The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Embracing His services in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States, with illustrations Onf Steel and Wood by Johnston, William Preston - 1878

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. First Edition. Thick Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 755 pages. index, (4)pp. publisher's ads, illustrations Of Steel and Wood. After serving in the Black Hawk War, he resigned (1834) from the U.S. Army and went to Texas where he enlisted (1835) in the revolutionary army. Johnston became its commander in 1837 and served as Texas secretary of war, 1838-40. In the Mexican War, he commanded a regiment of volunteers and saw action at Monterrey. Reentering the U.S. army in 1849, Johnston served on the Texas frontier, was commander of the Dept. of Texas (1856-58), led the expedition against the Mormons (1857), and commanded the Dept. of Utah (1858-60). When Texas seceded from the Union in Apr. 1861, Johnston, commanding the Dept. of the Pacific, again resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and was soon made general in charge of Confederate operations in the West. Union victories, especially at Fort Donelson (Feb. 1862), forced him to withdraw from the line of defense he had established in 1861. He concentrated an army at Corinth, Miss., and on Apr. 6, 1862, attacked Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh. Johnston was killed at the height of battle. One of the handfuls of generals on either side that were regarded by their contemporaries and later historians as truly great. Bound in a dark brown-maroon embossed cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, chipping to spine ends. small spot to lower corner of both lower and upper board, yellow endpapers, scattered foxing to first and last few leaves, no names or bookplates, spine faded, rear hinge starting. A very good copy. [Civil War Books II, p. 68. Howes J-175. Basic Texas Books, 112; Dornbusch II, 2872].