Deleon T Homas C (7 results)

DeLEON, T[homas] C. Joseph Wheeler, The Man, The Statesman, The Soldier, Seen in Semi-Biographical Sketches. Kennesaw, Georgia: Continental Book Company, 1960. 142 pp. Illus. very good in orig. cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Pencil gift inscription, slight rubbing to the boards, a very good or better copy. Not in *Wright*.

DeLEON, T[homas] C. Joseph Wheeler, the Man, the Statesman, the Soldier, Seem in Semi-Biographical Sketches. Atlanta, GA: Byrd Printing Co., 1899. 162pp. Portraits, plates. Later cloth. Frontis portrait. Very good. Inscribed by the author. Dornbusch II, 3161. Wheeler was a Confederate cavalry general who later served as a general in the Spanish-American War and as a congressman from Alabama.…

DeLEON, T(homas) C. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, from Birth to Death.1861-65.etc. Mobile, 1892. Frontis. 376pp. Author's "Autograph" ed., signed by the author. Near fine copy in orig. cloth. Howes D-241. Signed.

DeLEON, T[homas] C[ooper]. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: an Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, from Birth to Death. Mobile, AL: The Gossip Printing Company, 1890. 1st ed. 376 pp. Orig. cloth. A very good copy. HOWES D-241. "DeLeon showed perceptiveness and maturity of judgement. This is one of the most frequently cited of Confederate studies." Nevins II, p. 218.…

DeLEON, T(homas) C. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, from Birth to Death. Mobile: Gossip Printing Company, 1890. 1st ed. 8vo. [2], 6, vii, [1], 11-376 pp. Orig. cloth. Only light rubbing to the binding. A trifled cocked. Light foxing, principally to the fore-edge. Contemporary owner's name on the dedication page. Very good or better. Howes D-241. Nevins II, p. 218. In Tall Cotton 40. "Writing years after the war, but from notes kept during the struggle, the author gave his account maturity of judgment, comprehensiveness, and perspective" - Coulter 123. Both Nevins and Harwell echo this assessment. Tipped in at the front is a lengthy ALS dated 8/22/1890 from James B. Fry (USMA 1847, Civil War staff officer, and later military historian) commenting on the book. While Fry finds that DeLeon has some qualities as a writer he takes issue with size of the book, calling it "rather wordy." More noteworthy, unlike Coulter nearly a century later, Fry finds some fundamental flaws in DeLeon's judgement and perception: "he views the grand features of `our late unpleasantness' through the thick haze of intense Southernism, and that deprives some parts of his work of historical value. To maintain, as he does in effect, that McClellan was the best and Grant the worst of the Federal Generals strikes me as nothing short of nonsense." An interesting assessment by a contemporary that challenges modern historians and bibliographers' views.…

DeLEON, T[homas] C. Joseph Wheeler, the Man, the Statesman, the Soldier, Seen in Semi-Biographical Sketches. Atlanta: Byrd Printing Co., 1899. 1st ed. 142pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Later green morocco-backed cloth, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Wrappers rubbed, else very good. Dornbusch II, 3161. Wheeler was a Confederate cavalry general who later served as a general in the Spanish-American War and as a congressman from Alabama. …