BATTLES & COMMANDERS of CIVIL WAR, PICTORIAL HISTORY/ILLUSTRATED/RARE HUGE 1908

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BATTLES & COMMANDERS of CIVIL WAR, PICTORIAL HISTORY/ILLUSTRATED/RARE HUGE 1908BATTLES AND COMMANDERS OF THE CIVIL WAR. A GRAPHIC AND PICTORIAL HISTORY PREPARED DIRECTLY FROM THE GOVERNMENT RECORDS IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF WAR AND STATISTICS. FAMOUS WAR PICTURES. NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, ROSSITER JOHNSON, GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE, GENERAL JOHN T. MORGAN, GEORGE L. KILMER AND GENERAL JOSEPH B. CARR. CAREFULLY EDITED BY GENERAL MARCUS J. WRIGHT. Washington, D.C.: 1908. First Edition. Very Scarce.A very scarce massive First Edition book, illustrated throughout. This very large and very heavy book has the original covers, which are mottled and frayed, and the spine has been rebacked. Published more than 105 years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find and it usually sells for between $170 and $450.From the Introduction: "A GENERATION has passed away since the last battle of the Civil War was fought, and since the victorious armies of the Union passed in review, on the 22d and -3d of May 1865, before the President of the United States in the City of Washington. Upward of one million of men were on the rolls of the army when the work of mustering out officers and men began on the 1st of June, 1865, and by the middle of November upward of 800,000 of the vast host had returned to the pursuits of peace. Alt other the whole number of men who had answered to their country's call during the war 2,650,000. Out of this number 300,000 had sealed their patriotism with their blood. As long as this nation lasts the memory of these defenders of the Union will be one of its holiest treasures. "Your marches" said General Grant in his farewell address "your sieges and battles, in distance, duration, resolution and brilliancy of results dim the lustre of the world's past military achievements, and will be the patriot's precedents in defence of liberty and right in all time to come." Many of those to whom these words were addressed have already passed away, but the new generation still remembers with pride some relative to whose stories of battle and of march it has often listened. But as these veterans become fewer the tales of their deeds become less vivid; and it is to impress on the new age and to fix on posterity the memory of these heroes that this work is designed. Nothing recalls the past so forcibly as pictures of the scenes taken at the time and on the very spot. A picture, too, is impartial. It cannot represent the success of the victors without representing the heroism of their opponents. It does justice to all sides, like Decoration Day, which North and South alike keep holy, and strengthens the bonds of sympathy between all true citizens. This work will be a supplement to every written history, portraying as it does the striking incidents of battle, and giving the likenesses of the leaders whose names were on every lip in the days of strife. Here the veterans will find the past recalled, and here the young may gain inspiration to emulate their patriotism and devotion."From the ...Preface...: "THE MOST important crisis of modern history was the Civil War in the United States. That war was as critical as it was bloody; as much pervaded with the higher destinies of all men and races as it was burdened with the sympathies and wet with the anguish of the American people. The forces that gathered their volume, rolled together and broke in that great conflict were on the one side the remaining energies of the ancient regime, and on the other the rising energies of a new civil and political order int he world. The transformation effected by our war for the Union was complete. It extended from the domestic life of the American people upwards through their social life, their political life, their civil life, and culminated in their national life. The war swept the whole diapason of American civilization from its lowest to its highest key, and the reverberation which the powerful hand of time started among the vibrating keys is still heard along the remote and cloudy hor... read more

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