CIVIL War General Sherman Memoirs 1891 Folding Maps Atlanta Campaign War Is Hell

  
With An Appendix, Bringing His Life Down to its Closing Scenes, Also A Personal Tribute and Critique of the Memoirs. Fourth Edition, Corrected, Revised, and Complete. Webster & Co, New York, 1891. ¾ Leather bound with brown buckram cloth boards, gilt titling & "shoulder-strap" decoration to spines, Very good hardcovers, no dustjackets as issued.

Tight bindings, solid spines, clean unmarked texts, rubbing wear to covers and spines. Illustrated with numerous tissue guarded black & white steel-engraved plates, marbled endpapers and marbled edges, 8vos, 455 & 604 pages plus adverts, index, 15 tipped in folding maps to both volumes (some with small tears). The first edition was published in 1875 by D. These volumes were printed from the plates of the second edition. The final and best edition of Sherman's memoirs.

An exceptional leather bound copy of this classic Civil War autobiography. Penned with intelligence and passion, [Sherman's Memoirs] cover the periods of birth to the Meridian Expedition early in 1864 (Volume I) and the remainder of the war to the commander's first decade following the war (Volume II). The memoirs frankly describe the rights and wrongs of the Civil War campaigns Sherman experienced, without regard to stepping on the feelings of others. The work is not unduly harsh, but is unwaveringly honest (as the author viewed these events). The writing in this work is enjoyable, more so than the average soldier's memoirs, and the enlightened opinions of the second-ranking Federal officer on a multitude of operations make the work invaluable (Eicher 576).

The distinctive "shoulder-strap" binding was uniform with several other memoirs by Civil War generals, including those by Grant and Sheridan. Complete with all 15 folding maps (five in Volume I; 10 in Volume II), frontispiece and steel-engraved portraits. Volume II with two leaves of publisher's ads bound in at rear. CIVIL WAR GENERAL SHERMAN MEMOIRS 1891 FOLDING MAPS ATLANTA CAMPAIGN WAR IS HELL.