A Life for the Confederacy: As Recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. Robert A. Moore

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 James W. Silver. Foreword by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket: good. Cover has minor shelf wear head and tail of spine. Jacket is rubbed and worn at head of front and back panels and spine; small chip missing from tail of spine; spine slightly sunned and discolored. Octavo; 182 pp. First edition thus. Red lettering on spine of gray cloth cover. Slight foxing to head of text block. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs and engravings. Binding is tight; clean, bright copy with no markings. Memoir was first published in Louisiana Historical Quarterly in 1956.

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.