Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865
by Tower, R. Lockwood [editor]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1570030219
- ISBN 13
- 9781570030215
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 343 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrated with 17 photographs and 4 maps. Presumed book club edition with no price on dust-jacket flap, albeit no slug on lower rear cover also. First edition thus. The longest serving officer on General Lee's headquarters staff, Walter Talyor served with Lee "virtually without interruption during the entire Civil War." The 114 letters compiled herein not only present a microcosm of the military history of the Army of Northern Virginia but provide a window into the social, religious and political concerns of the period. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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- Seller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020096
- Title
- Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865
- Author
- Tower, R. Lockwood [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1570030219
- ISBN 13
- 9781570030215
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Military History, Lee's Staff, Confederate Officers, Civil War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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