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FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX: Memoirs Of The Civil War In America
by Longstreet, James (Lieutenant-General Confederate Army)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Small quarto (9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. Original First Edition. xxii, 690 pages, illustrated with [46] pages of plates: 40 illustrations, including portraits, battle scenes, and a facsimile letter to Lee, and 16 maps with color denoting battle lines (red for Confederates, blue for Federals), an appendix with letters of General Robert E. Lee and General Longstreet, and an index. Bound in half red leather, with title and author in gilt between raised bands on spine, matching leather corners, patterned end papers, very good condition (mild shelf wear to edges and corners, not affecting contents).
An important memoir by Lee's second-in-command. Nevins Volume I, page 122: "A combination of reminiscences and rebuttals by a gallant soldier ostracized by his comrades in the Reconstruction period; a necessary source for any study of Lee's army."
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- Bookseller
- Caravan Book Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1060
- Title
- FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX
- Author
- Longstreet, James (Lieutenant-General Confederate Army)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Original First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Longstreet's Memoirs Of The Civil War In America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Old and Rare; Civil War; Confederacy; First Edition; Antiquarian; Memoir; Leather Binding; General James Longstreet;
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Caravan Book Store
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Los Angeles, California
About Caravan Book Store
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- Facsimile
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- Quarto
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