“First with the Most:” Forrest

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.
Foreword by Bell Irvin Wiley. Originally published by Bobbs-Merrill, 1944.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: very good. Cover has slight shelf wear to head of spine. Bookplate of previous owner on front board. Jacket has small chip missing from head of spine; small crease and rubbing to tail of back panel. Small octavo; 580 pp. Dark brown lettering on tan cloth cover. Illustrated with ample quire of b/w photographs and engravings, and numerous maps. Binding and hinges tight; clean, bright copy with no markings.

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.