Item #66888 The Deserter. Herbert SHELTON.
The Deserter

The Deserter

Talladega, AL: Press of Our Mountain Home, 1900. First edition. 8vo. 64 pp. The story of a Confederate soldier who deserted on the field of battle in Virginia, then survived the Home Guard, until the war finally ended. “The Southern cause was indeed lost, and he would no longer be a hunted vagabond. He believed it was right for the South to lose, yet … he revered [the battle-scarred veterans] as heroes and martyrs to the cause of sectional patriotism … true to the bitter end to what the South believed was right.” Not in Wright. OCLC locates one copy (Haverford). Original printed brown wrappers (chipped, text block browned, spine repaired with old cello-tape). Good copy only of a fragile, rare book, produced with poor quality materials. Item #66888

Price: $1,250.00

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