Edward Alexander Moore Capt Robert (2 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. Second Edition. 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.

New York and Washington, The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. Octavo. Frontispiece, 315 pages. Illustrated with plates. Publisher's dark green and gilt-lettered cloth binding with darkened spine and rubbed covers; internally, a very good clean copy. First edition, first printing of this "classic Confederate memoir is said to have been General George C. Marshall's favorite Civil War book. Ned Moore was a student at Washington College in Lexington, Va., when the war started. In early 1862 he joined the renowned Rockbridge Artillery, with which unit he served faithfully until Appomattox. Moore participated in most of the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, and was wounded at Sharpsburg and at Cold Harbor. He also spent some time dodging Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. The book was reissued in 1910 by J. P. Bell Company, of Lynchburg." (Krick 327) The illustrations within show General Stonewall' Jackson and 16 other photographs, including fourteen of officers and men of the Rockbridge ArtilleryWilliam T. Poague, Robert A. Gibson, Edward A. Moore (two versions), John M. Brown (two versions), William M. Wilson, W. S. McClintic, D. Gardiner Tyler, R.T. Barton, B.G M. Friend, Edward H. Hyde, Randolph Fairfax and Robert Frazer. Howes M-759. Coulter 327. Dornbusch II: 1171. Nevins, I:132.