Last Parade: An Editorial... from "Richmond News Leader" ...
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FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. The Last Parade: An Editorial... from "Richmond News Leader" of Friday, June Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Two, the Last Day of the Forty-Second Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1932. 1st ed. 4to. [20 leaves]. Frontis., illus. Orig. printed boards in chipped d/j. Faint tanning to extremities, else very good. Harwell calls this a "moving tribute by the premier historian of the Confederacy" -In Tall Cotton 60. And Nevins echoes this calling it "An immensely moving essay that honors Southern soldiers and leaders at the same time shows a broad understanding of the whole war" Nevins II, p.14. Presentation inscription from Freeman's friend and fellow historian, Mary Wells Ashworth on the half-title page. She has warmly inscribed it to Hope Gravely and Merrill Clifford Lee, dated 4/25/1967. Ashworth worked closely with Freeman the last decade of his life and she in fact finished the seventh and final volume of Freeman's biography of Washington and shares with Freeman the Pulitzer Prize that biography was awarded in 1958.
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