Reminiscences of Big I

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. Preface to 1909 edition by C.C. Wertenbaker.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover has very minor shelf wear to head of spine; one bumped corner. Jacket is price-clipped; slight wear, fading, and rubbing on spine; one chip out of front panel, at head next to spine; wrap corners slightly rubbed. Octavo; xxviii + 138 pp. Green panel with gilt lettering on spine of tan cloth cover. Quire of b/w illustrations. Binding is tight; clean, bright copy, with no markings. The memoir appeared serially in 1895, and was first published in book form in 1909. “Big I” seems to have been a nickname of the author among his messmates.

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.