Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army

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 Introduction by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Hardcover. Condition: very good. No dust jacket. Cover has shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Ex libris. Accession label on tail of spine; card pocket affixed back board; due date label on back end paper; ink stamp of library and call number in pencil on copyright page; small library stamps on head, tail, and foredge of text block. Octavo; xliv + 332 pp. Frontispiece b/w photographic portraits of Capt. Sam J. Richardson, Gen. W.P. Lane, and the author. Gilt lettering on spine of burgundy cloth cover. Further illustrated with numerous b/w photographs. Binding and hinges tight; clean text, no markings. Text is facsimile of 1876 edition. Full title, as printed on facsimile title page, is: Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill, for Four Years, One Month, and One Day. Or, Camp Life; Day-by-Day, of the W.P. Lane Rangers. From April 19th 1861, to May 20th 1865.
Edition was issued in limited printing of 1000 copies, stated. (See image of copyright page.)

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.