The Life and Military Services of Gen. William Selby Harney.; Introduction by Gen. Cassius M. Clay.
St. Louis, (MO): Bryan, Brand & Co., 1878. First edition. 8vo. 477 pp. Illustrated from wood and steel engravings, plates, vignettes, portraits, frontispiece portrait of Harney (1800-1889), a native of Tennessee who spent his years after the Civil War in Missouri and Mississippi. He served gallantly as an officer, but not without controversy, in the 1836 Seminole War, the Mexican War, and against the Indians in the West before the outbreak of the Civil War, which found him in command of the Department of the West in St. Louis. Some of his actions there aroused suspicions in Washington and he was relieved of command and he retired in 1863. Howes R-102. Nevins II, p. 84: "An outdated biography of a professional soldier and Mexican War hero deprived of active Civil War command because of suspected Southern sympathies." Nicholson, p. 696. Some foxing to the plates, else a very good copy with a St. Louis association. Original black and gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (rubbed, a little spotted, some soiling). Publisher's presentation copy, gilt-stamped "C. C. Cheney" on the front cover and with the pencil inscription "C. C. Cheney / St. Louis / Apr 79 / Complts of /L. U. Reavis" on the verso of the frontispiece. Cheney, a prominent St. Louis citizen was president of the St. Louis Bank Note Company at the time. (10030). Item #63611
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