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. Rubbing to cloth at tips. Original pictorial cloth laid over new spine. Reinforced hinges. Gift inscription from “W.H. Wood” on the front free endpaper, dated 1936. 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 is viewed as an historically important work, but is also said to be defensive in tone and written in the characteristic style of a 19th century soldier. (Eicher 277)
