Description
First edition of From Manassas To Appomattox by General James Longstreet, published in 1896.
Thick octavo, xxii, 13-690pp. Publisher’s original red pictorial cloth, light soiling to spine, general wear to side panels. Rubbinbg to cloth along bottom of spine. Previous ownership inscription on front endpaper. Includes frontispiece portrait of Longstreet, and complete with 16 maps and 30 illustrations. An attractive copy of this important history of the Confederate army. (Howes L451) (Dornbusch II, 2977) (Nevins I, 122)
From Manassas to Appomattox was offered for sale by subscription in 1895. The most common binding is cloth, but it was also offered in full sheepskin, full morocco, and three-quarter morocco. Since its publication, this book by Confederate General Longstreet has been viewed as a historically important work, but is often defensive in tone and written in the characteristic style of a 19th century soldier. (Eicher 277)
