Author: SCHURZ, Carl
Title: Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869
Description: Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928. Hardcover. Translated and edited by Joseph Schafer. 8vo. Blue blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. xx, 491pp. Frontispiece, 3 illustrations. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear only -- internally near fine. Tight, attractive first edition of Volume XXX in the "Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin" series. James I Robertson Jr. critiques this as "The pointed but sometimes rambling correspondence of a fiery figure who left the ambassadorial ranks to become a field commander." Surprisingly uncommon. NEVINS I, 156. .

Keywords: Civil War Illinois & Midwest


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