Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States & Confederate States Armies by HOOD, John Bell - 1959

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Edited by Richard N. Current. 8vo. Brown cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 376pp. Frontispiece, 4 maps. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. First of this facsimile reprint of the 1880 true first edition of the Confederate general's memorable memoir -- tight and handsome. Tipped to the front flyleaf is a 5" X 8" glossy black-and-white publicity portrait, a reproduction of the well-known half-length portrait of Hood in uniform. A volume in this publisher's "Civil War Centennial Series." Robert W. Johannsen calls this "The controversial, sometimes bitter, memoirs of a maimed Confederate general...." NEVINS II, 65.