Full Many a Name: The Story of Sam Davis, Scout and Spy, C.S.A.

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.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: near fine. Cover has very minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine; slight foxing to foredge of block. Jacket is rubbed head and tail of spine, and corners of wraps; one small tear to tail of back panel. Small octavo; 143 pp. Gilt lettering on spine of gray cloth cover. Endsheets decorated with engraving entitled “Nashville at time of Federal Occupation.” Frontispiece is b/w scene of captured Sam Davis appearing before Union general Dodge. Quire of b/w photographs and one line-drawn map. Binding and hinges tight; clean copy, 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.