Author: JOHNSON, Robert Underwood, and BUEL, Clarence Clough (editors)
Title: Battles and Leaders of the CIVIL War Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers, Based Upon "the Century War Series.
Description: Secaucus, NJ, Castle Books, n.y. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Grey leatherette spines with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jackets. xxii, 750pp; xx, 760pp; xx, 752pp; xx, 829pp. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations, maps. Very good/very good. Faintest of edgewear; third volume (only) lacks dust jacket. Tight, attractive reprint set of this mammoth compilation first published by The Century Company in 1887-88, described by James I. Robertson Jr. as "Opinionated and rationalizing memoirs by high-ranking officers on both sides [which] make this work one of the most quoted in Civil War literature." This reprint titles the first volume "The Opening Battles," the second volume "The Struggle Intensifies," the third volume "The Tide Shifts" and the fourth volume "Retreat with Honor." Undated, but likely late 1980s. NEVINS I, 55. .

Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War


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