


Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers. Based on The Century War Series. " Edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, of the Editorial Staff of "The Century Magazine.
Published from 1884 to 1888. Four volumes bound in eight editions. I: Part I: 372 pp; Part II: 373 - 750 pp; Vol. II: Part I: 1 - 382 pp; Part II: 383 - 760 pp; Vol. III: Part I: 1 - 368 pp; Part II: 369 - 752 pp; Vol.
IV: Part I : 1 - 424 pp; Part II : 425 - 835 pp. All uniformly bound in tan cloth with leather title labels on spines & gilt top edges. 10.5 x 7.5, 4tos. Edges of boards are scuffed and corners worn.
Heads and tails of spines bumped. Leather title labels and gilt lettering dulled from sun-exposure, but still present well. Some general shelf-wear to tan cloth boards, including some finger soiling at bottom corners of front boards.
Text-blocks clean; light toning around edges of leaves. The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881. It was originally a subsidiary of Charles Scribner's Sons, named Scribners and Company, but was bought by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association. A very detailed account of battles & leaders.