Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague

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 by Monroe F. Cockrell. Introduction by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Hardcover: Condition: very good+. Dust jacket condition: good. Cover has one corner slightly bumped; else, shows almost no wear. Jacket is price-clipped; minor chips and tears, rubbing at head and tail of spine, and head of front and back panels; spine slightly faded. Octavo; xxiv + 181 pp. Gilt lettering on spine of dark blue cloth cover; text clean, with no markings. Binding sound, but back boardpaper cracked at hinge. Frontispiece b/w portrait of Capt. Poague in uniform. Quire of b/w photographs. Foldout line-drawn map tipped in at back board; shows route of Jackson’s campaigns in Shenandoah Valley and northern Virginia. Map measures 16.5”W x 14.0”H.

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.