Author: KIRWAN, A.D. (editor)
Title: Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier
Description: N.p. The University of Kentucky Press, 1956. Hardcover. Small 4to. Maroon cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxviii, 217pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature/address on front pastedown and half-title page. Tight, handsome and uncommon first edition -- the Civil War Book Club's "Chickamauga Edition," with a special printed leaf boldly signed by Kirwan tipped in. "Highly descriptive," notes James I. Robertson Jr. "this diary is the best personal commentary known for life in Kentucky's most famous brigade." NEVINS I, 97. .

Keywords: Civil War


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