Author: James A. Connolly
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1959
Series: Civil War Centennial Series, IUP
Binding: hardcover
Condition: fine/G+
Price: $35.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00192
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Description:
A volume in a series of Civil War-era memoirs, reissued as the Civil War Centennial Series by Indiana University Press during 1957-1962.
Edited with an introduction by Paul M. Angle.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: good+. Cover has minor shelf wear at head and tail of spine. Jacket has small chips and tears at head and tail of spine, and at wrap corners. Small octavo; 399 pp. First edition thus. Dark blue lettering on gray cloth boards; book plate of previous owner on ffep; illustrated with six maps. Binding and hinges are sound; clean, bright copy with no markings.
Major Connolly, 123rd Illinois Infantry, served in the Army of the Cumberland from 1862 to the end of the war. From the jacket notes: “Until the fall of 1864, Connolly wrote voluminous letters to Mary Dunn of Mount Gilead, Ohio … later his wife. From the beginning of the Savannah campaign … he began to keep a diary.” His letters and diary were first published in 1928.