A Virginia Girl in the Civil War Being A Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of A Confederate Officer: Signed, inscribed by the author

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1910. Later printing. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo. [1], 384 pages, [1], [4] pages of advertisements. Light green cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Binding is in poor condition with moderate soil to the covers, tears to the cloth spine, cracked hinges, shaken contents and slanted binding. Contents generally clean. Signed and inscribed to Eugene Muse Mitchell - "Eugene M. Mitchell With Cordial Regards of Myrta Lockett Avary Dec 7/12". First published 1903.

Tall Cotton #5 - "A charming record of a young Virginian lady who was never publicly identified; well edited by one of the later co-editors of Mrs. Chestnut's diary." Nevins II page 181 - "Not history but charming and revealing in its delineation of Confederate figures as seen through the eyes of an impressionable maiden." Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia. "MM Reference" written on a bookmark piece of paper and laid next to page 132.

Eugene Muse Mitchell (1866-1944) was born in Atlanta in 1866 to Russell Crawford Mitchell and Deborah Margaret Sweet. He graduated from the University of Georgia law school in 1886. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell author of Gone With the Wind. His wife was Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens.