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The Women of the Debatable Land
by
Alexander Hunter
Illustrated by Elizabeth Harmon
Hardcover. 8vo. Corden Publsihing Company, Washington, DC. 1912. viii, 261 pg., illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 15 b&w plates; large folding map at rear paste down.
Bound in publisher's red cloth, with title on front board and spineboards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Stamp of Alexadner Hunter, Silver Spring, MD present to the title page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
"Folklore rather than history; written from stories told to, or experiences remembered by, the author"
Alexander Hunter was a Civil War veteran, serving in the Black Horse Cavalry which was part of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry Corps. This book is his tribute to "the women of Virginia who sacrificed their all that the cause they loved should never die." Hunter's goal was to raise public sentiment, and sufficient funds, to erect "a magnificent statue to the Virginia woman of the sixties. The women of the Old Commonwealth have erected many monuments in remembrance of the Confederate Soldiers, and it should have been a sacred duty for the Veterans to have a splendid statue carved in memory of those who divided their sorrows and doubled their joys." In particular, Hunter focuses on the Confederate women of Fauquier County, Virginia - for "While the women in no section of Virginia failed in the least to bear their share of the fearful burdens of that terrible war, I know those of one section best, and of them I particularly, therefore, write in this book. That section during the Civil War was called the Debatable Land, or 'Mosby's Confederacy.' By turns it was swept by the rival armies of the Blue and the Gray..."
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Alexander Hunter (1843- June 20, 1914) was an American soldier for the Confederate States Army, civil servant, and writer best known for the novels Johnny Reb and Billy Yank and The Women of the Debatable Land.
Alexander Hunter was born in 1843 and was a member of the Hunter family. He was the son of Bushrod Hunter and Mary Frances Blow. He lived during his youth at the Abingdon plantation in present-day Arlington County, Virginia and studied at private schools until the start of the American Civil War in 1861.
Following Chancellorsville, Hunter joined Company H in the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, also known as the "Black Horse Troop", on the recommendation of General Robert E. Lee. Captured once more, he attempted escape twice and finally returned to his regiment to serve until the Confederate surrender. Wounded twice during the war, Hunter was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson on September 4, 1865.
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sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
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