Author: ROSS, Fitzgerald
Title: Cities and Camps of the Confederate States
Description: Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1958. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 262pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. First of this modern edition of the 1865 classic, tight and handsome. An English cavalry captain tours the South in 1863-64. Bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from noted Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple, 1p, 8" X 11", Harrogate, TN, 1958 July 23. Addressed to noted Lincoln scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93).Near fine. On "Lincoln Memorial University" letterhead, Temple encourages Gates to review the Ross book for the "Lincoln Herald." (Gates did review it there in the Fall 1958 issue, writing that this edition would "take an important place alongside Fremantle's Diary and Russell's Observations..") NEVINS I, 154. .

Keywords: CIVIL WAR; SIGNED Civil War


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