HOOD, J[ohn] B.

Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States

Item #74581

HOOD, J[ohn] B. Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. G.T. Beauregard, 1880. 1st ed. 358pp. Portrait frontis., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth. Rebacked, original spine laid down else very good. HOWES H-622. Dornbusch II, 2797. In Tall Cotton 93. Coulter, 238. With the ownership signature on front pastedown, "F.B. Sanborn, Concord, October 1880." Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was a friend and biographer of Henry David Thoreau. He was also an ardent abolitionist, who supplied John Brown with support for the raid on Harper's Ferry and supported Brown's family until the end of his life. Bookplate of John A. Cutchins, author of The Richmond Blues. "The controversial, sometimes bitter, memoirs of a maimed Confederate general" Nevins II, p.65. Much of the book is devoted to accounts of the siege of Atlanta and the Tennessee campaign.

Price: $400.00