[CIVIL WAR] THE STORY OF A CANNONEER UNDER STONEWALL JACKSON. IN WHICH IS TOLD THE PART TAKEN BY THE ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

Lynchburg, Va: J. P. Bell Company, Inc, 1910. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s green buckram with titling in gilt; 331 pages, with frontispiece, plates, portraits and facsimiles; top edge gilt; there is a previous owner name and address penned to the pastedown.~~The Nevins bibliography notes that this was “the favorite Civil War book of Gen. George C. Marshall. Harwell asserts that the “common denominator of the Confederacy’s ‘common soldier’ seems to be that each wrote an account of his experiences ... especially ... the men who fought under Jaskson”; Eicher opines that “[p]articularly valuable sections descripes the author’s service at Antietam, where he was wounders, and in the Shenandoah Valley campaign o 1864.”. Coulter avers that given the account was penned forty years after the war, it nearly certainly contains inaccurate details [Coulter is not alone in this opinion]. (Howes M-759; ITC 126; Eicher 289; Nevins I, 132; Coulter 180-181 ). Near Fine binding.