Infantry in the War of 1812; a detailed description of the military campaign against Canada, the attack on Sackets Harbor and Little York, N.Y., the explosion of a powder magazine causing the death of General Zebulon M. Pike, sickness and lack of discipline among the soldiers, Commodore Isaac Chauncey's naval activities on the Great Lakes.

The images displayed here are the title page of this volume and pages 7 through 14, giving a historical sketch of the 18th Regiment.