1880 Confederate 1ed Memoirs John Hood CSA Civil War Orphan Brigade PROVENANCE

1880 Confederate 1^ed Memoirs John Hood CSA Civil War Orphan Brigade PROVENANCE

Throughout the latter-half of the 19^th-century, several autobiographical memoirs were written and published by important and high-profile Civil War figures such as Ulysses S Grant, Philip Sheridan, William Sherman, and Jefferson Davis. However, there were other such collections that did not garner the appeal of Grant and Sheridan – Confederate General John Bell Hood’s memoirs were published under the title ‘Advance and Retreat’. This memoir was written following the Civil War, mostly as a response to critical accusations made against his commanding style.

Item number: #25029

Price: $750

HOOD, John Bell

Advance and retreat. Personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies.

New Orleans, Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund [by] G.T. Beauregard, 1880. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 358
  • 5 plates and 1 folding map
• References: Howes H 622; Eicher 240; Nevins II, p.65
  • Nevins: “The controversial and sometimes bitter memoirs of a maimed Confederate general.”
• Provenance: Handwritten – Porter Thompson, 1880
  • Edward Porter Thompson (c.1835-1903), a captain in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War in the 6^th Kentucky Infantry, which was part of the First Kentucky Brigade (or Orphan Brigade). Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States vice president, and Kentucky’s former senator, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians. Thompson would be promoted to captain, and after the war, compose several histories and memoirs from his service with the unit through battles such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga. He is best remembered for his “History of the Orphan Brigade,” published in 1898, detailing the history of the First Kentucky Brigade.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Tan cloth
• Size: ~8.75in X 6.25in (22.5cm x 16cm)

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