[SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] THE BATTLE-FIELDS OF VIRGINIA. CHANCELLORSVILLE: EMBRACING THE OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY” OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG TO THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JACKSON

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. Large Octavo; in the publisher’s cinnamon brown binding with titling in gilt to the upper cover; 152 pages, with a portrait with tissue guard, and with five folding maps, several in three colors; this copy is signed with inscription by the publisher: “Hon. E. M. Stanton | with compliments of | D. Van Nostrand”. Edwin McMasters~Stanton was Secretary of War under President Lincoln and later under President Andrew Johnson. ~~Jed Hotchkiss and William Allan were both on Stonewall Jackson’s staff and “brought first-hand background to their task”; the five maps by Jed Hotchkiss ... make this book invaluable.” [In Taller Cotton”, 110].~~The account includes “a sketch of the last days of the Confederate chieftain whose name will ever be associated with Chancellorsville”, by Dr. Hunter McGuire.~~ (Howes H-668; In Taller Cotton 110). Near Fine binding.