Search Results: Titles starting with M from Old South Books

London: Trubner, 1865. First. HB. VG./No Jacket.. Not in any references. Requires one map which is present. Very early study of this campaign. Good insight and good sources. Nice little book.

Providence, RI: Sidney Rider, 1867. First. Has split copyright and publishing dates. Hard Cover. Good overall. Hinges starting, Minimal xlib, pocket residue, however no title page markings. Has a very unusual bookplate, The Johnnycake Trail Collection to restore a flood damaged library./None. General Burnside fell out of favor after his fiasco at Fredericksburg. But somehow (political influence?) he stayed on to command the Ninth Corps. He left at least things for history - his sideburns and the name of the bridge across Antietam Creek. Eight maps and eight illustrations all present. The plate and portraits are as nice as I have seen. Nevins I-181.

Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1935. First. HB. Near fine copy./Near fine.. Nevins I-86. Not much on General R.S. Ewell, an acceptable division commander, but questionable corps commander. Highly criticized for his role at The Wilderness.

NY: Van Nostrand, 1863. Stated second Edition of 1863. Replaced the red leather spine with like leather and added period endpapers. A very handsome manual!/No Jacket.. EXTREMELY RARE WAR DATED ARMY MANUAL. Covers pontoons, sieges, sapping, mining, batteries. Many illustrations, no foldouts. SIGNED by Charles N. Kent in 1863, may be a soldier. Engineering troops were invaluable, but they got little attention in later narratives. An example of their incredible work was the rapid movement of Sherman's Army through the swamps of Northeast Georgia and South Carolina on his way to Columbia.

NY: Lippincott, 1861. Second Edition dated 1862. HB Manual. Has a bookplate for Dr. Slocum, Gettysburg. Overall a very good manual./No Jacket. AN EXTREMELY RARE SURGEON'S MANUAL. SO SCARCE IT CAN NOT BE FOUND IN ANY REFERENCES. I HAVE SEEN A CONFEDERATE VERSION ONCE AND IT WAS MARKED $5,000!

Richmond: West and Johnston, 1861. Likely the first Confederate edition for this popular manual. HB. The book is bound in later blue cloth boards. There is gold spine lettering. The book was lightly trimmed making for a neat, tight manual. Some non-obtrusive foxing as is normal.. A very popular infantry manual used by both sides during the War. The Confederate version, as this is, is more uncommon. A basic primer for organization, duties, responsibilities and the all important infantry training. A lengthy manual of over 550 pages.

NY: Savas Beatie, 2009. First. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. If you ever want to get an education on this first important battle in the East, this is the book. Excellent to-the-point narrative to go with explicit and easy to follow maps. The maps are multi-colored aiding in their interpretation.There are 39 maps associated with the Manassas narrative alone with another eleven on Ball's Bluff. If you acqire just one of these "map" books you will want them all.

NY: Savas Beatie, 2007. Second Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+. Fantastic book! Loaded with myriad maps of this pivotable battle. When a situation changed the author added a new map to show the what has occurred. This make the flow of the campaign easy to follow and the illustrations fit hand in glove with the excellent narrative. Gottfried gets down to the regiment level in his drawings but the reader is not overwhelmed with confusing illustrations. This a second edition without the colored maps.

Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, 1900. 1900 Edition. Hard Cover. Book is nicely rebound. Edges faded gilt. Book has been used but not abused. Some minor page soiling and wear./None.. Goldsborough, W.W. The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Guggenheimer, Weil, Baltimore. Copyright 1900. This is a second edition of the 1869 first. This edition is advertised as "Revised and expanded." This edition physically larger than the first edition. Equally scarce. In Tall Cotton - 69: "The best study of a Maryland unit. Author was one of few who admitted robbing dead soldiers." Nevins I-95. Coulter 192: " His unit served primarily in the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia. It did service at Gettysburg." Howes 226. Although it appears there was little change from the earlier first edition, this copy is thought of as another edition. The narrative is divided into chapters discussing specific Maryland units. Many portraits and some unit rosters. A scarce find!!

NY: Neale Publishing, 1916. First. HB. Another exceptional Neale./No Jacket.. Krick 69: "...totally sympathetic..." Nevins II-43: "...a necessary handbook for McClellan's friends.

Philadlphia: Jas. B. Rodgers, 1865. VG, small piece missing on bottom of spine. Tight and square./None. A really rare manual dealing with medications when there were horrible theories on how to treat diseases. Paine believed in treating the disease and leaving other parts of the body that seemed OK alone. Book signed by a Dr. H. Williams, May 1868. He has written and highlighted with pencil some passages. Not in any of my references. It is no wonder why ill soldiers skipped sick call because the "cure" could be worse than the malady.

Boston: Sabbath School Society, 1867. First. Hard Cover. Rebound by one of the best restorers. Square and tight./None.. A special book on Black units in the Civil War. One brother being a chaplain in a Black Regiment. This was James, who served in the Deep South and later at Key West. He was on Ships Island, near Mobile and likely near Biloxi. He died very quickly, likely yellow fever, while in Key West. He was a dedicated chaplain. The second brother, Edward, was a member of the 57th Mass, Burnside's Corps. He was musket shot (6/17/1864) and died 6/19/1864 at Petersburg. He was previously wounded at North Anna. A very rare narrative. Two portraits of brothers.

Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1893. First. Wraps. Protected by a cardboard clamshell folder. Light chipping to the leading edges of both wraps. Soiled front right corner of the front wrap. Rest VG./None. Very little found on this gifted Confederate general. He was controversial and argumentative which cost him in his military career. "He was known as an aggressive leader, being severely strict, deeply religious and having dry, sarcastic humor. He was brother-in-law to Stonewall Jackson, a close friend to both James Longstreet and Joseph E. Johnston, but disagreements with both Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg cost him favor with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Although his military ability was well respected, he was underutilized by the end of the Civil War on account of these political feuds." Wikipedia Not in any common bibliographies.

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1893. First. Wraps bound into boards. Xlib with nearly all the faults.. Front wrap tattered and taped, but nearly all present.. See photo. However, the text is very good and nicely bound./No Jacket.. This a copy of a speech given by Avery, a NC Supreme Court judge on the date given. Very little is found on Hill who gained Lieutenant General rank in the Confederate Army. He was Stonewall's brother-in law and good friends with Joe Johnston and James Longstreet. He had great abilities and was well respected, but he was underutilized by the end of the Civil War because of political feuds with Davis and Lee. The author served in the "Bloody Sixth" North Carolina and was on Hill's staff for a period.

Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 1925. First Editions. HBs. Overall VG, Vol I has ring on front board./No Jacket.. TWO VOLUMES. McCabe served in the Richmond Howitzers and with Pegram at the end of the War. War info limited.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press, 2012. First. Hard Bound. NF/NF. Scholarly study in a long neglected field. Large portions of post war state budgets were earmarked for this purpose. As many as 60,000 underwent amputation during the War.

Richmond, VA: Confederate States of America, Navy Department, 1865. First. None. VG+. Not disbound, a stand alone publication. No covers. See Pictures. 12 pages./None.. CONFEDERATE IMPRINT. Parrish & Willingham 1684. Multiple communications by the Secretary of the Navy Mallory and Governor Vance of North Carolina concerning the supposed stealing of the Welsh coal meant for the steamer Advance by Confederate Navy personnel. This forced the Advance (ship belonging to North Carolina) to fuel with substandard North Carolina coal which caused her be captured by the Federals because her capabilities were halved. Seems there could be better things to argue about this late in the War. However, there are tabulations in the letter detailing the prizes captured in 1864 by the Confederate steamers Tallahassee and Chickamauga. The Tallahassee was a very successful steamer that year. She burnt 16 and scuttled another 10 vessels.

Richmond, VA: Confederate States of America, Navy Department, 1863. First. None. See photos. Near Fine. Faint Confederate Archives stamp./None. CONFEDERATE IMPRINT. Parrish & Willingham 2335. A report from Colonel Imboden who was stationed in VA and what was to become WVA. Tells of an incident whereas a Confederate was threatened by General Milroy, USA, with his life for guerrilla activity and Milroy demanded $14.72 in damages!!!. Imboden states this is not uncommon, but strange it deserves Davis' attention. The Federals meant business in dealing with this "guerrilla warfare." For the $14.72 the citizen was putting his home and life on line. Noncompliance would result in his home being burned and himself shot! Imboden made general while serving mostly in the Valley area. He last commanded an irregular cavalry unit.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1865. Both Volumes First Editions. Both Volumes First Editions. Both Hard Bound. Both volumes exlib and in contemporary hard bindings. Some uncut pages. Texts excellent with good maps. Volume two trimmed so it is smaller than volume one./None.. THIS IS A TWO VOLUME SET WITH PUBLICATION DATES OF 1863 AND 1865. The author was a professor of military history at the Royal Staff College. The first volume covers the beginning of the conflict through Chancellorsville. Volume two from there through Gettysburg, Knoxville, Dahlgren's Raid and into the Spring of 1864. There are plenty of maps to supplement the narrative. This dealer has had several of the excellent British Officer studies and found only this set of Chesney's.

Augusta: Chronicle Printing, 1893. First. Wraps. Minor chipping to the edges of the covers./None. This is an address to Confederate Survivors at their 12th reunion. This booklet contains two narratives, that of the prolific Colonel Jones on Josiah Tattnall and General Forrest at Brice's Crossroads amongst other bits and pieces. This account is supplemented by a poem written by Colonel Joseph Cumming titled "Chickamauga." Cumming started his service as a private in the 5th Georgia, CSA, and progressed through the rank as a staff officer for notable Southern generals. He was slightly wounded at Shiloh and was a participant at Chickamauga, Atlanta, and Nashville/Franklin. TEXT IS UNCUT! A presentation copy by Jones, but not signed.