Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army; Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; with an Exhibition of the Power, Puposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South
New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1862. First Edition. Small Octavo. Item #032130
Frontispiece, 232 pages and (8) pages of ads. While some is regarded as propaganda, the day-to-day accounts of life in a Confederate camp are fascinating. The difficulty of keeping clean, limits to alcohol, much on the founding of Fort Pillow and an early skirmish where General Pillow routed an early Union advance of the 7th Iowa., later nice section on Pittsburg landing and Beauregard. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, pink endpapers, some rubbing through cloth along the bottom edges, some chipping to spine ends, a couple of tiny nicks to joints. Internally clean without foxing, names or bookplates. A very good copy. [CWB, I, 161].
Price: $250.00