Good Books In The Woods Catalog for January, 2012 Civil War Books

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1 Good Books In The Woods Catalog for January, 2012 Civil War Books Morgan s Quest for Higher Knowledge Morgan is one of our mascots here at Good Books In The Woods. He s a Welsh Springer Spaniel who was born on the Welsh/English border and grew up roaming the grounds at Royal Ascot. In future catalogs you ll meet Morgan s brothers, sisters, and cousins most of whom are rescue mutts from Ohio, California, and Texas. We can t all be nobility like Morgan.

2 Who We Are Good Books In The Woods is a bookstore located just northwest of Houston, TX. Our current inventory numbers more than 50,000 books. Only about 10,000 are listed online. Our inventory is almost entirely collectible, out of print, and used books. Our two specialties are literature and history, although we do carry books in all subjects and all genres. We have an open shop as well as an internet and mail order business. You may browse the 10,000 books we have online at Or you may ask me to search our listed and unlisted stock for you by contacting me at jay@goodbooksinthewoods.com or at I answer the phone from 10am-6pm (central time) Monday-Saturday, just ask for Jay. We are constantly expanding our inventory. We Buy Books I buy individual books and entire libraries and collections. If you are considering selling all or part of your collection, I would be grateful for the chance to bid on your books. Terms & Conditions To order any book in this catalog, please contact me. You can also order books online on my secure website at www. goodbooksinthewoods.com. We accept all major credit cards including American Express and Discover. Institutions may be billed. Shipping charges are at or very near our cost. Our typical US domestic shipping charge is $3 for a single item. Note shipping charges can vary dramatically depending on the weight of the item(s), country of destination, and requested speed of transit. Items may be returned in the same condition within 30 days. As long as the item is in the same condition it was in when we mailed it, no questions will be asked and a full refund, including return shipping, will be issued. Images of all items are available. Please contact us for more information. All items in the catalog are subject to prior sale. Jay Rohfritch Good Books In The Woods Oak Ridge Drive jay@goodbooksinthewoods.com The Woodlands, TX Abel, Annie Heloise; Perdue, Theda & Michael D. Green - The American Indian in the Civil War, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska Softcover. First Trade Edition. Near Fine. Top and bottom corners of front cover are slightly creased. Reprint - original published in Original was the first history of the Southern Indians experiences in the Civil War. Tells the story of the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge and its aftermath. The battle was a disaster for the Confederacy, but a glorious moment for their allies, the Cherokee Mounted Rifles. $ Adams, George Worthington - Doctors in Blue The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War Henry Schuman, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. No dust jacket. Author inscribed the book Max and Margaret Lanner, with friendship and best wishes of the author. George Adams. January 22, Signed in the year of publication. Bookplate of Max Lanner on the front pastedown. Book includes Civil War photographs. Describes the medical confusion of 1861, the Barnes regime and army surgeons, the beginning of an ambulance system, wartime surgery, hospitals, nurses, and disease. Great book for those with a keen interest in what the Civil War was really like Adkin, Mark - The Gettysburg Companion The Complete Guide to America s Most Famous Battle Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Oversize beautiful book from Stackpole Publishing with 544 pages of color illustrations, color military maps, photographs, tables, and orders of battle. A must for anyone serious about the Civil War. An in-depth study of the battle with many maps showing unit movements. Color plates showing uniforms, weapons, and tactics. A very nice, unread copy. Dust jacket has edge wear to the top of spine. Heavy book, extra shipping required. $ Amann, William Frayne - Personnel of the Civil War Thomas Yoseloff, New York Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one binding. Contains both Volume 1 The Confederate Armies and Volume 2 The Union Armies. Third printing. No dust jacket. Lists of all the Generals and units in the Civil War. Thick book. Contains reprints of some of the rarest Confederate records from the war. This copy was owned by Vernon Elledge who had a deep interest in Texas and Confederate history. His copy is filled with penciled notes which adds a considerable amount of research info to what is an already incredible resource. $ Barclay, Ted - Liberty Hall Volunteers Letters from the Stonewall Brigade, Rockbridge Pub Co, Berryville, VA Softcover. Very Good. Edited by Charles W. Turner. Superbly edited...a treasure of comments on camp life... One of the better compilations of Civil War Soldiers writings for the Southern side. --Blue & Gray Magazine. $24.00

3 37899 Black, Robert C. - The Railroads of the Confederacy University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C Hardcover. Very Good+. Missing dust jacket. Complete with illustrations, photos & maps. Large map included in pocket on rear endpaper. Very Good Plus light tan covers with black spine title. Former owner inscription on front endpaper. $ Britton, Wiley - Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863 Cushing, Thomas & Co, Hardcover. First Edition. Good. Missing dust jacket. Blue cloth with no dust jacket. Ex-library with more than the usual markings. Binding pulling away from the spine, but all pages present and intact. Author served as a private in the Kansas 6th Cavalry. He wrote about Pea Ridge, Prarie Grove, Cane Hill, and others. A personal account of what the brutal border wars were like in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory. In addition to the Confederates, the border wars featured guerrilas and Indians. $ Browning Jr, Robert - From Cape Charles to Cape Fear The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor wear to edges of cover. Top right corner bumped. Making excellent use of the private papers of participants, ship s logs, Navy Department records, and congressional reports, this book is the definitive work on the Union blockading squadron off North Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War. Winner of the 1993 Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy. Winner of the 1994 John Lyman Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. Author is the Chief Historian of the United States Coast Guard. $ Case, Carleton - Wit & Humor of Abraham Lincoln Shrewesbury Publishing, Chicago Softcover. Very Good edition. In wraps. A collection of amusing anecdotes and vignettes about Abraham Lincoln gathered from authentic sources. I read a few and while they are definitely amusing and colorful, their accuracy may be slightly lacking. One story has Lincoln toasting his election with a glass of cold water and mentioning he never drank anything else. Since the book was published during Prohibition, that particular story may be unreliable. $ Casler, John O. - Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina Softcover. Reprint. Near Fine. Memoirs of a Confederate private who served in Lee s Army of Northern Virginia and the Stonewall Brigade for 28 months. This personal account of the war is one of the most sought after accounts by a Confederate soldier. Casler was not a model soldier and his memoir is unsparing and even blunt. He was arrested five times for disciplinary infractions. He robbed dead soldiers, and had numerous unscheduled leaves. He enlisted in 1861 and fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He was captured in February of 1865 and spent the last months of the war a prisoner in Maryland. From Casler s memoir - It was difficult for a soldier to figure out why a gold watch or money in the pocket of a dead soldier, who had been trying to kill him all day, did not belong to the man who found it as much as it did to anyone else. One of the most cited memoirs by professional historians. $ Casler, John O. - Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade Morningside Bookshop (Publishers), Dayton, Ohio Hardcover. Very Good+. Spine tilted, else Fine Caudill, Philip Robert - Moss Bluff Rebel A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Texas Hardcover. First Edition. New in New dust jacket. A biography of Confederate officer William Berry Duncan. Duncan was a Texas pioneer cattle drover who reluctantly signed up for the war. This account of his wartime service and his attempts to rebuild his lost way of life after the war is based on the journals and diaries Duncan wrote during and after the war. This book is the first time those primary sources have been utilized. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. B&W photographs and maps included. $ Chambers, Lenoir - Stonewall Jackson William Morrow, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. Second Printing of Chambers two volume biography of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Both volumes Very Good in red cloth. Comes in Very Good - original slipcase. Volume 1 The Legend and The Man to Valley V. Volume 2 Seven Days I to The Last March.

4 40403 Colton, Matthias Baldwin - The Civil War Journal and Correspondence of Matthias Baldwin Colton MacRae Smith Company, Philadelphia Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. Missing dust jacket. This edition limited to only 200 copies of which this is number 5. The Coltons lived in Philadelphia. Matthias Baldwin and his brother William, enlisted in the 15th Penn Cavalry in Matthias was imprisoned near Annapolis in 1863 and wrote of his experiences as a parole prisoner and the many skirmishes he fought in as the army moved west towards Chattanooga. The letters to him are filled with detail of Philadelphia life during the Civil War. A bit of light staining to head of title page. Dark blue boards with gilt top page edges and gilt title on spine. Gilt is clean and bright on page edges and spine. $ Cox, Jacob - The Battle of Franklin Tennessee, November 30, 1864, a Monograph Morningside Bookshop (Publishers), Dayton, Ohio Hardcover. Near Fine. Black boards with gilt spine titles. Gilt is bright. Morningside s 1983 reprint of the 1897 original. This book was written by the commanding officer who lead in the heart of the battle. It is one of the only accounts of any Western battle written by a participant. It is well researched and was considered by Morningside in 1983 to still be the definitive account of the Battle of Franklin. $ Davis, Jefferson, & Stephens, Alexander - Robert E. Lee Hill Junior College, Hillsboro, TX Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Gilt bright. Top back corner of the book is bent. Bottom of spine bumped. Inscribed and signed by editor in blue ink on the first free endpaper. Editor is Colonel Harold Simpson who served in the US Army Air Force in WWII and later became a professor and the acknowledged expert on Hood s Texas Brigade. This edition Limited to 1000 copies. It includes introductions by the editor as well as two biographical studies of Lee by contemporaries. The first was written by Jefferson Davis in 1889 for the North American Review. It the last piece of formal writting done by the Confederate President who died that same year. The second study was written in 1886 by Alexander Stephens who was Governor of Georgia. Dust Jacket has a small tear on head near corner, and 1/2 tear on the tail near corner. Foxing to top page edge. $ Evans, General Clement A. (editor) - Confederate Military History--Complete 13 Volumes A Library of Confederate States History, in Thirteen Volumes, Written by Distinguished Men of the South, and The Blue and Grey Press, Secaucus, New Jersey Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Includes: Volume I: SECESSION AND THE CIVIL WAR; Volume II: MARYLAND AND WEST VIRGINIA; Volume III: VIRGINIA; Volume IV: NORTH CAROLINA; Volume V: SOUTH CAROLINA; Volume VI: GEORGIA; Volume VII: THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR; Volume VIII: TENNESSEE; Volume IX: KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI; Volume X: LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS; Volume XI: TEXAS AND FLORIDA; Volume XII: ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI; Volume XIII: THE SOUTH AFTER THE WAR AND THE CONFEDERATE NAVY. Some corners turned down. $ Fletcher, W.A. - Rebel Private, Front and Rear. Experiences and Observations From the Early Fifties and Through the Civil War Press of the Greer Print, Beaumont, Texas Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition, Memoirs of a Confederate private who fought at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Chickamaugua. Very Good - condition with soiled covers. No dust jacket. Original gray cloth with blue lettering and Union and Confederate flag decoration. Endpapers and pages tanned with age. Portrait frontis. This is an uncommon book. Most of the first print run was destroyed in a fire. The few books that survived the fire tend to have smoke damage. This copy does not have smoke damage indicating it was one of the very few copies to have actually sold before the fire. It will be difficult to find a better copy. In fact, if you do find a better copy, please let me know because I ll want to buy it. $3, Foster, Samuel T. & Norman D. Brown (Ed) - One of Cleburne s Command The Civil War Reminiscences and Diary of Capt. Samuel T. Foster, Granbury s Texas Brigade, CSA Univ of Texas Pr, Austin, Texas Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Captain Samuel Foster was a member of the 24th Texas Calvary Regiment (dismounted) in Granbury s Texas Brigade. Their division commander, General Cleburne, called the Texans a band of heroes. This is Foster s diary of everyday life in the Confederate Army. Included in his reminiscences and diary are the battles of Arkansas Post, and all the great battles of the Army of the Tennessee including Chickamauga and Franklin. Foster was also a prisoner of war. He was wounded three times and fought to the bitter end. Edited by Norman Brown who signed and dated the book on the front free endpaper. A 1980 reprint of the 1877 original Frazier, Dr. Donald S. - Fire in the Cane Field State House Press, Austin Hardcover. New in New dust jacket. The history of the Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas that lasted from January 1861-January Still in publisher s plastic shrinkwrap. $35.00

5 39285 Gottfried, Bradley M - The Maps of Gettysburg An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 - July 13, 1863 Savas Beatie, New York Hardcover. Second Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Full of beautiful maps showing units and movement during the entire Battle of Gettysburg. The first 289 pages of this book follow the format of text on one page and a map on the facing page. Appendix includes Orders of Battle, Bibliography, and extensive notes. This book is in almost like new condition Gottfried, Bradley M. - The Maps of First Bull Run An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball s Bluff, June-October 1861 Savas Beatie, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Filled with beautiful full color maps showing armies and their movements during First Bull Run. One page of text for every full page map pages of that format. Includes an Appendix with Order of Battle and Losses, extensive notes, and a bibliography. $ Griscom, George L - Fighting with Ross Texas Cavalry Brigade, C.S.A The Diary of Lt. George Griscom, Adjutant, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment Hill Jr. College Press, Hillsboro, TX Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Moderate to heavy foxing on top page edge only. Text block clean. Spine of DJ tanned. Most of this book is made up of a reprint of the Diary of Lt. George Griscom who served with Sul Ross Texas Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War. Griscom was absent from duty only a few days during the entire war. The diary is comprehensive and revealing and is a significant contribution to Texas and Confederate History. Edited by the Historian Homer Kerr. Introduction by Colonel Harol B. Simpson. Col. Simpson SIGNED the book in blue ink at the end of his introduction. Col Simpson also inscribed the book in blue ink on the first free endpaper. $ Herdegen, Lance - Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign Savas Beatie, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The men of the Iron Brigade--an all-western outfit famously branded as The Iron Brigade of the West--served out their enlistments entirely in the Eastern Theater. Hardy men were these soldiers from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan who waged war beneath their unique black Hardee Hats on many fields, from Brawner s Farm during the Second Bull Run Campaign all the way to Apomattox. $ Horan, James - Confederate Agent Crown, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. The true story of one of the most fascinating adventures of the Civil War. Thomas Hines, a handsome young Confederate Captain, led a secret mission whose goal was to foment rebellion in the North. He nearly succeeded and became the most wanted man in America. His mission did result in the burning of 15 New York hotels, unrest in Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, and great numbers of Union troops being diverted from Grant s command. Author pieced the story together using newspaper accounts, letters, and archives - some of which had never been read by historians. Price clipped. $ Johnson, Adam R. - The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army Memoirs of General Adam R. Johnson Geo. G. Fetter, Louisville, Kentucky Hardcover. First Edition. Good. No dust jacket. Adam Johnson came to Texas in 1854, then returned to Kentucky in 1861 and commanded the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. The 10th Kentucky fought with Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Hunt Morgan. Johnson was promoted to Brigadier General. He later founded Marble Falls, Texas. This book is one of Jenkins basic Texas books. A must have for any serious collector of Civil War history or Texana. Good Original Maroon cloth with gilt decorative title on front cover and gilt title on spine. Spine worn, especially on top and bottom. Spine starting to separate from endpapers, but all pages intact. Many illustrations. Edited by William J. Davis. Previous owner name and date on the endpaper W. M. Key Oct $ Joslyn, Mauriel Phillips - Immortal Captives The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy White Mane Pub, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. This book combines original scholarship with full quotations from the participants. The history of 600 Confederate prisoners of war held at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The policies of President Lincoln, Grant, and lower ranking Union leaders come under reevaluation. Red leatherette boards with gilt spine titles. Some soiling to DJ. DJ has a long closed tear down the back where the back of the DJ meets the spine.

6 38206 Krick, Robert K - Lee s Colonels A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia Morningside Bookshop (Publishers), Dayton, Ohio Hardcover. Fine. A complete record, of some 400 pages, of every field officer who served under Robert E. Lee in the Civil War. The work was begun by Brigadier General Wright in 1878 and was added to by several others. Includes the officers name, rank, promotion history, occupation prior to the war, and units served with. $ Lanier, Robert (editor) - Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes Review of Review Corp., New York Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. All 10 volumes of the Semi-Centennial Memorial Photographic History of the Civil War. Published in 1911 on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Condition of each volume ranges from Good to Very Good. Covers may have wear, rubbing and some have spotting. Top page edges on all 10 volumes gilt which is in very nice shape. Gilt lettering and decorations on all 10 spines also bright and intact. Inside pages, including hundreds of photographs, are clean and bright with no spotting or foxing. All 10 volumes bound in blue boards, no DJ. Each volume is slightly oversize and contains about 300 pages of photographs and text for a total of about 3,000 pages of photographs and explanatory text for the set. A heavy set that will require extra postage. Please contact us for postage prices. $ Lincoln, Abraham - The Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln The Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine grey cloth with black Lincoln line drawing on front board, and black/silver title on spine. Protected in slipcover. No DJ as issued. Includes Heritage Club review pamphlet of the book. Selected with an introduction by Carl van Doren Long, E. B. - The Civil War Day by Day An Almanac Doubleday, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. The author was a university professor who worked on a 9 year research program for Bruce Catton. In the course of that research, Prof Long assembled more than 9 million words of original research and visited every Civil War battlefield. This book is almost a diary of the Civil War with an entry for every single day from November May With information pulled from countless sources, the author tells the daily story of the Civil War. Three pages have their corners turned down Long, Walter - Stonewall s Foot Cavalryman Austin Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good+. Andrew Davidson Long was, according to the Dallas Morning News, the last known member of Stonewall s Brigade. His son, Walter Long, wrote this book about the Civil War and his father s experiences in the Stonewall Brigade. Includes what are purported to be direct quotes from Andrew Long. The book review from the Dallas Morning News is pasted to the rear pastedown. Comes with another article from that newspaper as well as a book review from the Staunton Virginia Leader laid in. $ Moore, Frank - Rebellion Record: Gen. McClellan s Report G. P. Putnam, New York Softcover. First Edition. Fair. Green wraps. Heavy wear to spine. Three corners of wrappers are torn or folded. Bottom right corners of many pages folded over. Foxing to pages and text. Includes 5 maps and plans of battles. This book is General McClellan s reports of the Civil War for Includes Lincoln-McClellan correspondence as well as communications between McClellan and other generals such as Hooker. This book is incomplete. It stops at page 654. Remaining pages missing. $ Polley, J. B. - Hood s Texas Brigade It s Marches, it s Battles, it s Achievements Morningside Bookshop (Publishers), Dayton, Ohio Hardcover. Very Good. Gray boards with fading gilt titles on cover and spine. This is facsimile 37 in the series by Morningside. The original was published in the early 1900 s. Author was a son of one of the founders of the Texas Republic. He fought with Hood s Texas Brigade and was wounded twice, once in 1862 and once in The second wounding required the amputation of his right foot. After the war, the author became a lawyer and historian of Hood s Brigade. He was elected as the official historian of the Brigade by its surviving veterans and his book was the first book to focus on the military history of the Brigade for the entire war. $50.00

7 39179 Powell, David - The Maps of Chickamauga An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863 Savas Beatie, New York Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. The Maps of Chickamauga is the anxiously awaited third volume in the acclaimed Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series. Author Powell and cartographer Friedrichs break down the entire operations into sixteen map sets or action-sections enriched with 126 original full-color maps Ratchford, J. W. - Some Reminiscences of Persons and Incidents of the Civil War Shoal Creek, Austin Hardcover. Facsimile. Near Fine Facsimile copy of the rare 1909 book by Major Ratchford detailing his experiences in the Confederate Army. Ratchford was the first Confederate injured in a land battle in the Civil War and may have fought in more battles than any other soldier on either side. He knew all the great men of the Confederacy and fought in some of the most pivotal battles. Only four copies of the original 1909 publication were known to exist in 1971 when the facsimile was made. The book was actually written by Ratchford s daughter who was the Rare Book librarian at the University of Texas for 40 years. Her father told her stories of Stonewall Jackson, RE Lee, Davis, Hood, Hill, and Bragg and she wrote the reminiscences down to create a book that is more centered on people than events. An incredibly interesting item for any Civil War collector. In gold colored Very Good slipcase Reid, Thomas - Spartan Band Burnett s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War University of North Texas Press, Hardcover. New in New dust jacket. The hard-marching, hard-fighting soldiers of the 13th Texas Cavalry helped make Walker s Greyhound Division famous, and their story comes to life through Thomas Reid s exhaustive research and entertaining writing style. This book should serve as a model for Civil War regimental histories. -- Terry L. Jones, author of Lee s Tigers. This book is still in the publisher s plastic raps. $ Sharf, J. Thomas - History of the Confederate States Navy From its Organization to the Surrender of its Last Vessel Fairfax Press, Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Published in 1887 by an officer who served in the Confederate Navy and fought in the war. His history of the Confederate States Navy and the Civil War naval battles is colored by his own experiences. The book is also based on interviews with other Confederate Naval Officers. Describes the engagements fought in the rivers and harbors of the South and on the high seas. Blockade running, privateering, the first use of iron-clads, and torpedoes are all described. The author s thesis is that the North would not have won the War without its Navy because the Confederate landforces were lead by vastly superior officers. Profusely illustrated. $ Simpson, Harold B - Hood s Texas Brigade A compendium Hill Jr. College Press, Hillsboro, TX Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dark brown boards with gilt cover design and spine titles. Dustjacket has minor shelf wear and several small minor tears on top edge. Signed by the author in blue ink on the half title page. This is the final volume of the author s 4 volume history of Hood s Texas Brigade. This volume has four parts. The first is a 466 page listing of the Rosters of all the men who fought in Hood s Texas Brigade. The second part contains 70 pages of old photographs of many of the men. The third part contains statistical charts and summaries. Part four is brigade trivia. Author was a Colonel in the US Air Force who fought in World War II and then became a history professor and the acknowledged expert on Hood s Texas Brigade. $ Stackpole, Edward - They Met At Gettysburg Eagle Books, Harrisburg, PA Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Contains maps, photos, and illustrations. National Park Service map of the Gettysburg battlefield is included with the book. Dust jacket missing significant piece at top of spine. Shelf wear and small tears to edges of DJ.

8 40882 Victor, Orville - Men of the Time Biographies of Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, Mitchell Beadle and Company, New York Softcover. First Edition. Good. Small 99 page booklet in orange wraps. Part of Beadle s Dime Biographical Series. This is No 3 in the Men of the Time set. Brief biographies with illustrated portraits of the Generals Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, McClernand, and Mitchell. This book was published in Grant s highest rank in this book is Major General. Not Lieutenant General and Commander of the Union Armies which he would later become. Advertisements for other Dime Series titles on back cover and inside of back cover. Major General Joseph Hooker leads off the book and his biography ends with Hooker becoming the chief commander of the Union and reorganizing the army in February, These quick reforms injected a new vitality into the veins of the lately distempered body; and from an army of simple defense it became one of offense, to do the work allocated by the nation to fighting Joe Hooker. Published before Lee and Jackson smashed Hooker at Chancellorsville in May, Creases to cover. Wear to bottom of spine. $ Victor, Orville - Men of the Time Biographies of Butler, Banks, Burnside, Baker, Stevens, Wilcox, Weber Beadle and Company, New York Softcover. First Edition. Very Good. Small 100 page booklet in orange wraps. Part of Beadle s Dime Biographical Series. This is No 2 in the Men of the Time set. Brief biographies with illustrated portraits of the Generals Butler, Banks, Burnside, Baker, Stevens, Wilcox, and Weber. This book was published in 1862 and reads like Union propaganda. The biography of Burnside says his troops are invunerable. Burnside s biography ends after Antietam, but before he is appointed commander of the Army of the Potomac. A post he would of course lose to Hooker. Advertisements for other Dime Series titles on back cover and inside of back cover. Small tear to wrappers on spine, but overall Very Good condition. $ Weddle, Robert - Plow-Horse Cavalry Madrona Press, Inc., Austin Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Author was born and raised in the Caney Creek country of Fannin County, TX and he writes about the people of that area in the Civil War. The Conscription Act forced the farmers of Caney Creek to take their shotguns and squirrel guns, mount their plough horses and ride to war. The women and old were left to tend the farms and defend against Indian attacks. The men formed the 34th Texas Cavalry and were so bad at being Cavalry that their General had them dismount, march on foot, barefoot in winter, and into battle at Prarie Gove, Arkansas. The 34th later redeemed themselves with a courageous charge at Sabine Crossroads. Research included letters from privates and their left behind families. Maltreatment, malnourishment, and desertion were common. Foxing to page edges. Uncommon book on the 34th Texas Cavalry. $ Wharton, H. M. - War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy W. E. Scull, Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good. Gray cloth with cover design of two white, red, and blue Confederate battle flags. White and gilt titles to cover and spine. Flags and letters are clean and bright. Nice looking book. Bumping to both ends of spine. No DJ. Previous owner name and date on free endpaper. Many illustrations including battle scenes, monuments, and portraits of Lee and other Generals. Author was a private in Lee s army. The vast majority of the pages are clean, perhaps 12 out of 412 have light spotting. Occasional pencil marks denoting a particularly good poem or song. With foreword and four pages of appreciation. $ Wiley, Bell Irvin - The Life of Billy Yank & the Life of Johnny Reb The Common Soldier of the Union & the Common Soldier of the Confederacy Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis Hardcover. Very Good. Boxed set of two volumes. No dust jackets as issued. Very Good+ maroon cloth with gilt lettering titles on spine and front cover. Comes in VG- slipcase. Famous history of the Civil War as a composite portrait of the common soldier. One volume for each side of the war. Book plate of famous collector Rolland Comstock. $ Whitford, William - The Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War The New Mexico Campaign in 1862 Rio Grande Pr Inc, Glorieta, NM Softcover. Very Good+. Reprint of the book that was originally published in The history of the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico territory and the Battle of Glorieta Pass that stopped them. The Confederates hoped to take the territory and then negotiate a large chunk of land from Mexico. Comes with the March-April, 1991 edition of The Denver Westerner that contains the article Battle of Glorieta Pass by Kenneth Pitman. $20.00