1886 JOHN B LINDSLEY MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE CONFEDERATE RARE ILLUSTRATED

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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **~ RARE 1886 JOHN BERRIEN LINDSLEY ~~ THE MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE - CONFEDERATE ~The Military Annals of Tennessee Confederate First Series: Embracing A Review of Military Operations With Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls. Compiled from Original and Official Sources, and Edited by John Berrien Lindsley, M.D., D.D.. Printed for Subscribers. Nashville : J. M.Lindsley & Co., Publishers, 25 South Eighth Street , 1886. Electrotyped and Printed at the Southern Methodist Publishing House. First EditionIllustrated with 35 steel plates, containing 116 likenesses of soldiers, from privates to generals, each with a tissue guard and also includes numerous mapsGood Condition. Brown cloth covered boards with black stamped borders & designs & gilt panel with brown lettering on front cover & black design & gilt lettering on spine. Some of the cloth is rubbed off at the bottom of the front cover & around the edges & most of the spine. It is rubbed on the back cover with fading to all the covers. The front hinge is separated but holding at the back cover. The front two endpapers, the title page through the copyright page are detached, including frontis with tissue cover page (attached to each other). There is foxing, toning & staining to the pages, but all text is clear & legible. There have been no repairs and the volume is intact and all original. NOT an ex-library book.Book size: 9 & 5/8" x 7 & 1/2"Page count: 910 pagesMarks: NoneThis is a scarce copy of a very important work. It opens with introductory essays on the war in Tennessee and the Army of Tennessee : A Sketch (this by General Alexander B. Stewart). The regimental sketches (each by a different author) cover the history of each Tennessee military unit that served in the Confederate Army. Each sketch includes a partial roster of the unit, showing the officers & sometimes the enlisted men who died while in the army. Included in many of the regimental histories is information on unit organization, campaigns, battles and weapons.From the Tennessee Encyclopedia:"John B. Lindsley (1822-1897) was a significant nineteenth-century educator, physician, Presbyterian minister, author, and civic leader in Nashville . He was born in Princeton , New Jersey , and came to Tennessee with his family at the age of two when his father, Philip Lindsley, accepted the presidency of the University of Nashville . He was educated at the University of Nashville and at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his M.D. degree in 1843. In 1846 Lindsley was ordained as an evangelist in the First Presbyterian Church and appointed to a pastorate at the Smyrna Church in Rutherford County . The next year he began preaching as a domestic missionary, ministering to slaves and the poor.In 1850 Lindsley helped to make one of his father's fondest hopes a reality by participating in the establishment of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and serving as its first dean and professor of chemistry and pharmacy. In 1851 he was elected to the American Medical Association and to the Board of Trustees for the common schools of South Nashville , presiding as chair of its first meeting.All but the Medical Department of the University of Nashville suspended operations in 1850 due to the city's cholera epidemic and the resignation of President Philip Lindsley. In 1855 John Berrien Lindsley was elected chancellor of the university and given the charge to revitalize its Literary Department (liberal arts program). While the father was a man of impressive scholarship and discipline, the son was a man of prodigious energy and versatility. He completed negotiations for the merger of the Western Military Institute and the University of Nashville and undertook an ambitious program for the renovation of the curriculum and buildings of the university. Throughout the Civil War Lindsley serv... read more

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