Author: STILLWELL, Leander
Title: The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the CIVIL War, 1861-1865
Description: Alexandria, Time-Life Books, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed full leather with gilt lettering. 278pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in red silk page marker. Fine. Handsome, tight facsimile of the 1920 Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. second edition. Part of the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. Stillwell served with Company D of the 61st Illinois Infantry. James I. Robertson Jr. calls this "A comprehensive and solid memoir by an observant soldier; based on letters and a diary; indispensable for any understanding of a Federal 'GI.'" NEVINS I, 164. .

Keywords: COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY OF THE CIVIL WAR Civil War


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