One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry

Description:
A volume in the series of out-of-print Confederate memoirs and histories reissued by McCowat-Mercer Press, Jackson TN, in commemoration of the Civil War centennial.
Edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. Foreword by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: fine. Cover has only very minor shelf wear to head. Jacket is price-clipped; spine faded, with minor rubbing at head; else, fine. Octavo; xxxiv + 215 pp. First edition thus. Brown lettering on tan cloth cover. Endsheets show vintage map of region between Richmond and Baltimore, from Chesapeake Bay to Shenandoah valley. Quire of b/w illustrations. Binding is tight; clean, bright copy; no markings. Author served in F Company, 21st Virginia Infantry, 1861-1864. This memoir was originally published in 1912.

McCowat-Mercer Press of Jackson TN specialized in “Monographs, Sources, and Reprints in Southern History.” During the period 1952-1969, the press reissued, in limited printings, a series of Confederate memoirs and histories, which had originally been published between the late-19th and mid-20th century, and which at the time were out of print. This is a volume in that series.
The Press selected for reprint memoirs that particularly represent the experiences of the ordinary people of the South. These accounts by common soldiers, subordinate officers, and civilians, provide rich insight to daily life on the southern side during the war, and share perspectives very different from those of the better-known histories by the top-rank political and military leaders.
The McCowat-Mercer reprints are edited by eminent historians and scholars, and are now rare and prized by Civil War specialists.