Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby

SCOTT, Major John

Verlag: Harper and Brothers, New York, 1867

Beschreibung

Large octavo, 492pp., illustrated. In good condition only in the publisher's textured cloth, wtih wear to the spine ends and corners, and the front free endpaper with some pieces cut and removed. A significant copy, however, with pleasing provenance, as the contemoprary ownership signature of R[obert] B. Parrott of Richmond, VA, appears on a front blank. Above that inscription, in light pencil, is another inscription: "Presented to Mr. E L Fuller by R [B] Parrott of Charlottesville, Va, who was with Mosby." Parrott, indeed, was one of Mosby's Rangers. According to a biography on the website for the Texas State Historical Association, he was elected second sergeant of Company F of Mosby's 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, better known as "Mosby's Rangers." Captured in December of 1864, he spent the rest of the war as prisoner in Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. He lived in Charlottesville for several years after the war, eventually moving to Waco, TX. Though a rather worn copy, one with appealing provenance. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11806

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Partisan Life with Col. John S. Mosby

Verlag: Harper and Brothers, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1867

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.