Description
The first edition of The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story Of Sumter 1860-1861 by Samuel Wylie Crawford.
Octavo, xxiv, 486pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative gilt medallion on front panel. Light shelf wear to cloth, bright gilt illustrations and text. Floral end papers. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Major Anderson, 12 full page illustrations, illustrations in text, two-page map of Charleston, and numerous half page illustrations. (Nevins I, 26) (Eicher 31)
One of the scarce shoulder strap editions from Charles L. Webster & Company.
A thorough account of the fall of Fort Sumter by Union General Samuel Wylie Crawford, a United States Army surgeon on the staff of Robert Anderson during the Confederate bombardment. He was one of the few soldiers who were present for the beginning of the war at Fort Sumter and the surrender at Appomattox Court House. This work was reprinted in 1896 with the revised title of: “The History of the Fall of Fort Sumter.” (Eicher 31)
