Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-'65. Written by members of the respective commands.

Raleigh, (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Printer and binder, for the State, 1901. First edition. Thick 8vos. 5 volumes: xiv, (2), 783; (4), 807; (4), 761; iv, 772; (2), xxvi, 859 pp. Illustrated with portrait plates, maps and plans, some folding, folding map of the state of North Carolina. Cover sub-title: "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, Last at Appomattox." Nevins I, p. 70: "Regimental sketches vary in quality, but the work fully merits Douglas S. Freeman's classification as one of the most indispensable works for the Army of Northern Virginia." Dornbusch II, 722. In Tall Cotton 24: "A historical undertaking of a magnitude matched by no other single state." Nicholson, p. 154. Each volume with the bookplate of Wilson, North Carolina, genealogist Hugh Johnston (1913-1990; most of his genealogy collection now resides in the Edgecombe County Memorial Library and the State Library of North Carolina); still a good solid set. Original three-color and gilt stamped gray cloth (rubbed, hinges strengthened with cloth tape in volume one, spine labels removed from volumes one, two, and three), decorated with crossed flags of North Carolina and the Confederacy. (10116). Item #63495

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