Description
The first edition of Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers. Based Upon “The Century Wars Series,” published in 1887.
Quarto, [four volumes]. Quarter modern brown morocco, raised bands, title in gilt. Marbled boards. New endpapers, with top edge gilt. Solid text block, free of marks or notations. Includes hundreds of maps, illustrations, and plates from The Century Magazine.
(Nevins I, 155) (Howes, J145) (Eicher, 743)
From Eicher: “Numerous accounts by general offices make this work a necessary, primary source for all Civil War libraries….It should be read carefully and often.”
Battles and Leaders is based upon a series of articles published by The Century Magazine between 1884-1887. It includes first-hand accounts by Union and Confederate leaders (U.S. Grant, Beauregard), to accounts from the average soldier.
