Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

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 with an Introduction by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: fine. Cover shows very minor shelf wear; small tape marks front and back endsheets; else, fine. Jacket slightly rubbed head and tail of spine; spine slightly faded; else, fine. Octavo; xxii + 322 pp. Gilt lettering on spine of light green cloth cover. Signed by editor on half-title page. Binding and hinges sound; clean copy, no markings.
Author began war service as volunteer aide on staff of James Longstreet; he became Longstreet’s adjutant, rising in rank to lieutenant colonel. In 1864, Sorrel was promoted to brigadier general, joined A. P. Hill’s Third Corps. Sorrel was severely wounded at Hatcher’s Run, February 1865, and was still in recovery at end of the war.

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.