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Longstreet, James, Lietuenant-General, Confederate ArmyABAA

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Illustrated with Numerous Portraits Engravings and Colored Maps Specially Prepared for This Work. Second Edition Revised.

1903réf. acs1442Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1903. Howes L451. Octavo maroon cloth hardcover gilt lettering 698 pp. Bookplate; otherwise Fine. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From Preface: After the surrender of the Confederate armies engaged in the war between the States General Lee undertook to write of the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia while under his command and asked such assistance as I could give in supplying reports dispatches and letters of his the originals of which had been lost or destroyed. Under the impression that they could not be put to better use such as were in hand were packed and sent. He gave up the work and after a few years his death made it impossible that the world should receive the story of the Confederate campaigns in Virginia from the noble mind that controlled them. Possibly had I not expected our commander to write I should have written myself a decade or so earlier. But the world is now better prepared to receive the account of events as the records show them. While I am so constituted temperamentally as to have viewed the great struggle then as I view it now I do not know what others might have so regarded it at the earlier periods to which I refer. I believe that now more fully than then the public is ready to receive in the spirit in which it is written the story which I present. It is not my purpose to philosophize upon the war but I cannot refrain from expressing my profound thankfulness that Providence has spared me till such time as I can see the asperities of the great conflict softened its passions entering upon the sleep of oblivion only its nobler -- if less immediate -- results springing into virile and vast life. I believe there is to-day because of the war a broader and deeper patriotism all Americans; that patriotism throbs the heart and pulses the being as ardently of the South Carolinians as of the Massachusetts Puritan; that the Liberty Bell even now as I write on its Southern pilgrimage will be as reverently received and as devotedly loved in Atlanta and Charleston as in Philadelphia and Boston. And to stimulate and evolve this noble sentiment all the more what we need is the resumption of fraternity the hearty restoration and cordial cultivation of neighborly brotherly relations faith in Jehovah and respect for each other; and God grant that the happy vision that delighted the soul of the sweet singer of Israel may rest like a benediction upon the North and the South upon the Blue and the Gray. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1903. Howes L451. hardcover books

Lighthouse Books, ABAA · États-Unis185,00 $US≈ 165,59 €

Jones, Isabel [or, less likely, Grace], apparently a Nurse in the Union Army during the Civil WarABAA

Autograph Letter Signed. dated September 28 1862

1862réf. 916131862. Poor. 20 cm x 25 cm single sheet folded to make 4 handwritten pages. Large patriotic color Illustration of a bald eagle with 2 U.S. flags occupies top third of first page of stationery. Two horizontal fold mark. Split halfway across on a fold on the last two pages. Pinkish color to much of the letter suggesting old damping. Ink quite faded and generally difficult to read. Many words are so indistinct that it was impossible for us to read them and some other words or phrases are just gone. Her letter is addressed to an otherwise unidentified cousin. Jones does not seem to show on standard lists of Civil War Nurses but the information in this letter suggests that she should. Here is our effort to transcribe this difficult-to-decipher letter: "Your letter of the 21st came to hand in due time but I had about made my mind that you was not going to write to me. I was glad to hear from you and hope that you will not fail to write again. I am well. Hoping you enjoy the same good blessing. We are situated on the same ground we occupied a part of last Fall and Winter. We have been here about four weeks. After spending the summer on the peninsula we are very glad to obtain old ground which seems almost like home. You want to know why I am in the hospital. It is not because I am sick but because others are sick and need care. I am what is termed nurse. My wages are $26.50 per month. The business is by no means delightful but I get along very well. We have got one fellow who is very sick I fear he will not recover. On the Peninsula my health became very poor but now I am well. I wish that I could hear that Grandmother is on the gain but fear I never shall. Tell hear I think of her nearly all of the time and and want to see but if I fail to see her I expect to see her in Heaven. I have wrote to your father. I presume he has received my last letter before now. I do not know that I can tell you anything about the war that would amount to anything more than you already know. As we are at present we are retired from the active field I am not as well posted as when we were aamid the turmoils of battle. I have not heard a battle sound since we came across the river. Apparently all seems quiet which seems good. top two lines at top of 4th page too indistinct to decipher My hospital service is every other day. Every other day and night. I have to work taking care of the sick of our regiment then I am idle twenty-four hours. . several lines gone or indistinct here and the I will have a chance to eat army rations wear army cloths and a few moremostly indistinct lines ." She ends the letter by requesting that her cousin write to her at Hospital 50th NY Engineer Regiment Washington D.C. Online information reports that the regiment composed mostly of men from New York and a small number from Pennsylvania lost by death 10 killed in action 7 from wounds received and 214 from disease and other causes. unknown books

McBlain Books · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 179,02 €

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