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Published by Konecky & Konecky New York,. ISBN 1568521847.
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 358pp. Light wear on edges, texta mark across bottom page edges, bookseller sticker bottom right of front pastedown. A very good copy. Reproduction of General Hood's memoirs, originally published in 1880. Includes details of the Siege of Atlanta, the campaigns of Virginia, Gettysberg and other Civil War battles. Includes war time communiques, battle maps and Hood's correspondence.
Published by New Orleans by G. T. Beauregard for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund 1880, 1880
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. With two tissue-guarded portraits and four battle maps, one of which is a fold-out. 8vo, in later burgundy cloth, the spine with a gilt lettered and tooled black morocco label preserved from the publisher's original deluxe leather binding and now adorned here. 358 pp. A clean and bright copy with only occasional evidence of mellowing or age to the paper, the signatures a little pulled in places but still firmly attached, some cracking to the hinge side of the frontispiece along the gutter due to the heavy paper used, without damage to the image, one blank excised, the binding strong and solid with just a hint of fading to the spine panel, the original leather label well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF GENERAL JOHN B. HOOD'S POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF HIS SERVICE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The text has long been considered controversial and was largely written as a rebuttal to the harsh treatment of Hood in General Joe Johnston's autobiography. Johnston had been replaced by Hood as commander of the Army of Tennessee, an act most modern historians believe to have been one of the biggest mistakes of the Civil War. Hood's account sometimes reads as bitter, he was badly wounded twice and by the time of of publication of his book, many were remembering him unfavorably. Failed business concerns after the war left him with little economic security. He and his wife died within days of each other, leaving ten destitute orphans. His manuscript for ADVANCE AND RETREAT, rough and unfinished, was published by fellow Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard to raise money for the care of the orphaned children.