Description
First edition of My Story of the War by Mary A. Livermore, published in 1888.
Octavo, 700pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Floral endpapers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Complete with frontispiece, 8 full page illustrations of battle scenes and 8 full page color illustrations of battle flags. Scuff mark on front cover, clean text. Sturdy text block. (Nevins II, 130) (Eicher, 637) (Dornbusch IV, 1834) The true first edition of this work by Mary Livermore.
My Story Of The War details the wartime activities of a journalist and social worker during the Civil War. It describes military hospitals in St. Louis, with descriptions of the sanitary conditions and her efforts to improve hygiene. She describes her meeting with Ulysses S. Grant before the battle of Vicksburg.
