Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredricksburgh; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders, and Gossip of the Camps (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
Time - Life, 1982. Reprint. Leather. 5.75"x8.5" 288 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Navy leather. Soldiers blind-stamped on front. 3 gilt edges. Red silk ribbons. Ribbed sewn spine w/gilt letters and stamped star. Marbled endpapers. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Soft bumps to front. Secure ship w/track #. Very Good. Item #4913
ISBN: 0809443910
Excerpt from Battle-Fields of the South, From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh. Having travelled and resided long on the American conti nent, carefully studying national characteristics, he was not sur prised by the inevitable disruption of the Union, nor at any time unaware of the causes tending to that result. Rather, his surprise has been that Southerners should so long have re frained from rising in arms against the accumulated insults and injuries which, for a long series of years, have been heaped upon them. They would have been unworthy of their origin, and must have shown themselves less than men, had they longer submitted to the degradation of being deprived of free speech and action amongst a people whose prosperity had been fostered by their industry, and whose history they had... Source: Publisher.
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