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Published by The Neale Publishing Company, New York, New York, 1904
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Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.North Slope Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION in brown cloth with gilt titling, frontis. port. of the author, 367pp. Nevins I - p.139. Dornbusch II #1270. Good+ due to water damage to bottom right-hand corner of pages - not affecting text. Other than that, book is Very Good. Subtitle of book: Being So…me History of the War between the Confederacy and the Union of the Events Leading Up to It, with Reminiscences of the Struggle and Accounts of the Author's Experiences of Four Years from Private to Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Colonel in the Cavalry of Northern Virginia. Also Much of the History of Virginia and the Nation in Which the Author Took Part for Many Years in Political Conventions and on the Hustings and as Lawyer, Member of the Legislature of Virginia, Judge, Member of the House of Representatives of the United States and Governor of Virginia. "Half of this very personal narrative recounts the author s service in the Shenandoah Valley an an officer in the 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. O'Ferrall later served as a congressman and as a Governor of Virginia." He also includes notes on the history of Virginia. After the war "Both the military and political portions are significant.".
