Touched with Valor; Civil War Papers and Causal Reports of Hood's Texas Brigade
réf. 032616Hillsboro TX; 1964: Hill Junior College Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 750 copies. The present copy is inscribed by the author: "to my friend Jay Matthews Harold B. Simpson 10/22/64". 126 pages Index. Colonel Simpson has taken the materials on Brigadier General Jerome B. Robertson who led Hood's Texas Brigade longer than any other. Besides the biography of Robertson there is a casualty list of the brigade then it covers fifty-one items including letters reports petitions and notifications of promotion which reveal much information concerning the life of a Texan serving in the Army of Northern Virginia. There is much on the shortages the army faced the bureaucratic use of "chain of command". There are details for the historian on Texas at Gettysburg Sharpsburg; the Wilderness and other major battles. Also the genealogist and the researcher devoted to Texas military history will find a wealth of material. A very nice copy bound in red cloth spine lettering gilt previous owner's bookplate in unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered and decorated in black and red spine lettering black light darkening to spine light wear to head. A handsome copy. Hill Junior College Press unknown
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