REMINISCENCES OF FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE IN 1860-61

Doubleday, Abner

Verlag: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1876, 1876

Beschreibung

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12 mo, 184, frontis illustration, map, with 8 pgs of publisher s catalog. Original green cloth with blue gilt lines on cover and titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor rubbing to edges and spine ends; else clean and bright. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Well-regarded work by the famous Abner Doubleday, a long-time military artillery officer, and the man wrongly credited with inventing baseball. Here he describes the roll of these two Charleston harbor forts had with the beginning of the Civil War when Southern secessionists shelled and bombarded Fort Sumter in April 1861. REFERENCES: DORN II 1544. NEVINS I pg 27: This charming story, by a then-captain of artillery inside the two forts, is a memoir of merit because of the aura of its immediacy and intimacy. . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0424029

Bibliografische Details

Titel: REMINISCENCES OF FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE ...

Verlag: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1876

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition