diary battle personal journals de wainwright colonel charles edited allan (3 résultats)

Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated stiff wrappers), xxiv, 549 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. From lower cover: When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826 - 1907), later Brevet Brigadier General, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journal. As an officer who fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg, and who witnessed the leadership of Generals McClellan, Hooker, Burnside, Meade, Grant, and Sheridan, he brilliantly describes his experiences. But Wainwright's entries go beyond military matters to include his political and social observations on Lincoln and his Cabinet, the soldiers' passion for gambling and prostitutes, army diet and medicine, and much more. Skillfully edited by Allan Nevins, historian and author of the classic multivolume Ordeal of the Union, this journal is Wainwright's vivid and invaluable gift to posterity. Civil War, United States History, U. S. HIstory, U.S.-iana, American History, Americana, American Biography, Journal, Diary, Memoirs bslic.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 2nd Edition. 549 pages, maps, index, Brand New Hardcover in Brand New dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 549 pages, maps, index, Fine Hardcover First edition in near fine price clipped dust jacket. Very nice example.