SKETCHES OF WAR HISTORY
1861-1865
PAPERS READ BEFORE
THE
OHIO COMMANDERY OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES
1883-1886
COMPLETE, TWO-VOLUME BOOK SET IN PROTECTIVE, MYLAR DUST JACKETS
FIRST EDITION
FINE - CONDITION
Original, Handsome, Clean, Solidly Bound, Antique Book Set
Attractive Cover Design Featuring MOLLUS Insignia Medallion; Contains Maps and Illustrations
Extraordinary Collection of Civil War Accounts by Veterans of the War
HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED BY THE COMMANDERY, BY ROBERT CLARKE & COMPANY, CINCINNATI, IN 1888
This wonderful, First Edition, antique books set presents and extraordinary collection of War Papers by actual participants in the Civil War battles and events that they address. These narratives are of the battles, incidents and events which occurred in the military life of the writers and provide some of the finest, first-hand accounts and observations of the war.
These Volumes Contain the Following Titles:
Volume I:
Marching Across Carolina
By Brevet Major-General M.F. Force
Brigadier General William Haines Lytle
By Captain A.C. Kemper
Sketch of the Battle of Winchester
By First Lieutenant M.L. Hawkins
Love of Country and Foot-Prints of Time
By Companion James M. Murdock
Military Small Arms
By Captain Samuel B. Smith
The Military and the Mob
By Major General M.D. Leggett
Through the Wilderness to Richmond
By First Lieutenant Asa B. Isham
In the Beginning
By Lieutenant Colonel Geo. M. Finch
Bugle Blasts
By Captain William E. Crane
From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania
By Brevet Colonel R.S. Robertson
Personal Recollections of the Vicksburg Campaign
By Brevet Major General M.F. Force
The Growth of an Idea (Signal Service)
By Major General W. B. Hazen
Our Military Future
By Captain Carl A. G. Adae
Cumberland Gap
By Surgeon B.F. Stevenson
Afield with the Eleventh Army Corps at Chancellorsville
By Captain Owen Rice
An Hour with Victory
By First Lieutenant Jas. S. Ostrander
Personal Recollections of Chickamauga
By Captain Jas. R. Carnahan
Volume II:
From Grafton to McDowell Through Tygart’s Valley
By Captain E.R. Monfort
Gettysburg, As We Men on the Right Saw It
By Captain George A. Thayer
Kentucky Neutrality in 1861
By Surgeon Benjamin F. Stevenson
The Medical Department in the War
By Surgeon J.R. West
Recollections of the Red River Expedition
By Ensign E. Cort. Williams
The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville
By Captain Levi T. Schofield
A Confederate Spy
By Brevet major Lewis H. Bond
Our Kirby Smith
By Brevet Major General John W. Fuller
The Loyalist of Tennessee in the Late War
By Adjutant William Rule
Care of Prisoners of War, North and South
By First Lieutenant Asa B. Isham
Carrying the New of Lee’s Surrender to the Army of the Ohio
By First Lieutenant Augustus J. Ricks
The Surrender of Johnston’s Army and the Closing Scenes of the War of North Carolina
By Major General Jacob D. Cox
Recollections of a Peculiar Service
By Second Lieutenant George C. Ashmun
Charleston in the Rebellion
By Brevet Major General Alvin C. Vorix
Scenes In Libby Prison
By Brevet Major J.W. Chamberlain
Canby’s Campaign in New Mexico
By Colonel Latham Anderson
The Corps of Telegraphers Under General Anson Stager During the War of the Rebellion
By Brevet Lieutenant Colonel W.G. Fuller
Abraham Lincoln
By HON. James Speed
THIS BOOK SET IS IN FINE - CONDITION
This wonderful, first edition, 131-year old, antique book set is in excellent condition. The books come in Mylar dust jackets to protect them (see photo #2). Handsomely bound in bright, navy blue covers with bright gold, impressed lettering on the spines and the image of the medal of the Loyal Order on the covers, both books are clean and have solid binding throughout. The exteriors are clean and have no bumping, but have mild rubbing and light edge wear. The lettering and images are bright and sharp. The interiors of both books are in excellent condition. The pages are clean and in wonderful condition; there isn’t a mark in either book. The books have no writing, smudging or foxing, or stamps. The is a one inch by one inch ownership tag on the front inside cover on one book. This is not an ex-library set. The binding is solid throughout both books; there is no looseness or lean in either book and all four hinges are solid and fine. An extraordinary collection of first-hand accounts by participants in the Civil War…. An excellent condition, first edition, antique book set.
A SUPERB COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR ACCOUNTS BY PARTICIPANTS IN THE WAR
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