Description
The complete 16 volume set of The Army In The Civil War and The Navy In The Civil War, from Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1885. Octavo, [16 volumes]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine with decorative bands. Three volumes in quarter brown morocco, raised bands, marbled boards. All with top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait with tissue covers in each volume. Bookplates from American Historian Peter Cozzens. The Army in the Civil War was released by Scribner’s in 1885 in 13 volumes and sold by subscription. The companion set, The Navy in the Civil War, was released at the same time sold in a 3 volume set. (Newman/Long, Vol. 56, No. 2)
Comments: Includes the following volumes: The Army In The Civil War: The Outbreak of Rebellion (Nicolay), From Fort Henry to Corinth (M.F. Force), The Peninsula – McClellan’s Campaign of 1862 (Webb), The Army Under Pope (J.C. Ropes), The Antietam and Fredericksburg (Palfrey), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (Doubleday), The Army of the Cumberland (Cist), The Mississippi (Greene), Atlanta (Jacob Cox), The March to the Sea – Franklin and Nashville (Jacob Cox), The Shenandoah Valley in 1864 (Pond), The Virginia Campaign of ’64 and ’65 (Humphreys), Statistical Record (Phisterer). The Navy in the Civil War: The Blockage and The Cruisers (Soley), The Atlantic Coast (Ammen) and The Gulf and Inland Waters (Mahan, Volume III – Nevins I, 229)
