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Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War Soft cover - 1997
by Cooke, John Esten
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- very good
- Paperback
First published in 1867, WEARING OF THE GRAY contains sparkling vignettes that display an excellent eye for local color and the picaresque, a wry sense of humor, and a quick grasp of character. His military perspective and writer's talent "give his wartime sketches a combination of validity and vitality almost unmatched in the literature of the Civil War" (CIVIL WAR HISTORY). 10 photos.
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Details
- Title Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War
- Author Cooke, John Esten
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition 1st pr of this
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 572
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Louisiana State Univ Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9999129-1
- ISBN 9780807122167 / 0807122165
- Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 8.47 x 5.52 x 1.24 in (21.51 x 14.02 x 3.15 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: South
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America - Biography, United States - History - Civil war,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97030013
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
John Esten Cooke was a writer, not a fighter, and yet he enjoyed (in every sense of the word) a remarkable and extensive Civil War career that took him from John Brown's raid to General Lee's surrender and put him in close touch with some of the greatest commanders in American history, most notable his much-admired cousin-in-law, J.E.B. Stuart. Wearing of the Gray, published in 1867, contains Cooke's best writing on the war - vignettes that display an eye for local color and the picaresque, a wry sense of humor, and a quick grasp of character. It includes eleven vivid portraits of both famous figures - such as Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, John Singleton Mosby, and Jubal Early - and less famous, as well as stories and sketches based on Cooke's experiences. Though Cooke tends to romanticize the past - as evinced in his merry rendition of Stuart's cavalry campaign in the summer of 1863, an event most participants remembered as nightmarish - he is equally capable, for example, of capturing with moving and stark simplicity what the surrender at Appomattox meant to the Confederates present there.
