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Rustics In Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter On The Road To Richmond, 1861-1865
by Townsend, George Alfred
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- Hardcover
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- Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; Second Printing. Cloth. A Near Fine first edition/second printing in a price-clipped Very Good-, little chipped dust-jacket; George Alfred Townsend was an experienced journalist when he volunteered for service in the Union army in the Civil War. He served as a reporter for the New York Tribune, and his dispatches provide an insider's view of the Civil War as it unfolded. Townsend's book is a compilation of his reports from 1861 to 1865, and it paints a vivid and accurate picture of life in the Confederate capital, Richmond. Townsend's narrative is filled with excitement, drama, and intrigue, and his descriptions of the battlefronts are riveting. Rustics In Rebellion is a valuable resource for historians, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War.; 292 pages .
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- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51029
- Title
- Rustics In Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter On The Road To Richmond, 1861-1865
- Author
- Townsend, George Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Civil War;
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