PARTISAN LIFE WITH COL. JOHN S. MOSBY BY MAJOR JOHN SCOTT OF FAUQUIER, LATE CSA.
by [Civil War]. SCOTT, Major John
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867 8vo, xix, 20-492 pages; three frontispiece plates; folding map; numerous plates and text illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Eicher/ The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography 293
Few faint spots to cloth; scattered foxing to prelims and title page, brief unobtrusive numbers in red ink at rear pastedown, still a tight, attractive copy in the original publisher's binding, Very Good or better.
"... an early, highly partisan account of life with the cavalry raider who was transformed into legend by this and other works. Endorsed by Mosby himself, this authorized biography sets forth the life story of the Confederate partisan ranger through the Civil War." ~David Eicher.
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- Title
- PARTISAN LIFE WITH COL. JOHN S. MOSBY BY MAJOR JOHN SCOTT OF FAUQUIER, LATE CSA.
- Author
- [Civil War]. SCOTT, Major John
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1867
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- Keywords
- Confederate, Civil War, Fauquier County, Virginia, John S. Mosby, Major John Scott
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil War; Biography, Autobiography; Virginia;
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