The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865
by Bill, Alfred Hoyt
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 313 pages plus index. Tan cloth boards that show minor fading to top, spine and light discoloration to back cover. Otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Generous selection of black and white illustrations. This copy also complete with both the fold-out maps that are often missing: (1) City of Richmond in 1861; and (2) Richmond-Petersburg Theatre of Operations. These ten chapters reconstitute, across an eighty-year gap, the everyday life of a capital city close behind the fighting fronts of a prolonged war. From records that originated close to the facts or in the midst of them--newspapers, advertisements, diaries, letters, stenographic reports of the time--Mr. Bill discloses how people lived on the home front of the Confederacy. He tells in abundant detail what the people did to amuse themselves, what rumors alternately exalted and depressed them, about what and whom they gossiped, what they found procurable in the black market and what it cost them. Record # 383904
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- Title
- The Beleaguered City: Richmond, 1861-1865
- Author
- Bill, Alfred Hoyt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- History, American, , .
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