SIGNED 33rd VIRGINIA INFANTRY FIRST EDITION ONLY 1000 PRINTED CIVIL WAR

  

33rd VIRGINIA INFANTRY THE VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL HISTORIES SERIES BY LOWELL REIDENBAUGH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FIRST EDITION LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1000 PUBLISHED; THIS IS NUMBER 667. MINT CONDITION BOOK MINT CONDITION DUST JACKET Original, Sharp, Bright, Clean, Pristine Condition Book Handsome Cover Design with Virginia Regimental Series Seal Contans Illustrations, Photos, Maps, and a Bibliography Comprehensive Unit Roster with the Civil War Service Details of Each Unit Member HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED BY H. LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, IN 1987 Out-of-Print Book This original, limited edition, first edition book is signed by the author.

The book constitutes an excellent history of the 33rd Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. The book includes information on the formation and muster of the unit, detailed descriptions of battles and campaigns, specifics of individual soldiers in the command, unit rosters, maps, and photographs.

The book also contains a comprehensive unit roster with the Civil War service information of each member of the unit. The 33rd Virginia Infantry: They sprouted in the Shenandoah Valley and adjoining counties, these ten companies that gained undying fame as the 33rd Virginia infantry Regiment. Single companies were recruited in the counties of Page, Rockingham, Frederick, Hampshire and Hardy, while five companies were raised in Shenandoah County. Mostly they were products of the soil and accustomed to the use of firearms.

Picking off Yankees was as natural to them as bringing in wild game. And when Mother Virginia declared open season on invading bluecoats, her sons responded swiftly and eagerly. They were young - one was only 14 - and they were old - one was 62 - and they were fiercely independent. For whatever reasons suited them, or for no reason at all, they deserted in appalling numbers.

In the first six months of 1862, a period embracing the Valley Campaign and the Seven Days Battles around Richmond, 158 men took leave without permission. The ranks were full of names that suggested the Scotch-Irish stock that settled the Great Valley of Virginia and the Germans who migrated into the area from Pennsylvania. There also was a pure Irish strain which was provided by the Sons of Erin whose had helped construct the Manassas Gap Railroad around New Market.

These immigrants composed the colorful "Emerald Guard" or Company E. When there was no enemy in their front, the pugnacious Irishmen remained in battle trim by fighting among themselves.

The regiment was commanded by Colonels covering a wide spectrum, from Arthur C. Cumming, a veteran of the Mexican War, through John Neff, the son of a pacifist minister, and Frederick W. Holiday, a Winchester lawyer, and down to its last commander, Abraham Spengler, a diminutive carpenter from Hardy County. The regiment fought with distinction in its first major engagement, at Manassas in 1861, and never wavered in the years that followed.

After the Stonewall Brigade, of which the 33rd was a part, was annihilated at Spotsylvania Court House, remnants of the regiment were united with survivors of 13 other decimated Virginia units to form William Terry's Brigade. In this role, members of the 33rd followed their battle standard to the finish. At Appomattox Court house only 15 remained to received paroles, all that was left of the regiment who four-year muster roll carried more than 1300 names.

THIS BOOK IS IN MINT CONDITION Out-of-print, this limited edition, first edition book is signed by the author. Only 1000 copies of this book were printed. The book comes in an excellent condition, bright, clean dust jacket.

The book is part of The Virginia Regimental Histories Series and is handsomely published in Confederate-gray, cloth covers with gold lettering and the image of the seal of the series on the cover. The book is in excellent condition. The exterior is clean and sharp with no bumping, rubbing or wear. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent, bright white condition. The author's signature on the title page is clean and sharp.

The book has no other writing in it and it has no smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The binding is solid throughout the book. The book contains photographs, maps, charts, and a bibliography. An excellent condition, original, author signed, first edition book on the 33rd Virginia Infantry. THE VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL HISTORIES SERIES.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR FIRST EDITION LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1000 PUBLISHED; THIS IS NUMBER 667. MINT CONDITION BOOK MINT CONDITION DUST JACKET.

Original, Sharp, Bright, Clean, Pristine Condition Book Handsome Cover Design with Virginia Regimental Series Seal Contans Illustrations, Photos, Maps, and a Bibliography Comprehensive Unit Roster with the Civil War Service Details of Each Unit Member. This original, limited edition, first edition book is signed by the author. THIS BOOK IS IN MINT CONDITION.

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