OFFICIAL AND ILLUSTRATED WAR RECORD Embracing Nearly One Thousand Pictorial Sketches By the Most Distinguished American Artists of Battles by Land and Sea: Camp and Field Scenes, Insignia of Rank and Leading Characters In the Civil War

Wright, Marcus J., Benjamin La Bree and James P. Boyd

Verlag: Privately Published by Subscription, Washington, 1898

Beschreibung

1898. Good. Folio, 584 pp., with numerous black & white engravings, maps and fold out panoramas. Bound in publishers green buckram with titles in gilt on spine, front cover decorated in gilt. All edges marbled. Board edges worn, with rubbing to the spine. Front hinge cracking, with the first several blank end papers loose (title page secure). Some fingersoiling. Not as bad as it sounds. Compiled from the official data furnished by Union and Confederate departments, commands, corps, divisions and brigades : portraits and biographies of Northern and Southern leaders : elaborate maps, Army and Navy rosters, battle-lists, and descriptions, alphabetically and chronologically arranged, numerous tabular statements of cemeteries, prisoners, casualties, expenditures, and martial matters not hitherto accessible : authentic articles by eminent officials on the uses of a navy, closing days of conflict, origin and meaning of corps badges, object and status of the Grand Army of the Republic and Confederate Veterans' Association. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26271

Bibliografische Details

Titel: OFFICIAL AND ILLUSTRATED WAR RECORD ...

Verlag: Privately Published by Subscription, Washington

Erscheinungsdatum: 1898

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Various

Zustand: Good