“A MILESTONE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN CONFEDERATE LITERATURE”: LONGSTREET’S FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX

LONGSTREET, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1896. Thick octavo, original pictorial blue-gray cloth. $2500.

First edition of Longstreet’s important Civil War history, with frontispiece portrait, 16 maps, and 30 illustrations of battle sites and portraits.

"Longstreet's tome is a milestone of great importance in Confederate literature. It tells the story of the war in the first person from one of the great generals of American history, allows him to make his case… Longstreet here provides ample documentation of his close relationships with Lee" (Eicher). Contrary to myth, Longstreet, not Stonewall Jackson, was Lee's intimate confidant, close friend, and principal military adviser (ANB). "Longstreet's reminiscences are basic to any study of the Army of Northern Virginia" (In Tall Cotton 114), and is "a necessary source for any study of Lee's army" (Nevins I:122). Usually seen in the red pictorial cloth binding. Dornbusch II:2977. Eicher 277. Wright 664. In Tall Cotton 114. Nevins I:122. Howes L451. Publisher's advertisement laid in.

Interior fine, minor soiling to cloth rear panel and slight fading to spine, gilt very bright. An exceptional near-fine copy.