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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 527

Civil War. Alexander, Edward Porter: Military Memoirs of a Confederate-A Critical Narrative. New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. 8vo, hard cover, frontis photo plates of Alexander, maps and tables, 634pp. A CSA Brigadier General during the war, Alexander commanded the massive artillery barrage preceding Pickett's Charge and is also noted for his early use of observation balloons during combat. Douglas Southall Freeman praised this work as "altogether the best critique of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia". Ex-Libris East Hampton Library, some spine cover separation, diagonal fold last index page, clean pages, Very Good.

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