As They Saw Forrest: Some Recollections and Comments of Contemporaries

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.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: good+. Cover very minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Jacket has minor chips, tears, and rubbing along head and tail of spine and panels; spine slightly sunned and faded. Octavo; xviii + 306 pp. Red panels with gilt lettering on spine of gray cloth cover. Signature in ink on ffep. Published for Civil War Book Club; an additional tipped-in front endpaper reads: riders with old bedford edition: Autographed by the editor for the members of the Civil War Book Club, with signature of Robert Selph Henry. Foldout line-drawn map tipped in at back board; shows route of Forrest’s campaigns throughout the South. Binding is tight; clean, bright copy with no markings.

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.