Author: JONES, John B.
Title: A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
Description: Alexandria, Time-Life Books, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Complete 2-volume set. Black blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. xii, 392pp; 480pp. All edges gilt, decorative endpapers, sewn-in red silk page markers. Fine. A tight and most attractive facsimile reprint of the J.B. Lippincott & Co. (Philadelphia) 1866 first edition of this classic (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co), a volume in the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. Single-leaf explanatory sheet laid into each volume. James I. Robertson Jr. critiques it thusly: "The most consulted journal for wartime Richmond and the Confederate government; Jones, who reworked the diary shortly after the war, had an exaggerated opinion of his military judgments" -- while Rodney C. Loehr critiques it less flatteringly as "An interesting commentary on life and people in the Confederacy, but marred by the author's strong prejudices and his editing of the narrative after the events described." NEVINS I, 115 and II, 173. .

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


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