Search Results: Titles starting with G from Old South Books

NY: American News, 1866. First. Hard Bound. VG with some rubbing on the front board.Spine lettering bright. Big book plate on front gluedown./None. General Lyon was given much credit for saving Missouri (a slave state) for the Union. He led hs forces into Soputhwest Missouri to fight The Confederates under Price. He was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek and became a Midwestern martyr. Nevins I-40: "...opinionated, detailed..." Dornbusch III--3234.

NY: Robert Grier, 1908. First. Wraps. VG-. Tied wraps. Minor chipping to front edges. Text VG+./None. This an address given before the Army of the Tennessee in St. Louis, November 11, 1908. This Sherman is the great one's son. He relates things his father told him, not a rehash of the records. Has "Dad said.." stuff.

Winchester, VA: Eddy Press, 1907. First. Hard Cover. VG+. As good as they get./None.. The author, a Valley resident of Middleburg, prepared a very sympathetic biography of "The Knight of the Valley." It is a chronological narrative from the beginning of the War until Ashby's death. This work is not found in the standard bibliographies. Evidence of its scarcity. Dornbusch II-2587.

Washington City: GPO, 1861. First. Disbound single page wrap. VG, disbound./None. A single page General Orders with the "how to determine the competency of a military surgeon" which is done by a three member board. If found wanting, kick him out. Original signature of later Major General Thomas. Also included is a military requisition for 25,000 feet of lumber. [Has no bearing on the former, just a bonus].

Sewanee, TN: University of the South Press, 1907. First. Hard Bound. EXCEPTIONAL. There are still some uncut pages in the book. Doubt you could find better!/None.. TRULY A RARE BOOK, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES. THIS ONE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Nina Kirby-Smith Buck, likely a daughter of the General. She had married into the Buck family, the one famous for the biography of General Clebourne. The dedication is to Gordon Buck of that family. Smith was a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican War and served in the famed pre- Civil War Second Dragoons. He quickly made general officer rank in the Confederacy when he took part in the ill fated 1862 Kentucky affair. He was posted as commander in what became "Smithdom," that being the huge area East of the Rockies and West of the Mississippi River. He was credited with the defeat of Banks in 1864 when much of the credit should go to General Richard Taylor. He taught mathematics and became a botanist of note following the War. Nevins II-79. Not in… Read More

London: Swan-Sonnenschien, 1908. First. Hardbound. VG./None.. Book Number 8 in the series of books published for study by Royal Army officers in preparation for their competency exams. These studies are without the bias and "cover my tail tone" found in the works by participating Union and Confederates personnel. Well organized and very detailed in content. All eight maps are present and are in near fine condition.

London: Hugh Rees, 1908. First. HB. Book is as close to near fine as any 100 plus year old book./No jacket. Dornbusch IV-12807. a lot of maps, all required are present and near fine.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1954. First. Hard Bound. Near Fine. As good as it gets./Near fine,. THE history of the famous Union cavalry raid through the heart of the Western Confederacy. The raid began April 17, 1863 at La Grange, TN and ended May 2, 1863 in Union held Baton Rouge, LA. There were 1,700 troopers in Grierson's unit comprised of the Second Iowa and the Sixth and Seventh Illinois Regiments along with a battery of two guns from the First Illinois Artillery. It must have been a very exciting hide-and-seek affair against many Confederate units out to capture them. This an excellent account.

NY: Van Norstrand, 1863. Third. HB. Cover rubbed and wrinkled. Edges rubbed, inside G+/VG./No Jacket. [ATTRIBUTION-MANUAL-NAVY] . This an 1863 edition, stated third edition revised and enlarged. Nevins I-218 states the 1862 version has 88 pages, this one has 93 followed by many pages of book ads. Wonderful attribution. This copy belonged to Andre H. Rounds of Staunton, Mass. He had it aboard the USS Savannah at the New York Navy Yard on March 12, 1863. This information is recorded in pencil on the ffep. [My "Handbook of the U.S. Navy" states on page 241 that the Savannah was a sloop of war, seven guns ; 1726 tons and built at Brooklyn in 1842. She was converted into a training ship, assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and was there 1862-4].