Description
First edition of A Sketch of the War Record of the Edisto Rifles by William Valmore Izlar.
Octavo, 168pp. Gray cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings noted. Slight lean to text block, dust remnants to top edge, some wear to fore edge of front cover. Light wear to gutter throughout. Complete with eighteen full-page plates, including frontispiece. (Dornbusch II: 888) (Howes I98) (Nevins I: 112)
This volume contains Izlar’s retelling of the Confederate loss at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher and his experience at the Union prisoner of war camp at Point Lookout in Maryland. (Nevins I: 112) Full Title: A Sketch of the War Record of the Edisto Rifles, 1861-1865 / Company “A,” 1st Regiment S.C.V. Infantry / Colonel Johnson Hagood / Provisional Army of the Confederate States 1861-1862 / Company “G,” 25th Regiment S.C.V. Infantry / Colonel Charles H. Simonton / Confederate States Army 1862-1865.
