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Edward Porter Alexander by Maury Klein
Book Description
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1971. 279 pages. Grey hard cover, silver lettering on spine. Mostly black pictorial dust jacket, silver lettering. Edward Porter Alexander (May 26, 1835 - April 28, 1910) was an engineer, an officer in the U.S. Army, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and later a railroad executive, planter, and author. He is best known as the officer in charge of the massive artillery bombardment preceding Pickett's Charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, but he is also noted for his early use of signal and observation balloon intelligence in combat and is well regarded for his postwar memoirs and analyses of the war. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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