LONGSTREET, James

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Edited with an introduction and notes by James I. Robertson, Jr.

Bloomington, (IN): Indiana U. Press, (c1960). First edition thus, a reprint of the 1896 edition , with new material. Thick 8vo. xxix, 13-692 pp. Illustrated from photographs and paintings; included is a facsimile of a 3-page ALS from Robert E. Lee to Longstreet. Howes L-451. Nevins I, pp. 122: "A combination of reminiscences and rebuttals by a gallant soldier ostracized by his comrades in the Reconstruction period; a necessary source for any study of Lee's army." Dornbusch II, 2977. In Tall Cotton 114. Nicholson, p. 481. South to Posterity, p. 220. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, decorated dust jacket (with a little edgewear). Very good. Item #66034

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