Author: SMITH, Benjamin T.
Title: Private Smith's Journal
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1963. Hardcover. Edited by Clyde C. Walton. 16mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. lxii, 253pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Good plus. Binding is fine but text block is moderately wavy. Nice 61st volume from the "Lakeside Classics" annual Christmas keepsake series. While most "Lakeside Classics" are reprints of rare Americana titles, this is the true first edition of Smith's text. Smith served with the 51st Regiment Illinois Volunteers from October 1861 to November 1865, and while he remained a private throughout he participated in an impressive and far-ranging number of important engagements. James I. Robertson Jr. notes, "his well-edited diary spans four years of war in the Tennessee area." From the library of Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021). NEVINS I, 159. .

Keywords: Civil War Illinois & Midwest


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