GUARDING GREENSBORO; A CONFEDERATE COMPANY IN THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY.

Language: English

Published by Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2003., 2003

0820325058 / 9780820325057

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First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xvi, 325, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with minor bumping at edges. Dark brown cloth; spine mildly cocked from prolonged slanted storage on a bookshelf. Light foxing to edges. Association copy with author's warm five-line ink inscription upon the half-title page: "2004 March! | For Miss Rhoda, whose | Bibb County, Alabama | served as my model | -Guy." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. With Preface, 25 b/w illustrations including maps, five appendices, Rosters, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Primary text divided in four parts featuring eleven chapters titled as: "The Stone Soldier," "A Land of Strangers," "Voluntary Communities," "Guards and Slaves," "One Voice," "Greene County's Still," "Beyond a Simple Calculus," "Confidence and Despair," "Defying the Machine," "The Loyal Community," and "The Stone Soldier." Acquired from the estate of Dr. Rhoda Coleman Ellison (1904-2005) who taught at Montgomery, Alabama's Huntingdon College from 1930 to 1971 chairing the school's English department from 1959 to 1971 and thereafter appointed professor emerita. Ellison authored several Alabama-related books including an authoritative local history "Bibb County, Alabama; The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918" to which Guy War Hubbs refers to in his inscription. {Alabama-Shelf#1} ISBN 0820325058.

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Title
GUARDING GREENSBORO; A CONFEDERATE COMPANY IN THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY.
Author
Hubbs, G. Ward. [Guy Ward Hubbs].
Publisher
Athens, GA and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2003.
Publication year
2003
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Dust Jacket Included
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Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0820325058
ISBN 13
9780820325057
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1st Edition
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David Hallinan, Bookseller

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