Very rare
FIRST EDITION
set of the
MEMOIRS
OF
GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.
BY HIMSELF.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1875.
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
DESCRIPTION
Blue cloth with stamped design in black to boards. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Pale yellow end papers. Numerous tables. XL folding map in pocket at rear of Vol. II.
Size Each: 61/4 x 9". Combined weight: 5 lbs. with packaging.
VOLUME ONE ~ 405 pages plus publishers ads.
Contents include; "Early Recollections of California - 1846-1848," to "Meridian Campaign - January and February, 1864."
VOLUME TWO ~ 409 pages plus ads.
Contents include; "Atlanta Campaign - Nashville and Chattanooga to Kenesaw - March, April, and May, 1864," to "Conclusion - Military Lessons of the War." "A Military Map, Showing the Marches of the United States Forces Under General Sherman's Command."
Condition:
Wear to covers with some chipping and fraying to edges. Vol. I has a diagonal stain across the front cover (not quite as pronounced as it appears in the pictures.) Bindings are firm. End pages show scattered foxing. Age-toning to internal pages. Vol. II. has a little bit of old insect damage to the map pocket. Map itself has a bit of damage along some of the folds but is generally in good shape.
Good+ condition overall.
"What is now offered is not designed as a history of the war, or even a complete account of all the incidents in which the writer bore a part, but merely his recollection of events, corrected by a reference to his own memoranda, which may assist the future historian when he comes to describe the whole, and account for the motives and reasons which influenced some of the actors in the grand drama of the war."
I trust a perusal of these pages will prove interesting to the survivors, who have manifested so often their intense love of the "cause" which moved a nation to vindicate its own authority; and, equally so, to the rising generation, who therefrom may learn that a country and government such as ours are worth fighting for, and dying for, if need be.
If successful in this, I shall feel amply repaid for departing from the usage of military men, who seldom attempt to publish their own deeds, but rest content with simply contributing by their acts to the honor and glory of their country."
William T. Sherman, General.
St. Louis, Missouri, January 21, 1875.