Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies

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Author:  John Bell Hood
Publisher:  Indiana University Press, 1959
Series: Civil War Centennial Series, IUP
Binding:  hardcover
Condition:  fine/VG
Price:  $35.00
ISBN:  Ø
CVB Inv:  00200

 

 

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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 introduction and notes by Richard N. Current.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover has minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Jacket has minor rubbing and very small tears at head and tail of spine and wrap corners. Small octavo; xvi + 376 pp. Black lettering on brown cloth boards. Name of previous owner in ink on half title page. Illustrated with frontispiece of Gen. Hood, and four line drawn maps. Binding and hinges tight; clean, bright copy with no markings.
General Hood commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee, July – December 1864; he replaced Joseph Johnston during the Atlanta campaign, and was in turn relieved after the disastrous Franklin-Nashville campaign. His memoir was originally published posthumously in 1880.

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