One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation. The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah to suppress the hostility of Mormons who had refused to establish a municipal government approved by President Buchanan. ...
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One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation. The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah to suppress the hostility of Mormons who had refused to establish a municipal government approved by President Buchanan. Only a few years later, Alexander found himself on the opposite side of a much larger rebellion of Confederates wanting to secede from the Union. In the years that follow, he is involved in most major battles including Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Alexander describes each battle and battlefield with a keen eye for detail. Few wartime narratives offer such insight and critical perspective as Alexander's memoir.
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Publisher:
American Society for Training & Development
Published:
2005
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17604093282
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0890290180. Maps; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 634 pages; 2005 Morningside. Stout HC/DJ Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Facsimile reprinting of the 1907 edition. Illustrated with numerous maps. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF/NF.
Publisher:
American Society for Training & Development
Published:
1990
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17605336134
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As New. 8vo., 635pp. Beautiful Facsimile Edition with new introduction. Originally published by Scribner's in 1907. Bound in gray cloth. Illustrations. Maps. Square tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. A gorgeous collectable copy.
