Author: Richard Taylor, Lieutenant-General, CSA. Edited by Richard B. Harwell.
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1955
Binding: hardcover
Condition: fine/VG
Price: $50.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00176
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Description:
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover shows very minor shelf wear head and tail of spine; corners sharp. Jacket shows minor chips and rubbing head and tail of spine, corners of wraps. Octavo; 380 pp. Black lettering on light gray cloth boards. First edition stated. Binding and hinges tight; clean, bright copy with no markings. Author was son of President Zachary Taylor and son-in-law of Jefferson Davis. Taylor began the Civil War as colonel of the Ninth Louisiana and served as brigadier general under Jackson in the Valley and Peninsula campaigns. After the Peninsula campaign, he was promoted to major general and transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department. He ended the war as a lieutenant general, CSA, and died in New York in April 1879. Taylor’s memoir was first published in the same year.
