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Title: Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States
Author: Brevet Major-General E. D. Townsend
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company, New York
Published: 1884
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 287
Catalogs: American Civil War, Military History, Biography
: Original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration on spine and front board. Contains the bookplate and stamp of the Library of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, otherwise in very good condition. Small pasted bookseller’s stamp from Estes and Lauriat, New and Old Books, Boston. Tan floral pastedowns. Spine has light wear to edges and hinges. Very minor spotting and tanning to pages. Contents include recollections of the defense of Washington; the surrender of Augusta Arsenal, Georgia; Robert E. Lee in Arlington Heights; the neutrality of Kentucky; the battle of Bull Run; service in the Adjutant-General’s office; Army of the Potomac commanders; President Lincoln; General Frank Blair; Shenandoah Valley; Savannah; medals and corps badges, Confederate flags; Fort Sumter; the funeral of President Lincoln; General Scott’s views; a colloquy with African-American ministers and former slaves; military commissions, and much more. Hardcover, good condition. 287 pages plus publisher’s list, 12mo.
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